Two I can think of are Brighton (H) (2 points) Derby (A) - 3 points Maybe that's it actually. 5 points then, thought there were a couple of others yep checked through quickly - that was it. Brighton was the one I was half remembering - Derby completely forgot about Actually thinking about it, think...

How tall is he? Says 6ft 3 inches here https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-meet-the-16-year-old-6-foot-2-goalkeeper-playing-seven-years-above-20190520 however i have seen him play a fair bit and i would have said 5ft 11 max !!! Don't remember many lads at school being 6'3! When I watched him I...

I do feel like this season it would be a step too far. We'd need so much work and have only very recently got a y confidence and form together. Our winning mentality would be very fragile. A solid season, strengthen and promotion next year or the one after would be more ideal IMO. We'd have a bette...

I’d say any 2 up front has to include Baldock.

If it’s one up front then I’d rather Joao or Puscas

Main issue with Baldock is, and has always been here, and that’s his dreadful injury record

Every time he gets a bit of form he seems to then pick up a 3/4 week injury

I can only think of Brighton and maybe Fulham who built over a couple of seasons to promotion in recent history. Brighton have just about held their own, and Fulham came straight down. Was it too early for Sheff Utd? Nope. Basically if the chance comes along, you 100% go for it and sort your shit ou...

apparently rejected the contract offer from Minnesota, from my understanding hes on mega-money, one of, if not the highest-paid player at the club. I wonder if any transfers in are dependant on him leaving this window. https://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/vito-mannone-minnesota...

Rhodes is a weird one, he used to bang them in consistently with Blackburn, been a complete flop pretty much ever since. I don’t think going to Boro was the best career move for him considering Blackburn played to his strengths and Boro under Karanka weren’t exactly the most offensive team Even Mad...

Can’t see this happening with Joao, Puscas, Meite and Baldock all fit

Would do a good job for someone no doubts but I’d rather stick with Joao

nothing especially interesting but a little more background:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/sport/fo ... -interest/

Fletcher is a big loss

Interesting that Cardiff let Madine go for free (8m quid, no goals for them) - wouldn’t be surprised to see him end up there, but not sure what the Wednesday transfer situation is like

Can’t find out too much about him. Seems quite tall and fast from the video clips I’ve seen

Not an exciting signing on the face of it but would be cheap

interesting that he is on the radar. Be nice and cheap, low risk gamble etc. Not too sure where he'd fit in currently though

Got a great name as well (if wikipedia is to be believed): Joshua Ishaele Jacob-Heron Hunt-Laurent

URZZZZ Two I can think of are Brighton (H) (2 points)
Derby (A) - 3 points

Maybe that's it actually. 5 points then, thought there were a couple of others

yep checked through quickly - that was it. Brighton was the one I was half remembering - Derby completely forgot about

yep and that's why there should be more confidence around having sustained improvement with this team rather than Stam's with only 28 goals conceded this season 10 of which came in 3 games fulham Birmingham and Sheff wed. for the first time in a number of years we have a rock solid defense. Stam's ...

The problem with Stam's team was that first goal usually won and if the opposition got it, a few more would usually follow. 68 conceded in 31 games. yep and that's why there should be more confidence around having sustained improvement with this team rather than Stam's with only 28 goals conceded t...

And the other 9 players, of course No it was pretty much just those two who got us to the heights we did that season. The others played at their level, Al-Habsi and Yann were way above expectations. Did you go to any of the games? Hmm, I seem to remember Danny Williams having a few stand-out games,...

genome Reading have this weird knack of finding excellent goalkeepers. We've really been spoiled over the years. Hahnemann, Federici, McCarthy, Al-Habsi, Martinez, and now Rafael.

Virginia the exception of course...

Mannone, Walker, Bond, Jaakkola were also exceptions of course.

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Hendo Nominated for Manager of the Month of December.

Up against Woodgate, Bielsa and Rowett

All got 11 points except Woodgate who got 13, so I expect Woodgate to win it

If Brum had been in November and Fulham in December, I'd have said Bowen. But they weren't so Woodgate would be fair

Reading 0-1 Forest HT
Reading 1-2 Forest FT

Forest to Score First <<<<<<<<<<

Forest 19

Joao 49
Forest 71

I expect overall it's true. We structured our summer business cleverly and got the transfers sanctioned by the EFL, but given how close we're sailing to the wind, we're still on their watch list. That's fairly speculative though. Agreed the £12 million figure is bollocks and will only ever be reali...