Birmingham fans don't rate McSheffrey for some reason, but I always thought he looked great whenever we played against him when he was still at Coventry. Maybe he's too inconsistent?

We are crying out for a player like Tommy Smith but Reading's handling of this has been nothing short of shambolic. Rumours are rife this morning of fresh bids for Smith from 4 clubs - 3 local and one up north i.e. Newcastle. None of us know exactly what is going on and why this is being delayed bu...

Royal Lady First match 1981 - been a regular and ST holder ever since. So, I'm a 1), but like 2) I'm getting increasingly frustrated by our Chairman.

Exactly - there seem to be loads of the first type who are the biggest moaners.

Let's hope we have a Plan B then, eh, RL? Plan B: Noel and Bignall returning to full fitness - like having new signings! Have you not learnt anything from seeing the likes of Chuch and Long struggle? Bignall has done alright against the likes of Burton, but he isnt really any than the others, thats...

Also, if Watford haven't even accepted our bid for him yet (or hadn't til this afternoon) - what happens if Smith not happy with the wages we're offering - as surely that won't have been discussed yet, unless BR had tapped him up already of course.... Rodgers knows what he is on at Watford so i thi...

Watford's goals against Forest are on the BBC site if anyone's interested in seeing Tommy Smith's contribution http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8210217.stm Interesting that he only seemed to get involved with the celebrations for his own goal Very true - maybe Nottingham Forest ha...

Smacks a bit of desperation and also the problem with seemingly having all your eggs in one basket, in terms of Smith is the one we want and that's it. Watford having been offered this amount by other clubs were never going to budge on it, Reading clearly had this to spend anyway but now we are des...

Deathy

Royalwaster True - but we need a plan B. Are you saying that if Watford don't sell or if someone else comes in for him we've got no plan B?

As said previously, the under 18's.

Good plan - how could I have missed it! Don't we have women's team too? That could be plan C!

True - but we need a plan B. Are you saying that if Watford don't sell or if someone else comes in for him we've got no plan B?

Are they still monitoring him? yes and having a good laugh ... at the rest of the team. Church has fed off scraps whenever he has played, and those scraps would be difficult to work with even if you had Drogba up top. Even when he played on the wing he looked pretty hopeless to me. I'm not saying h...

What I am wondering is - is our scouting network so poor that we can't identify a singular player we can afford that would strengthen our squad. Surely, as we knew that Watford were playing hard to get over TS, we should have had alternative plans in place long before - even if Watford knew that we...

What I am wondering is - is our scouting network so poor that we can't identify a singular player we can afford that would strengthen our squad. Surely, as we knew that Watford were playing hard to get over TS, we should have had alternative plans in place long before - even if Watford knew that we ...

Our friend Ilco's not been on the radar for a while ..... due to pass his medical today?

I have it on good, no excellent, authority that we are going to sign no-one because our squad is already so good - we did after all keep a clean sheet yesterday, we did really well against Newcastle despite losing 3:0 (but it was as BR insists a great experience for all our players) and all we need ...

Row Z Royal http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12875_5498968,00.html

Fits into the young, hungry and highly-rated bracket. Could be a decent bi of business on a free.

How do you know he's a bi?

Go on BR sign him up or we'll never ketchup with the teams at the top of the table!

papereyes Are they still monitoring him?

yes and having a good laugh

Zammo Middlesbrough have just bid £1.8m for Tommy Smith (beating our last and final bid of £1.6m ).....and Stoke have also now come in at last minute........

SAUCE?

RobRoyal Is pspeculation like pcunt?

I think it's more like PS:Speculation.

tee peg They have accepted £1.5M according to the chronic.

You got a link?