by Sutekh »
03 Aug 2018 17:40
mambo3 Ascotexgunner Hound
Whats your preference then? O'Shea?
Moore is not playing
Dear god him and McShane.......Douglas Bader could outpace those 2. I would have preferred Blackett but Ive realised hes suspended.
We just look such a shambles before even kicking off. What happened to our brilliant youth policy that we bring a 37 year old with no pace into the squad.....
Ask Stam about the youth policy. he and his cronies decimated that and scattered them throughout the various leagues
Don’t start that one again, both Fosu and Stacey were offered new contracts but turned them down as they wanted first team football by moving down the leagues. If they had opted to stay then, as it happens, both were likely to have gathered more first team apps for Reading and who knows where that would have led them but at the time Reading had just lost out in a play off final and so they were never likely to be automatic starters at the beginning of last season. So they took a chance and have done quite well.
As to the others that left for league clubs, don’t think any did particularly much of anything worthwhile.
Only thing I would be critical of Stam over perhaps was the stupidity of letting Dickie go to Oxford in January when Reading were just hitting a defensive crisis.
And as to our current youth policy, both promising strikers are out on loans for the season, just where they need to be. Richards is in the first team squad fairly regularly, Rinomhota is also knocking on that door. Watson is going to have a season at Wimbledon which will hopefully show exactly what he can do.
That leaves Loader, Andresson, Legg and Southwood who will hopefully also get loans at decent levels.
The others, like Holmes, Holsgrove etc. need to step up in the U23s
