I just hope that the club has learned from the mistakes of the last two seasons. That does seem to be happening, finally, with the branch and root restructuring that is going to take place in the summer. Whilst going out to Burnley was a bit shit, I always said it would be a blessing in disguise. As...

But seriously, why on earth would Murty or Parkinson make good managers because they're legendary in club folklore. Remove the oh so important cog of 'played for Reading once' and what do you actually have that's so attractive? Not much (and no badges in Murty's case, unless he's been doing them on ...

rfcjoe Just got a text from the club confirming it..... its who we all thought it was

You had a drunken text from a mate saying what?

I too have reservations with Curbishley or any manager that's been around the block a bit and been out of the game for a while. Curbishley seemed to lose it when having to deal with the 'modern' way that football is run at West Ham. Maybe it's too much of a unique situation to gauge him on, but nowa...

So they've filtered out the Championship Manager applications from 'people we know'. It's a start, I guess.

Because we don't have a manager who wants him.

Some clubs have a Manager, others have a Head Coach. Is there a difference? This really bothers me I think, if you take Reading on recent history, Coppell was actually a Head Coach. In traditional terms, a manager as long as we can remember, did everything...train, scout, contracts, signing, the wh...

Don't they do scouting as well, for both potential new players and checking out the up-coming opposition? Depends. I think for Reading, scouts are used or McDermott has done most of the work on the opposition. No doubt Coppell may have done local games though, I can't recall him going to games furt...

Lots of things. He should have the vision of what he wants his team to be, ultimately. He will evaluate what he has, what he doesn't, what he needs and what he can't have (as guided by the board.) He will then base his coaching staff on how best they can deliver what he sees as 'the big picture'. Th...

Aside from it being a great night, I bloody hope that SHunt is still on his holidays.

There's nothing there that would sway you either way, a typical statement of a manager who obviously wants to stay in the job he's in...but at the same time giving it splinters. Nice!

It seems that Rodgers (or Buck, if we must...) ticks all the relevant boxes that we should be looking at in a manager and even appeases those that seems to clamor for a link to the club, it's not a view I have ever thought 'works' but hey ho... He's young and talented, as has been mentioned if Mouri...

No, No, and absolutely No. Lovely bloke, true legend with the shirt on, wouldn't put him on a long shortlist, let alone give him the job. He has done zip to suggest he could take on the job. Giving it to him 'just because' is totally naive.

I'd love to know who decided to take off Matejovsky on Tuesday...that was truly inspired.

Wouldn't take a genius to work out that the 3rd place team would be favourites, no?

I've said this since the dawn of time - the players lift the fans, the fans lift the players... In that order, always has been, always will be. Norwich fans sang their little hearts out, but it didn't stop them being totally ripped apart did it? Vocal support can help, no doubt about it, but blaming...

Took the words out of my um...fingers, Floyd - Bikey was a class above every player, including Brum. No other player could or did spray a 40 yard ball to feet.

Something SHunt could only do in his dreams.

As long as they don't have Reading connections, that'll do (and be half-decent, obviously.)

I'm going to LOL at evryone on this board when we win the play-offs. 8) Nurse! Seriously, Winchester - what on earth makes you think we could win the play-offs, apart from the mere fact that somehow mathematically we could still be 'in it to win it'. 7th place please, and save every one of us the h...

I'm going to LOL at evryone on this board when we win the play-offs. 8) Nurse! Seriously, Winchester - what on earth makes you think we could win the play-offs, apart from the mere fact that somehow mathematically we could still be 'in it to win it'. 7th place please, and save every one of us the h...