Fcuking hell. The ball just bounces off him. Who was the tall, lanky academy striker who played two or three times under Adkins/Clarke and then left? Meite reminds me of him. He just looks completely lost, 98% of the time. You know oxf*rd all about strikers, in fact i thought he had a better game t...

If that is the back 2 we are screwed. McShane's slowness and Ilori's lack of a defensive brain power combined is a recipe for a tragedy. 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 I...

no matter what we think he has gone to a club that will be up there for promotion this season so who will have the last laugh?

Midfield will get overrun as it stands. Baldock will have his work cut out getting 1+ chance a game. Williams carried
us before and we never replaced him. So having another striker means nothing.

As I work in Manchester I know a fair number of City fans and they were disappointed that they had sold him when we bought him as some thought he could develop in to a home grown captain in time and had real promise. I then naively thought that he would be a Harper or Sidwell type player who we wou...

He knows a sinking ship when he sees one.

The one thing O'shea will bring to the club is his experience of fighting losing battles game after game.

Sell half the Squad. Buy back all the Reading U23 Youth players Stam either sold or released and add top Class Players or 3.

I am sure if we are relegated half of the Team will not be wanting their salary cut by half so selling them wont be an option but a necessity. they will want to leave. As for next season squad I don't think League 1 is as easy as some people think, so if RFC want a Plan B I would build now and not w...

Has turned down a place in the RoI squad to play Turkey as wants to keep the option open to play for England. Have to admire his confidence, or his belief that the England midfield will get so bad he has a chance. I thought stam said he was injured? that was the only reason he didn't link up with R...

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As for the TELLING them what to do versus the players having the RESPONSIBILITY to make their own decisions discussion.... You are both right because in interviews he repeatedly says both of those pretty much within the same sentence. He just picks on a series of cliches and strings them together r...

I think we are probably playing the way that our players will perform best. The serious issue is the lack of a 12-goal striker, and no style change is likely to fix that. Stam has made more mistakes this season than last season, but he's also effectively "lost" his two top scorers (Kermor...

Stam is going no where. Hes taken a page out of Tony Pulis book. Signed new contract as well as his assistants probably on mega money. Cost Reading the earth to sack them. no wonder he can say what he likes. Good luck to him. if I had employers like Reading I would do the same. its called playing th...

Stam has to MAN UP and admit it's his fault not the Team. Then do something about it, until then the Team Will not progress. publicly blaming the team for not playing the way he wants them to play and not being good enough, Takes man management skills to a new level. Heard him saying on the Radio th...

Movement, pace and stretching the play. Midfield needs to drop receive the ball, movement around them to give them options and also pull the opposition around. What actually happens is the team is static the defence gets frustrated passing to each other because there are no other options and one of...

Hound Did I imagine Yann playing just about every game for us last year then?

Do out and out strikers defend and attack at the same time? I must be imagining the amount of times he has helped the defence out only for
the ball to come straight back as he cannot be in 2 places at once.

All fair points Vision. The last 4 games we’ve also conceded 6. Even last season we were shipping far too many. That demonstrates a problem Stam seems unable to fix. This seems to be more than just unlegislatable errors to me. I think we need to improve our coaching. The two things go hand in hand ...

Presuming Bod didn't start as he has only just come back from an injury. Worst thing to do would be to do too much too soon and be out for another month I'm assuming Stam wouldn't make the mistake of playing 3 wingers up front again if Yann or Bod were fit to start. As for Hugill. Higher wages. Sim...

Dutch football is out of date. No surprise to see Dutch Managers being sacked. Can't be a coincidence. The Dutch Managers have had enough time to make things right. Stam needs to wake up and smell the roses or rather Tulips. Chinese seem to have given him the funds and backing. So the owners are ok...