Worst player you've seen at Reading

[Baines]

Do you not remember his crazy runs from the centre of defence, beat 4 men and then realised he had crossed the halfway line, panic set in and he lost the ball!

Awful positional sense ... or maybe lack of understanding with team mates . Look at the results / match reports for the end of the 1997/8 season on this site. Enough to give you nightmares .... Maybe I'm being harsh on him though because the whole team was at a low ebb, and I've probably focussed on this season because of the Tommy Burns threads.

He looked poor in a poor team, but was pretty good earlier on in the season when he routinely won everything in the air.

[Ian Royal]

I liked Davies, Meaker and Asaba. Thought they were all quite good.

Remember, if not for Meaker Adie wouldn't have scored for us whilst playing for Wolves... I'm sure it was his cross that was turned in by our legend. iirc the same thing happened a few weeks later/before.

[Vision]

A bit cruel to pick on Fleck, I think. He surely only managed a couple of games before injury ended his spell with us?

Nothing is too cruel for that prick. He only managed a couple of games cos he spent most of his days as a Reading player hammered , generally only being held upright by the Shooters fruitmachine (and i'm not necessarily referring to Jimmy Crawford).

How much of a drunk do you have to be before James Lambert is actually embarrassed about you?

[JonnyRuff]

Stuart Gray
Robert Codner
Mass Sarr
Paul Bodin
Andy Hughes
Paul Brooker

[rhroyal]

Never Andy Hughes. People say he was all work rate and no end product, they seem to forget the 2002/03 season where he was playing just behind Forster in the 4-5-1 and wreaked havoc.

[CMRoyal]

A bit cruel to pick on Fleck, I think. He surely only managed a couple of games before injury ended his spell with us?

Nothing is too cruel for that prick. He only managed a couple of games cos he spent most of his days as a Reading player hammered , generally only being held upright by the Shooters fruitmachine (and i'm not necessarily referring to Jimmy Crawford).

How much of a drunk do you have to be before James Lambert is actually embarrassed about you?

Fair enough, must admit I was living in London at the time and might only have heard the sanitised version of all that, ie that he was drowning his sorrows because of frustration at injury problems, etc. But yes, a bit of a prat, but still not worthy of 'worst player' status, in my opinion. Ugliest would be a different matter....

EDIT: betting without Luke Chadwick, of course.

[SpaceCruiser]

Has anyone mentioned Gary Phillips yet?

[East Stand Ste]

I would have to say Daley Thompson....