10 things we hope Brendan has learnt so far

[Sun Tzu]

European qualification would be great.
Where we are now, to there, is an almighty chasm.

Not really, FA cup win this season and Bob's your uncle.

Surely an FA Cup FINAL win means that European Qualification is guaranteed.
Whatever, winning a major trophy/European Qualification to where we are now is an almighty chasm.

It's the same sized chasm for all the teams still in this season's FA Cup, in fact slightly smaller for us as we don;t start jumping for another 2 months.

[readingbedding]

Must get my 1927 SF commemorative rosette out.

[Sun Tzu]

You can almost taste the smell of Wembley Way already !

[AmazingMan]

Your manager looks like a drag queen and your team play like drag queens-I know a lot of you lot go for that type of look but up here he'd be given short shrift and told to man up and lose the eyeliner and waist-coats before you could say "Larry Grayson, shut that door". (Speaking of which he'd probably do a job at right-back for you).

Other than not being talented, not being able to manage and having a bunch of effeminate pansy players there's not a lot wrong.

[Thaumagurist*]

Are you getting frustrated that pretty much nobody is reacting to your attempts at being a WUM?

[readingbedding]

Keep going...what else are we?

[Sun Tzu]

your manager looks like a draq queen and your team play like draq queens

other than not being talented, not being able to manage and having a bunch of effeminate pansy players there's not a lot wrong

Which is of course encouraging !

My favourite Stoke memory ?

One of your lovely fans being ejected from the ground and subsequently attacking a fellow disabled Stokie in the B&Q car park. Pure class !!

[Gus the teenage cow]

i hope Brenda learns to improve his communication skills

[Maguire]

your team play like draq queens

What's a draq queen? The prince of darkness' mum?

[Gus the teenage cow]

brenda also has to learn to pick more Reading born and breed lads

[facaldaqui]

I don't think how much Brendan Rodgers cares about Reading will make any difference on the pitch. Clubs often go back to their old stars or make internal promotions but success depends on how good you are as a manager, and often these appointments fail. Shearer couldn't save Newcastle, for example, who would have done no worse under the Londoner Hughton.

Brendan Rodgers has agreed a three-year contract, which may harm us financially if we have to sack him. Coppell did not demand a contract off us without proving he could do a job first. Having said that, I'd like nothing better than for Rodgers do well and become a Reading legend. One way would be to care so much about Reading that he would turn down higher clubs who want him. Unlike Pardew and McGhee. In the event, I expect he would do the same as them.

[Schards#2]

Unusually, I think the mob have more or less got it spot on this season. The three main suggestions by the majority have been

1. Drop Kebe
2. Play Marek
3. Make team selection more consistent

He's done that and hey presto. Maybe it isn't rocket science.

[facaldaqui]

He's got one victory doing that. Lets see a few more before calling it a success.

[Sun Tzu]

Unusually, I think the mob have more or less got it spot on this season. The three main suggestions by the majority have been

1. Drop Kebe
2. Play Marek
3. Make team selection more consistent

He's done that and hey presto. Maybe it isn't rocket science.

1 needed a fit MacAnuff
2. needed a fit Marek
3. needed the above

I suspect none of the above are things the 'mob' decided, just what Rodgers was working towards.

And of course the main suggestions (outnumbering the other 3 may factors of many hundreds) were to sack Rodgers, sack Hammond and sack the board - none of which were ever going to happen.

[Ian Royal]

Coppell didn't have the fans on his back right away like Rodgers did at QPR where he got a lot of abuse given the short time he's been in charge.

Obviously the Chelsea experience will have helped Rodgers, but he was obviously doing a lot of good (as we are seeing now from some of our academy prospects which he was involved in bringing to the club in his first spell here) to get such a job in the first place given his relatively modest background. Of course Brendan's not got the sort of experience Coppell has (but that didn't appear to have much of a benefit when it came to turning around poor form in the last two seasons), but he certainly has got something about him and I like that - judging by how the squad have taken to him and the high spirits despite the slow start, they can see it too.

Er, that's because Coppell produced results early on. He had plenty of people on his back before the promotion season, as many a thread on here showed.

If Rodgers had appeared anything other than clueless he wouldn't have had any grief. Our fans have been remarkably patient with him given some of our performances this season. Even at QPR he didn't get a huge amount of abuse.

You really need to stop comparing the two of them, it's thoroughly stupid and you usually get it wrong.

[rfcjoe]

No just one of the blokes paying his wages and not getting a return. Thought some constructive feedback might help him.

Again, some moron who thinks he should get something out of what he pays for to watch a football game. If you don't enjoy it, then STAY THE **** AWAY.

so says some moron who thinks he should come onto a public messageboard where members are invited to voice their opinions and have adult discussions and find everyone keeping silent and simply agreeing with his point of view. If you don't enjoy it, then don't read it, don't respond to it and just STAY THE **** AWAY.

You Spacey are a dumbass, too thick to hold a sensible debate with someone whose views you disagree with, All you can do is be obnoxious and rude by using words such as twat and moron. Now you obviously have first hand experience of being a moron but I doubt you'd recognise a twat if you fell head first into a bucket full of them. So please keep your opinions to yourself and don't bother responding by calling me a gaylord or doofus as it will only serve to further enforce my views.

Looks like Spaccer didn't get back to his feet after this huge hook to his jaw.

[Plymouth_Royal]

1. Dont spend 2mill of precious budget (Mills ) on a position we have well filled (Ingi, Pearce, ODea, Gunnarsson, Cisse ) when
2. We you know we are desperately short of quality in strikers (Known exit of Kitson, Lita, Doyle & Hunt N with a known underlying medical problem)
3 Just because Shane Long bigs himself up with a No 9 on his back does not turn him into something other than an impact sub / occasional starter
4 If you have made a duff signing (Cummings ) dont persist with him long after the crowd / media / stadium cat are screaming the obvious
5 If you have one of the most talented footballers outside the premiership (Matejovsky )- play him!
6 Get some media training rather than irritate us still further with a stream of meaningless drivel week after week and do not ever use the expressions wee bit of luck or rub of the green ever again
7 Look at some basic statistics to gauge why home fans are so P*ssed off - it was weeks into the season before it dawned on you that we were still waiting for a home win since Jan 27th
8 If you have a petulant grudge against certain players dont insult our intelligence by pretending that your reason for not playing them is an injury
9 Dont ever ever play with one striker up front at home again
10 Having more than three lines of players across the pitch at this level does not work. Wait until you are head coach at AC Milan to repeat that one

I could go on.....

1 oxf*rd win in 4 games and the know it alls come out spouting shite.

1. Cisse and gunnarsson are not natural CBs. We signed O'dea on loan because he can comfortably play LB and CB. Mills was signed because we had Pearce as the only natural fit CB at the time.
2. We tried to sign smith and only for a last minute bid we didn't get him. More hammonds and madjeski's fault.
3. What are you on mate.
4. Cummings played 2 or 3 shit games and was dropped. under previous management we played the same under performing players every bloody week. Portsmouth away for example.
5. AGREE.
6. Its called taking the pressure off a young team from ignorant, small minded twats like yourself.
7. Ridiculous.
8. He's stated several times that he wants give everyone a chance so he can get a good idea of who can play in the first team. Very fair, but has its draw backs. We have a big squad and when someone has a knock he can afford to drop them because of the numbers and also so that he can see what another player can do.
9. TBF, we played with two strikers at home from jan 27th until may and never won a bloody game. So I dont see why he should be criticised for trying something different.
10. 1 word, Burnley.

[readingbedding]

brenda also has to learn to pick more Reading born and breed lads

Logging in.
Logging out.
Logging in.

Weirdo.

[Ryn]

8. He's stated several times that he wants give everyone a chance so he can get a good idea of who can play in the first team. Very fair, but has its draw backs. We have a big squad and when someone has a knock he can afford to drop them because of the numbers and also so that he can see what another player can do.

Realistically, we've got four strikers, seven centre midfielders, two wingers (for two positions); four centre backs, two left backs, one right back and one goalkeeper. You call that a big squad? I call that little better than average, with poor cover in key areas. Don't forget that a lot of these players are turning out for our reserves as well (Karacan, Tabb, Church, Cummings...)

Let's see if Hamer can step up to the plate if Fedders gets a knock. McAnuff gets injured again? Back to Robson-Kanu. Strike partner for Rasiak now Hunt's injured? Church :LOL:

As actual first teamers (Who wouldn't get called up for the reserves), how many do we have? Ten?

[Plymouth_Royal]

8. He's stated several times that he wants give everyone a chance so he can get a good idea of who can play in the first team. Very fair, but has its draw backs. We have a big squad and when someone has a knock he can afford to drop them because of the numbers and also so that he can see what another player can do.

Realistically, we've got four strikers, seven centre midfielders, two wingers (for two positions); four centre backs, two left backs, one right back and one goalkeeper. You call that a big squad? I call that little better than average, with poor cover in key areas. Don't forget that a lot of these players are turning out for our reserves as well (Karacan, Tabb, Church, Cummings...)

Let's see if Hamer can step up to the plate if Fedders gets a knock. McAnuff gets injured again? Back to Robson-Kanu. Strike partner for Rasiak now Hunt's injured? Church :LOL:

As actual first teamers (Who wouldn't get called up for the reserves), how many do we have? Ten?

I think your missing the point.

In terms of numbers we have the following
GK - Fed, Hamer, Anderson and McCarthy. 2 of which are on loan and the other 2 are first and back up.
RB Kelly, rosenior and Cummings. tabb optional
CB Pearce Mills O'dea Ivar. Cisse optional
LB Bertrand, armstrong. Odea optional
CM siggy, karacan, matejovsky, cisse, gunarsson, howard, davies, tabb, Bozanic, bryantt
lw/rw- henry, antonio, mcanuff, kebe, hrk.
strikers church, long, rasiak, bignall, mooney and n.hunt.

the point is over the course of the season we have had these players available, some coming later than others and others moving on. He's tried and tested most of these guys because he has had that option to see what they can do. Yes, at the moment we have a more settled team and you can discount a few of these guys. however, over the course of his time as a manager he has had a big squad of players to choose from and has fairly given everyone a chance.