NptonOwl Hi all , i'm a Sheffield Wednesday fan (from Northampton , long story) but been keeping an eye on your progress seeing as the fathers of our owners are apparently like brothers.
Seems to be a lot of turmoil going on , had that with our club and it's not fun.
Are your Thai owners not making the strides you expected? Think we've been very lucky with ours , fairly regular presence and statements, spent reasonable money and seems to let the manager get on with it.
I've read that yours seems to be a bit invisible to the fans and maybe pushing their weight around.
For what it's worth never rated McDermott and think you can get someone more dynamic in, Stam might be that man.
A lot of our fans have said Reading could be dark horses next season, me included but looking at things on here that seems less likely.
We love getting players from Watfords old promotion side and many want to get Vydra back with Forestieri but know he did little last season, was he very poor or just lack of service/poor team around him?
Hope you get it all sorted out anyway , will go to the away fixture for first time next season.
Always liked Reading since Shaka Hislop days, a very hot supply teacher in school said she was a Reading fan and he was her favourite player so suddenly ended up with the whole school in Northampton rooting for them lol.
First up McDermott is great. He's a top drawer Championship manager.
If we still had him then I'd be optimistic about promotion, the players we still have are largely good enough and we just need to fill in the gaps (striker, couple of wingers, back-up defenders). With an unproven manager getting no support from the board, things will be much harder.
Vydra is clearly a very talented player. Very good touch, obvious technique, created plenty of chances for himself and others, hard working, good movement. The only problem was that he couldn't shoot, and when you're a striker you need to be able to shoot. It was like playing with Seamus Coleman or Ryan Bertrand up front. Sort out that problem and you've got a top class striker. Otherwise you've got a good player with a major weakness that you need to compensate for.