Jimmy Kebe is going to win us the play-offs

[muddyfeet]

yes and I have also watch Kanu come on leaps and bounds

I have also watched games this year when Kebe has not been on form and we have won

The team took their foot of the gas a bit when they knew automatic was off imo

[loyalroyal4life]

win it by not playing?

[tomrfcurz]

I really do not understand why anyone would not want us to go up or assume that without Kebe we are stuffed

positivity people

have you watched the games since he was injured?

I get you here but i must say i don't think we wouldv'e had different results had Kebe had been fit. Maybe Coventry could be an exception but after Derby i must say i think HRK could still do a job

[JC]

I really do not understand why anyone would not want us to go up or assume that without Kebe we are stuffed

positivity people

have you watched the games since he was injured?

I get you here but i must say i don't think we wouldv'e had different results had Kebe had been fit. Maybe Coventry could be an exception but after Derby i must say i think HRK could still do a job

But he didn't really do it against Sheffield United or Leeds did he? Derby were hardly the same class of opposition as Cardiff will be.

[muddyfeet]

My original point was there is no need to be so pessimistic JC

[JC]

My original point was there is no need to be so pessimistic JC

I have been through this play-off agony 4 times before.

[muddyfeet]

and you're assuming I havent?

[The Goat was fed]

yes and I have also watch Kanu come on leaps and bounds

I have also watched games this year when Kebe has not been on form and we have won

The team took their foot of the gas a bit when they knew automatic was off imo

All of the above is true - but there is no doubt we are a more potent and dangerous side with Kebe in the team, agree?

[muddyfeet]

meh maybe, I dont feel very agreeable today

[DOYLERSAROYALER]

yes and I have also watch Kanu come on leaps and bounds

I have also watched games this year when Kebe has not been on form and we have won

The team took their foot of the gas a bit when they knew automatic was off imo

All of the above is true - but there is no doubt we are a more potent and dangerous side with Kebe in the team, agree?

No doubt - Kebe went injured for last 3 games and we gained 4 points from those games...when you think of the run prior to Leeds, Jimmy is the tormentor for the oppositions defence and we arent as dangerous with him not playing imo

[Maguire]

Kanu is shit. Only played well against Derby in an end of season friendly.

Kebe is a legend. Massive sadface if he's injured.

[Snowball]

We haven't done THAT badly when Jimmy hasn't played.

A defeat to QPR, a stupid defeat at home to Sheffield


A 4-0 Burnley
H 4-3 Doncaster
A 1-3 QPR
H 1-1 Cardiff
H 3-3 Norwich
A 2-1 Stevenage

0-0 Leeds
0-0 Coventry
2-3 Sheffield (we went 2-0 up)
2-1 Derby

P 10 W4 D4 L2 20-15

[who are ya?]

Don't do this to us Jimmy, soooooo not fair!

[Ian Royal]

We've not actually done that bad without him, we've still won twice as many games as we've lost. And in fact we've had some of our better wins and higher scoring games when he wasn't available.

We aren't a one man team.

[DOYLERSAROYALER]

We've not actually done that bad without him, we've still won twice as many games as we've lost. And in fact we've had some of our better wins and higher scoring games when he wasn't available.

We aren't a one man team.

...so the fall off in form is just coincidental with the timing of JK getting injured.......? no team is a one man team accepted, but Jimmy is as important to us as Tarrabt is to QPR, Sinclair is to Swansea, Holt is to Norwich ......do you think Reading can go on and win the playoffs without Kebe ? If so we obviously dont need him and JM can sell him for a handsome profit in the summer

[Snowball]

We've not actually done that bad without him, we've still won twice as many games as we've lost. And in fact we've had some of our better wins and higher scoring games when he wasn't available.

We aren't a one man team.

...so the fall off in form is just coincidental with the timing of JK getting injured.......? no team is a one man team accepted, but Jimmy is as important to us as Tarrabt is to QPR, Sinclair is to Swansea, Holt is to Norwich ......do you think Reading can go on and win the playoffs without Kebe ? If so we obviously dont need him and JM can sell him for a handsome profit in the summer

Jimmy is a great, and exciting player, but let's not go overboard here.

is it his goals we miss? Hardly, he's fourth-top scorer

23 Shane Long
11 Ian Harte
10 Noel Hunt
09 Jimmy Kebe



Perhaps it's his assists, then? Er, no...

10 Shane Long
08 Jobi McAnuff
07 Brian Howard (played a lot less minutes than Jimmy)
07 Jimmy Kebe
07 Noel Hunt (played a lot less minutes than Jimmy)
05 Jem Karacan
02 Hal Robson-Kanu (played a lot less minutes than Jimmy)


Jimmy can be brilliant and I love to watch him play and his goal at Boro, the goal he "made", eventually for Hunt (recently) was excellent,
but this year we have shown we can score PLENTY of goals without Jimmy playing (4-0, 4-3, 2-3, 2-1 etc)

[seahawk10]

Will you cry this time if you don't get promotion?

Nah - it was just the relegation that got me last time, that and 6 pints of Stella. I'd had a bloody awful year personally that year, the relegation just seemed to top it off and seeing a couple of other lads, including one quite old geezer, set me off. Maybe one day I'll live it down...

I think it's great you are a hob nob legend. It is not a bad thing to care so much.

Cheers!

[FiNeRaIn]

If Kebe doesn't play the Reading management and medical staff need to take a look at themselves. He's supposed to have been out for a few days, that's a vast difference than what is it, three weeks almost? Pathetic if he misses out. How can you mis-diagnose something that serious? Also, he looked screwed well before he was replaced, the management needlessly kept him out there and probably worsened the damage, good job. Kebe is a match-winner, he's the one flair player we have capable of beating three people and scoring or making an assist. Every team in this division is scared stiff of him. Cardiff will have their flair player Bellamy tonight and we won't have ours....great.

[DOYLERSAROYALER]

Snowball - its his presence in the team that puts the sh*ts up the oppositions defences that makes him such an important player.....he is unpredictable so the opposition as very wary of him when hes on the pitch, even doubling up on him....we dont have another player in our squad that causes that "panic" in the opposition......when hes not playing we become a more predicable team ...and the opposition obv feel more relaxed.........

when I was reading the leeds supporters previews of their game with us, they had huge concerns about what Kebe would do against their defence....sadly he didnt play, but im sure those concerns are reflected across many teams in the division.........

Taarabt is the same for QPR...he is pivotal and he does the unexpected like JK ...I wont go as far as mentioning Lionel Messi though

Kebe is a one-off.....and thats why he's key to Readings success ....all IMHO

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Snowball - its his presence in the team that puts the sh*ts up the oppositions defences that makes him such an important player.....he is unpredictable so the opposition as very wary of him when hes on the pitch, even doubling up on him....we dont have another player in our squad that causes that "panic" in the opposition......when hes not playing we become a more predicable team ...and the opposition obv feel more relaxed........

This - unfortunately (or fortunately as the case probably is) there are no stats to demonstrate "fear factor".

Whilst Long is very much a worthy POTY for his contribution this year, Kebe's "putting the fear of God into the opponents" contribution can not be underestimated.