STEPHEN HUNT - IS HIS TIME UP?

[Wycombe Royal]

Now that the club has accepted it, I'm waiting to see if Hunt will reject the chance to join a tiny club before I make any comment.

You're such a tool.

Are you denying that Wigan are the smallest club in the Premiership?

Define small in football terms?

[Hoop Blah]

Like we invested the £5 million for Kits you mean!!! LOL. It's a good bit of business to keep RFC in a healthy position financially, it's not a good bit of business for the team.

Have we missed Kitson though? I don't think so. You only need to reinvest if it is required, there is no point spending money just for the sake of it.

I think we've missed having a forward of his style.

We've been more direct and more reliant on hitting the channels for Doyle and Hunt to chase and work than we ever were with Kitson in the side. He offered us an arial threat (Hunt is decent but not as much of a consistent threat as Kitson) but more importantly a clever forward who could drop deap and link the midfield and attack and play with his back to goal.
We will miss Hunt though, although not as much as a lot of people are predicting.

[cmonurz]

Now that the club has accepted it, I'm waiting to see if Hunt will reject the chance to join a tiny club before I make any comment.

You're such a tool.

Are you denying that Wigan are the smallest club in the Premiership?

No. But you called them a tiny club. They are bigger than Reading.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

I fail to see one reason how this is good for Reading.

£5m or £10m it makes no difference. That will not be reinvested into the team because we wont pay the wages plus we dont need the money. Totally Counterproductive, even if we his contract precevented us doing much abiout it.

Byr Bye Hunt, Bye Bye Top 2. Thats reality im afraid.

You dont know what you've got til its gone.

No it's not...
We're second.
That's reality!

Try posting that tomorrow night!

[readingbedding]

I'm posting it now as fact, because it's correct, as fact.

[Shaka]

Wigan may be smaller club than Reading but at least they have ambition.

[Thaumagurist*]

Are you denying that Wigan are the smallest club in the Premiership?

No. But you called them a tiny club. They are bigger than Reading.

I disagree.

[Silver Fox]

There's a reason that JC-R and peas won't cost as much in wages as Shunt you know.

The only good thing about this deal if it goes through, is that the Team board won't be full of nonsense about Hunty any more

[readingbedding]

Like we invested the £5 million for Kits you mean!!! LOL. It's a good bit of business to keep RFC in a healthy position financially, it's not a good bit of business for the team.

Have we missed Kitson though? I don't think so. You only need to reinvest if it is required, there is no point spending money just for the sake of it.

I think we've missed having a forward of his style.

We've been more direct and more reliant on hitting the channels for Doyle and Hunt to chase and work than we ever were with Kitson in the side. He offered us an arial threat (Hunt is decent but not as much of a consistent threat as Kitson) but more importantly a clever forward who could drop deap and link the midfield and attack and play with his back to goal.
We will miss Hunt though, although not as much as a lot of people are predicting.

Nope, we do not miss Kitson as we've adapted away from that style pretty successfully.
We cannot stop scoring and that is a clear sign that although Kitson was a decent player for us, the Manager adapted and adapted well.
I trust the same will be for Stephen Hunt...
Actually, has he gone yet?

[cmonurz]

Are you denying that Wigan are the smallest club in the Premiership?

No. But you called them a tiny club. They are bigger than Reading.

I disagree.

That's why you are a tool.

[boy1985]

There's a reason that JC-R and peas won't cost as much in wages as Shunt you know.

Because he is not overrated?

[Alan Partridge]

Yes he's set up a large amount of goals but you'd hope that a winger given the task of taking every single set piece around the area would do.

So he has done exactly what we wanted him to then.

We WILL miss Hunt.

We will miss his his delivery from set pieces, but even those haven't been as good recently. From open play he is all huff and puff. His passing is not great, his crossing is not great, his shooting is not great (when was the last goal he scored from distance, or even the edge of the box?). What he does give is 100% effort every match, but he is replaceable.

To answer Woodcote'searlier post of what his weaknesses are, this post by Wycombe royal is Stephen Hunt in a nutshell.

[londinium]

Surely that summary for Hunt sums up every player at RFC except Doyle maybe???

[Wycombe Royal]

Surely that summary for Hunt sums up every player at RFC except Doyle maybe???

No it doesn't, and assuming you watch RFC regularly then no further explanation is required.

[Thaumagurist*]

No. But you called them a tiny club. They are bigger than Reading.

I disagree.

That's why you are a tool.

Really?

Wigan

formed 1932

Won:

Football League Trophy 1985, 1999
Third Division Champions 1997
Second Division Champions 2003

Trophy count = 4


Highest attendance: 27500

Number of seasons in top 2 divisons: 6


Reading

formed 1871

won:

Simod Cup 1988
Division 4 Champions 1979
Division 3 Champions 1926 (Div 3 South), 1986, 1994 (Div 2)
Division 2 Champions 2006 (Championship)

trophy count = 6

Highest attendance = 33042

Number of seasons in top 2 divisions: 18

[boy1985]

Surely that summary for Hunt sums up every player at RFC except Doyle maybe???

Exactly! The only player we have actually missed after he'd left is Sidwell. 5million for an average player is good business, people get too attached to players for some reason.

[londinium]

Surely that summary for Hunt sums up every player at RFC except Doyle maybe???

No it doesn't, and assuming you watch RFC regularly then no further explanation is required.

So who in the team passes well, crosses well and has scored from outside the box this season?

And yes I do watch RFC regulary and think that Hunt is a cut above most of the rest of the team and he will be sorely missed if he goes.

[cmonurz]

Wigan are enjoying their 4th consecutive season as a Premier League side, and currently sit 7th (or 8th?) in the league. In the context of Stephen Hunt, they are a bigger club.

[CMRoyal]

So who in the team passes well, crosses well and has scored from outside the box this season?

Step up Mr K Doyle, the only irreplaceable in the team at the moment.

[Huntley & Palmer]

Wigan are enjoying their 4th consecutive season as a Premier League side, and currently sit 7th (or 8th?) in the league. In the context of Stephen Hunt, they are a bigger club.

More importantly, a club that has a manager that has stamped his mark on the team and is comfortable with his playing staff. They have the stability that means they shouldn't be fighting for their lives in a relegation scrap every season