Alan PartridgeArchie's penaltyDirk Gently For me, though, the real low point was last week. Tuesday 10th March was the real watershed day for Reading FC - the day when I knew we weren't going up. I cannot tell you just how much contempt and loathing I have for Steve Coppell's "Blues Brothers" idea of getting the old band back together. It shows utter desperation and is a public declaration that there just no strategy and that the ideas have completely run out. Totally short-term thinking I'm still utterly apoplectic about it 5 days later.
The person I feel sorry for in all this is Noel Hunt - how much effort has he put in for the team just for Kits to waltz straight in?!?
I am still happy to see Kits back but am not sure the timing is right for his return.
and Long, where my prediciton was utterly correct. The first opportunity Coppell got to put Doyle and Kitson together he did, and Long was one of the few having a decent game. I bet Doyle and Kitson start Tuesday.
Let's not forget James Henry, to whom the message is effectively "You're doing really well, but you're not going to get a chance here. Instead we've brought back a player who's only played 1 complete 90 minutes in the past 2 years and he'll be an automatic starter now!"