handbags_harrisSnowballIan Royal
You seriously need to get over your statistics. Doyle has already acheived more than Long ever will. Regardless of whatever statistics you want to dredge up to manipulate and support your view, LONG will NEVER be good enough to start regularly for a decent Reading side (mid tier 2 or higher).
No chance.
Oh
Strikers are on the pitch to score goals. How many does Shane Long have this season having started every game?
Early days in the season and he has been far from effective with very little competition. Happy to conceed he has already surpassed my expectations of him though... but I still think he's nothing more than a good league 1 / just about passable championship striker.
Scoring more than 10 goals in a season, or just some goals from open oxf*rd play, might go some way to making me revise my opinion. Which I'm happy to do if the evidence changes.