How Long Will BM Last at this rate?????

[winchester_royal]

In recent weeks, we've been comprehensively outplayed by...Fulham

???

We were m8.

[creative_username_1]

Royal Lady was spot on about McDermotts signings, Pog aside,none of them were prem ready and if the money that we are lead to believe he was given then he missed the boat.Whether its Hammond holding him back I don't know but Anton will not let this go on much longer judging by the look of his face yesterday.How many players since he has been manager are first team ready to go players?

Saw that look on MOTD when they took the lead. If someone could get a copy of that it'd be cool.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Incredibly you can still get 22/1 on him to be the next manager to go

Where?

Paddy Power

[themadstad]

One thing Anton may not be the guy we thought though. In that he may not be that much richer than Madejski is or at least was. Therefore, happy to go with the Reading way as alluded to.

The top 10 prem team stuff, I don't think he's even close to be able to fund.

[windermere_royal]

In recent weeks, we've been comprehensively outplayed by...Fulham

???

We were m8.

46%-54% would suggest otherwise

[larry1971]

if Mcdermott is still manager in January and is given the money to spend can we really trust him to bring in the 4 or 5 quallity players that we would need to avoid relegation as his summer signings don't exactly fill you with confidence that his next lot of signings will be any different.

[howser]

With respect to the summer signings, there is obviously some problem with Guthrie, what it is ? who knows ?? McLeary looks to have something about him, Marriappa also looks to be a decent capture, work in progress at the moment with him, maybe, I think, Pog we just don't play to his strengths, at Fulham last season when he exploded onto the Premiership scene, he was in a team that played the ball through to him, his strengths are finding space for the the ball being played to his feet, he isnt a long ball "hold up" type of player, you can only presume that is why we got Guthrie in to provide the ammunition, but whatever the reason, there is a major breakdown there.

The one bright light is Nicky Shorey, he has just slipped back in as if he had never been away, some clubs just suit some players, the Shorey-Reading marriage would seem to be one these.

[MmmMonsterMunch]

Royal Lady was spot on about McDermotts signings, Pog aside,none of them were prem ready and if the money that we are lead to believe he was given then he missed the boat.Whether its Hammond holding him back I don't know but Anton will not let this go on much longer judging by the look of his face yesterday.How many players since he has been manager are first team ready to go players?

Saw that look on MOTD when they took the lead. If someone could get a copy of that it'd be cool.

Person in looking pissed off when their team is losing shocker.

[themadstad]

Royal Lady was spot on about McDermotts signings, Pog aside,none of them were prem ready and if the money that we are lead to believe he was given then he missed the boat.Whether its Hammond holding him back I don't know but Anton will not let this go on much longer judging by the look of his face yesterday.How many players since he has been manager are first team ready to go players?

Saw that look on MOTD when they took the lead. If someone could get a copy of that it'd be cool.

Person in looking pissed off when their team is losing shocker.

Agree with this, I'm sure the same look was look was pasted on plenty of Reading fans' faces at that point. Doesn't mean they want him sacked or losing patience.

[RoyalBlue]

With respect to the summer signings, there is obviously some problem with Guthrie, what it is ? who knows ?? McLeary looks to have something about him, Marriappa also looks to be a decent capture, work in progress at the moment with him, maybe, I think, Pog we just don't play to his strengths, at Fulham last season when he exploded onto the Premiership scene, he was in a team that played the ball through to him, his strengths are finding space for the the ball being played to his feet, he isnt a long ball "hold up" type of player, you can only presume that is why we got Guthrie in to provide the ammunition, but whatever the reason, there is a major breakdown there.

The one bright light is Nicky Shorey, he has just slipped back in as if he had never been away, some clubs just suit some players, the Shorey-Reading marriage would seem to be one these.

The trouble is it's quite likely that McDermott himself is responsible for the failings of two of his summer signings. Guthrie is on record as saying that McDermott was demanding that he change his natural style of play. As for Pog, McDermott's preferred style of play does not appear to readily facilitate playing the ball to his feet.

[Cypry]

Lots of sharp upward knee action here...

We've yet to play any teams in the bottom 7 of the league! Let's see where we are after QPR, Wigan, Norwich and Villa before we start talking about kicking Brian out on his ear...

No, we haven't been pretty to watch, and we have been outplayed by Swansea, Liverpool, Spurs etc, but anyone who says we were comprehensively outplayed by Fulham must've been watching a different game to me...we looked comfortable for the whole of the first half, and whilst we wobbled significantly in the second, that's surely understandable to a team seeking it's first win? Personally, I took more positives than negatives from the game yesterday..

I'm really confused as to why so many people seem to think we had more money to spend in the Summer than we did...as far as I can remember I saw one report (in the Daily Mail?) speculating that we had a budget of £15M - we probably spent around that on fees, signing on fees (for the "freebies") etc, so where is this extra cash coming from?

Since TSI was first made public, there was a very clear message that the club would continue to be run within its means.i always took this to mean that there would be no major cash injections from TSI, rather, they'd fill any "black hole" if needed, and invest strategically to strengthen the infrastructure of the club. I think a lot of people have forgotten this.i also think a lot don't really understand the finances of the PL - yes promotion means some £90M of cash coming into the club, but £48M of that is in parachute payments over four years if you get relegated in the first year. It'll be very interesting to see the next set of accounts.


As for the signings we did make, Pog, Mariappa and Shorey are starting regularly, McLeary seems to play better as an impact sub a yay, and is doing so to good effect. Gunter seem to have been dropped for Cummings, but I suspect this has more to do with the established partnership between Cummings and Kebe than anything else. The only one which really gives cause for concern is Guthrie - not sure what's going on there as I haven't been party to the rumours that so many seem to have heard, but are unwilling to share. In fairness of the six signings mentioned, one poor one isn't too bad....

If we get to the United game without a couple of wins on the board, then perhaps I'll start to be more concerned, for the time being I'll keep the faith...

[ankeny]

Royal Lady was spot on about McDermotts signings, Pog aside,none of them were prem ready and if the money that we are lead to believe he was given then he missed the boat.Whether its Hammond holding him back I don't know but Anton will not let this go on much longer judging by the look of his face yesterday.How many players since he has been manager are first team ready to go players?

Saw that look on MOTD when they took the lead. If someone could get a copy of that it'd be cool.

Person in looking pissed off when their team is losing shocker.

Slag me off ,don't give a flying one but answer the question,how many?

[Rsince67]

Incredibly you can still get 22/1 on him to be the next manager to go

Where?

You're not asking for McDermott are you? He could be thinking of an additional insurance policy!

haha! i think hughes has 1-2 more games or its curtains

[windermere_royal]

Well at least Southampton look worse than us, all we need is another two

[MmmMonsterMunch]

Person in looking pissed off when their team is losing shocker.[/quote]
Slag me off ,don't give a flying one but answer the question,how many?[/quote]

I wasn't concerned about answering your question TBH. I was merely stating that your point about Anton's look was bollox. But seeing as you asked so very nicely....

What IS your question exactly BTW? How many players have gone straight into the 1st team since we've had BM in charge?

How about Leigertwood? BM bought him in Dec when we were right in the shit & it transformed the season & we got to the play off final?

Or how about Roberts in Jan of this year? Again it proved to be a fantastic signing & arguably he got us to the title.

[ankeny]

Thats two Bret Williams,Keith Shepherd anyone Guthrie

[jonboy29red]

Some one posted on the club fb page that he had heard from a good source that the clock is ticking for mcd

[sandman]

Well now I'm sold. If some bloke on the internet says it then it must be true.

[MmmMonsterMunch]

Thats two Bret Williams,Keith Shepherd anyone Guthrie

LOL - 2 cracking examples that culminated in two of the greatest seasons in our history not enough then?!

How about Gorkss? Mariappa?

Has it also occurred to you that BM is not the scout any more? He is the manager.

You are also forgetting that the likes of Williams & KARL Sheppard were brought in before the TSI era, i.e. cheap.

Are you honestly having a pop at BM on the basis that not every signing is straight into the 1st team? Name a manager that has managed to do that then - eagerly awaiting your response! Honestly the mind boggles at the amount of divs supporting this club.

[eleventh earl of mar]

Lots of sharp upward knee action here...

We've yet to play any teams in the bottom 7 of the league! Let's see where we are after QPR, Wigan, Norwich and Villa before we start talking about kicking Brian out on his ear...

I think you will find Liverpool were in the bottom 7 when we played them.