Next Reading Manager: Press Conference @ 9:15

[excavvyinbrittany]

Surely the bookies will introduce names almost at random to increase their over round book?

All new names will bring a small amount of of cash for them evezn if not a realistic candidate.

[Eaststandman]

Surely the bookies will introduce names almost at random to increase their over round book?

All new names will bring a small amount of of cash for them evezn if not a realistic candidate.

Welcome aboard and feck off newbie! Where abouts are you in Brittany?

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Football is changing in this country, no longer does kick-and-rush work at the top level, and we had a chance to be brave and get ahead of the tide.

Not sure how the experience of Stoke and (this season) West Ham fits in with this view.

Stoke are an exception, I'll admit. But they certainly don't entertain their fans, and attendances at the Britannia are dwindling. West Ham are not even close to being safe yet, and they actually play better football than they are given credit for.

DIsagree its changing that much - those two games on sky yesterday were both dreadful in terms of skill/passing and showed what is still wrong with the game in this country, we just do not produce enough players comfortable with the ball which will again be evidenced at the weekend in the internationals - agree there are a few more sides who try and pass from the back but a fair few still lump it forward and the quality outside the top six/eight is generally poor.

[excavvyinbrittany]

Just outside Plésidy nearest club Guingamp 2nd tier promotion chasing with a left back better than Harte and Shorey and certainly younger

[winchester_royal]

The improvement was three wins and a draw against a couple of mid-table sides and two strugglers. Followed by a home draw with Scunthorpe and a 4-2 loss to Palace. Both of whom were also struggling with relegation.

Hasn't been vindicated? We went from struggling towards the bottom of the table to finishing 9th, making teh PO Final and promoted as champions. In three months time we won't be where we were with Rodgers unless we do much worse than I think most of us reasonably expect. What Rodgers has done elsewhere is utterly irrelevant.

McDermott has in no way set up back three years. just utterly

We'd have spanked Scunthorpe if Sig had brought his shooting boots that day. Palace was a shocker, I'll give you that, but it was a young team in transition and such performances were to be expected.

You misunderstand what I'm trying to say. It doesn't matter where/what we've done in the last 3 years, what I'm looking at is the position we're in now, and how we are shaping up for the next few years to come. We have an ageing squad, without any sort of decent footballing philosophy embedded into the first team, and star players likely to leave at the end of the season. How have we come forward from where we were 3 years ago when Coppell left us? How is the position we'll be in come August any better than back when we had players like Sigurdsson coming through?

McDermott has given us some fantastic moments, I cannot and will not dispute that, however they were all achieved mostly through short-termist strategy. The signings of players like Harte/Roberts/Shorey/Ledge were not made with any sort of long term vision in mind. The football we have been playing has been all about competing on that particular day, rather than about developing a style/system that will keep us competitive for years to come. It may not be his fault, financial circumstances have been against him the last few years so perhaps he's just been acting out of necessity, but I don't think this club is in any better a position than it was 3 years ago.

Who knows how the Rodgers reign might have turned out? He may well have got us relegated, but I don't believe that. Lets not forget we weren't any better in the first couple of months of last season under McDermott than we were in the first few months of Rodgers' tenure. I believe we were turning a corner, and I believe we'd have been better off in the long term (though perhaps not the short term) if we'd stuck with him.

But hey, it doesn't matter a jot what I think. The decisions have been made. We move on.

[Wimb]

I maintain that we wouldn't have been relegated under Brendan, there was plenty of quality in that side and with a full season from McAnuff, Sigurdsson, Bertrand, Federic etc we would have been fine. I don't think it would have been a ninth placed finish but I do think people disregard the fact that Brendan only had 1 transfer window to play with. Had Brendan been able to get Zurab and Griffin (moves he'd apparently lined up) then again I don't think relegation would have been on the cards.

Would it all have ended in tears? Maybe but I don't think we were in quite the termoil that some would have us believe.

The decision to appoint Brian didn't set us back years, it gave us another fantastic opportunity to build. Sadly Brian/Hammond/AZ/Madejski/whoever once again royally buggered it up by making the same unforgivable mistakes that we made from 2006-2008.

[Arch]

Whatever might have happened, we know what did happen. Within half a season we were top ten, within a season and a half we were in the playoff final at Wembley, within two and half seasons we were champions. There's no merit in debating the virtues of that change, because there's nothing useful to say about where we would have been if Rodgers had been kept. Where we are now is only very remotely related to the Rodgers departure and if we do end up back where we were it's not because of the departure.

[Eaststandman]

Just outside Plésidy nearest club Guingamp 2nd tier promotion chasing with a left back better than Harte and Shorey and certainly younger

Nice, I'm a part timer in Huelgoat, our team isn't even on the radar!

[Royal Dee]

A pope got chosen quicker than we are choosing a manager...

[glass half full]

I think people are forgetting how bad a decision it was to appoint someone who tried to change the style of football, Rodgers anybody?

Its going to take a few years to change the philosophy of our football, let alone return to the premier league next season!

The passing game is already there in the academy, which makes it all the more strange that certain first team players use hoofball so much. Rodgers tried too much too soon with some players of limited ability.

youth games, played at low intensity, more of a training excersise etc

1st team play in the highest possible pressure, against some of the best teams and players in the world.

as a result, sometimes the first team players look up, cant find an easy pass and end up hoofing to the channels.
its no great mystery

Imagine that we are alreay relegated, play without fear.....

[brighton_royal]

I've heard from a possibly reliable source that we're seriously interested in Holloway..................

[Royal With Cheese]

I've heard from a possibly reliable source that we're seriously interested in Holloway..................

That would be a step up.

[Royal With Cheese]

Sorry not. That would not be a step up.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

I've heard from a possibly reliable source that we're seriously interested in Holloway..................

WUM?

[brighton_royal]

I've heard from a possibly reliable source that we're seriously interested in Holloway..................

WUM?

Don't think so although it remains a possibility. He's well connected in another football club.

[UpThePrem]

Put this on the other thread as well but think i'd be extremely happy with him.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... er-1772284

[anR]

Skybet have at 20/1 to be next Reading manager.................................Brian McDermott

We're sorry...

[excavvyinbrittany]

Skybet have at 20/1 to be next Reading manager.................................Brian McDermott

We're sorry...

Sky just trying to get in more mug money wont happen

[Eaststandman]

Now that a number of first, second, third, fourth, (who knows) choices have said "thanks, but no thanks" I fully expect to see a new manager and a quote from the club saying _ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the best candidate and the man we've wanted to carry us forward since we began the search for our new manager! Nice one Anton

[ZacNaloen]

No quotes, it's the mirror, pretty sure it's made up.