S-Clarke

+1, totally agree with that. As you've said, it makes more sense to have one in the premiership - someone who is aware of the availability of ''bigger'' players, as it's much harder to locate the right sort of players for the right sort of money in the PL - so that's where a DoF will come in handy. It's worked really well at Stoke for the past 2 seasons.

what comments did he make?

Millwall have just gone behind at home as well against Brentford.

it's a great game to watch though, it could finish any score at this rate.

wannabe mod

that third goal was a joke, clear handball. but tranmere are opening them up time and time again, this could be a rout.

now tranmere 3 - 0 Norwich

People need to realise that football isn't a defined logic. It doesn't work like this - Because we beat Norwich, we have to beat Tranmere, because we beat Mk Dons, we have to beat brighton...and so on. So because Norwich have lost like 1 game in 20 odd, they shouldn't loose 2-0 to tranmere tonight? oh. current score - Tranmere 2 - 0 Norwich. 14mins gone.

Exeter 2 - 0 colchester pretty much FT.

on another note, Aaron Martin has scored to put Sailsbury 1 up. Good for him to get out and have some games again, can imagine him being in and around the squad next season after we lose Perry and Thomas.

get off your high-horse ffs and man up. You give out as much as you get back.

and putting all of that into context - pard's hasn't done a bad job at all, as people keep saying, our position is false because of our -10 and poor start (which was bought about by the -10) start the season now with what we have, we'd be up with norwich based on our form over the games since october.

he never ever answers a sensibly put question, or responds intelligently to a sensibly put post. He will counteract it with pointless childish remarks. he was asked a fair question earlier ''did you think we'd get promotion at the start of the season?'' - he didn't answer it afaik simply because it would ruin his agenda and make his current posts look very silly indeed. there was a quote a few weeks ago, alps said he'd accept 16th - 17th place. So we're now 10th, possibly will finish between 8th-10th and he's moaning. go figure.

you're hardly one to moan. mark 593549359359 of the same post from alpine. good post fwiw sog - it's madness how people cannot see that he's doing a good job. i'm embarrassed sometimes to support a club lumbered with so many morons for supporters.

Actually i reckon we'd be closer to Leeds and co if we had started on 0 pts too. The 10pts was a huge barrier for us to get over and it held us back (also in terms of being able to attract the right sort of players), you saw our performances improve once we got rid of that. i think it's fair to say that with no -10 and the same team as we have now, we would be up there with the Norwich's, leeds and millwalls of the league. Good signs for next season i think.

A new RB - that's the main position that has a question mark over it at the moment for me, We need more cover in CM and we need to add competition for deano - as it's too easy for him to get into the team (that's not a criticism of him, but it's easy for him to take his place for granted atm). Someone of championship quality is a must, Danns/Stock. Obviously we'd need to add cover in CB and probably another extra face in midfield, but i don't think we need urgent surgery - just 1 or 2 quality additions and we'll be fine.

you're so right, most of us can see it but unfortunately every club is littered with total berks that want it yesterday. I think (hope) the majority of the fan base can see that we're heading in the right direction now, only the berk's cannot see the bigger picture.

we will need to win every game 5-0. I don't understand alpine tbh, i thought i'd have a look back through the threats, and he wasn't very active at all after our cup win and i actually think he said he couldn't bring himself to watch it? so here we are, producing a supposedly AWFUL result, and he's on song again posting in every thread. You can't really have a go at people for moaning at you alpine, as it's quite obvious that only the negatives motivate your opinion.

what did you think of the arsenal v barca game? your team did well!

we didn't lose believe it or not, but boy doesn't reading alpines posts make you think we have.

they have the stomach to come back and snatch a draw in the last minute against one of the in-form teams in the league. I can't believe what im reading on here sometimes.

I do get it, it is frustrating but i choose to look at the bigger picture - i don't take snap shots based on one or 2 games, and if you look at the bigger picture, there really isn't too much to worry about. The club is heading emphatically in the right direction. Promotion was always a massive long shot this season, anyone could see that.

there would be some kind of development tribunal fee paid to reading i think, not sure how much that would be.

have a medal. that's all that seems to bother you alps, just to be proven right. it's pretty boring now tbh.

totally agree, but that sort of reasoning is lost on many tbh.