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Dont think he's big on that particular trait unfortunately.

Agree 100% with all that. Those saying "oh sod the press" blah blah are so spectacularly missing the point its laughable.

Thats not the point though is it ? The bottom line is if you **** off the press for no sound reason, and this isnt a sound reason by a long chalk, then they in turn will stir the brown stuff for you big time, will paint you in a negative light and will generally turn any positives for that club into a negative. Mr Cortese needs to remember what division we are in. If we were a Premiership big boy doing this it might just make a difference but we are a First Division club and the attitude of the press and public alike will probably be "who the hell do they think they are".......and they have a point.

I was watching the same game as you I think. Cannot believe some of the comments about Dickson.

Really dont see that at all, he was our best player in the first half. His crossing first half was superb. Now had you said Puncheon....started brightly but faded very badly I thought.

I agree, very surprised at how little we have played pre-season and even more surprised at how, with the exception of Reading, we did not step up the level of opposition as we got closer to the season start.

And only one of them needs the money......the Reading fans, on their forum, call JM a skinflint !

Thats why, if it happens, I believe it will be a transfer deadline day deal. The longer Reading wait the less they will get for him from us or anyone else for that matter. Antonio can choose to walk at the end of the season and all they would get is one of these Development fees and we have seen with Ryan Dickson how little that turns out to be. Who will hold their nerve longer - Reading or Cortese ? Think I know which one my money is on. If we have offered 500k for a player unproven above League 1 then Reading are a little bit silly for not snapping our hand off IMHO.

No mention of a squad for tommorows game on Reading's web site so no clue there unfortunately.

No, quite. "it seems" and "probably" in the same sentence equals very vague and not really sure !

With all due respect Connolly is a bit better than McGoldrick.

Oh well, you'll have to do it yourself then

Hopefully thats true......my gut feeling is that IF we do get him back it will be a Transfer deadline day deal.

I dont expect this to be true given the source.........but i would love it to be. This would be the icing on the cake......I cant see us paying £500k for what in reality is a Reading reserve though.

You cant argue with the point about slow starters. We are notorious at that and I wouldn't be surprised if we dont stumble a bit in the first few games. Still think we will go up though, every team will have a bad patch and we can get ours out the way early ;-)

Weston has decided after the hostility that built up in the "a few rumours" thread started by Fitzhugh Fella that he will not be posting any info from now on. As one of the more interesting posters I'm sure you will agree its a shame. You can thank the usual suspects !!

Shame some of the more, shall we say, aggressive posters ****ed off Weston Saint so much that he isnt going to pass on info on this forum anymore cos he has a link with Adam's family from what I can make out. This thread would have been right up his street. So thanks again to those tossers who resorted to hurling personal abuse etc etc.

Do you honestly think if Morgan, Rickie, Lallana and Puncheon had been fit Saturday he wouldnt have played them ?

Indeed.....for clever nip on over to the Eastleigh thread where it appears alpine is having a right paddy about Pardew not playing the team he intends to field against Plymouth tonight !!! WTF ?

In fairness that wasn't the pitch announcer, that was some dickhead up in the Security centre. He made the guy on the pitch sound like a pro !!

Ummm....good idea driving away one of the few people who actually share some decent info on here isn't it ? I await you posting something of interest in the near future.....for a change ;-)

Thats a great shame, your snippets of info are one of the things i look for on this forum. Let me know if you go to another one :-)

If thats true then someone at Reading has clearly lost the plot. They wont get a penny for him in 10 months time when his contract expires. Over a million for someone they dont consider a regular......amazing......no wonder we havent signed him.

So if we are top by Christmas and everything is going our way with Cortese's five year premiership plan on track he is going to jepordise that and sack the manager is he ? ok.........................

He would have been here by now if he was coming back. Reading will probably be using him as an impact sub this season....unfortunately.