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Yep BBC West Midlands summary: Largely cloudy this morning with outbreaks of rain, this perhaps wintry in north. The afternoon will be drier with bright or sunny spells developing in north. Cloudier with light rain in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Cold, brisk easterly wind developing. Aka too cold!

Urgh that was awful! I sicked up my curry on the way back and paid £30 for a taxi from Watford to St Albans to avoid missing the last train back out of London. Thought the weather report for today wasn't as bad till much later on?

Would rather we wait and sign quality than buy Stephen Kelly or Chamak and Joe Cole... Desperate early signings are always for desperate/rubbish players.

Highlights that most of Readings fans either have no clue about good players at all or have some of the most unbelievably bad midfielders to make Guthrie look good... You mean Harding at RB Can only hope the Paul Robinson thing is good for us, wouldn't say no to him right now at all!

As much as a like Di Matteo as a person (comes across as a nice guy) his big achievements are the champions league win and doing a decent job with MK Dons and WBA. Adkins has several promotions under his belt and much more team building so I won't be impressed if :the inevitable happens" and we land Di Matteo till we get results (a lot too). Till then theres only one Nigel Adkins!

A funny one Reading are about to sign Steven Kelly, spend £2.5m on a RB over the summer that haas played 6 times and replace him with a RB that has managed about 16 appearances a season in the last 3 and a half years at Fulham... (and pay another £2.5m for the privilege)

Apparently thats a thing... I guess his idea is that if there is no pressure or nothing to loose (going down pretty much anyway) then they will relax and a good performance will happen, despite the blindingly obvious point that they probably wont be involved at all and loose. This is one of those weeks where Lawro looks a right tit as a team that has had 3 good league performances (and a bad fa cup performances) should beat a team that has been dreadful in the league and league cup and only had a good performance in the fa cup after going a goal down...

Did you miss United at home with Vidic and Ferdinand who have the combined acceleration of a battleship??

Probably do the 4-4-2 sort of set up as against Stoke if Gaston isn't 100%. Guly on the left Lambert in the hole Punch on the right with Rodriguez up front terrorising the 19 year olds at cb... Then Gaston on the bench as a precaution/super sub. Then again it could all be a ruse to confuse the opposition even more (and hope they can't make plans). Also Adkins has some almighty knees in the training pictures!

Good god no! Cannot accept a draw for this one right now, despite what Lawro thinks (first time in a while he has gotten it flatly wrong). We should win, we are a lot better than them now and tomorrow is the time to show it.

To be fair, Middlesborough is one of the all time biggest dumps I have ever had the misfortune to go too. Not helped by their half full stadium either.

Transfer window is open so registration window is open and we can put him back in the squad (and take him out again if he's loaned out again though if he plays for us it gets a bit murky with the 2 clubs per-season rule). Also only players over 21 (on the start of the season I think) have to be registered, Martin is 23 so needs to be registered though.

Thought his appearances were limited to cups now anyway as Villa wanted to avoid the next instalment payable on league fixtures to Sunderland...

Train Birmingham new street to Witton is £2 return much better option than the bus Last time I drove to brum there were plenty of places to park for the day, though it was pot luck where I found. Pubs are easy going and friendly in the most part so that wont be much of a problem (except maybe immediately around the ground), going to have a couple in town before heading out to the ground I think.

They don't sell alcohol in the away end?!?!?!

Complete madness! Next you'll be crying for a return of Paul Wotton football genius

Quality news! Similar to Lallana signing a 4 and a half year deal this time 2 years ago this is some of the most important transfer window news, good players aren't leaving!

The train line are doing deals on the virgin train routs that way, we change at Crew on the way out and get the direct line back, though I have realised the £26 reflects the student rail card price (1/3rd off). It's £40 without it.

He really is. It would be like having a younger version of Kelvin Davis only we would be left with more time to tolerate utter mediocrity.

That article has said nothing of fact and is just stating what we can see pretending to be in the know. Of course his position isn't secure, we are 17th! If we were 8th then yeah he's the man, but we are 17th. Media trying to drum up "el sackico" again. Same manager is going to survive and we can add a second manager to the list of "managers sacked by saints" (crossing my fingers for Redknapp and Pards to be on that list later in the season too)

He's worse than any of our current options. Leave him for Liverpool.

It's away at Chelsea, it doesn't matter unless they fancy just giving us a result as they have done against QPR and Swansea recently....

Wow! First game in a while travel is more expensive than the ticket for the game! £26 return from MK plus a few quid getting there from here and a £20 game ticket is just amazing.

They wanted all the money now (because they have none) and 30% of Gaston was owned by the Uruguayan club he came from. We had to make a deal with them for the last bit (a sell on clause I seem to remember was the solution) and sort out the payment plan.

My pc gave me a blue screen and needed a kick. My mac said there is one cheap article from this morning that said the move can only happen when he gets an EU passport (as italian teams have a limit on non-EU players) which means it as been plucked squarely out of some bored journalists ass on a slow news day. Everything else is from the summer when we signed him because we can and wanted too, everyone else that wanted too couldn't and it seems still can't... Therefore non-story.