Failure to buy a striker

[LoyalRoyalFan]

McDermott might have to start answering a few questions.

[PEARCEY]

This thread is two months early tbf. Lets see what January brings

[peterroyal76]

He might not have had permission to get anyone else in.Despite the goals we have scored this season its obvious (to me at least!) we need a proper goal-scorer.

[Sarah Star]

He might not have found anyone who:

a, wants to come here
b, is available
c, we can afford
and d, is the sort of striker he's after i.e. different/better than what we already have.

[Ian Royal]

He might not have found anyone who:

a, wants to come here
b, is available
c, we can afford
and d, is the sort of striker he's after i.e. different/better than what we already have.

Don't talk sense.

We need the right striker, not just any striker. If we can't get the right striker on loan, we may as well hold off until January. We desperately need one then, but lets face it, this time last year we had one fit striker available. We're three times as well off now as we were then.

[leww_rfc]

This thread is two months early tbf. Lets see what January brings

+1

[Royalee]

This thread is two months early tbf. Lets see what January brings

I'm a bit bored with this method of thinking - didn't we do this 4 January's ago? We go and sign an average utility player whilst our rivals bring in Bednar, Ramsay and Lansbury - yeah well done McDermott, Hammond and Madejski, Reading are a massive club. Dicks

[Ian Royal]

This thread is two months early tbf. Lets see what January brings

I'm a bit bored with this method of thinking - didn't we do this 4 January's ago? We go and sign an average utility player whilst our rivals bring in Bednar, Ramsay and Lansbury - yeah well done McDermott, Hammond and Madejski, Reading are a massive club. Dicks

We aren't a massive club. We're a mid-sized Championship club with good potential.

[Royalee]

This thread is two months early tbf. Lets see what January brings

I'm a bit bored with this method of thinking - didn't we do this 4 January's ago? We go and sign an average utility player whilst our rivals bring in Bednar, Ramsay and Lansbury - yeah well done McDermott, Hammond and Madejski, Reading are a massive club. Dicks

We aren't a massive club. We're a mid-sized Championship club with good potential.

You'd never realise that with the rubbish Madejski comes out with. Potential which has been wasted by the board and management time and time again much to the frustration of the fans, many of whom no longer buy in to this crap.

[Ian Royal]

The club often talks about ambition, but that doesn't have to mean it wants to get instant results by taking risks, and certainly doesn't mean anyone at the club considers us massive.

You need to get a sense of perspective and look through your prejudice.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

The season could be over by January.

[Ian Royal]

The season could be over by January.

How!? Surely last season has taught you that much. We were screwed in January... 23rd wasn't it? We narrowly missed out on the play offs and finished 9th ffs. So I think we'll have something to play for well beyond January this season.

[RoyalBlue]

He might not have found anyone who:

a, wants to come here
b, is available
c, we can afford
and d, is the sort of striker he's after i.e. different/better than what we already have.

Yeh, we've certainly been fed those exact lines by the club on numerous occasions. Truth is it all comes down to c) although more correctly it should read 'for the pittance the chairman is prepared to pay'.

Sort c) and a, b and d will normally fall into place.

Madejski and Clegg presumably both attended the same school of pledges. Just waiting for Madejski to express the same regret about no longer being able to deliver on his previous fine words.

:lol: The club often talks about ambition, but that doesn't have to mean it wants to get instant results by taking risks, and certainly doesn't mean anyone at the club considers us massive.

You need to get a sense of perspective and look through your prejudice.

No, you need to see there is an incredibly large gulf between what they promise and what they deliver and that gulf matches the size in the difference beteen investing sensibly and taking risks. There is a mid way but the apologists for Madejski refuse to recognise that.

Equally, few supporters demand instant results. What they want to see is signs of moving forward and there are very few of those as each year the club's brilliant business managers stumble across another black hole that has to be plugged by the sale of the talent the manager was hoping to build on.

As for no one at the club considering us massive - what short memories you and Howe have. Have you really forgotten all the bull we were fed about the next Arsenal!

[West Stand Man]

The season could be over by January.

That would be a first. Usually finishes in early May or late April. What will the players do all that time if there are no games.

[PEARCEY]

This thread is two months early tbf. Lets see what January brings

I'm a bit bored with this method of thinking - didn't we do this 4 January's ago? We go and sign an average utility player whilst our rivals bring in Bednar, Ramsay and Lansbury - yeah well done McDermott, Hammond and Madejski, Reading are a massive club. Dicks

If we don't splash some cash in January I will be pissed off. There should be no such thing as a black hole now. As a club we are too cautious in my view. However the transfer window opens in a few weeks so I will reserve judgement until then.

[howser]

Seems to me that the board and management are happy with our hot striking options and being unable to "do something" have decided to go "with what we have"

[Davyc]

with hunt back in action and scoring, we dont really need a new striker at the moment! once he keeps scoring that is! there is only a few weeks till the next window aswell so somthing could happen then.

[traff]

Mcdemott is either a lesser manager than I hoped or a bigger yes-man than I feared. I really don't believe he has big enough "cajones" to stand up to the Ego and fulfill his potential.Just happy to have the job and performing to the standard of average will keep in in it as long as he wants.

[winchester_royal]

Come on then you lot....who would you have signed today then? Name a striker out there who was available and would do a better job than what we have atm.

[Spud Gun]

We don't need a new striker, we just need to stop playing Long week in week out