Reading v Gas Match Day Thread

Thanks for the backing 79 and Dusty, imagine if I told the name of my sources every time I was asked this?!

Someone posted the EP article on the Forde signing and I thank them for this, I never realised Taylor said in public he never presented to the player?!?! And this goes hand in hand what I said, he never signed him or had anything to do with it. Shaq was just on a list of targets the 2/3 weeks before, so yes he was on the radar. But we got our business done, Watford wanted £1 million for him first of and we said no. We then got in other targets and the Oxford striker, when he was dropped on Taylor, he said “how the heck do you expect me to play him?!?!” We got Gats in and Taylor thought he was the last part of the jigsaw upfront, Abdul then did a deal last minute with the agent, not Friend. So it’s all fine and dandy and rosy in the garden all on the back of the Cambridge win………and then the agents of Hutchinson and Shaq start phoning Abdul going mad re no game time, Taylor then loses the plot after the Swindon game basically saying, you keep telling me to play players and look at what happens?! And yes I’m told Shaq is telling everyone he should be playing and the press as well. He’s not happy here and that showed Saturday, it all came out in frustration.

if Shaq was happy at Bristol Rovers he'd have seen the racial abuse as nothing to do with the club, Saturday night he basically washed his hands of us deleting all posts relating to the club. I'm sure he regrets signing for us and is asking his agent why.

*Edited post, I said too much and don’t need to justify myself.

OK you've convinced me it's a mess. That's it, see you down the Gate next week.

To be fair to Shaq, based on what we've seen, he should be playing.

What doesn't quite add up is, he came off the bench at Burton, played really well and got himself a goal. He then got himself a place in the starting 11 against Shrewsbury and produced a MOTM performance. He rightly kept his place for Reading, and was one of our best players until the sending off.

If he's unhappy, it's not affecting his performance, and it's odd he chose a time when he'd seemingly nailed down a place in the starting 11 to show his frustrations and get himself sent off. Personally, I think that had more to do with the free kick not going in his favour.

I don't know who signed him in the end. You might be right about that, but it's clear he was a target, and based on what we've seen so far, he could be one of our best summer signings.

Although it's a bit of a contradiction, I'd say the Twerton years weren't messy as everybody was pulling in the same direction, both on and off the field. 

Just been given a right licking by Stockport.