Andy

Rumour doing the rounds is Brendan Rodgers being sacked tonight. Nothing official yet, but some bookies have stopped taking bets...

Agree on Davenport - thought he was very tidy and shows bit of talent in the fleeting appearances he had. Would have been a huge improvement on Buckley in the last 2 games. If he's still on a free, might be worth seeing if he fancies coming back...?

Of course Jack saw us as a project - he even admitted himself that we won the Prem a season or two early to plan. Even us being self sustainable was part of his plan for us. I would be worried if there wasn't a plan/project in place at any stage.

Bit of an embarrassment to be even talking about relegation after 5 games (of which we've won 3...). Literally serves no purpose.

We can't afford to lose this one, however disposable the tie seems at face value. It would mean 3 straight defeats, including being knocked out of the cup by a lower league team. I think he'll pick a strong a team as possible to get some positive momentum back.

Anyone talking about relegation after 5 league games (of which we’ve won 3 of) needs to have a word with themselves. I’ve described our fans as the footballing personification of Bipolar disease - and I stick by it. A LONG way to go this season; let’s see how the transfer window ends.

Ball was well out of play, wasn’t even close. But I can’t honestly say that we deserve anything from this match.

He really does and that was always the frustration when he was with us. He is still young enough to learn, but he lets himself down so often.

Superb from Pickering to beat his man down the left there. Cross wasn’t the best, but nice to see him do something really well.

Anel looks a player though, shame we missed out on him.

Just not good enough. I’m fine with the sitting deep and counter attacking plan, but we need to be much, much better on the ball. Look a soft touch.

The owners don’t identify players and negotiate with them - they basically approve and sign things off. The manager at the time is the sole person responsible for not utilising the funds made available to him. And in terms of what’s happening this window, the only thing that seems certain is that nobody really knows. Club is doing a good job of keeping things under wraps.

If we’re a million or two short on the JPvH deal, ship Carter off to Portsmouth - they think he’s the second coming down there. If the other Van from Merseyside pulls up as well, we will have plenty of quality cover to play either a 4 or a 5, with Ayala’s annual injuries also covered. In short, it’s a deal that needs to happen.

Whilst I like BBD and 2 goals in 4 isn't a bad return so far, if any scouts were watching him tonight, we'll be lucky to get £3m never mind £30m.

Nope. We were excellent at Swansea; gameplan executed to perfection. QPR was fits and spurts, but we did enough to win. WBA was probably the worst performance (before tonight), but we still found a way to win. Doesn't take away from how pathetic we were tonight, but to suggest we've been poor all season...well, that's just not true.

I doubt the owners are the stoppers here - funds will be available. It's identifying the players, then convincing them to sign for us that's been the problem so far...

Once I've calmed down, I'll admit that Reading did a lot of things right tonight. But right now, I couldn't tell you the last time we were this atrocious.

Absolutely horrific. Nobody can say that this isn't worse than anything from last season - against fucking Reading as well. Diabolical, front to back.

Quite possibly because we'd won every single game so far this season and Reading have been shite, getting dicked 0-4 against Rotherham last weekend?

That was with 10 men, to be fair - and in any case, I'm not convinced it was any worse than that first half. Fulham being the best team in the league at the time and Reading, quite possibly the worst before today...

In a game like this, Gallagher up top is vital. We had zero outlet up front and nobody able to hold onto the ball. Vale looked totally out of depth, I wouldn't have noticed that Dolan was even playing and BBD dreadful. Dack, Hedges and Gallagher on at HT and we might have half a chance.

As good as the first few games have been, that first half was worse than anything that a TM side ever produced. We haven't coped with their pressing, we look disorganised at set pieces and the front 3 have been absolutely dire. If scouts are here to watch BB, he isn't getting a move this window. MUST be better second half...

Strange comment, based on how they've both started this season - Hedges in particular.

I did feel that a lot of people were jumping to early conclusions on this - as I said days ago, JDT is no fool and won’t play AP if he’s on the verge of walking away, injury crisis or not. Deal still needs to be signed, but if AP has decided himself that staying with us for a couple of years and earning his big move is preferable to playing for Spurs U23s (with the money that comes with that), then fair fucks to him. Shows that he does indeed have a sensible head on his very young shoulders.

One thing that would be (slightly) interesting to know is whether we had to pay Forest on the 'international honours' clause on the deal? Believe it was intended (possibly written) as 'England caps', so not sure if we would have paid out on this, with the whole Chile thing. If we're promoted - and he's still here - we will owe them a couple of million. But as things stand, we've not paid anywhere near the £7m/£8m that seems to get bandied about a lot for him.