We're fucked aren't we

Marlon Fossey from Fulham would be a decent signing.

Exactly, people saying it's not about the money and about the journey are severely suffering with Mowbrayism. Anyone who says they would say no to a pay rise for the exact same job is lying to themselves

Absolutely correct. However footballers know it's a short career so will try to gain as much money as possible, the vast majority anyway. Some won't of course but in general a footballer, as well as a non-footballer will follow the money. But if the offer is similar they will look at job satisfaction

I think it's the more the fact he had to play with a back 5, and doesn't have the personnel yet available to him.

Gallagher apparently had at least 5....

The most frustrating thing for me is that Garrett was ready last season too...

“I think it’s quite clear, you guys know where we need to buy players, it’s quite simple isn’t it. “If you bring players in and you want to take a special direction those players should be able to help the team to be better than the players we have so we can put the team in a positive direction which is important. “I know what I want and the club have to provide that of course and they are working extremely hard to provide that.”

He's given. From the quotes he doesn't appear happy with the club. In my opinion.

Young Wharton impressing? Thoughts on Sam Barnes?

Sam Barnes, Not Sam Burns in 2nd XI, so assume back 3 in both games....

Has a feel of a 1st and 2nd XI, even though it's pre season - might be wrong (probably)

Second XI: Pears, Rankin-Costello, Carter, Phillips, Edun, Garrett, Wharton, Burns, Hedges, Vale, Dolan

I'd take Davenport back and give Jacob Murphy a trial

Full list of trialists at Reading: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill 🇬🇳 Julian Jeanvier 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sam Hutchinson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Grant Ward 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jacob Davenport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jodi Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Josh Murphy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Conor Wickham

Jacob Davenport on trial at Reading. He'll prove people wrong I'm sure. Josh Murphy too.

Interesting, is there a bit of tension there?

No chance of us being on YouTube today or something?

Right, who are the trialists?

Excited to see him get a chance. Heard very good things.

So appears like Burns will get his chance tomorrow. Interestingly Leonard not with the first team tomorrow so Burns preferred. Appears they made a mistake not taking him to Portugal IMO.

That we are looking to sign?

The thing is - in football time is limited. Decisions are needed to be made quickly and effectively. Key traits of high performing teams and environments

From the rumours everyone states it's mostly him that causes the problems - purely looking for cost savings and saving his job? @glen9mullanwho knows the club would back this, I'm pretty sure?

There are literally 4-5 teams worse than us currently. Let's all calm down for now anyway. Greg B said there was a healthy budget so let's believe him until the end of the window. Granted I thought with a new team in places things would be done quicker and more efficiently. However we still have SW in place so might take a while.