Esteban RepressedRoyal Time for a change, we have lost to a very poor Villa side and a Wigan team savaged by injury, 0 points from these two games is disastrous and stinks of relegation. I like McDermott but our two "marquee signings" Pogbreynak and Guthrie are useless/not playing and the other signings, Shorey apart, are useless; when you have a player like Tabb playing our best football you know we are doomed.
If Reading want relegation, stick with the "these are an honest bunch policy" or alternatively pay McDermott off and get someone in who can start re-building quickly. It is a repeat performance of when Coppell showed too much loyalty with players not cutting it when we were relegated in 2008, when it could have been avoided.
McDermott has been a brilliant servant but is tactically naive and has bought poorly, Everton was a blip when we pounced on their complacency, we should have been battered out of sight in that game; it bought BM time and he has failed miserably to capitalise on it with two performances bereft of anything other than "hope for the best" dross.
If Zingarevich really means business, he should give BM a financial handshake, wish him all the best and move on, otherwise we are sinking without a trace in humiliating circumstances.
When you get the chance at the big table and you have the finances to have a right go at it, you should give it a good go, we have made tens of millions from promotion and done what? Trusted a bunch of over achieving Championship players that's what.
I can't name a player in our side (maybe Morrison and McArthy one day?) who would play in anything other than a relegation bound side.
Who dares wins, who bottles it gets relegated.
I am embarrassed tonight.
And who is the next manager going to bring in to change it? When AZ took over, he said we would still be frugal, but wouldn't necessarily have to sell our best players. He's kept that promise. McDermott saved us from league 1, took us to a Wembley play-off final (despite losing his best players and on a shoe string budget) and then with a little TSI money, won us the Championship.
There's no doubt that everyone at the club is overachieving, we know we lack quality, but not effort or desire. That almost certainly won't be enough to keep us up, but it will afford us 4 seasons of parachute payments, which is very important for us.
You can be as disappointed with the results as you like, you can call for a new manager, but it won't change the business model that TSI want to follow. If you can't get on board with it, then you'll be a very upset Reading fan.
Be careful of what you wish for. If McDermott goes, who will we bring in who could do any better?
I think you are right in many ways, but the plan is not working and a new manager needs to be a solid name within football, not someone like Hughes or Warnock. There is an opportunity, with the huge Thames Valley catchment area, for big things at Reading but we are, as a friend of mine put it, always Conservative with a small "c".
BM has been excellent but there are glaring inadequacies at how he has dealt with promotion and the level of performance seems bereft of any real plan, though I am sure there is one...there must be, surely?
Most of us on here work for either companies or ourselves.
If we achieve, we look for financial reward.
BM got that.If we implement ideas and staff that do not benefit and even hinder the business of our company, we expect ramifications
BM has to expect that.BM is rewarded with a high end salary that would be expected at director level in blue chip organisations, he has to deliver and at the moment he is nowhere near that. Teams that initially looked worse than us (Villa, Saints and Norwich) have improved dramatically, QPR will improve and we will be left at the basement playing hoofball whilst consoling ourselves about parachute payments.
I see that as a huge opportunity wasted for Reading Football club, the only opportunity we are taking is one that allows us to punch a gift horse square in the mouth. Ask Hull, Coventry, Burnley, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Portsmouth about a quick return to the top flight, then stand well back.
We need a manager who has top flight pedigree and can raise the profile of the club, sadly, I just don't think McDermott has the "stage presence" to manage at this level, he just looks out of his depth.
Advocaat would be a good shout, though possibly an unrealistic one.
The time has come....
