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Am I confident of winning the league? No. I've never claimed I am. Do I believe our start to the season gives us reason to worry? No, I don't. Because, as my post (and Reading's start) demonstrates, the first month of the season is utterly irrelevant and absolutely no guide to how the rest of...

Yes. They then lost the next FIVE consecutive matches. These FIVE defeats included losing at ultimately-relegated Portsmouth, at home to both Barnsley and Watford, as well as losing in the cup to a team in the division below. We need 4 points from the next 4 league games to be in a better...

If I'm reading you right, I agree. The 4 games after we were champions meant nothing as we'd already won it. Similarly though, the 3 games after we were out of the playoff picture are also completely irrelevant. Our form book should only really be about the first 3 games this season.

There seems to be a few people here claiming an awful 10 game run, which would include games at the end of last season which were complete dead rubbers after we had lost the playoff place. I wonder how those same people saw the 4 games without a win at the end of 2010/11... did they not matter...

We need a striker, we know that, and there's a good chance (allegedly...) that we'll get him in the next 9 days. Reading needed a striker last season, they got him in January and won the league - having lost FOUR consecutive games in August/September, including at Portsmouth and at home to...