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Yeah.

someone who I really like is Josh Stokes as well obviously had has had a couple of loan spells in League One now with Stockport and Cambridge and I think this is sort of the club that he will thrive at in terms of the way they play give him the best possible they just suit his play like ability basically in terms of he's very good on the ball and he's off the ball work did need work and Liam Richardson seems to have got that drilled into him as well he's created the joint most big chances for Reading as well with four And it is interesting you mentioned Lewis Wing because he seems to be playing in a different role this year.

He's a bit deeper, dictates the game a little bit more, but it doesn't give him as much opportunity to get forward.

But it seems to be working for him at the end of the day.

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But, you know, we are talking about a massive football club here and it's a big job.

And like you say, an attractive job.

I'm just looking at some of the other managers in the running and I'm not saying that there is any possibility of, for instance, Sean Dyche taking that job.

One of the other managers linked with it.

Nothing happens in their football matches.

and this is also but it's not a you know this was the case last season the success was built on a really strong defensive record as was their promotion out of League 2 prior to that Reading looked very strong under Liam Richardson with some very good attacking players Kyrie Slisby in particular really impressive so you know it's still all to play for and I wouldn't buy any stretch rule anyone out Plymouth Argyle fall into that category too but right now you know Huddersfield and Stockport look to me to be the two teams where if you finish above them surely you're getting automatic promotion

At the bottom, Wigan have seven points, Barnsley eight, Bromley nine, Peterborough ten, and just at the relegation zone, Blackpool, Notts County on 11.

How's the Robbie Savage-Peterborough experiment going, Ali? I mean, I have seen Dale Vince and Darren McCartney going at each other on Twitter.

They sit fifth place in the table, 21 points from their opening 12 games in what is a very tight race, shaping up to be anyway for promotion.

Reading manager Liam Richardson was very honest with his post-game thoughts.

He called the game versus Barnsley one of two halves.

First half, not acceptable, really, in many elements, and that's the players' words.

But like, it blew my mind a little bit.

So, Andy Runamoto was booked on the 23rd minute, right? Difficult, difficult time, any time for a centre midfielder who puts tackles in to be booked then, let alone have to play what? you know 60 odd minutes or whatever for the rest of the game if you're playing the whole night need to not get a second yellow Scott Hogan scored on the 71st minute right Liam Richardson then took Andy Rinomoto off on the 77th minute and put Charlie Savage on now initially if you look at that stat straight away without looking at the time as you're thinking oh Rinomoto's been booked you know playing sensible but he played 50 minutes on a yellow card before he was taken off So what is the thinking there in terms of taking off Andy Rinomoto to put on Charlie Savage to leave Lewis Wing on at that time after they just scored? And there's still 20 minutes to play or whatever.

What's the thinking behind that? Because that doesn't make sense to me.

Well, yeah.

or

Walsh or Burrows and Reading you know still missing Jack Marriott you'd think because they were pretty wasteful in front of goal but you know it was a pretty bad result but not necessarily the worst performance from Liam Richardson's Reading 17 shots 6 on target so you know probably had the lion's share of extra as well but yeah Liam Richardson's return to Wigan not a happy one

and a couple of draws Peterborough 2 Burton 2 great assist from Harry Leonard for Edwards to put Posh ahead early on but Webster equalised cancelled it out with a deflected shot for Burton Dennis went close a couple of times for Albion as well but in the 89th minute Bem Arubi stepped onto the ball on halfway and he walked so that Diego Gomez of Brighton could run.

He unleashed from way downtown the perfect trajectory over Alex Bass, who Robbie Savage, unusually for a manager, said, I actually thought Bassie's starting position was fine.