Match Day Thread Reading v Hull City

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Jen De Bais said:
Kaye did give a list of three players he wanted to the Directors.. I'm sure McDermott was on it, I don't know the reason why Kaye thought he could get him but he was certainly mentioned. Stapleton was in Arsenals reserves. Thinking about it now it could also have been Alan Ball who was coming to the end of his career. Someone will put me right.
Kaye was given some money but blew it on Alf Wood who was bought to play alongside Wagstaff. From memory and down to injuries I don't think the pair of them played together more than once. He should have bought Gordon Hill from Millwall and not Wood. Hill was the winger who laid the ball on a plate for Wood to score. He was signed by Man Utd and went onto to play for England, I think Wood left us for Walsall or somebody.
The story goes that City signed Wood because he had the best stats for goals scored etc in that years Rothmans Year Book of Football.
IMO I think Kaye was wrongly sacked. We were an established mid table Second Division club at the time having been in the old Div 2 since promotion in 65/66 but crowds were appalling low.
We had a solid defence but no forwards at the time. I think it was a home defeat to Mansfield ( could be wrong) when Kaye was finally sacked and I do remember the crowd being below 5,000 which for the old second division was shocking. We had 'lost' nearly 20,000 fans in a decade.
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Alan Ball had his 29th birthday in 1974 so he was not winding down his career. He had two more years to come at Arsenal and four years at Southampton.
 
Mr Bob said:
I think DAB is a bit crap in all honesty. Only ever use it in my car but there seem to be more drops in signal and there is a noticeable difference in sound quality on my car stereo, FM has a far more complete sound to it. DAB lacks punch and just sounds a bit dull.
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Really? I love digital radio. No ****ing about tuning in...no hiss or interference..... couldn't go back to analogue now.
 
Jen De Bais said:
So he was looking for another move then ? FFS perhaps that's what John Kaye had heard too ?
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No, Ball had two more years at the club he was with at that time. He would never have come to second division City at the age of 29.
 
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