Wolves are Biting Again

Those Brown shirt-wearing bastards are at it again.

This time it’s for Kevin Doyle. According to Reading Chronicle, well Anthony Smith,
Wolves are closing in on the striker for an estimated £6.5 million to bolster their Premier League survival hopes.

I really, really, really hope he doesn’t join the ignorant, selfish Wolves side.

Those bullies always take our best players, this is a team we comfortably beat twice the previous season and know have the goalkeeper and potentially the striker that played so well against them.

To make daggers in the back hurt a little more, it was Marcus Hahnemann quotes saying that all these players will be leaving, and he probably hopes for company at his new side.

The ex-loyal Royal said, “I think its inevitable will go. They could well move on because I think the club are trying to off load some salaries.”

And to be fair he is right. Hahnemann is 37 years old and on a supposed £12,000 a week, so yeah his salary would probably be good to get off the wage bill.

Doyle’s worth his salary a little more and he will be a lot harder to replace. As long it’s not Robbie ‘I can barely score and cost a lot of money’ Earnshaw it’ll be fine.

Doyle will probably end up going but he can do much better than Wolves. I’m sure Everton or Aston Villa would be great options. He is that good. He’s a starter for his international side and he should be number one choice for his club side too, whoever that might be.

Wolves eat up Hahnemann

Marcus Hahnemann has joined the enemy.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have been snapping at our players again. Fair enough, he’s out of contract but geez he could have joined anyone else.

Simon Osborne, Aidy Williams and Michael Gilkes all moved up north and it was painstakingly punishing for any Reading fan to see our players put on the horrible brown of Wolves. It does leave a bitter taste in my mouth that Hahnemann elected to join them.

I don’t like Wolves. Never have done.

It’s not a case of being bitter but not much about Wolves I like. I remember coming back from a goal down to win 2-1 in the last minutes of the game at Elm Park years ago and I have never felt such relief and excited at a victory. It was the proudest victory I ever saw with my dad and it remains one of my fondest memories at the old Stadium.

Mick McCarthy pounced on a good goalkeeper that we’ve unfortunately released, and he
knows a good one when he sees one. He’ll be a brilliant back up to Wayne Hennessey, and he’ll probably eventually take over the Number 1 spot.

Hahnemann was as important as anyone else in our recent era and it will be difficult to see him wearing any goalkeeper jersey other than Reading’s. Will he be throwing his top into the crowd after a win – I hope not. That was special for us, and kids including my 38-year-old sister adore him to the ground.

The United States international is now back in the Premier League and his eight years at Madejski Stadium will be remembered fondly.

I hope he does well.