Diop set to return

According to David Gold, Papa Bouba Diop is 50/50 to make his comeback for the 'promotion showdown' on Saturday.

This, along with the returns of Ricardo Vaz Te and Julien Faubert on Tuesday are crucial at this stage of the season with every game a must win game if we are to return to the Premier League.

It wasn't all good news, though, as we still don't know the full extent of the head injury sustained by Abdy Faye on Tuesday or the knock Joey O'Brien took so we can only hope both will be fine.

My concern is still our strikers. Einstein defined insanity as trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Doesn't that define Big Sam? And I'm not talking about whether or not the same tactics earn us the win or not, I'm referring to our forwards. All season he has slammed our strikers claiming that they don't score enough. So what has he done? We got little Sammy Baldock late in the summer transfer window, John Carew on a free and we snapped up Ricardo Vaz Te and Nicky Maynard on January transfer deadline day. And since then not one of all those strikers have been given a real chance. He's rotated the squad so many times that we literally don't have one single striker who is guaranteed a place in the team. That is our problem! If he had started every game he's been available for this season, Baldock would be our top scorer and the 20 goals a season striker we need (in my opinion) but it's hard to be prolific if you aren't playing regularly do how does he expect them all to score left right and centre!? On that front, he really is an idiot.

Okay rant over. Moving on to Saturdays game, we need to play with 2 up top, preferably 2 quick forwards like Maynard and Baldock to run at the Reading defence and cause them problems from the off. I know I've been going on about how amazing Baldock is even though he missed vital chances against Burnley and Palace a few weeks ago, we have to be patient as we know what he can do, we saw that against Blackpool and Leicester earlier in the season and let's not forget he's only young.

It's a hard one to predict because I think it'll be one extreme or the other; we'll either play terribly and the fans will get nervous, edgy and frankly pissed off or we'll burst out of the traps, start well and the fans will be fully behind the team for the first time in months.

Let me know your predictions!

COME ON YOU IRONS!