Five key problems for me.
The squad should be good enough...8 of the starting 11 were in the Championship side of 2005/2006 that walked away with this division. Some of those players are possibly past their best but the likes of Lita, Doyle and Convey should be better now than three years ago when they were still learning their trade. With the likes of Bikey and Matejovsky to come back in and with more promising youngsters than three years ago this squad should be there or thereabouts...but at the moment they are performing way below expectation.

Problem 1..Lack of confidence. Players are under-perfoming and I think the strikers are particularly short on confidence. Its more than that though. Sidwell gave the team that abrasive, cock-sure confidence. Its been missing since he left. He may not be the greatest footballer in the world but without him the team have lost the confidence they had three years ago.

Problem 2 Lack of specialist left back and ball winner in midfield. Its not acceptable to play Hunt at left back in a make ends meet solution to a position that everybody knew would have to be filled twelve long months ago.
The lack of a decent ball-winner in midfield since Sidwell's departure has been glaringly obvious for too long and should also have been sorted out by now.

Problem 3 Coppell's tactics/dressing room.....Surely Coppell can switch from 4-4-2 and move away from playing two widemen all the time. I like Convey but he is not doing enough at the moment and I would rather see a third central midfielder in the side. If that means we play with less width so be it but at the moment playing with two wide players away from home isn't going to work and we will struggle to stop the back four from being exposed.
The lack of effective tactical substitutions isn't helping. Bring on Hunt and Long earlier if need be but give them some time on the pitch Steve.
I also wonder if the likes of Lita and Sonko are really committed to Coppell after last seasons bust-ups.

Problem 4 We need a strong captain. Murts is an excellent captain. Harper isn't. Nor is Ingi. We miss Murt's leadership, his passion, his desire. He really cares for the club. Do some of the others??

Problem 5 The serious lack of investment in the last couple of seasons has meant the club are in danger of going backwards. That lack of investment extends to Madejski's unwillingness to accept that in this day and age modern footballers wages are ridiculous but then again so is the TV revenue coming into the clubs which I'm sure the chairmain isn't complaining about. if we are paying less in wages than other clubs then players wont join will they??

We are in danger of going backwards but the players are primarily culpable. They should be playing a lot better than they are and need to get their backsides in gear because we cannot afford to fall too far off the pace so early on.

A lot of people have been hoping for a direct Sidwell replacement, or a like-for-like for Kitson or Shorey. I don't think it works that way. We can't hope to take the 05/06 team and simply replace components like doing maintenance on a car.
Once Sidwell was gone, we really needed a fundamental rebuild. There's a sense that a new team has to be built around Marek, and certainly it's true that the starting point is to identify where our strengths are likely to be. Still after several months, you have to wonder what chance the Marek-based team has of ever coming together.
A serious Plan B wouldn't be a bad idea. That means identifying the players who have the spark to do something different - Pearce, Karacan, NHunt, for example - and letting them do their thing.

I am bored of....

The continous spin and lies from the Chairman
Lack of ambition
Not having a left back
Not having a decent Right Winger
Having a crap lightweight Midfield
Not having a decent target man
People insisting Bikey is the solution to our midfield woes when he is a central defender
Long Ball tactics
People thinking we will walk this league
Some members of the squad not wanting to be here
Doyle, Convey & Doyle looking a shadow of the players they once were
Sonko getting sent off and looking like a liability
Steve Coppells loyalty to players
None of our signings for the past 2 years being anywhere near good enough.