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Reading reward Doyle and Hunt

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Reading FC have rewarded Kevin Doyle and Stephen Hunt for their impressive form in the first half of the club's first Premiership campaign with contract extensions.

Reading FC have rewarded Kevin Doyle and Stephen Hunt for their impressive form in the first half of the club's first Premiership campaign with long-term contract extensions.

Prolific Doyle
Irish international striker Doyle has signed a new deal that will keep him at the Madejski Stadium until 2010 having enjoyed a remarkable rise since moving to England in 2005 for a bargain €125,000 from Cork City FC. His first season brought 18 league goals to help Reading to promotion to the top flight for the first time and he has continued in a similar vein in the current campaign - the 23-year-old is the Premiership's third highest scorer with ten league goals.

Hunt rise
Doyle's compatriot Hunt, meanwhile, has put pen to paper on a contract that runs until 2009 having established himself as an important first-team player in his second season with Reading. The 26-year-old midfielder has started 12 Premiership games to date having made 35 of his 38 league appearances in 2005/06 as a substitute. There is more good news for Reading manager Steve Coppell as striker Dave Kitson, who has not played since the first day of the Premiership season in August due to knee, hamstring and appendix problems, is in line to return to the squad for this weekend's FA Cup third round game with Burnley FC.

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