The point about 'other' employment contracts that allow you to give your notice is that they dont pay you up for the remaining years of your contract when you are injured and cannot work. It cuts both ways but players seem to only want to apply the term of their contract when it will work for them (...

Nice thread Gray!! not bored with HNA anymore then?!
Must see if I have any shots to put up..

Just tried booking two tickets on the website and it got bounced: "not available in the block required". Surely they havent all gone already??

Actually think this is JM's big gamble... Why can Bolton afford Cahill and Taylor but we have to make do with unknown imports who may take six monthe to come up to speed.? Bolton have a smaller average gate than us and access to the same TV money. Now I know they sold Anelka for £15m but really that...

What nobody has picked up on yet is that the statement by SC is pretty much the same as Madejski himself has been saying for a year now. IF JM challenges SC over this (as you'd expect him to) SC will just say "well its what you are saying too..)
I'm worried.......

and Brum is really cheap too!! just bought for self and son for 20 quid total!

Surprised no-one has mentioned Seol's fitness problems here. I went to bed at 11.00 last night thinking there was a real chance he would fail his medical and it would fall thru. He has back problems currently and I reckon much of the decline in form we have all seen is down to his less than full fit...

Think we are getting this out of proportion here...the whole stadium cost £35m and included foundations for the extension. My guess is the extension will cost £10m at the most and will pay back over a couple of seasons in ticket sales/hospitality fees. I would expect us to have a transfer budget o...

Great string! We have come a long way this year. Was asked by a guy in Zurich today who my team was; when I said "Reading" he nodded knowingly rather than saying "who?" or "what league are they in". Oh and someone in our Wolverhampton office asked me why I was always wa...

Just a thought after the FAC draw today: Man U away will net us 40% of the gate, how much will we clear on that one extra game alone? I'd say over £500k at the least... And what a lot of fuss over £300k to fill a clear gap in our squad! Sometimes I think Sidders has a point when he says Reading ne...

Couldnt a repair mean just a 'trim' of the cartlidge. I thought this was often the way they were handled?

In case you wondered mine is fine!

Saw this guy keep Joe Cole out of the game in Stuttgart when JC was our best hope of progressing. Thought he did pretty well and would be a good addition. There was a piece about him in the press commenting how he lived in a semi in Solihul and sent regular money home to Ecuador to provide schools a...

Saw a young lad in a Royals shirt in Barcelona on hols last week; good to see amongst all the Barca shirts (not many Man U or Chelsea there!)