And round we go again........ It's precisely because we have the ABC1's in such volumes round here that we have the problems. ABC1's don't come to football they go to Rugger or row little boats or play golf. There's stil a perception of football as working class and full of hooligans. Tired old cli...

Nigel....football is played on the pitch mate, and as long as half our team belongs in the Championship we will never rival those clubs you mention, sorry to burst the bubble of big club bullshit. Go and support Torquay you killjoy. Great comeback :roll: Reading - talking big since 2001. Just pleas...

going back to the original crux of the argument, many of us will have grown up supporting Reading at Elm Park. I remember being so thrilled to see crowds over 10k when McGhee was there, and also reading the same derision about the Mad Stad and getting the crowds. Lower level football will NOT see u...

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Don't remember us making much noise when we were 4-0 down last year, jsut like we didn't make much noise on monday. I also don't remember any clapping for their 3rd goal where I was sat. Pompeys fans are better than ours in terms of vocal support, the majority accept that. Lets not have a petty squ...

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So Michael Owen will be a crap manager?

Just a few points, sunderland are a big club, they get big crowds and havn't won anything for a long time, we are not near them on size. If anyone has the potential to get in a big investor and progress its them over us IMO. Pompey are not a big club and their support is over rated, we beat them at...

SImple fact is, people will watch a succesful team, bottom line. How did teams like Forest become 'big clubs'? Because when Clough went there, they were 2nd or 3rd division and anything but a 'big club'. He brought success there, they won things, people went to see the best team with the best playe...

Perhaps we can persuade a few of the team to visit local pubs and have a beer with everyone :oops: There were plenty in the past who wouldn;t have needed persuading.... Yeah, Friday Nights with Robin!!! How about the following evenings: Lashed with Long Hungover with Hunty Mullahed with Murts S**tf...

Kitsonista, not sure how to react to that last post... I think it was aimed as a stinging attack on me as any individual rather than the amorphous mass of 'diehards'... If you would like to read my original post more carefully I hoe you will find I was actually very much in agreement with you. My r...

I have just read the couple of posts above my previous and they are absolutely spot on. Reading is a transient, nomadic, satellite, dormitory town but that is not to say that we can't win the hearts and minds of the nippers whose mum and dad support Liverpool or MUFC or Portsmouth... It happened to...

As long as you keep calling them "plastics" you don't got no community. Would you want to join a club where you were reviled every time your name was mentioned. To be fair the 'plastic' term is really only used by a small number of people on this board. I don't think anyone visiting the g...

I have just read the couple of posts above my previous and they are absolutely spot on. Reading is a transient, nomadic, satellite, dormitory town but that is not to say that we can't win the hearts and minds of the nippers whose mum and dad support Liverpool or MUFC or Portsmouth... It happened to...

Only read first two pages on Crackberry but have sympathy with AP and papereyes POV. It's all a metter of economics, innit? Brick by brick is good to cement Prem status - which means we have to, absolutely must, stay up this year... And do so without splashing loads of cash because, as we know, tha...

Even though I don't like Howe's tone as a product provider to us consumers I have no problem with his mood of ambition even if that has yet to be shown on the pitch with better quality players. Where I would disagree with him is that he left out previous champions such as Aston Villa and Man City w...

Nigel....football is played on the pitch mate, and as long as half our team belongs in the Championship we will never rival those clubs you mention, sorry to burst the bubble of big club bullshit. Go and support Torquay you killjoy. Great comeback :roll: Reading - talking big since 2001. Just pleas...

Surely the point would be if we were Winning against the top 5 clubs and had international football (EUFA/Champions League) then 38K is not an unreasonable figure. So in terms of ambition it's a good goal to aim for. No timescales, just the Club's Vision Statement "to be one of the top 10 Premi...

Leroy is the publisher - he distributed the pics NOTW have not printed a pic other than Lita's sex face, he can hardly argue the toss here can he? What pictures? A. It's a video B. He didn't "publish" anything. The law relates to publishing of photographs in magazines and the like. viewin...

Leroy is the publisher - he distributed the pics NOTW have not printed a pic other than Lita's sex face, he can hardly argue the toss here can he? What pictures? A. It's a video B. He didn't "publish" anything. The law relates to publishing of photographs in magazines and the like. viewin...

I seem to remember that Big John said the stadium was named for his dad not for him. So it celebrates his family if you like. What better advert for RFC than a family centred Chairman who has done shedloads for the Town. A bit RTG but I've got a lot of time for him. When a friend invited me to his h...