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by Mr Optimist
12 Mar 2025 18:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards
Replies: 4742
Views: 2024139

Re: Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards

Personally I’m really pleased for Wrexham as I’ve lived in North Wales for 25 years or so and their current success has a great knock-on feel good factor for the region from Wrexham all the way west across to Anglesey. They haven’t seen good times like this since the 1970s and North Walians love th...
by Mr Optimist
12 Mar 2025 17:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards
Replies: 4742
Views: 2024139

Re: Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards

Personally I’m really pleased for Wrexham as I’ve lived in North Wales for 25 years or so and their current success has a great knock-on feel good factor for the region from Wrexham all the way west across to Anglesey. They haven’t seen good times like this since the 1970s and North Walians love the...
by Mr Optimist
05 Mar 2025 07:41
Forum: General Football
Topic: Weekend Football
Replies: 6851
Views: 1958827

Re: Weekend Football

How the f u ck did Oliver not give a free-kick and immediate red card to the Millwall 'keeper? VAR should not have been needed for that. One of the worst tackles I've ever seen. Because, imo, Oliver is currently one of the worst referees in the PGMOL and has been for a couple of years. Talk of Robe...
by Mr Optimist
24 Feb 2025 13:40
Forum: General Football
Topic: Weekend Football
Replies: 6851
Views: 1958827

Re: Weekend Football

top 2 in the Champ play each other tonight also, 'Frank Lampard's Coventry' win again, making it 7 wins from the last 8 games. In the first 17 games of the season they only won 4. Lampard has managed the 17 games since then where they have only lost 4 they were in 17th place when he took over havin...
by Mr Optimist
13 Feb 2025 08:30
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Shrewsbury Town (h)
Replies: 119
Views: 26353

Re: MATCHWATCH : Shrewsbury Town (h)

We played poorly but have another point towards a healthy points total should we end up with a deduction at any point between now and the end of the season, we should hopefully still be able to absorb it and stay up. If you sell your best players and biggest goal threat it doesn’t take a genius to ...
by Mr Optimist
12 Feb 2025 12:47
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Shrewsbury Town (h)
Replies: 119
Views: 26353

Re: MATCHWATCH : Shrewsbury Town (h)

We played poorly but have another point towards a healthy points total should we end up with a deduction at any point between now and the end of the season, we should hopefully still be able to absorb it and stay up. If you sell your best players and biggest goal threat it doesn’t take a genius to w...
by Mr Optimist
03 Feb 2025 21:14
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confimred - Billy Bodin signs
Replies: 34
Views: 10394

Re: Billy Bodin signs

I think he provides much needed experience at third division level and personally I’m willing to give him every chance and full support while he is wearing our shirt, why wouldn’t you?
by Mr Optimist
03 Feb 2025 21:09
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confimred - Bindon to Nottingham Forest
Replies: 201
Views: 75492

Re: Confimred Bindon to Nottingham Forest

He reminded me of a young Alan Hansen on Saturday, so composed for someone just turned 20.
by Mr Optimist
03 Feb 2025 19:19
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3851
Views: 2269834

Re: Ex Players

Brogue Caylan Vickers signs for Mansfield on loan


Should get the authorities involved. Poor lad sold off to Brighton like a piece of meat 12 months ago and now been trafficked to Mansfield. His eyes in those Mansfield pictures are dead and are saying “help me”.
by Mr Optimist
02 Feb 2025 11:21
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3851
Views: 2269834

Re: Ex Players

Holmes was always a poor move, as he's never going to get into a PL / parachute Champ team. McIntyre is just a broken wreck, if he ever stayed fit for long he'd be good. Holmes was at the game today. Glad he got to see a win... he was a STH when he was young, wasn't he? He was, and so were Tom Mc a...
by Mr Optimist
30 Jan 2025 17:55
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confimred - Sam Smith to Wrexham
Replies: 167
Views: 43613

Re: Rumour - Sam Smith to Huddersfield

Play Kelvin as a central striker, I think he has the pace and power for it.
by Mr Optimist
19 Jan 2025 09:33
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Stockport County (h)
Replies: 183
Views: 27946

Re: MATCHWATCH : Stockport County (h)

Challinor is a very decent manager and should Reading ever become a football club again, would be an ideal choice in the lower divisions. I saw the first three years of his managerial career at first hand at Colwyn Bay and did a brilliant job on limited resources before leaving for a cash fuelled p...
by Mr Optimist
19 Jan 2025 09:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Stockport County (h)
Replies: 183
Views: 27946

Re: MATCHWATCH : Stockport County (h)

They did their homework on us and paid very close attention to Wing who was awful. Games like this are why he's still in L1. Beaten by a team full of senior pros with a decent manager. Challinor is a very decent manager and should Reading ever become a football club again, would be an ideal choice ...
by Mr Optimist
08 Jan 2025 06:17
Forum: The Team
Topic: Players who started off terrible then got worse
Replies: 79
Views: 11544

Re: Players who started off terrible then got worse

Neale Cooper (RIP). Was so excited we’d signed him at the time when Mark McGhee first came in, but his legs had gone and injuries had caught up with him. A fantastic player in his Aberdeen prime days but a sad brief stay in Berkshire. You could probably say the same about Martin Keown and Les Ferdin...
by Mr Optimist
28 Dec 2024 07:03
Forum: The Team
Topic: They always score against us..
Replies: 41
Views: 7095

Re: They always score against us..

Not ex-players but opposition players that always seem(ed) to score against us:

Ched Evans
Scott Sinclair
Jordan Hugill
Kieffer Moore
by Mr Optimist
05 Dec 2024 12:38
Forum: The Team
Topic: Next manager
Replies: 143
Views: 36233

Re: Next manager

Steven Schumacher possibly but even that would be unrealistic, who is left at the club to make these decisions and offers to potential new managers? It will be Noel, if he agrees to it, and under the circumstances that is the best we can hope for.
by Mr Optimist
03 Dec 2024 11:44
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Harborough Town (h)
Replies: 277
Views: 43186

Re: MATCHWATCH : Harborough Town (h)

To be scrupulously fair.... Harborough fans started with the "Reading's a sh1t hole, I wanna go home" in the first five minutes. Followed by the classics "You're support is oxf*rd shit" and the timeless "is this a library?" And who can forget their spin on the well-lov...
by Mr Optimist
02 Dec 2024 20:10
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Harborough Town (h)
Replies: 277
Views: 43186

Re: MATCHWATCH : Harborough Town (h)

Special word for the refereeing. I’ll have a pint of whatever he/they were on. A linesmen who didn’t want to make a decision and what was that American football style body check by the Harborough player down towards the South West corner about when he realised he was being outpaced and the ref gave...
by Mr Optimist
02 Dec 2024 17:09
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Harborough Town (h)
Replies: 277
Views: 43186

Re: MATCHWATCH : Harborough Town (h)

Quite enjoyed the day out, we made the game exciting and fair play to the Harborough Town players who must have given all they’ve got and left it all on the pitch as the old cliche goes. There was a massive difference in ability though and despite the score line being close for most of the time I di...
by Mr Optimist
26 Nov 2024 20:45
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Barnsley (a)
Replies: 175
Views: 34082

Re: MATCHWATCH : Barnsley (a)

Reminds me of Northern midweek away games of yore. Powder puff southern softies who don’t travel well, combined with a homer ref. We looked like there were signs of life from us in the last 15 minutes or so though. Smith’s showing some nice hold up play and touches. I’d be tempted to bring on Camar...
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