Cardiff have a reputation, so TVP in their wisdom wanted them off their patch quickly. What's inconveniencing several thousand of the people who pay your wages to do that? Far better to reward the thugs than the law abiding. Quite aside from the idiocy - every other club would have held Cardiff back...
First team - need to boost sharpness, intensity and fitness for the play-offs. Players can get injured in training. Some - like Kebe - will need 60 mins for rehab.
Gunnar's last game for Reading will be the away leg of the play-offs if we win the home leg.
I'm shocked by how poor the league is this season. The way we started we shouldn't be in with any sort of a shout. A very average team will get promoted this season. It might be us. Don't buy that. If we take 2pts/game for the rest of the season, we'll end up with 77pts and be about 5th. In points ...
I've always felt there is something special (and more fun) about getting a big result away from home - better athmosphere, big day out etc etc. Nearly picked Liverpool, but too obvious. Hence: Brentford 1-1 Reading, for all the reasons already mentioned. Couldn't even see the bottom corner from wher...
Norwich at home, 1998. 16,000 people and the last league game at Elm Park. Both teams with nothing to play for. The team might have bothered putting in an appearance.
When has there ever been any money, officially? The club is never goiing to say "the cash is available", as they are trying to deals with other clubs that want to squeeze as much as possible out of us. Saying you have cash leads you ultimately to Joleon Lescott-style deals. We've been brok...
Joe999's version of events is spot on. The abuse last night was started by Mills and escalated, right up to the point where he barged a member of RFC staff out of the way to get down the tunnel. Booing etc (which I don't condone) was a reaction to his erratic behaviour. Oh, and Lol at the East Stand...
FFS grow a pair you whingeing gimps. We are a relegation threatened side, Notts Forest and Sheff Utd are promotion chasing sides. Relegation threatened sides don't generally get results at promotion challanging sides. It's all about the next 6-7 games. Less than ten points and were f**ked, we are n...
Harpers So Solid Crew Whitbread-Parkinson-Cureton -GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's the one. Division 3 was so crap. Unable to breath in the away end at griffin park for a minute or so, and unable to stand up for another five after that...
Marek is so frustrating. He is supposedly this world-class midfielder, but he so rarely plays like it. He hits a great 30 yard pass one minute and then struggles to find a team-mate with a 5 yarder moments later. In addition the man cannot tackle. He was poor against Scunthorpe, but the worst perfo...
I vote yes, but I think if we'd lost yesterday I might well be voting no. My patience is wearing a bit thin and I'm starting to wonder if he's got it in him or not. I've always been convinced he will come good so long as he keeps us up this season, but I'm starting to wonder a bit if he'll manage t...
Should have won this. Squad stretched, and did okay, but where people got frustrated was that the problem that led to their equaliser - their progressive domination of the middle of the park in the second half - was apparent for 25 minutes before they scored. At points Ivar was having to physically ...
Sing when we're winning, leave early to get home in time for X-Factor when we're losing! The middle of the East at least managed to stick it out until the final whistle. Are you the North Stand in disguise? Pic below taken just after the United third went in. http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-...
in 1997/8 we were a lot worse than we are now - absolutely terrible. We got done by at least three for several weeks in a row and had no shape whatsover. After ten games, it was clear we were crap. That's when we should have pulled the trigger, and didn't. By contrast, in 2007/8 everyone was talking...