Sutekh If this is what happens, please god just DO NOT call any new club AFC Reading!

I couldn't agree more. It sounds dreadful.

WestYorksRoyal AFC Wimbledon are the benchmark, and their attendances are at a similar level to the original club.

They had a decent ground to play in from the outset, which helps massively.

Clubs that have to genuinely start from scratch find it much harder.

Lets say it was doable and we were able to attract 4 to 5k to games - it would essentially mean mothballing 3 stands until such time as the club felt it could sell enough tickets to make it worth operating them. I think people seriously understimate the support a new optimistic Reading club could h...

Lets say it was doable and we were able to attract 4 to 5k to games - it would essentially mean mothballing 3 stands until such time as the club felt it could sell enough tickets to make it worth operating them. I think people seriously understimate the support a new optimistic Reading club could h...

Have seen a few highlights of Bury games and it could be fun starting again but hard to see the positives. They of course do have a stadium that holds no more than 12k, so playing there is doable on crowds of 3 to 4k. Playing Ascot at the SCL is a non starter . I don't see why, unless we would stil...

But if we're a lost bet with no prestige, why not accept £20m - £30m for us instead of going a route that leaves you with nothing? It's a lost bet either way, so may as well take a consolation prize. In truth, we have no idea how much is being offered, and admitting things are desperate by putting ...

£5k down, £995k to go. It needs a handful of big hitters. We'll never get there with regular fans chipping in £20 or £50 each. We'd need to raise £70000 a day to hit £1 million by the end of the month. That's not going to happen. It makes you wonder what the supposed big expense is this month that'...

This feels like he deliberately wants to destroy the club . I don't think that's right. If that was the case he could have just liquidated on a whim ages ago. I do think that he doesn't really care any more, and just wants to offload in the way that will maximise the money he can claw back. Well th...

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This feels like he deliberately wants to destroy the club .

I don't think that's right. If that was the case he could have just liquidated on a whim ages ago.

I do think that he doesn't really care any more, and just wants to offload in the way that will maximise the money he can claw back.

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2024/march/10/statement-short-term-funding/ Bearwood for sale. There's been lots of opinions on whether property developers could extract any value from it. I guess we'll see. The end is nigh anyhow. The stated intent of short term funding is laughable. Even if it i...

Even Kieran Maguire said it was a 0.001% chance of ending in liquidation on the basis that we had too much going for us, and he's quite a skeptical person in these matters. But the chance is very real. People expect clubs to be saved because that's nearly always what happens. The big question mark ...

And I don't really think liquidation makes sense either, it's definitely against Dai's financial interest. It would mean he could sell the real estate assets without having to fund the club in any way. Who's going to buy a studium and training ground with no sports club to pay rent to use it? And p...

WestYorksRoyal And I don't really think liquidation makes sense either, it's definitely against Dai's financial interest.

It would mean he could sell the real estate assets without having to fund the club in any way.

Not if Reading were re-starting. There's a ton of possibilities esp. with groundshares in the area and places that could probably grow with Reading if Reading couldn't get back to the Mad Stad. Other than Maidenhead, nothing is really viable, and even that can only be viable short term. Ground shar...

I have "been there" as a Newport County Fan Going out of the league and bust was horrible and frankly I thought the re-launch was a hopeless dream... We were forced to play outside Wales (at Moreton-in-the Marsh) for a fair while. With four others, I ran the 80 miles to Moreton, raising c...

Tomorrow #ReadingFC will have their highest home crowd of the season so far with over 15,500 tickets sold. Via: [@james_e1871] I didn't realise our best crowd of the season was so low. I was reading about a high crowd being expected and was thinking 18000+. I guess this season has been all about ad...

Obviously I know that I'd follow a phoenix club but I was surprised when I asked my 12 and 14 yr old if the worst happened would they trek along every weekend to watch us play Combined Counties and they both said it was a no brainer and they'd keep going I think the novelty of being able to go to m...

Tomorrow #ReadingFC will have their highest home crowd of the season so far with over 15,500 tickets sold. Via: [@james_e1871] I didn't realise our best crowd of the season was so low. I was reading about a high crowd being expected and was thinking 18000+. I guess this season has been all about ad...

Obviously I know that I'd follow a phoenix club but I was surprised when I asked my 12 and 14 yr old if the worst happened would they trek along every weekend to watch us play Combined Counties and they both said it was a no brainer and they'd keep going I think the novelty of being able to go to m...

Fearing a heavy defeat in this one. Why's that Nath? Any rhyme or reason? Or purely gut instinct? Be interested to know. Wycombe have been playing well for the majority of the season without getting results, they have tried to get away from the Ainsworth hoofball tactic they were so accustomed to. ...