Hmm. Perhaps my choice of words has unwittingly exposed the intellectual shortcomings of the current younger generation who are more used to direct examination questions that simply require a yes/no/dunno answer and any number of chances to be force-fed the correct answer by their teachers and lobbi...

With the Manager, coaching staff, most of the Premiership team and the buzz gone, some might say that the good times have also gone and we can settle back into being "Little old Reading" and expecting a future of CCC obscurity at best, and a rapid descent down the leagues at worst. Others ...

Very sorry to not troll through all 71 pages... but could someone give me a precis on Rodgers? Not history - I can get that on wiki - just what kind of game he tends toward, what kind of players, what kind of temperament? Or point me towards that info? He likes to knock the ball about on the floor....

Back in 2007 when we as the Southern Champions played the Northern Champions Bolton and beat them 2-0? Thought not, because there were only about 500 people in the Mad Stad that night. It was quite the Champions League final with a hastily erected platform on the pitch and possibly the only time we'...

You're probably right. My defence is that I pressed the start button from the board I was reading. Deselect me if you will!

... for finally getting back into the top tier after 30 plus years. Commiserations also to Sheffield Utd, who are, like us, a godsend to the bookies when they get to the playoffs. (i.e. lots of hope from mug punters versus a history of any number of unsuccessful campaigns). Why am I posting this on ...

Coppell leaving could break you as a club. I'm in no positive, happy clappy zone about Argyle's prospects, but I certainly expect to see you lot down with us in the bottom 6 next year. To be fair, you're a really average club at any level. Up until a few seasons ago, despite misgivings, I would hav...

Hmm. For a thread that started out about the players views, all I'm seeing here is a lot of vitriol, j'accuse being hurled towards certain players and name calling. For the record I do actually believe that player performance can be influenced by the crowd. I remember one game last season where Oste...

Yes, I agree that Waitrose is a sponsor too far in terms of us trying to present ourselves as either the working class boys or the hard boys of the division or, to be honest, amongst the sophisticates. It makes us look a bit, I dunno, too middle class, too nice. But I did notice that even in his dep...

I'd like to say thanks to Steve for having something that's in short supply these days in football, and that's loyalty to this club. It's been refreshing to have a manager who's both helped us towards our dreams during the good times and stuck with us during the bad (even when the bad were good for ...

The Prisoner

The MVP LETS ALL HAVE A DISCO,
LETS ALL HAVE A DISCO,
NAH NAAH NAH NAA!
HEY!
NAH NAAH NAH NAA!
HEY!

You utter utter cock.

Indeed. The Knob of the Nob.

Sigh. It's not the pain and the disappointment that's killing me, it's the hope. Slowly diminishing as game by game, the flickering flames on candle by sodding candle on the premiership cake get blown out. But despite myself I shall be there on tuesday night!

My opinion is that when you get to the lottery end of the season it has nothing to do with relative league position - it's the team that's currently in form that will sweep all aside, which must make Sheffield Utd, Burnley or PNE the favourites. Not us. To quote Kevin Keegan, I would love it, absolu...

Yes I'm not happy that we could have won it but we came up against a better side on the day. BC just seemed to handle the occasion better, as most away teams seem to have done at the Mad Stad in 2009. And there was no way we could blame the pitch given that we very rarely passed the ball on it! So ...

...is remarkably quiet, given the importance of the result tonight and the fact that instead of being a nothing game, the whole season could come down to the last one against Brum, because we don't do well in play-offs, do we? After the past few miserable months, is everybody still pessimistic? (I h...

My thoughts. Any other opinions? Apologies for the length of this post! <RANT MODE ON> Okay, at the moment we're sh*t and we know we are. The good news is that we're not going to get relegated this year, and that's pretty much all the good news. We have come from being every opposition manager's cer...

Sorry, but to be even thinking such sad thoughts - and even wishing them upon us from what I can make out- simply makes you a miserable bastard. Of course we don't have the self minded determination to get back to the Premiership. We've been there and we now know that second place is as good as firs...

What about Ian Branfoot? As far as I remember he was pretty successful but generated a lot of hostility.

Yes, there is a generation gap. The younger members have only known success and the older ones have only known exquisite failure, but I'm not complaining. To me, it's best exempified when I take my lad to football training on a wednesday night. Most of them are now wearing Reading shirts, which is s...

What SteveRoyal said. And it's conspiracy.