The high's and lows of being a Reading fan......

[Mr Optimist]

Careful of the games you pick - you'll end up putting money into the pockets of some well dodgy people ! Avoid Leeds and Birmingham for a start....

Neatly made point, but at least putting a small amount of money towards wretched ownership of our peer clubs doesn't represent me directly financing similarly unscrupulous people at RFC. I compared RFC to Tesco earlier, so to extend the metaphor - Every Little Helps.

#thanksAnton

Maybe I am missing something here but surely giving money to our own evil overlords > giving money to other rival clubs evil overlords,,,,

[percy_freeman]

I'll have you know.., I'm a beered up 50 something and I'm well hard......

[Mr Optimist]

I'll have you know.., I'm a beered up 50 something and I'm well hard......

Lightweight more like if you are beered up by 7pm.....

[FridaysGhost]

Today has to be the greatest low ever! Partially owned by a Thai bimbo (age 106) whose main pre-occupation is to appear to be 25! Knowledge of football 0. Need to be high-profile 100, RFC is now the new GQ for girls with a Thai pensioner using us to make her seem important.

[glass half full]

You've all missed the point here

The football has been mediocre, but true.....we've seen worse, far worse. But why do we go in the first place? The football is secondary in some ways to the experience. The experience now? A stadium devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever, miles from anywhere (least of all, pubs), populated by sub-Soccer AM generation drones lapping up the latest glib gimmicks thought up by a social-media-gone-boring PR team.

I could just about struggle through another season of that on a regular basis were it not for the fact that we are now a club owned by some unscrupulous finance company who are trying to shift the business to a bunch of unknown foreigners we have little hope of getting to know/understand before they themselves inevitably shift it on to the next bunch of questionable, cashless chancers.

The club these days is about as unique and charming as a branch of Tesco.

Pedant's corner:

'unique' is unique and cannot be qualified

[floyd__streete]

Pedant's corner:

'unique' is unique and cannot be qualified

Surely the very concept of uniqueness can be compared to the very concept of similarity itself

Its an interesting deb8.

[under the tin]

You've all missed the point here

The football has been mediocre, but true.....we've seen worse, far worse. But why do we go in the first place?
I started out of a sense of belonging to a movement
The football is secondary in some ways to the experience. The experience now? A stadium devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever,
This is a reflection of the changing demographic of football attendee. (note I do not use the word "supporter")

miles from anywhere (least of all, pubs),
This reflects our society's wider obsession with personal transport. We're far too sophisticated to use public transport, and so car parks need space. ergo: out of town.

populated by sub-Soccer AM generation drones lapping up the latest glib gimmicks thought up by a social-media-gone-boring PR team.
Footballer wages are unsustainable, so the game had to sell out to the television/gaming/social media industry. It's not a national sport anymore. It's an advertising platform.

I could just about struggle through another season of that on a regular basis were it not for the fact that we are now a club owned by some unscrupulous finance company who are trying to shift the business to a bunch of unknown foreigners we have little hope of getting to know/understand before they themselves inevitably shift it on to the next bunch of questionable, cashless chancers.
It's hardly surprising, though. With footballer wages being what they currently are, what right minded local businessman would touch a football club with a bargepole?

The club these days is about as unique and charming as a branch of Tesco.

That last sentence could be equally applied to most pro football clubs in England these days.

[percy_freeman]

I'll have you know.., I'm a beered up 50 something and I'm well hard......

Lightweight more like if you are beered up by 7pm.....

But you don't know what time I started.....