ozzygull I hope you don't mind me posting as a Brighton fan who lives in Reading.
Where I worked I knew two genuine Reading fans and one that jumped on the band wagon when you got promoted to the Premier League. But there was more Manchester Untited, Arsenal, Spurs and me who got the most stick because I supported Brighton despite being the at the wrong end of league 2 at the time. I do think Reading a has a community of people who have connections to other areas, maybe more so then other towns.
My next door neighbour is a Reading fan and we chat about football and I have been to a couple of Reading games with him, when Brighton are away, but I was still not awear of what is happening to your club. I obviuosly knew you were religated, by a mixture of points deduction and employing Paul Ince as manager, but it was not until I saw an article on the BBC yesterday about another possible point deduction that I looked on this board to see what is really happening. It looks grim.
As you may know as Brighton fans we went through a really sh!tty time with owners who were there just to assit strip the club.
If you feel the owners are damaging your club, you need to do something about it. I don't suggest doing what we did, breaking the cross bar so the match was abandond, but it did make national news and alerted the wider football community to what was happening.
You need to unite as a fanbase and plan what you are going to do. Try and bring it to the attention to other football fans.
As much as you probably don't like Brighton fans, if you really needed our help and your club is in serious trouble we would join in a fans united day and protest beside you. No true footbal fan likes to see another club in real danger. We would even do it for Palarse.
look at the things we did to see if you can draw some inspiration. Do not let apathy allow poor owners take your club a way from you.
Good luck.
Good thoughts, thanks, utterly agree hate seeing any club - whoever they are - getting turned over by their owners. Trouble is our lot are rather odd. Plenty of money to support the infrastructure (academy etc.) and waste on stupid signings that some fans called as stupid at the time, yet ZERO being spent where it actually matters i.e. on a proper manager/head coach/whatever they want to call it to oversee the playing side and now failing to pay people on time which is is absolutely diabolical and absolutely no reason for it in this day and age.
What we need but won't get is a communication from the man himself explaining why we're where we are and what the plan is going forward. In the absence of that I agree we need a CAREFULLY thought about plan of action which subtlely brings concerns to the forefront of everyone's mind. A PANTS day type of thing - something really fun but non-disruptive that gets people happy to join in and noticed nationally in the media. A massive flag size pair of pants to replace the big STAR flag that sometimes appears at games and gets passed around before and during games could be a start. Trouble there would be having enough supporters in the stadium to pass anything whatsoever around after the years of non-entertaining utter cr@p that has been endured.