New signing today

[rabidbee]

As I said I'm talking of local as being British/Irish

I'm curious as to how someone from the Republic of Ireland is more 'local' than someone from France. They're both from foreign countries, and Paris is closer to Reading than Dublin is.

(Damn, ScottishRoyal managed to quote my previous version of this message, which was a lot more bitter sounding than I intended).

what a stupid question,

apart from the fact that most of france is further away than ireland, making it less local

and thats on top of the fact that we have obvious links with ireland being that we used to own it in our own special imperial way.

More to the point, we have a special relationship with the Irish, and vice-versa. Any citizen of the ROI can vote in British elections (assuming they are registered); those born in Northern Ireland can get an ROI passport. I suspect that these relationship remains from the original division, when neither side wanted to leave their citizens living on the wrong side of the border.

And Spacey, let Sonko determine his own nationality, stop trying to force it upon him. My mum was born in Northern Ireland, but moved to the Wirral when she was six months old; she still considers herself Northern Irish. My friend was born in Manchester to a Northern Irish father and an English mother; she has a ROI passport. It is perfectly possible to have multiple identities without being schizoid; Sonko I'm sure is proud of his heritage but at the same time, having been brought up by a French family in France, I'm sure he has strong feelings for France too. Or are you outraged at Lita's involvement with the England u-21s?

[Hampshire Royal]

On the OS Picture Special, JM is signing the contract with a posh pen (Mont Blanc?), while Cisse is signing with a cheapo biro.

Are we paying him less than Sidwell?

[Skyline]

what a stupid question,

Why? They're both foreign countries. Or is that point too subtle for you?

no, completely the opposite u tw@t

Do you always resort to profanity when you can't make a sensible point?

thats like saying that australia is as local as germany, cos they are both foreign countries
and that statement is also wrong.
th epoint is one is more local than the next.

Which shows that you didn't understand (or more likely bother to read) the original post I was commenting on.

[1871 Royal]

Those boys @ Wiki sure are fast! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_F.C.#Current_first_team_squad

See, Sonko's flag is Senegal!!!!

Did I just back up a SpaceCruiser point by accident?

[RobRoyal]

Those boys @ Wiki sure are fast! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_F.C.#Current_first_team_squad

See, Sonko's flag is Senegal!!!!

Did I just back up a SpaceCruiser point by accident?

If Wiki says it, it must be true...

[1871 Royal]

Those boys @ Wiki sure are fast! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_F.C.#Current_first_team_squad

See, Sonko's flag is Senegal!!!!

Did I just back up a SpaceCruiser point by accident?

If Wiki says it, it must be true...

Well I would say most of it was

[rabidbee]

Those boys @ Wiki sure are fast! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_F.C.#Current_first_team_squad

See, Sonko's flag is Senegal!!!!

Did I just back up a SpaceCruiser point by accident?

If Wiki says it, it must be true...

Well I would say most of it was

Anybody can edit it at any time, so it could all be completely made up. I beat my students vigorously about the head (although sadly only in my imagination) when they cite Wikipedia as their source.

[zac naloen]

Anybody can edit it at any time, so it could all be completely made up. I beat my students vigorously about the head (although sadly only in my imagination) when they cite Wikipedia as their source.

I always cite wikipedia's sources

[Royalee]

I think it's a great signing - Coppell's obviously looked at him and he can't be bad if he's playing in the Portuguese top flight. Encouraging to see he's been almost ever-present and although he's picked up a lot of cards, that might just be down to the style of refereeing there as the English game is much more physical.

Well done RFC, hopefully more signings will follow.

[Only one Trevor Morley]

I think it's a great signing - Coppell's obviously looked at him and he can't be bad if he's playing in the Portuguese top flight. Encouraging to see he's been almost ever-present and although he's picked up a lot of cards, that might just be down to the style of refereeing there as the English game is much more physical.

Well done RFC, hopefully more signings will follow.

[Woodcote Royal]

This looks like a piece of business which we wouldn't have been able to conclude at this time last Year, and is the first sign that our performances on the pitch are going to open the doors for new players to come in who can raise the standards even further at the Mad Stad.

I have never seen the guy play, but frankly if Sir Steve rates the guy enough to convince Mr Mad to splash the cash, then thats good enough for me.

Agree with that. Think that our performances this season mean that players (foreign especially) will take us more seriously.

This means they will want to come and play for us, rather then hold us to ransom over salary demands and request relegation release clauses...

I, too, know nothing about this guy but it's great to see us hit the ground running this summer and agree the amazing season just finished will have raised our profile significantly.

This looks like Coppell signing yet another young player he believes can make the grade and, lets face it, at this price a 1 in 3 success rate will see us in very good shape financially.

[Royal Jelly]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey). God knows what that make the Irish, as there's probably more of a link to the original Brits over there than there is in England, as is the case in Brittany and Wales.

And another thing (keep with me....) I get really anoyed when my liscence fee gets spent covering Ireland at spoting events, and in particular the BBC ran some crappy competition over the last six nations where a rugby club could win something, and one of the winners was a team in the ROI.

Grumble, grumble.....

[Barry the bird boggler]

He's 6 foot 2 and was born on 9th January 1984 so he is 23 years old.



Believe he was born in Mali but presumably the lack of the usual "waiting for inernational clearance" line hasn't been used he presumably has an EU passport.

Experience in England? He played for Boavista in a pre season friendly at Wigan in 2005 and conceded the penalty by which Wigan won!

[SpaceCruiser]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

You are so wrong. The Normans were not French.

[Wax Jacket]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

You are so wrong. The Normans were not French.

they became the french though

[Only one Trevor Morley]

He's 6 foot 2 and was born on 9th January 1984 so he is 23 years old.



Believe he was born in Mali but presumably the lack of the usual "waiting for inernational clearance" line hasn't been used he presumably has an EU passport.

Experience in England? He played for Boavista in a pre season friendly at Wigan in 2005 and conceded the penalty by which Wigan won!

Hmm interesting kit........

His birthplace is orleans france however?

[SpaceCruiser]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

You are so wrong. The Normans were not French.

they became the french though

At the time of the invasion, they were not French.

[Jones the Steam]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

You are so wrong. The Normans were not French.

they became the french though

At the time of the invasion, they were not French.

No, do tell us more. And I wish people wouldn't keep clogging up this forum with all this "Reading FC" nonsense, when all I want to do is relive my History GCSE.

[Doyler]

That Fanfan fella?

Might even have been Farfar.

Jefferson Farfan? I thought he was a Portsmouth target.

[Yorkshire Royal]

Another thread goes off piste...