Matchday Fans - Cherished Fans

[07RFC]

THE ATMOSPHERE AT READING FC IS CRAP MORE NOISE IN A LIBIARY.

i am interested to know which library you go to

[seahawk10]

THE ATMOSPHERE AT READING FC IS CRAP MORE NOISE IN A LIBIARY.

i am interested to know which library you go to

He doesn't. He goes to the libiary. Lots of moaning in those.

[pooandwee]

Another boring thread

[Son of Len]

THE ATMOSPHERE AT READING FC IS CRAP MORE NOISE IN A LIBIARY.

i am interested to know which library you go to

He doesn't. He goes to the libiary. Lots of moaning in those.

[Gordons Cumming]

THE ATMOSPHERE AT READING FC IS CRAP MORE NOISE IN A LIBIARY.

Maybe it needs more drummers?

[07RFC]

THE ATMOSPHERE AT READING FC IS CRAP MORE NOISE IN A LIBIARY.

Maybe it needs more drummers?

[One Beer is never enough.]

From all the matches that I have been to over the years, I have to say that this season beyond my disappointment with the RFC management that is really unequalled, I am most annoyed with the fans around me.

Looking around I can see a small child that likes to think the back of other peoples seats is something to constantly kick, nearby is a family that clearly bathes in garlic and nearby the nearby family that should never again be sold tickets by RFC ever again that remind me of the Brady Bunch. Those people are of the lowest quality.

I do not enjoy the price rises that the Balding Guy and the Emperor force upon us, but if they are going to continually do this I would like them to setup a Cherished Fan scheme where you can arrange to sit with fans of equal quality to yourself. Imagine being with good people like me, the whole experience even when we lose would simply be fantastic.

Does anyone else have issues or disappointment with people they sit near at home games and would agree that a cherished fan scheme would be a good way forward?

BITE

Frankly what really annoys me is the attitude of fans like you. Had you had some like minded friends when we first moved from Elm Park then you could have all purchased season tickets next to each other and then this problem would never had arisen. You could all be sat in a little banjo playing enclove by yourselves, moaning like you used to on the Tilehurst Road end and dreaming of dreaming of success like you did in the past.

In the mean time, now we have the internet, electricity and I even think that a wheel has been invented. Grow up, move on, and accept that families now spend more money on football than the majority of individual fans therefore they will be embraced and encouraged by all managers of entertainment facilities to attend.

If this truely is not to your liking then no doubt Reading Town will enjoy your 'hardcore' support of a local team.

[Thou Voice]

BITE

Frankly what really annoys me is the attitude of fans like you. Had you had some like minded friends when we first moved from Elm Park then you could have all purchased season tickets next to each other and then this problem would never had arisen. You could all be sat in a little banjo playing enclove by yourselves, moaning like you used to on the Tilehurst Road end and dreaming of dreaming of success like you did in the past.

In the mean time, now we have the internet, electricity and I even think that a wheel has been invented. Grow up, move on, and accept that families now spend more money on football than the majority of individual fans therefore they will be embraced and encouraged by all managers of entertainment facilities to attend.

If this truely is not to your liking then no doubt Reading Town will enjoy your 'hardcore' support of a local team.

Have you never been annoyed by people that you sit with?

I am offering what is basically a new revenue stream here for the club, so that myself and my family would be allowed to sit next to a better quality fan then the ones that we're currently surrounded by. I am surprised that this is not being wholeheartedly embraced here by other people.

Lets just move the analogy. If you live in a bad area, you try to move. So likewise why can this not be put into play for seating arrangements by the people that are unhappy with their neighbours paying a small premium to sit with better fans?

This should also come with other benefits like our plastic season tickets have gold bands rather then blue bands.

[One Beer is never enough.]

BITE

Frankly what really annoys me is the attitude of fans like you. Had you had some like minded friends when we first moved from Elm Park then you could have all purchased season tickets next to each other and then this problem would never had arisen. You could all be sat in a little banjo playing enclove by yourselves, moaning like you used to on the Tilehurst Road end and dreaming of dreaming of success like you did in the past.

In the mean time, now we have the internet, electricity and I even think that a wheel has been invented. Grow up, move on, and accept that families now spend more money on football than the majority of individual fans therefore they will be embraced and encouraged by all managers of entertainment facilities to attend.

If this truely is not to your liking then no doubt Reading Town will enjoy your 'hardcore' support of a local team.

Have you never been annoyed by people that you sit with?

I am offering what is basically a new revenue stream here for the club, so that myself and my family would be allowed to sit next to a better quality fan then the ones that we're currently surrounded by. I am surprised that this is not being wholeheartedly embraced here by other people.

Lets just move the analogy. If you live in a bad area, you try to move. So likewise why can this not be put into play for seating arrangements by the people that are unhappy with their neighbours paying a small premium to sit with better fans?

This should also come with other benefits like our plastic season tickets have gold bands rather then blue bands.

You cant move because there is no space to move to, therefore you just have to put up.

Your analogy doesnt work, because like better residential areas, the demand for seats in a better area (lets say people want to sit Y25/24 for more noise) will attract more of a premium. Those people already sat there are also going to be unlikely to want to move - especially as they woud be 'downsizing' to a worse area.

As I said before if you wanted an area to sit with 'better' quality of fans, then perhaps you and yours should have got together with like minded persons and all brought tickets together befroe there was a demand. You may of course get another oppurtunity to do this should the stadium ever expand.

And in answer to your question, yes, I have had people sat next to me during my tenure to whom I have taken a profound dislike. They are no longer there, I am. It is a case of biting your lip - or having a small child who can annoy the f*ck out of them.

[1982Royal]

I want a gold plated toilet seat mate, but it's not going to happen!

My dad sit's in Lower West and has been a RFC supporter for 40 odd years now, likes to go Reading to watch the football and I'm pretty sure on the ST it doesn't mention thats it's mandatory you have to sing/chant at the game. Also I don't think he like's cucumber...

[Sydneyroyal]

I'm annoyed with my 15 year old son for not wanting to get up and watch the game with me at 2.15 in the morning. I'd give anything for the atmosphere of a boy kicking me in the back with excitement, garlic breathed women learing over me etc..... all I have is my cup of tea and no one in Sydney who appreciates my pain at another loss. Think yourself lucky! When I were a lad at Elm Park we 'ad noffing to smile 'bout but Gary Westwood's ginger hair.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

BITE

Frankly what really annoys me is the attitude of fans like you. Had you had some like minded friends when we first moved from Elm Park then you could have all purchased season tickets next to each other and then this problem would never had arisen. You could all be sat in a little banjo playing enclove by yourselves, moaning like you used to on the Tilehurst Road end and dreaming of dreaming of success like you did in the past.

In the mean time, now we have the internet, electricity and I even think that a wheel has been invented. Grow up, move on, and accept that families now spend more money on football than the majority of individual fans therefore they will be embraced and encouraged by all managers of entertainment facilities to attend.

If this truely is not to your liking then no doubt Reading Town will enjoy your 'hardcore' support of a local team.

Have you never been annoyed by people that you sit with?

I am offering what is basically a new revenue stream here for the club, so that myself and my family would be allowed to sit next to a better quality fan then the ones that we're currently surrounded by. I am surprised that this is not being wholeheartedly embraced here by other people.

Lets just move the analogy. If you live in a bad area, you try to move. So likewise why can this not be put into play for seating arrangements by the people that are unhappy with their neighbours paying a small premium to sit with better fans?

This should also come with other benefits like our plastic season tickets have gold bands rather then blue bands.

maybe you should get on to the club and suggest that one part of the ground, perhaps the upper west, should have seats that cost more than the rest of the ground.

['lista]

Lets just move the analogy. If you live in a bad area, you try to move. So likewise why can this not be put into play for seating arrangements by the people that are unhappy with their neighbours paying a small premium to sit with better fans?

How do you propose to sort 'better fans' from 'people of the lowest quality'?

Some kind of 'fan profiling' I imagine, to sort the wheat from the chaff.

More importantly Thou Voice, how will you react when you, inevitably, are deemed to fall into the latter category and are forced to sit with your fellow morons for eternity while the rest of us 'better fans' laugh and spit at you.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

[Thou Voice]

How do you propose to sort 'better fans' from 'people of the lowest quality'?

Some kind of 'fan profiling' I imagine, to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Yes I think this would be a good way forward. RFC could have a database of fans, we put all out details in and have it set it match current fans with applicants. Then when you apply for a season ticket you can either sit next to the chaff or the cherished fans for a premium.

More importantly Thou Voice, how will you react when you, inevitably, are deemed to fall into the latter category and are forced to sit with your fellow morons for eternity while the rest of us 'better fans' laugh and spit at you.

Then if I am being spat at, then I am clearly sitting with the cherished fans.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Indeed, I very much agree.

[From Despair To Where?]

Have you never been annoyed by people that you sit with?

I am offering what is basically a new revenue stream here for the club, so that myself and my family would be allowed to sit next to a better quality fan then the ones that we're currently surrounded by. I am surprised that this is not being wholeheartedly embraced here by other people.

Lets just move the analogy. If you live in a bad area, you try to move. So likewise why can this not be put into play for seating arrangements by the people that are unhappy with their neighbours paying a small premium to sit with better fans?

This should also come with other benefits like our plastic season tickets have gold bands rather then blue bands.

I'm sure this is all one big wind up but, Yeah, the people around me at the Mad Stad annoy me from time to time, as do the people I work with, as do my family, as do 90% of the general public. I 'm sure i piss them off as much as they piss me off. As Denis Leary once said, life's shit, get a oxf*rd helmet.

Still, interesting ideas though, I admire your forthright opinions. Do you sit in the North Stand? I'd like to meet you before the game and shake you by the throat.

[Gordons Cumming]

Still, interesting ideas though, I admire your forthright opinions. Do you sit in the North Stand? I'd like to meet you before the game and shake you by the throat.

I'll hold your coat.....

[Thou Voice]

Well it looks like this revenue stream is not being taking seriously by the management of Reading FC, so it leaves me with the following problem.

Assuming that we're still playing Premiership football next year, which is a big if, can anyone tell me how I'd go about moving seats? I am not too bothered about this if we're in the Championship as half the people will leave making it possible for loyal people like myself to sit where I want.

This weekend, although better then most at the match was won and the Balding Guy has started to listen to people like myself, I cannot imagine another season surronded by people like I've already mentioned.

Do I need to buy my ticket and request a move at the same time?

[One Beer is never enough.]

I can't see people clammering to give you the information - perhaps they fear that:

a) They don't qualify as a 'better' quality of fan (to your clearly high standards), and will therefore be subject to bitching over the coming season

or (more likely....)

b) They don't think that you qualify as the type of fan they want sat near to them.

[Scylla]

I would like anyone in the North Stand using the words Oster, Coppell, off, know, don't, doing, get and what in the same sentence to be made subject to an immediate death ray thingy. Or at least a three strikes and you're out rule.

[Thou Voice]

I can't see people clammering to give you the information - perhaps they fear that:

a) They don't qualify as a 'better' quality of fan (to your clearly high standards), and will therefore be subject to bitching over the coming season

or (more likely....)

b) They don't think that you qualify as the type of fan they want sat near to them.

People can change tho, so let's not be too against a.