Predictions

[Roger the Rabbit]

God I loath agreeing with you, but, fair point.

Have read Royalee's post several times.

Hard to pick anything out that is close to 'fair' or even objective. It's all just nonsense to support his carefully constructed 'personality'.

I'd agree with the bit about it being Reading Football Club not Steve Coppell, I'd probably agree that I'd rather have seen Pearce than Sodje at Swansea but the rest of it is either wrong, cliched or huge exageration (for effect of course).

[Stranded]

So in a nutshell Royalee,

You'll be the first in the queue if things are going well, but you can't be arsed if things go a bit pearshaped for a while?

[Wycombe Royal]

Royalee showing his support for the club.

Yep - as soon as Coppell goes and someone who wants the job comes in who wants to take everyone on, send scouts to tournaments instead of quivering in a corner biting his lip and try and manage foreign players without having some stupid complex about language barriers, I'll be the first in line for a season ticket and all away games again as it'll mean my support will actually be in favour of something positive.

I love Reading Football Club, not Steve Coppell. I pay money to watch progression and ambition, not some glorified League 1 player who runs about a lot being paid £25k a week for caring so that he can buy the best hair products for his ridiculous mullet now that he's become a poser. I want to see decent youngsters given a chance in games as opposed to playing our cast-offs in cup games who are resigned to leaving the club anyway and us retain our image as a community-based club which has produced top quality players like Scotty Taylor and Adrian Williams as opposed to blooding crap like Sam Sodje for the sake of it.

I don't want to be asked to sing by the club and patronised with Bring It On banners when I give my support year on year and want to see the club succeed more than half of the players put together given the performances of some. I don't want to have to ask for my Bovril 3 times before the idiot behind the counter at the Mad Stad realises it's a drink and not a brand of Rizla and ambles over to tell his friend (who is doing nothing but staring at the ceiling) to go and get it before an awkward pause. I don't want to see 'Play Your Shirts Right' at half time and be subjected to a video which tells me why I need to support the club to pass the time despite the fact that I'm already there and have been all season.

ALL I want is for the club to show some ambition, maybe sign a few decent players once in a while and show some intent by sending scouts further than Newbury (although they don't even appear to be able to do that these days), try to improve and make the matchday experience as fun as it was in days gone by (and I'm not just referring to 05/06 before some idiot pipes up) and not tell me they're doing their best and I need to be patient every two minutes on the official site.

What a load of tosh. Fans of other clubs could only dream of theirs being as progressive as ours has been over the past many seasons. We have had it better than the majoirty for the past decade yet you give out cries of "no ambition", and that you want progression. So what do you call going from Elm Park to where we are now in 10 seasons?

Maybe you should go and support a club like Leeds, Bradford, Leicester, Millwall, Rotherham, etc (there are many more) and then you might realise just how good you have it being a Reading supporter.

Noone is saying things couldn't be (or have been) done better but there is no getting away from the fact that RFC is an extremely well run, progressive football club that sets an example that many others are trying to follow.

One of the main problems is that many of our new fans have only supported this club through the successful period and as such expect it every season. Well it doesn't work that way.

Your comments actually come across as "I love this club but I will only support it if it is run and managed how want it to be run and managed".

Well Royalee I think you had better go and either make your fortune and buy the club or set up your own.

[Thaumagurist*]

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[Sarah Star]

One of the main problems is that many of our new fans have only supported this club through the successful period and as such expect it every season. Well it doesn't work that way.

The predictions so far are too pessimistic. I've only supported Reading since things started going pearshaped, but I find it hard to believe that we'll be relegated, or all our key players/Steve Coppell will leave or we won't play any of the youngsters.

Come on, look on the bright side!

[londinium]

I predict we will lose our first home game - get knocked out the League cup at The Emirates, not lose again until February in the cup at Birmingham then just lose 1 more game between then and the end of the season.

Fall asleep during any game involving Watford.

Get promoted in Feb, Champs in March...record points haul (stuff Derby by 4 or 5 towards the end of the season, which seems to be the norm nowadays).

And have a jolly good time doing the double over Colin.

In all seriousness I would be very very dissapointed if we dint get in the play offs and expect us to be in the top two.

As for those who think that Derby will finish above us, they are as deluded as those who thought that after our promotion to the Prem that Sheff Untd and Watford would finish above us.

Looking at our squad, manager, strike force, set up, and all thing considered we are definately in a far better position than the vast majority of clubs in the Champ.

[brendywendy]

i predict i will enjoy this season immensely

[Royalee]

blah blah blah bla bla bla load of wibble nonsense being wrote by a utter numpty

What a load of tosh. Fans of other clubs could only dream of theirs being as progressive as ours has been over the past many seasons. We have had it better than the majoirty for the past decade yet you give out cries of "no ambition", and that you want progression. So what do you call going from Elm Park to where we are now in 10 seasons?

Exactly, you only have to look at that 30 year progress chart I did a while back to see how far we've come. It's only one step back, perhaps we can make two steps forward now. Sorry to use a cliche there.

We have progressed over the last 30 years, I never disputed that. HOWEVER, we have reached a glass ceiling with our current management and it needs changing soon in order for us to continue onwards and upwards. The fact that we have kept Coppell means that we will begin to decline for the time being, which is something I will not support.

[Royalee]

So in a nutshell Royalee,

You'll be the first in the queue if things are going well, but you can't be arsed if things go a bit pearshaped for a while?

Yes, that's why I retained my season ticket when we were in League 1. You still don't get it, but then I guess you never will as you miss the point as much as Stephen Hunt misses our strikers with his crosses.

[brendywendy]

Exactly, you only have to look at that 30 year progress chart I did a while back to see how far we've come. It's only one step back, perhaps we can make two steps forward now. Sorry to use a cliche there.

We have progressed over the last 30 years, I never disputed that. HOWEVER, we have reached a glass ceiling with our current management and it needs changing soon in order for us to continue onwards and upwards. The fact that we have kept Coppell means that we will begin to decline for the time being, which is something I will not support.

just more made up stuff

and still no reason to stop supporting the club

[Royalee]

Royalee showing his support for the club.

Yep - as soon as Coppell goes and someone who wants the job comes in who wants to take everyone on, send scouts to tournaments instead of quivering in a corner biting his lip and try and manage foreign players without having some stupid complex about language barriers, I'll be the first in line for a season ticket and all away games again as it'll mean my support will actually be in favour of something positive.

I love Reading Football Club, not Steve Coppell. I pay money to watch progression and ambition, not some glorified League 1 player who runs about a lot being paid £25k a week for caring so that he can buy the best hair products for his ridiculous mullet now that he's become a poser. I want to see decent youngsters given a chance in games as opposed to playing our cast-offs in cup games who are resigned to leaving the club anyway and us retain our image as a community-based club which has produced top quality players like Scotty Taylor and Adrian Williams as opposed to blooding crap like Sam Sodje for the sake of it.

I don't want to be asked to sing by the club and patronised with Bring It On banners when I give my support year on year and want to see the club succeed more than half of the players put together given the performances of some. I don't want to have to ask for my Bovril 3 times before the idiot behind the counter at the Mad Stad realises it's a drink and not a brand of Rizla and ambles over to tell his friend (who is doing nothing but staring at the ceiling) to go and get it before an awkward pause. I don't want to see 'Play Your Shirts Right' at half time and be subjected to a video which tells me why I need to support the club to pass the time despite the fact that I'm already there and have been all season.

ALL I want is for the club to show some ambition, maybe sign a few decent players once in a while and show some intent by sending scouts further than Newbury (although they don't even appear to be able to do that these days), try to improve and make the matchday experience as fun as it was in days gone by (and I'm not just referring to 05/06 before some idiot pipes up) and not tell me they're doing their best and I need to be patient every two minutes on the official site.

thats nice........

LOL at this post

LOL at this too:

who isn't sure if he wants the job and chooses to stay because he feels comfortable without much pressure

eh?!


just LOL in general

what a strange way to support a football club

brendywendy in not being able to read English and missing the point shocker.

[Royalee]

just more made up stuff

and still no reason to stop supporting the club

Yeah, I made up the bit about us getting relegated too around October/November time last year too.

[Wycombe Royal]

The fact that we have kept Coppell means that we will begin to decline for the time being, which is something I will not support.

So you will only support success? You are the type of supporter that is loathed up and down this country.

[brendywendy]

LOL at this too:

who isn't sure if he wants the job and chooses to stay because he feels comfortable without much pressure

eh?!


just LOL in general

what a strange way to support a football club

brendywendy in not being able to read English and missing the point shocker.

i can read it fine you dope-good comeback though
its the bits where you state stuff as fact ,when in fact its just your lonely opinion that i was pointing out

[brendywendy]

just more made up stuff

and still no reason to stop supporting the club

Yeah, I made up the bit about us getting relegated too around October/November time last year too.

referring back to arguments won in the past is the last refuge of the loser

totally irrelevant

i dont know why im arguing
im glad the club has lost a fan like your good self

[Thaumagurist*]

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[Alan Partridge]

I've always been of the view that changing managers is never a guarantee of progress. I've also been a firm believer in stability by having the same manager for a few years as it helps the players because they know who they're playing for. Having a new manager at this point in time would mean that it would take longer to get back up because the new manager would want his own players, his own backroom staff and all that will take time. There is no quick fix.

A complete fresh start MIGHT also in the same token be exactly whats needed?

I have no problem with Coppell IF he learns from last years atrocious mistakes and makes suitable change this summer. If I see the exact same old faces again then I personally won't be best pleased.

[Fezza]

God I loath agreeing with you, but, fair point.

Have read Royalee's post several times.

Hard to pick anything out that is close to 'fair' or even objective. It's all just nonsense to support his carefully constructed 'personality'.

I'd agree with the bit about it being Reading Football Club not Steve Coppell, I'd probably agree that I'd rather have seen Pearce than Sodje at Swansea but the rest of it is either wrong, cliched or huge exageration (for effect of course).

In fairness SC dithered through the whole of last year stating he "was ready for a break" and that he had let his coaches pick the team because he was "out of ideas". He faffed around the transfer issue in August when he knew Little would be out, Seol would be sold and Oster wasn't up to it.

He then faffed around prior to the January window one week saying he had no faith in the squad and wanted to bring in players and then the next saying he had faith again. You didn't need to be a talented football manager to realise we were short on the right wing and in central midfield, but he didn't deal with the problems.

We got relegated last season because Coppell wasn't up to the job. That said we over achieved in previous years so maybe he's the man to see us up next season. However you can't blame a fan for being so disgusted with the way the team is managed that he won't hand over his hard earned cash until the problem he sees is removed. It's personal choice.

Personally I won't let SC's inept management last term stop me from going this year, but then I've always been an optimist!

[brendywendy]

I've always been of the view that changing managers is never a guarantee of progress. I've also been a firm believer in stability by having the same manager for a few years as it helps the players because they know who they're playing for. Having a new manager at this point in time would mean that it would take longer to get back up because the new manager would want his own players, his own backroom staff and all that will take time. There is no quick fix.

A complete fresh start MIGHT also in the same token be exactly whats needed?

I have no problem with Coppell IF he learns from last years atrocious mistakes and makes suitable change this summer. If I see the exact same old faces again then I personally won't be best pleased.

its not like one view or the other is set in stone correct though-as put across by royalee

if failure and inept management were a good enough reason to just stop supporting your club we wouldnt have any supporters

[Stranded]

So in a nutshell Royalee,

You'll be the first in the queue if things are going well, but you can't be arsed if things go a bit pearshaped for a while?

Yes, that's why I retained my season ticket when we were in League 1. You still don't get it, but then I guess you never will as you miss the point as much as Stephen Hunt misses our strikers with his crosses.

Wow you had a ST in L1, totally irrelevant to where we are now though and your speil. What it basically comes across is that you are saying is that because we've now been higher than the CCC unless we go back to those heights then you won't renew. Which is your perogative of course.

But if and when Coppell leaves, AN Other come in as manager but we as a club have a bad season and slip into L1, would you comeback because Coppell has gone or still stay away as we are having a prolonged period of struggle?