where did it all go wrong?

[Big Ern]

The moment the club ruthlessly sacked the Thames Valley Jets is when it all went downhill.

BRING BACK THE JETS!!!!

[Ian Royal]

The moment the club ruthlessly sacked the Thames Valley Jets is when it all went downhill.

BRING BACK THE JETS!!!!

paedo

[Fox Talbot]

In July 1969, Reading snapped Tommy Jenkins up from Margate for £500. Jenkins made an immediate impact for Reading. Scoring goals and creating havoc for the opposition and making many more as a speedy tricky winger.His form was such that only after 10 games most of the old first division teams sent scouts to watch him, in December of that year after only playing 26 matches for Reading Ted Bates signed him for the considerable sum in those days of £60,000 for Southampton. Frank Waller used the money to buy floodlights. It was considered at the time that if Reading had kept hold of Tommy Jenkins for the whole season promotion was almost a certainty.
1969 was also the year Jack Mansell ordered a return to the traditional blue and white hoops from the Coventry style sky blue kit.

I don't remember it that way. Our form picked BECAUSE Jenkins left. Look at the records. And the floodlights went up two months before Jenkins was signed by Reading! He was fun to watch though.

I'm not sure this is quite the debate the OP was expecting. Perhaps we ought to have a 1969-70 Club or thread.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

FFP means you don't need a billionaire owner any more.

Most clubs don't have them, and never really did. They can only out a limited amount in now.

Anyone got the accounts to show how our debt went up to 67 million, there is the reason it has gone wrong.

[floyd__streete]

Shouldn't have sacked McDermott