Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards

[Nameless]

Apologies, I hadn't intended to divert so far off topic.

Had to laugh at the ironic use of 'tosspot' by the board kettle though. Please start a new thread to respond

[Nameless]

Says the man who mixes with lawyers and politicians !

[dean horrix legend]

^^^ you can tell LWJ went to a school where they played football

Represented Berkshire in rugby m8

Lols, i was just being a dick.

Does explain a few things, mind!

Just being yourself then,lols

[Victor Meldrew]

This was actually quite an interesting and useful thread, before the usual tosspots moved in to compare different sports in one of HNA's finest off topic crap debates.

Could a mod remove all the shit posts to get it back on topic?

^^^ you can tell LWJ went to a school where they played football

Represented Berkshire in rugby m8

But your education suffered-it's "at" rugby m8 .Who is the thick one?
I expect you use the American "on" the team as well.

[Victor Meldrew]

Apologies, I hadn't intended to divert so far off topic.

Had to laugh at the ironic use of 'tosspot' by the board kettle though. Please start a new thread to respond

There is no need to apologise to the tosspot.
Classic HNA is to go off topic which usually returns to it's starting subject in time.

[LWJ]

^^^ you can tell LWJ went to a school where they played football

Represented Berkshire in rugby m8

But your education suffered-it's "at" rugby m8 .Who is the thick one?
I expect you use the American "on" the team as well.

obsessed.

Imagine caring about grammar and spelling on an Internet forum and pulling someone up over it though, fun life.

[LWJ]

Apologies, I hadn't intended to divert so far off topic.

Had to laugh at the ironic use of 'tosspot' by the board kettle though. Please start a new thread to respond

There is no need to apologise to the tosspot.
Classic HNA is to go off topic which usually returns to it's starting subject in time.

It's not classic HNA bud. It's a pointless over done discussion which crops up between the same blokes every time rugby is compared to football.

Sorry some of us prefer the interesting threads to stay interesting.

[Victor Meldrew]

Represented Berkshire in rugby m8

But your education suffered-it's "at" rugby m8 .Who is the thick one?
I expect you use the American "on" the team as well.

obsessed.

Imagine caring about grammar and spelling on an Internet forum and pulling someone up over it though, fun life.

Just as surely nobody would call other posters "thick" or be generally quite rude when it is all meant to be a bit of fun..

[LWJ]

Just as surely nobody would call other posters "thick" or be generally quite rude when it is all meant to be a bit of fun..

You really took it to heart didn't you? You've already tried to threaten me with violence, now you're following me around being pedantic.

If you're that butt-hurt at a passing comment you should just put me on ignore. Save everyone the embarrassment of having to read this shite.

[juanpablo]

I keep thinking I'm going to read a Cardiff reaction or most recently a Bristol Rovers reaction. But no, grown men are arguing over something unrelated on the internet. Good times.

[Brosef Stalin]

I keep thinking I'm going to read a Cardiff reaction or most recently a Bristol Rovers reaction. But no, grown men are arguing over something unrelated on the internet. Good times.

Are you new to the Internet?

[leon]

I keep thinking I'm going to read a Cardiff reaction or most recently a Bristol Rovers reaction. But no, grown men are arguing over something unrelated on the internet. Good times.

Grown men?

[sandman]

Serious question:

What can we do in modern football to exclude the less desirable fans and make it more like a jolly day out at Lords or Twickers?

Obviously increasing ticket prices could help, but I'm told that if you really want to slum it you can get tickets as cheap as sixty or seventy pounds for the rugby and that doesn't seem to invite the kind of scum you see at football matches. Even theatre tickets can be as cheap as ten or fifteen pounds (if you're willing to endure a fairly poor view), but no one jumps up and starts screaming overly bold statements about the legitimate paternity of the stage manager.

We've tried policing football more heavily and beating the worst behaved ones to a pulp, we've tried demonising football fans via the media, parliament and the courts, we've tried sponsorship by middle class greengrocers, but none of it seems to be working: awful people still attend football matches.

I just don't know what the solution is.

This is an interesting gimmick you've got going on. Are you "doing a kes" and looking for any reply, no matter how innocuous?

Or are you trying for the genuinely angry reply demographic?

[Nameless]

Sorry Seb, ask the wife for some help on a rewrite and come back to us.
It's not really working in it's current form.

[genome]

But your education suffered-it's "at" rugby m8 .Who is the thick one?
I expect you use the American "on" the team as well.

obsessed.

Imagine caring about grammar and spelling on an Internet forum and pulling someone up over it though, fun life.

Just as surely nobody would call other posters "thick" or be generally quite rude when it is all meant to be a bit of fun..

There should be three ellipses in that sentence.

[CountryRoyal]

obsessed.

Imagine caring about grammar and spelling on an Internet forum and pulling someone up over it though, fun life.

Just as surely nobody would call other posters "thick" or be generally quite rude when it is all meant to be a bit of fun..

There should be three ellipses in that sentence.

That would be 3 lots of ( . . . ), therefore what you should have said is "There should be three full stops/periods in the ellipses in that sentence", or something along those lines.

Not exactly doing much to get this back on topic, am I?

[genome]

Just as surely nobody would call other posters "thick" or be generally quite rude when it is all meant to be a bit of fun..

There should be three ellipses in that sentence.

That would be 3 lots of ( . . . ), therefore what you should have said is "There should be three full stops/periods in the ellipses in that sentence", or something along those lines.

Not exactly doing much to get this back on topic, am I?

[CountryRoyal]

A selection from twtd

Personally I felt Reading's brand of football was even more boring than our own. Still, I doubt there will be many who agree as playing out from the keeper is very in vogue currently.

According to some, Stam's 'philosophy' is brilliant yet, as you say, it was boring and easy to counter with the high press and making Bru press the two center-halves in the second half.

I thought Stam's football was sh1t, utterly powderpuff nonsense mostly. Al Absi looked like someone had kicked a sh1tcovered grenade to him all night and they did nothing with it most of sixty yards from goal then just tried to get flick on from out wide.

Makes it even more frustrating we didn't punish them more often.

I'd be surprised if Stams team achieve many 'results' doing their Micky Mouse version of Barcelona.

They were wide open and there for the taking really.

Reading were so open that any decent team would have hit 5 goals, especially in the way they tried to pass it round at the back without the players to do it.

Reading played some decent stuff in the first half as we struggled with BeerenS and Kermogant but they have an accident waiting to happen with al-Habsi in goal.

Reading were shocking and If we are serious about being promotion contenders then we need to be beating teams like that.

[bobby m's syrup]

FWIW and l was a tv spectator, it seemed obvious that we, Reading, are still very much a work in progress. That said, there were some encouraging signs. Lack of firepower is a concern, as is the apparent after half time hoodoo, but for the most part, a fairly mediocre Ipswich side was comfortably contained.

Sour grapes can be expected, particularly as l believe their fans considered this a nailed on away 3 pointer, so there is never going to be much objectivity on this, or indeed other rival boards after games of this nature.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Considering everyone we've played thinks we're shit, 10 points from the first six games ain't bad at all.