Have Reading peaked ?

[PBR]

Maybe I am alone in this but ever since our first relegation from the Premier League I have just felt disillusioned about top tier football. When we are not in the PL we spend all the time trying to get back, and once we bite into that forbidden fruit the best ourselves and half the other league is hope to stay in it another year. What is realistically the best Reading can do now? Top half finish? Just stay in the league? Is it enjoyable being the proverbial punching bag for the rest of the league and just keep praying we have the chance to do it again next year? I know for most people here when they became Reading fans it was more of a second team to their support of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, etc.. so when we get relegated it's just a bit of shrug of the shoulders and "theres always next year".. I just find myself hovering over the register button over at the Reading Town and Windsor forum..

[harryroyal]

why would your team not doing great in the prem make you want to become a Reading town fan?

[Gunny Fishcake]

No

[Royalclapper]

Personally, Reading have always been my one and only club to support, the only other team I support is England.

You should always want your club to be striving to be the best that they can. It's not easy being in the top league, especially when the history and infrastructure means constantly having to swim against the tide. However, you earn the opportunity to be there so why shouldn't we be?

Even yesterday was great to see high class opposition players seemingly gliding the ball effortlessly to each other and make the game look much easier than it actually is. The stadiums are also top notch in the most part. Compare that to having to watch medieval sides like Leeds Utd deliberately clobbering anything in opposition colours like last season - (no thanks). It's a rip-off in terms of costs and realistically we could only hope for success in terms of finishing half way up the table - or a Euro spot in a particularly dazzling season. I wouldn't want to think that we only peak just because we make it here every now and then though, let's have a bloody good go at it.

[RFCSPACE]

Changing the script of the same old story in the PL takes time. Nowadays the likes of Leeds, Nottingham Forest and Blackburn are average teams who were once key players in English football. More recently Liverpool and now Arsenal are losing their way at the top and someone has to replace them. For Reading, we're a million miles away, but one day in the future it would be nice to think its our turn to step up to the plate. Right now, enjoy it while we can, even if we are complete dogshit.

[Platypuss]

I just find myself hovering over the register button over at the Reading Town and Windsor forum..

Please do.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

More transparent troLOLLOLing.

[redscot]

Reading missed out on promotion to the PL by a point or two, so had to wait another year. If we had gone up the year before we would have 2 good years in the PL and might of become more established. As it turned out Reading had one good and one bad season.

[2.8 lita injection]

Delete this fred.

[redscot]

why. If this one is deleted you might as delete 100s of others. (A better suggestion would be to stop people from posting more than say 3 posts a week. The amount of gibberish to sieve through to get to something sensible is mind boringly.)

[2.8 lita injection]

Because its impossible to tell

Its like predicting if it will rain on the 13th of feb 2021.

Restricting posting will only allow the nutjobs more exposure.

[Once were Biscuitmen]

why. If this one is deleted you might as delete 100s of others. (A better suggestion would be to stop people from posting more than say 3 posts a week. The amount of gibberish to sieve through to get to something sensible is mind boringly.)

Maybe do what other forums do and suspend users from starting new threads when there are grounds for such action?

[PBR]

Changing the script of the same old story in the PL takes time. Nowadays the likes of Leeds, Nottingham Forest and Blackburn are average teams who were once key players in English football. More recently Liverpool and now Arsenal are losing their way at the top and someone has to replace them. For Reading, we're a million miles away, but one day in the future it would be nice to think its our turn to step up to the plate. Right now, enjoy it while we can, even if we are complete dogshit.

Pretty much what I thought, perhaps if there were more single team Reading fans there would be more pressure on the organization to try to further Reading to the next level.. but most fans once we are out of the Premier League just return to redandwhitekop, cfcnet, etc. Any decent player makes a name for himself, gets sold and then we spend another few years trying to rebuild the team. It's going to take a rich saudi of somesort to take Reading to the next level and until then it's just yo-yoing, licking our wounds after every defeat, praying that we survive.. while that might be pleasurable for some.. for us suffering with high blood pressure, it's just not a healthy way to support a team... we've hit the fiscal cliff, it's either pay up or go home and so far Reading is already preparing for another season in the championship. I'd love to be wrong, but what seems more likely for us.. winning the Premier League or being relegated? Sadly blind positivity doesn't do much for results on the field.

[2.8 lita injection]

Im sure its been said before but all of a sudden their are a lot of posters with a low count

And they post like they are playing football manager.

We should sign this, we should sack him.

I dont remember this in 2006

[AthleticoSpizz]

Charlie Hurley's Blue and White Army

Remember him sacking 7

[2.8 lita injection]

Changing the script of the same old story in the PL takes time. Nowadays the likes of Leeds, Nottingham Forest and Blackburn are average teams who were once key players in English football. More recently Liverpool and now Arsenal are losing their way at the top and someone has to replace them. For Reading, we're a million miles away, but one day in the future it would be nice to think its our turn to step up to the plate. Right now, enjoy it while we can, even if we are complete dogshit.

Pretty much what I thought, perhaps if there were more single team Reading fans there would be more pressure on the organization to try to further Reading to the next level.. but most fans once we are out of the Premier League just return to redandwhitekop, cfcnet, etc. Any decent player makes a name for himself, gets sold and then we spend another few years trying to rebuild the team. It's going to take a rich saudi of somesort to take Reading to the next level and until then it's just yo-yoing, licking our wounds after every defeat, praying that we survive.. while that might be pleasurable for some.. for us suffering with high blood pressure, it's just not a healthy way to support a team... we've hit the fiscal cliff, it's either pay up or go home and so far Reading is already preparing for another season in the championship. I'd love to be wrong, but what seems more likely for us.. winning the Premier League or being relegated? Sadly blind positivity doesn't do much for results on the field.

Nothing wrong with playing within your limits, going down is not the end of the world.

We wont ever compete with the top no matter how much is invested.

[redscot]

Perhaps going down is not the end of the world.

Agreed. Best post ever.

[AthleticoSpizz]

OMG WE ARE NOT HYSTERICAL!

GOING DOWN IS THE END OF THE WORLD

[redscot]

How can going down be the end of the world. It is quite pleasant if you ask me.

[AthleticoSpizz]

no need for the obligatory :wink: and

[noelgallagher]

Maybe I am alone in this but ever since our first relegation from the Premier League I have just felt disillusioned about top tier football. When we are not in the PL we spend all the time trying to get back, and once we bite into that forbidden fruit the best ourselves and half the other league is hope to stay in it another year. What is realistically the best Reading can do now? Top half finish? Just stay in the league? Is it enjoyable being the proverbial punching bag for the rest of the league and just keep praying we have the chance to do it again next year? I know for most people here when they became Reading fans it was more of a second team to their support of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, etc.. so when we get relegated it's just a bit of shrug of the shoulders and "theres always next year".. I just find myself hovering over the register button over at the Reading Town and Windsor forum..

Have Reading peaked? Can't see into the future, so who knows. But enjoy the ride, no matter how many twists and turns there may be.