The Renaissance of John Halls

[Gus the teenage cow]

The funny thing is I thought he was a quality player at Stoke and Arsenal reserves and expected a lot from the guy when he signed......I think the problem initially was he didn't fit in with the attitude of the team which was a real work ethic, he was used to being a quality ball player and didn't realise he needed to work his socks off on top of having ball skills, in short he was lazy and complacent, then injuries took their tool and after all the time he spent observing Reading's success from the sidelines surely the guy deduced in Eureakesque moment that a bit of graft doesn't necessarily make you a clogger....in the last 2 games he has impressed me and with Murty getting on and picking up a few injuries as well as the likelihood that Rosenior won't be signing before the deadline then I feel he is a better option than UDLC

.....while we are on the topic of someone being slated unceremoniously only to be offered a chink of light towards some glorious renaissance let me say this, the mdoerator who gave out my IP address to "prove" that I had written stuff about Coppell in wikipedia was wrong to do it, furthermore this actually proves nothing as this IP address is for a University in Ireland, the second largest University in Ireland with almost 20,000 students so personally I feel violated by this and would like an apology, since the mid 1980's I have supported Reading and that's not an easy thing to do in Ireland where most people support Manchester United, Liverpool or Celtic, the amount of abuse I've put up with through the years for supporting this club has been relentless but I have persisted and attend as many games as I can spending my hard-earned cash on weekend trips to watch Reading play.......so i don't need this crap from some smug mdoerator out to "prove" a point, my ego is not so fragile that I am affected by a few faceless comments but I don't appreciate IP addresses being published, indeed the University have contacted me about this and are not happy as they monitor our emails etc, finally I'll say that since Doyle and Long have gone to Reading, added to Hunt's recent good performances for club and country Reading's profile In Ireland has never been higher, people even recognise the replica jersey I wear around town now instead of asking "what the f**k is that club?", Reading after many years finally have respect on this Island, all John Halls and my good self ask is precisely the same, respect!

[GJ79]

The funny thing is I thought he was a quality player at Stoke and Arsenal reserves and expected a lot from the guy when he signed......I think the problem initially was he didn't fit in with the attitude of the team which was a real work ethic, he was used to being a quality ball player and didn't realise he needed to work his socks off on top of having ball skills, in short he was lazy and complacent, then injuries took their tool and after all the time he spent observing Reading's success from the sidelines surely the guy deduced in Eureakesque moment that a bit of graft doesn't necessarily make you a clogger....in the last 2 games he has impressed me and with Murty getting on and picking up a few injuries as well as the likelihood that Rosenior won't be signing before the deadline then I feel he is a better option than UDLC

.....while we are on the topic of someone being slated unceremoniously only to be offered a chink of light towards some glorious renaissance let me say this, the mdoerator who gave out my IP address to "prove" that I had written stuff about Coppell in wikipedia was wrong to do it, furthermore this actually proves nothing as this IP address is for a University in Ireland, the second largest University in Ireland with almost 20,000 students so personally I feel violated by this and would like an apology, since the mid 1980's I have supported Reading and that's not an easy thing to do in Ireland where most people support Manchester United, Liverpool or Celtic, the amount of abuse I've put up with through the years for supporting this club has been relentless but I have persisted and attend as many games as I can spending my hard-earned cash on weekend trips to watch Reading play.......so i don't need this crap from some smug mdoerator out to "prove" a point, my ego is not so fragile that I am affected by a few faceless comments but I don't appreciate IP addresses being published, indeed the University have contacted me about this and are not happy as they monitor our emails etc, finally I'll say that since Doyle and Long have gone to Reading, added to Hunt's recent good performances for club and country Reading's profile In Ireland has never been higher, people even recognise the replica jersey I wear around town now instead of asking "what the f**k is that club?", Reading after many years finally have respect on this Island, all John Halls and my good self ask is precisely the same, respect!

Mate you got to be having a laugh!!! next your be saying John Halls for England!!!!

[bb0118]

Can we have a summary of what he's on about?

[Baines]

Can this post be moved to a new forum that no-one reads?

[Skyline]

If you ever want to feel like your brain has turned into mush and dribbled out your ears, reading a message from Gus the teenage cow should do it.

[papereyes]

If he really wants to feel violated, lock him in a room with Big Dave.

[Only one Trevor Morley]

The funny thing is I thought he was a quality player at Stoke and Arsenal reserves and expected a lot from the guy when he signed......I think the problem initially was he didn't fit in with the attitude of the team which was a real work ethic, he was used to being a quality ball player and didn't realise he needed to work his socks off on top of having ball skills, in short he was lazy and complacent, then injuries took their tool and after all the time he spent observing Reading's success from the sidelines surely the guy deduced in Eureakesque moment that a bit of graft doesn't necessarily make you a clogger....in the last 2 games he has impressed me and with Murty getting on and picking up a few injuries as well as the likelihood that Rosenior won't be signing before the deadline then I feel he is a better option than UDLC

.....while we are on the topic of someone being slated unceremoniously only to be offered a chink of light towards some glorious renaissance let me say this, the mdoerator who gave out my IP address to "prove" that I had written stuff about Coppell in wikipedia was wrong to do it, furthermore this actually proves nothing as this IP address is for a University in Ireland, the second largest University in Ireland with almost 20,000 students so personally I feel violated by this and would like an apology, since the mid 1980's I have supported Reading and that's not an easy thing to do in Ireland where most people support Manchester United, Liverpool or Celtic, the amount of abuse I've put up with through the years for supporting this club has been relentless but I have persisted and attend as many games as I can spending my hard-earned cash on weekend trips to watch Reading play.......so i don't need this crap from some smug mdoerator out to "prove" a point, my ego is not so fragile that I am affected by a few faceless comments but I don't appreciate IP addresses being published, indeed the University have contacted me about this and are not happy as they monitor our emails etc, finally I'll say that since Doyle and Long have gone to Reading, added to Hunt's recent good performances for club and country Reading's profile In Ireland has never been higher, people even recognise the replica jersey I wear around town now instead of asking "what the f**k is that club?", Reading after many years finally have respect on this Island, all John Halls and my good self ask is precisely the same, respect!

If the IP address covers 20,000 people and therefore doesnt prove that you amended wilkipedia, how come the University has contacted you about the IP address? How do they know its you?

If you want respect earn it - dont come up with some ridiclous nonsense about Coppell - just fade into the backgorund instead of drawing attention to yourself.

[Geekins]

Just Love it!

Maybe you shouldn't be on here if your school check out where you go. Just a thought

[Geekins]

If he really wants to feel violated, lock him in a room with Big Dave.

Oh kinky!

[Gus the teenage cow]

It was a bit self-indulgent but there you go, as for these reactions, they are hmmm....how should I put this "typically neanderthal"

Let me quote you some lines from a poem that you won't understand because for you a report on a football match is high literature but these lines certainly apply to some members

"the witty man and his joke,
aimed at the commonest ear,
the clever man who cries,
the catch-cries of the clown,
the beating down of the wise,
and great Art beaten down."

[Only one Trevor Morley]

PS this was your view a year ago. Care to admit you were wrong?

our transfer business has been an absolute joke, mate and bikey and de la cruz are all shit signings who won't offer naything in the premeirship, sodje may prove useful and seol is the only addition we have that looks like making the grade..what we neded was 4 or 5 players in seol's class to truly show some ambition so that we are not here to just scrap for survival and be grateful for 17th place, but that we really aspire to be contenders.........oh but we are little Reading and this is our first time in the top flight so let's not criticise transfer policy, lets be grateful just to be invited to the party, lets batle and lose narrowly, lets catsigate anyone here who dares to dream of mroe than 17th, who dares to expect better signings than villa rejects and hungarian under 21's and cameroonian loanees, ya, it saddens and disturbs me to see the guestapoesque mentality here that, its like communist russia, thou must not show dissent for the the great system comrades, yes we're eating at the finest table but some of us want more than crumbs....this is exactly why Roy Keane walked out on Republic of Ireland in WC2002, some of us are happy just to be here and to lay into all the party-poopers who actually want to compete, that small-town fascist attitude doesn't wash with me, We are Reading and yes its great to be here but lets not stop, we are Reading and we deserve more and personally i'm aiming higher than small minds and 17th place, if only this attitude was shared by all we might actually achieve something

[Gus the teenage cow]

really I think you don't undertsand ip addresses at all, of course the university can contact me because as they are hosts of ths ip address they have individual extra code ip's for each computer in the university and most employers do too so easy on the porn downloads

[pearcetom]

Can this post be moved to a new forum that no-one reads?

can john halls move to a team that no-one cares about?

[Geekins]

I only know the story of the boy who cried wolf.

I think wolves like cows, you better start running Mr. Teenage Cow

[Skyline]

But PP only posted a single IP address - there wasn't some kind of hidden information attached that would allow anyone to know the local IP address of the computer you are using.

So make your mind up - either the IP address covers 20000 people, and there's no way the university could know it was you, or else it is private to you, and you did indeed edit the Wikipedia page?

(And before you think about saying that I don't understand this stuff - I work with it every day, and have done for years)

[Yorkshire Royal]

What Skyline has said...

Can I add... just get over it.. you posted nonsense.. edited a wikipedia page to back up said nonsense.. got caught out.. now is the time to just stop..

[Gus the teenage cow]

I didn't edit wikipedia page, someone at university did whom i know

but i was wrong about bikey and seol

as for ip address connundrum, university host detects when their ip address is published on any public site, they receive an auotmatic mail about it then the host can detect on which of the computers in its network was the information published, then they ask questions, it's simple, anyway it's not too serious......i don't reallyc are anymore, wasn't this page about Halls rather than technobabble and oneupmanship, how petty!

[Royalee]

John Halls is still shit, as he proved last night. End of discussion.

[Binfield Royal]

It was a bit self-indulgent but there you go, as for these reactions, they are hmmm....how should I put this "typically neanderthal"

Let me quote you some lines from a poem that you won't understand because for you a report on a football match is high literature but these lines certainly apply to some members

"the witty man and his joke,
aimed at the commonest ear,
the clever man who cries,
the catch-cries of the clown,
the beating down of the wise,
and great Art beaten down."

Here's a poem everyone can enjoy

There was a young poster called Gus
Who created a terrible fuss
On Hob Nob he posted
and then he got roasted
now everyone thinks he's a Wuss








I will now rearrange this well known phrase or saying

coat I'll my get

[Yorkshire Royal]

of course it has the same bloody IP address, the guy who told me about the rumour works in the same building as me and he wrote it up

I didn't edit wikipedia page, someone at university did whom i know

Works in same building... Someone at university whom I know? Which is it? I would not expect a student to refer to "someone who works in the same building"... hmmm...

Yorkshire "Shirlock Holmes" Royal has deduced a fraud...