The "Championship won't be all that bad" thread

[JimGRoyal]

1 Lower ticket prices
2 See our players performing against their true peers
3 Less Prima Donna behaviour by same
4 No need to go through building stadium extension, walking through dust etc.
5 No chance of getting into Europe
6 Parachute payments and lower player wages means JM has smile on face
7 A £2m player is a big deal
8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"
9 Lawro forgets who we are
10 SSC forgets who we are

[Behindu]

Sad if you think some of those are 'benefits' isnt it ?

[Royalwaster]

Sad if you think some of those are 'benefits' isnt it ?

You like paying higher ticket prices?

[79Royal]

What makes you think they'll come down? There's no guarantee.

Thank you for pointing them out, but we are barely 1/6 of the way through this season. I'll think about the Championship when we are mathematically relegated.

If it actually happens.

[Behindu]

Sad if you think some of those are 'benefits' isnt it ?

You like paying higher ticket prices?

Where did I say I did ?

And if I recall correctly the prices we were paying at places like Southampton and Ipswich were no lower than we pay for many Prem games anyway....

[PEARCEY]

My tickets for my two sons for next week against Wigan are £6 each!! Significantly less than I paid for the privilege of getting them into see my nearest team Cheltenham Town for a division 1 game last season.

[Kitson12]

1 Lower ticket prices
2 See our players performing against their true peers
3 Less Prima Donna behaviour by same
4 No need to go through building stadium extension, walking through dust etc.
5 No chance of getting into Europe
6 Parachute payments and lower player wages means JM has smile on face
7 A £2m player is a big deal
8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"
9 Lawro forgets who we are
10 SSC forgets who we are

Oxf*rd off back into you pLOLastic hole, we've played six games FFS. If you judge a team, your team let me just add, so damningly on six games then you should oxf*rd off these boards and go and work for the BBC as a MOTD pundit, being critical about 6 games gets you nowhere! Just makes you look like a complete and utter div!

[Shaka's Giant Hands]

1 Lower ticket prices
2 See our players performing against their true peers
3 Less Prima Donna behaviour by same
4 No need to go through building stadium extension, walking through dust etc.
5 No chance of getting into Europe
6 Parachute payments and lower player wages means JM has smile on face
7 A £2m player is a big deal
8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"
9 Lawro forgets who we are
10 SSC forgets who we are

Nothing like a bit of positivity...and that is nothing like positivity.

How about getting behind the team for once? Or let me guess...Reading have always won when you been supporting them?

Life ain't like Champ Man...we can't restart teh season, we are where we are.

[1960]

I've spent more years than most of you have been alive waiting for Reading to make good. Years and years of scrabbling around in Divisions three and four, thank you very much, and so I want my seasons in the sun. You can oxf*rd off with your 'the Championship would be better' crap.

If you started watching from Pardew onwards you have had more success than a little team like Reading can expect. You're a spoilt brat. If the Championship is so great go and watch Southampton. Only an hour in the car and they will be there for a few years.

[Very near...far away]

1 Lower ticket prices
2 See our players performing against their true peers
3 Less Prima Donna behaviour by same
4 No need to go through building stadium extension, walking through dust etc.
5 No chance of getting into Europe
6 Parachute payments and lower player wages means JM has smile on face
7 A £2m player is a big deal
8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"
9 Lawro forgets who we are
10 SSC forgets who we are

Very funny, oh ha ha ha.

[Cookie]

11 Sit where you like and not be shackled to some snot-gobbling-neanderthal for a whole season.

[Behindu]

11 Sit where you like and not be shackled to some snot-gobbling-neanderthal for a whole season.

Although for those of you who've only been with us since promotion you'll be interested to know the whole ground has been 'reserved' seating since before you started coming

[papereyes]

11. Its a bit shit but at least it knows its shit.

Like that slightly chubby girl who is left on the dancefloor at 1:45.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"

I've always found Lineker to be pretty postive towards Reading. When Lawro was giving everyone the benefit of his expert analysis that Reading lacked quality, he seemed to disagree.

[shadesrwrf]

Excellent post. Totally agree. Modern football is a shadow of its former self.

[working class hero]

Whilst hoping we escape I do actually prefer Championship football. It is more exciting as it is less predictable.

Mind you if we are fighting relegation all season it will be a pretty enthralling year - specially if we need a win on the last day to escape!

It is not a guarantee that prices will fall - but if they don't following a relegation the crowds will be tiny.

[Daniella]

1 Lower ticket prices
2 See our players performing against their true peers
3 Less Prima Donna behaviour by same
4 No need to go through building stadium extension, walking through dust etc.
5 No chance of getting into Europe
6 Parachute payments and lower player wages means JM has smile on face
7 A £2m player is a big deal
8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"
9 Lawro forgets who we are
10 SSC forgets who we are

Oxf*rd off back into you pLOLastic hole, we've played six games FFS. If you judge a team, your team let me just add, so damningly on six games then you should oxf*rd off these boards and go and work for the BBC as a MOTD pundit, being critical about 6 games gets you nowhere! Just makes you look like a complete and utter div!

Not as much of a div as you look with this reply. Put your toys back in your pram.

[winchester_royal]

1 Lower ticket prices
2 See our players performing against their true peers
3 Less Prima Donna behaviour by same
4 No need to go through building stadium extension, walking through dust etc.
5 No chance of getting into Europe
6 Parachute payments and lower player wages means JM has smile on face
7 A £2m player is a big deal
8 Gary Lineker doesn t need to smirk through the word "Reading"
9 Lawro forgets who we are
10 SSC forgets who we are

Oxf*rd off back into you pLOLastic hole, we've played six games FFS. If you judge a team, your team let me just add, so damningly on six games then you should oxf*rd off these boards and go and work for the BBC as a MOTD pundit, being critical about 6 games gets you nowhere! Just makes you look like a complete and utter div!

Not as much of a div as you look with this reply. Put your toys back in your pram.

kitson12 is spot on, anyone talking about relegation at the moment should be stoned

[Bowman's Quiver]

11. Its a bit shit but at least it knows its shit.

Like that slightly chubby girl who is left on the dancefloor at 1:45.

Crumbs. Seems only yesterday that we were wetting ourselves with excitement - me included - that we had won promotion to the Championship (league one as it was then).

For the next couple of season we were, according to most outsiders and a good many around here, "punching above our weight".

Now, all of a sudden, "it's a bit shit.....".

I hope we don't go down. I don't think we will go down, this season at least. But at least let's have some humility when when we do (whenever that may be) and enjoy being one of the bigger fishes in that pond challenging for promotion with the money we will have amassed in the interim.

[Daniella]

He never mentioned relegation. What a typical response from a bunch of brain dead RTG's.

All he said was 10 Befits of the championship.