Alan PartridgeGordons CummingAlan PartridgeGordons CummingAlan Partridge Nigel....football is played on the pitch mate, and as long as half our team belongs in the Championship we will never rival those clubs you mention, sorry to burst the bubble of big club bullshit.
Go and support Torquay you killjoy.
Great comeback
Reading - talking big since 2001. Just please stop.
It's called ambition, you Devonian.
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I don't doubt they have ambition or the way they go about it, but this nonsense doesn't need to be out in the open. Reading will never be as big as some of those clubs mentioned, so what if we have 38,000 seats soon, they will rarely be filled IMO, when we just about manage to sell out 24,000 I could see us getting around 30,000 ish for the big games? Do we have another 14,000 fans just waiting to get through the door? No, IMO.
Reading HAVE to spend big to try and compete with those clubs named, need some names here and need to go forward and replace half our current team if they are to rival those clubs in the short- medium term. That's not going to happen - probably rightly so. So why spout this sort of talk?
Best location? says who!!?
I'm not sure what the problem is really. With an imminent transfer window, not to mention half an eye on potential investors surely its the Chief Executives job to publicly sell the club's ambitions and potential for the future.
Just because cynical sods like us might be a bit bored hearing it, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.