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by Vision » 23 Nov 2007 12:00

I'd ask Tredder to open a book on who will have the last word on this thread but i doubt anyone would be alive to collect.

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by Riseley » 23 Nov 2007 12:03

Woodcote is a bit like Heelas and is never knowingly undersold.

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by Behindu » 23 Nov 2007 12:03

I'd have a fiver on Schards great grand child - assuming certain traits are genetic.

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by T.R.O.L.I. » 23 Nov 2007 12:04

Behindu I'd have a fiver on Schards great grand child - assuming certain traits are genetic.


The same could be said for yours.

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by Behindu » 23 Nov 2007 12:04

T.R.O.L.I.
Behindu I'd have a fiver on Schards great grand child - assuming certain traits are genetic.


The same could be said for yours.


And given your need to add another comment - your's too !!! :wink:


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by Riseley » 01 Dec 2007 10:27

This thread is Like IACGMOOH you know you should hate it but it becomes compulsive viewing. Woodcote is Biggins to Schards J.

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by willz_royal » 01 Dec 2007 11:41

last word.

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by Rawlie19 » 01 Dec 2007 11:49

willz_royal last word.
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by Riseley » 01 Dec 2007 12:03

Biggins from Oxon should have the final say.


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by Schards#2 » 01 Dec 2007 19:54

"A chair is still a chair.....even when there's no one sitting there"

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by The 17 Bus » 02 Dec 2007 07:30

the crowd yesterday was ok, but there seemed to be a hell of a lot of empty seats, more than 2000??

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by Royal Lady » 02 Dec 2007 10:20

Probably taken an early Xmas holiday. Or something.

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by Schards#2 » 02 Dec 2007 11:05

Let's not dwell on the 'has demand fallen' argument anymore, as I think there's only one person left who still doesn't accept this fact and his ability to think objectively is well documented.

Moving on, yesterday was a Premiership game, it was kids for a quid, the cost of membership cards has been removed and it still didn't sell out to home fans.

Given that we are looking very likely to be relegated at some stage, does this not put a question mark in anyone's mind?


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by The 17 Bus » 02 Dec 2007 12:34

Schards#2 Let's not dwell on the 'has demand fallen' argument anymore, as I think there's only one person left who still doesn't accept this fact and his ability to think objectively is well documented.

Moving on, yesterday was a Premiership game, it was kids for a quid, the cost of membership cards has been removed and it still didn't sell out to home fans.

Given that we are looking very likely to be relegated at some stage, does this not put a question mark in anyone's mind?


Given that we are going to be in a relegation struggle the doubt has to be can we bounce straight back up should we go down and can we fill the extra 6k in the Chumpionship?

It is now going to be a real test of Mr Mad's nerves, having taken the club to The Prem as was his goal, a lot of the blame on relegation will lie at his door, we have seen how we will not pay the wages to attract and keep players.

We have seen how money is really rather important to him, and we have seen him keep saying how he wants to sell the club to take it too the next level.

All further reasons not to want to sign for Reading.

FWIW I believe if we go down we will struggle, crowds will fall back to about the 15k level, and The Prem which was for so long a dream will be a distant memory, but at least the club will be on a solid finacial foundation as we did not spend all the loot trying to stay in the Prem.

It will be nice to be little old reading again, and thats all we really are.

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by Jerry St Clair » 02 Dec 2007 13:21

Schards#2 Moving on, yesterday was a Premiership game, it was kids for a quid, the cost of membership cards has been removed and it still didn't sell out to home fans.


:shock:

It can't possibly have been. I didn't hear thousands of 8 year olds counting down the seconds at the end of each half. Or doing the "You're shit aaah" chant (but without the "shit" bit) everytime the Middllesbrough keeper took a goal kick.

I think you must be mistaken.

Or, perhaps, the fact that it was still exhorbitantly expensive for adults meant the promotion was a crushing failure.

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by Gloria Gooner » 03 Dec 2007 09:24

I assumed it was the infrastructure around the stadium, causing traffic delays which lasted 90 minutes and prevented several thousand people from attending.

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by Dirk Gently » 03 Dec 2007 09:28

A lot of it was peeople with STs who were damn good judges of football and decided to skip this one.

It's noticeable that the West half of the South stand didn't have any gaps in at all - the spaces were sporadically around the ST areas, with a great big gap in the away area, of course.

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by Schards#2 » 03 Dec 2007 10:07

Dirk Gently A lot of it was peeople with STs who were damn good judges of football and decided to skip this one.

It's noticeable that the West half of the South stand didn't have any gaps in at all - the spaces were sporadically around the ST areas, with a great big gap in the away area, of course.


Along with the regular large empty spaces at the south end of the upper west

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by Riseley » 03 Dec 2007 10:11

Judging by the masses of empty seats in the Upper west even the prawn sarnies are not sufficient temptation. Expansion is as dead as Mr Dodo.

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by weybridgewanderer » 03 Dec 2007 10:46

Schards#2
Dirk Gently A lot of it was peeople with STs who were damn good judges of football and decided to skip this one.

It's noticeable that the West half of the South stand didn't have any gaps in at all - the spaces were sporadically around the ST areas, with a great big gap in the away area, of course.


Along with the regular large empty spaces at the south end of the upper west


which is the "new" hospitality area put in this season. £200 for a seat there for the Liverpool game next weekend!

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