welcome to Reading FC

[shadesrwrf]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long. Supporting Reading Football Club is a long-term investment. Enjoy the ride.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Reading FC - where the fans are shouting "you don't know what you're doing" at a linesman who made a quite brilliant decsion to let Bolton's second goal stand. Because it was nowhere near offside. What an embarassingly unknowledgable crowd. I heard the poor bloke called a kunt all afternoon by myopic little pr1cks with no idea about the game.

it depends really on whether you saw shorey playing him on or not. He was "offside" in relation to the two defenders he nipped between to receive the ball, and I'd guess many fans just noticed that.

In the heat of the moment it's just anger, and there's nothing special about Reading fans in the way they react to big decisions going against them.

Linesmen are fair game though. You almost never see, for example, one who won't give a ball that's just over half-off as a throw-in - a particular pet peeve of mine - and the reality is that a linesman is an official that's not good enough to be a ref.

[M0J0]

C'mon stop being so down....you will all be cheering when we beat Everton next week..
2-1 to the royals....

[namroyal]

The problem is that we've got good players that aren't oxf*rd playing decent oxf*rd football. I don't oxf*rd understand why when they cross that line they can't perform with a bit of passion and enthusiasm. Watching my oxf*rd sunday league team is currently more oxf*rd enjoyable than watching the BLARMY oxf*rd around and not attempt a single oxf*rd shot on oxf*rd goal. Watching Sunday League football is free. oxf*rd hell.....

[Jimbo]

Right now the team are struggling, struggling against the finest players on the planet. What they need now is our support.

Bolton have the finest players on the planet??????!!!!!

We know that Reading are fully capable of beating half of the teams in the Prem, we've seen them do it. Thats why people are so p*ssed off, if we didn't love our team we wouldn't get so annoyed when they play so far below themselves.

I fecking hate all this 'little old Reading, lucky to be here, over reaching' attitude some people have.

We are a Premiership team now, I wish we could consistently play like one.....

[Coppelled Streets]

JM says the stadium expansion will go ahead regardless of what division we are in.

Can I have the link for when that was said please?

[Beelzebub]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long. Supporting Reading Football Club is a long-term investment. Enjoy the ride.

Thankyou shades. Thats the best most informed and level headed post I have seen for a long time.

[shadesrwrf]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long. Supporting Reading Football Club is a long-term investment. Enjoy the ride.

Thankyou shades. Thats the best most informed and level headed post I have seen for a long time.

Informed? - I'm no more informed than anyone else here.

Level-headed. I can't really claim to have reached such heights.

But thank you for your kind words nonetheless.

[Alan Partridge]

The problem is that we've got good players that aren't oxf*rd playing decent oxf*rd football. I don't oxf*rd understand why when they cross that line they can't perform with a bit of passion and enthusiasm. Watching my oxf*rd sunday league team is currently more oxf*rd enjoyable than watching the BLARMY oxf*rd around and not attempt a single oxf*rd shot on oxf*rd goal. Watching Sunday League football is free. oxf*rd hell.....

oxf*rd that's a lot of oxf*rd's

[Beelzebub]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long. Supporting Reading Football Club is a long-term investment. Enjoy the ride.

Thankyou shades. Thats the best most informed and level headed post I have seen for a long time.

Informed? - I'm no more informed than anyone else here.

Level-headed. I can't really claim to have reached such heights.

But thank you for your kind words nonetheless.

Well if it helps, if you can't take being praised, just oxf*rd off you kn*b

[kirkrich]

It's the manner in which we were rolled over that gets to me. We play well against manure when deep down you know we haven't got much hope, they are bloody good no matter what you might think of them. But it's games where we should be competing, Bolton!!!, that we look shite. They have taken 6 points from us and after Saturdays performance you have to wonder where our next points are coming from. Up until this weekend I thought that there were teams worse than us and that we would be OK... Now I'm not so sure. Like most of you people out there, I will always follow the Royals as I have done for nearly 30 years, but I would rather it be against teams of a higher standard than Scunthorpe!

[DavidM62]

I guess one of the reasons why I'm so depressed today was that I was amongst those who shouted abuse at the linesman. But yes he was spot on. The Kitson booking and penalty were also fair as well. Lino if you are reading, I apologise.

Can't even hide behind a "we was robbed" excuse.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

The most depressing aspect about all this is that we didn't give our best shot. We chose not to strengthen and, therefore, a lot of the wounds are self inflicted.

That will leave many fans terminally disollusioned.

we can only hope.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Right now the team are struggling, struggling against the finest players on the planet. What they need now is our support.

Bolton have the finest players on the planet??????!!!!!

We know that Reading are fully capable of beating half of the teams in the Prem, we've seen them do it. Thats why people are so p*ssed off, if we didn't love our team we wouldn't get so annoyed when they play so far below themselves..

what people are perhaps forgetting is that Bolton are a big ugly team who excell at big ugly football, and are only in the mess down at the bottom because the previous manager tried to make them play open attacking football. They did a job on us. Snuffed us out by keeping the game's tempo at walking pace, distrupting it at every chance, and making sure the ball stayed in the clouds.

[kirkrich]

I would have taken big and ugly on Saturday rather than crap and no points

[Platypuss]

I will never give up supporting Reading FC whatever division we are in and it is sad to see youngsters shouting abuse at the team when they have only been fans for 2 yrs. Will just be sad to see no stadium expansion but at the end of the day I'd prefer to stay a small club with a fair percentafe REAL FANS rather than having a half empty stand with glory hunters

Seeing as the amount of glory hunters is directly related to the amount of success we are having I say bring them on.

I just loved 1998/99.

[RoyalBlue]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long.

Do you really believe that?! Don't you remember what happened after the Bolton playofff defeat when the Chairman led an economy drive and we saw the immediate break up of a very good team. Indeed, if you listen to Quinn and Gooding, prior to reaching Wembley they were pleading to be allowed to strengthen the squad but their pleas fell on deaf ears. As a consequence we arrived a the playoff final with a couple of key players missing through injury, at least one playing with an injury and insufficient quality in the squad to replace them.

Do you think the Chairman will learn any lessons from what is happening now? My personal view is that failure at this point may well make him even more stubborn in his views and his (IMO) misguided belief and determination that he can work outside the usual football system and achieve success through a completely different approach to everyone else.

Unless the Chairman changes his views and approach I am absolutely convinced that we will stand no chance whatsoever of bouncing back in the short term. Furthermore fans will become extremely disillusioned as they are again told that they have to pay a very significant percentage of their disposable income for season tickets/tickets in order to finance strengthening our squad etc. In short, the fans will be the ones who ended up paying in every way for the failure of the management.

Enjoy the ride, I will not. Nor, I suspect, will many others.

Right now the team are struggling, struggling against the finest players on the planet. What they need now is our support.

Bolton have the finest players on the planet??????!!!!!

We know that Reading are fully capable of beating half of the teams in the Prem, we've seen them do it. Thats why people are so p*ssed off, if we didn't love our team we wouldn't get so annoyed when they play so far below themselves..

what people are perhaps forgetting is that Bolton are a big ugly team who excell at big ugly football, and are only in the mess down at the bottom because the previous manager tried to make them play open attacking football. They did a job on us. Snuffed us out by keeping the game's tempo at walking pace, distrupting it at every chance, and making sure the ball stayed in the clouds.

And?!!!

We lost another three much needed points. Points that many on here felt were in the bag.

Excuse for the next three points lost?

The time for excuses/justification has long gone. Only points won are acceptable.

[West Stand Flash]

Reading FC - where the fans are shouting "you don't know what you're doing" at a linesman who made a quite brilliant decsion to let Bolton's second goal stand. Because it was nowhere near offside. What an embarassingly unknowledgable crowd. I heard the poor bloke called a kunt all afternoon by myopic little pr1cks with no idea about the game.

I was also singing 'you don't know what your doing'. However I was singing it to Coppell & the 11 Players.

[shadesrwrf]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long.

Do you really believe that?! Don't you remember what happened after the Bolton playofff defeat when the Chairman led an economy drive and we saw the immediate break up of a very good team. Indeed, if you listen to Quinn and Gooding, prior to reaching Wembley they were pleading to be allowed to strengthen the squad but their pleas fell on deaf ears. As a consequence we arrived a the playoff final with a couple of key players missing through injury, at least one playing with an injury and insufficient quality in the squad to replace them.

Do you think the Chairman will learn any lessons from what is happening now? My personal view is that failure at this point may well make him even more stubborn in his views and his (IMO) misguided belief and determination that he can work outside the usual football system and achieve success through a completely different approach to everyone else.

Unless the Chairman changes his views and approach I am absolutely convinced that we will stand no chance whatsoever of bouncing back in the short term. Furthermore fans will become extremely disillusioned as they are again told that they have to pay a very significant percentage of their disposable income for season tickets/tickets in order to finance strengthening our squad etc. In short, the fans will be the ones who ended up paying in every way for the failure of the management.

Enjoy the ride, I will not. Nor, I suspect, will many others.

You and I view our club's history very differently. I too remember what happened after the '95 play-off defeat. The club moved from a dilapidated ground to a great big shiny new one, fit for Premiership football. And over a number of years it strengthened and made its way into the greatest league in the world. It stayed there for two seasons, and although it's looking unlikely at the moment, it could be more. The knee-jerkers here will tell you it's the end of the world. Personally I prefer to see it as a temporary blip like so many we've witnessed before. You can choose to get upset about it or you can choose to accept that supporting a football team comes with both its highs and its lows, its frustrations and its delights. But never forget that it is football. Yes, I spend a considerable amount of my income on Reading Football Club but I never for one minute think that in doing so I am owed anything by it. If I were to do so I would risk insanity and football is a release from all the other tensions in my life, not a source of additional concern.

I'll say it once again. Enjoy the ride.

[West Stand Flash]

Do you know what? I'm glad none of the doom-mongers round here are in charge of the club. It would have folded long ago. A few bad results and you're losing all sense of perspective.

How many people honestly expected us to stay up last season? We've managed two seasons, and we're not down yet. If we do go down I have every confidence we'll be back before long.

Do you really believe that?! Don't you remember what happened after the Bolton playofff defeat when the Chairman led an economy drive and we saw the immediate break up of a very good team. Indeed, if you listen to Quinn and Gooding, prior to reaching Wembley they were pleading to be allowed to strengthen the squad but their pleas fell on deaf ears. As a consequence we arrived a the playoff final with a couple of key players missing through injury, at least one playing with an injury and insufficient quality in the squad to replace them.

Do you think the Chairman will learn any lessons from what is happening now? My personal view is that failure at this point may well make him even more stubborn in his views and his (IMO) misguided belief and determination that he can work outside the usual football system and achieve success through a completely different approach to everyone else.

Unless the Chairman changes his views and approach I am absolutely convinced that we will stand no chance whatsoever of bouncing back in the short term. Furthermore fans will become extremely disillusioned as they are again told that they have to pay a very significant percentage of their disposable income for season tickets/tickets in order to finance strengthening our squad etc. In short, the fans will be the ones who ended up paying in every way for the failure of the management.

Enjoy the ride, I will not. Nor, I suspect, will many others.

You and I view our club's history very differently. I too remember what happened after the '95 play-off defeat. The club moved from a dilapidated ground to a great big shiny new one, fit for Premiership football. And over a number of years it strengthened and made its way into the greatest league in the world. It stayed there for two seasons, and although it's looking unlikely at the moment, it could be more. The knee-jerkers here will tell you it's the end of the world. Personally I prefer to see it as a temporary blip like so many we've witnessed before. You can choose to get upset about it or you can choose to accept that supporting a football team comes with both its highs and its lows, its frustrations and its delights. But never forget that it is football. Yes, I spend a considerable amount of my income on Reading Football Club but I never for one minute think that in doing so I am owed anything by it. If I were to do so I would risk insanity and football is a release from all the other tensions in my life, not a source of additional concern.

I'll say it once again. Enjoy the ride.

Enjoy the ride? Jesus you are the type of fans Reading don't lead. YOU DONT LOOK BACK IN FOOTBALL. Football is all about striving to bigger & better things. Staying up for 2 f*cking seasons without strengthening the side, with Madejski lying to every fan who bought a season ticket is not good enough.

If you are going to go down, then go down fighting. The pathetic Management at our club had given up before the season started.

Take 135 years to get somewhere, stay for 2 seasons then never get back....? Enjoy the ride? Piss off.