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[Big Ern]

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

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Agree 100%

Those who thought we would come up0 and become established are misguided. We have a few more relegationd and promotions before that happens.

Just look atthe teams who have sopent the last few years going up and down such as Brum, Sunderland etc. All of them bigger clubs than us with greater spending power.

Problem is, considering the clubs reluctance to spend money, and the fact that the team will be decimated with players leaving when we do go down, getting promoted again at the first attempt will be a huge challenge. Just look at Sheff Utd now (although they do have Bryan Robson as Manager) and Norwich a couple fo seasons ago when they went down.

[Millsy]

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.

You were about to join my foes list but what you say here shockingly resonates with me. I'll keep you as a non-foe for now.

I of course will have enjoyed the ride if we do go down, but right now there's no way I'm even contemplating that. As far as I'm concerned we're here to stay. If we go down it will certainly be fighting!

I don't want to hear another word of "enjoy the [flipping] ride". The ride is still happening. We're still here, and if I've got anything to do with it, we're going to flipping well stay here.

We're the oldest club in the top flight. We've technically more history than all these newboy f*ckers. WE BELONG HERE.

[Big Ern]

. We've technically more history than all these newboy f*ckers. WE BELONG HERE.

You are a Wolves supporter and AICMFP

[brendywendy]

Trying their best and playing their best are two very different things. I think some players are overtrying, getting over anxious and making silly mistakes. I never get the feeling players aren't trying (not like I often did with Seol, for example). We need to get back the free-flowing instinctive football of two seasons ago. That team looked as though they didn't need to try.

spot on

hence why weve looked much better against the big teams, when the pressure is off.
i think the nerves finally got to them on saturday, trying too hard, which is why things looked forced, and never came off.
but hey this is reading, never a smooth ride.

[shadesrwrf]

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.

Is the infantile whining and abuse really necessary? I would probablly have more resepct for your opinion if you could be civil.

Where exactly did I say we would never get back? IF we go down I will expect the club to be doing it's best to get straight back up again, and if it takes a couple of seasons I'll be keeping the toys in my pram.

Anybody who honestly believed we were going to sail into the Premiership and stay there forever is at best deluded.

[brendywendy]

to get here at all was a great acheivement, one that many many teams will never experience, to stay here for two seasons was an even bigger acheivement, if we somehow manage three it will be massive for us.
but for a club the size we are, currently not backed by a "money no object chairman", to simply expect a hassle free unending premiere league stint is naive at best,
to expect us to have gone out and bought 5 players for 25 million was also not likely
and even if we did may not have had the effect we would wish for.

plus it aint all bad, i believe we have the players to get us out of this,
we just need to arrive at a system and style of play that fits the players.
teams would just go at us last year, due to who we were, and thats why we managed so many great results, this year the only teams to just go at us are the big 4, hence the difference in those games,
the rest tend to try and stifle our play and frustrate us, then hit us on the break, and it looks like its working.

and at the end of the day, if we do stay up,and i hope we do, ill be glad it was on a shoestring, and whatever happens the club will be much more secure than it was 4-5 years ago, and that has to be a good thing.

[comeonthebiscuitmen]

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.

People in looking for scapegoat shocker.

one thing i heard yesterday 'the linesman cost us the game' What a load of shit

Even if it was offside (which it wasn't) did we score? Did the liensman stop us from creating one decent chance all day?

The only people to blame for the shambles yesterday were the 11 on the field and the people who select them. They haven't been good enough for the first 20odd games and there is no reason to believe they will be good enough for the final 15.

Reality really hit home for a lot of people yesterday i'd have thought. Sadly some of us saw this months ago.

not good enough for 20 odd games?

We were shit against Liverpool weren't we?

The tide will turn. its easy to have a bad run - look at some of the fixtures. we will bounce back. flirting with danger is at least a bit exciting. who wants mid-table obscurity?

[West Stand Flash]

Is the infantile whining and abuse really necessary? I would probablly have more resepct for your opinion if you could be civil.

Where exactly did I say we would never get back? IF we go down I will expect the club to be doing it's best to get straight back up again, and if it takes a couple of seasons I'll be keeping the toys in my pram.

Anybody who honestly believed we were going to sail into the Premiership and stay there forever is at best deluded.

Yep OK I apologise for the 'whining & abuse'.

I am just sick of people saying we should be pleased to be here & look how far we have come. Of course it is a massive achievement for us to have got here, but why aren't we giving it a proper good go whilst we are here. Coppell has back tracked on his word so many times & keeps giving the 'I'll take it on my shoulders if it back fires.' Not being funny Coppell, but I couldn't give a flying f*ck what happens to you. The only thing that matters is Reading Football Club. You dicing with our Premiership survival based on loyalty to players is quite frankly a joke. The fact Hammond/Madejski have allowed this is even more ludicrous.

[Alan Partridge]

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.

People in looking for scapegoat shocker.

one thing i heard yesterday 'the linesman cost us the game' What a load of shit

Even if it was offside (which it wasn't) did we score? Did the liensman stop us from creating one decent chance all day?

The only people to blame for the shambles yesterday were the 11 on the field and the people who select them. They haven't been good enough for the first 20odd games and there is no reason to believe they will be good enough for the final 15.

Reality really hit home for a lot of people yesterday i'd have thought. Sadly some of us saw this months ago.

not good enough for 20 odd games?

We were shit against Liverpool weren't we?

The tide will turn. its easy to have a bad run - look at some of the fixtures. we will bounce back. flirting with danger is at least a bit exciting. who wants mid-table obscurity?

Take solice in that 1 game, Reading's big day.

Reading 0 West Ham 3
Reading 0 Bolton 2
bolton 3 Reading 0
Fulham 3 Reading 1
etc

Reading 17th and sinking. No they haven't been good enough.

[Platypuss]

I'd have been a lot happier had we lost 3-1 to Liverpool and beaten Bolton 2-0.

[Ozymandias]

Take solice in that 1 game, Reading's big day.

Reading 0 West Ham 3
Reading 0 Bolton 2
bolton 3 Reading 0
Fulham 3 Reading 1
etc

Reading 17th and sinking. No they haven't been good enough.

Bloddy hell, that's a cheery outlook, god forbid if any of our team read this board.

Very supportive.

[rfc58]

Take solice in that 1 game, Reading's big day.

Reading 0 West Ham 3
Reading 0 Bolton 2
bolton 3 Reading 0
Fulham 3 Reading 1
etc

Reading 17th and sinking. No they haven't been good enough.

Bloddy hell, that's a cheery outlook, god forbid if any of our team read this board.

Very supportive.

But its true though, it might be a glass is half empty attitude, but it still remains the truth.

[Ozymandias]

Take solice in that 1 game, Reading's big day.

Reading 0 West Ham 3
Reading 0 Bolton 2
bolton 3 Reading 0
Fulham 3 Reading 1
etc

Reading 17th and sinking. No they haven't been good enough.

Bloddy hell, that's a cheery outlook, god forbid if any of our team read this board.

Very supportive.

But its true though, it might be a glass is half empty attitude, but it still remains the truth.

I agree that it is the truth, just believe that if fans are thinking it, and voicing it, it will seep into the players, and then we are fecked.

[Alan Partridge]

Take solice in that 1 game, Reading's big day.

Reading 0 West Ham 3
Reading 0 Bolton 2
bolton 3 Reading 0
Fulham 3 Reading 1
etc

Reading 17th and sinking. No they haven't been good enough.

Bloddy hell, that's a cheery outlook, god forbid if any of our team read this board.

Very supportive.

But its true though, it might be a glass is half empty attitude, but it still remains the truth.

I agree that it is the truth, just believe that if fans are thinking it, and voicing it, it will seep into the players, and then we are fecked.[/quote]

If 'Alan Partridge on Hob Nob anyone?' is causing the players to not perform then I would have to question what they are doing as professional footballers anyway.

Having a view on here is totally different to what 20,000+ in a stadium are like, that's when it will possibly effect them. The vast majority of the crowd hasn't turned on them yet and they can't if Reading are to get out of it.

[Blue and White Toucan]

As bad as we played Saturday we will still pick up 18 points between now and the end of the season.

We will finish on 40pts and we will be 15th in the league.

Safety will be confirmed with a 1-1 draw at Wigan on April 26th.

Derby, Fulham and Birmingham will all go down.

[westendgirl]

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.

Maybe you need to have seen quite a few summers or had to suffer but this just about summarises for me why I am not about to slit my throat. Football is important but there are many more problems in life, and for most you can have a chance of influencing what happens whereas at football apart from singing your voice hoarse there is f*** all you can do to change things.

I am now and will in future enjoy the ride.

[LUX]

who wants mid-table obscurity?

Me

[fridaysback]

As bad as we played Saturday we will still pick up 18 points between now and the end of the season.

We will finish on 40pts and we will be 15th in the league.

Safety will be confirmed with a 1-1 draw at Wigan on April 26th.

Derby, Fulham and Birmingham will all go down.

and Laurel Park U14 Tornadoes will go on to win the Bundesliga ! No as awful as it was Saturday I agree but think 36 pts 16th.

[Forbury Lion]

Going down I can really only see freefall on the horizion and League 1 looming

Why?

Just a feeling, odds on it would be a new manager and new team, which would take time to gell. Even parachute payments would not help RFC because we would'nt spend them .

I bet they still put season ticket prices up and claim it's because there are more games in the Championship.

[Huntley & Palmer]

Trying their best and playing their best are two very different things. I think some players are overtrying, getting over anxious and making silly mistakes. I never get the feeling players aren't trying (not like I often did with Seol, for example). We need to get back the free-flowing instinctive football of two seasons ago. That team looked as though they didn't need to try.

We aren't being given the chance to play that football by the opposition like we did last season. Other teams have cottoned on to our tactics and methods, we don't seem to have adapted and refreshed our play with any new options. I think that is where we are going wrong