Schards#2Royal With CheeseSchards#2 Going to have to disagree there, it's been the dullest season for several years. As for inspiring.......please
Would you accept that you might not best positioned to judge given that I understand you haven't witnessed a kick of it?
Just so that no one is in any doubt I've seen all the full games on Sky which, by your own admission, actually gives me a better view to judge a game and I've been to the game against Wolves. With a young family and living in Belfast I'm not in a position to come over as often as I would like. I've also listened to all the other games on Reading World but will heartily conceed that this is far from ideal for making a cohesive judgement.
I'm still confused. You've already changed your view on wether it's been a dull season TWICE. I have remained constant in my assertion that the season is far from dull. I don't have to be at any games to know that this is the case.
If your criteria for not being dull is the 106 point season then I would suggest you are living in cloud cuckoo land. That was a freak season and will never be repeated. If your criteria for not being dull is just missing out on Europe than, again, that is not going to be a position I feel we will be in for a considerable length of time.
Bearing this in mind, I return to the central theme which is that the season is dull. As it stands we are still in with a good chance of automatic promotion in what looks like a 4 horse race (IF Cardiff win all their games in hand) for promotion. If you think that's dull then I fear supporting Reading is not for you. I can't think of anything more exciting.
As for uninspiring - name me a team in the Championship that has remined consistantly insipiring. Swansea? Not at the start of the season? Burnley? Not at the moment. Cardiff? See Swansea. Birmingham and Wolves? Not exactly pulling up any trees at the moment.
So I'm not prepared to conceed the season, or supporting Reading, is dull at the moment. That's just not true. Uninspiring? I can't remember the last time I went to a football match and was inspired I'm not even sure that's relevant.
I'm still, however, struggling with the following statement:Schards#2 I think we need to get used to mid table championship football at the very best until there is a sea change at this club.
No matter what spin I try an put on this and no matter what the semantics are it's a pretty objective statement. There's no wiggle room. It means what it means. Being as generous as I can, It's looking wrong. Even if we keep our recent bad for up we will more than likely reach the playoffs. That, my friend, is not mid table. I don't even need to be on the same planet as you let alone at a football match for 90 minutes to realise that.
I think it's best if we leave it at that.
Seeing as you are so interested, obsessed some might say. I would define dull and being bored to death, which I have been for the majority of games this season.
As for uninspiring, we are uninspiring. The fact that no one else is this dross filled division is inspiring does not make us any more inspiring.
When someone predicts what things might be like going forward, I don't think generally, they anticipate what they said things will be like, to be exactly that in every single game. It's a generalisation. In November I accepted that , at that point, it hadn't been dull, (despite your insistance that I have never admitted being wrong about anything, which is it?), in Feb, I can say that the season as a whole has been dull.
As for mid table in the championship, in the long term, that is where we will end up without the investment that has already been ruled out. If we get there via a season of humiliation in the premiership, so be it but without investment that's where we are going.
Finally, I don't care why you don't go to games, I just know that you can't judge what's dull or not unless it's live on TV which the vast majority aren't. But if you don't believe me, take a gander at few other threads.
Schards changing the goalposts yet again
Any more crystal ball gazing from you and i would be tempted to rename you russell grant's alter ego. You deal in so many if,buts and maybes its untrue and constantly back track and add new meanings to your huge texts of self imposed 'opinions'. For these reasons i dont think you are much of a credible force on HNA. For the record, a team recently demoted from the premier league and still challenging for promotion isn't going backwards in my book (take charlton,norwich.,qpr after they were relegated).What next, are we going to have a list of Schards told you so's previewing the next three seasons and claiming victory by trawling through posts and posts of inference.....
