Chelsea friendly arranged

[Dan - B15 Royal]

Reading v Chelsea, Madejski Stadium - Saturday 1st August 2009, 3pm kick-off. News is on the Chelsea site, link is as follows:
http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNew ... 28,00.html

[Silver Fox]

Fortunately I'll be on holiday then

[AJ~]

Brendan Rodgers using his contacts already.

[rg6royal]

Good friendly to have but I just hope we don't get battered as it's a week before the Championship season starts.

[Ian Royal]

LOL at those whining about us having a tour of sweden and game against Didcot and something meaningless against Millwall as our only friendlies

We always get a decent club in for at least one. The only time we haven't got a prem club in in reent years was when we WERE a prem club iirc.

How often do you play a friendly against a team in your own league.

[Royalee]

Brendan Rodgers using his contacts already.

I must admit that's what I thought as soon as I saw it - good news.

[loyalroyal4life]

Brendan Rodgers using his contacts already.

I must admit that's what I thought as soon as I saw it - good news.

royalee are you content with rodgers being appointed?

[boy1985]

How often do you play a friendly against a team in your own league.

we played Coventry in one towards the end of last season iirc

[hughsies no.1]

wow i really cant wait to be sitting in my seat surrounded by reading (chelsea) fans and all of the press cech is going to get coming back to the mad stad. cant stand pre season friendlys unless there at didcot . club will make a few bob though so good for them but im sure it will be a sell out and a week later if we play blackpool at home it will be half empty...

OUT

[Royalee]

Brendan Rodgers using his contacts already.

I must admit that's what I thought as soon as I saw it - good news.

royalee are you content with rodgers being appointed?

Yep.

[boy1985]

royalee are you content with rodgers being appointed?

Yep.

Could this not have been done by PM?

[Royalee]

royalee are you content with rodgers being appointed?

Yep.

Could this not have been done by PM?

Nope

[Mad Dog's Ghost]

Attendance prediction - 16k (7k Chelsea)

[handbags_harris]

Couldn't have chosen a worse club IMO. This is the first time in years that I have considered not going to the pre-season main event. It's even worse than last season when, 6 and 7 months after being soundly beaten by them in the league, we get Villa as our "prestigious" main pre-season event. How to add insult to injury.

[Sarah Star]

Couldn't have chosen a worse club IMO. This is the first time in years that I have considered not going to the pre-season main event. It's even worse than last season when, 6 and 7 months after being soundly beaten by them in the league, we get Villa as our "prestigious" main pre-season event. How to add insult to injury.

Who were you hoping for, out of interest?

[floyd__streete]

This is excellent news. I will be in Dorset that weekend.

[handbags_harris]

Couldn't have chosen a worse club IMO. This is the first time in years that I have considered not going to the pre-season main event. It's even worse than last season when, 6 and 7 months after being soundly beaten by them in the league, we get Villa as our "prestigious" main pre-season event. How to add insult to injury.

Who were you hoping for, out of interest?

Anyone BUT Chelsea.

I'd like to see us going back to having relatively big names in European football coming to the Madejski. Surely it wouldn't be too much to ask a team like, say, Atletico Madrid, PSV, Fiorentina etc to come to the Madejski. We did it with Feyenoord, why not some others?

[brendywendy]

we were about to be a premiere league team then

i doubt theyd be interested any more

[Focher]

i dont give a flying f about pre season (apart from Didcot away of course)

[Alan Partridge]

i dont give a flying f about pre season (apart from Didcot away of course)

Reading's cup final every season