All fans coming to Portman Road on Tuesday

[ITFC_Keane]

Be warned that there is likely to be roadworks on the A12 up to Copdock (Tesco) roundabout that evening. If you're driving up via M25/A12, you could be held up for a bit. Typical ruddy Highways Agency sham sadly.

[ITFC_Keane]

Oh, and also be warned that we beat Cardiff tonight and are on a bit of a roll under Paul Jesus. So don't go thinking that we're another mediocre Championship team who'll roll over in your dogged pursuit of a play-off place

[Ian Royal]

Full expect you to turn us over. You usually bloody do at Portman Road it seems.

[ITFC_Keane]

True Ian, although we haven't always had it our own way in this fixture. You have turned us comprehensively over a few seasons ago 3-0 here.

Talking to my fellow Town fans last Saturday, they were dreading this game more than the Cardiff one tonight.

Hope you've already bought your tickets btw. £36 on the door for away fans on the night. We're all ashamed and embarrassed.

[SLAMMED]

It does make me laugh that Ipswich charge £36 for a ticket and yet Man City are only charging £15 for adults

[ITFC_Keane]

Doesn't make me laugh Slammed. Doesn't make me laugh.

Makes me sick that we've become another Premier wannabe club with ideas above our perch. Our purported cheapest ST were we to make the promised land of the Prem btw is £800. It's currently £452 (for adults obviously. Kids and OAPs and students get it cheaper).

And we're supposed to be reducing our wage bill next season 'cos Keane (the useless bleeder) spent too much. He'll back Jewell to land his targets (supposedly Billy Sharp, Danny Graham, a right back and another midfielder) but Connor Wickham could be on his way to pay for it. Great.

[Jackson Corner]

£452!!!!!!!!! £36 On the day!!!!!!!!!! For Championship football? Christ I am amazed anyone goes at those prices. I won't moan about our prices again.

[TheRouge]

True Ian, although we haven't always had it our own way in this fixture. You have turned us comprehensively over a few seasons ago 3-0 here.

Talking to my fellow Town fans last Saturday, they were dreading this game more than the Cardiff one tonight.

Hope you've already bought your tickets btw. £36 on the door for away fans on the night. We're all ashamed and embarrassed.

That 0-3 game at you place is in my opinion the best Reading performance ever. Doyle and Lita were in perfect harmony and little, murty and Shorey all looked like rivellino..

[Royal Rother]

£36 for Championship football. That's extraordinary.

[Gordons Cumming]

Be warned that there is likely to be roadworks on the A12 up to Copdock (Tesco) roundabout that evening. If you're driving up via M25/A12, you could be held up for a bit. Typical ruddy Highways Agency sham sadly.

Time to change your username?

[fireman_jules]

£36 ???!!! That is absolutely rediculous. I was going to go to this one as I live in woodbridge but im not now. Not paying that rediculous price !!!

[Barry the bird boggler]

True Ian, although we haven't always had it our own way in this fixture. You have turned us comprehensively over a few seasons ago 3-0 here.

And we usually pay for it. To me it seems we win one game at Portman Road then go another 5 visits struggling to score a goal or grimly trying to hang on for a point - and given the inexcusably pathetic performances Reading have have dished up on their last two visits I struggle to see it being any different on Tuesday (esp. with our defensive crisis that sees us down to our last two experienced centre backs, no right back and a rookie keeper).

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Doesn't make me laugh Slammed. Doesn't make me laugh.

Makes me sick that we've become another Premier wannabe club with ideas above our perch. Our purported cheapest ST were we to make the promised land of the Prem btw is £800. It's currently £452 (for adults obviously. Kids and OAPs and students get it cheaper).

And we're supposed to be reducing our wage bill next season 'cos Keane (the useless bleeder) spent too much. He'll back Jewell to land his targets (supposedly Billy Sharp, Danny Graham, a right back and another midfielder) but Connor Wickham could be on his way to pay for it. Great.

Out of interest, a number of fans (who seem to think they are the majority, but aren't) are absolutely livid that Madejski isn't pumping in millions of his own money, or just budgeting was beyond income, in a quest for success.

As your chairman seems to think nothing of posting consecutive £12 million losses, what's the view among Ipswich fans of that approach to running a club.

[Riseley]

True Ian, although we haven't always had it our own way in this fixture. You have turned us comprehensively over a few seasons ago 3-0 here.

Talking to my fellow Town fans last Saturday, they were dreading this game more than the Cardiff one tonight.

Hope you've already bought your tickets btw. £36 on the door for away fans on the night. We're all ashamed and embarrassed.

That 0-3 game at you place is in my opinion the best Reading performance ever. Doyle and Lita were in perfect harmony and little, murty and Shorey all looked like rivellino..

A great evening made perfect by my meeting The Rouge if I remember correctly.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Oi Oi Riseley, used to drink with a Pompey fan I hear? Slim ring any bells?

[SpaceCruiser]

£36 ???!!! That is absolutely rediculous. I was going to go to this one as I live in woodbridge but im not now. Not paying that rediculous price !!!

Yes, absolutely ridiculous.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

£36.00. Does that include a three course pre-match meal and a courtesy program?

[handbags_harris]

£31 is bad enough (as I posted on the other thread, with no competition for supporters in Ipswich and Norwich the East Anglian bastards can charge a hefty premium for their tickets and do so with absolutely no shame either), but £36 on the day? Jesus, I complained about Norwich being expensive but Ipswich take the piss. Hardly worth it given that we're almost certainly going to be oxf*rd over in one way or another. From memory, Mihailov, Legg, Bernal, Viveash, Shorey and Mills have all been sent off in our last 9 games at Portman Road, whether deserved or undeserved, so we're always good for a sending off there. And we've lost 5 of those games as well, and drawn the Jim Magilton game. We're generally competitive at least there, but Reading's luck is invariably out wherever we go in East Anglia.

[Big Foot]

£31 is bad enough (as I posted on the other thread, with no competition for supporters in Ipswich and Norwich the East Anglian bastards can charge a hefty premium for their tickets and do so with absolutely no shame either), but £36 on the day? Jesus, I complained about Norwich being expensive but Ipswich take the piss. Hardly worth it given that we're almost certainly going to be oxf*rd over in one way or another. From memory, Mihailov, Legg, Bernal, Viveash, Shorey and Mills have all been sent off in our last 9 games at Portman Road, whether deserved or undeserved, so we're always good for a sending off there. And we've lost 5 of those games as well, and drawn the Jim Magilton game. We're generally competitive at least there, but Reading's luck is invariably out wherever we go in East Anglia.

^ This

Will listen to the radio

[RAF Royal]

First things first - thanks to ITFC_Keane for coming on another team's board and behaving like a grown-up instead of some of the idiot posts you see by 'visitors' elsewhere. Good heads up - on traffic and ticket prices.

Second - sat and watched Ipswich on TV with one of their fans last night. He seemed to think that they are run in an 'odd' way financially. Apparently not breaking the bank on wages, but lots of players out of contract in the summer and available on freebies, despite having attracted 6 or 7-figure fees to go there in the first place. Rumours of many of them already negotiating with other clubs - as they are allowed to, once January is over. Seems there's no obvious way to run a club 'sensibly'.

Oh ... yes. Great result for them last night, but I wasn't that impressed. Certainly not in the first half where they lacked creativity and decent ball skills (pitch didn't help). Given our recent form my optimism is high - which is why we'll lose 2-0!