Taking Stock : Chairman [a brief history]

[superreadingfan]

Hello and welcome to Taking Stock, the official superreadingfan series of threads to hold super reading fans over this off season. Over the series we will look at various parts of the club, players, management, ownership, etc of Reading FC. This is to help hold us rabid fans until the start of the new season, feel free to critique, add, review, comment on any issue regarding fans.



Robert John Hurst was born in the 40s made some money doing plumbing under a polish name he chose to get more business, he kept his adopted surname madejski when he started up a classified paper to sell cars. he sold autotrader got some money which he pocketed and spent the rest buying reading fc. The fans were happy about being taken over by this mega millionaire which was unheard of in football times. unknowingly to the fans he wasnt planning on investing much in the club. while the fans were jizzing themself silly about the prospect of signing footballing legends ruel fox and emile heskey joining the ranks, and thinking it was only a matter of time until reading hit the dizzy heights of premier league football. little did they know the truth.



unfortunately for the fans of reading fc events didnt transpire in the way they thought. madejski sold off the home of reading fc for over 100 years to build a b&q and taco bell. doing everything on the cheap he decided to buy a landfill closer to pingewood than reading. what purpose of this landfill? to build a generic stadium. is this what the middle class of reading fc deserve? to be uprooted from their home and moved to an unslightly trading estate?

no13 Reading fans everywhere had enough



Madejski/Hurst had to act quick. He phone up all the contacts he knew and set up STAR (Supporters Trust at Reading), a group of pro-Madejski militants set up to calm the fans down and also reassure madejski he is brilliant and amazing at everything. STAR has done little since becoming in existence, usually farting around about some game played in china or standing up in a stadium.



in 2005-2006 we finally made it to the premier league after buying the league with bringing in star players Leroy Lita and Michael Dobson. Other clubs around us were jealous of our money but we didn't care. We were in the premier league. First year in the premier league Madejski was very conservative.. purchasing "white lines" halford, "sulky" kyheon, "dumbshit" duberry, and "win the league with" peter mate.



from this day on to even today begins the time when madejski wants to sell the club. unfortunately for most billionaires they are not interested in buying some shit stadium on a rubbish tip in a trading estate.



the premier league years was a great time for false reading fans as they had the chance to see their premier league teams beat reading at the madejski which filled them with pride. jizzing themselves watching arsenal batter reading at home. with the prospect of european football on the cards it was up to madejski to make sure we didn't make it as he didnt want to pay anyone more than league one wages. a-we-deserve-our-money-back 0-0 against watford with reserves was the straw that broke the camels back.



the downward spiral begins here. new season begins with even more shitty buys with the few pence coppell was gifted. shit buys like "look at me" leroy rosenoir and "immense" fae could not help the royals stay up. the game was up and by the end of the season reading were relegated.



i don't remember much from the season after that because like most reading fans we were too busy watching arsenal, chelsea, manu, and liverpool dreaming of life in the premier league. i think brandon rogers was manager but he was able to do much for reading and was sacked after a few months. then like most things madejski gets one of his old guards in and mcdermot has been in charge. should have been sacked for not getting us up but madejski has expressed many times he does not want to go up.



so here we are today.. not much ambition, not much money left and not much hope for a future of reading under madejski. we can only hope that someone purchases reading fc with a tonne of money and sends us back where we belong like we did before.

[handbags_harris]

Fishing much???

[starbug]

Good story. I particularly like the part where he takes a nothing club from the lower divisions, trebles the attendances in a new stadium while the team consistently challenges for the Prem, all without significant debt. Romans eh...

[Red]

You're a bit harsh on STAR - they have done much to lighten the load of the PR department at the Mad Stad.

[Hampshire Royal]

I think the bit superdickhead wrote about being dragged screaming from our 'home' to move to the new stadium close to the A33was the best bit. How dare he, eh? Me I miss my socks and trousers smelling of that Oh So sweet odour of piss on rainy days. I also miss not being able to moan at JM for keeping us in a miniature stadium after we got to the PL thus ensuring that we returned to our true level (Div 3/4) - if we were lucky.

Keep this stuff up - it's great to read 'serious' stuff written by someone who's nearly as clever as my dog.

[Woodcote Royal]

Once upon a time we were little Reading but when you can sell 40,000 tickets for one fixture, attracting a few thick pr*cks along the way goes with the territory.

[retro royal]

Seem to remember us taking 40,000 to wembley before Madejski arrived

[Woodcote Royal]

I don't

[Red]

Before your time Woodcote

[superreadingfan]

Sorry I only started being a superreadingfan in 2006-2007 so most of what i gathered on history before then was from third party sources

[RoyalBlue]

Good story. I particularly like the part where he takes a nothing club from the lower divisions, trebles the attendances in a new stadium while the team consistently challenges for the Prem, all without significant debt. Romans eh...

Perhaps they also indulged in a bit too much toga cutting!

[Sir Dodger Royal]

The end of the story has yet to materialise. The Madman having lost his marbles during his time with RFC and sees his business empire crash and having milked every last penny out of Reading FC he goes bust and cuts and runs to Malaysia.

The Club is saved by another local benefactor for a £1 after talks of merging with Aldershot Town and moving to the Recreation Ground. There is grand talk of investing for the future and hopes of gaining promotion to the Premiership. However within three years we are on the verge of relegation to the Sir Dodger Pizza League. At that time only the bottom part of the East Stand is open for matches and only the RTG's turn up and Hampshire Royal is still spouting bo***cks from his pulpit and the rest of ground is covered in moss.

But things could have been different if the Madman had retained his marbles and invested in RFC whilst we were in the Premiership.

SDR spot on as usual. You know it makes sensse. Get real or else you all truly be Dodgeredddddddddddd

Have an SDR day.

[Ark Royal]

Jeez, SRF and SDR talking complete bollocks in the same thread.

Duocunts.

[Hampshire Royal]

Oh, the Arsehole's back!! Nice to read somebody you can really feel superior to while reading the bollocks he writes. By the way, shithead, did you mean to write bollocks, but wrote bo***cks because you didn't know how to spell it? It figures.

By the way, your wife isn't as good a shag as mine - believe me.

[Red]

Is this a "Once you've gone black you'll never go back" sort of thing Hants

[zummerset]

^lols

[Hampshire Royal]

It's nothing to do with my missus being black, I know a lot of black women I wouldn't touch with yours. I'll tell you the story of how I met Dodger's wife. I went to a fair in Liphook one Sunday and was strolling around when I heard a 'Psssst'. I turned round and saw this niceish lady who said 'Do you want to do business for £50?'. I just smiled and said 'No thanks'. She said 'OK then £100'. I saw that she was wearing a wedding ring and said 'What about your husband?'. She just turned and pointed at the bouncy castle where there was this rather overweight bloke bouncing around. She said that he'd be on there for hours yet. Anyway, she gave me the £100 and we did the business. We were talking afterwards and she said that her husband had a few problems in the sexual area, and was always finding some way to dodge her advances, so much so that she called him Dodger.

This was all before I'd met the current wife.

[Royal Lady]

Well, the original post made me LOL.


LOL @ Woodcote btw!

In fact, the 40,000 for the Simod Cup and almost 25 years later the 40,000 at the Play Off final rather shows that that is our limit when it comes to attracting day-trippers.

[Coppell's Right Footed 11]

Well, the original post made me LOL.


LOL @ Woodcote btw!

In fact, the 40,000 for the Simod Cup and almost 25 years later the 40,000 at the Play Off final rather shows that that is our limit when it comes to attracting day-trippers.

Its a limit due to the allocation we had been given?

We could have sold over 40,000 for the playoff final easily had the tickets been available. 34,000 sold before General Sale....

[Royal Lady]

Maybe, but there were hardly 1,000s of people complaining they couldn't get a ticket. Anyway, my point was more a LOL at Woodcote thinking that's the first time we got 40,000.