Who do you want in the Semi final (FA Cup)

[Melton Royal]

How can anyone mins about that draw. Jesus...what a chance on Monday to get to Wembley, a brilliant day out and football to watch too.

its a shit day out and then we lose. That's how it works.

And crap beer at £5 a paper cup - it can get no worse

[melonhead]

beat parky in the QF
avenge the Carling cup debacle Vs arsenal in the SF
revenge on Rodgers in the final

Called on 20th Feb



Mystic melons

Believe people, believe

[Avon Royal]

How can anyone mins about that draw. Jesus...what a chance on Monday to get to Wembley, a brilliant day out and football to watch too.

its a shit day out and then we lose. That's how it works.

Exactly.

When scoping a "brilliant day out", watching my team get torn a new one doesn't figure too highly on the list of priorities.

[leon]

How can anyone mins about that draw. Jesus...what a chance on Monday to get to Wembley, a brilliant day out and football to watch too.

its a shit day out and then we lose. That's how it works.

Exactly.

When scoping a "brilliant day out", watching my team get torn a new one doesn't figure too highly on the list of priorities.

In a north london shithole

[Niko]

beat parky in the QF
avenge the Carling cup debacle Vs arsenal in the SF
revenge on Rodgers in the final

Called on 20th Feb



Mystic melons

Believe people, believe

But... we haven't done any of those things?

[Ian Royal]

The possibility of Sanchez vs Pearce.

[gdroyal]

Yeah its a bad draw but what is all this about saying Monday does not matter now. Unless you have been supporting Reading for almost 90 years, this is the first and possibly the last time you will ever see Reading play in the semi final of the FA Cup. Monday is huge, it will create history for the club if we were to win even if we get beat in the semi's. I'm pretty sure most of us would have taken getting to the 5th round back in January, so you should be pretty chuffed that we've got the best chance since 1927 of making it to the semi's.

[Martin41]

How can anyone mins about that draw. Jesus...what a chance on Monday to get to Wembley, a brilliant day out and football to watch too.

its a shit day out and then we lose. That's how it works.

Exactly.

When scoping a "brilliant day out", watching my team get torn a new one doesn't figure too highly on the list of priorities.

Don't go then......

[melonhead]

beat parky in the QF
avenge the Carling cup debacle Vs arsenal in the SF
revenge on Rodgers in the final

Called on 20th Feb



Mystic melons

Believe people, believe

But... we haven't done any of those things?

BELIEVE DAMMIT

[Royalclapper]

Bradford are welcome to it.

It'll be like being back in the PL i.e. paying shed loads of money to sit there and watch your team provide
someone else with their glory.

[Davezk]

Gutted to draw Arsenal.

No doubt we'll have some pr1cks in our end as well if we do make it through.

Nothing worse than gloating, cheering fans sat next to us.

[blythspartan]

Rumour has it Arsenal are delighted with this draw.

If we beat Bradford in the replay, it will be a fantastic achievement for us to get the semi final of the FA cup.

I for one will go and enjoy the day without the pressure of it being a play off final.

I just hope that even if we get absolutely battered, we go and make some serious noise throughout the entire game and make it a complete party.

Win or fcuking lose will I ever get the chance to see Reading in an FA cup semi final again in my lifetime?? No.........

[Avon Royal]

Don't go then......

Got nothing to do with going or not - just hate all the "brilliant day out" crap. It's the same with Play-Off finals, they aren't "brilliant days out", they are horrible unless you win (I assume winning them is good). If we get there I'll go and suffer, and get drunk, and moan about the day trippers and sulk for a week when we inevitably lose.

It's the Reading way.

[Sutekh]

Really don't care about the cup now, I know we'd never win it but to get the one team we've never even got a draw out of is just typical. At least if we'd got any of the others there would be just a smidgen of hope. Oh well at least defeat to Bradford would save us another embarrassing scoreline against them.

And of the 12 previous games the best we've actually done us that league cup embarrassment a couple of years ago, at least we had them at 4-4 after 90 minutes....

1935 FA5 (h) lost 0-1
1967 LC3 (a) lost 0-1
1971 FA4 (h) lost 1-2 (Arsenal went on to beat Liverpool in the final.....)
1987 FA3 (h) lost 1-3
2005 LC5 (a) lost 0-3
2006 PL (h) lost 0-4
2007 PL (a) lost 1-2
2007 PL (h) lost 1-3
2008 PL (a) lost 0-2
2012 LC5 (h) lost 5-7
2012 PL (h) lost 2-5
2013 PL (a) lost 1-4

So that's played 12 lost 12, for 12 against 37. So the average scoreline against them is a 3-1 defeat.

And for you superstitious people out there, the next game we play v Arsenal will be our THIRTEENTH attempt to beat them (or at least not to lose)

Mind you what a game to cause an upset in it would be......

[bradfordbantam]

We are chuffed with the draw, because we believe!!!! Oh and we are a bit bloody nuts.......seriously though they are beatable. If we can get past you guys we genuinely believe we can beat them. If we get beat 10 nil, so what? No shame in that against a world class side, if they lose to us though.......again.......squeaky bum time!!

We got hammered 5-0 by Swansea, we still made a day of it, cheer up you miserable lot!

[Ian Royal]

Don't go then......

Got nothing to do with going or not - just hate all the "brilliant day out" crap. It's the same with Play-Off finals, they aren't "brilliant days out", they are horrible unless you win (I assume winning them is good). If we get there I'll go and suffer, and get drunk, and moan about the day trippers and sulk for a week when we inevitably lose.

It's the Reading way.

It's less bad if you rock up expecting to lose. Marginally.

[tidus_mi2]

While I'm not optimistic of getting past Arsenal (if we get there), God I'd love to wipe the smug grins off their stupid faces thinking they're already in the final.

[bradfordbantam]

While I'm not optimistic of getting past Arsenal (if we get there), God I'd love to wipe the smug grins off their stupid faces thinking they're already in the final.

That's the spirit!

[Winchester Royal]

We are chuffed with the draw, because we believe!!!! Oh and we are a bit bloody nuts.......seriously though they are beatable. If we can get past you guys we genuinely believe we can beat them. If we get beat 10 nil, so what? No shame in that against a world class side, if they lose to us though.......again.......squeaky bum time!!

We got hammered 5-0 by Swansea, we still made a day of it, cheer up you miserable lot!

That's not really how it works round here.

[Davezk]

We are chuffed with the draw, because we believe!!!! Oh and we are a bit bloody nuts.......seriously though they are beatable. If we can get past you guys we genuinely believe we can beat them. If we get beat 10 nil, so what? No shame in that against a world class side, if they lose to us though.......again.......squeaky bum time!!

We got hammered 5-0 by Swansea, we still made a day of it, cheer up you miserable lot!

Our record vs Arsenal is nothing short of diabolical. Also a L1 team getting hammered is to be expected. Championship clubs will put up a fight but we will roll over as per normal.