Barney Firstly, don't bother sending me pelters. Just hear me out.
This ain't a great season. We all agree on that. But for some folks to say it is the worst ever takes some questioning.
1) If you are reading this, and you have been watching RFC for around 10-15 years...then you have been EXTREMELY lucky.
2) If you are reading this and you go back around 20 years, then please remember the gut wrenching last season at Elm Park and the antics of Tommy Burns,
3) If you are reading this and you go back 30 years, you'll recall 1989 when we survived relegation to the fourth division on the last day of the season.
4) If you are reading this and you go back 40 years, you'll recall the 1977 relegation to Division 4.
5) And if you go back 50 years, then you will NEVER of even dreamed of Reading playing in the top flight, or regularly in the 2nd tier, or reaching an FA Cup semi final...and three FAC quarter-finals.
6) And if you go back longer than that, what you've seen with Reading FC is beyond what you EVER imagined.
As a season ticket holder for almost 40 years now, I am not enjoying this season. But I didn't enjoy Taxi boy. I didn't enjoy Tommy Burns, But as a READING fan you take the good times with the bad times.
I will never ever ever boycott a game, or stop going. Why would I ?? I am a Reading Football Club fan and have seen many many managers, and far more players. Some "fans" on here have no idea. I have had WAY more good times than bad times.
If you support your club, that is what it is all about. The dreadful times make the great times feel even better.
Maybe Stam should go. Quite probably, maybe the players should take a look at themselves.
Getting a new manager in now MAY be a nightmare. No transfer window to work in, and a team of poor-performing players.
My point is...I will (hopefully) be around watching Reading long past Stam, and the next manager, and the next manager. So please think who you are throwing your anger against. The club ? The management ? The players ?
And if you are REALLY blue and white through and through, then think about where you want RFC to be next season. And the season after that. And after that.
Am done. Another can of Speckled Hen please. And tell you what....I would LOVE it if we win on Tuesday, then batter Millwall on Saturday.
To summarise your points:
Not the worst season ever. Yeah quite possibly, but who cares it's irrelevant. We agree it's still sh*t.
Don't boycott. Rubbish. Fans can do what they want. You take the good with the bad, good for you. We all do, we don't stop becoming Reading fans. But don't insist that we have to give up our hard earned cash to watch stuff we hate. Totally fair to not turn if we feel like it.
Getting a new manager will be hard. Yep, probably. Should have gone before the transfer window. Have to make the best of a bad job I guess now.