by SCIAG »
15 Mar 2018 14:31
Victor Meldrew SCIAG He's completely opposed to the philosophy of the club and he's spent over a decade encouraging his players to injure ours and getting himself sent off. I'd stop considering myself a Reading supporter if he became manager. I'd rather we were relegated twice under Stam than doing a Leicester under Warnock.
Would you mind explaining "the philosophy of the club".
Is it currently to do your best to get relegated without so much of a fight so that we can start again and win a few games in the 3rd division of English football when last season, apart from trying not to get promoted at Wembley, it looked as though everybody was trying to achieve promotion?
Of course not, what a ridiculous post. Philosophy has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with approach. I think it's rather silly to suggest that anyone is deliberately trying to get relegated.
I would characterise the "Reading way" as being family orientated, valuing sportsmanship and fair play, investing in the community, and playing a progressive style of football. We are not the epitome of any of those things, we fail at most of them regularly, and in no sense are we the only club to have any of those values or even that combination of values, but they've been a fairly consistent part of our ethos for 15-20 years.
Neil Warnock would be detrimental to all those values. Although I thought his QPR and Palace sides were able to play some good football thanks largely to Moses and Taarabt, his last few teams have been bruisers and hoofmerchants. He is a nasty little man with no self-control, a dreadful temperament, and minimal integrity. He is a stain upon every club that hires him, and we shouldn't go anywhere near him. It's embarrassing that people are even considering it.