Like a loveable pet Labrador approaching the end of it's life, Reading's life in the Premiership was finally put to sleep yesterday, with a another performance that typifies this woeful season. Both QPR and Reading proceeding in producing ninety minutes of abject rubbish that wouldn't be fit for division One yet alone the Championship. When you also consider the disgusting combined wages bill for the so called players on the pitch it really does hammer home what's so wrong with the game of football today as we know it. We deserve to go down of that there is no doubt, and in my opinion the fault and blame lies well and truly with John Madejski and his faceless board members who with breath taking naivety refused to invest in the club on two occasions we've been promoted. Yes JM made the club but he's also held the club back and his legacy will be one of double failure at the top level. He's a cloud hanging over the club and needs to go with grace before we move on. Will we be back in the Premiership ? Maybe in a few years but what's of no doubt is that the current crop of players would not get promotion next season , we need a good clear out and to start again. I for one am looking forward to the Championship, a proper football competition where we'll win more games, have more fun and play in a league where anybody can beat anybody. We're maybe a Yo-yo club and funnily enough this relegation doesn't even hurt, we've know it for many months. Roll on next season.
Nick Newbury

Obviously doesn't hurt as much as last time, but still sucks of course. I'm pretty nervous about next season to be honest. Heard a lot of people call/text into Berks saying we'll be back up next year, and even Anton expects this, but the way things are looking at the moment our squad could be stripped to the bare bones. There are players out of contract at the end of the season, players that have contracts and were favorites under Brian who are not getting a look in and obviously we have one or two players we could sell. It's going to be a massive rebuilding process over the summer, and I hope they back Nigel to bring in the players he wants.
BenSmith91

Awful, dull game. The only consolation being that QPR were worse than us and that's quite an achievement given the difference in spend between the two clubs. Adkins to borrow a phrase from the frothy mouthed mob "new improved style" basically consists of us playing a couple more passes in our own half than we did before and looking uncomfortable in doing so. At the other end, that's the end where you should be playing you football rather than what we're doing, the only creativity is coming from the wings which is the same situation as we were in under the previous regime.
sandman

In the end Reading and Queens Park Rangers conspired to put each other out of their misery. On a day when both knew that nothing less than a victory was needed to keep their faint hopes of avoiding relegation alive, all they could manage was the most humdrum of goalless draws. Devoid of ideas and playing without any real sense of urgency, it felt like both sets of players had no desire to prolong the agony...

The atmosphere in the closing moments here was strangely subdued. There were no fans pictured in tears at the final whistle, just an air of resignation among both sets of supporters that the inevitable had happened. A return to the Championship had been on the cards for weeks and this was merely a case of hammering the final nail into the coffin.
The Guardian

Reading and Queens Park Rangers slithered out of the Premier League yesterday, neither apparently able to muster the energy to survive. A victory would have kept one of them hanging on for a while longer, like a condemned criminal on Death Row, but a defeat or a draw spelt doom. They perished in mutual apathy.

The so-called Dead Men’s Derby at the Madejski Stadium lived up to its billing and made for grim viewing. Yet it encapsulated the weaknesses of the teams, the squads and the clubs. All were out of their depth among the elite. At least QPR lasted two seasons, Reading have made a swift return to Championship after just one campaign.

For much of the first half, Reading and QPR demonstrated exactly why they have plummeted over the past months. Where McDermott and Hughes failed, Adkins and Redknapp seem to have followed. It was a mish-mash of an offering, perhaps acceptable for mid-table in the Championship – where they could meet next season – but unpalatable in the Premier League.
The Independent