Very good new Couhig interview on YouTube which talks through the recruitment as well as Noel/Leam Difficult to argue with to be fair and very honest link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8I6sXSd0FUE Very interesting. Do feel that RC wanted to change manager when he took over b...

People keep harking back to a time when Managers were given 'time'... That's all well and good if the cost of stagnation is bearable by the owner.... That's not the case nowadays and these new owners have been very clear about their objectives... The future is all that counts... I think someone sho...

Great subs

Wingers should learn to cross from Savage!

Orion1871

Royals and Racers Great draw !!!
Reading v Bracknell
Eligible players for this seasons comp must have been born on or after 1st September 2007 and before 1st September 2010

And now everyone feels old.

Indeed - I've only just got used to players being born from year 2000 onwards....

Sutekh I thought the first & second rounds were still regional.

Yes - England

So convince us that we’re improving and not getting worse? Not sure not losing at home to Mansfield and getting a brave 1 point at Exeter are the decision points to mount the case for the defence. There's no case needing to be made imo. And you wouldn’t listen no matter what. And when will there ne...

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MartinRdg

RG30 New ground, preferably with a very small away end allocation so we can all have a scramble over tickets.

Truro then (if they get through)

That's a long way to go!

Not for me it's not!

RG30 New ground, preferably with a very small away end allocation so we can all have a scramble over tickets.

Truro then (if they get through)

Millsy If you multiply this year (2025) by when we were founded (1871) and then square root the result you interestingly get 1946*, which just so happens to be the year of our biggest ever league win (10-2 against Crystal Palace).

*Approximately

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WestYorksRoyal Can anyone on here play CB?

Only 5'7, I'd probably struggle.

I'm 6'4 but my knees have gone....

Snowflake Royal My only prediction is that some of our traveling support should take their tenor lady with them.

Are you saying they need help with their singing?

Doing the work i couldn't be bothered to do. I was at the Vale game as well :lol: Piece of piss to look him up on Soccerbase. He looks like his confidence is shot, and as you say, no standout attributes. He's leathered a few good shots, but none of them have really got that close to going in betwee...

morganb If we're looking for a new manager, why look any further than the dad of one of the current players? It worked out really well last time...

Silver Fox Where do these super entitled people get their sense of entitlement from? We're not exactly historically successful. Were they all born after 2005 and think we deserve to be in the PL or something?

I suspect a lot of them were born after 2005......

morganb George Puscas available on a free as just been released by Bodrum

Snowflake Royal

windermereROYAL When they choose Port Vale over us you have to think he prefers life up north.

This is such an arrogant, stuck up mindless thing to say

Not a bad area around Stoke and Port Vale - however, not sure I would want to live there

Brogue Plenty of interest in him but his father has advised him to stay and not chase the big bucks as that will come in the future. He told him the best place for him for the time being is here, getting first team football.

Nice to hear

Sorry to be pedantic but we aren't playing Swindon Town; we are playing Ian Holloway's Swindon Town, that new team formed when a famous ex player/manager joins a team as their manager. (see also Frank Lampard's Coventry City, Wayne Rooney's Plymouth Argyle) and which is always referred to as such i...

Sutekh So, have Reading had a spectacular transfer window or not? Or do we need to wait for the season to be over before deciding?

I think a balanced view https://thetilehurstend.sbnation.com/2025-26-analysis-opinion-reading-fc-royals/49954/unpacking-readings-summer-2025-transfer-window