Went to the Basingstoke Town game today, Paul Hodges for Basingstoke scores from 90 yards! Yep, that’s right, 90 yards. Off one post, hit the other and spun in. Sight to behold and he meant it. Hope there will be a video doing the rounds soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1Vv6KOC1o
The important point here is the loss of Category 1 status last year. The U18 squad is a mixture of U18s and U17s. So this years U18s are the ones who signed a two-year deal when we were Category 2. Our best U16s at that time would have looked elsewhere first (obvious example is Princewill Ehibationh...
Who the hell signed Bouzanis on a 3 year deal? That would be Ince and Bowen. At least it hasn't cost us much. This. I think he was always signed to be a backup keeper; he'll be on backup keeper wages. He was also signed at a time when we were most restricted as to who we could bring in, so he proba...
There are 26 teams in Premier League 2. Assuming that flashscore is right, Reading have the best home record with 23 points from 9 games. We also have the worst away record, 4 points from 7 games (could get off bottom spot by winning an away game in hand, but that doesn't seem likely). The even odde...
On the podcast Howe seems to think that the Parliamentary boundary changes will affect how councils look at planning applications. Is he is as clueless as that on every other property topic?
I couldn't see any mention of the records broken by last night's win; if there is a thread somewhere, please re-direct this post. 1. This was Reading biggest ever away victory. 2. This is the biggest ever victory in the EFL Cup since its inception in 1984 3. It is Reading's biggest win in 122 years...
There's been one in the league cup (I'm sure many will remember that pathetic showing from last season) and four in the FA Cup. Stevenage, though, have a much better record in Reading in those games than Reading having won twice to Reading's sole victory in an FA Cup 3rd round replay. It's the othe...
Had Gurnam Singh got the 1995 Division 1 play-off final (as the tribunal decision effectively said he should have done) then we might talk about him a lot more. There is the Gill family of referees but as they're based in Slough you wouldn't really expect to see them officiating Reading league games...
Maidenhead should and will be heavily fined for their total disrespect for the competition. Diving into the rulebook again: Clubs failing to give a satisfactory reason for withdrawing shall be fined in accordance with the Fines Tariff. Illness, injury and/or shortage of players shall not be conside...
Berks & Bucks FA County Cup Adult Rules 2022-23 - Rule 16 (K) (i): If a match as originally drawn is postponed on two occasions, the Management Committee may order the match to be played on the opposing Clubs ground. So this rule applies for all 6 county cups. I think it makes more sense for som...
Looks like Monday's U21 game v Colchester has been moved. Colchester are playing a different (cup?) fixture on Tuesday of next week, whilst flashscore now shows our game as set for 27 April.