Well we need a big club to go under as it might wake the rest of the idiots up

Winston Biscuit Things the neutrals are hoping for next season:

West Ham relegation
Hull relegation
Ipswich to stay up

and Reading promotion.

And yet someone did compete with them Annoying thing is that well run and managed clubs can cause a surprise but it is always a "surprise" and no one's ever interested in following that model (they just sort of fall over it by accident) look at the Hull idiots, seem to have started that r...

There is simply no better footballing entertainment about at the moment than Leverkusen - it is frankly incredible to watch. When they got back to 2-1 last night, you could see the team collectively decided that they would rather risk losing 3-1 on the night (and going to ET) in order to try and st...

This. Leicester, Leeds and Southampton would probably have the highest budgets in the Championship if no side had parachute payments - giving them PP completely destroys any chance of sides competing with them financially. And yet someone did compete with them Annoying thing is that well run and ma...

Bayern didnt lose that because Tuchel took off Kane. They lost because Neuer lost concentration and spilled the ball. If he scoops that like normal, another long punt up front and another chance for defence to be reset. The shot from Madrid that led to the 1st goal was a sign of a team resorting to...

genome Tuchel is an idiot. You don't take off the best striker in the world with 10 minutes to go in a CL Semi, even if you are winning

Think Haaland might disagree there esp. as he's actually won things.

Hound

Elm Park Kid I'm expecting Jahmari to be released.

Has another year I think

Another season not involved much with the 1st team will see the end of his time at Reading.

Wasn't Emerse Fae a record signing at the time? I could (and am most likely wrong). He again was hit and miss, some really strong games, but mostly powderpuff. Yep, but he was a last resort. Sidwell was gone and we knew that was happening, but all the players we had lined up to replace him (e.g. Sc...

My original post was more about the reaction of Everton fans and how I'd heard the same arguments about us for about 5 years. I think they've got their heads in the sand. They need to trim their wage bill and I think they will struggle to recruit adequate quality next season because they will be la...

Not saddened by the loss of Mola or Carson but worried that there is now no cover at LB so will be interesting to see which free options pass through the club in the summer.

Which Azeez has had his contract extended though?

Crawley played well and won their delayed first leg 3-0, with Liam Kelly getting the MOTM award. Crawley’s goalkeeper had some interesting ideas! Now, as long as they don't approach the 2nd leg thinking they've already won through, we should all be able to appreciate the dumping out of the franchise.

Bit harsh to call Convey hit and miss. Ok it took him a while to settle but then he was brilliant until the bad knee injury that he never seemed to fully recover from. Hardly his fault. +1 Also one of the few (only?) Reading players to play in a World Cup Finals competition (in 2006) Hahnemann was ...

Hard to judge how it goes in cup knock out of course but as said the fact they we seemed to outplay Forest over 1.25 games recently will make us favourites. Of the potential semi final opponents - we beat Sunderland 2-1 but did not play West Ham, who finished 2nd, in the League phase. Hoping for 3 ...

Being reported that Hull have just sacked Liam Rosenior, which seems ridiculous, but nothing is surprising in football I guess. What were their expectations? They haven't been top half in the Championship since they last got promoted to the Premier League. Finishing seventh was a great season for t...

The Price of Football Podcast has an interview today with "Dave Kitson, former Reading player, now national team manager of Pacific Island Nauru " Not listened to it yet, but my guess is he'll be talking a bit about Reading rather than any of his other clubs as they were omitted from the ...

Sky Bet Promotion Odds (at time of posting): ⋅ 5/2 - Holywood ⋅ 7/2 - Lincoln; Rotherham ⋅ 9/2 - Blackpool; Charlton; Reading ⋅ 5/1 - Wigan ⋅ 6/1 - Stevenage; Stockport; Wycombe ⋅ 7/1 - Bristol Rovers; Leyton Orient; Mansfield ⋅ ...

Hard to judge how it goes in cup knock out of course but as said the fact they we seemed to outplay Forest over 1.25 games recently will make us favourites. Of the potential semi final opponents - we beat Sunderland 2-1 but did not play West Ham, who finished 2nd, in the League phase. Hoping for 3 ...

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Sutekh So are there people out there that date dead women then?

And the powers that be say they didn't know?

And talking of Reading record signings, only Steve "the greatest ever short goalkeeper the world has ever seen" Death (£20k in 1970, Terry Hurlock £92k in 1986, Keith Curle £150k in 1988 and Darren Caskey £750k in 1996) could be said to have been successful. The rest, Steve Moran, Craig Ma...