WHat does "Options activated" mean? Some contracts are for a fixed period (say 1 year) and then there might be a clause that says the club, or the player, or either, has the option to extend the contract for an extra period (say 1 year). So in the case of Azeez he was under contract for 2...

Imagine it’s the club looking after his welfare and letting him train to get fit rather than having intent to sign him. Wish him all the best, however his future lies away from Reading. I wonder if that was part of the termination agreement - he can continue to train at the club's facilities until ...

Loafer Aluko getting the last laugh with Ipswich

Although at 35, hardly playing and out of contract he may not be laughing much longer….

No reason Star couldn’t fill the gap and sell a generic blue and white scarf ……

Bit disappointed with the change of ground. Slough would have been a new ground but I’ve been to Bracknell and frankly wasn’t impressed. A half decent crowd will mean parking will be a nightmare. They also have one of the smallest terraces I have ever seen, it’s one step about 8 inches high and hold...

Hope the final doesn’t carry on the way our game against them last season ended…. Certainly the Slough 3 G pitch should be to our advantage. I suppose it will depend on what sort of team we put out, which might be dictated as to whether we are still involved in the PL 2 play-offs- 1st and 2nd round...

If we do have an Olise sell on clause, could it complicate the takeover? If Dai's representatives tell him there's a potential windfall coming this summer, he may want to amend the terms of any sale to ensure he gets his share. There is no evidence we do, direct evidence we don’t. If we do then it ...

He doesn't really fit our main gap does he. We play quite a lot of fairly direct stuff and pacey counter attacking stuff. He's a slow possession based guy. He's not a high energy hassler and chaser. He's a sulker and an odd ball that doesn't have a strong team collective spirit. He doesn't have a g...

Hope the final doesn’t carry on the way our game against them last season ended….

He doesn't really fit our main gap does he. We play quite a lot of fairly direct stuff and pacey counter attacking stuff. He's a slow possession based guy. He's not a high energy hassler and chaser. He's a sulker and an odd ball that doesn't have a strong team collective spirit. He doesn't have a g...

Man who last played for Reading and is without a club still - posts a picture of him with in the last football kit he played in with a timer underneath. Most obvious meaning is that he is still waiting to get back into football. Absolutely nothing to do with us bar he used to play for us, so not su...

Man who last played for Reading and is without a club still - posts a picture of him with in the last football kit he played in with a timer underneath. Most obvious meaning is that he is still waiting to get back into football. Absolutely nothing to do with us bar he used to play for us, so not su...

The commentator of Stevenage's game at Oxford during the week said that Nesta Guinness-Walker is the great grandson of Sir Alec Guinness. That one passed me by if indeed it was common knowledge in his time here. It was mentioned pretty regularly on here, wasn’t he referred to using some sort of Sta...

I’ve not been to many games but the one goal that will stay with me for a long time was the comedy goal from the Cheltenham away game….

In addition to this point, I'd say basic stadium maintenance should be included in that list. Things like the hand driers, the taps, the soap dispensers, etc. in the toilets need to be fixed or replaced; re-painting of certain concourse areas; general cleaning of the stadium; etc. Possibly thinking...

Whilst true, I also very much doubt that any catering company knowing the issues with payment Compass have experienced would enter into and happily announce a partnership with the club without some kind of confirmation that the financial situation at the club is about to markedly improve. That's ho...

Not really interested in communication, especially on any sort of ongoing basis, other than a very basic intro to who they are and what their priorities are, how they intend to achieve them in broad terms and on what timescale. Talk is cheap, words are easy. Actions matter. No one will give two shi...

I don't think it needs to even be saying anything, could be as little as rolling the eyes, or throwing your arms up or even just a look whenever a younger player does anything wrong; a creeping negativity. Hutchinson was a big prospect at Chelsea but has had a career wrecked by injury. Maybe there'...

Yeah, bloody duality of language! It's not that the concept of going over to the fans and acknowledging them, even when things aren't going well is wrong. It's that there is a time and a place when it's counter productive and harmful to do it. Yes, the general ethos of doing it was right from the s...

Argument, in the sense of: Noun - a reason or set of reasons given in support of an idea, action or theory. Ambiguity, the curse of the internet ! It still seems reasonable to suggest that a decision put forward as being bad might not actually have been bad over the longer term. The appointment of ...