Should be 3-0, good save. This is so so poor.

Reading U 18’s league season went from bad to worse this morning when they lost to Southampton 9-0 at Bearwood. Only the FA Youth Cup run the highlight of an extremely poor season. Out of interest why do you think it has been so poor? Is it the manager/coaching, the ability of our players or the qu...

Loads of time if we wake up. Get 1 and watch the nerves kick in.

Soft as fcuk.

Snowflake Royal Pitch looks dreadful.

Maybe it's intentional. Carlisle and Rovers both criticised their ground staff for making too good a pitch for us.

Just watched the whole 170 minutes of the review with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes Bloody hell, that team was unreal I think Glen Little's chip may be the best Reading goal of my lifetime (I'm too young to possibly comment on Friday v Tranmere). Blakey was ridiculous He wasn’t particula...

Time for someone to post up the season review video of 05/06 edit. … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWmi1nNEWds 2 pages of Reading clips and more season reviews starting here https://www.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=100980&hilit=Season+review+youtube&start=580 Just watched the ...

Tbf I think the advent of sports science and increased professionalism mean the intensity is higher these days compared to the 90s and prior; perhaps even the 00s. But the increase in playing demands are coming from UEFA, the bigger Club World Cup and lucrative pre season tours. The traditions of th...

- Yiadom out for both remaining games with knee issue - Holmes out with an ankle sprain, may be back for Blackpool - Pereira and Dorsett available https://twitter.com/AndyPreston96/status/1781329407031816599 Abrefa in for Yiadom Since Holmes moved to Luton and then came back he's played part of 1 g...

Kelvin v Cambridge for me, but Wing has scored some crackers. I prefer his goal vs Northampton; Henry-esque. Context also matters. His goal against Cambridge was a speculative hit of the ball when we were 3-0 up, whereas his goal against Northampton was a very skilful finish and a match winning mom...

Feels like momentum is now against this and we can start a sweepstake on the inevitable climb down. I'm going for about 1.30pm and the statement will be read out by Sky at HT in the early kick off.

Forgetting about greed, power grabs etc., those at the top of the pyramid just seem highly incompetent. The super league was a shit show too.

The EFL have just come out and denied being consulted. This will be reversed. Piss up and brewery come to mind. But of course they don't need a regulator.

All a massive overreaction. Let's be honest unless you get a big club in a replay they are massive loss makers for the majority of clubs and inconvenient for teams, players and fans. Just take our match at Eastleigh this season. We'd have had to push back the Oxford (H) match by a week to fit the r...

Who knows what they have lent the club, but the Bearwood charge means they have Dai by the balls if he tries any tricks. Of all the news in the past month, that is the development that gives me the most confidence.

Plenty of EFL clubs speaking out against this. Any chance of a U turn? Or at least a statement that the plans are paused and subject to consultation?

I'm also hopeful on the takeover. They said up to 2 months to completion, but that may have partly been driven by uncertainty about our L1 status which is now secure. Plus, completion is the very end, but we'd hear about contracts being exchanged at least a week or so before, which really is the poi...

The closest we came to enjoyment and reversing the decline after 2013 was 2 months or so under Clarke in 2015. The football was good, the squad seemed to have the depth, ability and coaching to sustain a challenge before the wheels fell off. By contrast, 16/17 was turgid football and I have no idea ...

I think I enjoyed pretty much every season from 2000 to 2012 being honest. They were good years. Only possible exception was 2009 as a calendar year, which started with us bottling promotion before moving on to the doomed Rodgers era. And we had a 11 month or so winless run at home spanning both of ...

This change has been a long time coming, but doesn't change the fact it's an outrage. Clubs like City and Liverpool clearly have the squads to handle an FA Cup replay.

I remembered the 4-0 Sunderland game. I was still pretty young, certainly primary school age, and didn't follow the team too closely at that point aside from the occasional game. At FT, I thought Asaba was the best player ever and couldn't understand why we were so low in the league table. Was too y...