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by SCIAG
13 Jan 2024 20:20
Forum: The Team
Topic: Do you agree with todays pitch invasion and match abandonment?
Replies: 328
Views: 547896

Re: Do you agree with todays pitch invasion and match abandonment?

Don't agree with it, personally. Not sure it achieves anything meaningful. Having seen it, I am supportive of the on-pitch protest but not pushing it to abandonment. All footage shared is of the out pouring of love and pride toward our club and anger at what is happening. That would still have been ...
by SCIAG
13 Jan 2024 20:16
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Potential New Owners
Replies: 938
Views: 1027964

Re: Potential New Owners

Orion1871
Also where do you think Barack Obama was on 9/11?

Maybe if he'd been doing his job in the White House then the attacks wouldn't have happened.
by SCIAG
11 Jan 2024 19:42
Forum: The Team
Topic: FA Youth cup 2023/24
Replies: 89
Views: 223522

Re: FA Youth cup 2023/24

Yeah Keown had injury trouble.
by SCIAG
10 Jan 2024 23:05
Forum: The Team
Topic: FA Youth cup 2023/24
Replies: 89
Views: 223522

Re: FA Youth cup 2023/24

Our last memorable FA Youth Cup run was around 2014 I think? The wasted generation for whom plenty went on to have good careers away from Reading. Kuhl and Tanner sadly fell away, but it contained Dickie, Stacey and Fosu among others. Let's hope we use this generation better. Tanner was the year ab...
by SCIAG
28 Nov 2023 10:03
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Carlisle United (h)
Replies: 232
Views: 71323

Re: MATCHWATCH : Carlisle United (h)

I feel like Ehibhatiomhan more than deserves some more starts. What about: Azeez...........Knibbs...........Smith ..............Ehibhatiomhan :?: Or switch Knibbs and Smith? I'd definitely start Vickers ahead of Mukairu. He uses the ball so well. Him, Craig and Abbey I don't think age really mature...
by SCIAG
03 Nov 2023 07:08
Forum: The Team
Topic: Injury watch 2023/24
Replies: 296
Views: 178818

Re: Injury watch 2023/24

Assuming we could get a Saudi club interested in Ejaria (did he play for Gerrard at Rangers?), we’d still need to get Ejaria interested in moving there.

Think they’ve generally filled their squads with a better class of player.
by SCIAG
02 Nov 2023 18:47
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Relebohile Mofokeng
Replies: 20
Views: 14434

Re: Relebohile Mofokeng

tidus_mi2 Honestly when I saw the surname I thought this might be another Yermas Dildo.

Relebophile sounds like a euphemism for incest, and Mofokeng speaks for itself.
by SCIAG
23 Oct 2023 22:25
Forum: The Team
Topic: Watney Cup
Replies: 20
Views: 8102

Re: Watney Cup

I think it was the first game my dad ever went to. His dad was more interested in horses, but one of dad's friends told him that Charlton and Best were going to be playing and he nagged granddad into taking him.

All those years later he's still a season ticket holder.
by SCIAG
18 Oct 2023 20:33
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Charlton Athletic (a)
Replies: 286
Views: 39440

Re: MATCHWATCH : Charlton Athletic (a)

Hard to know who is fit and available at the moment. I think I'd play: .....................Button ..Yiadom, Dean, Abbey, NGW .................Wing, Hutch Vickers, ........Elliott, ........Knibbs ...............Ehibhatiomhan Subs: Norcott, Bindon, McIntyre, Savage, Ballard, Azeez, Rushesha/Craig I ...
by SCIAG
02 Oct 2023 19:18
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3142
Views: 1483835

Re: Ex Players

What's the story on us losing him and other youngsters to City? I thought EPPP put geographical restrictions on making teenagers uproot their life and move up north. Plus, we're category 1 so how are PL teams allowed simply to poach our brightest prospects? I don't think we released him, so did Cit...
by SCIAG
30 Sep 2023 14:46
Forum: The Team
Topic: Stewards alleged to be groping fans
Replies: 19
Views: 8517

Re: Stewards alleged to be groping fans

Don't think we should be making light of sexual assault. If you personally have been groped and not minded then fair enough, but personally for me it isn't something funny or enjoyable, and I don't think making light of it helps the victims. Obvs saying that without prejudging this particular case, ...
by SCIAG
28 Sep 2023 17:53
Forum: The Team
Topic: Injury watch 2023/24
Replies: 296
Views: 178818

Re: Injury watch 2023/24

There's a post on Twitter claiming that after Ejaria refused to go on at Hull he left the ground there and then in his track suit and got the train home. The same post claims he has lunch away from the players in his car. Saw that, quite an interesting read - https://twitter.com/ThomasH_1871/status...
by SCIAG
17 Sep 2023 06:40
Forum: The Team
Topic: You’re too small!
Replies: 22
Views: 7279

Re: You’re too small!

Wickham wasn’t released, his family moved out of our catchment area so we weren’t allowed to keep him. I can believe that Austin and Eze -and Shandon Baptiste were all told that they were too small, but I don’t think that was the real reason. I think it’s just a nice way of saying “not good enough”....
by SCIAG
12 Sep 2023 10:35
Forum: The Team
Topic: Injury watch 2023/24
Replies: 296
Views: 178818

Re: Injury watch 2023/24

Mid Sussex Royal
Sutekh Bindon should be back for Notlob, Ejaria not back training yet, still struggling with his knee problem.


Thought he'd had surgery to clear it up

It was fatal.
by SCIAG
10 Sep 2023 08:34
Forum: The Team
Topic: I agree with Robbie Savage
Replies: 64
Views: 9882

Re: I agree with Robbie Savage

We all love xG stats. By their measure we are 12th best at creating chances at 6.65 xG, but we have only scored 3. Only 3 teams are underperforming more than us. We also create a high proportion of our chances from open play, which I also view as encouraging. At the other end, we're 4th in xA with ...
by SCIAG
03 Sep 2023 13:55
Forum: The Team
Topic: Squad Bible
Replies: 43
Views: 6903

Re: Squad Bible

Thank goodness for Henry 8th (even if for selfish reasons) and Martin Luther as otherwise we might still be genuflecting all over the place as so many foreign players do for some reason on the pitches of England. The bible, albeit no doubt historically inaccurate, does have some decent allegorical ...
by SCIAG
03 Sep 2023 13:44
Forum: The Team
Topic: The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2015//16
Replies: 7546
Views: 2036254

Re: The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2015//16

Out of interest, don't PL2 sides get the opportunity to play the equivalent academy sides of European nations. I presume Reading would have to win or finish in the top 3/4 places of their leagues to qualify or is qualification a bit more open than that? Yes there is the PL2 International Cup. Top 1...
by SCIAG
30 Aug 2023 21:34
Forum: The Team
Topic: Reading's Penalty Shoot Out Record
Replies: 28
Views: 7259

Re: Reading's Penalty Shoot Out Record

Hendo I want to say someone like Doncaster in the 2006/07?

IIRC Peter Maté scored the winning pen.

Not quite. Mate scored our third goal in regulation time. Our other, more storied loan centre back, Andre Bikey, scored the winning penalty.
by SCIAG
30 Aug 2023 07:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Ipswich Town (h)
Replies: 124
Views: 17268

Re: MATCHWATCH : Ipswich Town (h)

Ipswich have now scored more goals for Reading at the Madejski than Chris Martin, Lewis Grabban, or Billy Sharp.
by SCIAG
25 Aug 2023 11:49
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Exeter City (a)
Replies: 182
Views: 56286

Re: MATCHWATCH : Exeter City (a)

Yep could see that coming :lol:
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