I think it was Miss America who took him away. Big miss for us.

Signed from Luton? Decent, slick, skilful striker, quite strong. Struggling for a comparison here, maybe a cross between Forster and Doyle. Or Vydra on a good day.

Ah. A bit earlier than I had thought. It was summer of 1976, just after we got promoted from Div 4 and not long after H&P shut down. There was a competition and fans sent in suggestions. Manager Charlie Hurley was the judge (!) and picked the Royals. The club then sold silk scarves at the start...

Please.

Conroy came as a striker but played quite a bit at left back - a weird Branfoot-ism.

The opposition seemed to be quite happy for Conroy at LB to have the ball!

He was a trier in a bleak period.

Brentford have got a worse big game mentality than us

Remember that time they had a pen in the last minute - score and they went up - they only managed to concede a breakaway from their own pen and stayed down.

Can't see em getting past the Muffsters.

Barney 1970s - Robin Friday (really was as hard as nails)
1980s - Terry Hurlock
1990s - Parky

No one since that springs to mind.

1960s - Colin Meldrum (another jock)

Go Bees for me. Deserved it last season. Can laugh at Fulham on the way past.

I couldn’t bear to watch Swansea Bmuff final.

McNulty 2, Ryan Edwards as Dundee U win cup semi 3-0, all goals from ex-players.

cue, well, it is Sco ....

Joking?

Neither for me.

Take a look at the 'On this day' reports for 1st April - it's an incredibly wide selection that really sums up the best and worst of supporting Reading - away trips from Wrexham to Tottenham - the absolute fury of not beating Northampton to the absolute joy of winning the Football League with a 5-0 ...

Easiest win of the season. Wasn’t worried for one moment.

They really are one of the great under achievers as a club, on a par with Newcastle and Brum City.

Remember when we took 5000 down there in 1995. They were crap that day too.

Leeds 1 Royals 0 43 mins 2-0 44 mins HT 2-0 superb stream- for 40 mins we were good value at being level, but it all went pear shaped with the 2 quick fire goals. 3-0 52 mins- bad Boyce- Clarke error FT 3-0 That`s almost wrapped up promotion to Div 1 for Leeds. Reading need to finish in top 5 for t...

Academy keepers we've let go off the top of my head Mikkel Andersen Jamie Ashdown Jamie Young Ben Hamer Jamie Young Alex McCarthy George Legg Stuart Moore Only the ones in Bold have either outperformed or at least been on a par with Reading FC. Jamie Young is playing in the A-League and has spent t...

That appears to be a very precise diagnosis. Would be great if it's that or less but given the club's record on predicting returns from injury, I fear it may be longer. I'd take that. Looked to me like a fractured collar bone from the way he fell / held it afterwards which I'd have thought was 4-6 ...

Eddie on Twitter saying Olise out for 12 days That appears to be a very precise diagnosis. Would be great if it's that or less but given the club's record on predicting returns from injury, I fear it may be longer. I'd take that. Looked to me like a fractured collar bone from the way he fell / held...

Really enjoyed that. First come back win if the season. Joao is to this team what Robin Friday was to the 1976 team - utterly vital. Part of the pleasure was the Hudds commentary. Made me realise how windbag the Berks stuff is, car park, pie, long journey, unfortunately , rhetorical question, to be ...

Tim and Mick could learn a lot about commentating from their fellas.

A bye is the only way we'll get through.

Can't see us picking a strong XI determined to get through this year!

Heathrow is our airport.

Lucky Luton will be moving to a town centre ground in the next couple of years, called the PowerDome or some such.

Thought that 4-3 was 3-2, great game I grant you. That 5-7 was an utter nightmare I never want to be reminded of. I’ll offer the 6-0 V WHU and the long ago 4-3 comeback v Plymouth which was actually terrible for the first hour. Elsewhere the miracle of Istanbul and Citehs AGUERRRRRRO win over QPR to...