whereabouts in Germany is this place?

What a load of fantastically dull games he's middled!

Palace at home is often a goal fest - I can recall 4-2, 2-4, 3-2, 2-3, 1-6 and way back there was the record 10-2.

So what's it to be - ref-inspired borefest or tradtion-inspired goal fest?

Barry the bird boggler Technically it wouldn't count anyway as Reading's games were also "successive games" and as we know Torquay couldn't keep a clean sheet a couple of weeks ago.

Er I think Oxf*rd scored a couple against us in League Cup during our run of 'successive' games.

You're basically saying JM is in a position where he can sell shares, then buy them back at any point for an amount he chooses. Damn right that's a mugs game - and I'm amazed it's even legal. Not quite. If he sold so many shares that he didn't still own 90% he couldn't use this mechanism. And I thi...

Let's use an analogy - why don't people going into dragons den just buy back the shares from the dragons for a nominal fee once they've made their investment? I just can't believe you've got the facts right here. My understanding is that if you own 90% of the shares of a company you can compulsoril...

STAR's shares were I think donated to them so there would be no financial downside. STAR is an independent body (no one from RFC votes on what STAR can do). Owning shares allows STAR the opportunity to express that independent voice in an important forum that would be reported on - so there is a pot...

I just don't get that - it effectively means any shares you buy are worthless (or at least cannot increase in value), so why would anyone buy any? This situation of 97% ownership by one party hasn't always been the case. When the share ownership has been more balanced then a more competitive market...

^^ same. And if STAR own shares in the club aren't they compromising their position somewhat? :| How so? Owning shares enables STAR to represent their members / fans generally in another way. Holding shares allows STAR the opportunity to attend the formal AGM and ask formal questions of the company...

JM could force everyone else to sell their shares to him if he wanted to. The next owner may well go down this route - it's what happened at Coventry recently. So even if youfound someone willing to sell you might not be bale to hold on to the shares for long. Really? How would a price be set for t...

JM could force everyone else to sell their shares to him if he wanted to. The next owner may well go down this route - it's what happened at Coventry recently.

So even if youfound someone willing to sell you might not be bale to hold on to the shares for long.

Yes - sell him, buy a CB (and a LB if there's change).

One of Hamer, Andersen, McCarthy is bound to work out.

Skyline That's it - Areff.

Very much a Reading Chronicle man - any idea anyone when he stopped? About 1972?

SteveRoyal :evil: oxf*rd jinx.

Opening day home defeat to the relegation favourites plus 4 injuries - we got away lightly!

Still, we've got Doncaster away to come - that is some jinx we have on them.

RFC Promotional leaflet material says ...

'Forget the Dodgy Balls and VUvuzelas - Proper Football is Back!'

Given that I shall be disappointed to hear a vuvu on Saturday.

Maguire So we've lost 4 out of 24 games ever?

We're their jinx then, surely?

More a case of a game we expect to win but don't (most recently) and something unusual happens.

No home win against The Iron since 1978. Last 3 outings IIRC: 2009: 1-1 Rodgers last game - sacked after argument with Dellor (IMHO Rodgers was right and Dellor wasn't about the specific point) 1999: 1-1 East Stand singing "we're shit and we're sick of it" which led directly to PANTS Day 1...

Quite a few good ones here to which I'd add Exeter away 1989 lovely day - Senior, Moran, Maskell all scored, won 3-1, best performance of a pretty rotten season. That was actually 1990 - I remember it for John Peel giving out the scores at the festival. Not as good as 1988 or 1991/92, but good time...

Fair play - didn't remember Moran's career at Reading being that long.

A temporary agreement was reached on Friday for Portsmouth to use the land as a free car park for Saturday's testimonial match for Linvoy Primus against Fulham, ... I was quite put out when I first read this bit - how come former 'leg' Linvoy has his testimonial vs The Cottagers and not us? :evil: ...

Quite a few good ones here to which I'd add Exeter away 1989 lovely day - Senior, Moran, Maskell all scored, won 3-1, best performance of a pretty rotten season.