Am I the only one who doesn't feel too strongly about the record? If we finish the season well and get taken over, I'll be ecstatic and I really won't care if Leicester take our record. Similarly in a dire 2023, it didn't keep me warm thinking "well at least Burnley didn't beat out record"...

I was there. Still the biggest attendance at a home game I've been to. 27.600.
We scored all the goals in a 2-1 loss.
Second biggest was vs. Southampton in the League cup a few years later 26,000 ish

Sutekh It ceased to be back in 2014 (below), since it's switch online it's been a pile of utterly cheap clickbait cobblers for simpletons (l'll miss the next Yermaz though).

Spot on.

And frankly, if Sports Direct want to pay £2m a season to have our ground called The Sports Direct Arena and our kit is supplied by Slazenger, frankly, I don't give a toss if it helps keep the club afloat. It's nothing Madejski didn't do, having Auto Trader as the main club sponsor and naming the s...

We are going down absolutely nothing is gonna save us now. A change of owner and manager will not come quick enough. The players have to revolt and get this idiot out or we are doomed if he doesn’t go now. There are fools on here that think we have to wait for a change of owner and then everything ...

Royal Rother MELTDOWN TIME!!

That might well be happening.
In the dressing room.
By the players against the bloke in charge

I don't think he was talking about compensation for sacking the manager, most likely referring to compensation fees for young players that reject contract extensions: https://www.leathesprior.co.uk/news/compensation-for-players-under-24-a-mystery It will be that. We cannot pay anything to bring a p...

So I don’t think it’s youth over experience which is the overriding choice. The issue for me is the baffling inconsistencies of selection that is the major issue and Selles is complicating his own job more than anything else at the moment. Give Selles the benefit of the doubt. In that he is managin...

Don’t Caramacs smell like sick or am I getting them confused with some other chocolate bar? Don’t remember thinking a lot of them tbh. Weird colour as well And yes that preferred bidder is what I’m hoping to hear on. Wasn’t expecting any formal announcement yet but no whispers either coming out It'...

Picnics are still my favourite.
Do like the plain bounty bar, tho.

I was never optimistic about this appointment, an inexperienced team with an inexperienced manager who barely knew any of those players was always a massive risk. Whilst he's quite young, I don't think first team manager is the role for Selles. He's an assistant at best. He doesn't learn from mista...

Its not even like Rovers look any good.
Dear oh dear

Does anyone know why Ashley's people arrived at the ground last week by helicopter? Is a very noticeable way to travel. Why couldn't they just come by car? What was the urgency of coming on a Sunday morning rather than on a standard working day or even attended the match the day before (as other po...

Say that Man City were found guilty of the FFP violations - and that the offence was so bad that somehow they get relegated to League Two for the start of next season (this is just a hypothetical thing). Would Man City now be worth £5m? No, for obvious reasons. Similarly, if Reading get relegated t...

From Despair To Where? 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1.........

overtime working Senses

And it's also affected by which direction you are travelling.
It's all relative

The major caveat is the length it takes for the takeover to complete and what happens in between - as you say, we played pretty well on Saturday and he changed formation - if that continues and say we are still 3 or 4 weeks away then if we go on a winning run, he may be kept on but I do doubt it at...

Not sure how much to read into Saturday's performance. Struggling teams are often good at a valiant effort against table toppers, before reverting to type in crunch matches against teams around them. You see it at all levels. It's the pressure. We still conceded soft goals (ie the 2nd), missed chan...

Is Mike Ashley the best possible owner to return us back to the 'Reading way' and recreate the glory days? Probably not. Is he a good option for now - definitely yes. Maguire was on BBC Berkshire this morning saying that Ashley 'lacks ambition' - ie, he's not going to pour in vast amounts of his ow...

Pardew hasn’t managed at this level for a very long time Still he has at least still been in management - not esp successfully I might add - overseas He’s a bit younger than I thought. Tbh wouldn’t be massively against it as he was a good manager in his time Still better options out there though I ...