Ian Royal

Royal Rother Agreed - there's something very likeable about him.

I think it's the way he looks like he'd beat the shit out of you down an alley if you didn't.

RR better watch out then because I hear Bikey's a mate of Lita's!

BTW - big difference, Lavin intended to hammer the ball into the fans!

how you can give 8 to Convey is beyond me...I see Royalee was at a completely different game as usual :shock: Far from it, for once he was at the same game as me! I wouldn't have criticised him for lacking class though. Showed some great touches and a terrific workrate. Got caught dwelling on the b...

Armadillo Roadkill Again, from the East Stand, a penalty.

Likewise. Normally I would be giving the officials real stick when they award a penalty against us but on this occasion felt there could be no argument at all.

The trouble with Lita is that is he is good enough for the Premiership. Maybe not with us, but if he leaves us and plays against us I can certainly see him scoring against us. Then the mirth (although I don't really know what you mean by that) would be wiped off the smiling faces. Fully agree. Mind...

I remember, as a teenager, writing to him when he was sacked by Reading to say how sorry I was and to thank him for what he had done for the club. I was very surprised to receive back a handwritten letter from the big man himself, thanking me for kind words. He went on to say that his sacking was ju...

readingtillidie the best thing about this book is i am in the crowd of people on the front cover where doyle is celebrating

thats my clame to fame

Well that and your unique spelling!

Simon Shepperd. HTH Bobby Mihaylov HTH Have I stepped into a parallel universe where the Bulgarian international Borislav Mihailov is worse/funnier than the utterly inept Shepperd? The man who spawned Tshirts with I'VE SEEN SHEPPERD CATCH A BALL on them? . Del Boy Trotter was selling T shirts refer...

Ian Royal No wonder Doyle doesn't take our penalties, I beat him with an old fat man.

How do you select Wally Downes?

Bournemouth Away in 94. We had half the ground and people kept running from stand to stand when the ball was up the other end. Match finished with gilksy clean through, his shot going just wide, before Reading fan runs on and slots it in the corner! Cue pitch invasion. Ceefax even showed it as 2-2 ...

Whether or not the expansion goes ahead I hope that the club take up my suggestion that ticket prices should reflect costs incurred. It is a nonsense that people in the Upper West have to pay more than those in the East Stand. Only the minimum of stewarding is needed in the Upper West and the peopl...

I agree that Long should have done better with his chance but it wasn't an open goal situation of which Lita missed 2 against Newcastle. Did someone airbrush the keeper out of the tv pictures then?! I would argue that given the space and time that he had, Long's chance was every bit as easy as thos...

Woodcote Royal

weybridgewanderer Why is Long not taking the pelters on this forum that Lita would be taking for missing that opportunity at the end?

Maybe it's because, not only has he scored this season and not missed anything as easy as Lita did against Newcastle.

Until yesterday maybe!

I hope Coppell ripped into Long in the dressing room. What an idiot. Why did he do that?! He had so much time! Leroy deserves the nod as the 'impact player' next time just for that. I'm sure I heard Long say in the post match interview that he'd been working on scissor kicks with Wally during the w...

Can i just say: USA USA USA USA! In Marcus' book he said one of his best attributes was his kicking. Just a side note he also set up our goal last week verses Boro where a punt up the park was nodded on by Doyle to Kitson who finished off with that lob. I like Marcus and he adores us the fans also....

Perhaps we should run potential subjects for discussion about RFC past Vision before we start exchanging views in future. And now you're responding in exactly the way that you accuse others of. Very mature. What you and others choose to discuss is no business of mine (and at no stage have i ever sa...

Lita should be sold simply because he's not good enough to start games when Doyle and Kitson are fit and he's not the sort of player that makes a decent squad player. :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: And BTW at today's prices you will not get anything like a decent replacement for him for just £3M! And f...

Has Hahnemann become a bad keeper all of a sudden? Wasn't he high up on the stats last year? It's the defence that is letting him down this year, not him. Equally you could argue that it was they who did so much to help him last year!! I think the blame can be shared amongst them all including USA....

I just hope he doesn't dare go out for a beer... or refuse to sign an autograph.. or develop any confidence... or act slightly arrogant.. or celebrate a goal aggressively, cause if he does, he doesn't stand a chance with the muppets who support our club. I can hardly imagine a bling Bulgarian. You ...

There will always be a handful of fans with genuine reasons for needing to leave early, although I really don't see what can be so desperately important that saving 15 minutes would be so crucial. I can give you one example quite easily. My daughter has been appearing in a theatre show. She has to ...

Lita may well be our best forward assett, but unfortunately SC has little time for antics such as shown by Leroy, hence he should move on in Jan, you only have to look at his goals at Bristol C t realise that we are not willing to play his stle of game, SC plays to percentages, free kicks and corne...