I think Reading are the second team of a lot of season ticket holders... but you are much more of a genuine football fan if your first team was Lincoln when you don't live anywhere near it. A random story but a good one. How on earth that pitiful last season in the PL could have made anyone support ...

5,446 allocation? Clearly the club don't feel they can shift more than that, especially given the subsidy. Free coach travel might have been better to maximise attendance! I remember the Man City furore. It might have been nice if they had the option for more if need though. Nice of the club to subs...

Noting here that there still will be Thai involvement in the club, with only Lady Sasima departing, so any concerns over REP may not be something to worry about - at least just yet anyway. I agree that could be hopeful - it hints that the Thais are still interested in the success of the club but wa...

The fact that we are playing bizarrely so much later than other teams is a bit silly. The fact that we could draw another academy in this round is also silly, and the fact that we can play Yeovil, again, is a bit silly! However I think this competition is actually a great idea . It has just been sad...

My suggestion is: don't pose as a fan of the team when you post on their forum. It's disingenuous, it'll be noticed straight away & you'll lose all hope of a positive connection with the reader. You've got to believe that you're interesting/engaging enough that it's irrelevant why you're sharin...

I'm rather concerned by the apathy shown on here. I have no concern over the new owners - they sound richer than the Thais. I'm more concerned that the club's assets like the hotel, car park and land will have been effectively almost stolen! If the Chinese don't work out - then what is there left as...

17 points from 8 in the 106 season. And of course 24 points from 8 in 1985/6!

So I don't think we will be lifting the title.

Though 8 from 8 in 2011/12.... so maybe!

Surely no one would consider Stam while he has less than 1 season in charge unless we are clear at the top?! I genuinely think he sees us as a project and will stay 3 years. After that, if it has worked out and other teams are tempted, then we wouldn't need to worry as long as we got the right repla...

I think we have benefited from a settled team this season. We've just had an international break with more to come, no need to rest players this early in the season. While I'm all for giving fringe players a go in the earlier rounds when the manager is new, we know the best 11 now. They look like an...

I remember Matej Vydra missed 2 penalties last season. He also missed an open goal at Middlesbrough. Man am I happy that carthorse is nowhere near my club anymore. Dark, dark days. And shockingly enough Derby fans are starting to think they've been robbed for the £8 million they spent on him.. The ...

On the matter of the first team, I think Kermorgant's late winner on Saturday kind of glossed over a fairly alarming day for the club. Cardiff was the first match in which we didn't name an Academy graduate in the starting XI for nearly eight years, the last time being in January 2009 when we lost ...

I'm going to add my support to the Stam revolution, again as someone who is utterly cynical about "tikki takka", like most Reading fans. Fundamentally, keeping the ball means you are unlikely to lose. I would normally find this dull and boring but, after the past two seasons, I think we sh...

I think people can only complain if they regularly attend all JPT games. No one really cares until the later stages surely.
Sensible compromise instead of the appalling League 3 idea.

a 4th substitute on the other hand

I'm normally all for financial prudence but I say snap him up. It would be our biggest profile ever signing and create some excitement we have not had for years. And not just with the fans, with the players too who have just been collecting their wages throughout the turbulent last few years. What a...

Surely contactless cards should make this redundant? Just bring in some card machines and make some queues contactless card only. Mind you, paying only takes about 30 seconds. Its the ten minutes whilst the staff look blankly at each other and stumble up and down the counter that takes the time. (So...

I find it impossible at this early stage to pass a judgement over McDermott in his current stint as Reading manager. He hasn't failed or succeeded yet in his job as our boss. His mission has barely begun. What I do know about him though, is that he is one of only two managers to get Reading in to t...

I'd say it's pretty obvious there is no money to spend given the way Sa and Blackman were promptly flogged in January when promotion looked impossible. It wasn't obvious to Clarke it seems. The fact that it didn't occur to Steve Clarke that recently relegated clubs are generally in a financial mess ...

Jester hats >>>>>> Fashionably attired and letting off flares...

Perhaps I'm old fashioned

I think he is a very good player for this division but I think that applies to several of our squad who have not performed as a team for years. We need players like Kitson and Doyle, whose strength and power makes them play like 2 men, as opposed to the talented passengers we currently have in the s...

total joke from the BBC!

That said - it won't take much now.