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Officially IN!

I'll give it some positivity. I've booked my tickets for Forest away. It'll be my first trip to the City Ground since Scott Murray drilled in the winner quite a few years ago. I'm going all in all positive this year. I'm going to be supporting the Royals on the road more than ever this year even tho...

I've already purchased my train tickets for this game and Preston away so I'm definitely in.

I'm up for a good relegation scrap this year. Hopefully we'll prevail. Support the Royals through thick and thin.

I'm happy with this signing. Maybe he is the best we can get right now and he definitely improves matters for us on the pitch. Coppell got Owusu before Doyle and Lita. Baldock might be available to us right now and would tide us over for the time being. When the opportunity arises for Clement to bri...

The performance tonight was outstanding from England. The mentality of the players and their team spirit was first class.

No grounds for optimism? It looks like Clementine is solidifying our team a little bit. Strengthening up that soft underbelly that made us easy to beat last season. I'm hoping we're going to be a stubborn, bad ass team next season that's boring to watch, very hard to break down and will pick teams o...

Loss of the greyhound parking is a serious blow. Especially for midweek games. When I have to get across after work from London, it's a tight affair time wise. This could mess up my midweek home games. RFC are doing their best to make the Mad Stad as inaccessible as possible. I can't see myself faff...

I'm feeling optimistic ahead of this season. I've already booked my train tickets for our first away trip to Nottingham Forest.

Reasons why we are so sh*t. 1) Al Habsi went to Islamic State of Saudi Arabia. Ali made at least 1 world class save in every game and this kept us on the right side of the scoreline most of the time last season despite the fact that we were playing sh*t and were unconvincing most weeks. Most of us w...

I have never been more bored watching Reading FC than I am now. I think it is more than Stam and his football that makes me feel like that though. I am optimistic however that it wouldn't take a lot of tweaking and we can be a side challenging for the goodies again. We are not far away. The Champion...

Personally, I don't really see any problem with the fans taking the p*ss out of the players. It sounds like it was all banter. Nothing vulgar, racist, homophobic or abusive. Try watching a non league game and it is 100 times worse. Those players earn nothing compared to our players and they can take...

Credit also due to the owners. The appointment of Stam was a master stroke and just the tonic the club needed. With so many players demotivated and seemingly unhappy with life and the direction their careers were going Stam was a real breath of fresh air. His footballing ideas and winning mentality...

TF - hasn't he already taken punts in the likes of Mendes and Meite? And they haven't worked. Let's not forget most fans were pretty critical of signing Kermogant at the time and he didn't pull up any trees pre-Christmas last season either. Yes he has. And there is nothing wrong with that whether i...

Isn't the obvious comment that Reading's strategy is dependent on having a decent forward on the pitch - i.e. Yann Kermogant. Any club that wants to be successfull needs to have a decent striker on the pitch. It has to be the strategy of every club in football. You can complain about why someone el...

Am I the only one that would just like to see an old fashioned 442 in the next game, I'm sick of all these weird and wonderful tactics. 442 with pace down the flanks and two strikers playing off each other. This used to be the most common of all positions but is pretty rare these days especially in...

I think Stam thinks that we do attack attack attack. He thinks we play attacking football.

At the beginning of the month it would have been inconceivable that Stam wouldn't be Reading manager in February. Whilst it's way too early to say he should go, there's a palpable feel of the tide turning tonight and right now it feels inevitable that there's going to be a sustained run of poor res...

Have just lost meekly to Millwall...assume that this thread will now kick up a gear or two!! So far we have words like meek, languid and timid to describe our style of play. No passion of pace in evidence. What I do know is that without a striker, there will never be a sense of purpose to a team's ...

RoyalBlue Are we missing Steven Reid's coaching input?

We may well be.