New Owners - Redwood Watch

[rabidbee]

Not all men in capes are heroes.

[Brogue]

Not all men in capes are heroes.

Any man who attempted to enter Geoff is pretty heroic, in my eyes.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘the red one’.

Fair dos, I mis remembered Saxons as Vikings - but the date (c 1,500 years ago) and Red Haired one are legit - so I'm still miffed

[Sutekh]

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘the red one’.

Fair dos, I mis remembered Saxons as Vikings - but the date (c 1,500 years ago) and Red Haired one are legit - so I'm still miffed

The first battle of Reading occurred just after the Battle of Englefield and exactly 1000 years before the club was founded (just for reference the second battle was in 1688). In 871 a force of Danish Vikings led by led by a couple of chaps called Bagsecg and Halfdan Ragnarsson defeated a West Saxon force led by Aethelred and his brother Alfred (later the Great). The Saxons went on to defeat the Vikings (4-0 in a third replay).

The battle is thought to have taken place near the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet which these days I think is somewhere round Cemetery Junction near the BIG Tesco.

Reading was a Saxon settlement and probably should be pronounced Reading as in what you do to a book (if you still use them).

[Extended-Phenotype]

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘the red one’.

Fair dos, I mis remembered Saxons as Vikings - but the date (c 1,500 years ago) and Red Haired one are legit - so I'm still miffed

I have an old map embedded in a coffee table that spells Reading as “Redding”. Do with that what you will.

[Sutekh]

For beads in Reading the place to be heeding is Reading Beading.

[South Coast Royal]

Wasn't sure where to put this.
Last week we were in Lanzarote and casually looking at stuff on facebook under a dazzling sun I saw something about the Barnsley game being Louisiana day.

Tell me this is a joke right or was I just imagining it?

[morganb]

Wasn't sure where to put this.
Last week we were in Lanzarote and casually looking at stuff on facebook under a dazzling sun I saw something about the Barnsley game being Louisiana day.

Tell me this is a joke right or was I just imagining it?

No joke (except that you can only "Taste the best flavours of Louisiana" in Hospitality):

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2026/j ... siana-day/

There are some fireworks, a band signing, American cars, fotspot (?), playlists, enhanced Fun Zone - all the things you'd automatically associate with Louisiana

[Sutekh]

Wasn't sure where to put this.
Last week we were in Lanzarote and casually looking at stuff on facebook under a dazzling sun I saw something about the Barnsley game being Louisiana day.

Tell me this is a joke right or was I just imagining it?

No joke (except that you can only "Taste the best flavours of Louisiana" in Hospitality):

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2026/j ... siana-day/

There are some fireworks, a band signing, American cars, fotspot (?), playlists, enhanced Fun Zone - all the things you'd automatically associate with Louisiana

So the game will be postponed due to high winds then

[South Coast Royal]

So, after the fireworks (Couhig said "because I like them") we now have further proof that our club is now the plaything of a Yank rather than a club representing a town in England.
Why not a celebration of Whitley or Tilehurst or even Wokingham or Thatcham where so many of the supporters come from?

Call me old fashioned (which would probably be correct) but what has this to do with football and with Reading?

[Vision]

Rumours that Katrina And The Waves are playing at Louisiana day have not been confirmed.

[Pepe the Horseman]

A slap in the face for the Texas and Arkansas Royals.

[Royal Ginger]

So, after the fireworks (Couhig said "because I like them") we now have further proof that our club is now the plaything of a Yank rather than a club representing a town in England.
Why not a celebration of Whitley or Tilehurst or even Wokingham or Thatcham where so many of the supporters come from?

Call me old fashioned (which would probably be correct) but what has this to do with football and with Reading?

Theme nights are a staple of American sports and it works well as a marketing gimmick. I wouldn’t look to deeply into it, I’d wager there are better hills to die on.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

I miss the King Of Thailand's birthday celebrations at the Mad Stad...

[Extended-Phenotype]

Alol at celebrating the cuisines and culture of Tilehurst and Whitley.

[RoyalBlue]

Wasn't sure where to put this.
Last week we were in Lanzarote and casually looking at stuff on facebook under a dazzling sun I saw something about the Barnsley game being Louisiana day.

Tell me this is a joke right or was I just imagining it?

No joke (except that you can only "Taste the best flavours of Louisiana" in Hospitality):

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2026/j ... siana-day/

There are some fireworks, a band signing, American cars, fotspot (?), playlists, enhanced Fun Zone - all the things you'd automatically associate with Louisiana

I'd prefer we were signing players, rather than bands, during the transfer window - good as Only The Poets are!

I believe the fireworks are just the few flares etc. when the teams come out.

As you say though, it seems as if it's Louisiana for the hospitality, rather than for the people.

[traff]

Also cant believe this score line. We are losing to the mate of convicted nonce.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/live/cn56w5eq54rt
Man, am I bored today!

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Not sure if a separate thread was made on the Howe £100k winding up order but Rob C is has said its "stupid" and Howe hadn't showed up for work so his employment contract was terminated. Reckon Howe picked on the wrong guy.....

[Clyde1998]

Reading FC owner Rob Couhig has revealed that the shareholders have been paying £1 million nearly every month to bolster the club.

After a busy start to the January transfer window, and with Reading FC making a permanent signing in the winter transfer window for the first time in years, the Royals chairman has revealed that players isn't the only department receiving financial backing.

When asked about the financial position of the club following his takeover alongside investor and co-owner Todd Troslcair, he told The Reading Chronicle: "Strong.

"Todd and I put in a million pounds almost every month because we haven't drawn the crowds that we've expected to.

"We're limited in what we can spend on our players by SCMP."

He added: "We're not going to miss a bill. We're going to pay our bills."

Redwood Holdings, Couhig and Trosclair's consortium, completed the long-awaited takeover from former owner Dai Yongge in May last year.

During Yongge’s tenure the club fell from the brink of the Premier League to the brink of League Two, mired in financial difficulties for the last three years – including restrictions on Reading’s transfer budget and Salary Cost Management Protocol.

Whetting supporters' appetite by labelling the summer as 'potentially spectacular', Couhig and co-CEO Joe Jacobson explained to supporters how the club's Spending Cap Management Protocol work.

During their explanation, Couhig admitted that he and business partner Trosclair injected more money into the club to improve their financial muscle.

However, he also revealed that more money had exited the club than first anticipated, with the balance between incomings and outgoings needing a re-alignment.

He said at the time: "I thought it would be different, in the sense of what we were told.

"I want to be careful how I describe it because of some other things going on. I had a basic understanding of what our probably SCMP would be from published figures but what we were not aware of was some of the things that would diminish that figure."

[Linden Jones' Tash]

Reading FC owner Rob Couhig has revealed that the shareholders have been paying £1 million nearly every month to bolster the club.

After a busy start to the January transfer window, and with Reading FC making a permanent signing in the winter transfer window for the first time in years, the Royals chairman has revealed that players isn't the only department receiving financial backing.

When asked about the financial position of the club following his takeover alongside investor and co-owner Todd Troslcair, he told The Reading Chronicle: "Strong.

"Todd and I put in a million pounds almost every month because we haven't drawn the crowds that we've expected to.

"We're limited in what we can spend on our players by SCMP."

He added: "We're not going to miss a bill. We're going to pay our bills."

Redwood Holdings, Couhig and Trosclair's consortium, completed the long-awaited takeover from former owner Dai Yongge in May last year.

During Yongge’s tenure the club fell from the brink of the Premier League to the brink of League Two, mired in financial difficulties for the last three years – including restrictions on Reading’s transfer budget and Salary Cost Management Protocol.

Whetting supporters' appetite by labelling the summer as 'potentially spectacular', Couhig and co-CEO Joe Jacobson explained to supporters how the club's Spending Cap Management Protocol work.

During their explanation, Couhig admitted that he and business partner Trosclair injected more money into the club to improve their financial muscle.

However, he also revealed that more money had exited the club than first anticipated, with the balance between incomings and outgoings needing a re-alignment.

He said at the time: "I thought it would be different, in the sense of what we were told.

"I want to be careful how I describe it because of some other things going on. I had a basic understanding of what our probably SCMP would be from published figures but what we were not aware of was some of the things that would diminish that figure."

So for absolute clarity - 'we put in £1M almost every month' means the club is losing around £12M/annum at the current rate of income vs expenditure...

Please correct me if I have misinterpreted the statement