What Are Your Wants/Expectations For RFC?

[brendywendy]

my wants and needs


that the club remain competetive each season, and give me a modicum of entertainment in home games.
that the club will continue to buy cheap and sell big, and use the academy to add to our squad, maintaining our financial stability.
that our owner doesnt interfere with the running of the football club.
that the manager is given the resources he feels will achieve point 1.
that the players give 100% in every game.

sbout it

[mr_number]

To be profitable and in the Championship.

Hi John!

[BR2]

I did a great long post that (others might be relieved to know) got wiped out when the site went into overload with the new signing.
Amongst a lot of other things broadly my take was that with a life expectancy average of about 17 years to go and big problems with my eyesight meaning that I may have no longer than about 7-8 years of following Reading left I would like the club to spend loads of money and get back to the Premier League quickly.
It is a selfish desire because the long-term future of the club is irrelevant to me.

As our chairman is even older than me he might not be around for much longer so I would advocate that he sells the club at a knock-down price to Richard Branson,an entrepeneur who still has balls and would bring greater business acumen to the club.
Unfortunately I have this feeling that our chairman wouldn't want somebody else to have the glory to which he aspires and if the club became Virgin RFC it would probably kill him off.
If he doesn't sell and pegs out the beneficiaries will probably do what most beneficiaries do and sell up as quickly as possible to the highest bidder who could be the biggest gangster of all time rather than the very nice man that our chairman has been seeking for years.

So spend now as there really is not too much to lose as the quality of players would be good enough to have a resale value if it all goes tits up.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

BEST DAYS OF RFC HAVE COME AND GONE

downhill now

[Hampshire Royal]

All I want from Reading is that we try and play football in the 'right' way. I don't want to see us play like Wimbledon of old, successful as they were, or Bolton of recent years. I want to see us win (obviously) but not at all costs with players deliberately fouling opponents (a la Colin's Championship teams). I want us to be aggressive, but sporting.

To be honest, I don't really care what division we're in although the higher the better.

[PEARCEY]

Without an answer to my question 'would we be bankrupt had we not sold Long and Mills?'/, I see your post as contradictory, HB. You don't expect us to keep our best players, or buy quality replacements, but you don't want the club to sit on its laurels? The management has to make a decision as to whether it is a club striving for promotion, or a club happy to dot around the lower divisions forever and a day.

We've had a taste of the big time - I've seen the club change from a bits and pieces local club with no money and a shit ground in a Reading housing estate into what in many respects represented the model developing club, a real force to be reckoned with in the lower divisions, a club going somewhere with a terrific infrastructure, ground, academy and growing support base.

But we've been resting on our laurels for four years. We have pissed this all away since we came 8th in the Premier League, our chairman lost his will and bottle to keep us up, and since we nearly qualified for Europe and it has been a slow decline since. And yes, I'll inlcude last season in that. Brian McDermott should be knighted for what he did with that squad last year, it was ill-prepared for the big time, and we'd have been at serious risk of 'doing a Derby' had we beaten Swansea, without some serious money being spent. There's been some smirking at Swansea on the GF board, but their current squad is light years ahead of what we might have gone up with.

For years I have wanted and expected the club to build on the fantastic leaps forward it made and become an established Premier League side, nevermind 'the new Arsenal', but the amount of hot air that we get from the club is choking. Make your mind up, state what our goals are, and show us how you are going to achieve them. No more 'we want promotion' bullshit.

Good post.

[Ian Royal]

I expect us to be competitive and stay above League One. I want to see us top half championship or better in the majority of our seasons and competing for promotion to the Premiership in at least 2 out of 5 seasons.

I expect us to get promoted to the Prem again within the next 10 years.

I want to see good young players come through our set up and play a big part in the first team. I want to see us continue to be financially sound and run in an honest manner. I want us to continue to go about things with decorum, respect and passion.

[Arch]

We've finished in the top thirty for nine years in a row. I'd both hope and expect we'd minimally continue that at least to a round decade.

[Mike Hunt]

Without an answer to my question 'would we be bankrupt had we not sold Long and Mills?'/, I see your post as contradictory, HB. You don't expect us to keep our best players, or buy quality replacements, but you don't want the club to sit on its laurels? The management has to make a decision as to whether it is a club striving for promotion, or a club happy to dot around the lower divisions forever and a day.

We've had a taste of the big time - I've seen the club change from a bits and pieces local club with no money and a shit ground in a Reading housing estate into what in many respects represented the model developing club, a real force to be reckoned with in the lower divisions, a club going somewhere with a terrific infrastructure, ground, academy and growing support base.

But we've been resting on our laurels for four years. We have pissed this all away since we came 8th in the Premier League, our chairman lost his will and bottle to keep us up, and since we nearly qualified for Europe and it has been a slow decline since. And yes, I'll inlcude last season in that. Brian McDermott should be knighted for what he did with that squad last year, it was ill-prepared for the big time, and we'd have been at serious risk of 'doing a Derby' had we beaten Swansea, without some serious money being spent. There's been some smirking at Swansea on the GF board, but their current squad is light years ahead of what we might have gone up with.

For years I have wanted and expected the club to build on the fantastic leaps forward it made and become an established Premier League side, nevermind 'the new Arsenal', but the amount of hot air that we get from the club is choking. Make your mind up, state what our goals are, and show us how you are going to achieve them. No more 'we want promotion' bullshit.

Good post.

+1

I also want the team in the premier league, so I can watch them on TV every week.

[westendgirl]

I also want the team in the premier league, so I can watch them on TV every week.

I understand why this works for you but for me that was I hated about the Prem - yes we could see more of the game on the box, which was great especially if you missed the game but I really hated all those armchair fans of football who never took any notice of Reading before who suddenly became experts and told me exactly what we are doing wrong.

My hopes are for a stable club (I would hate the experience of a Pompey fan), good football so I look forward to the games whatever the result (though wins are best), seeing young players come good (which probably means not the Prem), feeling the club is still a local 'business' and not a global 'business' and sweetness light and positivity on HNA

[Here for the KEBE]

I DON'T want a rich owner to come in and put ticket prices up by 45% to show other teams that we are a rich club like QPR are doing, I'm happy enough in the Championship if we show more intent to sign decent players this year. I don't want EVERY year to be a rebuilding year