Maguire I'm going to cheer if Swansea score.
I've had a Welsh Dragon tatooed on one Buttock and a picture of Rodgers on the other today.
I'll probably spontaneously combust if Swansea take all three points back over the Severn crossing.
by Royal With Cheese » 04 Oct 2010 23:08
Maguire I'm going to cheer if Swansea score.
by readingbedding » 05 Oct 2010 00:13
by Big Foot » 05 Oct 2010 00:47
by handbags_harris » 05 Oct 2010 09:17
by Wycombe Royal » 05 Oct 2010 09:20
floyd__streeteWycombe Royal Gutted that I am going to miss this one. Bloody wedding.........
^ same . See you at the wedding then, Wycombe?
by handbags_harris » 05 Oct 2010 09:30
Wycombe Royalfloyd__streeteWycombe Royal Gutted that I am going to miss this one. Bloody wedding.........
^ same . See you at the wedding then, Wycombe?
by Ryn » 05 Oct 2010 09:42
by royal-biscuit-man » 05 Oct 2010 11:12
oldebiscuitBig Foot
Reading vs Swansea is the undercard to the big one
You know what I'm talking about, Brendan Rodgers' return
In the blue corner we have Tim "bloody nice bloke" Dellor
In the red corner we have Brendan "Big Watch" Rodgers
Come on!!
Absolutely childish and pathetic thread. I don't think that any discernible Reading fan cares any more than the fact that we will be playing Swansea. Sadly, the 10 year old (mental age) mongs in Y26 will no doubt make the rest of us cringe with embarrassment when the 2 teams meet. Brendan was a decent man but it just didn't work out for him. He is highly rated in coaching circles and you kind of know it will work out somewhere else. Good luck for the future Brendan.
by Terminal Boardom » 05 Oct 2010 11:57
Ryn I could have handled the fact that he was a crap manager for us if it hadn't been for all the soundbytes that went with it.
World Class
Unlucky in defeat
Rub of the Green
Taking positives
Mourinho
The man was clearly deluded into believing his own hype. If he had been more magnanimous in defeat, more human, more open to his own failings then I think more people would have warmed to him and been more patient.
As it was he just came over as a trumped up arsehole. And nobody likes one of those.
by strap » 05 Oct 2010 12:19
Terminal Boardom Under Rodgers, we played some of the most ineffective, sterile, and passionless football I have ever seen from a Reading team. Quite simply, he was the wrong man at the wrong time. The press conferences and media soundbites that he gave were the most ridiculous, supercilious and fawning that I have ever heard from a Reading Manager. He should never have been given the gig.
by brendywendy » 05 Oct 2010 12:29
by Maguire » 05 Oct 2010 12:41
readingbedding Epitaph.
He cheered when Swansea scored.
by Stuka » 05 Oct 2010 13:02
Mike HuntTerminal Boardom Under Rodgers, we played some of the most ineffective, sterile, and passionless football I have ever seen from a Reading team. Quite simply, he was the wrong man at the wrong time. The press conferences and media soundbites that he gave were the most ridiculous, supercilious and fawning that I have ever heard from a Reading Manager. He should never have been given the gig.
Well said.
But I do believe that he has the right team in Swansea, they already play "passing" football.
by Big Foot » 05 Oct 2010 13:34
brendywendy not sure why anyone cares about his return, and even less so understand why anyone would want to boo or abuse the bloke. he loved the club, tried his best, and didnt oxf*rd us over when he left.
he deserves nothing but our complete apathy
by watfordroyal » 05 Oct 2010 14:54
by Silver Fox » 05 Oct 2010 15:13
Maguirereadingbedding Epitaph.
He cheered when Swansea scored.
Well I certainly hope i'm not going to die
by Terminal Boardom » 05 Oct 2010 15:45
by floyd__streete » 06 Oct 2010 11:35
by Svlad Cjelli » 06 Oct 2010 13:33
floyd__streete ...... What I would say is that only an idiot would have accepted the poisoned chalice of trying to replace our best ever manager, Steve Coppell. Brendan Rodgers was that idiot.
by Stuka » 06 Oct 2010 13:59
floyd__streete I don’t share the view that Rodgers wasn’t given a fair chance at Reading. Although he also had to sell key players, unlike McDermott Rodgers was able to invest a good chunk of that money on new signings (Mills didn’t come cheap, neither did MacAnuff, Rasiak). 6 months in the job doesn’t seem like very long but the reality is that with 5 wins in 21 league games we were struggling badly and the much discussed budget shortfall would have been even harder to plug on crowds of 8,000 in League One because that is where we were heading. Compared to Sousa at Leicester and a good many more managers who have been axed after short spells in charge at clubs in recent times (Leicester themselves also sacked Martin Allen 3 or 4 years ago who was in the job for barely 3 months), Rodgers had a reasonable crack of the whip. Rodgers and his sympathisers moaned at the time that he was starting to turn the corner when he was sacked, but in his last 4 games we recorded just 4 points and the last couple of games under his tenure comprised of a staggering 1-1 home draw against relegation favourites Scunthorpe in a game we entirely dominated and just a few days before that a quite horrific capitulation against a struggling Palace side.
Rodgers would most likely have been afforded a lot more patience by the supporters if he didn’t come out with such horrific psychobabble guff in almost every post-match press-conference after the defeats stacked up; when you’ve just seen your side blow a 2-0 lead and lose to a hopeless Peterborough side you don’t want to hear about Chelsea and World Class Models. And the absolute mess up he made of the Tommy Smith saga by speaking publicly about the desire of the player to join us was probably the most enduring memory of his hopeless and frustrating spell at Reading. Perhaps he will go on and have good success at Swansea, the culture there probably matches more closely to what he was trying to achieve at Reading. What I would say is that only an idiot would have accepted the poisoned chalice of trying to replace our best ever manager, Steve Coppell. Brendan Rodgers was that idiot.
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