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by WAZZOCK
12 Sep 2018 20:52
Forum: The Team
Topic: Gourlay
Replies: 298
Views: 101225

Re: Gourlay

Some help needed. Nigel Howe used to be the CEO, he didn't sign players. He would have had a say in determining budgets and signing off contracts but actually signing players was not his job. Gourlay now does the same job. So there are none of 'his signings'. Who we sign is down to Teverenden and C...
by WAZZOCK
10 Sep 2018 21:44
Forum: The Team
Topic: Gourlay
Replies: 298
Views: 101225

Re: Gourlay

The bloke has to be on borrowed time. I have no issues with the owners and don’t think any fans should, we could have owners that pick the team etc but we don’t, they’ve invested (record signing, summer 2017, Moore situ where they could have cashed in) and let the football side get on with it. I wi...
by WAZZOCK
05 Sep 2018 13:50
Forum: The Team
Topic: Madejski Out
Replies: 69
Views: 19198

Re: Madejski Out

If sir John had just taken the risk and invested in our great 2006 side we could have been a Bournemouth or Brighton, instead he was scared of the huge costs of sustaining PL survival. I still don't believe all that TV money went out on wages, Bournemouth get crowds of 11.000 for Christ sake. it wa...
by WAZZOCK
01 Sep 2018 18:52
Forum: The Team
Topic: Gourlay
Replies: 298
Views: 101225

Re: Gourlay

Thrown contracts to average players like they're going out of fashion. Kept Stam on to a point where we almost went down and has given the green light to sign has been and distinctly average players unlike young promising ones like Ben Wilmot, Marcus Maddison, Bradley Dack and Jack Marriott. Big ou...
by WAZZOCK
31 Aug 2018 21:17
Forum: The Team
Topic: Gourlay
Replies: 298
Views: 101225

Re: Gourlay

Find all the whining about Gourlay a little embarrassing tbh +1 Wazzock in particular seriously damages any credibility his complaints or knowledge of the situation might have by being so unnecessarily vitriolic. It is with no intention that my outspoken thoughts on the situation have come across a...
by WAZZOCK
31 Aug 2018 21:09
Forum: The Team
Topic: Gourlay
Replies: 298
Views: 101225

Re: Gourlay

Apologies if touched on already, but Mr Gourlay recently saw off the marketing chap who was helping with the South Stand home fans thing, and he's since brought in his own man. Worse still, Gourlay's idea of improving the atmosphere is........... A MARCHING BAND! As I understand it this was dismiss...
by WAZZOCK
29 Aug 2018 19:34
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Watford (h) sponsored by a difficulty to enthuse
Replies: 134
Views: 27372

Re: MATCHWATCH : Watford (h) sponsored by a difficulty to enthuse

Watford will have more fans than us at today’s game. Our fat CEO is turning us into a laughing stock Don't like him but when have we ever had large crowds for early round league cup games? 14/15 - Newport 6,459 16/17 - Plymouth 6,979 & MK Dons 6,848 17/18 - Gillingham 5,936 & Millwall 7,148...
by WAZZOCK
29 Aug 2018 18:45
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Watford (h) sponsored by a difficulty to enthuse
Replies: 134
Views: 27372

Re: MATCHWATCH : Watford (h) sponsored by a difficulty to enthuse

Watford will have more fans than us at today’s game.

Our fat CEO is turning us into a laughing stock
by WAZZOCK
25 Aug 2018 15:27
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Summer Transfers
Replies: 566
Views: 176303

Re: Summer Transfers

Because Gourlay shares the same agent as Walker and has clearly struck up a deal to pocket some of the signing on the fee. The same can be said for the majority of players we have signed under his tenure. The bloke is taking us all for a ride, and pocketing a fortune in the process. There literally...
by WAZZOCK
24 Aug 2018 09:47
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Summer Transfers
Replies: 566
Views: 176303

Re: Summer Transfers

Why did we sign Sam Walker when we have Jaakkola as back up already and several talented youth goalkeepers Because Gourlay shares the same agent as Walker and has clearly struck up a deal to pocket some of the signing on the fee. The same can be said for the majority of players we have signed under...
by WAZZOCK
22 Aug 2018 08:32
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Do we really have billionaire owners?
Replies: 45
Views: 20593

Re: Do we really have billionaire owners?

Like many I suspect I was disappointed by the level of spending on transfers this season. The cost of relegation to Div 1 I guess would be substantial in the long term.The question is therefore why wasn't more money made available to Clements to bring in a couple of good strikers including a decent...
by WAZZOCK
20 Aug 2018 21:17
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG - Bolton
Replies: 218
Views: 52210

Re: BFTG - Bolton

We came within a pen of going up. Would have been the first team in history to do so with a negative goal difference. Impossible to plaster over the ravines of some of the seasons results. Promoted teams need a foundation. Winning or losing by an odd goal is a fine margin. Difficult to see how you ...
by WAZZOCK
20 Aug 2018 21:14
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG - Bolton
Replies: 218
Views: 52210

Re: BFTG - Bolton

Ian, we don't need to drop. We came within a pen of going up. Cardiff were bottom, a year later PL. No surprise, and no 5 year plan. Burnley went up, stayed up, now in Europe. Bournemouth stayed up Hudders went up No massive budgets with these teams, then or now. Bournemouth’s budget was humongous ...
by WAZZOCK
20 Aug 2018 06:26
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG - Bolton
Replies: 218
Views: 52210

Re: BFTG - Bolton

We wouldn't want to bounce straight back. It would be a 5 year plan, remember? :wink: But seriously, re. League 1, doubt RG and BT have the nous for that, and they would not relish working there (nor would Clement, for that matter). So, if we drop, suspect it would all be 'chop and change', regardl...
by WAZZOCK
19 Aug 2018 22:14
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG - Bolton
Replies: 218
Views: 52210

Re: BFTG - Bolton

Good to see the usual level of patience and perspective from the Reading fans on here :D :roll: I'm a pessimistic fan, always have been. I thought that our squad was poor before the summer dealings and not a lot better afterwards. So I wasn't expecting much from this season to begin with. Clement h...
by WAZZOCK
19 Aug 2018 22:12
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG - Bolton
Replies: 218
Views: 52210

Re: BFTG - Bolton

Good to see the usual level of patience and perspective from the Reading fans on here :D :roll: I'm a pessimistic fan, always have been. I thought that our squad was poor before the summer dealings and not a lot better afterwards. So I wasn't expecting much from this season to begin with. Clement h...
by WAZZOCK
19 Aug 2018 10:26
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Club 1871 - the What, When, Where, How, Who & Why Thread
Replies: 2099
Views: 474259

Re: Club 1871 - the What, When, Where, How, Who & Why Thread

Baiting is 90% of football atmosphere. They should be doing more. Just stood in y26 without the holier/louder than thou mentality. Retrospective baiting of course. However at that point in the game, we hadn’t heard the a peep out of the Bolton fans and the RFC fans in the South Stand actually sound...
by WAZZOCK
18 Aug 2018 22:04
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Club 1871 - the What, When, Where, How, Who & Why Thread
Replies: 2099
Views: 474259

Re: Club 1871 - the What, When, Where, How, Who & Why Thread

The South Standers were in good voice at the start of the game, but I was disappointed to hear some of the petty and irrelevant baiting of the Bolton fans around the half hour mark. It was completely pointless at that point and only succeeded in making the largely silent away fans start singing - is...
by WAZZOCK
18 Aug 2018 21:32
Forum: The Team
Topic: BROBOT OUT!!!!
Replies: 118
Views: 29301

Re: Clement OUT!!!!

Royal_jimmy The issue is far above the manager. We are suffering because of poor signings, poor board and managerial appointments.

The Dai's, Gourlay and Tevreden need to go.


Not Tevreden, he has been stitched up as much as the rest of us.
by WAZZOCK
18 Aug 2018 18:04
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Hammond
Replies: 26
Views: 10578

Re: Hammond

I know this is a discussion on Hammond, but given there is talk about BT I thought I would weigh in on that topic. In BT’s first full season as DoF (or equivalent) he was managed by the very experienced Howe, who allowed him to get on with his job. During this season we unearthed some gems and ende...
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