People might say it's "a shambles", "we're playing Man Utd in a few days", "we should have had a manager ready" Has anyone considered the fact that the next two games, Man Utd away and Arsenal away are unwinnable? Tbh it is virtually irrelevant who takes charge of thes...

People might say it's "a shambles", "we're playing Man Utd in a few days", "we should have had a manager ready" Has anyone considered the fact that the next two games, Man Utd away and Arsenal away are unwinnable? Tbh it is virtually irrelevant who takes charge of these...

The difference between fascism and nazism is a matter of debate. In most respects they are virtually the same except the extreme form of racial engineering practised by the nazis which has never been a central tenet of fascism. Fascism does explain the Nazi's discrimination of Jews, gypsies, disabl...

Will people stop quoting the dailymail? Surely even a football forum does not have to stoop to such depths.

Austin/Wickham/Cox/Carr you do realise that you still have to pay these players for ten+ years , and that training and coaching etc all costs money, and that keeping players in the reserves for years upsets players and makes them not want to stay A youth contract is £55 per week. This is less than ...

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I have read this, and a few others like it. However, the general expert giving their opinion seems to be the likes of Stan Collymore.

Oh well we better believe the wife beater then

My point exactly. His opinion and much of the media's opinion on Reading is of absolutely no value.

It's interesting that almost every single piece of commentary I've read in papers today suggests this was a silly decision, whereas this board appears to have the opposite view. Have the journalists and so called experts been following Reading this season? other than looking at the occasional resul...

It's interesting that almost every single piece of commentary I've read in papers today suggests this was a silly decision, whereas this board appears to have the opposite view. Have the journalists and so called experts been following Reading this season? other than looking at the occasional resul...

Interesting reading http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2291987/Brian-McDermott-sacked-Where-Reading-here.html Good read. Agreed with pretty much all of that. I wonder how many of these journalists and supporters of other clubs would be slagging off Anton (or other owner) if it was th...

cant keep everyone. sometimes its best for the player to move downwards, and they then go on to improve and become good enough. this doesnt mean it was the wrong decision for th eclub Indeed, would Austin/Wickham/Cox/Carr have developed if they stayed? Would Church have developed if he left? I'm so...

warnock all day long. proven record of promotion to the prem If we just wanted promotion to the Prem then we would've kept McDermott. The aim is to gain promotion and then stay there. the question was: warnock or dicanio the answer to which is warnock all day long. if you want to add it other varia...

melonhead warnock all day long.


proven record of promotion to the prem

If we just wanted promotion to the Prem then we would've kept McDermott. The aim is to gain promotion and then stay there.

The only reason, which makes any sense, to sack Brian at this point is the team management deciding we need to go in a new direction in terms of style of play and the type of players we have on the team. And that is going to take money to implement. If we just hire another "successful Champion...

According to some reports we let him go last summer. Oh dear.

Bloody hell. Just found out this 18 year old non-league striker that Chelsea and Liverpool are fighting over came through Reading's youth team. Not sure if this has already been discussed didn't see it anywhere. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/daniel-carr-liverpool-trial-ten-1756368 Our ...

recently we acquired a new owner, and the club is evolving and hopefully growing. The only person going backwards is you, you are clearly not optimistic or even bothered about the club progressing. We had a good opportunity to grow as a club this season. Unfortunately we wasted this opportunity and...

No it's fukking dull. Losing every week is dull. If the board and management had invested and acted like we wanted to stay in the Premiership, we would've been able to compete most weeks, not just attempting to hold on until the last minute and nick a win. Can you honestly say that our first season...

This club will never progress to anything other than a mid table Premier League side. That is as far as it can go so all this we need to grow rubbish is absolutely pointless. You do not get to run onto a pitch celebrating mid table. A recent poll on this board showed that Reading fans, by a large m...

I don't give a toss about the other spivs on here trying to be flavour of the month (didn't hear ya when BM won MOTM) and chipping in with your jibes. This was a shocking decision, if not for the intention, but the timing and the manner of it. Those who believe BM is culpable for us being in this p...

He's clearly a complete mentalist, but I'm not sure his supposed 'fascism' arises from anything other than a need for belonging rather than genuine beliefs. His actions, as the article states, are more out of compulsion and passion rather than clinical political beliefs. Are his views any more radi...