I really don't rate Mukairu. He's just not very good. Too many mistakes and poor decisions. Surely not here next season, so why is he playing at this stage?
Reading spent the second-highest amount on agent fees (league One) in the last 12 months only Derby spent more than £434k I am rather surprised by this given all of our spending restrictions anyone. Is this needs must, or do we deserve less sympathy than we thought? Are you? I’d have thought it was...
Ambiguity, the curse of the internet ! It still seems reasonable to suggest that a decision put forward as being bad might not actually have been bad over the longer term. The appointment of Selles would have been considered bad by many, but has proved to be pretty good. Just shows you have to give...
So if Champions is 136 Auto is 133? - win everything except the two against top... one of which is a draw... POs 108? I'm relatively confident on that... That's all good. But then for 20th, you need the max points the team in 21st could get whilst still being 21st, so pretty low totals for the top h...
Why would you want to start an argument ? Seems fairly uncontroversial to suggest that particular example might have been ok when looked at over the season. Argument, in the sense of: Noun - a reason or set of reasons given in support of an idea, action or theory. Ambiguity, the curse of the intern...
The temptation to set it up as: Champions - 138 Promotion - 138 Play offs - 138 Survival - 138 And track all 4 is there. But keeping it up would be a mammoth ballache. That's wrong...champions is 136, beat 22 sides home and away and take 4 points from the 23rd side guarantees it. And play-offs is w...
If next season starts well, I can see the average attendance reaching the 17k mark. Good for the team and also good financially. 3k extra tickets must be about £50k more revenue a game, so c. £1m a season which is significant in L1. Fixture list will have an impact; midweek attendances are always l...
For me, the most positive thing to come out of this season is the re-connection between the fans and the people on the pitch. We all know that you can't expect to see your team every single match, we do however expect to see effort and commitment from the players, and we're getting that now after w...
The Athletic estimates their revenue will hit c. £20m this season due to the US presence and sponsors that the TV series has generated. That's a mid table Championship budget. If they can hit those sort of levels, promotion from L1 is definitely achievable, but probably beyond them next season give...
Or maybe it just hardened them up quickly, got them to see that it actually means something to the supporters rather them disappear off down the tunnel back into the closed world footballers exist in. We’ll never know but if it has paying dividends now a bit of short term downside has probably been...