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...

Of course it's oxf*rd stupid. If we never did anything oxf*rd stupid none of us would be here or support Reading.

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...

I think I preferred my way of just going with the max and letting games played take care of it quickly.

Brain currently melting.

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...

Hendo

Snowflake Royal It really has been a great reset, hasn't it.

Oh aye, great - super relaxing without any major dramas!

I don't recall anyone saying resets were relaxing or drama free.

It really has been a great reset, hasn't it.

All these people pissing their pants and thinking we could still go down is quite frankly hilarious, we are effectively 10 points clear with a few to play, I know we`ve had a few oxf*rd ups in recent years but you have Vale that have won 2 out of 19 needing to win 3 out of 4, and Burton who have lo...

All these people pissing their pants and thinking we could still go down is quite frankly hilarious, we are effectively 10 points clear with a few to play, I know we`ve had a few oxf*rd ups in recent years but you have Vale that have won 2 out of 19 needing to win 3 out of 4, and Burton who have lo...

The parties will need to go in depth into expensive legal and financial analysis, that then gets reviewed, amendements proposed and negotiated, projections and models created etc. etc. Most of this I assume will not have been done before exclusivity because lawyers and accountants cost a lot of mon...

Benchmark for me are the Portsmouth and Bolton away games. What did they have over us, to turn us over so emphatically. Style of play? Fast wide players? Quality of player in certain positions? Match off against that with what we have now and we would be just fine, if we can find that type of playe...

Winners of Division 2 (2nd tier) since 1994 94-95 Middlesbrough - 82 95-96 Sunderland - 83 96-97 Bolton - 98 97-98 Forest - 94 98-99 Sunderland - 105 99-00 Charlton - 91 00-01 Fulham - 101 01-02 Man City - 99 02-03 Portsmouth - 98 03-04 Norwich - 94 04-05 Sunderland - 94 05-06 Reading - 106 06-07 S...

As the players came over, he was gesticulating wildly at his team on the bench to get everyone involved. Those sometimes-weird moments earlier in the season where he insisted players applaud the fans starting to really reap benefits. I think those insistences actually cost us points. We were weirdl...

Sometimes I think about Sunderland fans when they had the record - they must've thought it would never be taken, only for us to beat it a couple of years later. They beat their own record after a couple of years as well didn't they? Having taken it off Fulham? Winners of Division 2 (2nd tier) since...

Hendo Sometimes I think about Sunderland fans when they had the record - they must've thought it would never be taken, only for us to beat it a couple of years later.

They beat their own record after a couple of years as well didn't they? Having taken it off Fulham?