Where will Reading finish in the Premiership 2007/8?

[Katie Marsden]

Personally I feel we'll finish around 12-14th. We missed our chance to make Europe last season and push on. With some disappointing activity in the transfer market so far this summer theres no way we'll match or better last seasons 8th place.

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

i know your fishing and everything but jeeezus
is our 4th record transfer fee in 3 years not good enough for you?

How is it fishing?

We've signed 2 unproven young players that have NEVER played football in England before. We've lost Sidwell and our best right winger has serious fitness problems.

A prediction of mid table is about right I'd say.

[RobRoyal]

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

My God, Reading FC are supposedly safe from relegation from the premiership. And we're supposed to be disappointed because "we missed our chance to make Europe"?

Midtable would represent yet another stratospheric achievement in the context of the club (and the tens of millions spent in the transfer market this summer).

[sheshnu]

disappointing activity in the transfer market

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

I think I will wait until I've seen Cisse and Fae in action before I brand them disappointing. Indeed, I may even wait until the transfer window has closed.

No hope of Europe? Presumably you mean like last season. I hope you're right about being safe from relegation though

[Katie Marsden]

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

My God, Reading FC are supposedly safe from relegation from the premiership. And we're supposed to be disappointed because "we missed our chance to make Europe"?

Midtable would represent yet another stratospheric achievement in the context of the club (and the tens of millions spent in the transfer market this summer).

Feel free to show me where I said finishing mid table would be disappointing.

Oh, good luck. You'll be needing it.

A few seasons in mid table while the ground is expanded would be fine, then we can have a crack at Europe.

[Vision]

Personally I feel we'll finish around 12-14th. We missed our chance to make Europe last season and push on. With some disappointing activity in the transfer market so far this summer theres no way we'll match or better last seasons 8th place.

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

i know your fishing and everything but jeeezus
is our 4th record transfer fee in 3 years not good enough for you?

How is it fishing?

We've signed 2 unproven young players that have NEVER played football in England before. We've lost Sidwell and our best right winger has serious fitness problems.

A prediction of mid table is about right I'd say.

To be fair thats pretty much how i feel. Of course the 2 signings may actually prove to be better , but at this stage its impossible to say.

Would be more than happy with 12th

[brendywendy]

Personally I feel we'll finish around 12-14th. We missed our chance to make Europe last season and push on. With some disappointing activity in the transfer market so far this summer theres no way we'll match or better last seasons 8th place.

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

i know your fishing and everything but jeeezus
is our 4th record transfer fee in 3 years not good enough for you?

How is it fishing?

We've signed 2 unproven young players that have NEVER played football in England before. We've lost Sidwell and our best right winger has serious fitness problems.

A prediction of mid table is about right I'd say.

not arguing with that, would in fqact bite your hand off for it

my main point, lost in my poor delivery was that
im not sure how anyone could be upset-transfer policy wise- with a club who broke their transfer fee 4 times in 3 years.


lost one first team player-on a free to someone offering 50kPW
brought in two replacements-one of whon looks to be playing, and has intergrated into the team, very well indeed
the other we beat off attention from giants of football including bordeaux, dynamo moscow, and man city for.
plus a bid accepted but refused by the player for a scots man who is now playing for celtic

who would you rather have bought, koumas?kamara?bent? or any of the overpriced unproven players on offer at the minute
if not then whom?

[RobRoyal]

No danger of relegation, no hope of Europe.

My God, Reading FC are supposedly safe from relegation from the premiership. And we're supposed to be disappointed because "we missed our chance to make Europe"?

Midtable would represent yet another stratospheric achievement in the context of the club (and the tens of millions spent in the transfer market this summer).

Feel free to show me where I said finishing mid table would be disappointing.

Oh, good luck. You'll be needing it.

A few seasons in mid table while the ground is expanded would be fine, then we can have a crack at Europe.

Thanks for the good luck wishes, they weren't necessary. Implicit in your post is the idea that "par" achievement for the club at this stage was qualification for Europe last year and "pushing on" this year, and that we should be entitled to "match or better" last season. This isn't likely, you say, because of "disappointing activity in the transfer market" - implicitly, then, the sort of activity we should have produced would have seen us equal or better last year's achievement.

I think that's pretty unrealistic, both of our buying power in the current market and the chances of even a greatly improved squad equaling last seasons finish which, frankly, was pretty much the best possible with our means.

Fair enough if you didn't mean to make out that 12-14th would be a disappointment, but any prediction that uses last season as a benchmark is either expecting too much.

[Katie Marsden]

I was disappointed because last season was probably the best chance we'll have of finishing in the European places. It was a one off.

This season I'd be happy with mid table.

[floyd__streete]

You are fast becoming a caricature of yourself. I think that the only person who w@nks over Sidwell as you so typically delicately put it is Krystell

Try looking in the mirror

Steve Sidwell was a credit to himself and our club the way he played when his contract was coming to an end throughout last season. He now moves on to a better paying employer without any churlish wishes of ill will towards on my part. Perhaps that makes me a bigger man than you, that's not for me to say.

I am sure we will both agree, Woodcote, that whatever Sidwell goes on to do from now on is an utter irrelevance as far as the ever-important matter of Reading Football Club is concerned and equally it is most pleasing to see that we have signed not one but two decent looking replacements for the outgoing player.

[bassavage]

We'll finish 12th.

[Southbank Old Boy]

Bump

[londinium]

So for many people this season has been dissapointing, but that is mainly because we did so well last season with very little investment and playing most of the season without our top goalscorer. In truth we set ourselves up for a fall by perfoming so well with what was (and still is) basically a championship side, albeit a very good, record breaking one.

Where did people think we would realistically end up this season? Were people expecting improvement? Did they think that we would end up mid table or were there those who thought we would end up in a relegation dogfight (which is where most expected we would be in the previous campaign).

Personally I thought we would end up behind the big four, obviously, thought both Spurs and Everton would fill the next 2 places and the top half be rounded off by Blackburn, Pompey, West Ham and Newcastle.

I thought the bottom 6 would compile of Derby(bankers to be bottom),Brum, Fulham, Wigan, Bolton, Sunderland.

That just leaves 4 places between us, Man City, Boro and Villa of which I though Boro and Villa would be above us and City below us, which makes by my reckoning us finishing 13th.

It is unlikey that we will end up there, more likely, 14,15 or 16th, so all in all for me a disappointing season but not a lot less than I would expect.

Yes we have to spend next season like everybody keeps saying but the 14 or so team that are better than us will also spend and by there nature they are better than us to start with and have more to spend than we do as they get more for finishing higher than us and also most have a lot more income than we do (i.e. Villa, City et al) as they get vastly bigger crowds. So to even just keep up will be a huge struggle. I am just pleased to be here at the moment and realise that how ever hard it will be for us next season I can console myself in the fact that it will be even harder for the 3 teams that come up.

So where do you think we would finish?

[Royal Rother]

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[weybridgewanderer]

somewhere in the bottom half

we have met my expectations for the season

[Hampshire Royal]

First!! I'm really p1ssed off!!

[londinium]

http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=64555&start=80

So why do people moan and moan and moan when we will finish exactly where the VAST majority of people thought we would?

Thanks for the Dodding, I really should trawl back through 8 months of threads before I make my own.

[Old Biscuitman]

I predicted 15th when this question was asked in pre-season. I think that I will be one place out.

[Royalee]

I said 7th, but didn't expect Coppell to throw away points like he has done.

[londinium]

I said 7th, but didn't expect Coppell to throw away points like he has done.

I admire your optimism and can only think that you know absolutely nothing about football to even contemplate us finishing that high.

[Royalee]

I said 7th, but didn't expect Coppell to throw away points like he has done.

I admire your optimism and can only think that you know absolutely nothing about football to even contemplate us finishing that high.

We finished 8th last season, which I predicted - I expect you probably had us relegated last year so I doubt you know that much about football yourself.