Cardiff City given a transfer embargo by EFL for non-submission of 24/25 accounts by the 31 December deadline. This means Cardiff cannot sign any players during the current window until they send in the figures. So have Reading done theirs yet then given Cardiff haven’t and have been accordingly do...

Of course you go for promotion - it's been the new owners' explicitly objective from the start of the season. Staying in League 1 costs them £10M a year... The costs of the Championship might be higher, but the rewards are greater also and the possibility of flipping the club if they want to... They...

Did we have these conversations when we started the Season with Ballard, Smith, Kelvin E, Wareham, Knibbs....

Surely a number of quality forwards who can score goals is a good thing?

Thinking more realistically with what we've been told about the new ownership, what would the AI prompt look like for the 'ideal' CF needed from Jan til May? Desired attributes in order of priority...? The script you'd give our Head of AI to enter into the exclusive AI algorithm & database Readi...

Sutekh Rather have Ricardo Montalbán

Upfront with Hervé Villechaize as the classic striker combination?...

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘th...

I'm irrationally annoyed that Reading has an 'a' in it, given the name is supposedly derived from a Red Haired Viking who set up camp here 1500 years ago...

Redding would be so much simpler and less confusing for scholars...

According to the Internet, the top three sales from clubs in League 1 are:
£11M (Lookman)
£8M (Delph)
£3.5M (Barnett)

The idea that a League 1 club can regularly sell a player for £10M while in League 1 to subsidise a Cat 1 academy is very ambitious...

Players of Olise’s quality don’t come along every 3 years and we’d be selling for about 1.5m to a champ club now rather than 10m to a prem team with us being L1 Agreed - whilst it's lovely to have a Cat 1 Acadeny and brag about it, the money to run it will be at the expense of other things, such as...

Successful first team vs. Cat 1 academy... Based on where Reading FC are today, I'm not sure it's even that hard a choice... Given the days of billionaires sugar daddies appear to be behind us, sustaining a Cat 1 academy on League 1 income is a luxury... Even if RC is sticking with it, the money has...

Would prefer Hugh Janus, brother of Samantha (actor for those of my vintage)...

Reading FC has only once reported a profit in the last 25 years....

Profit maximisation is a misnomer - Loss minimisation is a more appropriate term for our predicament - with different degrees - extreme, moderate, unsustainable...

Is it time to slay some sacred cows?

Switch up the midfield - the current recipe isn't working

Change the formation... to better suit the players we have...

Change the Captaincy...can a different voice make more of an in-game impact....

Additional observations: I thought the substitutions were odd tonight. Kelvin E taken off just as he'd scored and was probably buzzing.... Two full backs swapped in the last 10 minutes when we were looking for an equaliser....? And in addition to our fundamental problem (midfield isn't working), we ...

Don't worry, the AI scouting system Reading is piloting will unearth an unpolished gem from the Uzbekistan second tier.

Michael Gilkes... Simod Cup final... At Wembley in front of 61,000 fans... Wingers at Wembley that day was your man Jones and Neil Smilie - Gilkes played up front with Tait that game. But admittedly Gilkes changed many a game as a winger I suppose... I would class Gilkes as a winger and the thread ...

Michael Gilkes...

Simod Cup final...

At Wembley in front of 61,000 fans...

What's happened to Elliott & Ahmed?

Orion1871 PA system was awful today. Waste of money?

Agreed, in the ED stand it was very muffled....

Maybe, like the hand sanitiser, they just took the speakers away so we can't complain about them because they don't exist anymore

No idea what the notice means.

However, a quick google confirms the company Knights acted on behalf of the previous owner...

https://www.knightsplc.com/knights-news ... s-limited/

Maybe an expert can elucidate further...