didn't we get to a playoff final last year? otherwise, agreed People were saying that the club was dead after 15/16, then we got to the playoffs and we "had our club back", and now the club is dead again. I mean, we are horrendously shit this year, but the hyperbole just gets out of hand ...

I'm trying to think back to the last home game I genuinely enjoyed watching & the one that springs to mind is the last game in Reading v Burnley May 2014 under Adkins when McCleary scored that wonder goal. Was it 2-2 & we needed a win? None of the home games from the following 2 seasons are ...

Wasn't the football last season pretty tedious though? It certainly was in the PO final... I am nervous for Saturday I really am. Derby are chokers & could easily screw their game up. Likewise pressure could get to Preston. Bolton look the least likely to be up for a win but saying all that Fore...

Not posted on here for a good 2 years but been reading with interest. I am genuinely quite sad as to what has happened to RFC. Gave up my ST at end of 15/16 season thinking things were bad then, but my god it really has taken a turn for the worst. Thankful that Barnsley & Burton have Derby &...

8 pages in & not one mention of Steve Bruce. He's first on my list. Fantastic managerial record & massively underrated IMO.

Quite tempted to lump on us getting relegated TBH. Reckon we're hot favs judging by the loons we have in charge.

Lets be honest BM wasn't putting bums on seats. They need bums on seats. I can kind of see why they've done it but just flabbergasted as to why they appointed him at all. I feel desperately sorry for him as he doesn't deserve this treatment. Lets hope he can get his job back at Arsenal. None of it m...

I've successfully managed to remove Reading FC from my thoughts for quite some time but fcuk me wasn't expecting this today.



The cynic in me thinks this is to get season tickets renewals up.

Fcuking hell this club us a shambles now it really is.

Great interview just then on BBCRB. He knows how to make this club tick for sure. Looking forward to him getting a big roar on Sunday.

Love the way he says us & it just rolls off the tongue

<3

McDermott: "I'd had a few offers to come back but this one just felt right"

Lets all just be nice. It's Xmas & Brian is back.

Is it really necessary for posters on here to be so bloody rude towards each other?! Today is supposed to be a happy day after all.

*DR excluded obv

As E-P put it earlier (in this thread, I think) whatever style you play it looks shit if you're losing. We've been playing the possession-based short passing game for three years now and, generally, we've been shit at it and it's been fcuking painful watching us. Sure, there've been some decent spe...

I have mixed emotions about this. Brian is such a great guy & clearly cares about the club. Undoubtedly that's going to galvanise the fans which is definitely needed. However I can't be the only one remembering the ball being a hot potato & spending a lot of time in the air - us just punting...

Not stressed at all. Just expressing an opinion that English football is in a pretty crap state.

For now - I'd imagine all 3 will go out next round.

The quality of the football is poor. It shows throughout all 4 tiers & it also shows at international level. Not sure if it's down to the money or what it is but for me, English football is in the poorest state I can remember.

Who cares? I watch football to be entertained. Bit of a contradiction there! Is your definition of entertainment the underdog winning & not much else then? Isn't a large part of the entertainment watching good football :?: What is getting served up in the Prem & championship is fcuking sh*t...

Royal Rother Agreed, but the quality appears to be down.

Massively. The standard is really quite awful. For all the money floating about in the PL, it has no bearing on the end product. Poor, poor, poor.

Wonder if strap has some analysis on the decline of the HNA match threads over the past 3 years.... Sorry, I haven't keep those stats! I suppose I could got back and cont the posts in each match thread - but surely that would be too sad - even for me?! :) I suspect the results wouldn't make for goo...