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by tmesis
12 Jul 2025 21:55
Forum: The Team
Topic: What % of fans would disappear if we went down the divisions
Replies: 71
Views: 21959

Re: What % of fans would disappear if we went down the divis

This is the post of a cnut that has no friends and it's sat at home having a conversation with himself, imagining there is a reasoned debate going on amongst a number of in the know types. Yeah, we kind of worked that out when he resurrected a 5 and a half year old thread. also this. It seem Readin...
by tmesis
27 Jun 2025 23:31
Forum: General Football
Topic: Changes In Football thread
Replies: 174
Views: 35605

Re: Changes In Football thread

... as a lot of the issues he runs into is down to coaches/players thinking they know the rules when they don't, or intepret them incorrectly. They could solve a lot of that problem by making it compulsory for anyone commentating or summarising on TV to also have some form of referee badge... Or at...
by tmesis
27 Jun 2025 18:21
Forum: General Football
Topic: Old Timey Football Thread
Replies: 228
Views: 40060

Re: Old Timey Football Thread

I only learned today that in the 1982 world cup draw, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland were not allowed to be put into the same group as Argentina due to the Falklands war. The draw took place nearly three months before Argentina invaded, so unless FIFA had some inside information from the th...
by tmesis
19 Jun 2025 18:04
Forum: The Team
Topic: By Far The Greatest Team The World Has Ever Seen
Replies: 17
Views: 4330

Re: By Far The Greatest Team The World Has Ever Seen

I don’t think there are 600 odd better teams than us in the world. This is why the Club World Cup should include everyone. I actually really like this idea. Make the CWC a straight knockout tournament. The top 1024 teams based on those rankings qualify and it's a random draw right the way to the fi...
by tmesis
06 Jun 2025 21:47
Forum: General Football
Topic: Modern football things you don't like
Replies: 119
Views: 13117

Re: Modern football things you don't like

How long it takes for a trophy to be presented now. I checked footage, and for the 1981 cup final, the time between the game ending and the cup being lifted was only three minutes. This season, from the game ending to the official on the pitch presentation, took 29 minutes. Even if you count just th...
by tmesis
03 Jun 2025 08:11
Forum: General Football
Topic: Doing the 92
Replies: 21
Views: 3085

Re: Doing the 92

I get it's about 'half-empty modern souless bowls' and maybe rubbish football. But its just madness to put these sort of perfectly decent stadia at the bottom whilst choosing decrepit terraces, uncomfortable outdated stands and terrible sight lines at obsolescent stadia ahead of them. It's not 'mad...
by tmesis
31 May 2025 22:47
Forum: The Team
Topic: On this day......
Replies: 37
Views: 12039

Re: On this day......

The Bolton game was, without doubt, the worst I've felt after a Reading game. It felt like we were robbed of promotion that year. Bolton should have been down to 10 for an hour, and their player who should have been sent off set up their equaliser. Walsall and Huddersfield were really annoying, but ...
by tmesis
30 May 2025 23:11
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Stadium Matchday Upgrade
Replies: 56
Views: 23301

Re: Stadium Matchday Upgrade

Brogue The Rudge statue looked ok



It does look like he's about to ring a doorbell though.
by tmesis
30 May 2025 21:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: Pre Season games 2025/6
Replies: 235
Views: 54914

Re: Pre Season games 2025/6

PieEater
RG30 Gillingham (A) Saturday 12th July 3pm KO confirmed.


The worst ground in the League, but will probably still go.

Three sides don't look too bad, but the away end looks terrible. I've not been there since we played a league cup tie there about 30 years ago, before it got rebuilt.
by tmesis
05 May 2025 10:44
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Barnsley (h)
Replies: 135
Views: 21089

Re: MATCHWATCH : Barnsley (h)

Turns out Mike Gow has nothing to do with the EFL, he is some kind of social media user with a special interest in Reading FC (aren’t we all?). So why was he wearing an Everton shirt? He was the guy who did a large amount of very detailed investigation into the court cases in China surrounding Dai ...
by tmesis
02 Apr 2025 16:48
Forum: The Team
Topic: The phoenix club thread
Replies: 136
Views: 29778

Re: The phoenix club thread

Any Pheonix Club will have to start small.... I once worked out that a Sunday pub team is 12 promotions and sh*t loads of money and luck away from winning the Premier League. So, to begin with we need to form a team ourselves made up of fans. I actually think this is the ultimate challenge and achi...
by tmesis
27 Mar 2025 23:40
Forum: The Team
Topic: The phoenix club thread
Replies: 136
Views: 29778

Re: The phoenix club thread

In terms of venue, Wycombe or Aldershot probably. I just think Slough and Maidenhead would be too small. Reading have a larger fanbase than AFCW had, when they reformed, they were constantly filling out Kingsmeadow which was about 3000ish. Even allowing for some fans giving up on football / watchin...
by tmesis
27 Mar 2025 18:31
Forum: The Team
Topic: The phoenix club thread
Replies: 136
Views: 29778

Re: The phoenix club thread

not really ‘getting’ the problem that some folk here have with RC :?: Seem to have a decent set-up for the kids and yoofs game. Took in a game last season and was pleasantly surprised with the pace and enthusiasm (if not the quality), it’s a charmless ground admittedly. Decent locally brewed beer, ...
by tmesis
26 Mar 2025 17:49
Forum: The Team
Topic: The phoenix club thread
Replies: 136
Views: 29778

Re: The phoenix club thread

If the existing club gets liquidated, could we be in a bizarre situation where the the new club Board spawned out of STAR are negotiating with Dai to use the SCL? Or would we refuse to give him a penny on principle? I imagine the running costs would be too high for a start-up Phoenix Club without a...
by tmesis
24 Mar 2025 18:25
Forum: The Team
Topic: The phoenix club thread
Replies: 136
Views: 29778

Re: The phoenix club thread

Would the first step need to be that Reading FC cease to exist as a club? Not to be pedantic, I'm truly curious if this needs to happen first? We could start an alternative Reading FC now if we wanted, but I doubt we'd take many fans. But if we got kicked out of the EFL and had to start at the bott...
by tmesis
20 Mar 2025 22:49
Forum: The Team
Topic: Marcus Hahnemann > Shaka Hislop > Adam Federici
Replies: 25
Views: 4434

Re: Marcus Hahnemann > Shaka Hislop > Adam Federici

That said, McCarthy against Liverpool is probably the best single performance I've ever seen from a goalkeeper. Those of a certain age might remember Steve Francis at Ipswich on the last day of the 86/87 season. We were absolutely battered, but Francis kept their score down to one, and Steve Richar...
by tmesis
16 Mar 2025 07:59
Forum: The Team
Topic: Record Watch 2024/25
Replies: 301
Views: 349480

Re: Record Watch 2024/25

Burnley conceded on 42 mins tonight. Has DeatH’s record already gone? I believe it has. Fair play, that's some run for James Trafford, at 1,132 minutes without conceding a goal, beating Death's football league record by 29 minutes. Just the 7 bookings for time wasting in that run though :lol: How m...
by tmesis
15 Mar 2025 20:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Stevenage (h)
Replies: 112
Views: 32086

Re: MATCHWATCH : Stevenage (h)

Did any Reading player other than a defender win a header all game? We just looked like we got bullied off the ball too easily by a bigger and stronger team. If we'd looked a bit less knackered we might not have been so wasteful with our passing, and given them a bit more to think about. Not having ...
by tmesis
12 Feb 2025 23:25
Forum: The Team
Topic: Phoenix Club: What would you pay
Replies: 49
Views: 18870

Re: Phoenix Club: What would you pay

I'd like to think ongoing funds wouldn’t be too difficult for a while, if we can't attract major attendances compared to the level we'd be at, no point in trying. I think if we are stuck somewhere crap like Scours Lane, we'd get to a Darlington style situation, with a totally inadequate ground, but...
by tmesis
05 Feb 2025 18:31
Forum: The Team
Topic: What records do Reading FC hold
Replies: 70
Views: 27600

Re: What records do Reading FC hold

Only team to finish second in the 2nd tier and not be promoted? The caveat to that would "...since automatic promotion was introduced". In the early days the top and bottom clubs had play-offs. The obvious one is the heaviest defeat, 0-18 v Preston. We used to also hold the heaviest home ...
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