I really appreciate what SCL and other sponsors have done this year, but it does allow more procrastination. 7 days ago, my working assumption was we'd either have exclusivity and funding, or we'd be in arrears with HMRC which would mean 2 points deducted and a step closer to the endgame. Turns out...
You just have to hope his rational self interest wins the day in the end. He gets nothing from the club if he doesn't sell. He's tried asset stripping and selling the training ground and it has failed. As difficult as he seems intent to make it, it really is in his best interests to sell. Agree wit...
The current stadium is in dire state of repair; leaking roofs, rust, brick work crumbling, drab concrete interior, etc; thus is going to require a good level of investment. Location has always been its achilles heel, but not sure the stadium is as bad as that. 26 years old and yep, a new lick of pa...
I'm not sure there's a site big enough to build a new stadium in the town centre. It's not just the footprint of the stadium that you have to consider so it's a complete non starter IMO. Quite. Think the only possibility is demolishing the Broad Street Mall and entirely reworking that end of Broad ...
Yes this is quite correct. Perhaps if the management had known what are they were doing and hadn't been playing random number formations this club might have been on the fringes of the play offs now. Apparently Reading would be 8th in the table if the season had started 20 games ago. Much as I thin...
Howe thinks deal may be concluded in May after the season ends - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68626876 Just hope we are still in L1. It does kind of feel that we haven’t really gone anywhere much in the last few months despite all the excitement over the weekend Were still waiting for dai t...
Reading FC's annual report is interesting in this regard: Number of players = 39. Number of "football management and coaching staff" = 74 Clubs needs mulitple coaches and managers for every one of their age groups. They need scouts for scouting transfer targets. They need scouts and analy...
Problem is that there are so many ex-pros and relatively few other football jobs. I assume that 74 covers all age groups. Obviously this and the fact that these jobs are generally pretty enjoyable jobs means that the pay is pretty poor. Doubt the average academy coach is on much more than minimum w...
It would stress me a bit, but some people on here are saying its worse for footballers than a nurse working in the NHS, which is patent nonsense. Furthermore, the career of a footballer sets them nicely up for coaching roles in football, punditry, being an agent, working behind the scenes in a form...
I still don't see why people have a grudge with Wycombe. Dai put up part of the club for sale. You can't blame Wycombe for being interested. Anyone who has an issue with the actual Wycombe team or fans over this need to have a word with themselves. Expect any Wycombe fans with any sense were pretty...
Just guesswork that it could potentially baulk the sale, nobody outside of the clubs knows, stop panicking. It’s a bit more than guesswork. It’s there in writing that it was for RFC use and Wycombe have said it’s on hold It may still go through of course but there’s obviously concern that it may we...
Can't make up my mind if that is good news or bad news.... Or if they are having to check if they can actually use it. Who knows what it means for today's meetings. But taking a bigger picture view, it reinforces to Dai and Pang that our real estate is only worth something when sold with the club. ...
Wycombe have just tweeted that they are putting on hold provision for funding to RFC and the acquistion of Bearwood. "Wycombe Wanderers Football Club and Feliciana have to put on hold the discussions and ongoing due diligence due to seeming planning limitations allowing only Reading FC to use ...
Why are people so fixated on the distance between the Wycombe ground and Bearwood? Football players do not live at the stadium. For a number of them, it may be an easier commute to get to Bearwood than their current training ground and on matchdays players tend to make their own way to the stadium ...
You'd have to be an idiot to apply a cultural stereotype to every aspect of an individual's life. If I had a quid for everytime I’ve read on hobnob we should embarrass dai and pang as culturally the Chinese don’t like losing face I’d have enough money to buy the club Dai probably still wouldn’t sel...