Nigel Howe has been fined £5,000 and issued an immediate six-month suspension from involvement with player contract negotiations and transfer related activity, and a further six-month suspension from all football related activity to commence upon the expiry of the first suspension. I wonder the sus...
Just another £200,000 for the club to find. It needs a lot more than my season ticket renewal to cover this latest tale of woe. By the way, a bot OTT about "many years developing the player" when his early years were away at Chelsea and City. He was with us for about three/four seasons. T...
We only play one upfront. Unless we're going to change that, we have a first choice player. So we're effectively looking for a bench player whp can step in if needed.
He sounds too expensive for that. He's on the downward arc of performance.
2 more charges on Bearwood from Redwood published on Companies House - appears they have loaned the club 2.83m over the exclusivity period. So either the deal completes soon or the club is even more financially handicapped than it was a few months back. Been lots of speculation on exactly how much ...
Stranded Also married in Oxford, so whilst I enjoyed playing them again, doesn't bother me in the slightest if they go up. Not sure why it would bother anyone really but football does strange things to people.
Would be super if he can deliver progress on the pitch.
I'm so sick of those short bursts of success that trick you into thinking something has chamged for the good, only to fall apart in shambles again shortly after.
We're far better off trying to carefully build a competitive squad of good value by increments and taking a couple of years of substantial losses over going all out, likely failing and having to to it all again the next season, with spiralling wages and a huge loss. I think on balance at the moment...
Seen a few articles blowing smoke up Spurs' arse because their U21s topped the league. I know I'm biased but surely the real story is the cash strapped League 1 team who are now in the semis and are offering a genuine path to 1st team football. Doesn't fit the narrative of being a big club that eve...
Given the cost of running a club of Reading's size in League 1 ( I reckon it will be around £10M net loss), I can't see how any new owner would not target promotion next season - anything else is just creating a bigger financial mess. Depends what you mean by that. If you mean betting the farm on g...
Be pissed if that halves the games on Royals TV Royals TV is finished with unless you live abroad. You will need a Sky Sports subscription to access domestically, EFL Q & A link below: https://www.efl.com/how-to-watch/sky-sports-q-and-a/ Thanks to technology, anyone can 'live abroad' whenever t...
Given the cost of running a club of Reading's size in League 1 ( I reckon it will be around £10M net loss), I can't see how any new owner would not target promotion next season - anything else is just creating a bigger financial mess. Depends what you mean by that. If you mean betting the farm on g...
Would agree with this. Wing alongside someone like Savage or Craig or Elliot would probably be fine in Champ. Much how Leigertwood had a good partnership with Karacan. Hopefully we'll find out in two seasons and you'll be right. I fear we've probably got 2 more seasons of L1 at least though, by whi...
No, of coursehe isn’t a genius. He hasn’t brought any spectacular new innovations to football, or out thought his opposition. He's been bankrolled to success and built a reputation that allows him to manage huge egos successfully. How do you think he’s built that reputation ? By being bankrolled an...
Things the neutrals are hoping for next season: West Ham relegation Hull relegation Ipswich to stay up and Reading promotion. I don't see many neutrals giving two oxf*rd about us. In fact I expect most would rathersee us relegated again because of Dai's crazy spending and (if if happens) us being b...
If we can grow enough to sell out the SCL in the good times, and even get 18k against Blackpool a few weeks ago, I don't see any inherent reason why Oxford can't do the same to be honest. A city was c. 200k living there without any big nearby clubs as competition. The reason they'd struggle upon pr...
I thought that Oxford now have pretty rich owners themselves - who can afford to build a new stadium for them!? Maybe, but they can't build it, replace almost their entire squad and double their average attendance in 3 months. If they do scrape past Bolton, then their attendance will likely rise ma...
Bolton definitely a better team than Oxford and won their last meeting 5-0. But it's only 1 game and an upset can easily happen. Obviously I hope not - seems alien enough to finish below them in the table let alone be in a lower division. It's win:win. They lose on TV on their big night out. Or The...