Not exactly the brightest idea is it though, the club should be taking every opportunity to maximise their chances of winning league games and this is basically reducing player options in a squad that is already of very limited resource. But then this club hasn’t operated on the brightest of ideas ...

James E now tweeted that it was the club's call to keep the Cambridge game on Tuesday. Tells us all we need to know re likely team selection in the cup. Not exactly the brightest idea is it though, the club should be taking every opportunity to maximise their chances of winning league games and thi...

Christ the whinging on social media over the scheduling of the game. We're playing Harborough Town, a team that we should be beating comfortably even with a weakened team out. A bit like Eastleigh then! Never underestimate non-league teams full of strong, physical, reasonably skilful, highly motiva...

So what's with the knobby personalised number plate on the managers car? - It's the same one Ince had, which I assumed was because he was a knob and maybe bought it with his success bonus (number place is BONUS with some 1's in it because I assume his bonus wouldn't stretch to one that just read BO...

He has all the raw attributes to be a good player but his whole manner is so chaotic and he’s a liability in our back line. Constantly playing attacking players onside when the rest of the defence has pushed up, and incidents like yesterday mean he should most certainly have a rest.

The shoot-out probably was a sliding doors moment, but not in the way you'd expect. Had we gone up and been a Premier League club, Dai's ownership of the club wouldn't have been ratified and we would have remained owned by the Thais. This probably would have been an absolute disaster from a footbal...

Retaining the use of the stadium, or being able to use a suitable stadium nearby, does seem very important. Lose the SCL and we are looking at wholly unsuitable venues (Scours Lane or Palmer Park) or maybe having to share at Maidenhead. The most awkward route was taken by Newport County, have to pl...

The shoot-out probably was a sliding doors moment, but not in the way you'd expect. Had we gone up and been a Premier League club, Dai's ownership of the club wouldn't have been ratified and we would have remained owned by the Thais. This probably would have been an absolute disaster from a football...

The invite seems to be going down as well as you'd expect from the Pompey fans on Twitter. My problem with Pompey at the time was that they had tangibly benefitted by cheating, and to add to it their cheating indirectly contributed to our Premier League relegation. One week before they cup final th...

The invite seems to be going down as well as you'd expect from the Pompey fans on Twitter. My problem with Pompey at the time was that they had tangibly benefitted by cheating, and to add to it their cheating indirectly contributed to our Premier League relegation. One week before they cup final th...

The period before Orient took the lead i thought we looked poor, however from that moment to half time we looked pretty good and got the equaliser to go in level. After a promising end to the half I was so disappointing we didn’t kick on in the second, I’m not sure we even had a chance until after t...

Wickham wasn’t released, his family moved out of our catchment area so we weren’t allowed to keep him. I can believe that Austin and Eze -and Shandon Baptiste were all told that they were too small, but I don’t think that was the real reason. I think it’s just a nice way of saying “not good enough”...

After the slight Vickers scoring the winner after hugely impressing this season, it got me thinking about academies releasing players for being “too small”. Some of the ones have been well documented, Austin, wickham etc but recently saw that we released Eze for being too small. Does anyone know wh...

Finally back home - all the comments made so far paint a fair picture of the day. However, I'm surprised no one mentioned our one dimensional approach to corner and free kicks. Ball to the back post to Dean to head back across - it seemed very much like the tactic we use when Carroll plays and ther...

I've not been able to go live this season but aside from Port Vale second half it sounds like we've done generally okay especially given the integration of several U21's and indeed the start of the current U21 side. I'm therefore quite surprised the most recent BBC Berks podcast leads with a traile...

The Stevenage fans did seem like simple folk. I’m not sure what they were trying to achieve by singing ‘Premier League and you oxf*rd it up’?

Thanks for the info. Given they’ve raised the cost of the bus, the £2.30 return from Wokingham does look quite appealing for Saturdays.

No, because he’s not the a manager of Reading Football Club

How did it go with the new away end? It seemed to achieve it's objective of gouging as much cash as possible from the away fans. (after years of letting them in an un-reciprocated £20) That’s a bonus then. Watch the highlights I was surprised to see Posh fans right next to C1871 section, I hope (pa...

How did it go with the new away end?