Every time a club wants to buy or sell something, they have to flip a coin. If they call it right then the item is free. They can then choose to go double or nothing.

Would Howe speculating in public help the situation or would it be more likely to hinder it?

Hate seeing these threads go up knowing what they almost certainly contain RIP.

Simon Sheppard Liam Rosenior Paul Bodin Matt Mills Bongani Khumalo Paul Brooker Mark Reilly David Meyler Royston Drenthe Paul Brayson Joseph Mendes Tf is Rosenior doing in there? And while Mills is a villain he was nowhere near the second worst centre back we’ve had in the last ten years. If we’re ...

Obviously there is only room for one player in goal Just a little surprised that Marcus barely features, but then, Reading has always seemingly been blessed (with of course, the odd exception season) in this position Death Francis Martinez Ali Marcus Feds Mc anon and on At risk of biting/being whoo...

Simon Sheppard Liam Rosenior Paul Bodin Matt Mills Bongani Khumalo Paul Brooker Mark Reilly David Meyler Royston Drenthe Paul Brayson Joseph Mendes Tf is Rosenior doing in there? And while Mills is a villain he was nowhere near the second worst centre back we’ve had in the last ten years. If we’re ...

Hi guys i'm new to the forum, I used to be a season ticket holder saw both promotions. I stopped going a few years back, been back a couple times for the odd game. I miss going tbh and i'm considering coming back but them few times I did come back it just didn't feel the same to me as it use to. Th...

The current stadium announcer is routinely cringe-inducing but that doesn’t affect my enjoyment of the whole experience. If anything I find the occasional “new” gaffe to be a great bit of light relief. Think the music has been much better over the past few years. The combo of “Ashes”, the anthem, an...

Programmes - as someone who likes to collect them, especially for grounds ive not been to before. Reduce the size by half and cut the cost to £2 if that. Don’t need 80 pages of detailed content like previous games reviews. For some without the internet that's their only way of reading that informat...

- It would probably be got around using other forms of payment such as performance bonuses, image rights payments, and so forth. You could see players simultaneously employed as “football consultants” or some such. . This wouldn’t happen. Take a look at the rules for the rugby cap. It covers a wide...

Two which haven’t been mentioned: Reading 5-1 Ipswich under Steve Clarke Completely dominant performance thanks largely to the midfield trio of Norwood, Tshibola and Stephen Quinn. Three players who were hard working and technically gifted so just swamped the opposition both in and out of possessio...

The maximum contract length is five years. In practical terms the very straightforward way you could do it is say that in five years we are bringing in a salary cap. That way, clubs will have the opportunity to insert a clause into players’ next contracts to have a wage drop if the cap comes into pl...

Following on from the best XI topic what about the best you have seen and perhaps limit to 2 per section: Best Attacking: Reading 8 Southport 0 in 1970 (bear in mind we had lost 6-2 in the corresponding away fixture) Reading 6 West Ham 0- can't remember the year but it was against Pardew's team in ...

Two which haven’t been mentioned: Reading 5-1 Ipswich under Steve Clarke Completely dominant performance thanks largely to the midfield trio of Norwood, Tshibola and Stephen Quinn. Three players who were hard working and technically gifted so just swamped the opposition both in and out of possession...

Surprised nobody's included Long - surely wouldn't get in for 05-07 but a contender for that playoff season. Gonna play 4-2-3-1 for Gylfi. Shaka Gunter, Pearce, Dariusz, Armstrong Leigertwood, Norwood Kebe, Sigurdsson, McAnuff Fozzy Subs: Al-Habsi, Mariappa, S. Kelly, Swift, Beerens, Gilkes, Long L...

If it included the 106 team, I'd have Hislop over Hahnemann, A N Other over Convey and I'd have to fit Sigurdsson in somewhere. The thing that would give Ivar/Sonks and Kitson/Doyle the nod for me is the combination at CB of brains and brawn and up front, both Kitson and Doyle were intelligent, tir...

If we look at the actual numbers we will see that the logarithmic multiplier feeds back a negative correlation into the daily rate (plus or minus rate multiplier) depending on what factor you choose. It's not inconceivable therefore that some time in the next 3 weeks there will be a move toward a c...

Surprised nobody's included Long - surely wouldn't get in for 05-07 but a contender for that playoff season.

Gonna play 4-2-3-1 for Gylfi.

Shaka
Gunter, Pearce, Dariusz, Armstrong
Leigertwood, Norwood
Kebe, Sigurdsson, McAnuff
Fozzy

Subs: Al-Habsi, Mariappa, S. Kelly, Swift, Beerens, Gilkes, Long

What does the Rougeometer have to say about all this?

Jagermesiter1871 How come there isn't uproar that non-playing staff at Reading are being furloughed whilst there is no change to players pay?

Reading have been pretty bad to watch for most of the past seven or eight years, so unlike Liverpool and Spurs we don’t have many fans who still wet the bed.