So, the most obvious solution would be standing at the North and South ends. Back to a bit of tradition then, with the home and away vocal elements at opposite ends of the stadium. My understanding is that the structural issue is down to the steepness of the current seating. The stadium was built fo...

No Fixed Abode Has the club looked into their cladding on the stadium/hotel as to whether it's safe or not?

As it isn't a high rise apartment block I guess not.

so Japp prefers players who can play in mulitple positions but not specialised in any particular position. Now it makes sense why sometimes players play what we consider out of position. Only one problem with that is I'm guessing that academy players are not taught to play like this so that why he ...

Nah, not buying the anti 60 minutes stuff. Me neither. It makes serious sense to do this and to link it to a law that requires the ball to be out of play before the final whistle is blown. We'd get more football ( see the comment above re the amount of time the ball is currently in play) and there ...

Most are fine, also don't like the penalty one. Not sure on playing on until the ball is out of play.... the ball can stay live in football for a hell of a long time. Once the wining team knows that time is up they will do all they can to get the ball out of play. If it is a draw then both teams ma...

passing to yourself at a free-kick, corner and goal-kick - makes sense, quick restart to a game, could benefit the attacking team a stadium clock which stops and starts along with the referee's watch - no problem here, everyone knows how long to go. allowing the goal-kick to be taken even if the ba...

FGR as it is local (ish) and several of my Walking Football team mates are ST holders there.

But I can speak English properly. Sentences shouldn't start with a conjunction, so although you may be able to speak proper English, it would appear your grammar needs some additional work. B- The sentence starts (apparently) by advising that I am a ****. So, if we are to be a touch pedantic my 'bu...

bobby1413

West Stand Man

bobby1413 How will this effect our pitch invasions next year?

Hi Bobby, I'm a tiresome caaaaaant

But I can speak English properly.

bobby1413 How will this effect our pitch invasions next year?

It won't effect them at all. It might, however, affect them.

For me I think we need a couple of full backs and a new striker as a priority. If we're going to look to play with 3 at the back then we need wing backs who are capable of getting forward and supporting the attacks. The Playoff final was a good example as while solid enough defensively, Chris Gunte...

Zammo Banking on there being a t-shirt on my Wembley seat again.

Me too.

PieEater You forgot Man Utd, a genuine southern team.

So if we go up the prem will look very southern biased with 10 southern and 10 northern teams? Well, as there is more to this country than just the North and the South, no. All of those teams listed could hold a strong claim to being southern but I suspect that Leicester, Swansea, West Brom would a...

Drive from Cirencester to Chiswick.
Park my car in my friend's space outside his flat.
Tube to the West End.
Meet my son and daughter.
Have a beer (or 2)
Tube to Wembley.

Can we assume that reference to Cooper and Hurtado was a tad tongue in cheek?

(Although I do think the latter might well feature next season).

Fortunately the vast majority of Reading supporters are not brain-dead chav goons who go to football games to do anything they can but actually watch the game. Not having a hooligan problem is viewed by most as a positive!

The Madejski Ticket Office manager was interviewed on BBC Berks yesterday. One of the questions was why the SEE ticket site shows concessions as being for 65 years old and up, while the Wembley page says that it is for 60+. His answer was that Reading have stuck to normal ticket pricing policy for t...

I am waiting until tomorrow when I can get more tickets on my member card (and my daughter's). I thought about getting some for her and me today and then doing a top-up of the balance tomorrow but the SEE website is pretty clear that each customer number can only be used once - ergo if you have bou...

I am waiting until tomorrow when I can get more tickets on my member card (and my daughter's). I thought about getting some for her and me today and then doing a top-up of the balance tomorrow but the SEE website is pretty clear that each customer number can only be used once - ergo if you have boug...