One consequence is that the asking price for the club must have dropped massively, but would anyone still want to buy? It looks like all that's left to sell is the club - i.e. it's position in the football league and its employees. With no other assets, it could be sold for the nominal £1. That lea...

One thing to take away. Despite so many calls for patience on the sale, it appears Dai and Pang can push through a complicated transaction very quickly when they want to. So perhaps with the club they just don't want to. This must have been planned over many months, not since last weekend. Unless t...

Was just discussing the name of a phoenix club with another supporter. Is there any reason we couldn't just call it "Reading" with no prefix or suffix? :roll: You'll be wanting the new club to play in blue and white hoops next Of course. It looks like we're losing our club due to the inco...

The only good thing about protesting outside Adams Park as an idea is that no one will bother.

In shock. This is absolutely devastating news. WTF will come of our club now? How can the EFL allow this to happen? You can't just split a club in two like this. Screw all commies, the root of all the shit in the world. Yeah, that's right: it's the shared ownership of the means of production that h...

Was just discussing the name of a phoenix club with another supporter.

Is there any reason we couldn't just call it "Reading" with no prefix or suffix?

Dai's actions go from incompetence and neglect to malfeasence.

By selling the assets he makes the club worthless, and once worthless, set for liquidation.

The prospect of losing an institution that has survived since 1871 looks more and more inevitable.

Something else I've noticed. Certain people on here will just go against the majority seemingly for the sake of it. Like they just love being or want to be controversial. Even Derby fans I know said it was a shocking ref and they felt they had to apologise for the poor decisions. So if Reading fans...

The referee saw a coming together. So he gave it. What he couldnt see is the handball. So he can't give a handball if he didnt see it a handball. Pereira might feel hard done by, but a better lesson to draw from this is, dont rush out and give referees decisions to make.[/quote] If he sees a coming ...

Whether or not he hand balled it before or after the collision, he could see the keeper coming and the keeper had no hope of getting the ball without clearing out the man. The keeper gave away a penalty through his inexperience / exuberance. Keeper gave ref a decision to make. A ref is behind the s...

BFTG. In all my years following Reading (24 and counting), I have never seen such a series of refereeing errors all against one team. And it wasn’t just me…..Was listening to BBC Derbyshire on the drive out of the city. Dwight Gayle said the other Derby players had told him he had handled it. He sai...

If we start out getting less than 4/5k then I'm not sure there's any point.[/quote]

Why not? Maidenhead, Slough, Basingstoke; all get far less than 4K. I'm pretty sure most of their regulars would rather have that than no club at all.

I've been to all of those often and always enjoyed it.

Unless there is a Premier League team in dire need of a state of the art training facility in the Thames Valley in the next month and with very high-powered property solicitors, Bearwood will not be sold quickly. Certainly not quickly enough to release funds for this season. It takes longer than tha...

Anyone know where he's gone?

I assumed it was an unpaid job (an impression I got from when the guy got sacked for his comments before a game against Millwall when McGhee was in charge there).

At first he seemed a bit over the top (hence his nick-name). But now I miss him.

BFTG. I think 98% of people are going to say the same thing about this one. Truly dreadful, insipid, weak first half. I remember the slow start being a feature of the Ince era, to the extent he addressed it in an interview - he said he told them not to do it but they did it time after time. For prob...

I have "been there" as a Newport County Fan Going out of the league and bust was horrible and frankly I thought the re-launch was a hopeless dream... We were forced to play outside Wales (at Moreton-in-the Marsh) for a fair while. With four others, I ran the 80 miles to Moreton, raising c...

Thing is about the communications, there was a massive and justifiable complaint that we never heard anything. The club now provides updates regularly, both via Bowen publicly, and from other officials via Star. If they don’t make stuff up and if things are taking a long time, the comms will either ...

I just got some troubling information concerning our finances. Basically, if Dai doesn't agree to the sale very soon then we'll be getting the 2-point suspended deduction in April. Even if he does it depends on whether the new owner is willing to give us money before the sale is finalised. Not exac...

Was talking to a friend who is involved in board of a national league team - and he told me what virtually all teams in the league are loss making and need a financial injection of around £1million each year. I found that staggering .. Don't want to be rude, but are you new here? Football's financi...

Snowflake Royal Nationalise football.

I like your long-term thinking here.

Maybe football clubs could be converted in QUANGOs. With charters that require a degree of consultation with recognised and legitimate supporter groups.