These days I would say it's more about having a 'Premier league' team rather than individual players. You need a group of people that understand how each other play and are completely committed to their goal . You could take half of Watford's first team and mix it with half of Newcastle's and it wo...

genome Geez, it was just an observation.

On an argumentative forum. What exactly were you expecting?

Just not sure how a professional footballer has the time to have 5 children, especially one with such a well travelled career. Unless he has a cavalier attitude to contraception How long did it take Boris Becker to conceive a child in a broom cupboard? I've got three kids. 1st one - arrived despite...

Goalkeeper Lewis Ward has been recalled from his loan at Hungerford Town. According to Hungerford Town's website " Loanee Goalkeeper Lewis Ward will return to Reading with immediate effect after a higher level club had approached Reading regarding the potential loan " Thinking out loud - ...

IT’s impossible to work out what a 10 day pass works out at. Some weeks we might squeeze 3 home games In 10 days other times we might just have 1. In any given 10 spell I might work 6 days in town or 8. Or I might get a lift to work and bus back one day. The time limited cards are aimed at maximisi...

Having driven/parked every season since the stadium opened I have started getting the bus this season. It’s really very good. Quick, simple and while I’m not sure why it is significantly more expensive than the normal buses it is much cheaper than parking. Obviously I don’t want to see huge numbers...

Assuming this story is true, we already have a reasonable cover in Jaakola. There is no need to recall Bond yet. Let Legg cover the bench until Jaakola is injured and then call Bond back, that way he continues to get good first team experience until we need him to go straight back into our first te...

Haven't got to a game since August, WTF is this holiday inn thing about??? First they up the charge and now they've stopped the guy that looks like Seve Ballesteros taking the money making it a massive pain in the arse? The situation with the parking could genuinely deter me and the old man from go...

Well I am pretty sceptical on the Manonne injury, the OS is up and running today, surely something as important as this would headline news? Chron reporters have tweeted it i believe a loan can be cancelled at any time if both clubs agree. Also that you can recall in January, if a clause has been p...

No, I was against them being sent out on loan in the first place! Thing is though, that it works for some, and doesn't for others. So - Hector benefitted enormously from being out on loan at Aberdeen. Jake Cooper suffered through not going out on loan. It's all a gamble. You can just as equally wre...

Where is Legg in the pecking order, is he 3rd at the moment? Hopefully just a bad night but that was about as bad a goalkeeping performance as you'll see in 2mins of highlights - should have stopped most of their goals. Having said that the Gills keeper didn't look much better. Presume Bond is 3rd ...

Having seen the highlights i hope neither of our first choice keepers get injured as young Legg had a nightmare. At fault with 5 of the 7. Good to see Josh Barrett doing well again, if handled properly could be a real star for us. Must also agree Popa has had a raw deal. Would put him in front of M...

I've rewritten it to assuage my disappointment : It really gets my goat That parking signs are vague It's all designed to fleece The people of their wage. I prefer the original. Has the feeling of a haiku or something like that. As opposed to a ditty. Another Pointless watcher? Occasionally, yes. B...

Absolutely correct. Are you intentionally writing in some sort of poetic verse? I'm just seeing stanzas with mentions of goats and fleeces... I thought the same Keep reading these posts as though they are poems and then feel a bit disappointed that they are not :( I've rewritten it to assuage my di...

When they ask for the manager to be sacked after every loss, you'd think most of our fans weren't born when we got 106 points... I have to say this isn't really what's going on at the moment. I think there's still a lot of good will and I think the majority really want Stam to get it right. There w...

Basic analysis: I think most people are confident that even if we don't improve much under Stam that we wont go down - we can beat enough bottom table teams at home to be comfortable. Also I think most people would accept that a new manager coming in is unlikely to lead to a promotion push. So our ...

Ron Gourlay, the recently appointed Chief Executive of Reading FC, will be our guest at the second STAR Fans’ Forum of the season. This event takes place on Thursday 16 November at the 1871 Suite in the Madejski Stadium. Doors open at 8pm for 8.30pm start. The event is free to STAR members and non-...

At this stage in 2010/11 (play-off final season) we were 8th. At this stage in 2011/12 (promotion season) we were 16th with 18 points from 14 matches. If we won our game in hand then we'd be three points off our title winning pace. A top half finish shouldn't surprise anybody. A play-off campaign i...

I know he's trying to make it more fluid and more attacking hence the signings of Aluko and Barrow - both of which I thought were good btw but it isn't working. It really is a difficult one for me. Sacking Clarke and Adkins and to an extent Rodgers were the right decisions, but I'm still not sure a...

maffff I'm not sure what he offers that Novakovich couldn't?

Well exactly.