So I’m hearing in the grapevine charlton fans are planning on going in the home section dotted around all the stands pretending to be Reading fans. Then they will invade the pitch on 16 minutes pretending to be Reading fans protesting about dai so we get our suspended points deduction which could h...

Odd! Their previous manager, Westley, was a right gamemanship merchant too, a bit of a winder- upper to say the least. Like you say, probably at their peak this season anyway. Didn't he stitch up Farnborough too? When he was Farnborough manager he sold Stevenage some players for strangely cheap pri...

At the crux is how money is filtered down the entire football pyramid. Fairer distribution. Given lower league clubs make far less from player sales these days. I'd like to see a smoother, more even, distribution of money, but that's not why clubs are struggling. They are struggling because they wi...

Snowflake Royal So Dai is making a minimum loss on sale (should that actually happen) of about £160m, but probably closer to £175m.

What a great business man.

Still a better investment than his Evergrande shares

Maidenhead? On a train line, fits 4000 which we'd sell out every week. A decent start, and perhaps we could lease the SCL when we progress enough. Though I presume the phoenix club would refuse to pay Dai a penny as a point of principle. I think Maidenhead is the only realistic option. Going to Wyc...

It's weird. I know I should be really annoyed, or upset, or worried, or something like that, but I feel I've gone beyond that. Instead it's such a car crash that it's like one of those games where the team is 0-4 down and so hopeless that you kind of become detached from it, and just have a curiosit...

I think it would be likely we could end up at Wycombe for a bit should we need a ground and we're near the Football League. Far from ideal, but certainly better than trying to make Palmer Park or Scours Lane suitable (and I'm sure none of us would want to know what Cemetery Junction would be like o...

No sale and we'll end. Even with a very successful phoenix club we'll probably never play in the top 2 tiers again. I think it depends of what sort of stadium we'd have by the time we get back in the league. If it's a makeshift one, then it's be tough. Something decent, and it'd be a different prop...

How far back do you want to go? Ces Podd of Bradford copped for it in the seventies, as did even our own Andy Alleyne get ‘extra criticism’ from the EP ‘faithful’ at times Certainly back in the 80s fans thought nothing of given out racial abuse. Remember the southbank 'hilariously' singing 'you've ...

I am ok with it as the bottom line is the club are doing what they have to in order to avoid administration. Despite my protestations the outgoings (apart from Abbey) have been sensible. Maybe I'm cynical, but I think they are just selling whoever they can to cover the bills until the takeover talk...

When we do eventually get new owners, what changes (positive or negative) do we expect them to make? Are ticket prices likely to rocket? Will they provide free travel to away games? Will there be sweeping changes through our remaining staff (Bowen, Selles, etc.)? Are the Academy's days numbered? Et...

Can see the doom loop coming. Key players sold to keep us afloat, relegation more likely, bids for the club fall in value and don't meet Dai's valuation, no sale, what happens next? It's difficult to see beyond liquidation. I guess he might strip the club back to the bare bones, thinking he can at ...

Yep if any delay tomorrow I really fear for the club carrying on much longer Yep. Wages simply have to paid tomorrow else there will be a queue of players demanding to go by close of business on Thursday ( probably is anyway). Which could well be exactly what Dai wants. Get as much money in his poc...

but it's illustrative that breaking even with £14m costs is potentially achievable with enough supporters coming in. Yes, but that's breaking even with a £14 million in costs. Our expenditure is our total income this season + another £14 million. Barring something quite incredible, I'd say that fig...

Even if we get to July this time round, with Dai in charge, would anyone risk buying a season ticket?

That's over £14 million a year. Given the salaries listed above, our wage bill, unless I'm mistaken, is not even £4 million a year. That would mean that even if we sold the entire playing squad, and used Sunday league players instead, we'd still be losing £10 million a year. Every time we have ever...

I'd be surprised if our total staff wage bill is less than £8m, tbh. Even at £8 million a year, we'd still be losing £6 million a year if we replaced them with players who played for nothing. Either that £1.2 million loss per month figure is completely wrong, or there are some horrendous outgoings ...

125k a month for the stadium, still nowhere near making a dent in the 1.2 million A MONTH!! losses That's over £14 million a year. Given the salaries listed above, our wage bill, unless I'm mistaken, is not even £4 million a year. That would mean that even if we sold the entire playing squad, and u...

NathStPaul Yeah keep responding to him lads, really helps.

To be fair, he does seem genuinely concerned about the amount of racist abuse.

He probably feels there's not enough of it.

Scum, not welcome anywhere around Reading. Very sorry to Orient and Agyei someone claiming to be a Reading fan is ignorant enough to do that. Pcunt. Where in that report does it suggest it was a Reading fan involved? The fact that his profile pic had him in a Reading shirt, and he had ReadingFC in ...