Relegation Battle Next Season

[yuomi]

I cant see much wrong with the opening post TBF, we will struggle now Coppell has gone

This from the poster who, a while back said...

He is the bad apple in this club and needs to go.

Only decent performance in the last 12 weeks was down to his backroom staff picking the side.

Too many people look back at his promotion year.

How odd.

+1. thank you.

[yuomi]

i'm worried about everyone's misgivings for next season, im actually quite chipper. we havent kneejerked a new manager into the vacant spot and are instead taking the necessary time to appoint the right person for the job. we do have a solid core of senior players and some very promising junior players who are knocking on the door and, while i dont delude myself we'll challenging for the top spot or even the automatics, i think we can well look forward to being playoff fodder and certainly top half. SSC is gone, and i am sad, and i rated him and i have betified him to sainthood as well, but his last half season wasnt the perfect epitath to his reign and, if it said anything, it said that this club needs change. otherwise we WOULD be fighting for our lives in the championship next season....

[hughsies no.1]

federici

kelly
pearce
ivar
armstrong

henry
harper / cisse
jem
tabb

nhunt
long

where would that team take us? thats assuming we would loose bikey/ marek / doyle . i can only see a mid-table finish at best

[yuomi]

federici

kelly
pearce
ivar
armstrong

henry
harper / cisse
jem
tabb

nhunt
long

where would that team take us? thats assuming we would loose bikey/ marek / doyle . i can only see a mid-table finish at best

..thats assuming the new guy comes in and thinks thats acceptable, gets no money to spend and denies the existence of their being a transfer market? do i think where we are now is as strong a position as where we were twelve months ago? no, of course its not. but stop looking back and start looking forward. why do we have so little faith in hammond (and im not even his biggest fan) et al to choose someone who can take this club forward, sign intelligent quality players and get us challenging? yes, i know that transtions take time, rome wasnt built in a day etc etc but are you really that desperate for us to oxf*rd up...? what is this naysaying obsession...?

[T-Rex]

Plymouth will be in a relegation battle next year.

I agree.

We'll have a couple of tasty 6 pointers with you next season.

[handbags_harris]

£250k for Jamie Mackie? Pfff. Only ever played about 10 decent games for Exeter. Steve Perryman's done you a good'un there T-Rex

Although his strike against us was a belter

[floyd__streete]

LOL @ having Ian Hollway leave you for a bigger club. Ian Holloway ! He couldn't manage Karen Carpenter's dinner, never mind a serious football club. Additional LOL @ never having played in the top flight

[Dr Hfuhruhurr]

T-Rex is one of my favourite posters, tbh. As a WUM, he's unparalled by our own feeble efforts.

However, T-Rex, m8, tell you what, to help you out this year, we'll get rid of the manager, the assistant manager, the defensive coach and 9 players. Still reckon you'll come to our place and put 10 men behind the ball out of sheer fear of a hammering.

[Mr Angry]

Sorry, but I genuinely have no idea who Plymouths' manager is.

Just a big fish in a tiny pond geographically, and who's fans seem to think that they are far more important in the grand scheme of things than they really are; in other words, a poor mans Brighton.

Anybody who thinks Reading will be a bottom 6 team next season is a mug.

[papereyes]

To be fair, you're a really average club at any level.

wah?

[Gordons Cumming]

Anybody who thinks Reading will be a bottom 6 team next season is a mug.

[Eastkentroyal]

T-Rex rather an apt name I thought. We could certainly do without dinosaurs from Devon posting a load of nonsense. Go back to eating cornish pasties.

[Harry Carry]

Can I just emphasise that Argyle are actually a bigger club than Reading. They've always traditionally been bigger. A few years in the Championship wilderness will see Readings average gate fall to 13,000 if not lower.

[Sun Tzu]

Can I just emphasise that Argyle are actually a bigger club than Reading. They've always traditionally been bigger. A few years in the Championship wilderness will see Readings average gate fall to 13,000 if not lower.

How can someone 'traditionally' always have been bigger ? Tradition develops over time ...

Plus they weren't founded until several years after us....

Are Charlton a bigger club than Chelsea because traditionally they always have been ?

[Harry Carry]

I just don't know how Reading fans can say they are bigger than this, bigger than that. I think you need to get over yourselves a bit here. It wasn't so long ago you were watched by 3,000 crowds.

[floyd__streete]

I just don't know how Reading fans can say they are bigger than this, bigger than that.

Reading fans aren't saying that. It's just you. On every. Single. Thread. Going.

Idea for a television series: Harry Carry to star in an adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes. He has wide experience of being in dire need of fresh material.

[Harry Carry]

Little maggots catch little fish.

There will still be a very good and experienced core of players here, mixed with youth. We'll all take mid-table for a few years if that's the case. Not too many will be daft enough to think we can better a top six finish at best.

As for Plymouth, you lot just hope to stay in this division each year.

As for club size, you'd swap stadium, facilities, training ground, players, attendances... tomorrow if you could. So what does that make your club? You're just a Crewe, Walsall and Colchester that gave it a go, enjoyed your time at this level but you'll disappear back down the leagues soon enough.

Lol wut.

Evidence.

[Sun Tzu]

I just don't know how Reading fans can say they are bigger than this, bigger than that. I think you need to get over yourselves a bit here. It wasn't so long ago you were watched by 3,000 crowds.

A fact to be proud of !

Why does anyone care who they are or aren't 'bigger' than.

I suspect Harry is one of those types who just can't help peering next door whilst in the Gents.....

[Forest Gump]

I also think that we will struggle because we are a small club with a League One mentality to the game with a League Two management structure.

[West Stand Man]

I also think that we will struggle because we are a small club with a League One mentality to the game with a League Two management structure.

Boy you are a bundle of fun, and positive thinking, aren't you.