Do you want Ince as our manager next season.

[Royal_jimmy]

I have also seen enough painful away defeats this season. It's ok to be tonked 1-2 times a season but we've lost 4-0 3 times this season and 5-0 today. I bet that won't be our last hammering either.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Who really cares, when we win at home?
We have enough to keep us up.

Step away from the thread Jimmy, step away from the thread

[Crowbar6753]

No for me, i really would prefer a more attacking style of play. I really don't mind losing if we at least give it a go. Ryan Mason at Spurs would be a good shout and may be tempted away for a challenge and a good starting team for your resume.

I agree that whomever we choose needs to have a good knowledge of English football.

I also like the idea of Graeme Murty or even Mark Bowen again to steady the ship.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Who really cares, when we win at home?
We have enough to keep us up.

Step away from the thread Jimmy, step away from the thread

I imagine the fans that travel 100s of miles to away games care.

[fred sharpes nose]

Not for me. Hired to keep us up and will succeed - just, now with the deduction. Big thanks for that well done and thanks for coming out of retirement to help. Generally inexperienced and demonstrated some good characteristics but overall limited, Certainly not up to the job of moving us forward IMO. I think the club needs a better qualified, more rounded and experienced manager with some degree of vision and forward planning (with Bowen), the fans certainly deserve this. Whether we are attractive enough/can pay enough remains to be seen

[Snowflake Royal]

Who seriously thinks Ince is the man to get us finishing higher in the league in a year or 2?

Depends on how much his hands have been tied.

If he is required to play Rahman and Hendrick when fit and these players really were the best we could find under the circumstances, and we can reinvest most, if not all, the savings from the likes of Moore, Joao, Meite, Hoilett, maybe Ejaria and Puscas, leaving to compete reasonably in the market... maybe.

Doubt he'll get us top 10, but then who thought Clowno or Stam would, and look how those chucklefucks have done since and elsewhere.

And if we're still bolloxed in the transfer market, we won't get much better anyway.

[Hound]

I dunno really. I like Ince, good guy who has done a good job overall considering the circumstances

But the football can be painful and the away thrashings are piling up. Proper sit on the fence on this. If a good proven manager was available and would come, wouldn’t be too upset to see a change

Really depends on what we are faced with next year. Another EFL shambles embargo etc and Ince May still be the best bet

[Sutekh]

And appoint some who believes in attacking and entertaining football instead of the dreadful **** we’ve had to endure over the last 3/4 seasons.

[Brogue]

Wow, I was not expecting a near 75% ‘no’!!

I don’t think pauno out even got 75% on some of the votes. Damning

[AthleticoSpizz]

Who really cares, when we win at home?
We have enough to keep us up.

Step away from the thread Jimmy, step away from the thread

I imagine the fans that travel 100s of miles to away games care.

we’ve all been there Peeps

[NewCorkSeth]

No? Why on earth would I? I still don't know what type of side we're supposed to be under him? We're not hard to beat, we're not good at attacking, we're not a side that grinds and grifts. We have no ethos.

[URZZZZ]

I also like the idea of Graeme Murty or even Mark Bowen again to steady the ship.

“Steady the ship” - I’d argue that’s exactly what Ince is doing right now! Nothing flash, nothing too exciting but recovering from what has been a pretty disastrous few years both on and off the pitch. We’re (discounting any potential points deduction) 11 and 12 points off 6th and 22nd respectively which goes hand in hand with the season of “stability”

Therefore whilst I wouldn’t be disappointed to see Ince go, barring an awful set of results to end the season, would stick with him next season. Need to properly establish the basic foundations before we make the change and go for a riskier approach

It’s going to be another summer of turmoil so let us properly re-establish ourselves as a well (or better run) club again. Risky appointments have set us back years (Stam and Gomes in particular wasting money) and it’s not something we should be repeating

[Hound]

No? Why on earth would I? I still don't know what type of side we're supposed to be under him? We're not hard to beat, we're not good at attacking, we're not a side that grinds and grifts. We have no ethos.

Tbf it’s harsh to say we don’t grind. Work hard is one thing we do very well

It’s just a basic lack of quality, ambition and subtlety really.

[Snowflake Royal]

You could forgive Ince the lack of possession and attacking ambition if it was restricting chances against and goals conceded.

But we've only kept 7 clean sheets, the last one was at the start of December and we've been beaten 4 and 5 nil since Xmas.

Fully expect Ince to use the Middlesbrough debacle as an example of why we have to keep playing 5 at the back, even though it isn’t good.

I get using it against teams at the top, but he'll likely use this to justify it against Hull, Bristol City and Birmingham.

[Royal_jimmy]

Who really cares, when we win at home?
We have enough to keep us up.

Step away from the thread Jimmy, step away from the thread

I imagine the fans that travel 100s of miles to away games care.

we’ve all been there Peeps

The least we expect paying our hard earned money is a battling performance and not throwing in the towel when we go 2-0 down and getting stuffed. Home wins are nice but away performances have been unacceptable. If our away form improves and our home record sustains I'm sure many of us will rethink on Ince's future.

[Royal_jimmy]

To be honest right now with the points deduction imminent I just want results. I don't care about formation if it wins us games. I don't like 5 at the back but if it gets us the 3 wins required then so be it.

[Snowflake Royal]

I imagine the fans that travel 100s of miles to away games care.

we’ve all been there Peeps

The least we expect paying our hard earned money is a battling performance and not throwing in the towel when we go 2-0 down and getting stuffed. Home wins are nice but away performances have been unacceptable. If our away form improves and our home record sustains I'm sure many of us will rethink on Ince's future.

Home form is definitely key. We've seen in recent years poor home form and decent away form quickly leads to a toxic atmosphere because it means most fans rarely see us win and frequently see us lose.

Obvs the away form is spectacularly bad at the moment, but I think if home and away form were reversed, Ince would have been hounded out already.

The good sign is that the home atmosphere and environment is clearly much less toxic now, the players are obviously more comfortable playing at home than they have been recently and the fans are more positive, seeing better results there.

[NewCorkSeth]

No? Why on earth would I? I still don't know what type of side we're supposed to be under him? We're not hard to beat, we're not good at attacking, we're not a side that grinds and grifts. We have no ethos.

Tbf it’s harsh to say we don’t grind. Work hard is one thing we do very well

It’s just a basic lack of quality, ambition and subtlety really.

We work hard maybe but not in a way that achieves results. There are managers put there who come in to this side and force the most dogshit grindy football out of this team and that's an ethos. Working hard at nothing isn't an ethos.

[Sutekh]

Could the results of this poll be made binding on the club?

[Brogue]

Could the results of this poll be made binding on the club?

Depends really. How does hob nob represent Reading fans opinions as a whole? Is hob nob a more reasoned demographic or is it over reactionary? Does the small sample of fans on hob nob represent the feeling of all fans ?

Compared to the #readingfc on Twitter it’s night and day - far more reasoned. But then again Twitter is full of fcuking idiots so comparing the two seems daft.