I've been giving this some thought. We can only guess how the playing staff and UK management are feeling right now, wondering if they will get paid, or even have a job in a few weeks. The best, and most constructive thing the fan base can do is actually practice what you preach. The most powerful m...

Thankfully bs but if true would ask to refund my st. Sorry not sorry. If he wants to play L1 football for £4k a week I'd welcome him with open arms. Even off his day he should shit all over L1 defences. And we're building a team that might be able to play some football for once. Seems to be a bit o...

I’m expecting a slow start but then (hope) for things to start to click toward the second half of the season. A platform to attack the league in a year’s time should be the expectation/goal. I feel exactly the same. It will be a slow start. An almost total rebuild of players and style. Teams evolve...

blythspartan Bowen clearly wants to build a squad mainly with young hungry players, along with some experienced ones, where he feels necessary.

That's an upgrade on what went before, IMO.
It's what has worked for us in the past, too.

https://twitter.com/danmgreen1983/status/1683398319626747904 Apparently Harlee Dean, Luke Amos, Olamide Shodipo, Stefan Johansen, Tom Rogic, Tivonge Rushesha, Tyler Bindon and Oan Djorkaeff were all at the training ground this morning as trialists. Have to say it's a masterstroke getting potential ...

Whoa with the expectations. Saturday's game was a cobbled up X1 of youth teamers, triallists, and new signings who haven't properly unpacked their luggage yet, mixed in with a couple of last season's regulars. They've probably never played together before. Ok: so there's new lads coming in, but they...

I really have to laugh about how some of the Saints fans are eulogising over Russell Martin and about how well they played against us. Tbf out of all of the South coast clubs I like the Saints fans the best, and they were far superior than us yesterday. However, we’re at the infancy stage of a rebu...

I really have to laugh about how some of the Saints fans are eulogising over Russell Martin and about how well they played against us. Tbf out of all of the South coast clubs I like the Saints fans the best, and they were far superior than us yesterday. However, we’re at the infancy stage of a rebu...

Really need to work on the defence and get some organisation and consistency. Can't do it until they sort the goalkeeper out, Button should be a step up on what we currently have so hope that deal works out asap. We've been conceding too easily for years now. Bowen could do a lot worse than bring i...

Was it Robbie Savage that we gave a standing ovation to years back as it was his last professional game? That could tip the scales in our favour, lol. Far superior info about him from Sutekh. Oh yeah. Memorable match. I was there. He walked off the pitch at the end wearing just his pants and vest. ...

Off piste, I know
Oh the good old BBC.
Presenter: "This is the six o'clock news on Tuesday the 18th of July"
Me: *Looks at calendar and checks wristwatch*

Think the home is brilliant, the away not so much mainly because the collar looks awful. Interested what the back of the home will be like - will it have more Reading icons on? Also wonder what will be on left sleeve. If you actually like Reading, unlike Sutekh, not sure why you wouldn't like it. I...

A few years back someone estimated the population which has each Football League club as their closest: link . We had the third largest population with us as their closest club. That said, Voronoi diagrams only focus on 'as the crow flies' distances, rather than travel time. Also, it assumes each c...

It's a transient population. We don't have loads of families who have lived for generations and worked in shipbuilding/other old industries. The area is a collection of commuter belt towns; a lot of residents have their first team and will go along and watch the local team if they're playing good f...

The Cap Excited to see VAR work at Luton Town next season. On field referee walking into the living room of one of the houses on Kenilworth Road and rewinding the incident on Sky +

QUALITY

I guess Wednesday can look forward to renewing their big local rivalry with Rotherham now they've returned to the big time. I can also imagine the games vs. Leeds being of slight interest as well :wink: Looking at who's gone down, and who's gone up into it, the Championship really has some big old ...

There was a time when people bought newspapers to find out what the results were the day before! I did that in Spain once, only to realise that the Spanish edition of the Sunday paper was clearly printed much earlier, and didn't contain a single result, let alone reports from games. People who went...

How good a player was Matejovsky! He was arguably the best technical player the club's ever had. Matejovsky's biggest problems here were the players around him weren't on the same wavelength and I don't think he really worked in a two-man midfield. Like buggery was he. Gylfi is a far superior playe...

Man, so frustrating to see Brighton secure a top 6 position, basically where we were in 2007, that for me was one of the only mistakes Coppell made, massively playing down European football. Whoa! I can recall an item from a few years ago, stating that Brighton's owner had (then) put about a quarte...