Some local info. The walk to the ground from the station goes past Wigan Pier but don't bother. it's quicker to go to the left where the road splits and go via the canal tow path just over the bridge than go right on the road and around Asda/Retail park. I would have suggested a detour to Trencherf...

Apparently money has been put together for a hotel for this one: https://twitter.com/james_e1871/status/1748042573057245446 I'm assuming the players/staff are paying for it themselves, but that's a positive at least. The last point is worrying if not surprising, no money for the wages or HMRC. Anot...

Already here. After heavy snow yesterday it's all pretty well melted away on the roads.

Just returned from the Spoons in Wigan where they had £1 a pint Doombar, not sure that will last till Saturday but the equally nice Ruddles was £1.77 a pint

After the protests if you were Dai what would you do?
A) Realise you'd made a mess of things and after being told off by the EFL pay up and see the club right to the end of the season
B) Ignore everything and stop funding the club.

I don't think we need a poll.

Nice email from the Port Vale statue guy Dear Royals, thank you all for supporting our Statue Fund. Your contributions (in only a couple of days) have topped £5000! We are so thankful that you have chosen to acknowledge our support for your cause in this way, it means a great deal. The Rudge family ...

i actually think its more than that. It was on about 78k its now on 83k What statue - where? Post a link then we can all chip in https://www.gofundme.com/f/john-rudge-statue-fund Cheers Brogue, I chucked in a tenner. Lots of messages from Reading fans - I couldn't work out how to add one :oops:

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NathStPaul Jeez, over £3000 raised in 48 hours? That is some effort from our supporters.

Fair play Nath, good idea and great support

i actually think its more than that. It was on about 78k its now on 83k

What statue - where? Post a link then we can all chip in

IIRC we got fined £50k for the post Bradford pitch invasion, so I'd expect the fine to be a lot more than that.

Elm Park Kid Didn't Blackpool fans force out the owner through protest and not turning up?

No, I'm pretty sure it was a Russian co-owner.

Some local info. The walk to the ground from the station goes past Wigan Pier but don't bother. it's quicker to go to the left where the road splits and go via the canal tow path just over the bridge than go right on the road and around Asda/Retail park. I would have suggested a detour to Trencherfi...

Did they sack the ticket office staff too?

I think our overheads were too high for a division one club, think Dai is trying to get us to break even as he can not get funds out of china. This would avoid administration whilst a sale takes place - hopefully! Nobody other than Dai can put the club into administration. True but any creditor can...

I don't understand how we've let all the academy players who've got into the first team and been decent - not have a contract after this season. We're literally letting money walk out the door when we should be selling these players to fund the academy.

There's a complete lack of belief that is starting to turn, even at 2-0 up you still think we are going to contrive to lose it. This is the first game that hasn't happened. A few more of these and the fans will be on side.

I have to say that if ever I was in the market for a car lease deal I'd go straight to Select Car Leasing.

They really are building some kudos with Reading fans.

There's also a finite pool of coaches, and sacking a load of them before Xmas isn't going to help if we ever wanted to get Cat 1 back. Certainly if I was a coach I wouldn't come to Reading without an iron clad contract.

I think the details are quite interesting around how lauded club saviours turn out to be shyters in it for themselves.

We're likely to see similiar.

Again.

It does seem odd that the cause of these issues is not having enough money. So we're not going to have enough money to set aside 125% of wages in few weeks time along with another wage bill that's due and another tax bill. On top of that they want him to pay a fine. We can barely pay the wages witho...

Is it really 22 years since the last game? And was that the game Tony Rougier was the star of the show in torrential rain?

The problem with anything they do other than wage related is that should we actually need to raise money to pay wages they will have put off a significant number of people who feel that the money was misappropriated this time and so will be reluctant to pay again.