Some big European clubs in crisis are fan led. Barcelona have presidents elected by fans and have been hurt by stupid populist promises. Schalke in Germany have a similar story. You'd hope a phoenix club would vote more sensibly, but it's easy enough to imagine a generation of supporters 25 years do...

From what I've read, Derby were better than us, but it's not like they were carving out chance after chance and we were hanging on. We could well have got a point without the ref, or who knows nicked it with a set piece. Or perhaps they would have finished strongly and found a winner late on. And th...

The thing is, if your default is to simply clear the ball whenever things get tricky, you never keep possession, spend 90 minutes defending and normally lose. So defenders need to take risks playing out. It didn't work out this time, but it wouldn't have been a costly error without a howler of a ref...

Will it be a 2 game ban for Yiadom? As he got that stupid red off the bench at Northampton? Makes it even more costly. Is Abrefa ready?

However, in both cases a Reading player probably made a poor decision to find themselves in a situation where a poor decision could be made by the ref. How is Yids not tripping Gayle a poor decision? And if Gayle doesn't punch the ball, Pereira has done a good job cutting out a dangerous ball over ...

Changing topic, there must be a STAR meeting with Howe soon?

My problem is I want a club i can be unconflictedly proud of back. That's not really possible for me with Saudi sportswashing. It's also the exact same situation with Dai. Money from a corrupt and repressive regime that's currently obssessed with football, but where the money could dry up quickly i...

The thing with Saudi money is that they're so desperate to sports wash effectively, they actually make half decent owners. It's a difficult one. The way I see it, we're gone without new owners. So if the Saudi money makes you so uncommon you can't go, it's as you were. I just don't know who else I ...

Bit pointless to blame the reason we lost on the actual reason we lost? Is this guy for real? It all evens itself out over the course of a season. There will be games that if you look back on, were decided by decisions that went for us. The even itself out cliche is possibly the most annoying in fo...

What a oxf*rd. If it's true, we'd have found out soon enough anyone. If it's not true, it's further false hope and anxiety for everyone.

Bristol Paul Get the impression we are running out of steam after a long season. Losing a lot of games by the odd goal, and a small group of players with little room for rotation.

Thankfully it's the end of the season for all our rivals too.

Saturday is must win. Shrewsbury and Wycombe weren't. This is the first "must win" game of the season thanks to our own incompetence and the EFL.

Biscuit goalie Cambridge getting thumped too

Hope Lincoln calm down by the time they visit us.

Smith scoring seems like a bad omen. What's our record in games he's scored? Wins against Wycombe, Wigan and Carlisle. Is that all?

I know it's just a shit ref and not a conspiracy, but fcuk me I'm fuming. Why in this entire shit show are we only ever the ones to be held accountable? Parry will stay in his high paid job, the ref won't be relegated. We're the only ones getting screwed.

Sutekh God Yiadom is useless!

He's been good this year. Haven't seen it, but general reaction I've seen was that the 1st was soft and 2nd was an outrage.

Can't cut it a championship level now, so no takers there anymore. But still a good signing for the top end of this division. Was he ever much cop? Scored a shedload on loan at WBA but diddly squat in the scheme of things anywhere else (apart from the increased liklihood of tonight's hat-trick of c...

Had no idea Gayle was playing for Derby. How did they manage that? Can't cut it a championship level now, so no takers there anymore. But still a good signing for the top end of this division. Was he ever much cop? Scored a shedload on loan at WBA but diddly squat in the scheme of things anywhere e...

I wouldn’t be surprised if we nick it and I wouldn't be surprised if we lose 4-0. Hedging my bets.

jd82 Anyone else heard the rumblings that a bid by someone close to DY has been blocked out of hand by NH and that the party currently closest to a deal is a Saudi consortium?

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