The Mad Stand

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Moyes would be ace. Stam: I just don't get the excitement on here. If you didn't know his name, you all would be wondering what the fcuk our owners were doing bringing in a manager of zero experience or success. Everyone has t start somewhere but do we really want to be a stepping stone for an untri...

Ignoring the shit driving test analogy which would put Brian in charge of Reading in back in 1951, what exactly is the shock that a manager who has worked here and had success here before, is liked more than a stranger who hasn't? Mr New Bloke comes in and struggles over 5 months - nobody sensible w...

Platypuss Don't tell him, Sandman.

Quick, sack championship title winning Brian McDermott and get that Yugoslavian bloke from the Azerbaijan Premier League who hasn't worked for three years!

Can't help but think this all adds a new dimensionto the Steve Clarke incident. Maybe ownership shambles was behind his decision to look at Fulham. Players dying to jump ship, Hammond's gone, rumours flying around about no money for transfers, work stopped on training ground, Brian sacked after an a...

Is there a single thing to be positive about, really? RFC deserve all the mocking that's coming their way. Agreed. One can only hope that at the cost of feeling like we support a honourable, rational club this is just a sign of some owners with a huge transfer kitty for rebuilding t team, not being...

Is there a single thing to be positive about, really? RFC deserve all the mocking that's coming their way. Agreed. One can only hope that at the cost of feeling like we support a honourable, rational club this is just a sign of some owners with a huge transfer kitty for rebuilding t team, not being...

That old chestnut. :lol: The drugs thing wasn't a lie. You confessed on here. You seem to have calmed down a bit of late - that was until your outburst on this thread which has ruined it Everything ok? What's wrong with drugs? If you had friends when you were young you more than likely would have p...

I certainly didn't make up your drug taking - you posted that on here yourself. Yawn. You've twisted it into something to slander me with. A private forum conversation folk were having about harmless experimenting as youngsters has been hijacked by you and turned into me being some kind of junkie. ...

Yeah, alright. I try not to get drawn in to extended exchanges too much, but as you ask so nicely, I'll join the troll ignorers society. Is this a TB rule or forum wide? Forum wide, imo. He's more tedious on AE than anywhere else, though he obviously gets more weird joy spreading made-up shit about...

Yeah, alright. I try not to get drawn in to extended exchanges too much, but as you ask so nicely, I'll join the troll ignorers society. Is this a TB rule or forum wide? Forum wide, imo. He's more tedious on AE than anywhere else, though he obviously gets more weird joy spreading made-up shit about...

Well yes. If you sell a player for £4m and he's on 20k a week and then you bring in a replacement who costs in the region of 500k and is on 25k a week you have to offset that expense. It wasn't like Reading sold Blackman and didn't re-invest some back into the team. Coupled with the fact of dwindli...

Not having anything both ways. Just saying you're argument is entirely hypothetical meaning you can hardly call Brendy ''wrong'' in his opposite supposition.  Career records don't make it any less of a guess. Career record would suggest Blackman wouldn't have scored 10 goals at the start of the sea...

Well, you are. It's a guess that Cox and Co. were capable of scoring as much as Blackman/Sa if they stayed. Nothing factual about it. And Sa and Blackman were our current top goal scorers, so yeah - they are obviously more recognised than the others, numpty My opinion is that we didn't get enough f...

I'd argue that selling Blackman (2 goals in 13 games) wasn't actually that big an issue Kinda picking a patch of form to suit you're argument there. When it comes down to it, you're guessing that our remaining strikers had the ability to score as much or more than you'd guess Blackman/Sa would had ...

Hard to say. He's not done much worse than our two previous managers who had more time to bed in and had the opportunity and backing to put a team together. Any failings towards the end of the season could have been down to a whole host of other reasons more to do with the players, contracts and cir...

I'd agree you'd still have hoped for a bigger impact but you can see quite clearly where and why it all went south. I'd argue that selling Blackman (2 goals in 13 games) wasn't actually that big an issue Kinda picking a patch of form to suit you're argument there. When it comes down to it, you're g...

Reading fans are obviously split over this but surely both camps would agree that the last few months have been party to a lot of noise which makes conclusive judgement on Brian difficult. The real test, as we all know, starts now. Put the season (and this repetitive, circular, groundhog thread) beh...

Yeah looks-wise Brian edges it