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by SCIAG
24 Jan 2024 17:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81328

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

If there's a sell-on clause, would that purely be for the next transfer? As it seems pretty obvious he'll be at Olympiakos, then a dirt cheap transfer to Forest - so does that sell on fee actually really matter here?! As discussed, there are FIFA regulations regarding international transfers that w...
by SCIAG
21 Jan 2024 18:21
Forum: The Team
Topic: Strikers
Replies: 8
Views: 1156

Re: Strikers

I am pretty sure last Thursday that one of the journos tweeted Selles saying they were discussing incomings with the EFL. That was probably related to Holmes being loaned back to us by Luton though. No way can I see us signing anyone tbh. I am fully expecting Smith, Knibbs and Wing to depart before...
by SCIAG
19 Jan 2024 22:15
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81328

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

Will Unwin @Will_Unwin Nelson Abbey is set to leave Reading to join Olympiakos, I am told 2:11 PM · Jan 19, 2024 · ^ guardian journo So as he's out of contract in the summer and Olympiakos is not an English team - what does this mean regarding any compensation? Nothing. If he goes now, it is a tran...
by SCIAG
18 Jan 2024 19:32
Forum: The Team
Topic: The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2015//16
Replies: 7489
Views: 1910103

Re: The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2015//16

Not ideal, but being brutally honest it's a good way to bring cash in now without harming the first team. The lost talent will either be the next owner's problem or be irrelevant when we're extinct. I was about to say it wouldn't bring in much - but if we lost a 16-year-old who has been with us sin...
by SCIAG
18 Jan 2024 18:04
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81328

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

Where's the SCIAG beef come from Brogue? He's knowledgeable about the youth set up and players, and sometimes he gets things wrong. A bit like you saying the game wouldn't be abandoned or it was confirmed William Storey had bought the club. I know which things I'd be more embarrassed by. He's just ...
by SCIAG
18 Jan 2024 11:48
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81328

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

I would save your breath, SCIAG believes Tom Holmes is better than Jake Cooper and Rob Dickie :| he has weird views towards our academy products. Saying things like letting Teddy Howe go was a massive mistake, and how he was going to be a regular championship defender. checks where he is now? weymo...
by SCIAG
18 Jan 2024 08:50
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81328

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

Anything above 150k would be ok I think. :lol: Jesus Christ you people have low expectations. It isn’t 2003 any more! Even £500k is a steal in the modern market. We obviously have a shit negotiating position but look at the fees for Dion Sanderson or Liam Kitching to get an idea of what the going r...
by SCIAG
15 Jan 2024 13:35
Forum: The Team
Topic: Embargos, HMRC Payment defaults, non payment of wages, the usual under Dai Wrongge
Replies: 2534
Views: 2078913

Re: Embargos, HMRC Payment defaults, non payment of wages, the usual under Dai Wrongge

I was thinking a lot about the playoff final yesterday Was that penalty shootout a huge sliding doors moment? Inevitably, play-off finals have huge impacts for the clubs involved. We’d have struggled sporting wise but we’d have been in better financial shape for at least the next three years. Too h...
by SCIAG
15 Jan 2024 13:07
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Potential New Owners
Replies: 938
Views: 848515

Re: Potential New Owners

So, let's say that yesterday's protest has convinced Dai to sell, the next step is to find/convince someone to buy us. Is there anything we fans can do to help find a buyer? Google “billionaires”. Go down the list, and get contact details for each one. Call them up and ask them if they’d like to wa...
by SCIAG
13 Jan 2024 20:20
Forum: The Team
Topic: Do you agree with todays pitch invasion and match abandonment?
Replies: 328
Views: 428909

Re: Do you agree with todays pitch invasion and match abandonment?

Don't agree with it, personally. Not sure it achieves anything meaningful. Having seen it, I am supportive of the on-pitch protest but not pushing it to abandonment. All footage shared is of the out pouring of love and pride toward our club and anger at what is happening. That would still have been ...
by SCIAG
13 Jan 2024 20:16
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Potential New Owners
Replies: 938
Views: 848515

Re: Potential New Owners

Orion1871
Also where do you think Barack Obama was on 9/11?

Maybe if he'd been doing his job in the White House then the attacks wouldn't have happened.
by SCIAG
11 Jan 2024 19:42
Forum: The Team
Topic: FA Youth cup 2023/24
Replies: 89
Views: 184764

Re: FA Youth cup 2023/24

Yeah Keown had injury trouble.
by SCIAG
10 Jan 2024 23:05
Forum: The Team
Topic: FA Youth cup 2023/24
Replies: 89
Views: 184764

Re: FA Youth cup 2023/24

Our last memorable FA Youth Cup run was around 2014 I think? The wasted generation for whom plenty went on to have good careers away from Reading. Kuhl and Tanner sadly fell away, but it contained Dickie, Stacey and Fosu among others. Let's hope we use this generation better. Tanner was the year ab...
by SCIAG
28 Nov 2023 10:03
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Carlisle United (h)
Replies: 232
Views: 64305

Re: MATCHWATCH : Carlisle United (h)

I feel like Ehibhatiomhan more than deserves some more starts. What about: Azeez...........Knibbs...........Smith ..............Ehibhatiomhan :?: Or switch Knibbs and Smith? I'd definitely start Vickers ahead of Mukairu. He uses the ball so well. Him, Craig and Abbey I don't think age really mature...
by SCIAG
03 Nov 2023 07:08
Forum: The Team
Topic: Injury watch 2023/24
Replies: 285
Views: 149365

Re: Injury watch 2023/24

Assuming we could get a Saudi club interested in Ejaria (did he play for Gerrard at Rangers?), we’d still need to get Ejaria interested in moving there.

Think they’ve generally filled their squads with a better class of player.
by SCIAG
02 Nov 2023 18:47
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Relebohile Mofokeng
Replies: 20
Views: 13905

Re: Relebohile Mofokeng

tidus_mi2 Honestly when I saw the surname I thought this might be another Yermas Dildo.

Relebophile sounds like a euphemism for incest, and Mofokeng speaks for itself.
by SCIAG
23 Oct 2023 22:25
Forum: The Team
Topic: Watney Cup
Replies: 20
Views: 7396

Re: Watney Cup

I think it was the first game my dad ever went to. His dad was more interested in horses, but one of dad's friends told him that Charlton and Best were going to be playing and he nagged granddad into taking him.

All those years later he's still a season ticket holder.
by SCIAG
18 Oct 2023 20:33
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Charlton Athletic (a)
Replies: 286
Views: 36613

Re: MATCHWATCH : Charlton Athletic (a)

Hard to know who is fit and available at the moment. I think I'd play: .....................Button ..Yiadom, Dean, Abbey, NGW .................Wing, Hutch Vickers, ........Elliott, ........Knibbs ...............Ehibhatiomhan Subs: Norcott, Bindon, McIntyre, Savage, Ballard, Azeez, Rushesha/Craig I ...
by SCIAG
02 Oct 2023 19:18
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3106
Views: 1290864

Re: Ex Players

What's the story on us losing him and other youngsters to City? I thought EPPP put geographical restrictions on making teenagers uproot their life and move up north. Plus, we're category 1 so how are PL teams allowed simply to poach our brightest prospects? I don't think we released him, so did Cit...
by SCIAG
30 Sep 2023 14:46
Forum: The Team
Topic: Stewards alleged to be groping fans
Replies: 19
Views: 7449

Re: Stewards alleged to be groping fans

Don't think we should be making light of sexual assault. If you personally have been groped and not minded then fair enough, but personally for me it isn't something funny or enjoyable, and I don't think making light of it helps the victims. Obvs saying that without prejudging this particular case, ...
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