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by grey_squirrel
21 Feb 2022 14:07
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Preston North End (a)
Replies: 387
Views: 29598

Re: MATCHWATCH : Preston North End (a)

by grey_squirrel
21 Jan 2022 20:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: Pauno out
Replies: 3541
Views: 808201

Re: Pauno out

I don't pop in here very often but JFC all this wibble. The 'Manager' has to go.

Yes it's risk but it's better taking a risk than submitting to capitulating (or sleep walking) into inevitable relegation.

Clear to see.
by grey_squirrel
11 Jan 2022 23:09
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Fulham (h)
Replies: 689
Views: 59002

Re: MATCHWATCH : Fulham (h)

Never in 50 years.

Just go. Now.

ALL of you.

And your MERCENARY multi million wages.

From top to bottom.

Get our club back!
by grey_squirrel
11 Jan 2022 20:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Fulham (h)
Replies: 689
Views: 59002

Re: MATCHWATCH : Fulham (h)

JFC. Can they not just get rid of this bloke?! I’d rather go down futilely trying with someone/anybody else than this joker who the mercenaries we currently have, obviously have no respect for.
by grey_squirrel
24 Dec 2021 18:22
Forum: The Team
Topic: 36 years ago today...
Replies: 50
Views: 6653

Re: 36 years ago today...

The Wolves game recollections Unsurprisingly I think we all turned up expecting a win. Wolves we’re in turmoil. Had overseas owners (the Bhattis) who they despised and wanted shot of. They were allocated the E stand only (the town end was mostly us) and displayed a ‘BHATTIS OUT’ protest banner throu...
by grey_squirrel
23 Dec 2021 22:49
Forum: The Team
Topic: 36 years ago today...
Replies: 50
Views: 6653

Re: 36 years ago today...

I’ve posted on numerous threads about this before, but I always enjoy a step back in nostalgia about this one and that season. In many ways the swagger and confidence of that season’s team was very reminiscent of the 106 team, although obviously wholly different in style and technique. The team pick...
by grey_squirrel
17 May 2021 14:15
Forum: The Team
Topic: The hardest player to ever play for Reading?
Replies: 75
Views: 17770

Re: The hardest player to ever play for Reading?

Yeah it's got to be Hurlock. Taken from a Rangers forum a decade ago Tony Cascarino: "Some of us [Millwall players] were playfully goading Terry about what he was going to do to Vinnie Jones in the upcoming fixture with Wimbledon. Without saying a word, he got up from the table and walked to th...
by grey_squirrel
23 May 2020 19:28
Forum: The Team
Topic: Biggest Reading FC injustices
Replies: 58
Views: 18690

Re: Biggest Reading FC injustices

Ron Futcher not being done for GBH after shattering Martin Hick's jaw into a hundred pieces.
by grey_squirrel
15 May 2020 11:47
Forum: The Team
Topic: Exeter away August 1990
Replies: 15
Views: 5986

Re: Exeter away August 1990

My memory of away to Exeter was a pre-season friendly in either 89 or 90? The weather was good so me and two mates thought we’d go down for a crack. We met in our local before mid day and discovered the game was being played behind closed doors at the Uni or somewhere. We thought sod it we’ll go any...
by grey_squirrel
09 May 2020 20:31
Forum: The Team
Topic: Finance
Replies: 389
Views: 159392

Re: Finance

With the finances I think we have to be realistic and if we get a good offer for any of our players we have to sell, it's the only reasonable way to get out of this mess in the short term while the long term will be a reduction in the level of wages offered, even if that mean we lose players for no...
by grey_squirrel
05 May 2020 19:46
Forum: The Team
Topic: Worst Reading Player
Replies: 175
Views: 57252

Re: Worst Reading Player

I know his name has already come up but surely Hope Akpan has to win this hands down. Not once do I ever remember him kicking the ball in the direction he intended to. Truly woeful. Whatever was Coppell thinking? Honorable mention to Liam Rosenior. He might have got away with his totally limited st...
by grey_squirrel
05 May 2020 15:46
Forum: The Team
Topic: Worst Reading Player
Replies: 175
Views: 57252

Re: Worst Reading Player

I know his name has already come up but surely Hope Akpan has to win this hands down. Not once do I ever remember him kicking the ball in the direction he intended to. Truly woeful. Whatever was Coppell thinking? Honorable mention to Liam Rosenior. He might have got away with his totally limited sty...
by grey_squirrel
30 Apr 2020 16:03
Forum: The Team
Topic: The 'they never played for Reading, did they?!' XI
Replies: 37
Views: 14392

Re: The 'they never played for Reading, did they?!' XI

FA Cup Final winning goal scorer.

Lawrie Sanchez
by grey_squirrel
21 Apr 2020 20:27
Forum: The Team
Topic: Best Reading FC performances in your lifetime
Replies: 90
Views: 43924

Re: Best Reading FC performances in your lifetime

I can't really recall many others that haven't already been mentioned, but without starting a "worst" equivalent thread this one still sticks in my memory and absolutely grates me to this today as being one of the worst in recent years https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26300108 Totally...
by grey_squirrel
21 Apr 2020 15:17
Forum: The Team
Topic: Best Reading FC performances in your lifetime
Replies: 90
Views: 43924

Re: Best Reading FC performances in your lifetime

I can't really recall many others that haven't already been mentioned, but without starting a "worst" equivalent thread this one still sticks in my memory and absolutely grates me to this today as being one of the worst in recent years https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26300108 Totally ...
by grey_squirrel
18 Apr 2020 12:55
Forum: The Team
Topic: Best Reading FC performances in your lifetime
Replies: 90
Views: 43924

Re: Best Reading FC performances in your lifetime

and...apart from the obviouses 1987 away at Ipswich...a 1-1 draw (thanks Steve Richardson) guaranteeing our best EVER (back then) league finish. Even left the ground (thanks to the locals ‘post-match loose-change donations’) a few quid richer than I arrived 8) Remember it well. We were under attack...
by grey_squirrel
17 Apr 2020 16:02
Forum: The Team
Topic: Best XI in your lifetime. (Excluding the 106 team)
Replies: 79
Views: 45246

Re: Best XI in your lifetime. (Excluding the 106 team)

Death

Mark White
Hetzke
Wood
Harte

Gilkes
Osborne
Scott Taylor
Kebe

Friday
Bremner

Subs: Shaka, Hurlock, Hicks, Senior, Gylfi

Manager: Branfoot or Pardew
by grey_squirrel
13 Apr 2020 20:09
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ray Hiron
Replies: 16
Views: 13420

Re: Ray Hiron

I have fond recollections of his couple of seasons with us. As has been muted he was the “quiet man no. 10”. Just got on with his job, seemed to enjoy his stint with us, always put in a decent shift and despite a previous comment I think he was a popular choice on the team sheet. Above all he seemed...
by grey_squirrel
09 Apr 2020 13:22
Forum: The Team
Topic: What got you into supporting RFC?! And when you did who was your nearest team?
Replies: 58
Views: 32045

Re: What got you into supporting RFC?! And when you did who was your nearest team?

For me no prior connection to the club whatsoever, only locality and the principle of "support your local team" which I have done since my first game aged 6, Fred May's testimonial on 2 October 1974, which I still remember vividly - the smells (bovril, cigars, liniment), the floodlights, t...
by grey_squirrel
15 Mar 2020 17:33
Forum: The Team
Topic: Coronavirus outbreak
Replies: 1126
Views: 371219

Re: Coronavirus outbreak

The mortality rate if you are not old, unfit / unhealthy or ill is practically zero.
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