Cheer up ROFLeading fans

[Silver Fox]

Thankfully as a result of losing trust in RFC Ive not bought a season ticket in several years so I never got fooled.

LOLZ, they've never breached the trust I've placed them in all the years I've been buying a ST and every year they fulfil all their fixtures, as promised

[LUX]

plus the past seven years have been the most successful in the club's history.

[Waylenstreet]

You mean one premature promotion and crash followed by a fluke promotion and humiliation ?

[LoyalRoyalFan]

You mean one premature promotion and crash followed by a fluke promotion and humiliation ?

Deary me..

[Silver Fox]

You mean one premature promotion and crash followed by a fluke promotion and humiliation ?

We have a winner!

[Ian Royal]

Libertine - you seriously are a chump.

The club has told us what it wants to do and is trying to do. Anyone who's taken at face value as a guarantee of success what Anton, Adkins or anyone else has said we are looking to do, or even will do, is a totally gullible and self-deluding chump.

The things the club wants to do simply isn't within its power to achieve, short of going out and offering over the odds on three conference players just to satisfy chumps like you who hear we're trying to sign players and expect to do so with having made the requisite number of signings.


Take everything with a pinch of salt, and know its aspirational, not actually a guaranteed commitment. You'll find yourself having less disappointment.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Did we have these sort of discussions when we were struggling away in Division Two (League One)?.... No, because we didn't have any expectation to deal with.

[Libertine]

Libertine - you seriously are a chump.

The club has told us what it wants to do and is trying to do. Anyone who's taken at face value as a guarantee of success what Anton, Adkins or anyone else has said we are looking to do, or even will do, is a totally gullible and self-deluding chump.

The things the club wants to do simply isn't within its power to achieve, short of going out and offering over the odds on three conference players just to satisfy chumps like you who hear we're trying to sign players and expect to do so with having made the requisite number of signings.


Take everything with a pinch of salt, and know its aspirational, not actually a guaranteed commitment. You'll find yourself having less disappointment.

You're right IR...I am a chump for believing to be true anything the club says. And you're a preening pretentious pcunt...

[Avon Royal]

No offence Ian, but you've not really done yourself any favours there.

[M27Royal]

Of course many Nobbers will be too young to remember the heady days of deadline day in 1998 when we did bring in 7 players......................

[Royal Lady]

Of course many Nobbers will be too young to remember the heady days of deadline day in 1998 when we did bring in 7 players......................

ROFLobert FLOLeck and co

[Extended-Phenotype]

Maybe players would want to remain here if we appeared to give two f/cks about going up and staying up.

[Agent Balti]

Libertine is right in my book. AZ can't in one breath say "We want to sign up to 7 players", then Adkins say "We're trying to bring in 3 players"...and STILL end up with nothing, without the fans getting a bit miffed. (In fact, it's -2. How come we're very eager to offload Kebe and Mariappa without eyeing up cast iron replacements first? (Well, Kebe I'd have driven there myself...))

Surely, if you're after 3 targets, let's say. One of them falls through, that still leaves you with the bargaining power for 3 players. So, sign the other two! Yes, that's a very simplistic viewpoint, granted. But to end up with nothing when we are supposed to be striving for a first time return to the Premiership? That's showing a distinct lack of ambition and/or not wishing to play the system and then taking your ball home in a sulk when it doesn't pan out per player.

Either they're duping the fans with deLOLusions of free signing grandeur with the likes of Drenthe and Bridge, then pleading poverty to the clubs we wish to buy from, or they're not telling the whole story. Or the investment into the Academy and CAT1 status is sponging the rest of the coffers dry, but I don't buy that either. There's some weird disparity that doesn't make any sense. RFC seem a bit lop-sided as to what their actual strategy really is. Do we have money or don't we? Who are we trying to attract?

Sure, it's the sodding Reading Way some will say...but wasn't this supposed to be the New Reading Way with deeper pockets? Whatever the reasons, I don't understand the direction that the club wants to go in, when they say one thing, then act in another. Whichever way it is, the sanctimonious love it and rub their keyboards with glee. So well done you.

[melonhead]

wanted 7, got three, with possible extras coming in through loans and frees

poor attempt at achieving your goals, yes.

leaving us bereft of talent and totally incapable of gaining promotion. no

[Agent Balti]

leaving us bereft of talent and totally incapable of gaining promotion. no

You reckon? One striker that can score, one that can't and one not interested. Oh and now just 3 recognised central defenders. Midfield though, double thumbs up!

[melonhead]

happy with the defence.
happy with defensive midfield.
happy with offensive midfield.
worried by strikeforce, but hoping fervently for movement in the free/loan market

[Libertine]

leaving us bereft of talent and totally incapable of gaining promotion. no

You reckon? One striker that can score, one that can't and one not interested. Oh and now just 3 recognised central defenders. Midfield though, double thumbs up!

And keepers for that matter.

[Agent Balti]

happy with the defence.

Happy with full backs...I'll take that. Otherwise, not so much. Pearce and Gorkss are a frightening combo if we have to rely on them, imo.

[melonhead]

pah.

i said im happy damnit!

[Libertine]

pah.

i said im happy damnit!

Really?