will you renew?

[playoffs or layoffs]

255 royalty points! Is that right? I'm sure it was 195 before.

Championship dividend

[Alan Partridge]

255 royalty points! Is that right? I'm sure it was 195 before.

Championship dividend

Parachute points

[RTFC Drummer]

Thats pretty poor to be honest with ya. Is that why Reading fans are called the Royals? They stick by there team no matter what, seems to be a big fat ugly NO

More info

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/pa ... 98,00.html

[SpaceCruiser]

Oh, go away.

[earleyroyal]

I think they're all defecting to Reading Town.

and applications are now pouring in

[RTFC Drummer]

Oh, go away.

Just telling you how it is

[Roger the Rabbit]

Oh, go away.

Just telling you how it is

No, you're just being a t*t - as usual.

[Maguire]

Not renewing.

Football is shit and I want to spend my Saturday afternoons in the Nags/Oakford.

[TFF]

Not renewing.

My girlfriend says Football is shit and I want to spend my Saturday afternoons shopping.

[RoyalBlue]

but in my view, anyone who pays bills earlier than they have to is a mug. I guarantee you that RFC wait until the very last moment before paying theirs!!

This is a fascinating insight into RoyalBlue. So many of his posts show the absolute contempt he has for the way RFC is run and yet he seems to use them as an example of best practice. Oh well, maybe he is Nigel Howe in disguise and that is why he is so vehement - in order to throw a smoke screen .......

I wouldn't choose them as an 'example of best practice' I merely stated that they follow best practice in that respect.

And, despite what you might say/think I have never said they get everything wrong. Indeed when it comes to being a 'pure money-making business' they do a lot right. My beef has always been whether they (and other football clubs) should act solely as a 'pure money-making business' and display apparent disregard to the interests of their supporters. And if they do choose that approach, it is somewhat hypocritical to then produce the begging bowl and plead for financial support from those they have treated as ordinary customers.

[Roger the Rabbit]

To suggest Reading FC is 'purely a money making machine' shows something of a lack of knowledge of the club doesn't it !

It sure isn't a charity, and the flip side of JM's belief that it should 'wash it's own face' is that it's going to be run on fairly tight business lines.

I'm not entirely sure how RoyalBlue would like the club to be run, some kind of 'workers cooperative ' ? I don;t agree with everything that the club do but I think they probably get the balance between commercialism and retaining a human face about right. Less commercial and we'd probably be stuck back in the lower divisions, more commercial and we'd be paying QPR size prices !

[RoyalBlue]

Take the p*ss all you like (and btw, with a decent account it's way more than £2 for the three tickets I've got to buy) but in my view, anyone who pays bills earlier than they have to is a mug. I guarantee you that RFC wait until the very last moment before paying theirs!! In the meantime, I'll have the first pint of the new season courtesy of the money I've saved.

Personally I renewed at the start of June. I'd been paid a few days earlier. I have to renew before the start of July to retain my seat. Now I could have waited until the 20th of June, the last day I'd be guaranteed my current seat, but as my account, as with most accounts, only pays interest per month if I don't withdraw that month, I wouldn't be any better off. In fact if you have your money in such an account, and have more than £425 in it, you'd actually lose money by sticking your £425 in that account and withdrawing it as you'd lose a month's interest on the rest of your savings in your account too when you did withdraw. So personally I'd have gained £0.00p in interest for keeping the money in that account for and extra three weeks, and lost about £90 in interest that month when I withdrew.

I would genuinely be very interested to know about an account that offers a decent rate of interest even if you withdraw that month.

You don't bank with a mutual building society then? I guess that's the penalty of banking with someone who runs their business for the benefit and profit of its shareholders, rather than its members!

With Nationwide for example, you can have your money in their e-savings account, switching to current account as and when you need it, and get 5.05% interest calculated on a daily basis. Doesn't matter when you take it out, you get your interest calculated up to the day before.

Even if you have an account where you have to keep your money in until the end of the month, you could have got the whole of June by paying on your credit card just before the deadline. Unless you were really unlucky with your credit card repayment date, you wouldn't then have to take the money out of your account to pay off your credit card until July.

And for more useful financial tips:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

To suggest Reading FC is 'purely a money making machine' shows something of a lack of knowledge of the club doesn't it !

It sure isn't a charity,

If it sure isn't a charity then maybe it should stop the charity like requests for the community to do its bit, get behind the club and help support it financially in the process. Or does no one remember those frequent pleas from the Chairman?

[The 17 Bus]

That would be The Nationwide, the only mutual BS that is being taken to court over its penalty charges to customers?

[Roger the Rabbit]

If it sure isn't a charity then maybe it should stop the charity like requests for the community to do its bit, get behind the club and help support it financially in the process. Or does no one remember those frequent pleas from the Chairman?

Bit like the 'charity like' requests we see in the ad breaks on tele or plastered all over billboards ? I'm not sure why you think JM taking every opportunity to 'advertise' the club is a problem. I can't recall him ever asking for 'donations' ! By appealing to the local community to come and back the team (and in return for them to bask in the reflected glory) doesn't seem a thing to attack him for. Not doing it would be perverse. And being run as a business but representing a community don;t seem mutually exclusive. The world is not black and white, and it's a bit bemusing that you seem to take every opportunity to slate the club - predictable as Gordon Brown's answers at question time !

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Take the p*ss all you like (and btw, with a decent account it's way more than £2 for the three tickets I've got to buy) but in my view, anyone who pays bills earlier than they have to is a mug. I guarantee you that RFC wait until the very last moment before paying theirs!! In the meantime, I'll have the first pint of the new season courtesy of the money I've saved.

Personally I renewed at the start of June. I'd been paid a few days earlier. I have to renew before the start of July to retain my seat. Now I could have waited until the 20th of June, the last day I'd be guaranteed my current seat, but as my account, as with most accounts, only pays interest per month if I don't withdraw that month, I wouldn't be any better off. In fact if you have your money in such an account, and have more than £425 in it, you'd actually lose money by sticking your £425 in that account and withdrawing it as you'd lose a month's interest on the rest of your savings in your account too when you did withdraw. So personally I'd have gained £0.00p in interest for keeping the money in that account for and extra three weeks, and lost about £90 in interest that month when I withdrew.

I would genuinely be very interested to know about an account that offers a decent rate of interest even if you withdraw that month.

You don't bank with a mutual building society then? I guess that's the penalty of banking with someone who runs their business for the benefit and profit of its shareholders, rather than its members!

With Nationwide for example, you can have your money in their e-savings account, switching to current account as and when you need it, and get 5.05% interest calculated on a daily basis. Doesn't matter when you take it out, you get your interest calculated up to the day before.

Even if you have an account where you have to keep your money in until the end of the month, you could have got the whole of June by paying on your credit card just before the deadline. Unless you were really unlucky with your credit card repayment date, you wouldn't then have to take the money out of your account to pay off your credit card until July.

And for more useful financial tips:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

To suggest Reading FC is 'purely a money making machine' shows something of a lack of knowledge of the club doesn't it !

It sure isn't a charity,

If it sure isn't a charity then maybe it should stop the charity like requests for the community to do its bit, get behind the club and help support it financially in the process. Or does no one remember those frequent pleas from the Chairman?

5.05% isn't that good though is it? I'd rather have the higher rate of interest thanks very much.

[Maguire]

Not renewing.

My girlfriend says Football is shit and I want to spend my Saturday afternoons shopping.

My girlfriend's renewed!!

[Sarah Star]

Not renewing.

My girlfriend says Football is shit and I want to spend my Saturday afternoons shopping.

My girlfriend's renewed!!

Was it offers from Waitrose that swun it for her?

[Rex]

Renewed today. Finally got my daughter a home ST. Happy days

[rfcjoe]

I rang up and said I wanted to renew but I'm not paying til Wednesday ( payday ) Is this still alright and will it register that I've renewed - you know what reading is like for feckin stuff up.....?

[Rex]

Not sure on that. When i rang today i was told that existing seats would be reserved until 18.00hr today. Then i understand it's a free for all. It might be best to go to ticket office in person to sort this out. Quite right to have doubts about any potential screw ups. Hopefully logic and special dispensation can be given.