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Post by Simon Lill on Apr 17, 2012 11:43:27 GMT
On the verge of promotion back to the Premiership. Wondering why I'm having no bad feelings towards them!  Has the Swindon rivalry this year been the distraction? I almost feel pleased for them. Forgive me |
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Post by basingstokeox on Apr 17, 2012 12:09:42 GMT
good luck to them
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Post by backonthecoupon on Apr 17, 2012 12:12:32 GMT
Still twats in my eyes
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Post by Gary Baldi on Apr 17, 2012 12:22:46 GMT
Plastics on parade is what I'm sum them up as. Can't stand them.
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Post by cheekoh on Apr 17, 2012 12:23:49 GMT
Rather see Reading in the premier league than Swindon.
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Post by moroccanyellow on Apr 17, 2012 12:27:35 GMT
We haven't played them this millennium yet have we?
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Post by ianmoore82 on Apr 17, 2012 12:28:02 GMT
I reckon McDermott comes across as a nice fella as well as an, obviously, good manager.
Play decent football, got a good stadium.
Just shows what can be done when some money comes into a club. My only worry if I was a Reading fan, is the new owners.
These foreign owners never appear to be permanent.
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Post by WeAreTheResurrection on Apr 17, 2012 12:42:27 GMT
I really really dislike Reading when they do well.
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Post by bicesterox on Apr 17, 2012 12:44:13 GMT
We haven't played them this millennium yet have we? League Cup early Kastad days? |
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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 17, 2012 13:05:38 GMT
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Post by ox4eva on Apr 17, 2012 14:14:27 GMT
F*ckin hate Reading, more than scumdon!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2012 14:16:35 GMT
no real feelings about Reading at all
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2012 14:45:55 GMT
I can't understand the vitriol towards Reading.
I know a number of their supporters and they don't gloat like so many others.
I wish them well. They will need it given they will be going to ManUtd and other places for guaranteed drubbings. Manu often get a goal start with a penalty from Rooney as evidenced a few days ago. Or like Wigan conceding two offside goals in the same game. Who thinks it evens up during the season? I don't think it does
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2012 15:02:13 GMT
Don't understand it either. I know quite a few as well and while we might have a bit of banter its nothing like the rivalry with the scum.
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Post by ox4eva on Apr 17, 2012 15:54:06 GMT
Depends where your from, South Oxfordshire is different, and Reading is closer than scumdon..
And also there used to be more bother when we played Reading and thats a fact so there was plenty of rivalry there!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2012 17:45:18 GMT
Elm Park was in a very undesirable part of Reading.
And there used to be a lot of fights at many home games just across the road in the Harvester.
On the other hand the Madjseski stadium is a nice purpose amenity which is welcoming, far more so than before
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Post by The Fence End on Apr 17, 2012 18:18:59 GMT
Bad news for our attendances, premiership football within 30 miles of our stadium. Not good.
I still hate them, very close second to the scum for me.
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Post by moobs on Apr 17, 2012 19:23:39 GMT
I really love reading, Dan Brown is my favourite
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2012 19:43:26 GMT
Have had bad feelings for them since they stormed the train after aldershot last year.
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Post by Lone Gunman on Apr 17, 2012 20:27:19 GMT
Don't want to see reading in the prem. I assumed when they went down the first time they were on their way back to their natural level, sadly not.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Apr 17, 2012 20:38:58 GMT
I worked with a Reading Season Ticket holder and I was surprised how much mutual dislike we had. Considering we hadn't played each other for ages, the banter was good.
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Post by moobs on Apr 17, 2012 20:45:26 GMT
Well, they made it...
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Post by maddogmickey on Apr 18, 2012 6:58:58 GMT
46 points out of 51 is epic.
Don't mind Reading either for some reason and that's after having bottles chucked at me back at Elm Park. Plastic fans now mind. They wouldn't get three thousand down where we've been.
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Post by sihath on Apr 18, 2012 7:06:51 GMT
Plastics on parade is what I'm sum them up as. Can't stand them. They'll be at home in the prem then. Not that bothered that they've gone up. Don't see them as rivals and more than I see Coventry or Arsenal or Southampton or... well you get my point. Swindon are our rivals. Then all the other League 2 clubs. The rest don't bother me. Brian McDermott comes across as a decent young manager. Humble, gets on with the job. Lost in the play-off final last year and they stuck with him and that has paid dividends. Something to bear in mind if we don't win promotion this year. |
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Post by baldy on Apr 18, 2012 7:21:20 GMT
Plastics on parade is what I'm sum them up as. Can't stand them. They'll be at home in the prem then. Not that bothered that they've gone up. Don't see them as rivals and more than I see Coventry or Arsenal or Southampton or... well you get my point. Swindon are our rivals. Then all the other League 2 clubs. The rest don't bother me. Brian McDermott comes across as a decent young manager. Humble, gets on with the job. Lost in the play-off final last year and they stuck with him and that has paid dividends. Something to bear in mind if we don't win promotion this year. McDermott is a great example of how there are some cracking managers out there who are completely off the radar. Can you imagine us - or any other team to be fair - giving him a job three or four years ago if he'd have applied ? Didn't we interview Adie Boothroyd too about seven years ago ? That sort of appointment would have been met with derision from just about every fan purely because of his then low profile. Even Wilder, who was at least a bit known, caused a ripple of disatisfaction because he wasn't a big enough name for a lot of fans. Hats off to Reading though. They have made a great managerial appointment and played football with a real flourish and entertained as well as keeping it tight defensively. You can see why the Reading players would enjoy playing under McDermott, he has humility and calmness that would command instant respect from his players. Nice guy, good luck to him. |
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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 18, 2012 7:47:14 GMT
McDermott is a great example of how there are some cracking managers out there who are completely off the radar. Can you imagine us - or any other team to be fair - giving him a job three or four years ago if he'd have applied ? Didn't we interview Adie Boothroyd too about seven years ago ? That sort of appointment would have been met with derision from just about every fan purely because of his then low profile. Even Wilder, who was at least a bit known, caused a ripple of disatisfaction because he wasn't a big enough name for a lot of fans. It isn't quite like that is it. He was Number 2 to Coppell, and wasn't given the job when Coppell left, forget the name of the bloke who came in now... And he was only appointed Caretaker when the manager was sacked. He did a good job from then and earned a crack at the job. That isn't really any different to when we appointed Mickey Lewis or Patterson, apart from the fact it worked out for them and not for us. It's not like it was an unknown they were taking a punt on... |
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Post by sihath on Apr 18, 2012 7:48:44 GMT
McDermott is a great example of how there are some cracking managers out there who are completely off the radar. Can you imagine us - or any other team to be fair - giving him a job three or four years ago if he'd have applied ? Didn't we interview Adie Boothroyd too about seven years ago ? That sort of appointment would have been met with derision from just about every fan purely because of his then low profile. Even Wilder, who was at least a bit known, caused a ripple of disatisfaction because he wasn't a big enough name for a lot of fans. It isn't quite like that is it. He was Number 2 to Coppell, and wasn't given the job when Coppell left, forget the name of the bloke who came in now... And he was only appointed Caretaker when the manager was sacked. He did a good job from then and earned a crack at the job. That isn't really any different to when we appointed Mickey Lewis or Patterson, apart from the fact it worked out for them and not for us. It's not like it was an unknown they were taking a punt on... Brendan Rogers wasn't it? |
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Post by baldy on Apr 18, 2012 8:16:38 GMT
McDermott is a great example of how there are some cracking managers out there who are completely off the radar. Can you imagine us - or any other team to be fair - giving him a job three or four years ago if he'd have applied ? Didn't we interview Adie Boothroyd too about seven years ago ? That sort of appointment would have been met with derision from just about every fan purely because of his then low profile. Even Wilder, who was at least a bit known, caused a ripple of disatisfaction because he wasn't a big enough name for a lot of fans. It isn't quite like that is it. He was Number 2 to Coppell, and wasn't given the job when Coppell left, forget the name of the bloke who came in now... And he was only appointed Caretaker when the manager was sacked. He did a good job from then and earned a crack at the job. That isn't really any different to when we appointed Mickey Lewis or Patterson, apart from the fact it worked out for them and not for us. It's not like it was an unknown they were taking a punt on... I didn't realise that. I thought he was just plucked from the backroom staff. Still doesn't really alter my point though about whether he would have got a shot at, say, us had he applied. |
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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 18, 2012 8:27:12 GMT
I didn't realise that. I thought he was just plucked from the backroom staff. Still doesn't really alter my point though about whether he would have got a shot at, say, us had he applied. I have wondered that myself, must admit. He was, of course, a player here, but would that have helped if he had applied? Would his background as ex-player and number-2 at a well recognised managerial team have meant he would have been considered? |
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Post by baldy on Apr 18, 2012 9:21:44 GMT
I didn't realise that. I thought he was just plucked from the backroom staff. Still doesn't really alter my point though about whether he would have got a shot at, say, us had he applied. I have wondered that myself, must admit. He was, of course, a player here, but would that have helped if he had applied? Would his background as ex-player and number-2 at a well recognised managerial team have meant he would have been considered? Difficult to say. I certainly don't think a non footballing chairman like Kassam would have given him a second thought. He preferred the higfh profile appointment - Wright, Rix etc. Maybe with input from people linked to the game like Smith and Rosenthal and sensible men at the helm like Lenegan and Thomas he might have been seriously considered. I'm not sure the ex player bit would have carried much weight to be honest. He only played 30 odd games and that was 25 years ago albeit in a great era for the club. When Reading eventually fire him which they inevitably will especially if the struggle in the PL under these new foreign owners then with his localish connection and ex player bit I'd like to think he might be one in the frame when a vacancy does arrive in the years to come - especially if we have managed to climb a league or two by then. |
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