I suspect some of the reason we’ve got the loans we have is with the parent club fully expecting the player to be first choice I’d expect Burns, O Mahony and Doyle all to have some sort of guarantee of game time or else a likely recall That would certainly explain the lack of hesitation & convi...

Sounds like BHA rate him highly and play hard ball if their loanees dont get gane time.... Interesting dynamics for a young manager to navigate Sounds like he'll be given a good chance and we expect him to start. And if he fails to perform and loses his place, isn't that also a valuable experience ...

Brian Howard has helped get this one over the line.. 'Helped' as in 'brokered the deal in exchange for an agent's fee payment.....? To be fair, like Stephen Hunt, he does appear to have a soft spot for and speak highly of us. He's good when he's on BBCRB as a pundit too. No doubt, I'm just curious ...

Sounds like BHA rate him highly and play hard ball if their loanees dont get game time....

Interesting dynamics for a young manager to navigate

Given the personnel we have & evident vulnerability to balls over the top, I was wondering whether a change of shape might help..... A 3 - 5 - 2 maybe The spare man to shore up the lack of pace down the middle & a midfield with Wing a bit further forward... The wide players might help create...

We're a bit meh....

Our midfield has been anonymous...

Struggling to understand what our game plan going forward is other than hopeful punts...

Another great set of kits from Macron. Hope they stay with us for a long, long time. I agree The work Macron do to personalise these kits for what is a third tier club is very admirable..... Hopefully it pays off for them when we become every Louisianian's favourite EFL soccer team and they sell ga...

Pretty sure my mother had one like this in 1973....

Bulbs....

Biscuits....

Shame we didn't get Beer...

Hunt must be a chairman's dream - his interviews sound plausible, but you come away none the wiser.... I've listened three times and whilst it seems that there's an issue, possibly from the Knibbs side?... He is stilll 'one of us', so may be available for Lincoln, I couldn't guarantee that's what h...

Hunt must be a chairman's dream - his interviews sound plausible, but you come away none the wiser.... I've listened three times and whilst it seems that there's an issue, possibly from the Knibbs side?... He is stilll 'one of us', so may be available for Lincoln, I couldn't guarantee that's what he...

Have the latest wages been paid with HMRC etc?

If only there was a middle ground. You can't tell fans it's going to be a spectacular transfer window then blame them for having unrealistic expectations. I think you can blame people for not just rolling their eyes and ignoring obvious American hyperbolic bullshit. They’d have gotten away with it ...

both of which contradict the general theme of "only spending what we earn"....

RC: ‘A very very good team on day one’. Dated 21st July 2025. :roll: This is what is grinding the gears of fans. He just needs to keep his mouth shut. I'll go with: "We will have as much money as all but three or four clubs in the league." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckg...

Likes the sound of his own voice too much for me.... And goes off on random tangents because he wants to rustle up click bait controversy.... E.G.: I didn't go to the Simod Cup evening to hear Mick Tait's views on VAR or on how Adi believes 'modern footballers' are too soft and paid too much... I'm ...

The challenge is how to please all these different stakeholders... RC has stated many times that he wants the club to spend what it earns... If that is to be believed at face value then a structural deficit of around £10Mpa needs to be addressed... This doesn't equate with building a team competing ...

Might just be someone with an axe to grind for some reason. Cloth was accordingly cut at Wycombe and the club hit its most successful period which rather suggests RC knows what he’s doing. Would presume the same will happen here with things being prioritised. They certainly wouldn’t want bad PR or ...

So running Reading FC isn't like running Wycombe Wonderers FC?....

What a shocker...

Based on things that have been said on X apparently we're offering poor wages for players. Not going to attract decent promising talent by doing that. Define 'poor wages'.... Do you mean 'wages that are sustainable'...? Cakeism perhaps? As in other clubs in league one are offering more money Maybe ...