6ft Kerplunk

Extended-Phenotype When he jumps he is somehow lower in the air than he was when he was standing. It’s like he jumps inside himself like a oxf*rd accordion.

The technical term for this is an Asaba.

A rare live game for me. Great result, but the quality of football from both sides was dire. Wasn’t exactly overwhelmed by the differences between Noel’s Reading and Leam’s Reading; looked to me like Leam just picked up where Noel left off. Feels a bit unfair to reel off a bunch of criticisms after...

Weird one Rinomhta. Could be he has fallen through some contractual crack. If he is fit and not carrying some chronic injury issue, I would sign him. He fits the Couhig dynamic, free.

Mr Optimist

Snowflake Royal Stevenage also have a dreadful fanbase. Well known round here for being thick thugs.

I saw 1976 on the back of their tracksuits… I’ve probably got pants in the drawer that have a longer history.

It does highlight how little there is between the sides in this league. That was a side that could have gone top with a win against us, and at no point did they look like a side capable of doing that. As far as visible changes to the team goes, there were a few as far as I could see. There was gener...

How depressing is it going into a home league game against Stevenage, one of the smallest tinpot teams in the EFL and no one expecting us to win ! This is turning into one of the most miserable seasons ever ! Tinpot is relative. I expect we are tinpot in comparison to other clubs. Better to look at...

Least surprising news of the day… Yes but interesting* that we appear to have taken him from Barrow - so unless there was a clause in his contract allowing him to move in certain circumstances, we may have had to pay a release fee. Also interestingly, whilst the press release states they worked tog...

I've been thinking for quite a while now, that if you have a good season in League 1 and don't get promoted, Championship clubs will come hunting for your stronger players, especially if they're contracts are up. Most decent League 1 players can at least be comfortable in the Championship at a mid-...

Dai Yongge gambled on success and continually chased his losses until he simply wasn’t able to. Treated his clubs like they were just bad bets that didn’t come off. He took over a club that was a penalty kick away from the Premier league and thought that financially pushing it would bring success. R...

Lane looks like a good signing. Williams likes a knock and Marriot hasn’t completed half a seasons worth of matches since his hamstring tear in 2021.

The rest of them would not get into the Reading team from this point last season.

I think Richardson will have learnt a hell of a lot more from that collapse than he would have from an insipid 2-0 or 2-1 win. He clearly nailed a lot of our problems from 120 minutes of football. I'll take that as a crumb of comfort rather than a positive. Midfield is a problem for me. We need to ...

We are making subs for fitness levels in November, which is not correct. There are some really strong performances without being collective as a team in there. People need help within that on the pitch. We need people to return to fitness and stay fit if we want to progress and move forward. It is ...

I'll admit I followed online without watching, but there can be no excuses for failing to see it out from 2-0 in the 90th minute. Head to the corner, waste time, take a yellow card for fouls on the halfway line. Do whatever it takes to make sure you finish the job. That's true in L1, let alone agai...

Yep some truth in that. As I said whilst watching, doubt we’ll see a number of these lads in the near future (or again) in the first team Who, and what are the alternatives? Stickland would be one. Prob get a few more chances due to injuries but I don’t think we’ll see too much of Camara, maybe Kye...

He has to be careful with his reaction and words need to be chosen carefully. Metaphorically lynching everyone after one game (that doesn’t really matter in the overall big picture) when he doesn’t know the personalities well enough might not be the smartest move, he might also want that sort of ap...

I would argue that this is pretty much the perfect result for Richardson. He can be absolved of all blame having been in charge for only a matter of days. The only criticism one could offer would be the timing of his subs but I don't believe that had any effect on the result. He can tear the player...

15 players left in the summer? Must be including U11's....and he obviously had no say on who was let go 15 at the end of the season might be a slight exaggeration but 16 players who played in the first team left during or at the end of the 2024/25 season and these represented 49 league and cup goal...

Just seen that Danny Schofield is named as assistant manager and has previously managed Huddersfield and Doncaster. James Beattie is listed as coach and has managed Accrington Stanley. Could be sound appointments. Could be, but aren’t. It is Jobs for the boys. All arranged by mutual friend Joe Jaco...

Richardson seems to be a very Wycombey thing to do. So, it makes perfect sense I suppose. I imagine that he will have to hit the ground running, otherwise he won’t have the latitude given to Noel due to Noel’s history with the club. Then I suppose it will be Redwood that start taking hostile fire. I...

Maybe so, he started at centre back but for some reason Selles decided to play him at right back for a few games where admittedly he looked uncomfortable, but I'd prefer him to Burns any day. Of course I'd prefer the Bindon who left us this summer to Burns; I'd prefer him to any of our CBs and inde...