I'm with this bloke...

[SPARTA]

If I had just spent millions buying the
Club and NA was showing no progression
Would I trust him with millions more
To buy players on what I have seen, no way

I want proof that NA knows what he's doing

You are speculating that NA never had
Funds, I not to sure about that.

I think they are scared to give NA the funds because
They are not confident he will deliver.

Reading will survive NA and us so let the owners
Do what they think is right. They have much more
To lose financially then us.

What a load of absolute crap!

[Zana Badawi]

If I had just spent millions buying the
Club and NA was showing no progression
Would I trust him with millions more
To buy players on what I have seen, no way

I want proof that NA knows what he's doing

You are speculating that NA never had
Funds, I not to sure about that.

I think they are scared to give NA the funds because
They are not confident he will deliver.

Reading will survive NA and us so let the owners
Do what they think is right. They have much more
To lose financially then us.

Doesn't even rhyme.

I did find that by reading it in the style of the poem that it is presented in, that the message becomes that much more epic.

[Scutterbucketz]

I just read it again as a rousing Winston Churchill style speech and I think you could be right.

[Royal Rother]

You people are the reason i don't talk to other football fans when I go to a match.

Like it.

[ArfnipIsARoyal]

How about this for a theory....

Take over is complete, yet we are 48 hours now from transfer deadline. Do we;

A) Come out saying takeover is complete, consortium worth millions possibly billions. Any target we could possibly have is then suddenly double his worth price once we show an interest.

Or

B) keep it quiet. We have money in from ALF, Morrison and McCarthy so clubs aware we have had some money in but not a substantial wealth that is supposedly coming in from the takeover.

I know which I would do. Expect a 10am press conference Tuesday morning saying how it is all complete etc after a busy night in transfer market the day before.

Just a theory

[MeMeMe]

How about this for a theory....

Take over is complete, yet we are 48 hours now from transfer deadline. Do we;

A) Come out saying takeover is complete, consortium worth millions possibly billions. Any target we could possibly have is then suddenly double his worth price once we show an interest.

Or

B) keep it quiet. We have money in from ALF, Morrison and McCarthy so clubs aware we have had some money in but not a substantial wealth that is supposedly coming in from the takeover.

I know which I would do. Expect a 10am press conference Tuesday morning saying how it is all complete etc after a busy night in transfer market the day before.

Just a theory

I like it... the new Reading way... turning the 'Thai Corner'

[melonhead]

"quick, deploy agent brendymelonbrain"

Woo hoo!
*waves

[P!ssed Off]

How about this for a theory....

Take over is complete, yet we are 48 hours now from transfer deadline. Do we;

A) Come out saying takeover is complete, consortium worth millions possibly billions. Any target we could possibly have is then suddenly double his worth price once we show an interest.

Or

B) keep it quiet. We have money in from ALF, Morrison and McCarthy so clubs aware we have had some money in but not a substantial wealth that is supposedly coming in from the takeover.

I know which I would do. Expect a 10am press conference Tuesday morning saying how it is all complete etc after a busy night in transfer market the day before.

Just a theory

Option B also offers the comfortable 'delayed takeover' excuse if the club fail in their attempts to sign a a decent player. Not too dissimilar to the OP's theory.

[Extended-Phenotype]

Its not that far fetched really. Delay takeover announcement until after deadline day. Hardly up there with Bush flying remote controlled planes into the twin towers.

[Vision]

You are speculating that NA never had
Funds, I not to sure about that.

I think they are scared to give NA the funds because
They are not confident he will deliver.
.

So he doesn't have the funds then?

[paddy20]

Unfortunately, it's business before football now. The main contest is off the pitch and fought behind closed doors, undisclosed fees and in the 'Reading way'.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Business before football. Unfortunately this could all backfire as gradually you will see the diehard supporters get more and more disillusioned. I have loved football and Reading for a long time but for the first time I feel iI would miss a match or go on holiday during the season. I no longer feel part of my boyhood club. I have also seen behind the scenes of what goes on behind closed doors of a premiership club and its not pretty.If its not careful top professional football will implode!

[Ian Royal]

Unfortunately, it's business before football now. The main contest is off the pitch and fought behind closed doors, undisclosed fees and in the 'Reading way'.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Business before football. Unfortunately this could all backfire as gradually you will see the diehard supporters get more and more disillusioned. I have loved football and Reading for a long time but for the first time I feel iI would miss a match or go on holiday during the season. I no longer feel part of my boyhood club. I have also seen behind the scenes of what goes on behind closed doors of a premiership club and its not pretty.If its not careful top professional football will implode!

The last sentence is spot on re finances. But there's always been a fan attrition rate as people age and providing a club can maintain reasonable success there's always new young blood through the turnstiles to replace them.

I've no doubt our attendences will decline if we fail to challenge for promotion consistently. But I can't see the average dropping below 15,000 without a relegation to the third tier. And lets face it, that's at least 50% better than pre Mad Stad tier 2 Reading.

is there really any genuine sign of falling attendences in football?

[melonhead]

Lol at anyone deriding the 'reading way that gave us so much success
U saw. What happened in two seasons where we diverted from that way. We nearly went bust

[Extended-Phenotype]

Lol at anyone deriding the 'reading way that gave us so much success
U saw. What happened in two seasons where we diverted from that way. We nearly went bust

How did we nearly go bust, out of interest? I mean, aren't other clubs able to run at a loss?

Oh and it wasn't the non-Reading way that cost us. It was the 'shit attempt at spending a bit of money to bring in players who then don't get played because they are shit, injured or looked at the manager in a funny way' way that screwed us up.

[Royal Rother]

But that's obviously NOT what most people would describe as the Reading Way is it?

[Maguire]

Then the signing of Cox who came as part of the sell on fee pay-off when Forest signed Michail Antonio from Wednesday so no fee involved with this signing just a convenient deal for both clubs

What?

[TBM]

Then the signing of Cox who came as part of the sell on fee pay-off when Forest signed Michail Antonio from Wednesday so no fee involved with this signing just a convenient deal for both clubs

What?

We got money for the sale of Antonio to Forest from Sheff Wed - that money was used to buy Cox from Forest

[Vision]

I may have missed it somewhere but I've certainly not seen any evidence that these deals offset themselves.

How much did Antonio go to Forest for?

[Extended-Phenotype]

But that's obviously NOT what most people would describe as the Reading Way is it?

You make scrambled eggs in the microwave. There are probably a hundred ways to make scrambled eggs, many of them producing a better result. You try one of the other ways and you fuck it up. That doesn't prove your way of making scrambled eggs is the best. Just proves you're an idiot and somebody else should be in the kitchen making the fucking eggs.

[Gordons Cumming]

Reading fans will need to expect no singing of any worth within the next 12 months,

I'd be happy with that!