Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards

[winchester_royal]

I thin floyde sums it all up rather nicely with this little gem from back in September:

http://www.royals.org/news/166/Seaside_Rendezvous

Missed this first time round. Gr8 read, bang on the money too.

[bcubed]

Too long; didn't read

I love this
I may use it a lot
Thanks

[Mr Optimist]

Just had a look at the comments on NSC by the football history revisionists, they really are clueless most of them.

If they are 18 I suppose that excuses some of it but if they are older.....

I have been to watch Reading away at the Goldstone in the 80s in the second tier, and the early 90s in the second tier. On these occasions we took around 2000 away, the home crowds were easily 8000 or less. My question is, there was no bad owner in the background then yet the Barcelona of the south coast were playing in front of a half empty ground?

[Sutekh]

So is Brighton/Reading becoming a real derby. Was it similar in the 50s, 60s and 70s to any degree? Was perhaps their feud with Palace just a replacement for us while we were away?

[3points]

IMHO they are exactly like us. If they look in a mirror, then surely the stripes change to hoops?

[JIM]

happily with sea erosion and global warming , they will be gone before us.

[tmesis]

Just had a look at the comments on NSC by the football history revisionists, they really are clueless most of them.

If they are 18 I suppose that excuses some of it but if they are older.....

I have been to watch Reading away at the Goldstone in the 80s in the second tier, and the early 90s in the second tier. On these occasions we took around 2000 away, the home crowds were easily 8000 or less. My question is, there was no bad owner in the background then yet the Barcelona of the south coast were playing in front of a half empty ground?

Brighton fans have been brought up on tales of the days when 27000 crammed into the Goldstone every week, and seem to believe that was the norm for their whole history, rather than a short-lived blip in the late 1970s.

The crowd yesterday was low, but that really just reflects the complete lack of optimism around the season. The mood around the club is weirdly more like that you'd expect from a team in Bolton's position, rather than one that's 6th.

[Will95]

No one will want to pay £22 more to go back to a ground they went to just 2 months ago. We had over 2000 then and would have had the same today had that cup game not happened.

[Mr Optimist]

Just had a look at the comments on NSC by the football history revisionists, they really are clueless most of them.

If they are 18 I suppose that excuses some of it but if they are older.....

I have been to watch Reading away at the Goldstone in the 80s in the second tier, and the early 90s in the second tier. On these occasions we took around 2000 away, the home crowds were easily 8000 or less. My question is, there was no bad owner in the background then yet the Barcelona of the south coast were playing in front of a half empty ground?

Brighton fans have been brought up on tales of the days when 27000 crammed into the Goldstone every week, and seem to believe that was the norm for their whole history, rather than a short-lived blip in the late 1970s.

The crowd yesterday was low, but that really just reflects the complete lack of optimism around the season. The mood around the club is weirdly more like that you'd expect from a team in Bolton's position, rather than one that's 6th.

They do appear to have a size complex. They have never had crowds as large as they do now at any time in their entire history. Johnnycomelatelyplastics will start to melt again when the novelty of the new ground disappears

[RoyalBlue]

There are some incredible claims on NSC including one from one of our supporters who strongly implies that Madejski supported us as a child!

'Out of a box' to describe The Mad Stad? I thought it was reasonably novel at the time, drawing on the best bits of other stadia plus our own design criteria to create one of the best of its era. Where we went, others then followed.

And what is behind the claim that Madejski destroyed an industrial estate to make his fortune?

I guess we can take some perverse pride from the fact that other supporters now display their envy of us in this manner rather than not even acknowledging us as was the case in the past!

[Zana Badawi]

It always amuses me when the away fans get the blame for not turning up when its the home club that set the prices.
You just cant justify that sort of money for what is literally second tier entertainment.
We live in an era where you can earn just as much kudos for NOT turning up to an away game nowadays, than for doing so.
Ive been noticing that the away turnout at the Madejski has been getting thinner and thinner for anybody year by year - now that the novelty of the Amex has worn out, exactly the same will happen to them.

[1871 not 1998]

http://www.northstandchat.com/

s he the most loathsome individual managing in the Football League today? His involvement in engineering Greer's sending off was a disgrace. From where I was sitting it looked as if the Ref saw his remonstrations and reacted accordingly. Greer can count himself rightfully unlucky - the first booking was right in front of us and was soft as sh*te.

For me the biggest culprit was their no 5, ran half the pitch to have a go and was right in the face of the ref till he got what he wanted and then trotted away.

If it wasn't for Billy Davies being included in the least liked Championship manager poll then I'm pretty certain Nigel Adkins would have romped home as the winner.

Borderline red in my opinion. He got lucky so should have known better with the second one...

Who is the diving coach at Reading.

52 years of watching the Albion and never seen a corner bounce back off the post to the corner taker who was then brought up for kicking the ball twice. Caused some consternation with some fans in the East.

God knows how Yeovil held out last Saturday with 8 men. Us going down to 10 should not have affected the game as badly as it did, it was wave after wave of black shirts queuing up for target practice after Greer went

I'm so pleased that our club is nothing like Readings. Tinpot club, plastic fans, identikit ground, cheating players.

If I was a reading fan I would be embarrassed that only 1000 bothered on a Saturday and their players are all cheats.

They have taken over from Palace as the cheat boys in this league.

How did we survive that onslaught?

[sandman]

http://www.northstandchat.com/

I'm so pleased that our club is nothing like Readings. Tinpot club, plastic fans, identikit ground, cheating players.

[PistolPete]

http://www.lufctalk.com/forums/

We know what a "good bloke" Brian is and how important respect is to him.

I was going to suggest a 'spectator of the match' vote but Kebe would win it every week.

[Cureton's Volley]

They really hate Kebe

[HoneyRoastHoax]

I was in the 1901 club for the Brighton game (prawn sandwich)

Was really funny to see how some people are completely blind to anything other then whats good for their team. The pull back on Alf in the 1st half was

Stone wall foul, my mate who doesn't support either team was there and was laughing too at the reaction of the brighton fans calling Alf a cheat and saying he dived.

Logic doesn't really work in football supporting does it.

[melonhead]

They really hate Kebe

hes an aquired taste tbf

you have to get the fact that when hes shit he is at least comedy gold. once you start from that point the love will follow

[floyd__streete]

Brighton fans bitter as usual

What a bunch of drama QUEENS

I don't know why you bother trawling around their self-loving message boards though.

[Warfield North Stand]

To avoid any further confusion over the meaning of the word tin pot, let's all agree that Reading are the most tin pot two bit outfit it is possible to be.

They were drawing flies at Elm Park, and even after wiggy built them a shiny new stadium, they struggled to get 9,000 through the gates until they looked like being promoted from league one. Their home support is quiet, they like clacker sticks and drums, they brought a laughable 1,000 here last weekend, and no-one considers them a proper rival except a tiny non league team.

Two bob clowns. Any accusations of tinpotness towards anyone should be measured against "Reading Soccer Club".

Latest offering from NSC. Considering they have a go at themselves about having clacker sticks earlier in the thread.....

[floyd__streete]

To avoid any further confusion over the meaning of the word tin pot, let's all agree that Reading are the most tin pot two bit outfit it is possible to be.

They were drawing flies at Elm Park, and even after wiggy built them a shiny new stadium, they struggled to get 9,000 through the gates until they looked like being promoted from league one. Their home support is quiet, they like clacker sticks and drums, they brought a laughable 1,000 here last weekend, and no-one considers them a proper rival except a tiny non league team.

Two bob clowns. Any accusations of tinpotness towards anyone should be measured against "Reading Soccer Club".

Why spend such time and effort worrying about something so 'two bob'

I think they're just being a bit ANAL.

Brighton fans are just insufferable aren’t they? Whether they are playing their usual role as Moral Footballing Police by bringing along NO TO HULL TIGERS banners to matches when it is none of their frigging business or pointing out how MASSIVE they are compared to Reading. They’ve had precisely one more season in the top flight than us and they’ve won precisely one more FA Cup semi final than we have. They are in the top 10 of clubs we have played most regularly, so that kind of suggests they are as “two bob” as we are given that they tend to follow us around so much.

The crowd thing is a crock too. When we moved from EP we had just been relegated having suffered the worst run of form in our club’s history. For the first two years at the new ground we had mid-table third tier fare. When they moved to their own shiny plastic bowl they had just been promoted as Champions to the second tier. All you can say is that their timing is a bit better than ours. If they become a middle of the road Championship side for several years watch their crowds dip somewhat. I’d also add that, having visited their Amex a couple of times, it has all the hostility of my nan’s living room. It is not a noisy ground.

I suggest they stop focussing so much energy on us and spend time doing something more constructive like putting their Erasure albums into alphabetical order.