Christmas and Easter fixtures were always local derbies to attract fans that would be at home and go to a game (also because of usual travel restriction over those periods) a Boxing day fixture at Peterborough with no public transport (then again who uses it these days :lol: ) when Oxford is just down the road plus Bolton away on Easter Monday, when Wycombe are just down the road seems crazy to me
I haven't seen all the fixtures yet but obviously it depends who other teams play on that day. I do think they try and arrange as many fixtures as possible to be fairly close on those days due to travel arrangements. We may just have been one of the unlucky ones who got a long away journey, but Peterborough isn't a bad journey from Reading on Boxing Day. Not sure what the rest of the fixtures look like on those dates though.

This isn't strictly true is it? If we or our opposition have 3 or more call ups doesn't the game get postponed?

One of those international breaks coincide with the Oxford (H) game - chance that will get moved if so

This isn't strictly true is it? If we or our opposition have 3 or more call ups doesn't the game get postponed?

Yes that is correct, I should have said no scheduled international break.

Home games still scheduled for 8pm :(

Nice of them to schedule Stevenage for the day of the third round of the FA Cup so it will still feel like we're playing in the third round of the FA cup

Can't ever see that changing and for someone who doesn't live in the RG postcode anymore, I'm quite glad for the little bit of extra time to get to games after work!

History suggests we’ll get knocked out in the 2nd Round by York

I'm home for a week from Sunday 29th October - Sunday 5th November. No fixtures :| :cry:

Can't ever see that changing and for someone who doesn't live in the RG postcode anymore, I'm quite glad for the little bit of extra time to get to games after work!

yeah this. Where do you park?

Can't ever see that changing and for someone who doesn't live in the RG postcode anymore, I'm quite glad for the little bit of extra time to get to games after work!

yeah this. Where do you park?

Usually just park at Mereoak and walk from there, easiest to shoot off from there back towards M3.
Yourself?

yeah this. Where do you park?

Usually just park at Mereoak and walk from there, easiest to shoot off from there back towards M3.
Yourself?

round the back of GP - how long does the walk from Meereoak take?

I've always wondered, why do we kick off at 8pm for midweek home fixtures? I know Bolton's used to be the same a few years ago, not sure if they changed it since then mind you.

Traffic. Thought it was obvious.

Usually just park at Mereoak and walk from there, easiest to shoot off from there back towards M3.
Yourself?

round the back of GP - how long does the walk from Meereoak take?

About 25-30 mins usually, but then I am straight out onto the A33 heading back towards M3 and I don't have to navigate the M4 roundabout.

round the back of GP - how long does the walk from Meereoak take?

About 25-30 mins usually, but then I am straight out onto the A33 heading back towards M3 and I don't have to navigate the M4 roundabout.

ooh is that quicker to the M3 than via the M4? What route is that southbound A33...

We'll play Arsenal's U21s in the EFL Trophy.

About 25-30 mins usually, but then I am straight out onto the A33 heading back towards M3 and I don't have to navigate the M4 roundabout.

ooh is that quicker to the M3 than via the M4? What route is that southbound A33...

Yeah, I usually find it is quicker to M3, go the back way through Bramshill, past Eversley, Blackbushe Airport and out onto the M3 at Junction 4a. Usually go that way as well.
The only time I would probably go back via M4 if it's an evening game and I can't be arsed to navigate and just want the simplest drive possible!

Well I thought it may have been something different to that, considering every club is impacted by traffic and travelling to a ground that is what a couple of miles off the motorway isn't the toughest of places to get to, especially when the M4 isn't the worst of motorways in the country either.
But if it's traffic then fair enough, just surprised we are one of the few clubs who kick off at 8 for that reason.

Well I thought it may have been something different to that, considering every club is impacted by traffic and travelling to a ground that is what a couple of miles off the motorway isn't the toughest of places to get to, especially when the M4 isn't the worst of motorways in the country either.
But if it's traffic then fair enough, just surprised we are one of the few clubs who kick off at 8 for that reason.

It isn't really to do with the M4 traffic, it is more to do with the traffic coming from town direction.

Well I thought it may have been something different to that, considering every club is impacted by traffic and travelling to a ground that is what a couple of miles off the motorway isn't the toughest of places to get to, especially when the M4 isn't the worst of motorways in the country either.
But if it's traffic then fair enough, just surprised we are one of the few clubs who kick off at 8 for that reason.

It was supposed to do with the "double rush hour" effect caused by everyone piling out of London and getting back to Ding about that time I believe when it was first brought in. It's handy for me and my Dad coming down from the Midlands though certainly.

Well I thought it may have been something different to that, considering every club is impacted by traffic and travelling to a ground that is what a couple of miles off the motorway isn't the toughest of places to get to, especially when the M4 isn't the worst of motorways in the country either.
But if it's traffic then fair enough, just surprised we are one of the few clubs who kick off at 8 for that reason.
Those are my thoughts, not sure why we are so accommodating when much bigger clubs are not. Might have something to do with being on the way in and out of London?

Well I thought it may have been something different to that, considering every club is impacted by traffic and travelling to a ground that is what a couple of miles off the motorway isn't the toughest of places to get to, especially when the M4 isn't the worst of motorways in the country either.
But if it's traffic then fair enough, just surprised we are one of the few clubs who kick off at 8 for that reason.

It isn't really to do with the M4 traffic, it is more to do with the traffic coming from town direction.

It's not the biggest of towns in the UK though is it really?
As mentioned elsewhere, not sure why we are so accommodating and other clubs aren't really, Reading is hardly the most difficult of places to get to and it's a good 40 miles outside of the M4 traffic from London as well. Anyway, if it gives that extra 30 minutes for home supporters, then I guess it's a bonus (not that our midweek record has been fantastic in recent years).

It isn't really to do with the M4 traffic, it is more to do with the traffic coming from town direction.

It's not the biggest of towns in the UK though is it really?
As mentioned elsewhere, not sure why we are so accommodating and other clubs aren't really, Reading is hardly the most difficult of places to get to and it's a good 40 miles outside of the M4 traffic from London as well. Anyway, if it gives that extra 30 minutes for home supporters, then I guess it's a bonus (not that our midweek record has been fantastic in recent years).

Size? No, probably not. Size of workforce in and around town? Much bigger.
I feel like this is a post of someone who hasn't been on the IDR between the hours of 5:30 - 7:00 recently.
When I was living in central London and getting the train to evening games, there were multiple times that I nearly missed the kick-off due to the bus simply not being able to get through traffic.

Too soon...?

It isn't really to do with the M4 traffic, it is more to do with the traffic coming from town direction.

It's not the biggest of towns in the UK though is it really?
As mentioned elsewhere, not sure why we are so accommodating and other clubs aren't really, Reading is hardly the most difficult of places to get to and it's a good 40 miles outside of the M4 traffic from London as well. Anyway, if it gives that extra 30 minutes for home supporters, then I guess it's a bonus (not that our midweek record has been fantastic in recent years).
We'll have a fairly high percentage of supporters living outside the town (in places like Bracknell, Maidenhead, Newbury, Basingstoke, Didcot, etc.) which will have an impact on this.
I don't know if we have an abnormally large percentage of our support from outside the primary urban area of the team however.

It's not the biggest of towns in the UK though is it really?
As mentioned elsewhere, not sure why we are so accommodating and other clubs aren't really, Reading is hardly the most difficult of places to get to and it's a good 40 miles outside of the M4 traffic from London as well. Anyway, if it gives that extra 30 minutes for home supporters, then I guess it's a bonus (not that our midweek record has been fantastic in recent years).

Size? No, probably not. Size of workforce in and around town? Much bigger.
I feel like this is a post of someone who hasn't been on the IDR between the hours of 5:30 - 7:00 recently.
When I was living in central London and getting the train to evening games, there were multiple times that I nearly missed the kick-off due to the bus simply not being able to get through traffic.

Yeah it is, ultimately I don't know I don't really go through the town. Obviously people more local to the area would be able to explain, I've just never heard somebody say that Reading is one of the tougher places to get to/through in the UK, that's usually reserved for anywhere inside the M25, going down the M6 (or across the M62) or getting to Norwich.

ooh is that quicker to the M3 than via the M4? What route is that southbound A33...

Yeah, I usually find it is quicker to M3, go the back way through Bramshill, past Eversley, Blackbushe Airport and out onto the M3 at Junction 4a. Usually go that way as well.
The only time I would probably go back via M4 if it's an evening game and I can't be arsed to navigate and just want the simplest drive possible!

Interesting Hendo

Can't wait

If we weren't such a mess I'd fancy us to win our first 5 league fixtures on paper.