I feel like with the transfer window we've had we've spent quite a lot of money on extra wages signing on fees and transfer fees such as agent fees. And we're in all likelihood not going to be promoted. Feel it may have been better to hold the money back and target a better squad assembled well befo...

Match day revenue in the 23/24 season was 4million according to the accounts. Average attendance was 13000. Similar to this season. 4 million divided by 23 home games is £173k per game. 173k divided by 13,000 is £13 per person - that’s how much a fan spends on a match day Increase the attendance by...

Attendances can't bridge £1m a month. And extra 5k a game will include kids, plus you need to deduct VAT. Let's estimate £15 a ticket, that's £75k a game. 23 games plus perhaps an FA Cup draw and that's £1.8m, allegedly what they're putting in every 2 months. Perhaps extra food, merchandise etc., c...

"Al Habsis in ISIS" or words to the equivalent made me feel a bit sick. Coupled with what I was hearing at Salmon and Ball, and our fans have properly regressed to neandthals. Absolute divs I was in the home end right along side the Reading fans. For the Reading goal someone threw a batte...

biff What's the away boozer of choice for this one?

The closest pub the coach and horses doesn't let in away fans and checks tickets.

With him and Marriott, we basically have a guarantee that if we create chances we'll score goals. So how we get the best out of Wing, Savage, Kyerewaa, Doyle etc., is the key thing to work on. There is never a guarantee of goals https://files.catbox.moe/9v2k4r.png Especially if you stick him out on...

WestYorksRoyal With him and Marriott, we basically have a guarantee that if we create chances we'll score goals.

So how we get the best out of Wing, Savage, Kyerewaa, Doyle etc., is the key thing to work on.

There is never a guarantee of goals

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it. It's not like w...

Anyone else of the view that one of the great downsides of being in League 1 is every transfer rumour is someone you've never heard of and even the ones you end up signing you have to look up to see if they are any good, and when you look them up its a mixture of failed here, did ok there etc. Back ...

Players of Olise’s quality don’t come along every 3 years and we’d be selling for about 1.5m to a champ club now rather than 10m to a prem team with us being L1 In the Championship they came along about 1 in 10 years, let alone L1, so completely agree. Where's our next big money Academy sale? Garci...

The Olise money kept the club alive. If we hadnt been in dire straights it would have paid for the upkeep of the academy for many years. It's highly unlikely that future Olise's would choose RFC if it wasnt cat1. if a £10m player comes through every 3 years or so, the academy is cost neutral. on to...

The Olise money kept the club alive. If we hadnt been in dire straights it would have paid for the upkeep of the academy for many years. It's highly unlikely that future Olise's would choose RFC if it wasnt cat1. if a £10m player comes through every 3 years or so, the academy is cost neutral. on top...

Reading FC have announced a long-term partnership with Coca-Cola. The football club has revealed a new partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners who join as the club’s official soft drinks partner. Through this collaboration Coca-Cola’s varied beverage range—including Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zer...

From my own experience a lot of Reading fans who go to Saturday games live some way from the ground. Around where I sit there are 4 from Didcot and one from Honiton another lives near Brentford's ground so any evening games are far from easy. I grew up two roads away from Elm Park and, possibly bec...

I recognise folk will struggle to make any game played at 19:00 on any weekday evening, as people have to get back from work, etc. - made worse if you don't live in Reading specifically. That said, we managed to get 2,517 against Arsenal U21s and 1,560 against Charlton in 2023-24 (deducting away fa...

Only 1.247 (246 away) fans there tonight, making it our lowest Mad Stad crowd ever. Previous record was 1.561 against Leyton Orient in this competition back in December 1999. Given how much people claim to care about the continued existence of a club when it is about to disappear, and will sing Rea...

Only 1.247 (246 away) fans there tonight, making it our lowest Mad Stad crowd ever. Previous record was 1.561 against Leyton Orient in this competition back in December 1999. Given how much people claim to care about the continued existence of a club when it is about to disappear, and will sing Rea...

Haha

Oh dear. I've read an entire tilehurstend blog about one player and thought they were someone else due to thinking i had opened up a BBC article on burns instead.

Oh well.

22 years old. Burns hasn't scored a goal in 63 appearance.

How is this loan signing better than Wareham or WiFi or Bodin?

Confirmed Craig gone to the Orient £££££££ I wasn't aware Orient had £££££. Stockport and Wycombe yes, but do we need to add another historically smaller club to the list? It does confuse a bit; you'd think these mid sized towns/suburbs in London and Manchester with giant clubs on their doorstep wi...