Reading in no hurry to announce......

[Guest]

They have no game on Saturday, so they can mess us about just a little bit more.

If SC has decided to go then at least treat us with respect and let us know, the longer this goes on the less happy I am with the way he has handled this.

We are the only losers, apart from the fact that Reading are still a soulless, heartless bunch of journeymen who play for a manufactured team who illustrate what franchise football will be in the future, where loyalty means nothing and money buys results but no passion.

Sod the lot of them!!

 

[Captain Sensible]

Class Post!!!!

 

[Wilts]

Reading, that team who have spent £600k this season, compared with the likes of Wolves who spent over £100m trying to get to the Premiership. We are not rich with money at a club level, we simply have more money than Brighton at the moment. Honest answer.

Any comparison between Reading and Franchise is deeply offensive, and surely you know exactly how Reading fans feel towards the MK thing... its the same as you.

Passion existed... at Elm Park. A properly intimidating ground to go to. Nowadays the Madejski has led to us becoming more like Charlton. It'll take some time to sort it out for good, but in the meantime we get glimpses of the old Reading fans, namely Forest and Wolves games last year. Singing from start to finish, win or lose. All 3 stands booming.

Note: This only happens twice per season.

 

[Captain Sensible]

Franchise is probably the wrong way to put it but, the stadium did bring in 5000 or so casual plastic fans that would have turned their noses up at Elm Park and looked down on it and know nothing of the history of RFC. Fans of the Club? No.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Plastic fans ?

Don't make me laugh. Will you be saying that when we want to fill Falmer. The Thames Valley is full of people from different parts of the country who work around there who if they want to go to a game will go to the Madejski but wouldn't go to Elm Park. Elm Park was a rough house.

These are the fans whose kids will be die-hard Reading fans of the future and all credit to them for not supporting Man U/Arsenal/Chelsea like their mates. And we'll need their like at Falmer.

I don't like what Madejski is doing, but lets keep a sense of proportion.

 

[berkshire seagull]

At the end of the day thats life and loyalty is few and far between as money does come into it.
Reading don't spend a lot of money as madjeski hates players who earn shite loads and although a cun-t he has shown that its not all about spending and is a shrewd man.

The problem is not other clubs is it,its the fact that we are getting very angry and frustrated with waiting for a ground and some thick fu-ckers rearly don't understand the potential at brighton which beggers beyond belief.

Yes we will continue to moan and whinge as we have been waiting to F-uckingggggggggggggg LLLOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG END OF IT.

 

[Mullers]

They have no game on Saturday, so they can mess us about just a little bit more.

If SC has decided to go then at least treat us with respect and let us know, the longer this goes on the less happy I am with the way he has handled this.

We are the only losers, apart from the fact that Reading are still a soulless, heartless bunch of journeymen who play for a manufactured team who illustrate what franchise football will be in the future, where loyalty means nothing and money buys results but no passion.

Sod the lot of them!!

Do you think that there is a deal with Dick Knight to keep it quiet untill he can say "Steve Coppell is going to Reading, but the club is pleased to present their new Manager who is *****(?)" ?

 

[Captain Sensible]

Dick Knights Mum

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Plastic fans ?

Don't make me laugh. Will you be saying that when we want to fill Falmer



Is that what you think, really? Think about it. How many people you know are Brighton fans, or used to go during the 80's or 70's and stopped going during the 90's etc, thousands. Don't remember Reading getting crowds of 30000 or taking 35000 to Wembley in 1991. All this when Football wasn't fashionable.

 

[berkshire seagull]

Reading took half the towns population to wembly for there 1st ever final in the simod cup and i was there

Although finals mean nout as its the home crowds that count and regular supporters and we can state crowds of 30-35k in the old div 2 in the 70s and not many can.

 

[Sorrel]

I used to quite like Reading in the old days, but the present club are doing their best to make me hate them. Maybe I only liked them when they were poor.

 

[Icy Gull]

Reading are everything we are not ,but should be . It hurts to see what I still consider to be a small team (I do remember Elm Park and it was a toilet compared to the Goldstone, which was grim) f*cking us over on a regular basis.

I do hold it against them and dislike them more than any other club because of it. I'm a bitter and twisted Brighton fan who knows it's not supposed to be like this. As others have stated before, this is all down to Stanley and Archer.

It may come right with Falmer, although I'm not as confident as some, but it's gonna be at least 6/7 years before we are in Reading's position. It won't just happen the day Falmer's built.

We've got more of this shit to come

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Are you saying we'd fill a 20,000 stadium in the Second Division ? I can't see it myself. People are out of the habit of going to the footy, and loads of kids have never had a chance to get into it. However, I think we have bigger support than Reading that is for sure.

 

[Windmill]

Knight has said he's not prepared to let the Club be destabilised, so he should show some leadership, and tell Coppell to go now.

If Coppell doesn't want to manage the Albion, a club which is a lot bigger than him as an individual, then no self-respecting Brighton fan will want him here any longer.

All this crap about Falmer is just that - crap. He should come clean and admit that he's just used us as a stop gap until a better offer came along, which at the end of the day is the truth.

 

[zego]

Not a stop-gap - doesn't fit the man or the siuation.

SC took a long time to decide to come to Brighton in the first place - it is just the way he is.

If he thought we were rubbish and our prospects were rubbish, he would have gone long ago, if indeed he ever arrived.

Not just with us but with others he has proved himself to be a class manager.

Nothing too significant has changed, since he arrived, about plans for the next few years. By a whisker failed to stay in D1, he having arrived when we were almost out of sight at the bottom of the table, but recovering well in D2 now (you can't get much higher than top!). Fans buzzing, home and away. Falmer project is about where expected/allowed for.

He didn't come to us for the money, and I don't suppose that is his biggest worry about the Reading offer - as with Brentford, as with BHA, as with Reading, it will be the club's ambition and ability to get there that seems to count with him.

 

[Windmill]

He took a long time to sign the new deal as well, possibly hoping for a better offer? We'll never know.

Possibly we're in a better position than we were, but we still went down and two of his signings have turned out to be long term crocks.

The Falmer situation has not changed significantly since he signed his new deal. It seems a little ridiculous to say that is part of the reason he's unhappy now.

Dick, take your time and sign someone who has the Club's interests at heart not just his own, and reinforce it with a clause in the contract.

Otherwise we're going to be mucked about again.

 

[WhitleyDennis]

Is that what you think, really? Think about it. How many people you know are Brighton fans, or used to go during the 80's or 70's and stopped going during the 90's etc, thousands. Don't remember Reading getting crowds of 30000 or taking 35000 to Wembley in 1991. All this when Football wasn't fashionable.

Sorry, I just can't resist it...

Reading took over 40,000 to Wembley for a mickey-mouse cup final in April 1988. And that was in a relegation season.

And we also quickly sold out our 35,000 allocation for the Division 1 play off final at Wembley in 1995.

Next.

 

[berkshire seagull]

Sorry, I just can't resist it...

Reading took over 40,000 to Wembley for a mickey-mouse cup final in April 1988. And that was in a relegation season.

And we also quickly sold out our 35,000 allocation for the Division 1 play off final at Wembley in 1995.

Next.

Yes i was there and if you would read you would have seen?
Most teams fill there allocation for finals and finals are not important as its the home crowds that count.

Christ finals are mostly trophy hunters lets be honest as you wouldn't have got 12k saturday he he.

Its pointless discussing this as we all no brighton are bigger end of it and always will be streets ahead in support although i no reading have made great strides,but have a long way to go before you get regular biggish crowds.

If our chairman says we should have been playing in front of 18k against blackpool then thats what it would have been.

Ifs and butts i no and it will always be this way til the stadium comes grrrrrrrrrr.

 

[dwayne]

yes but Reading to Wembley, it's about a 45 minute drive!!

 

[Royal]

They have no game on Saturday, so they can mess us about just a little bit more.

If SC has decided to go then at least treat us with respect and let us know, the longer this goes on the less happy I am with the way he has handled this.

We are the only losers, apart from the fact that Reading are still a soulless, heartless bunch of journeymen who play for a manufactured team who illustrate what franchise football will be in the future, where loyalty means nothing and money buys results but no passion.

Sod the lot of them!!

Of course he is leaving start looking for another manager

 

[Royal]

Sorry, I just can't resist it...

Reading took over 40,000 to Wembley for a mickey-mouse cup final in April 1988. And that was in a relegation season.

And we also quickly sold out our 35,000 allocation for the Division 1 play off final at Wembley in 1995.

Next.

You all claim you are a bigger club well that is b******s if you were a bigger club then coppell would be staying...so stop winging about your tin pot club with no stadium.....lol