GoldWithFalmer
Seaweed! Seaweed!
Reading?
We don't have 3rd rivals-
Palace 1st
Pompey 2nd
We don't have 3rd rivals-
Palace 1st
Pompey 2nd
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Reading v Brighton – Home fans’ Chat
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Vegas Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2009
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supaseagull
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2-0 to Reading but a plucky performance by the Albion
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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In the mid-70s, in another life, I produced a poster for Royal Mail featuring the Albion. The headline was "Seagulls soar over BN3 7DE" and it featured a game at the Goldstone against Port Vale. It went down pretty well - people were nicking them off the sides of mail vans - and Reading asked for their own version so I went up to Elm Park one midweek morning.
As a I remember, the main stand backed on to a road, like the West Stand at BN3 7DE, and was clad in corrugated iron. Right down at one end was an elderly man up a ladder. He had a pot of blue paint and was painting the cladding in the house colour using a not-exactly-large brush. I asked the club's commercial guy about this heroic effort and he explained that the gent was a lifelong fan, now retired, who was painting the stand as a gesture of support for the club he had followed for 60 years. He wasn't charging.
Six weeks later I returned with a supply of posters. The man on the ladder was still there, but right down the other end of the stand, which was now a pretty strident blue. He'd been there every day for almost the whole summer.
From this I learnt one thing. To its supporters each club is the best club in the world but for this same reason no one should claim that other clubs are second rate. However successful, rich or well-supported a club is, it is no better than any other. It is just a matter of opinion and the postcode of the person speaking's maternity hospital. That needn't reduce the passion we have for our own club, but it should increase the respect we have for others'. Thank you, elderly Reading gent of 35 years ago.
As a I remember, the main stand backed on to a road, like the West Stand at BN3 7DE, and was clad in corrugated iron. Right down at one end was an elderly man up a ladder. He had a pot of blue paint and was painting the cladding in the house colour using a not-exactly-large brush. I asked the club's commercial guy about this heroic effort and he explained that the gent was a lifelong fan, now retired, who was painting the stand as a gesture of support for the club he had followed for 60 years. He wasn't charging.
Six weeks later I returned with a supply of posters. The man on the ladder was still there, but right down the other end of the stand, which was now a pretty strident blue. He'd been there every day for almost the whole summer.
From this I learnt one thing. To its supporters each club is the best club in the world but for this same reason no one should claim that other clubs are second rate. However successful, rich or well-supported a club is, it is no better than any other. It is just a matter of opinion and the postcode of the person speaking's maternity hospital. That needn't reduce the passion we have for our own club, but it should increase the respect we have for others'. Thank you, elderly Reading gent of 35 years ago.
GoldWithFalmer
Seaweed! Seaweed!
well,yes i accept that,i do,but for the barren years Pompey came up trumps
Chris_Highwind
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This was the one thing I wanted to point out, no way our average attendance can be below 19k. I think Daib took his info from a site that is still getting our average from the 2k attendance error in one of our recent games that bought it down! Very nice little write up nonetheless
Sorry to say I think you are going to be disappointed judging by the score predictions we seem to have turned the corner with leaking silly goals and I have the feeling last weeks 9 man heroics will be a pivotal point in our development so don't be surprised to see a marked improvement in our performance.
Not true
1,Palace
2,Pompey
These 2 there is genuine beef with
Everyone else the hate comes and go's . We had a brief hate fling with Reading when we beat them to the title , thats it
I bought one of those posters from the main post office in Worthing - I've probably still got it up in the loft with all the rest of my 70's memorabilia!
Goldstone Rapper
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I've got mine framed and am looking at it right now. Ward, Morgan and who else on the photo?
ifuhatepalacestandup
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this
daib0
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Amazing responses from your site. Fantastic, the best I’ve had all season up to now from any club, and much appreciated. With your permission nearly all should go onto our Match Thread.
I’ll try to make brief comments to as many as possible!:
Mustafa Kemal – you may be right, I’ve got a lot of respect for your manager. May the best win on the day!
BHAFC_AMEX / Barrel of Fun / Chris_Highwind - well, this is where I picked up that info:
Sporting Life - Football Statistics | Football Transfers, Premier League News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, Stats I haven’t received complaints up to now, but don’t put your own figures in doubt …
Various – yep, seems that Palace is the only reliable rival nowadays!!
North Stand Nutter – agreed, he’s (Brian McD) really nice, buts gets slated for being boring! But he’s housed RFC apprentices/young players in his OWN house without even charging anything for rent – tells you something about the man!
Lincoln Imp – wonderful story, and it’s great to share that with RR members.
SeagullSongs – thanks for that, really! Remember that we’re not even one year old yet, a large group of us left the BBC 606 ‘cos of pointless wum-ming and multiple identities etc. (that’s before their closure news was announced). There is a nice core group, but I’ve seen to it that ours is also a reference site. A third of a million hits/views, 1,000 threads, and 20,000 posts in 11 months is pretty OK, but I admit we have to still build up the regular member lists … but we're on route!
Thanks so much once again for your input everyone …
I’ll try to make brief comments to as many as possible!:
Mustafa Kemal – you may be right, I’ve got a lot of respect for your manager. May the best win on the day!
BHAFC_AMEX / Barrel of Fun / Chris_Highwind - well, this is where I picked up that info:
Sporting Life - Football Statistics | Football Transfers, Premier League News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, Stats I haven’t received complaints up to now, but don’t put your own figures in doubt …
Various – yep, seems that Palace is the only reliable rival nowadays!!
North Stand Nutter – agreed, he’s (Brian McD) really nice, buts gets slated for being boring! But he’s housed RFC apprentices/young players in his OWN house without even charging anything for rent – tells you something about the man!
Lincoln Imp – wonderful story, and it’s great to share that with RR members.
SeagullSongs – thanks for that, really! Remember that we’re not even one year old yet, a large group of us left the BBC 606 ‘cos of pointless wum-ming and multiple identities etc. (that’s before their closure news was announced). There is a nice core group, but I’ve seen to it that ours is also a reference site. A third of a million hits/views, 1,000 threads, and 20,000 posts in 11 months is pretty OK, but I admit we have to still build up the regular member lists … but we're on route!
Thanks so much once again for your input everyone …
daib0
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As I've just said, thanks for positive comments, and what would be great for us on Royals Rendezvous (as always, here in peace!) would be to have a few one-liner comments on –
What are the strongest areas of the squad, and how do they click together?
Who should we specially look out for / fear most of your squad?
Are you happy with your season so far?
How strong do you see the championship this season?
Realistically now after nearly half season played, where do you hope to finish if all goes well?
Cheers,
daib0
(A reminder of our match thread: Reading v Brighton MATCH THREAD [26/12/2011] - always welcome fans of both teams)
What are the strongest areas of the squad, and how do they click together?
Who should we specially look out for / fear most of your squad?
Are you happy with your season so far?
How strong do you see the championship this season?
Realistically now after nearly half season played, where do you hope to finish if all goes well?
Cheers,
daib0
(A reminder of our match thread: Reading v Brighton MATCH THREAD [26/12/2011] - always welcome fans of both teams)
Kazenga <3
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What are the strongest areas of the squad, and how do they click together?- Wingers- Buckley, Noone and LuaLua are all very good at this level. Back 4 of Dunk, Greer, Taricco and El-Abd are exceptional
Who should we specially look out for / fear most of your squad?-- Vicente is the best player in this league when fit. However he isn't and may never be. So probably Craig Noone is the one to watch
Are you happy with your season so far?-- Pretty pleased, though maybe slightly more downbeat than we should be considering the start we made.
How strong do you see the championship this season?-- There are no outstanding teams and no awful teams so the competition is incredible. However our own assistant manager who also still plays seems to think the actual quality of the division isn't amazing
Realistically now after nearly half season played, where do you hope to finish if all goes well? If all goes well then maybe 5th or 6th. Though 8th to 10th is more realistic.
Phat Baz 68
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- Apr 16, 2011
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2-2 cms & lua lua
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Cheeky Monkey
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Some right bloody pessimists on here in terms of the result! 27-0 to the Albion - Bridcutt(2), CMS(14), Tarricco(10), Ankergren(1)