Sutekh Rather have Ricardo Montalbán

Upfront with Hervé Villechaize as the classic striker combination?...

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘th...

I'm irrationally annoyed that Reading has an 'a' in it, given the name is supposedly derived from a Red Haired Viking who set up camp here 1500 years ago...

Redding would be so much simpler and less confusing for scholars...

According to the Internet, the top three sales from clubs in League 1 are:
£11M (Lookman)
£8M (Delph)
£3.5M (Barnett)

The idea that a League 1 club can regularly sell a player for £10M while in League 1 to subsidise a Cat 1 academy is very ambitious...

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 Agreed - whilst it's lovely to have a Cat 1 Acadeny and brag about it, the money to run it will be at the expense of other things, such as...

Successful first team vs. Cat 1 academy... Based on where Reading FC are today, I'm not sure it's even that hard a choice... Given the days of billionaires sugar daddies appear to be behind us, sustaining a Cat 1 academy on League 1 income is a luxury... Even if RC is sticking with it, the money has...

Would prefer Hugh Janus, brother of Samantha (actor for those of my vintage)...

Reading FC has only once reported a profit in the last 25 years....

Profit maximisation is a misnomer - Loss minimisation is a more appropriate term for our predicament - with different degrees - extreme, moderate, unsustainable...

Is it time to slay some sacred cows?

Switch up the midfield - the current recipe isn't working

Change the formation... to better suit the players we have...

Change the Captaincy...can a different voice make more of an in-game impact....

Additional observations: I thought the substitutions were odd tonight. Kelvin E taken off just as he'd scored and was probably buzzing.... Two full backs swapped in the last 10 minutes when we were looking for an equaliser....? And in addition to our fundamental problem (midfield isn't working), we ...

Don't worry, the AI scouting system Reading is piloting will unearth an unpolished gem from the Uzbekistan second tier.

Michael Gilkes... Simod Cup final... At Wembley in front of 61,000 fans... Wingers at Wembley that day was your man Jones and Neil Smilie - Gilkes played up front with Tait that game. But admittedly Gilkes changed many a game as a winger I suppose... I would class Gilkes as a winger and the thread ...

Michael Gilkes...

Simod Cup final...

At Wembley in front of 61,000 fans...

What's happened to Elliott & Ahmed?

Orion1871 PA system was awful today. Waste of money?

Agreed, in the ED stand it was very muffled....

Maybe, like the hand sanitiser, they just took the speakers away so we can't complain about them because they don't exist anymore

No idea what the notice means.

However, a quick google confirms the company Knights acted on behalf of the previous owner...

https://www.knightsplc.com/knights-news ... s-limited/

Maybe an expert can elucidate further...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/14/league-one-clubs-salary-cap-luxury-tax-snubbed-efl?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Says here that RC is pushing for a salary cap and luxury tax... I thought American Republicans despised socialism... I guess they embrace it when it's their own money being...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/14/league-one-clubs-salary-cap-luxury-tax-snubbed-efl?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Says here that RC is pushing for a salary cap and luxury tax... I thought American Republicans despised socialism... I guess they embrace it when it's their own money being ...

Clyde1998 Seen someone make a good point. He’s a Zimbabwe international and they’ve qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations - taking place between 21 December and 26 January.

There’s a chance we’ll lose him for a few weeks of that.

Perhaps Fraser will be fit by then?

Controversial opinion incoming... Love the goals..... But Wing as Captain?.... Can't say I'm feeling it TBH... That kind of collapse shouldn't be acceptable.... I vote Derek... is that a Ricky Gervais reference? AI Overview The phrase "i vote derek" is not a widely known phrase or common ...