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by Jack Celliers
15 Apr 2025 22:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: Dave Kitson > Shane Long > Kevin Doyle
Replies: 27
Views: 4030

Re: Dave Kitson > Shane Long > Kevin Doyle

Long > Kitson > Doyle: based on how sad I was when they left.

Senior and Friday eclipse them all, although things were different in the 70s and 80s.
by Jack Celliers
20 Mar 2025 23:11
Forum: The Team
Topic: Marcus Hahnemann > Shaka Hislop > Adam Federici
Replies: 25
Views: 3770

Re: Marcus Hahnemann > Shaka Hislop > Adam Federici

Shaka > Hahnemann >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Federici Shaka was something else - the best I've seen. Federici's mistakes gave away four goals in our first week in the premiership and he also threw the ball into the net in the cup semi-final. Corners are a good test of a goalie. I have always been worried at co...
by Jack Celliers
31 Jan 2025 22:26
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confimred - Sam Smith to Wrexham
Replies: 167
Views: 52375

Re: Confimred - Sam Smith to Wrexham

£2 million is a lot of money, He wasn't going to be much use if we ever go up to the championship, We can start playing properly again now and stop trying to recreate the Cambridge (A) goal with every long ball, Kelvin E is also a 20 goals a season striker. I'm still pissed off though. Can't he see ...
by Jack Celliers
09 Jan 2025 22:18
Forum: The Team
Topic: Player of the half a season
Replies: 20
Views: 5065

Re: Player of the half a season

Savage
Mbengue
Elliot

All of them really
by Jack Celliers
06 Nov 2024 22:08
Forum: The Team
Topic: Your worst 11 since supporting RFC?
Replies: 165
Views: 46495

Re: Your worst 11 since supporting RFC?

Here goes... Federici - threw the ball into the net in the cup semi final and made four mistakes in our first week in the prem Graeme Murty - he was an £800,000 winger when he arrived Chris Armstrong - nowhere near as good as Shorey Martin Keown - past it Geoff Barker - my only memory is his partici...
by Jack Celliers
26 Dec 2023 18:44
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Peterborough United (a)
Replies: 180
Views: 395780

Re: MATCHWATCH : Peterborough United (a)

How was Azeez's goal? What were the two we conceded like? Caught Smith by luck just checking in now and then. Azeez's goal was great - hooking a bouncing ball high into the net. His run for the first was good as well and he hit the bar. He is on brilliant form at the moment. Their goals were a soft...
by Jack Celliers
26 Dec 2023 18:29
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Peterborough United (a)
Replies: 180
Views: 395780

Re: MATCHWATCH : Peterborough United (a)

How was Azeez's goal? What were the two we conceded like? Caught Smith by luck just checking in now and then. Azeez's goal was great - hooking a bouncing ball high into the net. His run for the first was good as well and he hit the bar. He is on brilliant form at the moment. Their goals were a soft...
by Jack Celliers
22 Dec 2023 20:41
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confirmed - Ejaria gone
Replies: 54
Views: 224220

Re: Confirmed - Ejaria gone

In hindsight Ejaria (together with Aluko and Puscas) represented all that went wrong with the club over the last few Years; top money paid for an exciting prospect who didn't deliver and financially crippled us. Hopefully with his departure the club has turned the corner of having over paid and und...
by Jack Celliers
18 Dec 2023 23:17
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confirmed - Ejaria gone
Replies: 54
Views: 224220

Re: Confirmed - Ejaria gone

It's the best for the club, but still sad. He was a great player during the last season we weren't crap, and was part of the brilliant front four that Sky loved so much during Covid. I never saw him play badly for us. If you are a manager, you should get the best out of all your players. Why do Read...
by Jack Celliers
24 Jul 2023 22:12
Forum: General Football
Topic: RIP Trevor Francis
Replies: 8
Views: 1577

Re: RIP Trevor Francis

Me too. As soon as I heard his name announced at 6:25 on Radio 4, I felt a sinking feeling and said something like "Noooooo." Anyway, what has surprised me in the potted bio they gave on the news was the claim that he was the first British million-pound player, so I googled and apparently,...
by Jack Celliers
21 Jul 2023 22:07
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Next seasons kit choice?
Replies: 6279
Views: 1793357

Re: Next seasons kit choice?

There are two truly awful things about the new kit. I can't decide which worse, the crown on the back or this from the website... "Let’s take a morning stroll over Caversham Bridge, before tackling the twists of Cemetery Junction, Dawn breaks, tired nurses flood Royal Berks wards, as somehow in...
by Jack Celliers
12 Apr 2023 08:39
Forum: The Team
Topic: Noel Hunt Whelm-ometer
Replies: 25
Views: 4763

Re: Noel Hunt Whelm-ometer

When we lost on Monday, I thought even Shane Long would be ok for five games and better than Ince. Noel Hunt is a little better.
by Jack Celliers
01 Dec 2022 21:39
Forum: International Football
Topic: Qatar Hero - The World Cup 2022 thread
Replies: 2185
Views: 314453

Re: Qatar Hero - The World Cup 2022 thread

It never looked like it was definitely over the line: balls are curvy wide things.
by Jack Celliers
20 Aug 2022 22:20
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG/TV - M'bro H
Replies: 105
Views: 29635

Re: BFTG/TV - M'bro H

I missed Wednesday, but heard all about it, so I was expecting a better performance than we gave, particularly in the second half when we gave the ball away so cheaply. What I wasn't expecting was the commitment, energy and passion from everybody. Ince was just phenomenal and Hendrick and McIntyre k...
by Jack Celliers
08 Jul 2022 22:14
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?
Replies: 77
Views: 29378

Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

The republicans.

I am going to call them that anyway.
by Jack Celliers
10 May 2022 21:53
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: New GK
Replies: 540
Views: 144236

Re: New GK

Southwood has been our best goalie this season. It's not by a huge margin, and he was playing better when he first got into the team than when he was dropped, but he was a bit better than a goalie who was responsible for three opposition goals in just 10 games, and didn't look as good at corners.
by Jack Celliers
07 May 2022 21:30
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: George Puscas leaving?
Replies: 790
Views: 193156

Re: George Puscas leaving?

[/b] Your personal opinion or fact? it`s the second tier of a major footballing nation so why should the standard be lower? Does the word ‘probably’ help ? I don’t think it’s especially controversial to suggest that English football has more depth of quality than other countries. Having said that e...
by Jack Celliers
25 Apr 2022 21:55
Forum: The Team
Topic: Can we find 3 teams worse than us next season?
Replies: 111
Views: 14696

Re: Can we find 3 teams worse than us next season?

I'm hoping Coventry or Luton will revert to what we expected from them all along, Millwall will finally get the relegation their fans deserve, and an out-of-their-depth Rotherham can complete the set. With us in at worst 21st and FFP worries behind us, we can look forward to a summer 2023 of wasting...
by Jack Celliers
14 Apr 2022 22:10
Forum: The Team
Topic: Your worst 11 since supporting RFC?
Replies: 165
Views: 46495

Re: Your worst 11 since supporting RFC?

Off the top of my head: Federici Araruna Joseph Mills Ferdinand Shipperley Meyler Guthrie Matejovsky Drenthe (captain) McIntyre Hiron I know that some of these players aren't the least skilful or talented we have had but, for example, any other goalie than Federici at Wembley or in the first week of...
by Jack Celliers
19 Feb 2022 18:37
Forum: The Team
Topic: Paul Ince Whelmguage.
Replies: 53
Views: 14378

Re: Paul Ince Whelmguage.

Getting somebody's Dad in on the cheap is as good as we could hope for, I suppose.

The thing is not to confuse the player with the manager, but it might be nice to have somebody bad at passing in charge who is a bit angry and wants all the younger players to call him, guvnor.
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