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T-Rex ...for the three points tomorrow.
I know you're looking to be bankrolled to promotion again, but I'm afraid we'll probably beat you (looking at recent form), and comfortably at that.
Not bad for a club which is forced to operate within it's natural means.
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T-Rex ...for the three points tomorrow.
I know you're looking to be bankrolled to promotion again, but I'm afraid we'll probably beat you (looking at recent form), and comfortably at that.
Not bad for a club which is forced to operate within it's natural means.
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T-Rex ...for the three points tomorrow.
I know you're looking to be bankrolled to promotion again, but I'm afraid we'll probably beat you (looking at recent form), and comfortably at that.
Not bad for a club which is forced to operate within it's natural means.
Backlash anyone?
T-Rex About the number of plastic Reading fans who'll turn up to Home Park and sit on their hands in silence on Saturday.
Pathetic little club, very smalltime.
Thing is, you WISH your club was as big as ours, and as you say, we're only a little club. So LOL at little Plymouth!!
t-rex Then there are clubs who are small-time but recently enjoyed a spell of success in the Premiership like Southampton, Coventry, Charlton, Palace. All of whom's attendances are slipping away quite drastically (as yours will if you dont get re-promoted soon).
Then there are clubs who're naturally bigger than us and probably always will be unless we get sustained success, Norwich, Wolves, Ipswich, Brum, the Sheffields.
We average over 1,000 more than birmingham and we are behind them in the league, I believe they got 14,000 for a mid-week game a few months back- terrible support.
11,000 for a championship team with a relatively nice stadium and a catchment area stretching for MILES is poor.
I don't mind plymouth, quite like the club. However you need to be realistic, you are nowhere near the size of reading and haven't been for decades. Coming on here to try and get a reaction as if you have some sort of high ground on us is laughable. If you suddenly win the championship and your attendances rise from 11k to 18k, what are those fans going to be... loyal long term argyle fans or people who have come out of the woodwork to ride the wave of success? Its the latter and its happens to EVERY club in the world.
Get off your high horse and get with the times, as much as we'd all love to go back to the mid 90's when money wasn't the be all and end all of football like it is now- times have changed. I noticed you compared us with wigan, they have spent 20 times more than we have on players and wages in the last ten years, we've spent less than most teams in the championship in recent years so this " bought your way to success" is plain and simply factually incorrect.
T-Rex ...for the three points tomorrow.
I know you're looking to be bankrolled to promotion again, but I'm afraid we'll probably beat you (looking at recent form), and comfortably at that.
Not bad for a club which is forced to operate within it's natural means.
Sorry, have I been asleep for the last 16-18 years???
When has Mr Mad ever Bankrolled RFC?? He's lent RFC £40M to build a new stadium, but I would hardly call the spending on players these last few years "bank-rolling", more LoLLing if you ask me!
What DO they put in the water in T-RexLand?
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Whenever I think of Plymouth, my mind goes back to 93/94 when we lost 3-1 at their place.
One of their lot was being frogmarched by OB in front of the away end when someone opened a gate, ran up to the Plymouth fan and decked him. He then legged it back onto the terrace. All of a sudden, some fat cnut legs it from the halfway line to take on the whole away end. He hurled himself into the welcoming arms of Ray Ilsley and also got frogmarched away.
That was also one of the coldest away games I can remember and I drove there and back with bald tyres whilst wondering why there was a juddering noise that increased the faster I went!
One of their lot was being frogmarched by OB in front of the away end when someone opened a gate, ran up to the Plymouth fan and decked him. He then legged it back onto the terrace. All of a sudden, some fat cnut legs it from the halfway line to take on the whole away end. He hurled himself into the welcoming arms of Ray Ilsley and also got frogmarched away.
That was also one of the coldest away games I can remember and I drove there and back with bald tyres whilst wondering why there was a juddering noise that increased the faster I went!
floyd__streete LOL @ never having played in the top flight, losers
You really are a pathetic cock.
My one endearing memory of you was joining in the "Pardew out" chants after losing 3-1 to Swindon in 2001. A few months later at Bury when Reading were top half and looking for promotion you had nothing but good things to say. Even in the record breaking season, you were doubting the club. Now you mock a club for never being where you thought your club would never get until it actually happened?
Sadly, you're not the only one.
Reading really are the most fickle and ridiculous set of fans I've ever met
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Terminal Boardom Whenever I think of Plymouth, my mind goes back to 93/94 when we lost 3-1 at their place.
One of their lot was being frogmarched by OB in front of the away end when someone opened a gate, ran up to the Plymouth fan and decked him. He then legged it back onto the terrace. All of a sudden, some fat cnut legs it from the halfway line to take on the whole away end. He hurled himself into the welcoming arms of Ray Ilsley and also got frogmarched away.
That was also one of the coldest away games I can remember and I drove there and back with bald tyres whilst wondering why there was a juddering noise that increased the faster I went!
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T-Rex reminds me of what a lot of football followers do. They convert the memory of certain heavily-supported away-days into the hardening myth inside their minds that the club they follow is in fact so over-subscribed it needs a ground with at least a six-figure capacity. Fuelled by cliche and shared memory, it's what a lot of us do. When in fact the reality is that most games at most clubs are mundane affairs where the football is negligible in quality and the purpose of the day is to shamble around a bit, swear, drink and catch up with your mates who also love to shamble about a bit, swear, drink and catch up with (add choice from drop-down list).
Ergo over the years the followers of Brighton, Southampton, Bristol City, Wolves, Leeds etc. And of course, our Devonian visitor.
The obsession with 'size' and 'history' always reminds me that the relevant poster/fan/dribbler (delete as applicable or use the 'choose all three' option) is always likely to be someone investing a touch too much of their own inferiority complex on to the identity they latch on to with their club. All tribal of course and pretty inconsequential. I happen to quite like clubs whose fans travel away in big numbers and make a noise. Reminds me of the old days. But when you get to a home game at one of these grounds? It's hardly earth-shattering now, is it? It's usually the same as your own. Anodyne, run of the mill, boring, occasionally noisy, normal.
Does this make them 'bigger' and 'better' or less 'plastic' or less 'bank-rolled' than Reading? Don't care really. I'm of the old and dying school that loved Reading FC when it was a shambly little outfit tucked away at Elm Park and was noticeably smaller and less famous, less 'historic' (and definitely less 'bank-rolled!) than nearly everybody else. We've taken huge numbers away ourselves on occasion and (to my amazement) been loud and 'up for it' and all. But it doesn't make us some huge mythological history 'franchise' that only resides inside the heads of people desperate to be part of something other than the mundane. Such as Plymouth's fantastic first-day turn-out four years ago doesn't exactly make them the Barcelona of the south-west.
In short? One swallow doesn't make a summer. Or? You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? Or? Can't we build an away end that takes thirty thousand for all these mythical giants of the football world?
I also quite like us now. MFC (Modern Football ****ishness notwithstanding). Bigger or smaller than Plymouth? What a totally irrelevant thought.
However, Rexy (can I call you that?). Well done. You made six pages.
Looking forward to seeing your acerbic posts on next year's visit.
Ergo over the years the followers of Brighton, Southampton, Bristol City, Wolves, Leeds etc. And of course, our Devonian visitor.
The obsession with 'size' and 'history' always reminds me that the relevant poster/fan/dribbler (delete as applicable or use the 'choose all three' option) is always likely to be someone investing a touch too much of their own inferiority complex on to the identity they latch on to with their club. All tribal of course and pretty inconsequential. I happen to quite like clubs whose fans travel away in big numbers and make a noise. Reminds me of the old days. But when you get to a home game at one of these grounds? It's hardly earth-shattering now, is it? It's usually the same as your own. Anodyne, run of the mill, boring, occasionally noisy, normal.
Does this make them 'bigger' and 'better' or less 'plastic' or less 'bank-rolled' than Reading? Don't care really. I'm of the old and dying school that loved Reading FC when it was a shambly little outfit tucked away at Elm Park and was noticeably smaller and less famous, less 'historic' (and definitely less 'bank-rolled!) than nearly everybody else. We've taken huge numbers away ourselves on occasion and (to my amazement) been loud and 'up for it' and all. But it doesn't make us some huge mythological history 'franchise' that only resides inside the heads of people desperate to be part of something other than the mundane. Such as Plymouth's fantastic first-day turn-out four years ago doesn't exactly make them the Barcelona of the south-west.
In short? One swallow doesn't make a summer. Or? You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? Or? Can't we build an away end that takes thirty thousand for all these mythical giants of the football world?
I also quite like us now. MFC (Modern Football ****ishness notwithstanding). Bigger or smaller than Plymouth? What a totally irrelevant thought.
However, Rexy (can I call you that?). Well done. You made six pages.
Looking forward to seeing your acerbic posts on next year's visit.
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Ian Herring Looking forward to seeing your acerbic posts on next year's visit.
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T-Rex About the number of plastic Reading fans who'll turn up to Home Park and sit on their hands in silence on Saturday.
Pathetic little club, very smalltime.
Can see it getting slated by the critics.
Even I with my relentless vocal criticism of the The Morgue have nothing but respect for our away lot who are fantastic.
Stooperfloyd__streete LOL @ never having played in the top flight, losers
You really are a pathetic cock.
... Now you mock a club for never being where you thought your club would never get until it actually happened?
Now I don't know floyd__streete but I'm sure I see the deliberate irony in his post.
400? Isn't that the number of managers who've left Plymouth for bigger clubs in the last decade?
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Stooper Reading really are the most fickle and ridiculous set of fans I've ever met
Clearly you've not met many fans; how about those that 'support' Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle, Birmingham, Wolves...
I could go on.
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Stooper Reading really are the most fickle and ridiculous set of fans I've ever met
I think you'll find that Football fans in general are the most fickle and ridiculous people you'll meet, but that's what it's all about!
Stooperfloyd__streete LOL @ never having played in the top flight, losers
You really are a pathetic cock.
My one endearing memory of you was joining in the "Pardew out" chants after losing 3-1 to Swindon in 2001. A few months later at Bury when Reading were top half and looking for promotion you had nothing but good things to say. Even in the record breaking season, you were doubting the club. Now you mock a club for never being where you thought your club would never get until it actually happened?
Sadly, you're not the only one.
Reading really are the most fickle and ridiculous set of fans I've ever met
then fvck off and follow egg chasing.
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