The Rant Thread

[Big Foot]

I did my ranting a year ago when the writing was on the wall, but very few appeared capable of reading it.

Whilst we're in the mood for "I told you so", interesting comments from an 18 year old nigh on 2 years ago on this link - http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2028 ... _the_score

[Irvinchangeyaname]

What we really need are players who hustle and bustle over 90 minutes to fight for the club.
In my mind, that's Tabb, Karacan, Sigurdsson, Church.

Agree completely Steve. All four do have a bit of talent to go with the hustle and bustle too. I'd add Davies to that list.

[greenbloodedgirl]

PLYMOUTH, FU*KING PLYMOUTH. If we lost 4-1 to Newcastle it would be bad, but fu*king Plymouth FFS. You complete useless bunch of cu*ts. All of you. Fu*k off.

Lol. It's hilarious. We beat you 4-1, and you still refuse to see that you are no longer 'bigger' or 'better' than us anymore in any way that matters.

All these teams going on about the likes of Plymouth, etc etc. Just because you were in the Premier League...well you aren't there anymore, so stop being so disrespectful to all the teams around you on the way down...because you're not the team you once were, and without someone to bankroll new signings, it's going to be a long struggle back.

I don't have anything against Reading supporters, I work with them day in day out. Nothing against you except for the big I am from you lot when you just aren't anymore....you are where you are because you havent picked up many points, like us, for whatever reason - be it luck, or a poor team, or poor performances....but points are all that matters - not what you were...

See you at the Madejski!

[FiNeRaIn]

Agreed ^^ Good post.

[Dorset-Knob]

PLYMOUTH, FU*KING PLYMOUTH. If we lost 4-1 to Newcastle it would be bad, but fu*king Plymouth FFS. You complete useless bunch of cu*ts. All of you. Fu*k off.

Lol. It's hilarious. We beat you 4-1, and you still refuse to see that you are no longer 'bigger' or 'better' than us anymore in any way that matters.

All these teams going on about the likes of Plymouth, etc etc. Just because you were in the Premier League...well you aren't there anymore, so stop being so disrespectful to all the teams around you on the way down...because you're not the team you once were, and without someone to bankroll new signings, it's going to be a long struggle back.

I don't have anything against Reading supporters, I work with them day in day out. Nothing against you except for the big I am from you lot when you just aren't anymore....you are where you are because you havent picked up many points, like us, for whatever reason - be it luck, or a poor team, or poor performances....but points are all that matters - not what you were...

See you at the Madejski!

Good points, well made, (yours as well as your team's) I agree that some people's myopia is extreme, but I also think the most recent result is as much about how poor we are these days, as it is about how good you were!

Hope to give you a tougher time, next time, but good luck getting out of the shit, you're going to need it too!

[facaldaqui]

I don't think many Reading supporters think of Reading as a bigger club than Argyle, not the ones that remain after the glory days, anyway. Both clubs are potentially about the same size. Perhaps your workmates are just bantering at you. Most of us are only too aware that we are a club with a long tradition in the lower leagues, which could return there at any moment. If people were outraged about being thrashed by Plymouth it is because Plymouth were below us in the league and could hardly score a goal recently. We would have been just as outraged if Sheffield Wednesday had beaten us 4-1.

[paultheroyal]

I did my ranting a year ago when the writing was on the wall, but very few appeared capable of reading it.

Whilst we're in the mood for "I told you so", interesting comments from an 18 year old nigh on 2 years ago on this link - http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2028 ... _the_score

What exactly have you told us though?

[floyd__streete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJN0-gn ... r_embedded

W@nkers.

[handbags_harris]

PLYMOUTH, FU*KING PLYMOUTH. If we lost 4-1 to Newcastle it would be bad, but fu*king Plymouth FFS. You complete useless bunch of cu*ts. All of you. Fu*k off.

Lol. It's hilarious. We beat you 4-1, and you still refuse to see that you are no longer 'bigger' or 'better' than us anymore in any way that matters.

All these teams going on about the likes of Plymouth, etc etc. Just because you were in the Premier League...well you aren't there anymore, so stop being so disrespectful to all the teams around you on the way down...because you're not the team you once were, and without someone to bankroll new signings, it's going to be a long struggle back.

I don't have anything against Reading supporters, I work with them day in day out. Nothing against you except for the big I am from you lot when you just aren't anymore....you are where you are because you havent picked up many points, like us, for whatever reason - be it luck, or a poor team, or poor performances....but points are all that matters - not what you were...

See you at the Madejski!

I don't see that being "disrespectful" per se, it's more a sign of massive frustration that all Reading fans feel because we know that Reading could, and probably should, still be in the Premier League. The reason we aren't is because of the distinct lack of investment in the playing side when it was required. We know where we were just over two years ago - a pretty decent team which had reached it's peak, and one which was infinitely better than anything the Championship could offer as almost the same team proved when we gained the 106 points. We didn't invest, and since then the lack of investment has driven us downwards very very quickly to a point (so far) where we find ourselves losing 4-1 at Home Park. It's not a billy big bollocks attitude, it's reality hitting that we were progressing in the right direction as a club and it has all gone to waste. We may not be in the big time any more, but it's the frustration of going downhill so quickly that gets to people, and it would have shown in the same light had we lost to smaller clubs like Scunthorpe, or much larger clubs like Sheffield Wednesday.

I also think it's the fact that we got absolutely spanked by a side that had one home win to their name all season, one goal in their previous six games, and had only scored twice in a match three times all season. Reverse the positions, I'm sure a Plymouth fan would feel pretty pissed off as well.

[FiNeRaIn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJN0-gnfeA&feature=player_embedded

W@nkers.

cocky fools.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

We don't need a new centre half, we've got Kalifa Cisse.

That new centre half was Gary Cahill.

I still can't get over Coppell's mistakes. This should never have come to this, never....

[greenbloodedgirl]

PLYMOUTH, FU*KING PLYMOUTH. If we lost 4-1 to Newcastle it would be bad, but fu*king Plymouth FFS. You complete useless bunch of cu*ts. All of you. Fu*k off.

Lol. It's hilarious. We beat you 4-1, and you still refuse to see that you are no longer 'bigger' or 'better' than us anymore in any way that matters.

All these teams going on about the likes of Plymouth, etc etc. Just because you were in the Premier League...well you aren't there anymore, so stop being so disrespectful to all the teams around you on the way down...because you're not the team you once were, and without someone to bankroll new signings, it's going to be a long struggle back.

I don't have anything against Reading supporters, I work with them day in day out. Nothing against you except for the big I am from you lot when you just aren't anymore....you are where you are because you havent picked up many points, like us, for whatever reason - be it luck, or a poor team, or poor performances....but points are all that matters - not what you were...

See you at the Madejski!

I don't see that being "disrespectful" per se, it's more a sign of massive frustration that all Reading fans feel because we know that Reading could, and probably should, still be in the Premier League. The reason we aren't is because of the distinct lack of investment in the playing side when it was required. We know where we were just over two years ago - a pretty decent team which had reached it's peak, and one which was infinitely better than anything the Championship could offer as almost the same team proved when we gained the 106 points. We didn't invest, and since then the lack of investment has driven us downwards very very quickly to a point (so far) where we find ourselves losing 4-1 at Home Park. It's not a billy big bollocks attitude, it's reality hitting that we were progressing in the right direction as a club and it has all gone to waste. We may not be in the big time any more, but it's the frustration of going downhill so quickly that gets to people, and it would have shown in the same light had we lost to smaller clubs like Scunthorpe, or much larger clubs like Sheffield Wednesday.

I also think it's the fact that we got absolutely spanked by a side that had one home win to their name all season, one goal in their previous six games, and had only scored twice in a match three times all season. Reverse the positions, I'm sure a Plymouth fan would feel pretty pissed off as well.

I can understand what you are saying...but what is it with fans expecting more and more money to be pumped into a club? When we were under Holloway we had Ebanks-Blake, a 20 goal a season striker in the championship, Halmosi, Norris, Buzsaky, Gosling, Connolly...If we could have held onto all our players and bought just one or two more decent signings, we could have been in playoff contention...but we didn't - we sold our best players, as always to keep the club in the black...(incidentally, thanks to spending by Holloway, failed signings and falling attendances, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore...). That is how it always is and we get on with it....obviously that gets more and more frustrating, but the whole sport is going into meltdown with the ridiculous wages and transfer fees etc.

Your team has changed so much, it's nowhere near as strong as it was, and that must be frustrating. I think you also owe a lot to Coppell, as I'm sure you know. He is a class manager, and if things didn't work with Mariner, and there was even a possibilty of getting him at Home Park I would snap him up!

It's not just banter though, it is so tiring having people slagging off my team Yes we haven't been in the Premier League, but probably that is more to do with limited spending and trying to do things the 'right way', where sometimes it is the risks that pay off. Our entire team can cost the same as one or two players from other big clubs.

Incidentally the year you won the league with 102 points, we beat you at home on the first game of the season. I was there. It was a fantastic experience.
I believe you lost only one other match that year - to Luton.

I'm sure you will have enough to pull away and maybe next year you can kick on and bring in some new players in the summer, and start rebuilding....
It's just a shame Madesjki doesn't seem to have his heart in it anymore..

[PEARCEY]

102 points Sacrilege. It was 106.

[brendywendy]

I admit I have been wonderfully spoilt over the past 6 or 7 years but not for the past 2!

Brynjar being part of those halycon days........please justify him being the LEAST TALENTED in recent years comment

If I recall, I am sure that there were plenty to take that crown from him M Brook


g'arn, you know you want to

he cant, its unjustifiable

[rhroyal]

Don't take the frustration personally to Plymouth. 2 years before we played you we'd recently beaten Liverpool in the Premiership, had gone on a half decent run of form and seemed destined to survive our second season. I believe in the corresponding fixture 2 years before we were playing an epic game with Spurs, which we did eventually lose.

2 years later we were thrashed by the team bottom of the Championship in front of 12000 fans. The table doesn't lie. The team at the bottom is typically a poor side, and you looked a class above us on that day. No bigger sign of how we've fallen. That would apply to any team who happened to be bottom in this league. Tbh I felt the same after QPR too and they were nearer the top of the table.

It's a stupid suggestion that we're annoyed at losing to "little old Plymouth". We're annoyed at how we've fallen and the catalogue of errors behind it.

[Plymouth_Royal]

I did my ranting a year ago when the writing was on the wall, but very few appeared capable of reading it.

Whilst we're in the mood for "I told you so", interesting comments from an 18 year old nigh on 2 years ago on this link - http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2028 ... _the_score

Just read that link. I used to go to secondary school with that boy! He always had an opinion no matter if it upsets or goes against the majority. Anyway, it's a very interesting comment and im just glad to see some more supporters that don't completely worship Coppell.

[Plymouth_Royal]

PLYMOUTH, FU*KING PLYMOUTH. If we lost 4-1 to Newcastle it would be bad, but fu*king Plymouth FFS. You complete useless bunch of cu*ts. All of you. Fu*k off.

Lol. It's hilarious. We beat you 4-1, and you still refuse to see that you are no longer 'bigger' or 'better' than us anymore in any way that matters.

All these teams going on about the likes of Plymouth, etc etc. Just because you were in the Premier League...well you aren't there anymore, so stop being so disrespectful to all the teams around you on the way down...because you're not the team you once were, and without someone to bankroll new signings, it's going to be a long struggle back.

I don't have anything against Reading supporters, I work with them day in day out. Nothing against you except for the big I am from you lot when you just aren't anymore....you are where you are because you havent picked up many points, like us, for whatever reason - be it luck, or a poor team, or poor performances....but points are all that matters - not what you were...

See you at the Madejski!

I don't see that being "disrespectful" per se, it's more a sign of massive frustration that all Reading fans feel because we know that Reading could, and probably should, still be in the Premier League. The reason we aren't is because of the distinct lack of investment in the playing side when it was required. We know where we were just over two years ago - a pretty decent team which had reached it's peak, and one which was infinitely better than anything the Championship could offer as almost the same team proved when we gained the 106 points. We didn't invest, and since then the lack of investment has driven us downwards very very quickly to a point (so far) where we find ourselves losing 4-1 at Home Park. It's not a billy big bollocks attitude, it's reality hitting that we were progressing in the right direction as a club and it has all gone to waste. We may not be in the big time any more, but it's the frustration of going downhill so quickly that gets to people, and it would have shown in the same light had we lost to smaller clubs like Scunthorpe, or much larger clubs like Sheffield Wednesday.

I also think it's the fact that we got absolutely spanked by a side that had one home win to their name all season, one goal in their previous six games, and had only scored twice in a match three times all season. Reverse the positions, I'm sure a Plymouth fan would feel pretty pissed off as well.

Not too sure about that mate. I remember watching goals on sunday when Coppell was on there co- hosting (this was around november last season) and he said "..I regret not freshening up the squad in my second season with a couple more signings...". sounds like the money was available but he felt the squad was good enough.

[greenbloodedgirl]

Firstly apologies for 102, I was thinking of the year we won Division 3 with that total!!

As for bottom of the league , we weren't, that was Peterboro. Gee, give us some credit.... LOL

[handbags_harris]

I don't see that being "disrespectful" per se, it's more a sign of massive frustration that all Reading fans feel because we know that Reading could, and probably should, still be in the Premier League. The reason we aren't is because of the distinct lack of investment in the playing side when it was required. We know where we were just over two years ago - a pretty decent team which had reached it's peak, and one which was infinitely better than anything the Championship could offer as almost the same team proved when we gained the 106 points. We didn't invest, and since then the lack of investment has driven us downwards very very quickly to a point (so far) where we find ourselves losing 4-1 at Home Park. It's not a billy big bollocks attitude, it's reality hitting that we were progressing in the right direction as a club and it has all gone to waste. We may not be in the big time any more, but it's the frustration of going downhill so quickly that gets to people, and it would have shown in the same light had we lost to smaller clubs like Scunthorpe, or much larger clubs like Sheffield Wednesday.

I also think it's the fact that we got absolutely spanked by a side that had one home win to their name all season, one goal in their previous six games, and had only scored twice in a match three times all season. Reverse the positions, I'm sure a Plymouth fan would feel pretty pissed off as well.

Not too sure about that mate. I remember watching goals on sunday when Coppell was on there co- hosting (this was around november last season) and he said "..I regret not freshening up the squad in my second season with a couple more signings...". sounds like the money was available but he felt the squad was good enough.

That's what I was trying to get across, although admittedly I didn't allude to exactly who decided not to invest. That was, of course, Steve Coppell. The money was definately there, we had a £6-7 million profit at the end of the first Premier League season. I'm not saying we should have spent stupid money, I'm saying we should have signed better players with what funding we had, a couple of players who would have improved the team and given a different emphasis. Instead we spent money on Emerse Fae and Kalifa Cisse, players who so blatantly weren't up to the standard required.

greenbloodedgirl - 106 > 102

[pace=forster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJN0-gnfeA&feature=player_embedded

W@nkers.

MY GOD do we have some gimpy fans