Bucks Saint

Just Remy for me but he would need to take a chunky pay cut

Still plenty in the home stands, including the other half of the South stand where the away fans are located. Can be bought online from Reading FC, and no problem with an SO postcode etc

This. Remy was all set for Newcastle until QPR offered more. Zamrora was popular and finding good form at Fulham before he too grabbed the wages QPR dangled. Club and players will be getting what they deserve soon

Bye bye saggy fish face twitchy

Can we loan you, can we loan you, can we loan you anyone else?

Yes.

Depends very much on whether you are guests of Reading fans. Especially if you want to stay friendly with them and perhaps get another invite in future. Otherwise, celebrate modestly during the game, so as to preserve your seat / beers / food for the 90 mins. Then go mental at the end!

So glad i got my ticket nice and early. With the Reading plastics. Funnily enough, still plenty of tickets available in the home area

Anyway back to the OP... Radio Solent asked MP about Adkins next week too, but a much more sensible question: along the lines of "next week there will be huge focus from the fans and the media, because of NA, but i guess you will be least affected as you dont know him?" MP said he would say happily say hello to NA as he has great respect for what he has achieved here. Beyond that, we will focus on winning the game. Spot on

Love it, thanks

Clearly he failed to spot Lallana, Ramirez, Fonte missing plus 50% of Boruc then. Muppet!

Sunderland were truely woeful yesterday. But still mad timing. That new TV deal next year is making boards (not this one) crazy

Steady now. I am on the beers now but clearly you have been for several hours

Thought he was improving under Adkins but the pressing, more direct, style definitely suits him. Long term, he is Lambert's replacement up the middle still

Lallana out. Ramirez bench

Ramirez to reverse his normal role and come on from the bench for the last 30?

106. 106. You got the record. And you're still ****. 106

Sadly. Could do with being knocked down. And rebuilt of course

Shocking defending. Would never do that now. Probably

As I have said before, he may have potential, but I am not sure I have seen much more than pace at the moment. Reminds me of Nicky Banger

Too true

Ok so they might be called opportunists instead but it looks like we agree there are a sizeable number of them. Fair point that the genuine Reading fans don't like them either, that makes sense. The drop off in Saints attendances is not really related. All clubs that get relegated, especially after a long period in a higher division, see a fall in attendances. Ticket prices rarely go down and for many, they cant justify the cost when the team is in real decline, the entertainment is poor and the opposition uninspiring. I wasn't one of them but I can understand it. When the atmosphere and spirit lifted, thanks to Markus, numbers went back up and we had among the best attendances of any club in L1 bar Norwich and City. But I digress. The reference to your wife is also unrelated. If you support Reading, go to Arsenal this weekend, perfectly natural thing to do for a passionate supporter. The opportunists, as you call them, support other teams. Reading are secondary, at best, and there is no passion in evidence

With respect, I have worked in Reading and lived very close to Reading for some years, so I know loads too and I have a different view. This is not really about how some supporters "join" a club in the way you describe - there is no problem at all with that - the issue is that a significant number of Reading "fans" treat the club as their second team. Call it proximity to London or down to a lack of successful history (relatively), your guess is as good as mine, but many supporters really follow Chelsea, Spurs or Arsenal, with a few for Fulham and QPR too, but either can't get, or won't get, tickets, or won't travel, so they roll up at Reading to see a game. The numbers that just roll up increase when Reading are doing better, specifically if there is a chance to see bigger visiting teams, or better still, their preferred first team. Ok you may say thats what happens at St Mary's but the difference is, some Saints fan pick and choose which games to go to, and naturally choose the bigger matches. Some people who sit in the home stands at Reading are ONLY there to see the opposition, or just a game generally, and don't have any sort of passion for Reading. Lots of Reading fans are just like any other club and follow them from the heart, through thick and thin etc etc. But a healthy number of them don't give a monkeys. These are the plastics referred to by others on this thread and I have met quite a few.

Take your point but we took 4800 there last season (officially) and very similar when we were fighting relegation in the championship. The phrase "in the home end" always implies that we are all in the same stand and hence easy to spot, but reality means we can be spread all over the place and have no idea who else may be a saint.

I am taking a giant foam hand or a flag so that I can blend in with the plastics. But, I will paint a small red stripe somewhere as a code for the other 998