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Nail on head. I'm so irrational at times I won't even look at match threads on here and pretend I don't care what happens. I've even been known to go out on my bike during important games. God knows what I'll do if we get to Wembley or in the unlikely event we have to beat Leeds in that final game to go up automatically. I suspect the sneery stuff is a coping strategy more than anything else. Most like to rant, a few don't. My view is neither solves nor changes anything, its just a rollercoaster ride. I am less reactive than I used to be. Can well remember losing to Watford 7-1 in the League Cup in 1980 after being 4-0 up after the first leg. Didn't react well to that. Just no SWF then.

This one from their post match comments ring true to here? "He can **** off. ****ing shite. Absolute embarrassment. Didn't think I could hate a manager as much as Brendan /NathanJones but this is getting close. At least he's a nicer bloke."

Its a part of the human condition of a football fan. I got that impression when we were on the unbeaten run on here

There'll be identical comments on here if we lose to Watford tomorrow, so it's perhaps best not to gloat too much.

It is impressive but chatting to the more discerning mates locally they reckon he’s far from the finished article and one thinks he’s more a number 2 rather than head coach. That said he has been a figurehead for the club through their travails and it is good to here the locals speak so highly of him.

There have been murmurings around his future for a few months now ever since Man U tried to get Ashcroft. This has coincided with our drop off in momentum. I wonder if the two are connected?

Mainly because he's not anywhere near on the park to poke the chances in. Arguably his tactics cost us too many goals but we create far more through them. All we needed was a fit goalscoring striker alongside AA and we'd be fine.

Following Wilcox to Man U at the end of the season?

Or perhaps Colin from accounts after all Spurs seem to be doing OK with an Aussie

All of a minute then.

How long until the first post that says 'Fuck'?

Don’t be so sensible.

That's good news indeed.

I wish it were that simple. There are sadly no guarantees. My wife had 12 cycles of adjuvent chemo for an abdominal cancer in 2020 following life saving and life changing surgery along with SABR radiotherapy to get rid of two spots on her lungs in early 2021. To all intents and purposes she was clear, until she wasn't. She didn't see the end of 2021.

Can't argue with that bearing in mind they were down to 10 too. I do think we're pretty good but fall a little short of Leeds, Leicester and Ipswich and wouldn't be surprised if we got beaten in all three of those away games. Said for a while now the play off final will be the Old Farm game.

That’s some goal

HT the gap between EFL and PL looked enormous now 2-2.

Indeed. Doesn't help that its been a financial basket case since Madejski sold up. I believe at one point they were losing £350000 a week; their losses were eye watering.

This probably ought to be in General Sports but I've put it here because one of our relatively local rivals are in such deep shit and it serves as a cautionary tale to all us football fans and is pertinent to some extent given what we were going through 15 years ago. Last week it was announced that the club needed £1m to service their obligations for March. Their Chinese owner has today effectively sold the training ground at Bearwood Park to Wycombe Wanderers, so akin to selling Staplewood to Pompey. The outcome of which makes the sale less attractive to potential investors. It appears there are interested buyers but only if the assets are wrapped up as one. It seems the sellers are more concerned about prising as much value from the club's assets that they can and are screwing up any hope of the club being sold. Dai Yongge and his sister have previously presided over the liquidation of two other clubs Beijing Renhe and KSV Roeselare in Belgium, could it be third time unlucky for Reading?

Health related news site internet clickbait. You know the sort of thing , Three signs to look out for indicating that you may have cancer/heart disease etc.

How long before the first 'Fuck' post comes up?

Let’s hope the less well off spend their 30p a day windfall wisely.

Five now

One of my neighbours is a big Luton fan and we were discussing Jones on one of our morning dog walks a few weeks back. His take was that Jones was successful at Luton because many of their players owed him professionally and so they were essentially prepared to walk on water for him. When he went to Stoke the players had no such loyalty to him for their success or otherwise and all that was left was Jones rather spiky, somewhat narcissistic personality which grated with the players to the extent he lost the dressing room. This idea of a professional debt allowed him to go back to Luton and get them to the play offs before he joined Saints as they were the same players. At Saints the situation at Stoke was repeated with inevitable consequences.

They took 1300 up there which is impressive. I think he's one of a relatively new breed of manager who is first and foremost a 'good person' which is why he's carried the fans with him through the adversity in plenty that they've had. As to last season he wasn't right for what we needed post Jones who doesn't come into the category of being such a 'good person'. The way I saw it is probably not dissimilar to most. Ralph was losing the dressing room and should have been replaced in the summer not at the WC break, Jones tenure ensured the dressing room was lost and it was too big a job for Selles to turn around as the damage was already done. Plus we were shit which didn't help.