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Re: Bearwood. A view from the other side.
Quick question in response.
Are you, or indeed any Reading fans, aware that we lost our training ground, youth academy and reserve team when we were in financial difficulties?
I don’t get a sense that any of you do.
Re: Suggested Open Letter to our Club
Brighton 1997. Club in deep trouble organised 'fan days' and passed the buckets around at pretty much every football club to try and keep themselves afloat.
Succeeded and a couple of years later, when storming up the table, the fans sang 'We'll never play you again' at a fair few of the grounds that helped them out. That's football. Boo Hoo when in trouble and Fuck You when things are going well.
It's a shit business.
Re: Reading offer Bearwood training ground to Wycombe
So I set off for work today thinking we’re all but safe and have a day out at Wembley to enjoy. A nice calm end to a turbulent season.
Now I’m home and after reading 10 pages on here I’ve learned that people want to kill our owners and possibly me. Our owners may fight back; you can lose a lot of bodies in the Bayou.
Rob seems to have found £25 million down the back of a billionaire and somehow that has been spent on a facility that was going absurdly cheap but was still absurdly expensive.
Even DevC can’t explain what this all means but we may be in the Champions League in 5 years or we may be called Thames Valley Wasps and be playing in Reading.
The Trust are silent or silenced, hordes of Reading supporters will be besieging Adams Park tomorrow and I’ll still have to sit under a leak from the FA roof on Saturday.
All my football loving friends who support other clubs have blocked me on their socials and the dog took a shit on my 125th anniversary Wycombe shirt.
I still have no idea why we’re buying the training ground.
Re: Reading offer Bearwood training ground to Wycombe
So we walk away from this deal as morally it is the right think to do (which I am not sure it is) and Reading don't pay their £1m shortfall at the end of the month. Another points deduction. Another step to oblivion? Maybe this time someone pulls the plug. With only a few games to go and then the dreaded cashflow abyss that is the summer what then? Game over?
The football family never came to our aid when we had to sell our training ground. The football family never said 'ohh don't take the short term cash for Matt Phillips he's gonna be sold for a shit load in a couple of weeks' we were f'd then and football knew it. The football family is bullshit. We have lost and gained players down the years due to the rising and falling of various club fortunes. The Reading fans getting on their high horses about this deal is as daft as Derby. This overspending has been going on for YEARS, YEARS AND YEARS. They were not sustainable when Madeski was bankrolling it and they are not now. They rolled the dice time and time again to get to the promised land and they lost. They are not entitled to anything different to me, you or any company that does not pay it's bills.
Reading face unfunded £1m shortfall for March
As a postscript to the jubilant scenes amongst us in the away end on Saturday, the situation at Reading becomes more dire by the day. Dai Yongge's rubbing supporters' faces in his brazen asset stripping of the club by announcing he's looking to flog Reading's training facilities (opened only 5 years ago) to funnel funds back to himself, meanwhile the "Sell before we Dai" campaign revealed that the club faced a £1m shortfall for March alone. With Yongge seemingly too obscenely wealthy to care if he loses a few million on this venture, and too indifferent to care about his broken plaything's long-term future, I really struggle to see a way out for Reading save for another obscenely wealthy individual paying well over the odds to buy Yongge out.
There is talk on Twitter of Reading fans crowdfunding the loss for March, which (aside from being utterly bonkers) only kicks the can down the A33 for another month. Anyone following my posts on here will know my time living in Biscuitville hasn't made many any fonder of the club, but any club (except Franchise) being asset stripped and torn limb from limb by a capricious sociopathic owner who is far too wealthy to barely notice the hit on their net worth makes it more likely that owners of other clubs resenting covering ever greater losses will think that's a viable way for them to behave. It made me pretty angry hearing the shandy lads on Saturday "You're going bust in the morning" as if it's the height of hilarious bantz - if only they knew how perilously close we've come to the abyss ourselves in the not-too distant past.
I really hope Reading find a way out of their current predicament. There I said it...
Re: Match Day Thread: Reading
Vokes great take down, plays Campbell in, trickery - pen. 2-1 yes!!
Gasroom "experts" in the mud 😂
Re: JJ needed security article.
JJ is not responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government and is well within his rights to express his horror at the inhumanity of the Hamas terrorists on October 7th.
An ordinary Palestinian is not responsible for the actions of the Hamas terrorists and is well within his rights to express his horror at the inhumanity of the Israeli Government since October 7th.
Not hard concepts to grasp surely.
Re: Match Day Thread: Bradford (EFL Trophy)
Has Richard Kone been given enough credit for his assist by the way?
First of all he has to win the ball back but then after creating a bit of space for himself he drops in an absolutely perfect pass to Matt Butcher. It was a brilliant pass
Re: EFL Trophy
Just wanted to pop on and say very well done on getting to Wembley and I wish you well in the final. As far as revenue is concerned we (Bolton) did really well financially out of it with up to about £500k net at the end of it. Granted we played Plymouth and had around 80k there which clearly you and Posh won’t have but apart from the cash it’s just such a great day out and the opportunity for your players to actually play there and for the club to win a trophy is something everyone will remember. Even if you lose, it can still be a fantastic day out and something you’ll always remember and I know, I’ve done both win and lose. So best of luck and hopefully you’ll thrash those posh buggers and have a great day out. too 😉