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Re: Reading offer Bearwood training ground to Wycombe

Long time since my last post but here goes.

Mixed feelings on this, but the outrage without knowing the details is premature.

Bearwood looks an incredible facility, but it's a white elephant for a league 1 club with Reading's fanbase, and even more so if they go down to league 2 with further points deductions from not paying wages again (without the money from the sale coming in).

If Couhig's plan is to buy it, then both clubs to share the facility with Reading paying an affordable rent, then surely this is a positive for both clubs in the current situation and the only realistic way outside of a philanthropic billionaire white knight appearing for Reading that Bearwood isn't a huge burden on a league 2 club.

I get their fans want to keep everything, but a category 1 academy with a premier League facility isn't sustainable at this level.

If their owner isn't getting offers for the club that are better than our apparently cut price deal, then he's clearly not getting anything he's going to accept. Selling the training ground could make it easier to find new bidders as you'd need less funds.

With the level of debt it'll almost certainly require administration and debtors losing out, but that looks inevitable unless someone is willing to come in and service the silly debts. Surely HMRC liquidating a club is more likely with a huge asset that they could sell to recover some losses?

If our involvement has knowingly stopped a realistic buy out, I'm dead against it, but there's minimal evidence of that in public.

At the end of the day, it's one or two mega rich people buying it off another one, nothing to do with Wycombe Wanderers as a club or it's fans really, so their fans rage at us is entirely misplaced. I hope they survive, but, as with Derby, our involvement (on current evidence) is a sideshow with an easy scapegoat for their fans.

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Match Day Thread: Northampton

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Match Day Thread: Wigan

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Re: Ringing The Blues

¡RINGING THE BLUES!

Royals Manipulated

Action + reaction from the game at Reading
Royals opposition view buzzer festival
Chairboys fan Joseph Guntrip joins us for Till Death Us Do Part

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bluntphil

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Samaritans Score Prediction - Barnsley (h)

Possibly the best week yet for correct score predictions, so co0ngratulations to

@Alexo , @MBS @Erroll_Sims @mwite @micra @Commoner and with their first of the season @Twizz and @Chris . Just three regular predictors yet to record one - so every possibility of achieving a full house this season.

At the top @mooneyman got the result right of course and retains his commanding lead reaching an impressive half century. @NewburyWanderer follows closely behind and is also impressively challenging in @railwaysteve attendance comp too. Could we yet have the first ever double?

Difficult to predict game against high flying Barnsley up next.

DevC

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Match Day Thread: Bradford (EFL Trophy)

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Man of the Match season update 30/46

MOTM 23-24.xlsx

Here are the category leaders:

Overall votes:

Scowen - 252
Low - 184
Potts - 159
Leahy - 158
Phillips - 146
Vokes - 143
Stryjek - 137

Votes per start (minimum 10 starts):

Scowen - 12
Phillips - 9.12
Low - 8.36
Vokes - 7.94
Potts - 7.57
Sadlier - 7.36
Leahy - 5.85

Overall MOTM Awards:

Scowen - 6
Phillips - 5
Stryjek - 5
Low - 2
Potts - 2
Leahy - 2
Vokes - 2

Even with his lengthy absence, Scowen still leads all categories, and would have walked away with all three by now had he been in the side. His absence has allowed others to make a fist of it, and even if he still wins these categories, the actual Player of the Season award has several other worthy contenders, such as Low, Leahy, Potts, and Sadlier.

Shev

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Re: Bloomfield Out?

alot of people here just think Blooms is a king and is immune to critism, is pathetic really that people jump down your throat as they don't treat blooms like a messiah, get in the real world....his win % is 25%....let that sink in