Some tremendous feats of memory, undoubtedly the most remarkable your daughter’s ability to memorise the order of a complete (presumably shuffled) pack of cards in ten minutes . Phew 😥 .
My own claims to fame in the Leslie Welsh stakes are much more limited. My most distant memory is that of our home telephone number (Maidstone 3461) in the late forties/early fifties.
Excellent @bargepole . Very honourable of you to answer the questions posed and I sincerely hope you will have many years of enjoyment on the gasroom. 👍
How are Reading FC managing to pay the players wages and keep that training ground and academy going? Has the Chinese owner suddenly found a load of cash behind the settee?
I suspect they trousered a huge sum when Olise was sold to Bayern Munich. Rumours are £4-6M and that would keep them going for a large part of the season.
Partly the Olise sell on fee, now plus the compensation for Selles move to Hull, soon to be added to by selling at least three (my guess) players in January, no doubt to Hull City, despite a clause forbidding them from taking any players from us until the summer 2025. If that is the only option to get money into the club, that clause will be forgotten.
Almost makes you feel sorry for the EFL, they can't throw him out, can't kick Reading out of the league without a huge backlash, and he has enough money to keep just the right side of anything with actual consequences, can't seemingly encourage him to be less twatty. Merry go round .
Rob threatening them and using up loads of his own money doesn't seem to be helping anyone.
Knibbs and/or Wing (other half agreeing) to Hull. Bindon and Garcia I think could go to Premier League clubs, to either be in their reserves or go out on loan. if they were loaned back to us, it would help us out. But as far as I know having not published our accounts we are still under an embargo and not able to sign loan or free agent players, that might prove difficult.
Despite all the surrounding noise and disruption, Selles had put together a real decent team. The last couple of results appear to be a reaction to Selles leaving. Reading are also far enough up the league to survive should they have to sell all those players in Jan.
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What. The.fuck. has .gone.on. here !!!
Ahhh the old famous gasroom 'I'm a better expert than you are' thread... won't bother then.
I always think to myself there should be a gasroom party at election time, as everyone on here knows more than everyone else
Nick Freeman
Thanks. That is actually quite an impressive and honourable thing to do.
I appreciate the reply and there is a lesson in there for me in responding to posts in the past without sufficiently thinking about the recipient.
Impressive stuff, @bargepole.
Some tremendous feats of memory, undoubtedly the most remarkable your daughter’s ability to memorise the order of a complete (presumably shuffled) pack of cards in ten minutes . Phew 😥 .
My own claims to fame in the Leslie Welsh stakes are much more limited. My most distant memory is that of our home telephone number (Maidstone 3461) in the late forties/early fifties.
Excellent @bargepole . Very honourable of you to answer the questions posed and I sincerely hope you will have many years of enjoyment on the gasroom. 👍
Only £295 fee to hope to wriggle out of a £100 parking fine.
Verily @bargepole is the modern day Robin Hood of the gasroom......
Actually come to think of it, by the standards of the legal profession, he probably is.....
I echo @Blue_since_1990 post. Never take life too seriously
To be fair, it was a gilt-edged opportunity to show off. But what a mind-boggling (literally) array of unusual family talents.
And kudos to @bargepole himself for what he has achieved at an age when most of us would hope to be putting our feet up, at least metaphorically.
I asked ChatGPT who the best poster on the Gasroom with a car based username was and it still didn’t pick me.
Sam Altman 🖕 .
I asked ChatGTP for the best poster including the sound 'Ev' and it said 'DevC'.
Did you hold the MorrisItal1 account or even just MorrisItal? And then forgot the password?
Or did you nick someone else's username?
Ahh, so not just most posts versus games attended then.
Genuine laugh out loud there! More of an involuntarily chuckle, but it was audible.
Surely it could come up with trevor?
Touche!
I took the name Morris Ital for the associated glamour and I’m the hopes that it would help me with the ladies
Oh and they’re all me I’m just an idiot with passwords
Jensen Interceptor for the win
GVK 707C - our car 1965 reg? Ford Cortina I think,
Ah yes, the Mark 1 Cortina, a medium-sized family car at a reasonable price of under £1,000 brand new.
Concours examples now change hands for £20,000+.
How are Reading FC managing to pay the players wages and keep that training ground and academy going? Has the Chinese owner suddenly found a load of cash behind the settee?
I suspect they trousered a huge sum when Olise was sold to Bayern Munich. Rumours are £4-6M and that would keep them going for a large part of the season.
Perhaps a small part of the season more likely given their losses...
For the sake of Reading FC, their fans & the rest of L1 this really needs settling asap
Partly the Olise sell on fee, now plus the compensation for Selles move to Hull, soon to be added to by selling at least three (my guess) players in January, no doubt to Hull City, despite a clause forbidding them from taking any players from us until the summer 2025. If that is the only option to get money into the club, that clause will be forgotten.
That's what we have saying for well over a year now and some of us a lot longer. Asap appears to be like tomorrow-- it never comes!😒
Tomorrow? Never! (Dai)
I think I win worst Bond pun with that one.
The compensation figure for Selles would be fairly insignificant compared to the Olise sell on fee.
Who do you think will get sold, I'd guess at Bindon, Garcia and one of Knibbs/Wing
Almost makes you feel sorry for the EFL, they can't throw him out, can't kick Reading out of the league without a huge backlash, and he has enough money to keep just the right side of anything with actual consequences, can't seemingly encourage him to be less twatty. Merry go round .
Rob threatening them and using up loads of his own money doesn't seem to be helping anyone.
Knibbs and/or Wing (other half agreeing) to Hull. Bindon and Garcia I think could go to Premier League clubs, to either be in their reserves or go out on loan. if they were loaned back to us, it would help us out. But as far as I know having not published our accounts we are still under an embargo and not able to sign loan or free agent players, that might prove difficult.
Despite all the surrounding noise and disruption, Selles had put together a real decent team. The last couple of results appear to be a reaction to Selles leaving. Reading are also far enough up the league to survive should they have to sell all those players in Jan.