Reading FC

[Copps is Magic]

If there is one club I seriously fear could give us a tonking next season it's Reading.

Already signed Wayne Bridge and some lad who used to play for the Real Madrid. Apart from that they already have a squad which is good enough to win the championship (maybe a little weak defensively).

Early favourites for promotion/title for me.

How do we compete with clubs like this who have had parachute payments and premiership money a few times now !?

[Wellred]

If there is one club I seriously fear could give us a tonking next season it's Reading.

Already signed Wayne Bridge and some lad who used to play for the Real Madrid. Apart from that they already have a squad which is good enough to win the championship (maybe a little weak defensively).

Early favourites for promotion/title for me.

How do we compete with clubs like this who have had parachute payments and premiership money a few times now !?

Get some Irish investors in. 

[The L J Monk]

How do we compete with clubs like this who have had parachute payments and premiership money a few times now !?

We don't. We cut our cloth accordingly.

Of course, spending big isn't always a guarantee of success. Leicester are a prime example.

[Donnyrovers]

Reading will win the title IMO they had a quality squad in the first place but signing Bridge and Drenthe on free transfers is cracking business.

[Chris Black come back]

We ALWAYS lose to Reading! Doesn't matter how much money they or we have.

[Filo]

We ALWAYS lose to Reading! Doesn't matter how much money they or we have.

7-5?

[Chris Black come back]

We ALWAYS lose to Reading! Doesn't matter how much money they or we have.

7-5?

Last ten times we have played them: Reading won 8, draws 2, Rovers won 0.

We last beat them in September 1984.

[Dare to dream!]

no idea how they managed to pull of the Drenthe signing he is top 10 prem quality

[DRFC MYERS]

I thought same about reading.. I'm going to have a few quid on them IMO they will romp the league

[DRFC MYERS]

no idea how they managed to pull of the Drenthe signing he is top 10 prem quality

Not really he was at Everton for a while and didn't very much

[Filo]

We ALWAYS lose to Reading! Doesn't matter how much money they or we have.

7-5?

Last ten times we have played them: Reading won 8, draws 2, Rovers won 0.

We last beat them in September 1984.

You never said the last 10 games, you said ALWAYS

[mrfrostsdad]

We can't compete with them full stop.
 I was at that 7-5 game and I think both Ian Snodin and Kerry Dixon both got hat tricks before half time??
Score in the next home game after this one? 6-4 to Rovers! Can't remember who against!

[bedale rover]

February 1976 1-0 to the mighty reds les chappell at elm park

[GlennKirkwoodFanClub]

The run of league games was -

Sept 10 1982 Rovers 6 Exeter 1
Sept 18 Southend 2 Rovers 3
Sept 25 Rovers 7 Reading 5
Sept 28 Rovers 3 Wigan 6
Oct 2 Orient 1 Rovers 0
Oct 9 Lincoln 5 Rovers 1
Oct 16 Rovers 4 Brentford 4

After the Reading game Rovers swapped Daryl Pugh for Huddersfield's Terry Austin in a deal that must go down as one of the worst Rovers have ever done.

[Filo]

We can't compete with them full stop.
 I was at that 7-5 game and I think both Ian Snodin and Kerry Dixon both got hat tricks before half time??
Score in the next home game after this one? 6-4 to Rovers! Can't remember who against!

3-6 lost to Wigan and the following home game after that was a 4-4 draw against Brentford

[RoversAlias]

no idea how they managed to pull of the Drenthe signing he is top 10 prem quality

Not really he was at Everton for a while and didn't very much

This. Drenthe was highly rated a few years ago and will probably be a very good signing for Reading but he is not 'top 10 Prem quality' at all.

[DRFC MYERS]

no idea how they managed to pull of the Drenthe signing he is top 10 prem quality

Not really he was at Everton for a while and didn't very much

This. Drenthe was highly rated a few years ago and will probably be a very good signing for Reading but he is not 'top 10 Prem quality' at all.

Exactly my point was at Everton for a year. Played 21 times scoring 3 times.. Then last season played 6 games all season!

[RobTheRover]

4 words - "Gone at the game"

[Draytonian III]

Sept 84, I think we won 4-1 away and Alan Brown got a hat-trick

[1879Rovers]

Sept 84, I think we won 4-1 away and Alan Brown got a hat-trick

You think right.

I was at the 7-5. Nice Sunny September afternoon. Three days later when we got stuffed 6-3 by Wigan it was a miserable Tuesday night.

[Donnywolf]

February 1976 1-0 to the mighty reds les chappell at elm park
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Remember it well !!!

[Donnywolf]

Sept 84, I think we won 4-1 away and Alan Brown got a hat-trick

Think his lad turned out to be quite good too

[mrfrostsdad]

Thanks for putting me right!

[colincramb]

I think the way you compete is by being organised and a lot of hard graft. We can't afford to compete financially but we can compete on the other two attributes I have mentioned.