Reading Promotion

[soccergal_6_2000]

Anyone think Reading will ever get promoted to the premiership?

[worldfootballgenius]

IM hoping the same thing.

[sendorange]

They looked a decent outside bet when Pardew was in charge, but now he's left I can't really see them higher than around 8th, so just outside the playoffs with a chance of squeezing in.

[MightyBees]

they looked very average when i saw them last week in a friendly- good individual players but dont seem to the getting it together as a team!

[John L]

In the English second division (SORRRRYYY!! - just can't call it the "Champions League") anythings possible - From what I've read and seen, they seem to be a solid team in the middle of the division - Yet some of the richer, recently relegated teams may continue to falter and if Reading (or any other lower team) gets really hot and/or their new coach lights a fire, they could go up a notch - But more likely it seems they're a year away from gathering the talent to make a serious run

[CyphaPSU]

In the English second division (SORRRRYYY!! - just can't call it the "Champions League") anythings possible

:confused:
Firstly, it's the "Coca-Cola Championship." (The "Champions League" is something utterly different!)

Secondly, it was formerly known as the English 1st Division.

[thedixie]

I bloody hope not!!

total nothing team, I say that as a cardiff fan living near Reading

There owner is a complete weirdo as well

thedixie

[RichardL]

I bloody hope not!!

total nothing team, I say that as a cardiff fan living near Reading

There owner is a complete weirdo as well

thedixie
Well when you've been touched by the glamour and greatness of Cardiff City, any club would find it hard to impress.

[TAKK]

Well when you've been touched by the glamour and greatness of Cardiff City, any club would find it hard to impress.

Cardiff is tucked away in the East End. Right?

[CB04]

Cardiff is tucked away in the East End. Right?

Well , not really :) It's the capital city of Wales , and I invade it tomorrow evening as part of an advance reconnaisance mission .

Did my eyes deceive me , or did a Cardiff City fan just call the owner of Reading "a complete weirdo" ?

Irony anyone ? Or is that just like zincy and aluminiumy to you ?

[Captain Splarg]

:confused:
Firstly, it's the "Coca-Cola Championship." (The "Champions League" is something utterly different!)

Secondly, it was formerly known as the English 1st Division.

and 11 years ago it was known as Division 2.

:)

[barmy_army008]

There owner is a complete weirdo as well



You wouldn't be saying that if he was chairman of your club.

All together now.....

One John Madejski,
Theres only one John Madejskki...

[thedixie]

madjeski is weird

did you see that TV programme that followed him around?

sam isnt weird, just a crook (er...allegedly!!)

td

[barmy_army008]

madjeski is weird

did you see that TV programme that followed him around?

sam isnt weird, just a crook (er...allegedly!!)

td

I'd agree Madejski's hairpiece is slightly strange...

But he's done so much for the club - I don't know where we'd be today if he hadn't arrived. Perhaps to other fans he seems strange, but I think you have stilladmire what he's done.

[The Double]

I think it's funny how he named the ground after himself.

[comme]

sam isnt weird, just a crook (er...allegedly!!)



He is pretty weird. When City signed Spencer Prior, Sam agreed to pay him £7 grand a week only on the condition that he ate a portion of sheep's testicles.

Having said that Sam is a top bloke, I've seen him round Cardiff a few times and everyone loves him.

[Qamle]

Anyone think Reading will ever get promoted to the premiership?

Me.

[RichardL]

I think it's funny how he named the ground after himself.
well he did pay for the thing, well about half of it anyway.

Officially, it was a superior piece of brown-nosing by the club's chief executive to think of the ground's name. There weren't any other serious contenders. New Elm Park and Smallmead (the name of the area) were rejected for being a bit unimaginitive. Some fans, inpired by the site's location as a former rubbish landfill site, and its proximity to a sewage farm (thankfully a mile to the north and in the opposite direction to the prevailing winds) raised the suggestions of WC Fields and Flushing Meadow. The was no road nearby to name it after until the new link road was built, and even then "The A33 Stadium" is hardly catchy.

[mschofield]

He is pretty weird. When City signed Spencer Prior, Sam agreed to pay him £7 grand a week only on the condition that he ate a portion of sheep's testicles...
I agree. he is pretty weird. Great tidbit. :D
I think they've turned a corner (reading, not the sheep testicles). They've got an energy in their game that was lacking after Pards left last year. I also think that when and if little and convey start to play, they've both got the ability to do damage in this division.
The defense is solid. the midfield should be great (is there a better all round midfielder in the division than sidwell?) and up top they're, well, tops.
But, beyond all this, they'll go up, because while if they don't I'm only out pounds 20, if they do i'm up 320. :eek:

[Potong Jalan]

I don't think that teams like Reading and Wigan will be able to get promoted... Even if they managed to they will struggle in the Premiership and ends up like Barnsley, Bradford and Watford...