How diffrent could Readings season off been..

[Voodudejnr]

if on opening day, when they where 2-0 down vs Boro, they'd lost. How diffrent do you think their season would of been?

[Dear_Claudio]

If United had never bought Ronaldo then how would next season turn out? Stupid thread.

[RichardL]

well, they'd be 3 points worse off for a start.

In reality the match taught us an awful lot. It taught us if we didn't switch on then we'd get beaten. It also showed us if we worked hard we'd have a good chance of winning.

Mind you, we lost the first game of the previous season, to a last minute goal. We didn't lose again until our 35th match of the season, so it isn't necessarily that critical.


The odds are we'd have worked out what we need to do anyway, so it probably wouldn't have been catastrophic.

[mshankb]

*have*

[Matt Clark]

Exactly. It's "have".

It's bad enough people using "of" instead of "have" - but "off"? No one likes being a spelling/grammar Nazi, but there are limits. Sometimes you just have to step in and stop the wanton torture of this, our language of Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth.

And committing such heinous acts in a thread as pointless as this is even more irksome.

[superdave]

Grammar nazis are just a bunch of jackhaves.

[mshankb]

Normally I'd agree, but this is just taking the piss.

[Matt Clark]

Grammar nazis are just a bunch of jackhaves.
Is that good?

[RichardL]

Is that good?surely better than a single jackhave.

[superdave]

Oh, my bad, using Yank slang on a UK forum.

jackoff=wanker

See? Get the joke now? Bunch of jackhaves?

I kill me.

[Matt Clark]

Hmmm. Dunno about the others, but I got it the first time. To use more Yank vernacular: "Rimshot!". Hence my cleanly struck cover drive (just to end back in the English end of the spectrum).

[superdave]

I guess I've been hoisted on my own petard. But is it better to rule in grammar hell than to serve in grammar heaven? (Don't know any Wordsworth offhand. Or, havehand.)

[Matt Clark]

It's "hoist with my own petard". In Elizabethan English the past participle was not yet in common usage and in any case, in the original phrase the conjunction is in the future imperfect so it wouldn't be hoisted in any case. And you cannot be hoist (or hoisted) upon a petard, which is a small bomb, the precursor of a hand grenade. In Hamlet's edit of the letters Rosenkrantz has concealed in his satchel, he advocates that the bearer be "hoist with his own petard", which is an allusion to getting one's comeuppance based on the medieval siege tactic of chucking grenades over castle walls with a big mechanical sling. Someone who is "hoist with their own petard" is getting catapulted over the medieval wall along with his medieval bomb.

I've changed my mind ... this thread rocks.

PS: Surely everyone knows "I wandered lonely as a cloud"? Famously misquoted as "I wandered lonely as a cow" by Wordsworth himself on one occasion, when his sister Dorothy had to gently interrupt him: "Cloud, dear brother, it is cloud".

[superdave]

Shakespeare nazis are jackhaves, too.

[Derrida]

Oh, my bad, using Yank slang on a UK forum.

jackoff=wanker

See? Get the joke now? Bunch of jackhaves?

I kill me.

I still don't get it. Must not have made it to this part of America yet.

The only thing that could make this thread better would be an argument about the correct usage of the term "sour grapes."

[Matt Clark]

Something to do with an Aesop fable, if Wikipedia is to be believed ...

[chrizzah]

I'm wondering how different this thread would have been if SuperDave had used "of" instead of "off" in the original title. Yeah, it's a slow Monday, I'm really bored and there are no new threads of substance here.

Actually, to answer the initial thread. I don't think it would have made a whole lot of difference. You sometimes get the teams that surprisingly win a bunch of games at the front of the season and are then trying to hold on for dear life at the season's end. That's the type of team that could be affected by one game. Reading's results were pretty consistent over the course of the season. They were well-managed and had enough quality to justify a mid-table position.

[superdave]

I'm wondering how different the thread would be if ^^^^ would notice I'm not the OP.

[chrizzah]

I'm wondering how different the thread would be if ^^^^ would notice I'm not the OP.


Not a whole lot different. It would contain one less post.

[billyireland]

What the f*ck happened in this thread?