[RichardL]

The cliche is that at the start of every season all fans are optimistic. But is there a fan of any club out there who has watched just one week of football and you already you KNOW you are going down?
Personally I'll be surprised if Reading finish higher than the bottom 8 but I don't think we are going down, but I recall 5 years ago losing the first home game of the season to Swindon (themselves an awful side) and the writing was on the wall already. The following year (after going down) everyone was hugely optimistic that we'd walk the division. An opening day 3-0 defeat (including a 40 yard own goal) to a very average Wrexham team killed enthusiasm stone dead.

[sydtheeagle]

Originally posted by RichardL
The cliche is that at the start of every season all fans are optimistic. But is there a fan of any club out there who has watched just one week of football and you already you KNOW you are going down?
Personally I'll be surprised if Reading finish higher than the bottom 8 but I don't think we are going down, but I recall 5 years ago losing the first home game of the season to Swindon (themselves an awful side) and the writing was on the wall already. The following year (after going down) everyone was hugely optimistic that we'd walk the division. An opening day 3-0 defeat (including a 40 yard own goal) to a very average Wrexham team killed enthusiasm stone dead.

There hasn't been an August in 33 years that's rolled around without my being secure in the knowledge that we are going down. Of course, this season we are going up, but until we do our relegation is an absolute certainty. What's unusual about this?

[Peakite]

Still waiting for the start of the new season, but am optomistic we can do something.

Unfortunately I have been for many a year now.

During the last decade we did win our biggest ever trophy though .

And the second, third and fourth too.