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Agree. I really home I’m wrong but Rob Dickie looks like a potential replacement. That would really bother me, selling a younger player who’s had his best ever season and bringing in an older player who has just had his worst.

Oxen are pretty big in rugby league - they make England’s kit. Whether they are better than a Gaelic football specialist or not I don’t know! Port Vale kit is lush!

Absolutely on the Port Vale lit. Imagine that with red and black rather than yellow and black hoops as our change kit! I guess it wouldn’t fit our strange obsession with “unique” kits that are usually repeats of kits we’ve worn before… hardly unique.

Bonkers IMO. I saw the other day he was linked with the Swansea job.

I get that people don’t like the Premier League line. Football didn’t start then. Maybe the better way to do it is “teams not to have played in the top flight since we last did”. The way the list gets even more depressing as you can knock off…. Luton (by either measure), Millwall, Oxford (yes Oxford), Wimbledon/MK Dons (take your pick). We’re in an “elite” group of 40 pretty small clubs.

Supply issues no doubt! I’m sure England will soon be turning out in O’Neills!!! ??

He will I’m sure, whilst also thinking “I’m glad I won’t get any proper questioning now for a while”! That’s going to be the biggest loss when Geoff goes - straight questions.

Dunno but it looks, to me, to have been ironed on at a wonky angle.

I didn’t look at it in that way Dave. More simply! I just looked at our position now (good, bad and indifferent form to date), points and run-in. I have a feeling we’ll land in 17th. I think there’s a strong possibility we’ll lose our remaining games (every opponent has far more riding on it). So my only point is, in the final analysis, we won’t be far forward from last season and I’d temper expectations for next season. I still think we’ll be mid/lower-mid table and we’ll need to continue to be patient…. that might be a challenge as we’ve had a few similar feeling seasons now - no promotion push and no real relegation battle. Personally, I think decent progress has been made but tangible progress (a promotion push) is still a way off.

Agree with this and it’s all about opinions. Imagine how “interesting” it would be if everyone agreed with everything that’s said! For what it’s worth, I think you and the podcast are correct to flag the poor form since the Man City game. I look at the table and games coming up and have a funny feeling we’ll finish 17th…. Progress… a little but not a lot is my current thought.

Very optimistic! I was just looking at the table and our upcoming game and thinking 17th (again) was a distinct possibility!

Sadly I don’t remember many people complaining at the time. Personally I wouldn’t have signed any of those 3 Chelsea players… Chelsea did well out of us!

If we could add his transfer fee, signing on fee, agents fees, wages etc together…. I’m pretty sure his cost per game would be eye-watering and not represent anything like value for money. He’ll be gone in the summer.

Sadly I think with Cardiff just over the bridge we’d be unlikely to ever get a sniff… annoyingly.

Crazy isn’t it, add on their point deduction and they are safe… surely that’s the most any Reading fan would have accepted at the start of the season. Not my favourite character in football but to my mind Ince has done a decent job at Reading, in stupid circumstances.

You’d think agreeing a long term deal would be straightforward… the reality is that if we can’t agree a longer deal over the summer then they’ll be looking to off load him - as he’s only got a year left. That would be a massive shame. Also his form won’t have gone unnoticed by bigger Championship clubs…

Luton are an even better example. Dropped out of the league, promoted back around the time we got promoted to this division. They’ve now gone past us, knocking on the door of the play-offs, new stadium on the way. I think their ride would have been much more fun to watch than ours… in fact in our 40+ years outside the top flight they’ve played in all of the top 5 divisions and won the League Cup. So long as the club doesn’t go out of business what is wrong with having a go and having plenty of ups and downs along the way. Many of us will rock up regardless and enjoy it. If you look at the middle chunk of the championship table it’s depressing…. Tons of us have been stuck there for years, where’s the fun/entertainment in that?

I agree with the Pompey example…. there’s no rollercoaster here. It’s pretty much 40 years of competing at the second or third level and hard to see that changing any time soon.

Everyone knows not to wear a black bra with a white top.

I’d imagine so. Everything about this looks and seems cheap and nasty to me.

It still just looks like it’s been ironed into a generic template.

I’m sure it is but surely a globally recognised brand with clobber that looks good will sell more and make more money than a minor brand offering poor quality gear??

Bit harsh on the Downs League!!! ??

Shocking!

We seem to regularly have “supply issues”. Wonder whether the club aren’t helping things? Hedging their bets and not ordering enough to make them important to the supplier? Just a thought. By the way those Aberdeen “templates” look great. So much better than ours and somehow just do not look cheap.