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Feel sorry for the behind the scenes staff and fans of Reading FC , what a disgusting way to run a football club 

I see Everton have appealed. Apparently they feel a sporting sanction for an accounting breach is unfair. 
I bet a double+ sized sporting sanction for an accouting breach that actual accountants said wasn't an accounting breach would never happen though. Oh...right.

Non-payment of players gets you a points deduction. Non-payment of everyone else gets you nothing.
Paying the staff 50% or whatever the figure is just before Christmas is an absolute scandal. If I were one of the players I'd be looking to put a fund together to help out the staff at Christmas. 

Kinda disgusting that the staff, the ones who most likely need their money as they earn maybe what a player earns in 3 weeks in a year, are the ones not getting paid in full.

Just had a quick glance at the fixtures... I can see another 4 wins (out of 4) before we finally drop points for the draw at Oxford. 
I can see lots of overflowing glasses two nights later, as we ring in 2024.
If we ain't top by then, we'll be very, VERY close!
... Then there's the five wins from 5 in January, of course.
Yep... positively overflowing!  Cheers!

 

JJ’s the real McGoldrick replacement and I think that was taken into consideration enough in the ‘Warne Out’ discussions 
Will say in defence of Warne that I don’t think anyone at the start of the season ever said ‘oh yeah, Washington, Collins and Waghorn, that’s a bunch of strikers that will definitely get you promoted’
Everyone wanted another striker and Waghorn was a bit of an afterthought anyway as the market was so difficult. Our early season struggles were for lots of reasons but I do think that the loss of McGoldrick and the absence of John-Jules stuck out.
We got JJ late in the window, a really talented striker, who is one of the best in the league from his performances with Ipswich last year, and I think the only reason he’s back on loan in League One rather than the Championship is because of his injury history
He then predictably got injured (Warne has signed an injury prone striker and can be rightly criticised for taking that risk) but now he’s back, he is the potential game changer.
Best part of it is that his contract is out at the end of the season. He’s had a terrible time of it, he’s now at a big club (for his level) and scoring in front of a packed out away end. Warne said when he first signed that he wants JJ here long term, if the stars align and he fulfils his potential with us then I believe we’ve got ourselves a talented young number nine for basically nothing - if that best case scenario happens, Warne and the recruitment team have played a blinder
I don’t think the sun shines out of Warne’s arse but the attitude of some fans stunk around the time the away end was berating the team. The way we’ve lost the unity we developed in the points deduction season has been extremely disheartening, it’s not lost on me that Warne’s side underwhelming is part of that and that season was lightning in a bottle but I thought we were better than that
What I’m trying to say is a bit of patience with a manager who’s got promoted out of this league multiple times might pay off, rather than calling for his head about ten games into a new season, you absolute hobnobs

Wow you now even use when we score a goal as a way of slagging someone else off 😂
Pathetic.

There won’t be many of you, if there was they’d open your stand.🫢

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/11/bristol-street-motors-trophy-ticket-information-fleetwood-town-h

Cheap as chips! Get down to support the lads - a trip to Wemberley on the horizon. ⚽️🤍🖤

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Really didn't want to get involved in this forum again, as last time it became time consuming however given the criticism around the academy, I thought I'd share my experience and snippets of information having being around it for a number of years.
We are not a "2 club city", our area includes wolves, WBA, Foxes and others, teams use development centres to circumvent the hour catchment. The academy is going through a revamp, but given the lack of results over the years I'm surprised we continue to put in the funding to retain cat 1. PW contrary to opinion is often seen around the training ground, he does know players names, not all of them but it's not his responsibility to do so, the academy has people in place that run it.
I had the joy of attending a Man City session recently, the topic turned to stats and how Pep believes them to mean nothing without context, they are mainly for accountants and they are better served staying in computer games because they dont provide the full story and you can spin them anyway you want to back your opinion. I also smile when PW gets bashed for not backing the academy, why would you give players minutes over established players that are your key players for the season, or returning from injury, for example, that's without even going into contracts that have certain triggers and all the other stuff around that.
 
An even bigger smile is his failure to bring in youth at Rotherham, once again I'm not sure how a managers responsibility is to bring youth players through in such a short period of time and if the ones you have aren't good enough, why would you play them over your senior players when your chasing promotion ?
Hopefully DC will get the academy producing and hopefully it's as easy as some make out on here, but in my experience it's not. As I alluded to earlier, we have been trying for a good number of years and although we have wonderful facilities, a manager whose remit is to get us out of this division, isn't the gatekeeper for this objective, imo.
 
 

That's true but really all I was getting at was that in my opinion any unwanted tickets should go back to the club for those on the waiting list rather than people trying to get them by circumventing the system.

That's true but really all I was getting at was that in my opinion any unwanted tickets should go back to the club for those on the waiting list rather than people trying to get them by circumventing the system.

No but if I did I wouldn't sell them to anyone, I'd return them to the club for them to pass on to someone on the waiting list. 

That's true but really all I was getting at was that in my opinion any unwanted tickets should go back to the club for those on the waiting list rather than people trying to get them by circumventing the system.

That's true but really all I was getting at was that in my opinion any unwanted tickets should go back to the club for those on the waiting list rather than people trying to get them by circumventing the system.

No but if I did I wouldn't sell them to anyone, I'd return them to the club for them to pass on to someone on the waiting list. 

🤣👍

No but if I did I wouldn't sell them to anyone, I'd return them to the club for them to pass on to someone on the waiting list. 

No but if I did I wouldn't sell them to anyone, I'd return them to the club for them to pass on to someone on the waiting list. 

Don't get promoted in 7th either.

And wouldn't it be perfect if we score in the 38th minute too 🤞