Reading to extend Mad Stad

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Also just to be flippant - can you count?

Not very well.....

 

[Man of Harveys]

BOF you are correct. But we need them back to fill a 22000 seater. Many on here will resent those fairwind supporters just as they are ranting on about Reading Johnny Come Latelys.

I won't, not one bit: we need them, badly. In fact, it was the 20-25,000 people who probably don't go to Withdean regularly who made our big day in Cardiff so special.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I can't seem them being turned down for this, but getting out off the ground will be a absolute nightmare

 

[sully]

I can't seem them being turned for this, but getting out off the ground will be a absolute nightmare

Can we have that again in English, please?

 

[Zesh Rehman]

when they go down the stadium will be empty yet again

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I agree with gaffer....I dont think the fairweathers should be allowed any where near Falmer ( apart from Trigger of course)...

Sod em

Where were they in the dark days...abandoned us to the depths of Gillingham and sat in their armchairs and were seduced by the whores at Chelsea and the Arse.


No, we only want new fans and us lot from withdean...the rest can all sod orft



" lights blue touchpaper, retires to his bunker and dons tin hat"

 

[readingstockport]

On the getting away point there is a proposal in, which will certainly get teh go ahead, from (I think) prudential to fund the building of a rail link to green park. Which as you all know is next door to the old council tip now known as the mad stad. I think they're hoping more people will use the train and rail link instead. They are also supposed to be redeveloping junction 11 some time but god knows when. I just wish they'd get on with it, it can take up to 30 minutes to get past that bloody roundaout some mornings.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

I agree with gaffer....I dont think the fairweathers should be allowed any where near Falmer ( apart from Trigger of course)...

Sod em

Where were they in the dark days...abandoned us to the depths of Gillingham and sat in their armchairs and were seduced by the whores at Chelsea and the Arse.


No, we only want new fans and us lot from withdean...the rest can all sod orft



" lights blue touchpaper, retires to his bunker and dons tin hat"

very true

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

After Im sure if we get to the Prem in Falmer then after a few years we will need to expand the capacity.

Which of course we can't do because it has to fit into the lie of the land and we'll be stuck with a 22k capacity stadium that will by then be a third the size of many Premiership grounds the way capacities are being increased......but of course as Albion fans and for the good of the Falmer bid we aren't allowed to say that are we?

 

[Man of Harveys]

Which of course we can't do because it has to fit into the lie of the land and we'll be stuck with a 22k capacity stadium that will by then be a third the size of many Premiership grounds the way capacities are being increased......but of course as Albion fans and for the good of the Falmer bid we aren't allowed to say that are we?

As Ted Kennedy said, let's fall off that particular bridge when we come to it, eh?

 

[portlock seagull]

Face it Albion - we´re just very jealous!

If, but, when is all we have to hark on about. But it´s all about the present and Reading are enjoying theirs. We´re all sounding like Uncle Alberts -´durin the 80´s blah blah........

And by the way, as for Cardiff, we took a lot of tourists that day, I´d argue as many as 5000 if my party was anything to go by. Remember, we´ve lost a generation of fans during which the sport has changed beyond recognition. Who knows if we´ll ever get them back?

 

[H block]

But this is typical of them: they've been in the Premiership for five minutes and so far, haven't been thrashed every game, for which I credit Coppell - he's the keystone to all this, I reckon, and without him, they'd be buggered on the pitch, so to speak.

Everyone else, like Watford, say, would wait a bit to see if 30,000 plus isn't a bit excessive if they don't stay there (I still think they'll struggle at the end.). But with their wig-wearing egomaniac oddball in charge, the soggy Biscuitmen will go ahead and splash the cash anyway - it won't matter one jot to him if it's a financial disaster. How could it, when you can go home and bang the crap out of Cilla Black in order to cheer yourself up?

New money is often not an overly attractive thing in any context of life. Reading epitomise it.

Upstarts ......................... Thats the word you are looking for.

 

[Northstander]

Re: potential

To the laughing bluebird...

You really are a fool mate.

When Reading were at Elm Park, I would suggest that the crowds NEVER got above 6-7,000 on a regular basis. Now that they have some success and a great stadium, of course they have the ability to sell 30, 000 plus.

By the same token, Albion are struggling on low crowds (in a ground far worse them Elm park), but would easily fill 25,000 in a great stadium, at the top of the championship/premiership. In fact, we, unlike Reading have reached those heights in the past.

Stop being such a wanker and f*ck off.

Well said!

 

[Brixtaan]

I may be jealous of their stadium,team,current standings, manager and money bags(but sensible) chairman but some reason am not jealous of Reading one little bit.

 

[London Irish]

They're only doing because London Irish sold out the stadium twice last season and we told them we needed a bigger stadium or else

 

[Easy 10]

They're only doing because London Irish sold out the stadium twice last season

What, you take this stuff on TOUR ?
And whats with all this the 3rd-person speak ?

 

[jakes right boot]

Rugby Union sells out very well at the Madjeski.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Re: potential

To the laughing bluebird...

You really are a fool mate.

When Reading were at Elm Park, I would suggest that the crowds NEVER got above 6 - 7,000 on a regular basis.

Stop being such a wanker and f*ck off.

The following is a list of Reading's average attendances over 7,000 at Elm Park:

1921/22: 8,500 *
1924/25: 7,790
1925/26: 12,765 *
1926/27: 13,389 *
1927/28: 11,215 *
1928/29: 11,639 *
1929/30: 11,831 *
1930/31: 9,318 *
1931/32: 9,629 *
1932/33: 9,840 *
1933/34: 9,912 *
1934/35: 9,345 *
1935/36: 9,811 *
1936/37: 9,086
1937/38: 8,960
1938/39: 8,375
1946/47: 12,032 *
1947/48: 13,610 *
1948/49: 15,588
1949/50: 15,427 *
1950/51: 15,973 *
1951/52: 15,455
1952/53: 12,401
1953/54: 11,566
1954/55: 8,799
1955/56: 8,108
1956/57: 8,832
1957/58: 12,806
1958/59: 12,674
1959/60: 11,464
1960/61: 7,692
1961/62: 11,242
1962/63: 8,077
1963/64: 8,434
1964/65: 7,533
1965/66: 8,857
1966/67: 7,119
1967/68: 8,127
1969/70: 9,855
1975/76: 7,693
1978/79: 7,616
1994/95: 9,350 *
1995/96: 8,918 *
1996/97: 9,160 *
1997/98: 9,676 *

Mind you, apart from the FORTY FIVE seasons listed above, Reading NEVER got above 6 to 7,000 at Elm Park on a regular basis.

You really are a fool. Mate.

(By the way, in the TWENTY seasons marked with an asterisk, Reading got a higher average attendance than Brighton & Hove Albion - very often while the teams were in the same division. No bad for a tin-pot club with no history.)

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Re: Re: potential

(By the way, in the TWENTY seasons marked with an asterisk, Reading got a higher average attendance than Brighton & Hove Albion - very often while the teams were in the same division. No bad for a tin-pot club with no history.)

Touche LB!

 

[Nemesis]

Re: Re: potential

You really are a fool. Mate.

(By the way, in the TWENTY seasons marked with an asterisk, Reading got a higher average attendance than Brighton & Hove Albion - very often while the teams were in the same division. No bad for a tin-pot club with no history.)

You sure know how to stop a thread in full flow......