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This is actually really helpful. I was just wondering "Do Reading fans still act like smug fuckwits, resulting from characterless metropolitan overspill, who try a bit too hard to instill identity in themselves?" And here you are, right on cue, answering my question for me. What a service. Ta.

Reading is a dull, nondescript club, largely mirroring the town itself. The points deductions they've received are the most interesting things to ever happen to them.

Besides the very obvious malicious attempt to delay OUFC and CDC from progressing with the application, i do wonder whether Middleton and FoSB are trying to confect a case using the VISSIM example, that the planning process has not been properly adhered to, in lieu of a hypothetical attempt to...

Quite. By naming another site, they would be accused by Nimbys in the vicinity of that site of themselves being Nimbys and fratricide would ensue. Scones and hypocrisy everywhere. They wouldn't be able to deal with all of the many (more) questions that would arise, not least around transport...

I have some mixed views on this, but the whole affair is tawdry. I understand the Reading fans will be disturbed by what is happening at their club, including the sale of their training ground, whoever could buy it. I do though question why on earth they even have a training and academy...

Totally timid and at times inept. So far, our 'turning of the corner' includes a good performance ultimately resulting in defeat at Portsmouth, a poor showing at home to Cheltenham in late win and now first half submission at Bolton. There is little cohesion or connect. It's dogsh*t poor...

What i find really curious is that they aren't putting any home safe standing at the same end (south) as for away fans. If home fans prefer to make the south stand an area akin to a home 'end' closer to away fans, it makes it very likely we will have fans standing in an area not designed for...

Throughout the entire process until now, practical constraints have been presented by a handful of people as fundamental reasons to object. Any major project has obstacles to be overcome, with solutions and mitigations put forward (....though, of course, objectors then say ' but we don't like...

A turgid performance that was at best anaemic but often disorganised. We did not look well prepared, or well coached. I don't think we should simply explain that away as 'one of those games' against a certain type of opposition. We never imposed ourselves on the game and that's not going to be...

It would also be rather obtuse for a conservative person who, presumably believes in consumer driven free market economics, to bemoan the loss of pubs due to a smoking ban. Smokers have represented a dwindling proportion of consumers for years (though we are now into diminishing returns when it...

When assessing greatness, i think it comes down to talent and contribution. That's why i'll always struggle to look beyond Joey Beauchamp.

In the post match interviews i want to hear some honesty about where we are at the moment, performance wise. We are nowhere near a promotion chasing team. Our level is bottom half, comfortably. Empty rhetoric from boss and players isn't going to change things for the better. Right now the...

When was the last time we produced a proper 90 minute performance, where we've played according to plan consistently for a whole match? Bolton at home, I'd say. That's 2 months ago. Besides the drag of injuries and players who lack resolve, we lack organisation and i don't get any impression...

I had a look at current average league attendance (~ 9,100) against the reported league average for 1995/96 (~5,800....that fits with my rough recollection). That means the current average is 57% larger. For comparison, the Oxfordshire population has increased to 740,000 in the 2022 census, a...

Also done!

There's no doubt that we are badly affected by injuries, we don't have a squad to manage our way through injuries to 4 or 5 key first team players. However, we also have key players out of form. Compare McGuane now with 2 months ago. Quite simply, we are not COPING. We haven't found a way to...

All done. For what it's worth.... "Dear Leader and Cabinet, I am rarely moved to write to political representatives, but, when the future of Oxford United Football Club is at stake, the club i have supported since being taken to my first game at four years old, i have no choice but to make an...

I think you've argued against your own point. You suppose those who aren't aware of the gravity of the situation or who don't regularly go to games are complacent and less likely to write in. Then you acknowledge that 8,000 are going to games regularly, including season ticket holders, but how...

I think the other issue which is relevant to any legal challenge, is that OCC has at no stage said that the consultation itself is exclusively determinative of decisions. It is a consultation and an engagement exercise to explore the range of views and to understand the basis for them. When...

Reading those screengrabs and the content of the responses from an avowed campaigner, they strike me as infantile, facile and above all else, privileged. How extraordinarily privileged to think one can make public claims and not be challenged on them. To be surprised when one's motives and...