Another plastic manager gone

[SteMerritt]

Swindon
Swindon Reserves
Everyone else.

But I get the Reading thing. I think if I was 10 years older it may be different.

 

[Gary Baldi]

The stands in Reading looked empty yesterday in their game against Sheff Utd. It looks like the town have given up on them now there is no glory in supporting them.

 

[WALLY OX]

TBF to true Reading (of which I know many) they do still hate us and we are their main rivals.

There’s a few of them in Wally and Places like Henley and woodcote are split more 50/50. When you live amongst them it’s easier to understand the rivalry. It’s probablly the same if you live in west Oxfordshire like Farringdon and Wantage RE Swindon.

They see Aldershit as we see Wycombe.

To play them next year would be excellent. Both games would have sell out away ends.

 

[unification]

Reading are nowhere near the same club since moving from Elm Park, or ever since the Madjeski era. Unlike Oxford, Swindon, Rovers, Luton etc etc, Reading have become infiltrated with plastic 2 team fans who have probably never even heard of Elm Park, it's a major family club with very very few die hard fans, which is reflected in their miniscule away attendances. Mocked universally by other Championship clubs for being just tedious, characterless and passionless.
As someone who lives between Oxford and Reading, there's always banter but it's hard to find a real "hatred" there anymore, they're just a bit "meh" these days. I'd put the other clubs mentioned previously above them in the present day. Although an away game there would be superb, as I'm sure we'd sell out 4k+

Pretty much my feelings on it and perhaps I’m a prime example of a fan who doesn’t remember the Elm Park/Thames Valley Royals days. I can’t get worked up about Reading at all as a rival. Compare how many chants we have about Swindon and how many we have about Reading (are there any?) and you know full well who the main rival is.

I went to a couple of League Cup ties against them in the early 2000s expecting some kind of atmosphere or edge to the game and there wasn’t any. It felt passive and ‘meh’ as you describe it. It could have been any non-descript club that we were playing. Maybe a league fixture would be different, especially in a packed out away end at their place.

Swindon games have the edge. Luton has one too especially when you get the right conditions at Kenilworth Road. Reading? * shrugs *

 

[makv]

Luton? [emoji23][emoji12]

 

[Yellowlab]

The last time I saw us away at Luton was just after Kinnear had taken over there. That was quite an emotional night. He didn’t help when he flicked a V sign at us behind his back as he crossed the pitch to the dugout after half time. a*****e.