I never really supported Reading FC anyway...

[PlasticRoyale]

I never expected to see Reading FC in this position when i signed up for my HST in the 05/06. I therefore will have to resign my position as a supporter. Would anyone be able to direct me to the official channels of informing the club?

Not sure as to where to place my allegiance next. Is it to late to sign up with Man City? I think so as it would look a little crass and stink of JCL, i'll make some discrete enquiries....i'll let you know.

[West Stand Flash]

Would you actually blame any supporters that would do this?
We have a chairman that shows zero backing to the club, so why should fans bother?

[Sharpy]

i may go back to watching rugby. Irish get bigger gates than RFC

[Silver Fox]

If you believe that Flash then you're not actually a fan of the club at all, but we knew that anyway

[Sharpy]

If you believe that Flash then you're not actually a fan of the club at all, but we knew that anyway

there are many connotations of the word 'fan'

[Silver Fox]

Indeed but I don't know which one covers jacking it all in when things start not to go your way

[PlasticRoyale]

I'm actually alright with City as i've just remembered i have a photo of me and Joe Corrigan from a junior blues xmas party

[West Stand Flash]

Silverbellend - I was not talking about myself, I was talking about why I understand if fans ditched the club. JM had, so why shouldn't anyone else follow his example. I've been a ST holder for 19 years Nd won't ever ditch them. Pumping money in to the club by buying a ST however I won't be doing again for the forseable future. Not whilst Madejksi is running the club anyway.

[RoyalBlue]

In some ways turning my back on Madejski FC isn't really deserting the team I have supported for the last 40 years. The current set up is becoming as alien to me as MKDons must be to someone who started off supporting Wimbledon.

[PlasticRoyale]

I'm not saying i'm totally ditching them. If they can get back to the prem i'd be more than happy to start supporting them again. I'd even go to some of the big 4 games (Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs)

[Stevie G]

Let's face it, any talk of a fan ditching your club because of a poor run of results is no fan anyway, and anyone who proposes to then support a club hundreds of miles away is probably not born and bred Reading either, so no loss. Goodbye plastic.

However, I have every sympathy with those that will continue to support the club but have the sense and courage to forego buying a ST or miss matches as it's more economically viable, cutting your cloth works both ways, it's ambition, passion, vision that take us forwards and inspires others to commit and follow.

[Silver Fox]

Silverbellend.

Bravo sir

[RoyalBlue]

Let's face it, any talk of a fan ditching your club because of a poor run of results is no fan anyway, and anyone who proposes to then support a club hundreds of miles away is probably not born and bred Reading either, so no loss. Goodbye plastic.

However, I have every sympathy with those that will continue to support the club but have the sense and courage to forego buying a ST or miss matches as it's more economically viable, cutting your cloth works both ways, it's ambition, passion, vision that take us forwards and inspires others to commit and follow.

In my case it wouldn't be down to a run of poor results. Rest assured there have been plenty of them in the 40 years I have been supporting the club. What will drive me away is the way the club has changed and is now more about Madejski than Reading.

[(.)Boobies(.)]

West Stand Flash, you come out with some strange things; but to suggest fans would be right to go and support someone else is just the mark of a simpleton. We're not 'fans', we're 'supporters'. Do you have an understanding of what support means? Look it up. The majority of posters on this board supported this football club when there wasn't much to crow about, and will continue to do so when the likes of you disappear, or like yourself, sit back in your armchair and bemoan our league position with your equally inept father.___ You are one of many that continually moan about the support here, and how quiet it is, for example. Yet here you are with a post full of gold plated irony. I suppose every village has one, but in Reading's case, we have a father and son combo.

[PlasticRoyale]

Let's face it, any talk of a fan ditching your club because of a poor run of results is no fan anyway, and anyone who proposes to then support a club hundreds of miles away is probably not born and bred Reading either, so no loss. Goodbye plastic.

However, I have every sympathy with those that will continue to support the club but have the sense and courage to forego buying a ST or miss matches as it's more economically viable, cutting your cloth works both ways, it's ambition, passion, vision that take us forwards and inspires others to commit and follow.

In my case it wouldn't be down to a run of poor results. Rest assured there have been plenty of them in the 40 years I have been supporting the club. What will drive me away is the way the club has changed and is now more about Madejski than Reading.

With me, it's defo the results!

[Dirk Gently]

Over Xmas I read "Why England Lose and other curious football phenomena explained" - really good book, definitely recommended, which looks at numerical data in football from an economists point of view (a la ""Freakanomics").

One of the things it did prove is that there are essentially three types of supporters at every club :
- The "hardcore";
- those who come when times are good
- floating supporters who come and watch but don't support the team (or if they do they support several others too).

It's no surprise that we're losing the second two categories, but what it also proved is that the "hard-core" group, although it stays fairly static (and for us it's about 12k) is always losing some people and gaining others, so it's a constantly changing 12k people.

So no surprises that some people who proclaim they're long-term supporters are going - it always happens.

[West Stand Flash]

Haha some of you are a funny lot.
Fan/supporter can be someone who follows the team home and away, or it can simply be somone who reads the local Teletext page and looks out for results. I never once said I would ditch the team, but why should I shell
out £500+ to watch attrocious football and fill the pockets of a Chairman who has single handidly ruined this club?

Many a fan won't come back, as attendances have proved, and if they get relegated this season, they'll struggle to get 5,000 STH's come August.

It's a shame the majority of the idiots who post on this board struggle to look outside the Reading FC bubble and realise the sh*t this club has got itself into.

[Sharpy]

Haha some of you are a funny lot.
Fan/supporter can be someone who follows the team home and away, or it can simply be somone who reads the local Teletext page and looks out for results. I never once said I would ditch the team, but why should I shell
out £500+ to watch attrocious football and fill the pockets of a Chairman who has single handidly ruined this club?

Many a fan won't come back, as attendances have proved, and if they get relegated this season, they'll struggle to get 5,000 STH's come August.

It's a shame the majority of the idiots who post on this board struggle to look outside the Reading FC bubble and realise the sh*t this club has got itself into.

+1

[tee peg]

West Stand Flash, you come out with some strange things; but to suggest fans would be right to go and support someone else is just the mark of a simpleton. We're not 'fans', we're 'supporters'. Do you have an understanding of what support means? Look it up. The majority of posters on this board supported this football club when there wasn't much to crow about, and will continue to do so when the likes of you disappear, or like yourself, sit back in your armchair and bemoan our league position with your equally inept father.___ You are one of many that continually moan about the support here, and how quiet it is, for example. Yet here you are with a post full of gold plated irony. I suppose every village has one, but in Reading's case, we have a father and son combo.

Well put sir.

[Silver Fox]

a Chairman who has single handidly ruined this club?

And there's the thing. I cannot see how anyone who has had a ST for 19 years could possibly say this, unless they were mentally unstable. If someone only got into RFC at the start of this season maybe it would an acceptable point of view but otherwise it hinestly begars belief.

Sure, get annoyed that we're not playing well at the moment but don't make shit up