MATCHWATCH : Carlisle United (h)

[Sutekh]

The winner of this game will net £47,750 in prize money

The loser gets £15,800.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Reading have only once lost at home to a non league club. I was at that game possibly one of the most depressing miserable experiences l can remember as a Reading fan. Anyone else on this board remember it?

Bishops Stortford 1-2!!! in the mud. Remember it well -

Yes a horrible experience, we were losing for a long time when Steve Moran volleyed a superb equaliser only for a late goal keeping mistake let them in for a late winner.

Pretty sure Maurice Evans was manager so before Steve Moran's time? may be wrong though, memory not what it was.

I do remember we lost to a last minute goal though.

[Clyde1998]

Looks like slow ticket sales thus so (shock!): 1,562 home tickets sold based on the seat map (not counting disabled or hospitality).

Carlisle appear to have sold 536 out of their 559 allocation so far.

Any chance Clyde of an update- new manager ticket sale surge ?

It's 1,946 standard home sales. Going up in a similar way I'd expect it to the closer we get to games.

Carlisle seem to have sold their 559 now.

[The Royal Forester]

Bishops Stortford 1-2!!! in the mud. Remember it well -

Yes a horrible experience, we were losing for a long time when Steve Moran volleyed a superb equaliser only for a late goal keeping mistake let them in for a late winner.

Pretty sure Maurice Evans was manager so before Steve Moran's time? may be wrong though, memory not what it was.

I do remember we lost to a last minute goal though.

The match was the First Round, 1982/83 season, so Maurice Evans would have been our manager.

[Crowbar6753]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

[The Royal Forester]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

According to my copy of "Biscuits and Royals", Brian Bason was here 1882-83, made 41 appearances no goals. I don't remember him, either

[Crowbar6753]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

According to my copy of "Biscuits and Royals", Brian Bason was here 1882-83, made 41 appearances no goals. I don't remember him, either

I guess he wasn't anything special lol, however he managed to get 41 games under his belt so seems strange we cannot remember him

[Crowbar6753]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

This was a pretty bang average to poor Reading side from what i remember. Beavon was ok and surprised Dixon didn't bang a goal in against a non league team! I think Phil Stant was an Army player if memory serves me right and Doherty and Donnellan weren't much! Martin Hick's was a legend, all legs and like bambie on ice, a stereotypical div 4 center back I guess these were the dark days a few years before things slowly took off where was Gilksy?????

[East Grinstead Royal]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

According to my copy of "Biscuits and Royals", Brian Bason was here 1882-83, made 41 appearances no goals. I don't remember him, either

I’m not surprised no-one remembers him, 1882 was a helluva long time ago.

[The Royal Forester]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

According to my copy of "Biscuits and Royals", Brian Bason was here 1882-83, made 41 appearances no goals. I don't remember him, either

I’m not surprised no-one remembers him, 1882 was a helluva long time ago.

Oops. Either he was a very early player or maybe it was 1982-83

[MR. CYNICAL]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

This was a pretty bang average to poor Reading side from what i remember. Beavon was ok and surprised Dixon didn't bang a goal in against a non league team! I think Phil Stant was an Army player if memory serves me right and Doherty and Donnellan weren't much! Martin Hick's was a legend, all legs and like bambie on ice, a stereotypical div 4 center back I guess these were the dark days a few years before things slowly took off where was Gilksy?????

Wasn't this just before the merger attempt by Maxwell later that season?
Donnellon was a winger signed from Watford, Doherty was playing in Local football in Reading when we signed him.

[MR. CYNICAL]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

This was a pretty bang average to poor Reading side from what i remember. Beavon was ok and surprised Dixon didn't bang a goal in against a non league team! I think Phil Stant was an Army player if memory serves me right and Doherty and Donnellan weren't much! Martin Hick's was a legend, all legs and like bambie on ice, a stereotypical div 4 center back I guess these were the dark days a few years before things slowly took off where was Gilksy?????

Wasn't this just before the merger attempt by Maxwell later that season?
Donnellan was a winger signed from Watford, Doherty was playing in Local football in Reading when we signed him.

[Crowbar6753]

Pat Earles was the scorer in the Bishop Stortford cup defeat in the mud! 2931 in attendance.
Reading team: Fearon, Williams, White, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Bason, Stant, Dixon, Doherty, Donnellan. I remember the game and the squad well but for some reason i cannot remember the guy called Bason? Anyone enlighten me on this guy?

This was a pretty bang average to poor Reading side from what i remember. Beavon was ok and surprised Dixon didn't bang a goal in against a non league team! I think Phil Stant was an Army player if memory serves me right and Doherty and Donnellan weren't much! Martin Hick's was a legend, all legs and like bambie on ice, a stereotypical div 4 center back I guess these were the dark days a few years before things slowly took off where was Gilksy?????

Wasn't this just before the merger attempt by Maxwell later that season?
Donnellon was a winger signed from Watford, Doherty was playing in Local football in Reading when we signed him.

Holy Cynical, now you've got my brain working!!! It has to have been as I'm not sure it was much earlier and we started picking up as a team after our 12 straight wins starting the 1985 season i believe.

[Pockets]

Didn't we pick Doherty up from Basingstoke?

[Sutekh]

According to my copy of "Biscuits and Royals", Brian Bason was here 1882-83, made 41 appearances no goals. I don't remember him, either

I’m not surprised no-one remembers him, 1882 was a helluva long time ago.

Oops. Either he was a very early player or maybe it was 1982-83

1982-83



Brian Bason was a midfielder previously with Palace and Chelsea. Retired after leaving Reading and went off to run a Cornish pub I think.


Maurice was manager while Phil Stant was bought out of the army by the club but never fulfilled his potential, instead moving on after a handful of games to score shedloads at Hereford and then Cardiff.


Think Gary Donnellan was more famous at Reading for his return with Wealdstone in the cup in about 1985 when their tactics seemed to involve various elements of on pitch thuggery - probably unsurprising given Vinnie Jones was also playing for them.


Mike Doherty was a striker, came from Basingstoke in 1982 and was then moved on to Slough in 1983. Managed 5 league goals in his time here.

[Crowbar6753]

I’m not surprised no-one remembers him, 1882 was a helluva long time ago.

Oops. Either he was a very early player or maybe it was 1982-83

1982-83

Brian Bason was a midfielder previously with Palace and Chelsea. Retired after leaving Reading and went off to run a Cornish pub I think.

Maurice was manager while Phil Stant was bought out of the army by the club but never fulfilled his potential, instead moving on after a handful of games to score shedloads at Hereford and then Cardiff.

Think Gary Donnellan was more famous at Reading for his return with Wealdstone in the cup in about 1985 when their tactics seemed to involve various elements of on pitch thuggery - probably unsurprising given Vinnie Jones was also playing for them.

Mike Doherty was a striker, came from Basingstoke in 1982 and was then moved on to Slough in 1983. Managed 5 league goals in his time here.

Thanks Sutekh for the info, we should do a memory lane page for each season starting in the mid 70s and working forward as there seems to be a few of us older guys around and its amazing how much you forget. Its easy to get caught up in the present however, most of my good times with Reading were on the terraces from the late 70s Elm Park days until it sadly came down.
Best Elm Park scenes; Archie Lovell's two late goals against Wolves 2-1 and the 4-3 Plymouth comeback, good times

[stealthpapes]

I think Phil Stant was an Army player if memory serves me right

Yeah, quite the life story.

We played him while he was based nearby. He would have served in the Falklands just beforehand. There's an ITV4 documentary where he returns to the Falklands.

After playing for us (handful of games, two goals which I think were a brace), he doesn't play football for about 3 years before popping up in Hereford. Which, essentially, tells you what he was doing for those years.

Scored a shedload for Hereford, Mansfield and Cardiff.

There's a nice article about his brief time at Brighton in 2000-2001
https://wearebrighton.com/albiondatabas ... n-history/

[tidus_mi2]

Do people think we have a stronger team now that when the Americans took over?

At the time we were not getting thrashed and in a relegation fight just above the relegation zone I think?

If this is the case we should be able to beat Reading if we play their strongest team against our strongest.

Just browsed the match thread on the Carlisle forum and that seemed a doozy, has he forgotten they are 2 league below?

[MR. CYNICAL]

I’m not surprised no-one remembers him, 1882 was a helluva long time ago.

Oops. Either he was a very early player or maybe it was 1982-83

1982-83



Brian Bason was a midfielder previously with Palace and Chelsea. Retired after leaving Reading and went off to run a Cornish pub I think.


Maurice was manager while Phil Stant was bought out of the army by the club but never fulfilled his potential, instead moving on after a handful of games to score shedloads at Hereford and then Cardiff.


Think Gary Donnellan was more famous at Reading for his return with Wealdstone in the cup in about 1985 when their tactics seemed to involve various elements of on pitch thuggery - probably unsurprising given Vinnie Jones was also playing for them.


Mike Doherty was a striker, came from Basingstoke in 1982 and was then moved on to Slough in 1983. Managed 5 league goals in his time here.

Assume you got that from his wiki page which is pretty vague, his time at Basingstoke has a question Mark there.
Do remember he was born in Liverpool but played in non league football in and around Reading, he may of been at Basingstoke when we did sign him, can't remember that bit. Do remember him more as a midfielder and don't think he signed a professional contract with us. Definitely a near the end of Wallers' time as chairman, we were struggling with some really low attendances that season.

[Sutekh]

Oops. Either he was a very early player or maybe it was 1982-83

1982-83



Brian Bason was a midfielder previously with Palace and Chelsea. Retired after leaving Reading and went off to run a Cornish pub I think.


Maurice was manager while Phil Stant was bought out of the army by the club but never fulfilled his potential, instead moving on after a handful of games to score shedloads at Hereford and then Cardiff.


Think Gary Donnellan was more famous at Reading for his return with Wealdstone in the cup in about 1985 when their tactics seemed to involve various elements of on pitch thuggery - probably unsurprising given Vinnie Jones was also playing for them.


Mike Doherty was a striker, came from Basingstoke in 1982 and was then moved on to Slough in 1983. Managed 5 league goals in his time here.

Assume you got that from his wiki page which is pretty vague, his time at Basingstoke has a question Mark there.
Do remember he was born in Liverpool but played in non league football in and around Reading, he may of been at Basingstoke when we did sign him, can't remember that bit. Do remember him more as a midfielder and don't think he signed a professional contract with us. Definitely a near the end of Wallers' time as chairman, we were struggling with some really low attendances that season.

No, I pulled it from Slough’s website. They say they signed Mike from Reading in 1983 where he had made a handful of appearances in the FL but was largely a mainstay of the club’s football combination team. Previously he had been at Basingstoke where he scored 19 in 61 appearances the season before joining Reading for the princely sum of £2000. Born in 1961, Mike hailed from Liverpool and had/has a brother called Tony.

Now checking further with the former Reading players database, they say Mike scored 6 goals in 27 starts and 4 sub appearances.