A couple of non league snippets

[Holyport Rebel]

 I I I I I ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'SSSSSSSSSS    CHHRRRIIIIIISSSSSSTTTTTTMMMMAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Noddy Holder, lead singer with the pop group Slade, has been belting out that refrain for exactly 50 years now.
Half a century, back to the long distant past of  Christmas 1973 when the song was fresh and new.
Looking back, 1973 was a great year for me.
That Christmas I received my most memorable ever Christmas present.
A brand new, blue Raleigh Chopper bike.
It could only have been designed back in the 70's, when "Health and Safety" regulations didn't exist.
Raleigh Choppers had a habit of if you were pedalling very fast on them, and then having to slam on the brakes, of catapulting the rider off his seat and through the gap between the two massive handlebars.
That wasn't the worst bit.
Whilst flying through the air, before one went between the handlebars, one's nuts would be crushed by the evilly placed gear stick lever, which stuck up dangerously in front of the rider on the metal bar running between the riders leg's.
I'm sure there must have been many boys who had their sex life curtailed at an early age because of this design flaw.
Those were the 70's though.
If you got hurt as a kid, tough.
Get on with it.
Happy days.
1973 was also unforgettable because of course that was the year that Slough Town actually got to  play at Wembley Stadium.
I am so pleased to be able to say that "I was there".
Trouble is, in 1973 I was just a 12 year old kid, still 2 years away from transitioning into a proper "amber and blue blood flowing in the veins" Slough Town fan.
I had been to see Slough play at The Dolphin stadium a few times in the years previous.
Walking down Wembley Way that April day, I was excited to be going to see my second ever match at Wembley, and aware that my hometown club Slough were playing there.
As a 12 year old, I didn't realise then just how special it was to be able to do this, to see your local team at Wembley Stadium.
Oh to have seen Slough Town play at Wembley for a second time, when I would have been old enough and clued up enough to have been able to be truly aware of the enormity of the occasion.. 
Since then I would willingly give my eyeteeth (before they fall out) to have  seen Dave Russell playing at Wembley in the amber shirt of Slough Town later that same decade, or my hero Micky Kiely playing there for us in the 80's, or Mark Fiore in the 90's,or Steve Daly in the 00's, or  Warren Harris in the 10's, or Scotty D in the 20's . 
( Flippin' heck, even Andrew Deaner would have eternal god-like status in my eyes if he had somehow managed to play  on the turf at the Home of Football while wearing an amber Slough shirt ! )
50 years on and I'm still waiting. 
Christmas 2023 wasn't going to hit the heights of that Christmas in 1973, but it was still  going to have a special appeal to it.
I had been invited to be a guest of the match sponsor at the Boxing Day fixture at Arbour Park.
"Bonjour" as he is known to us on here, was sponsoring the game.
He likes to do this at this time of the year, in memory of his dad, Bim, whose birthday was on December 23rd.
Dear old Bim, who followed Slough Town for more years than I have been alive.
And I'm no spring chicken.
I was promised free drink, free food, free entry to the game and my own car park space in the main Arbour Park car park.
What was there not to like ?
Bring it on !
Our festive fixtures this yuletide are against Hampton and Richmond.
Christmas fixtures are normally against the club closest geographically to you, which you would usually hope to be against  your deadliest rivals.
Don't know about you, but I feel no "rivalry" at all regarding Hampton and Richmond.
I guess the best we could do now would be to have yuletide matches against Maidenhead Utd.
I would look forward excitedly to them, but after our recent visit to the Bromley gulag, I think I'd prefer them coming down to our level rather than us going up to theirs.
Slough fans on here with  Rebels memories that go back further than mine, such as Bernie Gogan and the previously mentioned Bonjour, might disagree with me, but for me the Christmas fixtures of 1980 will never be surpassed.
Enfield, us, and that spawn of Satan club Wyscum W were looking likely to be battling it out to become champions that season.
Our Boxing Day and New Years Day fixtures that year were against the "dark side of the force" team from Buckinghamshire, Wyscum W.
First off, for the Boxing Day fixture, we had to travel to their lair.
They were above us in the table, and I would have been extremely happy to have walked out of the ground at the end of the match with a point.
What happened ?
We totally blitzed them.
3 up at halftime, and a final scoreline of 4-1.
I loved beating them, especially so at their place.
And especially at this Christmastime, when a championship was to be fought for.
The return was a few days later, on New Years Day at Wexham Park..
As at Lucifer's den ( a.k.a. Loakes Park ) a few day's earlier, over 2000 came through the turnstiles to watch the game.
2 goals from the majestic Micky Kiely gave us a 2-1 victory over the devils from Bucks.
Walking out of those grounds after those two matches was a festive feeling like no other.
Such a Christmas high.
Recently re-reading the match programmes for these two games and re-reading the old match reports I'd cut out of the local newspapers and kept with them, brought those wonderful memories flooding back.
There was one thing though, that did strike me looking through those old programmes again.
This season's league table, up until the end of 23rd December, has most teams in the National League South as having played 23 or 24 matches, none having played more than this.
The league table in these old programmes  for 1980, again show the league table up to the 23rd December, but teams such as Enfield, Woking and Leatherhead had already played 29 league matches.
Dagenham and Tooting had already played 28, and Wyscum W and Staines 27.
Barking had already played 31 !
Only 11 league games to fit in for them between Boxing Day and the end of the season, as the Isthmian League in 80/81 only had 22 teams in it and therefore only 42 matches to play all told.
The National League South has got 24 teams in it, with 46 league matches to be played.
This season we have got 9  league  matches to play in January alone ! 
Seven of them away from home !
That is bonkers.
What will the festive fixtures  of  season 2023/24  bring to us Rebels fans?
Will we be leaving the ground at the final whistle on a massive high as we did that  Boxing Day fixture in 1980 ?
Or leaving with our dreams down in the gutter as we did after being thrashed 6-1 at home by Stevenage on New Years Day 1997 ?
Not long to find out........ 
                                                                                   
                                                                            
To anyone who has made it to the end of my post, I salute you.
To anyone who has made it to the end of my post and has not lost the will to live, I salute you even more.
One person I know for sure who won't be reading this, is Windsor Rebel.
I always enjoy having a chat with WR when we bump into each other at matches.
This happened when we played at the Bromley detention centre recently.
During our chat, WR said the following to me.

" Blimey Kev, your posts don't half go on and on and on sometimes.
I can never be arsed to read them to the end. "

You can always rely on someone  you spent several years in the same class at school to not sugar coat things.

Finally,  I'd just like to wish all the players , management and of course all fans of our special football club Slough Town,, 
                                           
                                                   A Very Merry Christmas.         
                                           
                                  ( .............even those who agree with Windsor Rebel ).   

 
 

Edited December 24, 2023 by Holyport Rebel

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

In another thread, "Bernie Gogan" referenced "squeaky bum time". I reckon he and I have endured more than enough of that between us to utilise a fair few cans of WD 40. But those final minutes after Paul Wilkerson's penalty save at Stevenage were up their with the worst (alongside Vicarage Road and Ian Wolstenholme's heroics in 1973) and I really thought, after that victory, that we were going to Wembley again. Alas others had other ideas. 

 

[Rebellier]

That Wyc***** game was my very first away match.

I was 13, sat up in their main stand surrounded by all the old codgers. 

And Mr.Kiely was my first STFC hero...

[Reading Rebel]

3 hours ago, Holyport Rebel said:

 I I I I I ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'SSSSSSSSSS    CHHRRRIIIIIISSSSSSTTTTTTMMMMAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Noddy Holder, lead singer with the pop group Slade, has been belting out that refrain for exactly 50 years now.
Half a century, back to the long distant past of  Christmas 1973 when the song was fresh and new.
Looking back, 1973 was a great year for me.
That Christmas I received my most memorable ever Christmas present.
A brand new, blue Raleigh Chopper bike.
It could only have been designed back in the 70's, when "Health and Safety" regulations didn't exist.
Raleigh Choppers had a habit of if you were pedalling very fast on them, and then having to slam on the brakes, of catapulting the rider off his seat and through the gap between the two massive handlebars.
That wasn't the worst bit.
Whilst flying through the air, before one went between the handlebars, one's nuts would be crushed by the evilly placed gear stick lever, which stuck up dangerously in front of the rider on the metal bar running between the riders leg's.
I'm sure there must have been many boys who had their sex life curtailed at an early age because of this design flaw.
Those were the 70's though.
If you got hurt as a kid, tough.
Get on with it.
Happy days.
1973 was also unforgettable because of course that was the year that Slough Town actually got to  play at Wembley Stadium.
I am so pleased to be able to say that "I was there".
Trouble is, in 1973 I was just a 12 year old kid, still 2 years away from transitioning into a proper "amber and blue blood flowing in the veins" Slough Town fan.
I had been to see Slough play at The Dolphin stadium a few times in the years previous.
Walking down Wembley Way that April day, I was excited to be going to see my second ever match at Wembley, and aware that my hometown club Slough were playing there.
As a 12 year old, I didn't realise then just how special it was to be able to do this, to see your local team at Wembley Stadium.
Oh to have seen Slough Town play at Wembley for a second time, when I would have been old enough and clued up enough to have been able to be truly aware of the enormity of the occasion.. 
Since then I would willingly give my eyeteeth (before they fall out) to have  seen Dave Russell playing at Wembley in the amber shirt of Slough Town later that same decade, or my hero Micky Kiely playing there for us in the 80's, or Mark Fiore in the 90's,or Steve Daly in the 00's, or  Warren Harris in the 10's, or Scotty D in the 20's . 
( Flippin' heck, even Andrew Deaner would have eternal god-like status in my eyes if he had somehow managed to play  on the turf at the Home of Football while wearing an amber Slough shirt ! )
50 years on and I'm still waiting. 
Christmas 2023 wasn't going to hit the heights of that Christmas in 1973, but it was still  going to have a special appeal to it.
I had been invited to be a guest of the match sponsor at the Boxing Day fixture at Arbour Park.
"Bonjour" as he is known to us on here, was sponsoring the game.
He likes to do this at this time of the year, in memory of his dad, Bim, whose birthday was on December 23rd.
Dear old Bim, who followed Slough Town for more years than I have been alive.
And I'm no spring chicken.
I was promised free drink, free food, free entry to the game and my own car park space in the main Arbour Park car park.
What was there not to like ?
Bring it on !
Our festive fixtures this yuletide are against Hampton and Richmond.
Christmas fixtures are normally against the club closest geographically to you, which you would usually hope to be against  your deadliest rivals.
Don't know about you, but I feel no "rivalry" at all regarding Hampton and Richmond.
I guess the best we could do now would be to have yuletide matches against Maidenhead Utd.
I would look forward excitedly to them, but after our recent visit to the Bromley gulag, I think I'd prefer them coming down to our level rather than us going up to theirs.
Slough fans on here with  Rebels memories that go back further than mine, such as Bernie Gogan and the previously mentioned Bonjour, might disagree with me, but for me the Christmas fixtures of 1980 will never be surpassed.
Enfield, us, and that spawn of Satan club Wyscum W were looking likely to be battling it out to become champions that season.
Our Boxing Day and New Years Day fixtures that year were against the "dark side of the force" team from Buckinghamshire, Wyscum W.
First off, for the Boxing Day fixture, we had to travel to their lair.
They were above us in the table, and I would have been extremely happy to have walked out of the ground at the end of the match with a point.
What happened ?
We totally blitzed them.
3 up at halftime, and a final scoreline of 4-1.
I loved beating them, especially so at their place.
And especially at this Christmastime, when a championship was to be fought for.
The return was a few days later, on New Years Day at Wexham Park..
As at Lucifer's den ( a.k.a. Loakes Park ) a few day's earlier, over 2000 came through the turnstiles to watch the game.
2 goals from the majestic Micky Kiely gave us a 2-1 victory over the devils from Bucks.
Walking out of those grounds after those two matches was a festive feeling like no other.
Such a Christmas high.
Recently re-reading the match programmes for these two games and re-reading the old match reports I'd cut out of the local newspapers and kept with them, brought those wonderful memories flooding back.
There was one thing though, that did strike me looking through those old programmes again.
This season's league table, up until the end of 23rd December, has most teams in the National League South as having played 23 or 24 matches, none having played more than this.
The league table in these old programmes  for 1980, again show the league table up to the 23rd December, but teams such as Enfield, Woking and Leatherhead had already played 29 league matches.
Dagenham and Tooting had already played 28, and Wyscum W and Staines 27.
Barking had already played 31 !
Only 11 league games to fit in for them between Boxing Day and the end of the season, as the Isthmian League in 80/81 only had 22 teams in it and therefore only 42 matches to play all told.
The National League South has got 24 teams in it, with 46 league matches to be played.
This season we have got 9  league  matches to play in January alone ! 
Seven of them away from home !
That is bonkers.
What will the festive fixtures  of  season 2023/24  bring to us Rebels fans?
Will we be leaving the ground at the final whistle on a massive high as we did that  Boxing Day fixture in 1980 ?
Or leaving with our dreams down in the gutter as we did after being thrashed 6-1 at home by Stevenage on New Years Day 1997 ?
Not long to find out........ 
                                                                                   
                                                                            
To anyone who has made it to the end of my post, I salute you.
To anyone who has made it to the end of my post and has not lost the will to live, I salute you even more.
One person I know for sure who won't be reading this, is Windsor Rebel.
I always enjoy having a chat with WR when we bump into each other at matches.
This happened when we played at the Bromley detention centre recently.
During our chat, WR said the following to me.

" Blimey Kev, your posts don't half go on and on and on sometimes.
I can never be arsed to read them to the end. "

You can always rely on someone  you spent several years in the same class at school to not sugar coat things.

Finally,  I'd just like to wish all the players , management and of course all fans of our special football club Slough Town,, 
                                           
                                                   A Very Merry Christmas.         
                                           
                                  ( .............even those who agree with Windsor Rebel ).   

 
 

We can't all be the same HR and personally I appreciate the time and effort you put into your posts and unlike WR read them to the end without dropping off 😅.

I still remember our games against H&R in the league, especially the season, possibly the season finale? we were bottom of the table and H&R were somewhere near the top and possibly achieved promotion that season and our supporters chanting 'the Ryman League is upside down'. Some things you just never forget.

Also being at the Bryco cup final at Staines and turning over Hampton who I think were the big favorites to win.   

OK they are nowhere near the rivalry we had with Maidenhead and Wycombe but personally I still see them as a big local rival in this division and a game I would get great satisfaction in winning.

 

Edited December 24, 2023 by Reading Rebel

[Irishadrian]

6 hours ago, Holyport Rebel said:

 I I I I I ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'SSSSSSSSSS    CHHRRRIIIIIISSSSSSTTTTTTMMMMAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Noddy Holder, lead singer with the pop group Slade, has been belting out that refrain for exactly 50 years now.
Half a century, back to the long distant past of  Christmas 1973 when the song was fresh and new.
Looking back, 1973 was a great year for me.
That Christmas I received my most memorable ever Christmas present.
A brand new, blue Raleigh Chopper bike.
It could only have been designed back in the 70's, when "Health and Safety" regulations didn't exist.
Raleigh Choppers had a habit of if you were pedalling very fast on them, and then having to slam on the brakes, of catapulting the rider off his seat and through the gap between the two massive handlebars.
That wasn't the worst bit.
Whilst flying through the air, before one went between the handlebars, one's nuts would be crushed by the evilly placed gear stick lever, which stuck up dangerously in front of the rider on the metal bar running between the riders leg's.
I'm sure there must have been many boys who had their sex life curtailed at an early age because of this design flaw.
Those were the 70's though.
If you got hurt as a kid, tough.
Get on with it.
Happy days.
1973 was also unforgettable because of course that was the year that Slough Town actually got to  play at Wembley Stadium.
I am so pleased to be able to say that "I was there".
Trouble is, in 1973 I was just a 12 year old kid, still 2 years away from transitioning into a proper "amber and blue blood flowing in the veins" Slough Town fan.
I had been to see Slough play at The Dolphin stadium a few times in the years previous.
Walking down Wembley Way that April day, I was excited to be going to see my second ever match at Wembley, and aware that my hometown club Slough were playing there.
As a 12 year old, I didn't realise then just how special it was to be able to do this, to see your local team at Wembley Stadium.
Oh to have seen Slough Town play at Wembley for a second time, when I would have been old enough and clued up enough to have been able to be truly aware of the enormity of the occasion.. 
Since then I would willingly give my eyeteeth (before they fall out) to have  seen Dave Russell playing at Wembley in the amber shirt of Slough Town later that same decade, or my hero Micky Kiely playing there for us in the 80's, or Mark Fiore in the 90's,or Steve Daly in the 00's, or  Warren Harris in the 10's, or Scotty D in the 20's . 
( Flippin' heck, even Andrew Deaner would have eternal god-like status in my eyes if he had somehow managed to play  on the turf at the Home of Football while wearing an amber Slough shirt ! )
50 years on and I'm still waiting. 
Christmas 2023 wasn't going to hit the heights of that Christmas in 1973, but it was still  going to have a special appeal to it.
I had been invited to be a guest of the match sponsor at the Boxing Day fixture at Arbour Park.
"Bonjour" as he is known to us on here, was sponsoring the game.
He likes to do this at this time of the year, in memory of his dad, Bim, whose birthday was on December 23rd.
Dear old Bim, who followed Slough Town for more years than I have been alive.
And I'm no spring chicken.
I was promised free drink, free food, free entry to the game and my own car park space in the main Arbour Park car park.
What was there not to like ?
Bring it on !
Our festive fixtures this yuletide are against Hampton and Richmond.
Christmas fixtures are normally against the club closest geographically to you, which you would usually hope to be against  your deadliest rivals.
Don't know about you, but I feel no "rivalry" at all regarding Hampton and Richmond.
I guess the best we could do now would be to have yuletide matches against Maidenhead Utd.
I would look forward excitedly to them, but after our recent visit to the Bromley gulag, I think I'd prefer them coming down to our level rather than us going up to theirs.
Slough fans on here with  Rebels memories that go back further than mine, such as Bernie Gogan and the previously mentioned Bonjour, might disagree with me, but for me the Christmas fixtures of 1980 will never be surpassed.
Enfield, us, and that spawn of Satan club Wyscum W were looking likely to be battling it out to become champions that season.
Our Boxing Day and New Years Day fixtures that year were against the "dark side of the force" team from Buckinghamshire, Wyscum W.
First off, for the Boxing Day fixture, we had to travel to their lair.
They were above us in the table, and I would have been extremely happy to have walked out of the ground at the end of the match with a point.
What happened ?
We totally blitzed them.
3 up at halftime, and a final scoreline of 4-1.
I loved beating them, especially so at their place.
And especially at this Christmastime, when a championship was to be fought for.
The return was a few days later, on New Years Day at Wexham Park..
As at Lucifer's den ( a.k.a. Loakes Park ) a few day's earlier, over 2000 came through the turnstiles to watch the game.
2 goals from the majestic Micky Kiely gave us a 2-1 victory over the devils from Bucks.
Walking out of those grounds after those two matches was a festive feeling like no other.
Such a Christmas high.
Recently re-reading the match programmes for these two games and re-reading the old match reports I'd cut out of the local newspapers and kept with them, brought those wonderful memories flooding back.
There was one thing though, that did strike me looking through those old programmes again.
This season's league table, up until the end of 23rd December, has most teams in the National League South as having played 23 or 24 matches, none having played more than this.
The league table in these old programmes  for 1980, again show the league table up to the 23rd December, but teams such as Enfield, Woking and Leatherhead had already played 29 league matches.
Dagenham and Tooting had already played 28, and Wyscum W and Staines 27.
Barking had already played 31 !
Only 11 league games to fit in for them between Boxing Day and the end of the season, as the Isthmian League in 80/81 only had 22 teams in it and therefore only 42 matches to play all told.
The National League South has got 24 teams in it, with 46 league matches to be played.
This season we have got 9  league  matches to play in January alone ! 
Seven of them away from home !
That is bonkers.
What will the festive fixtures  of  season 2023/24  bring to us Rebels fans?
Will we be leaving the ground at the final whistle on a massive high as we did that  Boxing Day fixture in 1980 ?
Or leaving with our dreams down in the gutter as we did after being thrashed 6-1 at home by Stevenage on New Years Day 1997 ?
Not long to find out........ 
                                                                                   
                                                                            
To anyone who has made it to the end of my post, I salute you.
To anyone who has made it to the end of my post and has not lost the will to live, I salute you even more.
One person I know for sure who won't be reading this, is Windsor Rebel.
I always enjoy having a chat with WR when we bump into each other at matches.
This happened when we played at the Bromley detention centre recently.
During our chat, WR said the following to me.

" Blimey Kev, your posts don't half go on and on and on sometimes.
I can never be arsed to read them to the end. "

You can always rely on someone  you spent several years in the same class at school to not sugar coat things.

Finally,  I'd just like to wish all the players , management and of course all fans of our special football club Slough Town,, 
                                           
                                                   A Very Merry Christmas.         
                                           
                                  ( .............even those who agree with Windsor Rebel ).   

 
 

Holyport Rebel. Whenever I see your name on a new item I know its gonna be another great contribution which of course this one is Many thanks and keep them coming.

[Bernie Gogan]

25 minutes ago, Irishadrian said:

Holyport Rebel. Whenever I see your name on a new item I know its gonna be another great contribution which of course this one is Many thanks and keep them coming.

Couldn't agree more! Nice to be reminded of past games. Possibly only Kaiser Gibbs will remember the Boxing Day matches against Maidenhead, but one that sticks in my mind was 4-5 loss at the Dolphin when we had been 3-1 up! It seemed in that period we could never beat them irrespective of league position and that Brian Pitts, their centre half, would single handed prevent us from doing so. He was of course a stalwart and has a picture pride of place in their club bar and wasn't one of the 4 or more players that left them to join Slough later on. (Reynolds, Runnicles, Hatt, Mullen?)

[Reading Rebel]

Ex Rebel Ogo Obi came on as a late substitute and promptly scored Chesham's second goal in their 2-0 win over Dorchester.

Chesham are now top on goal difference from Salisbury.

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

19 hours ago, Bernie Gogan said:

Couldn't agree more! Nice to be reminded of past games. Possibly only Kaiser Gibbs will remember the Boxing Day matches against Maidenhead, but one that sticks in my mind was 4-5 loss at the Dolphin when we had been 3-1 up! It seemed in that period we could never beat them irrespective of league position and that Brian Pitts, their centre half, would single handed prevent us from doing so. He was of course a stalwart and has a picture pride of place in their club bar and wasn't one of the 4 or more players that left them to join Slough later on. (Reynolds, Runnicles, Hatt, Mullen?)

Ah yes, I remember it well, as Maurice Chevalier used to put it. Terry Runnicles didn't make it to Christmas that season but Jim Kelman lasted a fair bit longer-after being converted to right back after John Wilks left for abroad. 

[Reading Rebel]

Chesham go 2 points clear at the top of the Southern premier after beating Beaconsfield 2-1.

Beaconsfield must be in real danger of going down this season.

They are 1 point out of the relegation zone with all the clubs below them having two games in hand.

[Irishadrian]

New NLS league

 

attendance  record  at Yeovil v Taunton game 6301 including 400+ from Tauntom

[Reading Rebel]

After losing 4-0 at home today Eastbourne Borough have sacked manager Mark Beard. 

[Irishadrian]

2 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

After losing 4-0 at home today Eastbourne Borough have sacked manager Mark Beard. 

Fans been screaming for this for weeks so no surprise there  todays defeat keeps us 7 points clear of the relegation zone

[Irishadrian]

Aaron Kuhl red carded today as Farnborough lose 2-4  to Havant and W.

[Irishadrian]

9 minutes ago, Irishadrian said:

Aaron Kuhl red carded today as Farnborough lose 2-4  to Havant and W.

Spencer Days latest rant  on their website now. Our biggest crowd for years and our worst performance  I picked these players. Time to get rid of some etc.etc.etc.

[Irishadrian]

On 27/12/2023 at 00:34, Reading Rebel said:

Chesham go 2 points clear at the top of the Southern premier after beating Beaconsfield 2-1.

Beaconsfield must be in real danger of going down this season.

They are 1 point out of the relegation zone with all the clubs below them having two games in hand.

Beaconsfield beaten again have now slipped into the relegation group!

[Irishadrian]

49 minutes ago, Irishadrian said:

Fans been screaming for this for weeks so no surprise there  todays defeat keeps us 7 points clear of the relegation zone

First thing new owner did was announce that the club would become a full time outfit signed a number of new players and there was a lot of hype pre season re promotion. This is what happens when considerable wealth and considerable stupidity  get together!

[Ian g f]

Edon Prutti has been recalled back to Hartlepool 

[Reading Rebel]

1 hour ago, Ian g f said:

Edon Prutti has been recalled back to Hartlepool 

What a shame for F'borough 😅

[Bernie Gogan]

4 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

What a shame for F'borough 😅

Well, their manager thinks the centre backs weren't very good (amongst others, including Kuhl, who was sent off), which implies to me that Pruti's no great loss to them. However, Spencer rants on week after week about players not performing. Not sure how any of this engenders team spirit.

They've had a couple of 1-0 wins lately in which it appears Jack Turner has been the star turn, but he's still had a moan about under performing players. 

[Reading Rebel]

12 minutes ago, Bernie Gogan said:

Well, their manager thinks the centre backs weren't very good (amongst others, including Kuhl, who was sent off), which implies to me that Pruti's no great loss to them. However, Spencer rants on week after week about players not performing. Not sure how any of this engenders team spirit.

They've had a couple of 1-0 wins lately in which it appears Jack Turner has been the star turn, but he's still had a moan about under performing players. 

The laughable bit is that he signed them all and now wants rid of some and sign a few more.

If they're not putting in the effort for the club he needs to look at the character of players he's signing not just their ability.