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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Legion on January 29, 2019, 08:16:49 PM
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Reading vs Aston Villa (A)
Madejski Stadium
Saturday 2.2.19 3pm KO
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2-2
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We’ll batter this lot 5-4
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The traditional Desmond.
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The birthplace of Don't look back in anger revisited.
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No easy games for us at the moment the way we are playing. 1-1 draw well we can't keep a clean sheet and we don't play well in half empty stadiums
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All of the new signings made this week to score - hence 0-0
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All of the new signings made this week to score - hence 0-0
A clean sheet? You need to have word with yourself my friend.
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Hopefully Reading deflated and knackered after losing two points late-on against Bolton tonight.
Really need three more points here to get our arses in gear for a play-off place.
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A win, nothing else acceptable
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Tough to guess the team as we'll likely have 2 or 3 more available.
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Well, whoever scores the first goal, it will be the 100th goal scored in our matches this season.
Let's hope it's us.
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3-0, I’m feeling optomistic.
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Oliveira is bound to score
2-1 villa
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All of the new signings made this week to score - hence 0-0
A clean sheet? You need to have word with yourself my friend.
But surely the defence is now as "safe as Hauses"
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Reading 0 Villa 2. Which if I remember right was the scoreline on the only occasion I went to Elm Park back in 1988. I think McInally and Birch got the goals.
I double checked and I got the score and one of the goalscorers right but it was Thompson not McInally who scored.
Reading are one of the weaker teams in the Championship so even though they are the home side we should win.
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1-2 I live in hope. But we concede in the first 10 minutes.
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They're 3rd bottom. We were much better Saturday. Must win and we will win.
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We can't keep a clean sheet. So them 1, us, something more than 1.
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Away win. We march on
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Fixture that impressed MON sufficiently to buy Sidwell and Shorey wasn't it? Was there that depressingly cold day
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it is my late Dad's birthday so we must win and I shall be there to witness it....a moral boosting 3 nil
Abraham X 2
McGinn
UTV
The Doc
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We will get another nervy win. 2-1 I'm saying.
We will then 'click' against Sheff Utd next week and the run will be in full swing.
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A miserable ground, miles from civilisation, that I pledged never to go to again after last time.
I've got my ticket, and I'm still not wholly sure why.
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2-0 to Villa I’m sure
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FTF
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Another game we should/could win.
2-2
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4-2 win. We'll be 2-0 down at HT, but we'll steamroller them in the 2nd half.
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1-3 Tammy x2 and Chester
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Will the game be on, if we get the snow as forecast? - if it goes ahead then 0-2 win and we are on the march to the play offs!
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Got to be a Villa win 2-1 to the lads.
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See you at Paddington, Darren
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See you at Paddington, Darren
See you there.
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Fancy a win now Champions League standard Bacuna has left them.
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I would imagine their midfield has just got substantially better now Bacuna has left.
We need to keep the momentum going - 2-1 to us.
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Team could be;
Kalinic
Taylor
Mings
Elphick
Hutton
Fer
Hourihane
McGinn
El Ghazi
Tammy
Kodjia
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Who are you making skipper Ads?
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McGinn.
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Will the game be on, if we get the snow as forecast? - if it goes ahead then 0-2 win and we are on the march to the play offs!
Started snowing down here about 8:45pm...not heavy but big flakes and looks like it’s sticking. Only about a mile or so away from the ground so will provide updates tomorrow.
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Kalinic
ALANUTTON!
Elphick
Mings the Merciless
Taylor
Fer Carroll
McGinn
Hot Lips
El Ghazi
Abraham
Kodjia
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That midfield! So lightweight. I’d welcome Jedinak back right now.
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Think it will be the same 11, hopefully in the same 4231, as against Ipswich
Maybe mings for Chester if he looks ready to step straight in
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I think Mings will definitely start for Chester. It would surprise me if he had surgery. It was like he was playing in treacle the past few weeks.
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I'm sure that's the plan
Just don't know if it will be immediate
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Smith says he's match fit. Chester has been visibly deteriorating.
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Kalinic
Hutton - Elphick - Hause - Mings
Carroll
Hourihane McGinn
Albert Kodija
Tammy
Subs: Steer, Elmo, Jedinak, Bjarnesson, El Ghazi, Green (if fit), Davis
Feet up with a cuppa: Chester
Gardening or shopping with the missus: Whelan
2-1 Villa. Tammy and Kodija, Dave Kitson netting a late one for them.
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Kalinic
Hutton - Elphick - Hause - Mings
Carroll
Hourihane McGinn
Albert Kodija
Tammy
Subs: Steer, Elmo, Jedinak, Bjarnesson, El Ghazi, Green (if fit), Davis
Feet up with a cuppa: Chester
Gardening or shopping with the missus: Whelan
2-1 Villa. Tammy and Kodija, Dave Kitson netting a late one for them.
I pray to god it isn't that team, or I can see another Wigan disaster on the cards.
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Must win match for a push to get promoted and a big chance to beat lowly reading team .
I think Abraham can score again perhaps a 3-1 victory .
It's a real chance to make gains this weekend on teams Leeds v Norwich, West Brom v Middlesbrough
6th place Derby play tonight away at Preston hoping for dropping of points
So please villa win!
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Kalinic
Hutton Elphick Mings Taylor
McGinn Hourihane Bjarnasson
El Ghazi Abraham. Adomah
Subs: Steer, Elmo, Carroll, Whelan , Hause, Kodjia, Davis .
I think I come to Jedinak on his thread but I think he may be some one we see little of again even on bench
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Must win if we want to mount a charge.
Are we allowed to say ‘must win’ ?
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Definitely a must win game now. Can't see us keeping a clean sheet. So hopefully a 1-2 win!
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Will the game be on, if we get the snow as forecast? - if it goes ahead then 0-2 win and we are on the march to the play offs!
Started snowing down here about 8:45pm...not heavy but big flakes and looks like it’s sticking. Only about a mile or so away from the ground so will provide updates tomorrow.
Any updates?
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think we'll win this. The pressure is off to an extent and hopefully the new guys will freshen things up. 1-2
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Anyone on here from Reading way? How’s the weather looking?
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Kalinic
Hutton Elphick Mings Taylor
McGinn Hourihane Carroll
El Ghazi Abraham Kodjia
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My bones are speaking to me ....
Yes, it's a Villa victory. 1-3.
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Anyone on here from Reading way? How’s the weather looking?
(https://i.ibb.co/TcH31zF/2-F69660-C-FF37-492-C-A6-FB-3-C34-EFB3-C3-EA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TcH31zF)
(https://i.ibb.co/gWJ2VHD/7-E61-E8-E0-1-D98-48-F4-83-A1-C4-B14-C43129-A.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gWJ2VHD)
6-8 inches and it’s still pissing it down at 2:15.
I’m on the edge of Greenham Common 10 miles from Reading. Trains are running PAD to Reading but heavily delayed due to services cancelled coming up from west country. Good luck, wouldn't surprise me if it gets postponed for safety reasons.
Update - apparently Reading is relatively clear, some snow on the ground but main routes are clear, game will go ahead as temps not expected to fall below freezing.
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Having heard Nélson Oliveira is training and may play tomorrow I can see him cause problems and score .
I always rated him very good player and striker.
I expect him to get a goal hopefully a consolation
McGinn should be scoring tomorrow if he's still shooting all the time and of course Abraham to get 2
So 3-1
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After last week's near "lets balls it up" again, goal attempts needs to turn into goals (radical...)
It wont be easy, but hopefully more comfortable than last week.
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Anyone on here from Reading way? How’s the weather looking?
I'm a bit further away than Jon C but whenever I've ever travelled from home in West London to meetings in Reading (29 miles) the weather has always been identical. There's no snow on the ground here. Some pathetic attempts at snowfall but it's too scared to hang around. A poor effort from the weather mob, which came with a bit of a rep but like so many others has been seen off by its own fear of our top boys, who didn't even have to leave their artisan cheese class.
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The A34 in Berkshire from the BBC News.
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2019/2/1/2740282a-04fb-4175-a819-9ecaa64dff61.jpg)
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Met Office Forecast (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcpk99j0x#?date=2019-02-01)
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But I have ANECDOTAL evidence.
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Assuming it goes ahead, this will be my first time at the Madejski. Is there anything...to do? I presume there are no pubs near the ground, so it's a case of the city centre until 2.30 if you're of a thirsty disposition?
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Be interesting to see the squad for tomorrow and which of the new signings makes it in, this was last week's:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx15kf8W0AA0reG.jpg:large)
Obviously O'Hare has gone, so that's one spot free, and I think Davis will find himself surplus again.
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Assuming it goes ahead, this will be my first time at the Madejski. Is there anything...to do? I presume there are no pubs near the ground, so it's a case of the city centre until 2.30 if you're of a thirsty disposition?
Pub at the station is OK The Three Guineas, other pubs are available in Reading town centre, walk dead ahead from station exit and head left takes you to a few pubs, most are shite. There’s nothing out at the ground apart from Costco, B&Q and a few fast food joints. Bus can take 20 -30 minutes to get to stadium depending on shopper traffic.
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Sounds like a fantastic match day experience!
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Easily one of the worst away trips around.
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Assuming it goes ahead, this will be my first time at the Madejski. Is there anything...to do? I presume there are no pubs near the ground, so it's a case of the city centre until 2.30 if you're of a thirsty disposition?
Pub at the station is OK The Three Guineas, other pubs are available in Reading town centre, walk dead ahead from station exit and head left takes you to a few pubs, most are shite. There’s nothing out at the ground apart from Costco, B&Q and a few fast food joints. Bus can take 20 -30 minutes to get to stadium depending on shopper traffic.
Thanks Jon. I've been to the pub next to the station before. It's remarkably unapocalyptic given the genre.
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The game is on
https://twitter.com/rfcsupport/status/1091377871598305280?s=12
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There’s only about an inch of snow down here and the main roads are clear. It hasn’t started snowing again today but it is forecast to this evening.
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Sounds like a fantastic match day experience!
Maybe its better they now have these Reading "Ultras" everyone keeps talking about :-X
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Roads are all clear and it’s light drizzly rain now. Footpaths will be slushy at worst as long as there’s no more snow tonight.
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I live in the general area. Thankfully, further out and Reading is one of those places that used to be nice, great shopping etc but is now a vile place. Take the points, do not fail. Very little margin for error now.
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
I think its reputation suffers because it's so close to London, and because it has all those blue chip companies based there. I will get there by train tomorrow and will arrive in the city (it is a city, tight?) centre in less than an hour after I close my front door. The first time I went there for work I expected it to have basically the same atmosphere as a London suburb like, say, Watford or Uxbridge and places like that do. But it's very much a small provincial city (or big provincial town!) so it feels weird that all those global firms have their British HQs there.
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interesting selection for Smith, by his comments its likely Mings will come in for Chester.
Lottery for who the two full backs will be but I sincerely hope Taylor isnt one
--------------Kalinic
Elmo, Elphick, Mings, Hutton/Hause
---------------Carroll
Adamoah, McGinn, Hourihane, El Ghazi
--------------Abraham
Chester, Jedinak, Green and Lansbury all out injured?
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
I think its reputation suffers because it's so close to London, and because it has all those blue chip companies based there. I will get there by train tomorrow and will arrive in the city (it is a city, tight?) centre in less than an hour after I close my front door. The first time I went there for work I expected it to have basically the same atmosphere as a London suburb like, say, Watford or Uxbridge and places like that do. But it's very much a small provincial city (or big provincial town!) so it feels weird that all those global firms have their British HQs there.
I used to be dragooned to attend the MicroSludge Facility there. They had some kind of hawk to attack the pigeons and it would often crash into the window in a misdirected swoop.
Earlier in my "career", I was dispatched to Basingstoke (IBM) and Milton Keynes(Unisys) on a regular basis. Ghastly doesn't begin to describe mental anguish inflicted.
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
The town centre high street and river area around the Oracle is pleasant enough, but the road network is extremely poor with badly designed junctions, one way systems, bus lane traps and is poorly lit. I’m not a fan of the place...but the most important thing is a good performance and 3pts tomorrow.
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I really dislike reading town centre. I think it's ugly and boring
Back to the game, and surely it will be 4231 again, with the same midfield three as last time. First time in ages our midfield has worked. I know it was only Ipswich but I think we look more solid with two in there. Mcginn looked good as a ten and you don't end up with either whelan or hourihane as an attacking mid which they're not very good at
Mings will surely start and maybe hause for taylor too
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
I think its reputation suffers because it's so close to London, and because it has all those blue chip companies based there. I will get there by train tomorrow and will arrive in the city (it is a city, tight?) centre in less than an hour after I close my front door. The first time I went there for work I expected it to have basically the same atmosphere as a London suburb like, say, Watford or Uxbridge and places like that do. But it's very much a small provincial city (or big provincial town!) so it feels weird that all those global firms have their British HQs there.
I used to be dragooned to attend the MicroSludge Facility there. They had some kind of hawk to attack the pigeons and it would often crash into the window in a misdirected swoop.
Earlier in my "career", I was dispatched to Basingstoke (IBM) and Milton Keynes(Unisys) on a regular basis. Ghastly doesn't begin to describe mental anguish inflicted.
I spent a bit of time at the Unisys offices at Fox Milne in Milton Keynes for meetings and training courses in the mid 90s. I do remember we used to walk to a pub in Milton Keynes village with a thatched roof that had Morris dancers outside the one time we were there. Seemed a world away from the ring roads and blandness of the rest of the place.
I’m expecting a good performance today, new signings even if they don’t all start immediately put pressure on others to earn their places.
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Like a few have said, let's hope the new faces help freshen things up a bit but hopefully we can take last weeks result into today and start another run. I'll go 1-3. Abraham, Adomah and Hourihane.
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FIFA predicts yet another Desmond.We battle back with a Kodjia brace after conceding twice in the first half from appallingly defended corners. Reading’s second goal is especially bad.
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Reading is a dump and has the biggest private housing estate in Europe which is , also swinger central.
So it’s a car keys in the middle, Cant fail to score and lots of fumbling around.
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The family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.
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Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.
Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
The town centre high street and river area around the Oracle is pleasant enough, but the road network is extremely poor with badly designed junctions, one way systems, bus lane traps and is poorly lit. I’m not a fan of the place...but the most important thing is a good performance and 3pts tomorrow.
Amen to that
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Come on Villa boys 3 points today please! Lets make today the 2nd in a long winning sequence of wins to stamp our authority on this league! UTV
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The family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.
How many ex-fiances have you got, you old dog?!
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The family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.
How many ex-fiances have you got, you old dog?!
Three. Number one cheated on me, number two was batshit crazy and number three I knocked on the head as I got fed up travelling to Essex every weekend. It was fourth time lucky as I have been married to fiance number four for twenty years. Mainly do to the fact I was fed up of spending too much money on engagement rings!
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The family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.
How many ex-fiances have you got, you old dog?!
Three. Number one cheated on me, number two was batshit crazy and number three I knocked on the head as I got fed up travelling to Essex every weekend. It was fourth time lucky as I have been married to fiance number four for twenty years. Mainly do to the fact I was fed up of spending too much money on engagement rings!
You can get engagement rings from Poundland now you know.
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Don’t they give the ring back when the engagement finishes?
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I got engaged yesterday, currently in Antwerp paying for the damage.
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Congratulations!
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A good omen, we beat Leeds 2-1 in Danny Baker's sausage sandwich game. So...2-1 to us with a late winner.
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We're gonna hammer somebody soon, so I'll go for a bore draw.
1-1
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The type of game we really need to be winning if we want to make any sort of late surge for promotion.
2-2 or 3-2 to them.
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Simply have to win. 3-2 villa
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The family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.
How many ex-fiances have you got, you old dog?!
Three. Number one cheated on me, number two was batshit crazy and number three I knocked on the head as I got fed up travelling to Essex every weekend. It was fourth time lucky as I have been married to fiance number four for twenty years. Mainly do to the fact I was fed up of spending too much money on engagement rings!
You let them keep the rings? surely you just by one and recycle.
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I got engaged yesterday, currently in Antwerp paying for the damage.
Are you taking a Showgirl for your bride ? ;)
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I got engaged yesterday, currently in Antwerp paying for the damage.
Are you taking a Showgirl for your bride ? ;)
I've no doubt that this is something that comes up regularly on in some dusty corner of this site, but for me that's a startling, welcome blast from the past.
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Ha...not quite, she was a little ballerina as a child but then fell for Billy Corgan and Liam Gallagher and started wearing Doc Martens.
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Mings makes his debut in place of Chester and Carrol is on the Bench.
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Ha...not quite, she was a little ballerina as a child but then fell for Billy Corgan and Liam Gallagher and started wearing Doc Martens.
Billy Corgan has turned out to be a bit of a nutter: Mates with Alex Jones (https://uproxx.com/viral/billy-corgan-social-justice-alex-jones/)