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Post by royal1871 on May 20, 2017 10:27:53 GMT 1
Absolutely this ^^ Quite an amusing thread on our forum is from one of your fans who will be travelling from near Reading and asked would he feel safe on the trains. After about 20 or so replies he has so far been threatened with handshakes and a cup of tea. I think it will make the day all the better, sure we will both be gutted if we lose but two managers who have done a fantastic job and fans delighted to be there. As long as you don't bring Trevor Senior out of retirement I'll be happy, he always bloody scored against us. Best wishes to all from Royal Berkshire. Ahhh Trevior Senior, if only. i tell you what we won't play Trevor Senior if you don't play Nakhi Wells! Sounds fair to me, lol Its a final between 2 clubs who appreciate being there and don't feel they should automatically be there. At the start of the season fans and manager included would have taken a top half finish. i wouldn't say we have flown under the radar, more avoided the battery of anti aircraft missiles from the pundits trying to shoot us down.
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Post by royal1871 on May 20, 2017 10:47:50 GMT 1
One of my favourite parts of watching the match on Sky (at least in hindsight, it was irritating at the time) was listening to the pundits desperately trying to maintain the facade that it was one talented team whose destiny is the PL, against a bunch of enthusiastic upstarts who have fluked a place. (1) They start off by explaining Sheff Weds' masterplan in the first leg, to frustrate us and get to the second leg on level terms (despite their players saying in post match interviews that it wasn't what they had intended to do). (2) They go on to explain how Weds will come out of the blocks, and how they expect Town to sit back and frustrate. (3) They spend the first 45 minutes explaining that Weds are doing the right thing by frustrating us, and that it "must surely be part of their game plan" (this is an actual quote, but doesn't quite convey the near desperation that was in the tone of voice). (4) They proclaim it's game over after Weds score. (5) They slowly start to realise, as we dominate the next 40 minutes, plus 30 minutes extra time, with the help of some stats that somebody found them, that Weds were forced to play the way they did by us, and that we nailed the performances. (6) They finish by laughing about how it is the final that nobody expected. I didn't watch it, but I suspect it was similar with the Reading game. For anyone who has followed the Championship season, and especially those who think that promotion should be reserved for the three best teams, there is a real poetic justice to these results. Only us and Reading really mounted a sustained challenge on the top two. I think it'll be a corker of a final. Fulham were far better than Wednesday, at least in the second game, and were arguably unlucky. Reading though showed how effective they are and totally deserve their place. We've whinged about our exposure and commentary, but people would be apoplectic if they got Reading's....and they finished third! Haha, believe me we are just glad to be there and couldn't really care less what anyone else says or doesn't say. 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th doesn't make a difference. Unless you finish 1st or 2nd the season needs to finish at Wembley. We did get one sort of compliment during the commentary on Tuesday 'Reading are doing what they do best and keeping the ball, Fulham aren't bad at that either'
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Post by AndySk on May 20, 2017 10:58:30 GMT 1
A note to Reading fans, after suffering a couple of weeks of having Wednesday fans camped on this board you appear to be posting wrong on here. If you could try being a lot more arrogant, deluded, boring, talk only about your support (it's all that matters) and completely write us off then we'd all feel much better. None of this jovial, friendly bollocks, it's not natural
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Post by Lard Buttie on May 20, 2017 11:02:41 GMT 1
It has been quite amusing watching Sky trying to desperately talk up the final they dreaded happening! I'm surprised Sky and The Premier League haven't had an emergency meeting to have the results of both ties reversed. There's still time I suppose. There all too busy dealing with the Brexit vote..........still
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Post by royal1871 on May 20, 2017 11:18:39 GMT 1
A note to Reading fans, after suffering a couple of weeks of having Wednesday fans camped on this board you appear to posting wrong on here. If you could try being a lot more arrogant, deluded, boring, talk only about your support (it's all that matters) and completely write us off then we'd all feel much better. None of this jovial, friendly bollocks, it's not natural Many apologies. We are somewhat reliant on the Wembley result before our plans for a direct replica of the Nou Camp built in Reading, the best City in Europe (we should be a City!) will come into effect. Only then can we house our Massive fan base who are currently having to travel to the likes of Chelsea. We should have had at least 75% of the allocation for the final, see above comment. Wembley will never have heard a noise like it as our travelling army travel over land and sea (about 26 minutes on a direct train) to London. Be afraid, be very afraid. We will have an armoury of flags, clappers and jester hats. Some of our deep undercover mob will have disguised their hair and will be wearing war paint, we know how to intimidate the opposition. is that better?
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Post by AndySk on May 20, 2017 11:31:28 GMT 1
A note to Reading fans, after suffering a couple of weeks of having Wednesday fans camped on this board you appear to posting wrong on here. If you could try being a lot more arrogant, deluded, boring, talk only about your support (it's all that matters) and completely write us off then we'd all feel much better. None of this jovial, friendly bollocks, it's not natural Many apologies. We are somewhat reliant on the Wembley result before our plans for a direct replica of the Nou Camp built in Reading, the best City in Europe (we should be a City!) will come into effect. Only then can we house our Massive fan base who are currently having to travel to the likes of Chelsea. We should have had at least 75% of the allocation for the final, see above comment. Wembley will never have heard a noise like it as our travelling army travel over land and sea (about 26 minutes on a direct train) to London. Be afraid, be very afraid. We will have an armoury of flags, clappers and jester hats. Some of our deep undercover mob will have disguised their hair and will be wearing war paint, we know how to intimidate the opposition. is that better? Much, you could have been a bit more offensive about us but it's definitely a step in the right direction
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Post by royal1871 on May 20, 2017 11:37:20 GMT 1
Many apologies. We are somewhat reliant on the Wembley result before our plans for a direct replica of the Nou Camp built in Reading, the best City in Europe (we should be a City!) will come into effect. Only then can we house our Massive fan base who are currently having to travel to the likes of Chelsea. We should have had at least 75% of the allocation for the final, see above comment. Wembley will never have heard a noise like it as our travelling army travel over land and sea (about 26 minutes on a direct train) to London. Be afraid, be very afraid. We will have an armoury of flags, clappers and jester hats. Some of our deep undercover mob will have disguised their hair and will be wearing war paint, we know how to intimidate the opposition. is that better? Much, you could have been a bit more offensive about us but it's definitely a step in the right direction Who are you?
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Post by sheesh on May 20, 2017 12:34:41 GMT 1
All this amicable stuff... It reminds me of 87 (?) When we got relegated. Anyone remember the song "The football league is upside down, we're going up with the Reading, and Aston Villa's going down"
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Post by upthetown on May 20, 2017 13:31:31 GMT 1
You know what although we both obviously want to win it's so refreshing that both sets of fans will have great respect for each other. Both written off and with a collective ability to stick two fingers up to the experts. May the best team win. Absolutely this ^^ Quite an amusing thread on our forum is from one of your fans who will be travelling from near Reading and asked would he feel safe on the trains. After about 20 or so replies he has so far been threatened with handshakes and a cup of tea. Handshakes and a cup of tea? Well, we survived The Cauldron (Hillsborough, apparently), but that's taking it up a level.
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Post by upthetown on May 20, 2017 13:32:49 GMT 1
Much, you could have been a bit more offensive about us but it's definitely a step in the right direction Who are you? He's Andy, mate.
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Post by trailingleg on May 20, 2017 13:46:31 GMT 1
A note to Reading fans, after suffering a couple of weeks of having Wednesday fans camped on this board you appear to posting wrong on here. If you could try being a lot more arrogant, deluded, boring, talk only about your support (it's all that matters) and completely write us off then we'd all feel much better. None of this jovial, friendly bollocks, it's not natural Many apologies. We are somewhat reliant on the Wembley result before our plans for a direct replica of the Nou Camp built in Reading, the best City in Europe (we should be a City!) will come into effect. Only then can we house our Massive fan base who are currently having to travel to the likes of Chelsea. We should have had at least 75% of the allocation for the final, see above comment. Wembley will never have heard a noise like it as our travelling army travel over land and sea (about 26 minutes on a direct train) to London. Be afraid, be very afraid. We will have an armoury of flags, clappers and jester hats. Some of our deep undercover mob will have disguised their hair and will be wearing war paint, we know how to intimidate the opposition. is that better? Yes much better. Could try harder with the better songs and volume of support though.
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Post by AndySk on May 20, 2017 13:56:11 GMT 1
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Post by royal1871 on May 21, 2017 9:22:47 GMT 1
Hi again Terriers,
There are a couple of questions on other threads about how many tickets we (Reading) have sold so far. Rather than continuing to jump in on your other threads I thought I would try to keep any answers from Reading fans on this one for you.
As I'm sure you are aware it's pretty hard to tell with blocks appearing and disappearing but a reasonable estimate would be about 33,000. We have the same issues as you where it seems there are only certain seats left and then an hour later seats appear in blocks that previously looked sold out.
With a week left of sales it looks like it will be a great crowd between us. The attendance for yesterdays final was just over 53,000
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Post by Chips Longhorn on May 21, 2017 9:32:40 GMT 1
Although it's been upgraded on the bantams website to 235000
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Post by irverino on May 21, 2017 9:40:58 GMT 1
Noticed on twitter some Reading fans received tickets in post yesterday, so we should start getting ours on Monday. Have all level 5 tickets been released in Reading end?
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Post by royal1871 on May 21, 2017 9:45:38 GMT 1
Noticed on twitter some Reading fans received tickets in post yesterday, so we should start getting ours on Monday. Have all level 5 tickets been released in Reading end? It's hard to tell between whats been released and whats sold out. I think there are just a couple of blocks left to release. I'm not sure if it is the same with you but our tickets will NOT go on general sale. In saying that from past experience as long as you have a member card by Wednesday we will probably be able to buy quite a few on each card.
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Post by terriersyndrome on May 21, 2017 10:56:17 GMT 1
Noticed on twitter some Reading fans received tickets in post yesterday, so we should start getting ours on Monday. Have all level 5 tickets been released in Reading end? It's hard to tell between whats been released and whats sold out. I think there are just a couple of blocks left to release. I'm not sure if it is the same with you but our tickets will NOT go on general sale. In saying that from past experience as long as you have a member card by Wednesday we will probably be able to buy quite a few on each card. Our tickets went on general sale this morning with the ticket office saying there's another surge of buyers. Over 27k sold as of 8pm yesterday, my guess is around 33-35k will be sold in total, should be a cracking atmosphere with over 70k inside Wembley 👍
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Post by tinpotroyal on May 21, 2017 10:58:33 GMT 1
Ours not going to general sale probably means we won't sell out.
We're tinpot
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Post by terriersyndrome on May 21, 2017 11:02:42 GMT 1
Ours not going to general sale probably means we won't sell out. We're tinpot Well this is the 'tinpot' final afterall
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Post by htfc1908 on May 21, 2017 11:06:15 GMT 1
Ours not going to general sale probably means we won't sell out. We're tinpot Well this is the 'tinpot' final afterall It'll have to be a big 'tinpot' to stuff £200mill in it
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Post by upthetown on May 21, 2017 11:08:32 GMT 1
It'll be a biscuit tin for Reading
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Post by royal1871 on May 21, 2017 11:43:53 GMT 1
Or one very shocked Terrier!
Will be interesting to get both clubs updates tomorrow after the weekend sales. I would guess that the combined total will be approaching 65k by the next official announcements.
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Post by Jack on May 21, 2017 11:49:09 GMT 1
Ours not going to general sale probably means we won't sell out. We're tinpot Enlighten me as to why they wouldn't go on general sale?
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Post by royal1871 on May 21, 2017 11:52:36 GMT 1
Ours not going to general sale probably means we won't sell out. We're tinpot Enlighten me as to why they wouldn't go on general sale? Because we have a member card scheme all sales for this type of game require the buyer to be a member. In fairness as soon as we beat Fulham anyone could then have applied for a member card. Then the stipulation is that you require 25 points on the card, pretty much attended 2 or 3 games at some point over the last 10 years.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 11:56:48 GMT 1
Does anyone think they'll enjoy the actual match? I certainly didn't enjoy Wednesday night, well only in perverse self harming/slightly less stressful than my day job type of way.
Sheff Utd at Wembley was a footballing horror show for 120 mins.
Can we hope for a better spectacle with two decent footballing sides or will it need an early goal to bring one to the sides out?
How do we see it going in terms of possession?
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Post by Syran on May 21, 2017 12:04:09 GMT 1
Bloody sick of reading.
We always get them in the cup! 😉
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Post by royal1871 on May 21, 2017 12:05:21 GMT 1
Does anyone think they'll enjoy the actual match? I certainly didn't enjoy Wednesday night, well only in perverse self harming/slightly less stressful than my day job type of way. Sheff Utd at Wembley was a footballing horror show for 120 mins. Can we hope for a better spectacle with two decent footballing sides or will it need an early goal to bring one to the sides out? How do we see it going in terms of possession? As you quite rightly say, an early goal would dictate everything. Aside from that I would imagine it will be very even possession wise although you may have better territorial possession. We have not really had the opportunity to enjoy a full Wembley day since 1988. I think our semi-final against Fulham had most Reading fans thinking 'they are going to score in a minute' for about the last half an hour and was probably only the last 5 minutes when we really thought we were going to do it. Our last couple of Wembley visits have been ones where we were massive underdogs (Arsenal & Swansea) with this final I think there is a genuine belief amongst both sets of fans that they have a great chance of winning.
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Post by Headless Chicken on May 21, 2017 12:21:49 GMT 1
Yep, a 50:50 for me.
Subject to a silly early sending off, likely a very close and cagey game. Not necessarily one for the neutrals.
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Post by royal1871 on May 22, 2017 10:48:53 GMT 1
Ours not going to general sale probably means we won't sell out. We're tinpot Enlighten me as to why they wouldn't go on general sale? Our tickets have now been put on general sale. Although the initial guidelines were that this wouldn't happen due to Wembley and EFL guidelines, it seems that ticket sales dried up considerably over the weekend so now on general sale at 2 per booking.
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