With two games close together next week. Expect will see Holmes back against Blackburn . Then Esteves starting Friday. It's demanding schedule for them to play.

Jagermesiter1871 Some of the nonsense posted on the Rotherham forums. Apparently having 63% of the ball is enough to merit a win despite not doing anything with it.

Stam should go there as the manager.

Do appreciate Paunovic's after match candour. Very frank and honest assessment of the game. Respectful to the opposition.

Semodo needs match time to get both fitness and sharpness.

Understandable team selection. Rotating the players will help keep them fresh in this run of games.

WestYorksRoyal Blackburn dealing out a hammering at Coventry. Tricky next fixture.

Coventry went to 10 men after 14 minutes. That's one player that will be missing next friday.

This is a poor division this season.....

Snowflake Royal

CountryRoyal Would anyone take a 0-0 right now?

No. We grow into games, have quality on the bench and concede little.

The more the opposition have the ball the greater the possibility that they will score though. This is Reading of old.

Why are we soooooooooooo deep.

Snowflake Royal RIno is already bossing this game..

I’d be starting Aluko on the left, Ejaria in the middle and Olise on the right to be honest. Real shame John swift is out as we’ve certainly been missing him. 16 points suggests not. Yet in all of our last four games we’ve struggled to create many chances. If Joao was injured(which is relevant beca...

Reading 0-0 Rotherham HT
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1-0 Reading (Puscas 77)

Something else worth noting; from Sky Sports last night, it is clear that their perceived "wisdom" is that Watford, Bournemouth and Brentford are going to be the teams battling it out for Automatic promotion. Lazy journalism for sure, (and of course, they seem to have forgotten that we ha...

Agree with both points you make. Holmes looks much better than Esteves defensively but Esteves looks like he could be a real threat going forwards - hence why I said earlier to play them both. I'd quite like to see them in a back 5, gives Esteves more cover while still allowing him to attack from d...

Just did some quick adding up (I’m on hols this week). In 48 PL games this season 172 goals have been scored at an average of 3.58 per game which is unusually high. In the Championship only 130 goals have been scored from 67 games at just 1.94 per game which is very low. So on average you can expec...

Still think Laurent+Rinomhota are the most important players in this team Both awful today imo. Which probably emphasises your point. We were shit cos they were shit. Rino showed glimpses of the player he is but nothing like usual and Laurent appeared largely anonymous. Agree with both sentiments t...

Moore was imperious, easily MotM for me. Given that Joao now has two/three men on him the entire time, maybe we should start Puscas over Meite, he would do well in the extra space. Can't believe that I'm saying it, but we need to see more of Aluko. Interesting point. Also interesting that we now ha...

As for the next game I’d bring in Esteves but not to replace Holmes. I do think the latter has been so influential to our defensive abilities but it’s obvious he lacks going forward. In Esteves’ cameo he showed why he should play but equally there were a couple of moments which didn’t inspire supre...

Stopped leaking soft goals. Offensively not great. Though I wonder if Laurent and Rinomhota have been told to sit deep. With the first objective not to lose the game. With the limited camera angles difficult to see what the position of the players is at times. Rotherham is going to be an aerial assa...

WoodleyRoyal Pauno should learn a lot from today’s performance

Promotion is going to be a doddle. Have a shot. Score a goal. Job done.

68% possession.

How much was in own half............

Ejaria offers very little attacking threat.