The midfield was a shambles, Edwards looked badly off the pace especially in the first half. Bacuna (and Evans) badly missed. Aluko was playing very deep first half, got through a fair bit of work with some lovely touches but not close enough to the goal to do any damage. Second half he faded alarmi...

George Evans and Sam Smith probably the two most frustrated men after that

From goal kicks they man-marked all 4 of our defenders and no-one had a clue what to do. Only 6 subs is crazy for the first day of the season. Where was Obita? - hopefully "just" an injury and not unsettled by a bid. We move on.

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Reading4eva Popa Swift Loader

Sounds like a bad 90's hip hop artist.

I thought Popa was a Rolling Stone?

Only 6 named subs

That don't impress me mutch

We do ourselves no favours by losing the nerve to play the possession game when put under a bit of pressure. The defence doesn't want to drop deep to receive from Al-Habsi, so he has to kick long and we give away possession, usually resulting in another attack. I hope Stam sticks with 3 at the back;...

Worth noting that QPR pressed very high up the pitch for the full 90 minutes. Other teams have tried this season but then faded. QPR's discipline meant we had to be much more direct and there was very little passing it around the back. Al-Habsi probably kicked long more times in this match than all ...

I am quite worried that Man City will beat the 13 wins

6 out of 6 so far, seem unstoppable and their upcoming fixtures don't look too troublesome, especially if they can get past Spurs:

Spurs a
Everton h
Soton h
West Brom a
Boro h
Palace a
Burnley a

to equal 13

then Chelsea h for 14.

The entire season turned in that 10 minutes at Fulham where Tshibola got injured and we let in 3 goals. Crazy really but that is the truth. It was to Clark's detriment that he couldn't change course after that setback.

There was a Wealdstone game in around 88 when we won 2-0 and Vinny Jones got sent off for Wealdstone. The Welling Utd 4 game marathon - I can clearly remember in the 1st or 2nd replay, Mark Whitlock rising like a salmon to meet a cross in front of the Tilehurst End with a huge grin on his face as he...

Slough Town away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbFTDUidiNw

Evans can play CB allegedly

John Arlott. Used to cycle to Elm Park & back from Basingstoke

OK panic over looks like someone has just withdrawn the open offers on Di Canio so the price has moved but no actual money for him

Di Canio heavily backed on all the markets & exchanges

size 12 Simod Cup winner 1988

I remember going to Huddersfield first game of a season (possibly 1994/1995?) and winning 3-0. Francis was definitely in goal for them that day

Beautiful summer's day and we were very good. We played so well I put £10 on us winning the title

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again but expecting different results. Steve Clarke should be expecting the men in white coats as playing with that formation and personnel has been shown time and again to not work especially away from home. I thought that playing an attacking...

LWJ
What's AVB doing nowadays?

doing very well at Zenit St Petersburg

Kit Symons