Why Can't we play like Swansea ?

[Huntley & Palmer]

Because most Reading fans are just a bunch of idiots who don't appreciate quite how lucky we are to be witnessing the best period of football in our history

[Hoop Blah]

The point is that Swansea go about trying to win games in style that many find more appealing than ours. If they can continue the consistency they've shown for the last month or so for the rest of the season I think they'll be in with a great shout of making and winning the play offs.

They will have as good a shout as anyone else in the playoffs. I couldn't give two oxf*rd about our style of football if it gets us promoted, I'm sure Swansea fans would say the same

Exactly. What we do, we do well. So why change it?

Maybe to improve?

(not that playing like Swansea would guarantee an improvement, but if you don't look to be constantly findings ways to improve/evolve you'll end up paying the price....a bit like we did last season)

[Wycombe Royal]

Who's our 'big lump of a striker' then? None of Doyle, Lita, or Hunt breaks 6'.

Oh come now, in the rush to try and make a contrary post, surely you can see its Lita? Would 'lump' have been enough or would you merely have searched a bit harder?

After seeing Ben Burgess and Jon Parkin grace the Madejski Stadium this season I think your criteria for a footballer being a "lump" may be slightly wide of the mark.

[papereyes]

Who's our 'big lump of a striker' then? None of Doyle, Lita, or Hunt breaks 6'.

Oh come now, in the rush to try and make a contrary post, surely you can see its Lita? Would 'lump' have been enough or would you merely have searched a bit harder?

After seeing Ben Burgess and Jon Parkin grace the Madejski Stadium this season I think your criteria for a footballer being a "lump" may be slightly wide of the mark.

and another one. Wow. Its not like there was a whole post that they could go for and drawing a bit of a comparison between Lita and Harewood has got them all frothing at the mouth.

[sheshnu]

and another one. Wow. Its not like there was a whole post that they could go for and drawing a bit of a comparison between Lita and Harewood has got them all frothing at the mouth.

I think people might have assumed you were comparing Reading's strikers to ones that actually play for Villa - Harewood has played 65 minutes in the league this season, and none since the ten minutes he had at the start of December. He is more like Lita than any of the other Villa players but I wouldn't describe either player as the 'big lump' in their team.

Anyway, I'm sure most Swansea and Reading fans are happy with their teams at the moment and any who aren't really should consider saving their money and watching Man U on the telly every weekend instead.

[papereyes]

and another one. Wow. Its not like there was a whole post that they could go for and drawing a bit of a comparison between Lita and Harewood has got them all frothing at the mouth.

I think people might have assumed you were comparing Reading's strikers to ones that actually play for Villa - Harewood has played 65 minutes in the league this season, and none since the ten minutes he had at the start of December. He is more like Lita than any of the other Villa players but I wouldn't describe either player as the 'big lump' in their team.

and Lita's barely played for us, so the comparison seems increasingly more accurate, so thank you for bringing that further parallel to light. Cheers.

[papereyes]

Who's our 'big lump of a striker' then? None of Doyle, Lita, or Hunt breaks 6'.

Oh come now, in the rush to try and make a contrary post, surely you can see its Lita? Would 'lump' have been enough or would you merely have searched a bit harder?

But then again, you got your post in, so I congratulate you on that. Well done.

What a load of bollocks. I expected better from you papereyes. Lita is hardly a 'lump' in any footballing sense of the word.

Still, if you want to go off on one because someone doesn't agree with your opinion, feel free. No skin off my nose.

But you haven't disagreed with, what, 90 % of the opinion and got a dig in over the use of one word.

I was just ... impressed.

At least you're better than the two that followed you. I think they just scented blood.

[Hoop Blah]

I can see the similarities between the two.

Reasonably hard working, solid defensively, play with two wingers and have a reasonable record from set pieces, but I don't think we play in a similar style really.

We play the channels and percentages a lot more than Villa do and they work the ball through midfield a lot more to release their wingers, who are both technically very good on the ball.

Having said that they're not afraid to lump it forward to likes of Carew to see what might happen if they have to (we don't have a similar target man at all).

I'm not sure anyone plays in the Premiship quite like we do. Maybe thats for a good reason?

[Ozymandias]

Because most Reading fans are just a bunch of idiots who don't appreciate quite how lucky we are to be witnessing the best period of football in our history

Land of the blind, m8