MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (h)

[Harry Bo]

Well guys we haven’t done that well down there in recent times so let’s see what happens tomorrow. As said above, our star loaner Amario Cozier-Duberry is out injured but we did sign two experienced replacements in Blackett-Taylor from Derby and Apter from Charlton who both have promotion and Championship experience. We also brought in Ruben Rodriguez for midfield another with promotion and Championship experience with Oxford so we had a really good window.

We play a much more expansive game down the wings under Schumacher compared to the slow sideways and backwards garbage of Evatt but whilst we don’t score a lot of goals we don’t concede many either so I think it’ll be a tight game and settled by one goal. Dalby is our main man at the moment with ten goals and is really finding his form but I doubt Burstow will play as he’s really dropped off after a bright start and didn’t make the squad on Saturday replaced by Johnny Kenny signed on loan in the window from Celtic. Erhahon is showing some form in the centre along with Sheehan so really the team is now coming together well.

I’ve watched a couple of your games recently and been especially impressed with Jack Marriott who I think was a cracking signing and I’m sure he’ll be fully fired up after his hat trick against Wycombe at the weekend. After a poor start you’ve really pushed on recently and must now have a really good chance of making the play offs. Sorry if we put a spoke in that tomorrow but a win for us is essential if we’re to have any chance of catching Lincoln but memories of our epic Wembley play off final still linger large and who can count out another encounter?

Harry Bo, after years of therapy, I was recently recovering from memories of that play off final. You've just sent me into a relapse mate. Cheers for that

Ha, what a game that was it had everything and if that penalty had gone in it would probably have been very different but being biased I still think it was the best play off final ever. I wouldn’t imagine the game tomorrow will get close to matching it but I do think it will be a good game between two footballing teams unlike so many in L1. Let’s just hope the officials don’t spoil it and if one of us wins they deserve it? We both need the points so it should be a good contest.

[BWFC-1]

Areet lads and lasses from that there down south !

Not a clue about the game really , could go either way . We are grinding out results but not playing particularly well . I think we are shot shy , and rely on a pacy left winger CBT , an in form Sam Dalby getting on the end of nothing balls and a resolute defence .

Think your rise has been incredible so you must be doing something right , cant solely be down to ex Wanderer Leam Richardson , so you must have some decent players .

The best thing tho is that weird 10 year "rivalry" seems to have disappeared .
I was at both games where a forward scored then went in goal and made a worldy save . John McGinlay for us and Jimmy Quinn for you , both games ending up 2-1 to the home side . That cant possibly have happened in any other fixture ?

The play off final .....a few years later I went to a wedding in Buckinghamshire . All strangers at the table . A lovely middle aged couple started the introduction with their names and that they were Reading fans . At my turn I said my name and that I was a Bolton Wanderers fan .
They then spent the next hour and a half telling me that I (ME personally) had broken the hearts of their entire family and had they had known they would have refused to sit with me lol .

The 3-1 at our place , as mentioned above , where I thought we were great for 75 mins and then somehow got hit on the break 3 times and lost 3-1 . The sense of bewiderment coming out of the ground was so strange , like did that just happen ? Shirley some kind of protest needs to be lodged for ....something ?

And then finally the 142 goal hammering at your place when our club was on its bum and I was very touched with the way you lot applauded our fans when singing "we'll support you evermore "

Anyway , I guess let the best team win but if you could let that be us , Ill give you all a huge kiss each !

[Ten Bobsworth]

memories of our epic Wembley play off final still linger large and who can count out another encounter?

I much preferred the 3-1 win to us at your place in 2007. Both our clubs not only in the Premier League but fighting for a European spot, crazy. You still beat us to it by one point anyway regardless of that result but it was an epic season for us. Great memories.

2007, I remember it well. A high water mark for Reading and the start of the slippery slope for Bolton Wanderers. A few years later the owner of Forest Green Rovers (for God's sake), Dale Vince, threatened to liquidate Bolton Wanderers over a two-bit striker called Christian Doidge. Vince had sold Doidge down the river to Bolton when everybody in football knew that Bolton was boracic and that the deal would never be completed unless Bolton's owner, Ken Anderson, was able to find new money/new owners from somewhere in fairly short order.

Vince, has been in the news again recently. When isn't he? This time it was the Daily T reporting on the unusual financing of the full-on lefty's divorce settlement. It would cost quite a lot in tax and NIC to get £17m out of a company through conventional means.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... ettlement/

[Royal Monkey]

Play anything like we did against Wycombe and we are going to get battered.
We need to be more solid at the back and need more bite and presence in midfield which has looked quite weak lately.
Hopefully LR has done his homework and knows Bolton play with wingers who like to get a cross in, with all that in mind I would play a 5-3-2 of
Pereira
Nyambe O’Connor. Ward. Dorsett. Roberts
Frazer. Wing. Savage
Doyle. Marriott

Subs Stevens Yids Burns Lane Young Ritchie Kelvin

Keep it tight and keep a clean sheet and Marriott scores with our only shot on target for a 1-0 win. Thank you very much now TROTT on back to Lancashire!

[RoyalBlue]

Areet lads and lasses from that there down south !

Not a clue about the game really , could go either way . We are grinding out results but not playing particularly well . I think we are shot shy , and rely on a pacy left winger CBT , !

'Pacey left winger'? Well that's us screwed then if Richardson goes with Andy Yiadom at right back! Sadly age and injuries have caught up with him and he has lost the pace he once had.

[Royals and Racers]

Expected turnout from Bolton of around 1000- good effort that !

[Orion1871]

Areet lads and lasses from that there down south !

Not a clue about the game really , could go either way . We are grinding out results but not playing particularly well . I think we are shot shy , and rely on a pacy left winger CBT , an in form Sam Dalby getting on the end of nothing balls and a resolute defence .

Think your rise has been incredible so you must be doing something right , cant solely be down to ex Wanderer Leam Richardson , so you must have some decent players .

The best thing tho is that weird 10 year "rivalry" seems to have disappeared .
I was at both games where a forward scored then went in goal and made a worldy save . John McGinlay for us and Jimmy Quinn for you , both games ending up 2-1 to the home side . That cant possibly have happened in any other fixture ?

The play off final .....a few years later I went to a wedding in Buckinghamshire . All strangers at the table . A lovely middle aged couple started the introduction with their names and that they were Reading fans . At my turn I said my name and that I was a Bolton Wanderers fan .
They then spent the next hour and a half telling me that I (ME personally) had broken the hearts of their entire family and had they had known they would have refused to sit with me lol .

The 3-1 at our place , as mentioned above , where I thought we were great for 75 mins and then somehow got hit on the break 3 times and lost 3-1 . The sense of bewiderment coming out of the ground was so strange , like did that just happen ? Shirley some kind of protest needs to be lodged for ....something ?

And then finally the 142 goal hammering at your place when our club was on its bum and I was very touched with the way you lot applauded our fans when singing "we'll support you evermore "

Anyway , I guess let the best team win but if you could let that be us , Ill give you all a huge kiss each !

Get it out to that pacey winger at all times, and we'll let him pick whichever cross he wants to put in to Dalby.

[Orion1871]

memories of our epic Wembley play off final still linger large and who can count out another encounter?

I much preferred the 3-1 win to us at your place in 2007. Both our clubs not only in the Premier League but fighting for a European spot, crazy. You still beat us to it by one point anyway regardless of that result but it was an epic season for us. Great memories.

2007, I remember it well. A high water mark for Reading and the start of the slippery slope for Bolton Wanderers. A few years later the owner of Forest Green Rovers (for God's sake), Dale Vince, threatened to liquidate Bolton Wanderers over a two-bit striker called Christian Doidge. Vince had sold Doidge down the river to Bolton when everybody in football knew that Bolton was boracic and that the deal would never be completed unless Bolton's owner, Ken Anderson, was able to find new money/new owners from somewhere in fairly short order.

Vince, has been in the news again recently. When isn't he? This time it was the Daily T reporting on the unusual financing of the full-on lefty's divorce settlement. It would cost quite a lot in tax and NIC to get £17m out of a company through conventional means.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... ettlement/

Oh god the absolute weirdo Kenbobsworth is back. No one gives a shit, Ken.

[bakerlou]

The 2-1 win v Bolton at EP a month before the PO final remains one of my top 5 Elm Park matches.

When Nogan notched the late winner I thought the top of my head was going to explode, a bit like when The Spice Girls did Who Do You Think You Are at The Brits Awards a couple of years later

[Ten Bobsworth]

I much preferred the 3-1 win to us at your place in 2007. Both our clubs not only in the Premier League but fighting for a European spot, crazy. You still beat us to it by one point anyway regardless of that result but it was an epic season for us. Great memories.

2007, I remember it well. A high water mark for Reading and the start of the slippery slope for Bolton Wanderers. A few years later the owner of Forest Green Rovers (for God's sake), Dale Vince, threatened to liquidate Bolton Wanderers over a two-bit striker called Christian Doidge. Vince had sold Doidge down the river to Bolton when everybody in football knew that Bolton was boracic and that the deal would never be completed unless Bolton's owner, Ken Anderson, was able to find new money/new owners from somewhere in fairly short order.

Vince, has been in the news again recently. When isn't he? This time it was the Daily T reporting on the unusual financing of the full-on lefty's divorce settlement. It would cost quite a lot in tax and NIC to get £17m out of a company through conventional means.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... ettlement/

Oh god the absolute weirdo Kenbobsworth is back. No one gives a shit, Ken.

Nice to be remembered.

Iirc this site was over-represented by Lefties and Greta geeks who would all prefer that a veil be drawn over Vince's 'unusually interesting' activities.

I don't expect much has changed except that Vince, apparently, has made Reading the centre of his 'gas from grass' empire. I expect there must be a reason forrit.

Does anyone happen to know if he's now living on his own in that hilltop fort that was once a garrison for 200 militia men? It seems such a waste to me.

[PieEater]

M4 Westbound is closed Jn 10 to 11, until 10pm, should be fun getting there tonight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89ky0qjdl5o

[stealthpapes]

The 2-1 win v Bolton at EP a month before the PO final remains one of my top 5 Elm Park matches.

Friday night, under the lights, kids literally scrambling over the wall into the Tilehurst end.

LOVE IT.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Pretty sure you are right but not sure why.
It's a full league 1 schedule on Tuesday so don't know why they are only showing 9 of the 11 games that evening.

And we're not one of them

Correction, we are on, just scrolled down the sky list and we are at the bottom as we are kicking off at 8 pm
Apologies for the confusion

Thank you for clearing it up

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I much preferred the 3-1 win to us at your place in 2007. Both our clubs not only in the Premier League but fighting for a European spot, crazy. You still beat us to it by one point anyway regardless of that result but it was an epic season for us. Great memories.

2007, I remember it well. A high water mark for Reading and the start of the slippery slope for Bolton Wanderers. A few years later the owner of Forest Green Rovers (for God's sake), Dale Vince, threatened to liquidate Bolton Wanderers over a two-bit striker called Christian Doidge. Vince had sold Doidge down the river to Bolton when everybody in football knew that Bolton was boracic and that the deal would never be completed unless Bolton's owner, Ken Anderson, was able to find new money/new owners from somewhere in fairly short order.

Vince, has been in the news again recently. When isn't he? This time it was the Daily T reporting on the unusual financing of the full-on lefty's divorce settlement. It would cost quite a lot in tax and NIC to get £17m out of a company through conventional means.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... ettlement/

Oh god the absolute weirdo Kenbobsworth is back. No one gives a shit, Ken.

[Sutekh]

The 2-1 win v Bolton at EP a month before the PO final remains one of my top 5 Elm Park matches.

Friday night, under the lights, kids literally scrambling over the wall into the Tilehurst end.

LOVE IT.

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YouTube highlights of this game

Funny, I was there at the front of the South Bank but aside from the atmosphere all I remember of the match action is David Page’s utterly fluke equaliser