Bristol City (A) Official Match Thread

[sandman]

Here come the know it alls.

Hardly. But reading the thread from the start is hilarious. Football's brilliant.

If you were talking about the Donny Match thread where the team were dismissed straight from the start I'd agree but much of the negativity was justified on this thread because all the information available was describing the match as probably the worst performance of the season. I'm feeling sh1t so I'm a bit irritable, sorry.

[bracknell loyal royal!]

[Blue&White Mage]

Have SSN shown the goals yet? First two times I watched the champ highlights they didn't show the reading game.

[Focher]

Have SSN shown the goals yet? First two times I watched the champ highlights they didn't show the reading game.

just been on

[Tamworth_Royal]

Great result pleased for Alf and Manset, great back flip for the winner, even more so pleased for M'cD working under the terrible Madejski constraints

[Woodcote Royal]

It's match threads like these that come along once in a while to remind me just how retarded (Reading) football fans can be.

Tip o'the hat to Gus the Teenage Cow - unbridled optimism in the face of a hurricane of shit is how to pull the team out of the depths.

Couldn't agree more.

[Rex]

It's match threads like these that come along once in a while to remind me just how retarded (Reading) football fans can be.

Tip o'the hat to Gus the Teenage Cow - unbridled optimism in the face of a hurricane of shit is how to pull the team out of the depths.

Couldn't agree more.

Agreed - reading HNA at half time works wonders for the soul.

[URZZ]

I'm glad we won tonight, have a horrendous next 4 games.

[BenReadingFC]

I'm glad we won tonight, have a horrendous next 4 games.

3 of them are @ home. I'm hoping yesterdays comeback is a corner turned...(squad showing a bit of fight etc) but still agree that the next few games are a big bag of shit.

[Cripple Creek]

According to a Bristol City fan commenting on the Bristol Evening Post's match report

"Reading were awful, as Hull were on Saturday, the worst two teams at AG this season".

[West Stand Man]

According to a Bristol City fan commenting on the Bristol Evening Post's match report

"Reading were awful, as Hull were on Saturday, the worst two teams at AG this season".

Other than Bristol City, I assume?

[skipper]

According to a Bristol City fan commenting on the Bristol Evening Post's match report

"Reading were awful, as Hull were on Saturday, the worst two teams at AG this season".

Other than Bristol City, I assume?

[Silver Fox]

Here come the know it alls.

Is realising the game lasts 90 minutes really knowing it all?

[roadrunner]

I prefer the more traditional white shorts and white socks but I have to say the blue shorts work a lot better with that kit.

[sandman]

Here come the know it alls.

Is realising the game lasts 90 minutes really knowing it all?

Is realising that we're playing badly and need to up our game something to be mocked? Do you think Brian went in at half time and said we were playing well and didn't need to up our game? We weren't playing well and people were calling it correctly.

[West Stand Man]

Here come the know it alls.

Is realising the game lasts 90 minutes really knowing it all?

Equally, is realising that the season is 46 games long really knowing it all? It isn't just about knowing that, it is about having the confidence and 'being a fan'!

Even after all these years I remain amazed by the number of people who get so negative after we go a goal or 2 down; who think that one defeat is a sign that we are on the road to ruin; that one victory means that we are going up; that when we win ugly we are shit; that when we lose a game we dominated and were excellent in we were shit; that RFC has to be staffed by players who could march into the current Man Utd, Chelsea or Man City sides; and that every new signing is 'not up to this league'.

The facts speak for themselves. This is the best era of football at Reading, ever. When we are not as good as we should be we are still better than we were. We used to be a team that languished in the lower leagues; equate us with Rochdale and you'd be close. We are now viewed by most other football supporters as a big club (at this level). Few, if any football supporters don't know who we are.

As to this season. My hope is that we are at or near the top on the last day. My expectation is that we will be in or near the play-offs. So far nothing makes me feel that expectation is too high.

[RobRoyal]

Here come the know it alls.

Is realising the game lasts 90 minutes really knowing it all?

Is realising that we're playing badly and need to up our game something to be mocked? Do you think Brian went in at half time and said we were playing well and didn't need to up our game? We weren't playing well and people were calling it correctly.

This. For a performance described by Dellor (alright, I know) as "the worst I've ever seen Reading play and win," I think it's acceptable that there might be some complaint as well as satisfaction at the eventual turnaround.

I think we all know there aren't many teams in the division that would let us get away with a performance like that, and we won't pick up anything on saturday if we don't improve.

[Rex]

Spot on. The win papered the cracks in a team who in the first half and most of the second half lacked the nous to break City down. I came out of that game with pleasant egg on my face. A grinding result is obviously something i will take any day but it was frustrating and ineffective route one for the most part.

[Royal Rother]

I enjoy the we-are-pathetic posts just prior to the turnaround, (but okay, maybe we were pathetic) - however it's the blaming-it-all-on-Madejski posts when we went 2-0 down that deserve the biggest up-yours.

But overall it's just history repeating itself - poor start to a season then everything is awful, everyone is useless, we always sell our best players to fill a black hole - then we somehow recover and climb the table.

I know I don't go to RFC games so haven't witnessed the poor performances but believe me I'm having the same debates with Windsor FC fans some of whom are similarly impatient for success. It takes all sorts but I just don't get the pleasure to be had from slagging off your own club, its players, even an ongoing performance during a game to the extent that people do on here.

It's an odd way to follow a team imo.

If the reports are correct then for the last 20 minutes we looked really good (even if Bristol City helped create that impression, big time) but still there are people who would rather focus on the preceding 70 minutes. Why is that? It was the same team out there (substitutions apart which presumably BM will have learned from) so why focus on the negatives?

It's a gelling and confidence thing. Confidence in oneself and in each other is equally important as natural ability. Hopefully they can find a way to bottle that 20 minutes and chug from it before every game from now on.

[sandman]

People dwelling on the first 70 minutes will hopefully include the manager and coaching staff at Hogwood this week.