BFTG 'Uddersfield

[Cureton's Volley]

5 in midfield yet so narrow - McAnuff should stay out wide on the touchline.

HRK abysmal.

Hector & Obita promising.

Admittedly we were shit, but some of the morons in the crowd showed their class again - booing Akpan onto the pitch and prematurely chanting for Alf.

Right now struggling to justify the couple of grand spent per season coming to watching Reading. Maybe I'll take up cross-stich, dating, or baking instead next season...

[RoyalBlue]

Another missed oppertunity with teams around us all dropping points.

McCarthy - 8: Quite a few good saves, especially the one In the first half from the curling effort. Had no chance with the goal.
Gunter -6: Solid enough.
Pearce - 7: One of his better games, not his biggest fan but he was decent today.
Morrison - 5: Looked really off the pace, needed longer with the young lads to improve fitness further. Good to have him back in the side though, IMO our best Centre back.
Obita - 8: My MOTM. Tackled well and got forward again and again and looked a threat, good goal line clearance as well.
McCleary - 6: Not his best game, been really poor of late, like everyone really.
Hector - 6: Decent cameo in midfield. Didn't look overly out of place, a few shakey moments but a good performance overall. Almost scored.
Williams - 6: Not his best day today either. We have missed him in the side though, hope he can stay fit for the rest of the season, key player.
McAnuff - 6: Decent enough performance, set pieces were a bit off though.
HRK - 4: Had an absolute shocker. Touch of a rapist.
Pog - 6: Decent, good penalty, didn't do much else of note though, not yet back to his best from before his injury.

Drenthe - 5: Didn't do much
ALF - 5: Why do we always oxf*rd hoof it to him. He ain't gonna win the header. Always offside.
Akpan - 5: Didn't have enough time to do anything really.


MOTM overall was probably the guy with a beard for them, he was quality, decent finish from Wells for them as well. Wish we signed him, looked a threat all game.

Sounded like Adkins wished the same. Hope he is now making that point very strongly to John 'there will be funds available in January' Madejski!

[tee peg]

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Very poor but 100% better than Tuesday.

Isn't 100% of f*ck all still f*ck all?[/quote]

[RoyalBlue]

Agreed, I do not understand playing Hector when Taylor is a better midfielder. Perhaps he wanted more of a tackling presence but I'd have stuck with Akpan for that. I would also have reverted to the same line up that we had v Bolton and Blackpool. still don't get why Kanu plays ahead of Le Fondu

Overall another crap performance best forgotten as quickly as possible. Thank god for 2 away games up next

Taylor has not looked that good on the occasions that he has got on the pitch and could get destroyed if the fans started moaning about making mistakes. Wouldn't expect Adkins to play any of the youngsters (inexperienced) players in the current climate/environment, unless he had absolutely no other choice.

[RoyalBlue]

Not quite Utter Shite but nearly, yet another average team make us look crap....on way to car park after game saw a few players including Pog with their Wags done up to the nine pins in bling getting in their £100k cars....just about sums up what bad with football at the moment.

Quite! And the FA have the nerve to bleat when public funding to them is cut!

[paultheroyal]

What was Mcanuff Doing around the 20th minute. He seemed to be having a go at the fans - or am I mis reading it?

And quite rightly so.

Our absolute mong fans seem to be playing too much championship manager.

[SPARTA]

Why oh why after 40+ games are we still not moving off the ball and finding space to run in to? McAnuff got frustrated with the East Stand today when Obita did well down the left, had two men on him and was looking for support, and McAnuff just stood still 20 yards behind him near the centre circle. His reaction was to tell us to calm down after showing our frustration at him not making an effort to offer Obita an outlet! He's supposed to be the captain. Adkins has said numerous times that he is asking his players to make space, look for the through ball, run off the ball etc, and here's the bloody captain looking static and not doing the simple things asked of him! It was the same all over the park again too. You can't blame Adkins; these aren't his players and they just aren't comfortable on the ball, let alone the lacking of a football brain to pick the pass.

Another major frustration of mine today was how the midfield didn't want the ball and almost always looked to pass it back to the centre backs who would either hoof it forward, or they played to a left/right back and they hoofed it forward. No one seems to want to take the ball and go forward with it, run into space and pick out a pass. We are so static it's beyond frustrating now. Whether it's kids coming in and the start of a major rebuilding job, or significant investment and retaining the few that are worth keeping and adding to it, I really cannot wait to see some of this utter dross cleared out! I don't even mind if it means a few years or mid-table obscurity while the youngsters develop. It'll be a lot more enjoyable watching them do the simple things asked of them, and watch them improve over time. The existing squad just aren't able to!

McCarthy - 8 (MOTM)

Gunter - 6
Obita - 6
Pearce - 6
Morrison - 5

McAnuff - 4
McCleary - 5
Williams - 5
Hector - 5
Robson-Kanu - 3

Pogrebnyak - 5

Good effort from the fans at the back of Y25/26 today, it's just a shame that so many that also sit there can't be bothered to join in unless it means booing!

[paultheroyal]

Quick fire summary.

Turgid performance.
Huddersfield one of the better sides to visit us this year and I am bewildered to their current league position.
Mccleary must have a new contract with a different team now.
Kanu should be playing for Crawley.
Adkins beginning to frustrate me.
Pogs double twist with a pike every time he falls over is embarrassing.
Guthrie is sorely missed.
Our famed wing play seems to of vanished.
Dreadful atmosphere not helped by what was witnessed on the pitch.




We will go up via play offs.

[P!ssed Off]

McCarthy or Adam Cl8on for MoM.
Obita and Pearce were solid, everyone else looked pretty average.

It was the best home match in 2 months, but that is no real achievement.
Once again we were deprived of an actual proper goal, a defensive error and a penalty the cause of goals yet again.
I look forward to Tuesday for some actual entertainment at the Madejski.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Credit to Huddersfield, thought they looked decent.

[Ian Herring]

Would it be unkind to say that this current Reading team is spineless - both in state of mind and in application?

It does not possess the hard edge that less technically gifted sides have had, yet in the same assembly have achieved far more by being men, in the true sense.

It has no leaders, it has become corporatised, it is made of business-driven dough.

There is a bad softness in modern society as a rule…perhaps it is a UK thing; cultural, homogenised, institutionalised. Exemplified in sport, in some arenas.

But it does not serve professional sport well.

And it spreads…from the playing fields to the stands and to the media and becomes endemic, and then becomes circular and full of the cycle of mutual contempt. We hate them for being soft.They hate us for not 'supporting' them.

Apologies for the pseudo-Arborfield University syntax.

But I feel that this club and this team cries out for a cold, hard state of mind.

Pull your fucking socks up, all of you (us!), perhaps a la Kebe (and certainly a la the far more robust and muscular specimens of RFC assemblage of not so long gone past and beyond, our historical templates).

Start hurting people, start playing well, and start applying a hard psychology. 'Put the hammer down', as the cliche says.

The old hard edges of Elm Park could live on in the club's psychology and its ethos - barbed-wire thinking, concrete terrace obduracy, breeze-block defiance.

Should anyone desire the same.

Cause pain.

Obtain gain.

Far too fucking nice and cuddly these days, the whole palaver.

[P!ssed Off]

Credit to Huddersfield, thought they looked decent.

Bear in mind we've made Barnsley and Yeovil look decent in recent games.

[SPARTA]

Credit to Huddersfield, thought they looked decent.

Bear in mind we've made Barnsley and Yeovil look decent in recent games.

and Sheffield Wednesday, and so so many others.

[Victor Meldrew]

Why oh why after 40+ games are we still not moving off the ball and finding space to run in to? McAnuff got frustrated with the East Stand today when Obita did well down the left, had two men on him and was looking for support, and McAnuff just stood still 20 yards behind him near the centre circle. His reaction was to tell us to calm down after showing our frustration at him not making an effort to offer Obita an outlet! He's supposed to be the captain. Adkins has said numerous times that he is asking his players to make space, look for the through ball, run off the ball etc, and here's the bloody captain looking static and not doing the simple things asked of him! It was the same all over the park again too. You can't blame Adkins; these aren't his players and they just aren't comfortable on the ball, let alone the lacking of a football brain to pick the pass.

Another major frustration of mine today was how the midfield didn't want the ball and almost always looked to pass it back to the centre backs who would either hoof it forward, or they played to a left/right back and they hoofed it forward. No one seems to want to take the ball and go forward with it, run into space and pick out a pass. We are so static it's beyond frustrating now. Whether it's kids coming in and the start of a major rebuilding job, or significant investment and retaining the few that are worth keeping and adding to it, I really cannot wait to see some of this utter dross cleared out! I don't even mind if it means a few years or mid-table obscurity while the youngsters develop. It'll be a lot more enjoyable watching them do the simple things asked of them, and watch them improve over time. The existing squad just aren't able to!

McCarthy - 8 (MOTM)

Gunter - 6
Obita - 6
Pearce - 6
Morrison - 5

McAnuff - 4
McCleary - 5
Williams - 5
Hector - 5
Robson-Kanu - 3

Pogrebnyak - 5

Good effort from the fans at the back of Y25/26 today, it's just a shame that so many that also sit there can't be bothered to join in unless it means booing!

Pretty much agree with that although HRK's rating is probably a bit high at 3.
The players all seemed pleased with getting a point at home to the side in 16th when interviewed after the game-I don't think most of the fans were that pleased.

Is ours the softest side around?
When there is a 50/50 challenge involving HRK,Gunter, McCleary or McAnuff you just know they won't win them.
Pog can be forgiven as he always seems to be surrounded by about 3 opposition players.

One plus today-Hector who played generally in a calm and assured way and must be considered for his proper position at centre-back.

[SHORT AND CURLY]

Can I just say that the fact that we are still in the play offs tells you all you need to know about how rubbish the Championship is this season
At least if we scrape into the play offs their wont be any expectations. We really are dog shit.

Looking forward to a few beers next Saturday. Will try not let the football ruin the day though.

[Caversham Royal]

Dull & uninspiring performance. Once again.

[jt_1871]

Would it be unkind to say that this current Reading team is spineless - both in state of mind and in application?

It does not possess the hard edge that less technically gifted sides have had, yet in the same assembly have achieved far more by being men, in the true sense.

It has no leaders, it has become corporatised, it is made of business-driven dough.

There is a bad softness in modern society as a rule…perhaps it is a UK thing; cultural, homogenised, institutionalised. Exemplified in sport, in some arenas.

But it does not serve professional sport well.

And it spreads…from the playing fields to the stands and to the media and becomes endemic, and then becomes circular and full of the cycle of mutual contempt. We hate them for being soft.They hate us for not 'supporting' them.

Apologies for the pseudo-Arborfield University syntax.

But I feel that this club and this team cries out for a cold, hard state of mind.

Pull your fucking socks up, all of you (us!), perhaps a la Kebe (and certainly a la the far more robust and muscular specimens of RFC assemblage of not so long gone past and beyond, our historical templates).

Start hurting people, start playing well, and start applying a hard psychology. 'Put the hammer down', as the cliche says.

The old hard edges of Elm Park could live on in the club's psychology and its ethos - barbed-wire thinking, concrete terrace obduracy, breeze-block defiance.

Should anyone desire the same.

Cause pain.

Obtain gain.

Far too fucking nice and cuddly these days, the whole palaver.

Massive +1 from me with massive example of Jobi telling crowd to calm down when all we wanted was him to support Obita who was doing his job and getting chalk dust on his boots giving us width

[Pepe the Horseman]

Credit to Huddersfield, thought they looked decent.

Bear in mind we've made Barnsley and Yeovil look decent in recent games.

I thought Barnsley looked fcuking awful tbf. Wasn't at the Yeovil game.

[grey_squirrel]

Quick fire summary.

Our famed wing play seems to of (have) vanished.

Probably due to Adkins having

a) Narrowed the pitch width dimensions by 3 yards this season (anyone else noticed?)
b) Told the wingers to always cut inside.

[SCIAG]

Today we saw the results of having a paper thin squad that lacks quality in depth.

There is no way that either Morro or Williams should have been playing today. Morro in particular played like a player who has not seen any properly competitive football for many months (it cost us a goal) and Williams clearly was a shadow of his former self and someone who probably needed at least another week's hard work on the training ground.

Morrison, yes. But Williams absolutely had to play after Tuesday. He was a couple of notches above either Akpan or McAnuff's midweek performances.

Once again we were deprived of an actual proper goal, a defensive error and a penalty the cause of goals yet again.
I look forward to Tuesday for some actual entertainment at the Madejski.

So goals don't count if they come from a mistake, a penalty, or an own goal? What about set pieces? What about long range goals from nowhere?

Agreed that the U18 match should be better... here's hoping.