by Top Flight » 31 May 2017 13:23
by Forbury Lion » 31 May 2017 13:30
by Gav » 31 May 2017 13:43
Forbury Lion I've started playing FIFA the new Reading way, keep possession and pass it around.
When we do reach the premier league again, I feel this style of football will suit us better than the traditional Reading way.
by RoyalBlue » 31 May 2017 13:53
Top Flight This season has been a re-education in football. I have learned about football all over again.
Admittedly at the start of the season, I was as frustrated and bored as much as anyone else watching our team retain possession and roll the ball around the back. But at Wembley, I felt that my education in the new Reading way of playing football has come a long way. Unbelievably some less educated Reading folk who were probably there on a day trip were acting like many of us at the beginning of the season. They couldn't understand why we didn't play with more pace, urgency and directness and were constantly calling us boring and critisizing all the way through the game. It was surreal listening to them considering we were battling out a play off final and had got there because of this new style of football.
As Huddersfield kept coming at us in the first half, I just wanted us to get on the ball and roll it around and keep it away from them for ten or so minutes and patiently move them around to create an opening. I was gagging for Stam's new style of football. I am now educated in the Reading way and I want to see the new Reading way of football. I actually love it now. It was like an acquired taste. But I have acquired it and I want more of it. I want us to get better at it obviously. But this is now how I want to see my team play it's football.
We should have been better at keeping the ball away from Huddersfield on Monday and we should have been braver. Especially in the second half. Huddersfield had used a lot of energy in the first half to no avail and were there for the taking in the second. We just had to be braver and go for it.
by alfie9 » 31 May 2017 18:23
by From Despair To Where? » 31 May 2017 19:07
by Scutterbucketz » 31 May 2017 19:35
by Muskrat » 31 May 2017 20:22
Top Flight This season has been a re-education in football. I have learned about football all over again.
Admittedly at the start of the season, I was as frustrated and bored as much as anyone else watching our team retain possession and roll the ball around the back. But at Wembley, I felt that my education in the new Reading way of playing football has come a long way. Unbelievably some less educated Reading folk who were probably there on a day trip were acting like many of us at the beginning of the season. They couldn't understand why we didn't play with more pace, urgency and directness and were constantly calling us boring and critisizing all the way through the game. It was surreal listening to them considering we were battling out a play off final and had got there because of this new style of football.
As Huddersfield kept coming at us in the first half, I just wanted us to get on the ball and roll it around and keep it away from them for ten or so minutes and patiently move them around to create an opening. I was gagging for Stam's new style of football. I am now educated in the Reading way and I want to see the new Reading way of football. I actually love it now. It was like an acquired taste. But I have acquired it and I want more of it. I want us to get better at it obviously. But this is now how I want to see my team play it's football.
We should have been better at keeping the ball away from Huddersfield on Monday and we should have been braver. Especially in the second half. Huddersfield had used a lot of energy in the first half to no avail and were there for the taking in the second. We just had to be braver and go for it. Maybe we didn't have enough quality in the end to do something about it but with Billions of Yuan in the bank the team can be improved again over the summer. We should be going for the top 2 now. We weren't that far away this season. Another improvement and we could be serious contenders.
I can't bring myself to blame or critisize any of the team/players or management for the way it ended. I genuinely feel that they were immense and gave it everything. They couldn't have done anymore. Neither team could find a breakthrough. It was settled by the finest of margins in the end. The balance might have tipped in our favour. But it didn't.
The season has totally enthralled my 8 year old boy. These amazing last few weeks have got him so engrossed he now just talks, sings, chants about Reading FC all day. It is dominating his mind. He is getting boring to be honest. I need to find him something else to get excited about. But the excitement and adrenaline of the last few weeks of following Reading FC is difficult to match for a little boy.
by Top Flight » 31 May 2017 20:58
MuskratTop Flight This season has been a re-education in football. I have learned about football all over again.
Admittedly at the start of the season, I was as frustrated and bored as much as anyone else watching our team retain possession and roll the ball around the back. But at Wembley, I felt that my education in the new Reading way of playing football has come a long way. Unbelievably some less educated Reading folk who were probably there on a day trip were acting like many of us at the beginning of the season. They couldn't understand why we didn't play with more pace, urgency and directness and were constantly calling us boring and critisizing all the way through the game. It was surreal listening to them considering we were battling out a play off final and had got there because of this new style of football.
As Huddersfield kept coming at us in the first half, I just wanted us to get on the ball and roll it around and keep it away from them for ten or so minutes and patiently move them around to create an opening. I was gagging for Stam's new style of football. I am now educated in the Reading way and I want to see the new Reading way of football. I actually love it now. It was like an acquired taste. But I have acquired it and I want more of it. I want us to get better at it obviously. But this is now how I want to see my team play it's football.
We should have been better at keeping the ball away from Huddersfield on Monday and we should have been braver. Especially in the second half. Huddersfield had used a lot of energy in the first half to no avail and were there for the taking in the second. We just had to be braver and go for it. Maybe we didn't have enough quality in the end to do something about it but with Billions of Yuan in the bank the team can be improved again over the summer. We should be going for the top 2 now. We weren't that far away this season. Another improvement and we could be serious contenders.
I can't bring myself to blame or critisize any of the team/players or management for the way it ended. I genuinely feel that they were immense and gave it everything. They couldn't have done anymore. Neither team could find a breakthrough. It was settled by the finest of margins in the end. The balance might have tipped in our favour. But it didn't.
The season has totally enthralled my 8 year old boy. These amazing last few weeks have got him so engrossed he now just talks, sings, chants about Reading FC all day. It is dominating his mind. He is getting boring to be honest. I need to find him something else to get excited about. But the excitement and adrenaline of the last few weeks of following Reading FC is difficult to match for a little boy.
Genuinely not sure if SRS. Personally I don't want to sit through / listen to another 46 games of dull as ditchwater sideways passing and playing for a one-nil. Wembley was a microcosm of our season and virtually everybody on here and that I've spoken to agrees. If that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me (nods to Frank).
by From Despair To Where? » 31 May 2017 21:18
by Ian Royal » 31 May 2017 21:46
by From Despair To Where? » 31 May 2017 22:07
by Top Flight » 31 May 2017 23:10
From Despair To Where? We need to mix up the pace of the passing. That's how you force errors from the defence but it requires better movement. All Huddersfield had to do on Monday was drop back, and let us pass it about in front of them until we played the loose pass.
I think we all want to see a passing game but we need to be passing with purpose.
by Muskrat » 01 Jun 2017 10:03
by BraisingsteakRoyal » 01 Jun 2017 10:14
Muskrat I just can't get excited about next season if we're going to be set up and playing the same way. Call me a Luddite but that's just how I feel atm
by Scutterbucketz » 01 Jun 2017 11:57
by From Despair To Where? » 01 Jun 2017 12:02
Top FlightFrom Despair To Where? We need to mix up the pace of the passing. That's how you force errors from the defence but it requires better movement. All Huddersfield had to do on Monday was drop back, and let us pass it about in front of them until we played the loose pass.
I think we all want to see a passing game but we need to be passing with purpose.
There wasn't enough bravery against Huddersfield. It was similar against Fulham as well. You need the whole team to push forward together as a unit otherwise you are asking too much of Swift. Swift was poor against Fulham and again against Huddersfield because he had no options to play the ball to. The team were so defensive minded that they were leaving the attacking literally down to Swift, Grabban and Kermie. They had no chance against a deep lying Huddersfield side. This game was set up to be a stalemate.
Swift was poor because of the system, tactics and mentality to dig in and defend. Swift is great when he has team mates supporting him in the attack.
The question is, should we have approached the Huddersfield game with a totally different mentality? Should we have decided that we will have a go too. We will push up. We were too scared of conceding. Anyway, this was not a normal game of football. The league games next season will be nothing like this one off £300 million play off final.
I am looking at our passing game over the course of the season. We have been too slow alot of the time but we have also been consistently getting good results and our game will hopefully improve again next season as our players have become better and better at playing this game and more quality will be added.
by Stevie G » 01 Jun 2017 12:27
Top Flight This season has been a re-education in football. I have learned about football all over again.
Admittedly at the start of the season, I was as frustrated and bored as much as anyone else watching our team retain possession and roll the ball around the back. But at Wembley, I felt that my education in the new Reading way of playing football has come a long way. Unbelievably some less educated Reading folk who were probably there on a day trip were acting like many of us at the beginning of the season. They couldn't understand why we didn't play with more pace, urgency and directness and were constantly calling us boring and critisizing all the way through the game. It was surreal listening to them considering we were battling out a play off final and had got there because of this new style of football.
As Huddersfield kept coming at us in the first half, I just wanted us to get on the ball and roll it around and keep it away from them for ten or so minutes and patiently move them around to create an opening. I was gagging for Stam's new style of football. I am now educated in the Reading way and I want to see the new Reading way of football. I actually love it now. It was like an acquired taste. But I have acquired it and I want more of it. I want us to get better at it obviously. But this is now how I want to see my team play it's football.
We should have been better at keeping the ball away from Huddersfield on Monday and we should have been braver. Especially in the second half. Huddersfield had used a lot of energy in the first half to no avail and were there for the taking in the second. We just had to be braver and go for it. Maybe we didn't have enough quality in the end to do something about it but with Billions of Yuan in the bank the team can be improved again over the summer. We should be going for the top 2 now. We weren't that far away this season. Another improvement and we could be serious contenders.
I can't bring myself to blame or critisize any of the team/players or management for the way it ended. I genuinely feel that they were immense and gave it everything. They couldn't have done anymore. Neither team could find a breakthrough. It was settled by the finest of margins in the end. The balance might have tipped in our favour. But it didn't.
The season has totally enthralled my 8 year old boy. These amazing last few weeks have got him so engrossed he now just talks, sings, chants about Reading FC all day. It is dominating his mind. He is getting boring to be honest. I need to find him something else to get excited about. But the excitement and adrenaline of the last few weeks of following Reading FC is difficult to match for a little boy.
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