by morganb »
19 Apr 2021 09:53
paultheroyal Snowflake Royal We'll find out next season really won't we.
Pauno isn't the all conquering genius we were all told he was at the start of the season. Bowen wasn't the deadbeat charlatan many of the same claimed.
At the moment we're a bit reliant on individuals playing well, but when they don't we're rather lame as a team.
When Joao, Ejaria and Olise play well we're different class. Even if only one of them does, we're play off material. But when they all stutter, so do we.
Dreary me.
Pauno has been excellent in his first season, Bowen did a job but by and large was awful
This looks like an anti-Ian post rather than a true reflection of the season... Some of the points above are perfectly valid:
Has Pauno really been excellent? He certainly has his critics and some of the points they make are valid - poor substitutions, losing so-called easy games, points return isn't that much better than Bowen, when we desperately needed to win we haven't. Keeping Joao on penalties.
Was Bowen really that awful? He wasn't in the relegation battle that previous managers had been in. He is credited with bringing in some of this season's best players (Morrison, Laurent). Was his work last season the reason for our amazing start?
Is Reading a team or are we a set of individual players with their own agendas? When the going has got tough who has put the extra effort in - sometimes I think they don't realise that a place in the Premier League is at stake and they just pass it about slowly (as that what they're good at) whereas other teams flood forwards and attack at pace. Is this due to the skills of the personnel we have/don't have, the training or the mentality? Do players know they are off at the end of the season so don't care about Reading the team?