MATCHWATCH : Wimbledon (a)

[Sutekh]

Absolute disgrace.

Lost again against another cr@p team with a diabolically awful home record. All praise AFC Charity, nice to know you’re alive and well. Now just **** off.

Only positive I can find is that Wimbledon are now Reading’s bogey team. 6 league games and a whopping 3 points from the solitary win to show for it.

Anyone know who is driving the team coach on Tuesday? If they do perhaps they could ask him to drop the management off at Ewood Park.

Seriously stop over-reacting - we lost because of individual errors ... terrible defeat sure.

Just like at Orient, another team poor at home, poor decisions from the management again, usual awful slow start, side seemingly not primed sufficiently to manage a high press. Same persistence with Doyle and Lane who I totally fail to see what they are meant to provide.

Thankfully there’s a quick turnaround for everyone and hopefully they’re going to be fired up after this mess.

[Hound]

Three issues (at least):

Our CBs are very poor on the ball - hence when a team plays the high press we lose the ball constantly
Our CMs are technically good but weak - see above
Our strikers are small and weak - so when we hoof it forward we just lose the ball.

Today also our GK was poor - but normally he isn't ...

Yes

[Sutekh]

Three issues (at least):

Our CBs are very poor on the ball - hence when a team plays the high press we lose the ball constantly
Our CMs are technically good but weak - see above
Our strikers are small and weak - so when we hoof it forward we just lose the ball.

Today also our GK was poor - but normally he isn't ...

Yes

comment on Berks that Pereira should be dropped

Tim says the new boys are the problem, side in hot form until they arrived

How did Roberts do today?

[WestYorksRoyal]

Got to be honest, Richardson deserves a crack next season after a second window and a full pre season to put his stamp on things, so I'm definitely not "Richardson Out".

But I think he'll be sacked with us 12th and playing uninspiring football in October/November.

[Crowbar6753]

Wow, that was the worst of the season to date!! Players and Manager should all be looked at after that!

The Manager continued slow starts, backwards passing, continued long ball to probably the shortest striker in the league, slow build up play and the worst of all, playing Doyle out wide just to accommodate Keane at AM when Doyle is clearly a better AM.

The Players Passing and heading of the ball is the most basic principle of football!! How a team of professional footballers continue to misplace passes is beyond me!! especially with the amount of alleged technically gifted players we have, criminal just criminal!!!

Why Dorset is ahead of Burns is beyond me! Savage needs dropping, the midfield balance is all wrong!! and if you are going to persist in playing Doyle then at lease play him in his best position.
Finally, any idea on why the young kid from Villa didn't make the squad? He played for Villa's first team against Salzburg a week or two ago so must be ready?

[RoyalBlue]

Wow, that was the worst of the season to date!! Players and Manager should all be looked at after that!

The Manager continued slow starts, backwards passing, continued long ball to probably the shortest striker in the league, slow build up play and the worst of all, playing Doyle out wide just to accommodate Keane at AM when Doyle is clearly a better AM.

The Players Passing and heading of the ball is the most basic principle of football!! How a team of professional footballers continue to misplace passes is beyond me!! especially with the amount of alleged technically gifted players we have, criminal just criminal!!!

Why Dorset is ahead of Burns is beyond me! Savage needs dropping, the midfield balance is all wrong!! and if you are going to persist in playing Doyle then at lease play him in his best position.
Finally, any idea on why the young kid from Villa didn't make the squad? He played for Villa's first team against Salzburg a week or two ago so must be ready?

Apparently. and according to Richardson, four full days since he was signed were not enough to impart him with all the information he requires to play in the team!

Must be an incredibly slow learner and/or we must be using an incredibly complicated system of play!

[RoyalBlue]

Absolute disgrace.

Lost again against another cr@p team with a diabolically awful home record. All praise AFC Charity, nice to know you’re alive and well. Now just **** off.

Only positive I can find is that Wimbledon are now Reading’s bogey team. 6 league games and a whopping 3 points from the solitary win to show for it.

Anyone know who is driving the team coach on Tuesday? If they do perhaps they could ask him to drop the management off at Ewood Park.

Seriously stop over-reacting - we lost because of individual errors ... terrible defeat sure.

Even given errors, we should've been able to do better than we did. Just three shots on target!

[MR. CYNICAL]

Absolute disgrace.

Lost again against another cr@p team with a diabolically awful home record. All praise AFC Charity, nice to know you’re alive and well. Now just **** off.

Only positive I can find is that Wimbledon are now Reading’s bogey team. 6 league games and a whopping 3 points from the solitary win to show for it.

Anyone know who is driving the team coach on Tuesday? If they do perhaps they could ask him to drop the management off at Ewood Park.

Seriously stop over-reacting - we lost because of individual errors ... terrible defeat sure.

Over-reacting? Take your RTG's off. They hadn't scored at home for 2 months then go on to score 3 with another hat- trick. Wonder how many he's scored this season, Ballard hasn't scored since his hat-trick the other week, we are so soft.
They had 7 shots on target today, tell me when the last time we had that many at home.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Three issues (at least):

Our CBs are very poor on the ball - hence when a team plays the high press we lose the ball constantly
Our CMs are technically good but weak - see above
Our strikers are small and weak - so when we hoof it forward we just lose the ball.

Today also our GK was poor - but normally he isn't ...

Yes

This is why we need an old school bastard CF. Fine, L1 teams may not always be able to play through the press, so when you're up against it just bring on a different option and bypass it.

[Crowbar6753]

Wow, that was the worst of the season to date!! Players and Manager should all be looked at after that!

The Manager continued slow starts, backwards passing, continued long ball to probably the shortest striker in the league, slow build up play and the worst of all, playing Doyle out wide just to accommodate Keane at AM when Doyle is clearly a better AM.

The Players Passing and heading of the ball is the most basic principle of football!! How a team of professional footballers continue to misplace passes is beyond me!! especially with the amount of alleged technically gifted players we have, criminal just criminal!!!

Why Dorset is ahead of Burns is beyond me! Savage needs dropping, the midfield balance is all wrong!! and if you are going to persist in playing Doyle then at lease play him in his best position.
Finally, any idea on why the young kid from Villa didn't make the squad? He played for Villa's first team against Salzburg a week or two ago so must be ready?

Apparently. and according to Richardson, four full days since he was signed were not enough to impart him with all the information he requires to play in the team!

Must be an incredibly slow learner and/or we must be using an incredibly complicated system of play!

Wow!! No disrespect, out of all the positions on the pitch, being a Winger is probably the lease technical position!! Get the ball and run and beat the defender!!

[traff]

What on earth Wing was playing at today I don’t know. Gesticulating and shouting at the away fans after a tackle, then busy cupping his ear instead of doing his job and defending in the last minute of the first half. Sort it out.

I didn’t hear what was being said, but if it was criticism, tough. That is football. As Roy Keane would say, “Do your job.”

If it was something more unsavoury, it wouldn’t surprise me. There was plenty of bile and over-the-top nonsense being thrown at the team today.

Yes, they were poor again, but the wannabe hooligans, still wet behind the ears, were an absolute embarrassment in our end.

[tidus_mi2]

Is this London curse real? Just goes on and on. Wigan up next who are in atrocious form but might well be sacking their manager after an embarrassing 6-1 defeat.

[windermereROYAL]

What on earth Wing was playing at today I don’t know. Gesticulating and shouting at the away fans after a tackle, then busy cupping his ear instead of doing his job and defending in the last minute of the first half. Sort it out.

I didn’t hear what was being said, but if it was criticism, tough. That is football. As Roy Keane would say, “Do your job.”

If it was something more unsavoury, it wouldn’t surprise me. There was plenty of bile and over-the-top nonsense being thrown at the team today.

Yes, they were poor again, but the wannabe hooligans, still wet behind the ears, were an absolute embarrassment in our end.

I`ve heard (without any substance) there were family insults thrown at him, probably something to do with his missus,some of our travelling fans are a real embarrassment, Wingy has been brilliant since he`s been here and has a good relationship with the fans, always attending the end of season party, it`ll be a shame to tarnish that.

[scumbag]

oxf*rd embarrassing performance. Manager has been backed to the hilt and the same turgid shit being churned out. What on earth does Paddy Lane do? Useless.

[Brogue]

oxf*rd embarrassing performance. Manager has been backed to the hilt and the same turgid shit being churned out. What on earth does Paddy Lane do? Useless.

careful, we are not allowed to criticize the manager on here... people lose their shit and start calling you names

[Whore Jackie]

Day out in London ruined by the football. Again. Awful performance, made Wimbledon look half-decent and we didn’t deserve a thing from the game. Marriott, the only one to emerge with any credit from the game. JP was doing well too, until one costly error. The defence is really poor. Roberts looks a slight improvement at left-back, Nyambe does have pace, but Paudie and Dorsett are so bang average. Not sure why Burns was dropped after some decentish performances recently. D Williams is such a massive loss, would like to see Ward come in for Wigan. Savage and Wing weren’t great. Not convinced yet by Keane, but we lost any semblance of the midfield and attack being joined up when he went off injured and when Doyle was substituted. Ritchie is increasingly looking like a(nother) poor summer signing. Less said about the ineffectiveness of Lane the better. Bench was shocking, no idea why it was so defence-heavy and no space for Young or even Camara FFS.

Pubs after the game were all pretty rammed with the rugby. Shout out to the Sultan pre-match, absolutely lovely pub about twenty minutes walk away. Tip-top beers and a choice of five pork pies. Definitely the highlight of the day.

[Hound]

Three issues (at least):

Our CBs are very poor on the ball - hence when a team plays the high press we lose the ball constantly
Our CMs are technically good but weak - see above
Our strikers are small and weak - so when we hoof it forward we just lose the ball.

Today also our GK was poor - but normally he isn't ...

Yes

This is why we need an old school bastard CF. Fine, L1 teams may not always be able to play through the press, so when you're up against it just bring on a different option and bypass it.

Been saying pretty much that all season

Soon as He subbed on Ritchie I pretty much gave up on any kind of result.

[Sutekh]

Yes

This is why we need an old school bastard CF. Fine, L1 teams may not always be able to play through the press, so when you're up against it just bring on a different option and bypass it.

Been saying pretty much that all season

Soon as He subbed on Ritchie I pretty much gave up on any kind of result.

Matt has 4 assists this season - but get where you’re coming from, if only we had an exciting young talented winger in the squad instead

[South Coast Royal]

Absolute disgrace.

Lost again against another cr@p team with a diabolically awful home record. All praise AFC Charity, nice to know you’re alive and well. Now just **** off.

Only positive I can find is that Wimbledon are now Reading’s bogey team. 6 league games and a whopping 3 points from the solitary win to show for it.

Anyone know who is driving the team coach on Tuesday? If they do perhaps they could ask him to drop the management off at Ewood Park.

Seriously stop over-reacting - we lost because of individual errors ... terrible defeat sure.

This is something that managers trot out.
Aren't all goals due to individual errors?
It's as if next time automatically it won't happen again.

Back in the Summer posters were getting excited about the signings
O'Connor-best centre-back in the division
Lane-great when he played at this level
Burns-highly rated at City
Fraser-international footballer
Doyle-brilliant on loan elsewhere
Ritchie-he'll bring leadership and top level experience
O'Mahoney-had a good spell at Pompey
Danny K-no idea, played at a low level so probably isn't very good.

Arguably the unknown Danny K is the only one that could be called a success or , at least, has exceeded expectations and Derrick Williams when fit plus of course Marriott who has easily lived up to expectations and more.

This is a mid-table squad that has now had even more additions but we won't get relegated which was the fear after losing so many of our better players .
Some got a bit carried away with our upturn in results and these past few games were thought to be an easy run to bring us much closer to the play-offs before some harder games come in the shape of Wycombe, Bradford, Bolton etc but it hasn't worked out that way.

Expectations have been reduced by this manager from those raised by the owner pre-season and he clearly stated that more than one window or two will be needed before we gat a team ready to challenge.
Hopefully that will happen but in the meantime we just have to accept results like these and enjoy the odd win when they come along.

[West F]

Wow, that was the worst of the season to date!! Players and Manager should all be looked at after that!

The Manager continued slow starts, backwards passing, continued long ball to probably the shortest striker in the league, slow build up play and the worst of all, playing Doyle out wide just to accommodate Keane at AM when Doyle is clearly a better AM.

The Players Passing and heading of the ball is the most basic principle of football!! How a team of professional footballers continue to misplace passes is beyond me!! especially with the amount of alleged technically gifted players we have, criminal just criminal!!!

Why Dorset is ahead of Burns is beyond me! Savage needs dropping, the midfield balance is all wrong!! and if you are going to persist in playing Doyle then at lease play him in his best position.
Finally, any idea on why the young kid from Villa didn't make the squad? He played for Villa's first team against Salzburg a week or two ago so must be ready?

Apparently. and according to Richardson, four full days since he was signed were not enough to impart him with all the information he requires to play in the team!

Must be an incredibly slow learner and/or we must be using an incredibly complicated system of play!

Wow!! No disrespect, out of all the positions on the pitch, being a Winger is probably the lease technical position!! Get the ball and run and beat the defender!!

There lies the biggest problem. Playing inverted ‘Wingers’ creates a narrowness to offensive play. Lane won young player of the season in league one playing naturally from the left hand side. The lack of deliveries into the box from either flank is stark in its absence. I have watched us batter our heads against a brick wall up front for too long. It is brutally simple, get half a yard and deliver the ball into the box as early as possible. Preferably while the defenders are still running towards their own goal. If the strikers aren’t on the end of it, then fine, that is their issue. If they knew balls were going to come in early, then i am sure they would break their necks to get in there.
All this inverted winger crap needs to stop. Neither Richardson or Hunt are Pep or Klopp. Lane is not Mo Salah and Doyle is not Doku.