MATCHWATCH : Cardiff City (h)

[Royal_jimmy]

We played well first half. Hope we can keep that up in the second half.

Cardiff look like they are on the beach.

[Sutekh]

Utterly outplaying them.

First to every ball. Winning 90% of the 50-50s.

Hoilett terrorising them.

Very impressed. Reading of old would get very nervous after going one up.

Worrying thing though is not converting the chances thus making the game more and more nervy as it wears on.

[Snowflake Royal]

Big warning sign there. Good routine save from Nyland, but jut too much space for Cardiff

[Snowflake Royal]

Twice clearances would have gone close, if not straight, to a man left up from a defensive corner, if we'd not pulled everyone back now.

[Snowflake Royal]

THat looked yards offside.

But all because we stopped playing in midfield complaining about a freekick we didnt get,

[Sutekh]

As usual can’t finish and concede an apparently offside goal. Really need to do something about the poor conversion rate of chances.

TDB now on for Hoilett

[Orion1871]

Joao is an absolute twat. Hold the ball up instead of trying to con a foul out of the ref.

[Snowflake Royal]

It had been coming for quite some time.

[Sutekh]

Reading starting to disappear from the game. Surely can’t be tired after only 3 games in a week.

[Weymouth Royal]

Derby and Barnsley losing, P'Boro drawing. We're gaining another point. Can't be unhappy with that.

[Snowflake Royal]

Derby and Barnsley losing, P'Boro drawing. We're gaining another point. Can't be unhappy with that.

Yeah, it's a good day, it's just disappointing that once again we concede a soft one and once again we fail to capitalise on chances and make the game fairly safe.

[Weymouth Royal]

Barnsley 4-1 down

[higher]

Barnsley 4-1 down

We now have better goal difference than Barnsley. Hopefully wont need such fine margins for fat lady to sing.

[Royal Rother]

Joao is an absolute twat. Hold the ball up instead of trying to con a foul out of the ref.

It’s the same every bloody game.

Ejaria gets lambasted for losing the ball when he’s trying to do something flashy / clever to create chances when he probably shouldn’t, but Joao more often than not gets let off losing the ball when what he’s actually doing is trying to cheat.

As you say, an absolute twat. I hope to Christ he isn’t here next season. Sick of his antics. Everything I despise about modern day footballers all rolled into one.

[Sutekh]

Been a very poor second half performance so far.

[Snowflake Royal]

Really good team play from Joao there. Clears the corner, then holds his position at LB really well. Keeping to the offside line, gets another challenge in as well.

[higher]

FFS grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Snowflake Royal]

Dear oh dear.

Midfield no where again. Morrison steps up to challenge, Holmes follows his man and suddenly there's a huge hole for two midfielders/forwards to run into and score.

Think Hoilett off is looking a poor decision. He was doing lot of the good work before. He wasn't doing as well second half, but since he came off we've had nothing.

[Royal Rother]

How the hell do we expect to win if we don’t start with Ejaria?

[Snowflake Royal]

How the hell do we expect to win if we don’t start with Ejaria?

Because he was the worst player on the park in his last game.