I appreciate the win and the much needed three points. It is quite a culture shock to have gone from a side that dominated possession, both home and away, to one that surrenders it. Using turnovers and direct back to front balls to create opportunities. With a detached view of the match, it did look...

Don't forget the added bonus now of trying to get players in for what looks like a relegation battle. At least in the summer we'd just missed out on the playoffs and had new owners so looked a much better prospect than now. While I appreciate we might be in a relegation battle come January, this is...

Not going to be sacked. Couhig stated that Richardson was his choice to manage Reading when he first started the process of buying out Dai Yongge. Richardson has been patiently waiting in the wings for this to happen post takeover. It would be interesting to know what was so appealling about him. O...

It's almost as if, and bear with me here, if there are structural issues with a squad that has been playing poorly, it may - just may need more than just a new manager to improve things. It will involve amending the squad again to try and get the balance right. Naturally confidence will hardly be h...

Can’t really be arsed either but I may go. Might just watch it on tv though Dunno what I’d do for the team. 3 CBs does possibly sound better but I quite liked what LR was doing against Stevenage and Carlisle (before the meltdown) Maybe JP Abrefa Paudie Williams Dorsett Wing savage/Fraser DK Doyle K...

Not going to be sacked. Couhig stated that Richardson was his choice to manage Reading when he first started the process of buying out Dai Yongge. Richardson has been patiently waiting in the wings for this to happen post takeover. The problem that Uncle Bob had, was that Noel had narrowly missed ou...

The annoying and worrying thing for me is we sack Hunt and probably rightly so, form wasn't great, the style was boring and the fans were turning. We get a new manager in who knows this league and has a good pedigree in this league yet a month in and we are playing no different than when Hunty was ...

Anyone who thinks we are going to bring in players up to standard who will improve the areas we need needs their head checking. We’re oxf*rd. Tbf based on who we signed I’m not especially optimistic Can't take Brogue seriously tbf, his anti Couhig agenda has been blatant from day 1. We were in a si...

No biggie really. Away defeat against a likely autpro side. Couldn't really expect more. The real (and only, so far) calamity was the awful last game, which is still shocking and indefensible. You've obviously accepted that we are a lower end/ relegation threatened league one club, to be honest, I ...

retro royal This is stam ball V2, mucking about with it in back 4, passing about in our half then long ball, full backs get no cover plus don't block crosses. As for O'Connor who the hell sanctioned a 3 year contract

His agents brother

Which I can live with if we build on it. If we have a mix of good performances and piss poor ones, then the objective over the summer is pretty obvious; bring in the right players who can help us bring in the consistency. We just have to be patient and accept it's the start of a long rebuild. Footb...

Saying that we lost the game in the first five minutes is worrying. We are at home and there is a whole ninety minutes left to turn it around. Playing with inverted wingers results in an inability to stretch teams out wide. When we are facing a team who have the lead, we cannot compress the pitch b...

Saying that we lost the game in the first five minutes is worrying. We are at home and there is a whole ninety minutes left to turn it around. Playing with inverted wingers results in an inability to stretch teams out wide. When we are facing a team who have the lead, we cannot compress the pitch be...

With an AM you want a creative player, who understands space, with a good pass and a decent record for scoring goals outside of the box. I’m not sure why we wouldn’t put Wing in there. I get that the old/current idea is to have Wing deep so he can “quarterback” long passes into the final third, but...

Do the sensible thing and don’t have one. If there is an insistence on playing a 4 3 3, play a flat three that pushes and drops, in and out of possession. When Knibbs was here, he actually played more of a free role off of Smith, more than as a creative number 10. He was never a midfield player and ...

When Noel abandoned the inverted wing positions and played with natural width, i was happy that we were at least stretching teams wide and putting early balls into the box. The last three Noel games looked so much better. Now Richardson has pitched up and immediately gone back to the lack of natural...

Likely to be the best Redwood signing so far.

Sutekh

Royals and Racers West Ham the only U 21 team left in the competition.
We are the only team on 6 points not to qualify.

Another record to covet.

T shirts available next week in the now club owned Megastore.

An interesting weekend of matches which highlighted how tight the table is and how there are no givens in league one. Including the Thursday night result, this round of matches ended with all of the top seven clubs losing.

6ft Kerplunk

Extended-Phenotype When he jumps he is somehow lower in the air than he was when he was standing. It’s like he jumps inside himself like a oxf*rd accordion.

The technical term for this is an Asaba.