If we get that Hutchinson for the rest of the year we'll be in a very good place. Having him and Button as old heads to calm down the kids who all have a massive clanger in them (expected given their experience) will be important. Credit goes to Bowen being allowed to implement a plan. While Selles ...

Some incredibly good football in spells from the kids.

From the little I've seen of Hunt's U21s they also play with a big press - this was an extremely good result but it does show the benefits of the first team playing in a very similar style to the youth team; you're not asking them to play against much harder opposition and totally change styles, jus...

https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/%E2%9A%BD%EF%B8%8F-reading-vs-coventry-city-match-thread-saturday-10th-dec.146071/page-13 Better team but didn’t create much at all. Draw would have probably been fair. Reading are one of the worse teams in the division which makes it even more annoying. Tiny ...

Ince has done a phenomenal job. And should there not be a similar shout out for Bowen and Carey (he is still here isn’t he, haven’t heard any mention of him in recent months?)? To turn this team around without being able to spend a penny on fees is amazing. Bowen's the key at the moment, he's done ...

538's mathematics has Huddersfield, Hull & Blackpool going whilst we finish a glorious 16th. How does maths show us dropping from 3rd to 16th ? That needs us to get a fair bit worse and a lot of teams to improve quite a lot. Presumably their maths shows WBA finishing above us ? The way they wor...

It was nice to see a Reading team that are tough barstewards to break down and run at - although Holmes is likely to give away quite a few pens this season playing like that, albeit neither of their shouts were particularly strong yesterday. First run of 3 consecutive clean sheets for 18 months is a...

They were asking £40m for Sarr at the start of the season? On the basis of today they'd do well to get £3.50 and a packet of fags.

Hound

Chameleon The Watford players playing like they know that another PE teacher of a manager is right around the corner.

Well Danny Cowley is watching in the studio

Not Spanish or Serbian enough for their owners I suspect.

The Watford players playing like they know that another PE teacher of a manager is right around the corner.

Bournemouth aren't losing to good teams either, 4 losses on the trot, 3 of them to Derby, Wednesday, Luton. Seems like all of the top four all have a tough fixture in the next few 8 days: Brentford v Bristol Swansea v Norwich Boro v Brentford Stoke v Reading Reading v Brentford Two wins for us in th...

Millwall really should have won this game. Hahahah Bournemouth, Sheff Weds with 4 shots on target, none from Bournemouth. Looks like a proper meltdown is starting.

Millwall starting to dominate, so nailed on 90+3 winner for Norwich.

The knives are out for Disco the manager on the Watford messageboard, which is probably fair given his lack of experience and seemingly non-existent use of tactics. Hopefully they persevere with him for a decent while longer, similarly Tindall at Bournemouth. Now? I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so disc...

I'm smelling a Watford collapse here. They've hardly been in great form and, coach doesn't seem great, and are fairly toothless upfront bar all the penalties they get awarded. Would be useful for us if they'd obligingly go on a bad run.

Yeah people have said an awful lot about Aluko, but never once have I seen anything about him being a troublemaker, he's always been very professional in interviews, and even accepted his year in exile without moaning.

For trouble-makers I'd be looking towards Stam era signings.

Rax More than happy to be proved otherwise, but that's the best half of football I've seen from Reading since Coppell.

Exception being first half League Cup v Arsenal in the 5-7

I've said the same elsewhere, I agree.

Edit: I limited it to best first half.

Good win. 4 or 6 points out of Stoke and Brentford and we can dream big.

Why the hell did they take off their best player?

Also this could turn into a bloodbath.

Oh my god. Joao makes me go weak at my knees. What an incredible player.