on my way BFTG: Millwall H

[Ian Royal]

Well that was shit and so were we. We still should have won comfortably though. Adkins takes the blame for me. We were getting out numbered in midfield all game and they were passing rings round us. At leazt they had zero goal threat for most of the game.

Federici 7 don't see much fault with him. He had to go for it and it looked offside anyway
Gunter 5 poor paszing and didnt get tight time and again
Bridge 6 decent
Pearce 5 sloppy although nearly scored
Morro 6 Sloppy but improved in the last 5 all our defenders and midfielders needed to do more to find a reading shirt with clearances or find touch.
Guthrie 5 worst performance I've seen this season far too lazy in the pass and overrun.
Baird 5 similalrly poor
Obita 5 ok but needs to produce better end product and do more defensively
McCleary 5 same tried to do too much sometimes
Alf 5 should have scored but not in the game enough.
Pog 7 tireless but nothing came off.

Can't be arsed to rate the subs. McAnuff steadied the ship when we were under pressure and we should have won the game when we took back control. Couldn't see HRK well from my end. Kelly barely on.

Adkins 4
Ref 4 gave them evdry minor touch and us very little, yet still had to send one of them off. Can't see how that was a cnr at the end and we should have had a pen first half for holding on morro at a cnr.

Millwall fans really ought to be in cages.

[windermere_royal]

short summery shaky at the back, midfield bypassed , wasteful up front. very poor

oh and the knuckle draggers, thank god we only see those inbreds once a season, even that is once too often.

[Vic_Flange]

We are going to have many draws this season. Get over it. We don't deserve to be back in the Premiership. Now go out and get pissed before it starts raining worse than our leaky defence. Usual please, a pint of Stella, cheers.

[One8Seven1]

Can't be bothered with a summary. It was a poor performance on our part, but Millwall fans as always great value and easy to reel in. Had those mongdivs had any balls about them, we'd all be dead by now with our throats cut, but as always they were quiet as mice when they left the ground. A few chants in the safety of their own fans walking to the buses, but that was it.

A point lost, but still unbeaten at home, and a winnable game at Wednesday next Saturday.

Enjoyable afternoon thanks to the Millwall fans.

[windermere_royal]

Can't be bothered with a summary. It was a poor performance on our part, but Millwall fans as always great value and easy to reel in. Had those mongdivs had any balls about them, we'd all be dead by now with our throats cut, but as always they were quiet as mice when they left the ground. A few chants in the safety of their own fans walking to the buses, but that was it.

A point lost, but still unbeaten at home, and a winnable game at Wednesday next Saturday.

Enjoyable afternoon thanks to the Millwall fans.

Actually I went to watch the football

[Cobi]

Can't be bothered with a summary. It was a poor performance on our part, but Millwall fans as always great value and easy to reel in. Had those mongdivs had any balls about them, we'd all be dead by now with our throats cut, but as always they were quiet as mice when they left the ground. A few chants in the safety of their own fans walking to the buses, but that was it.

A point lost, but still unbeaten at home, and a winnable game at Wednesday next Saturday.

Enjoyable afternoon thanks to the Millwall fans.

Actually I went to watch the football

We all did. Football and atmosphere go hand in hand. The game was shit in parts, the atmosphere wasn't.

[SPARTA]

Can't be bothered with a summary. It was a poor performance on our part, but Millwall fans as always great value and easy to reel in. Had those mongdivs had any balls about them, we'd all be dead by now with our throats cut, but as always they were quiet as mice when they left the ground. A few chants in the safety of their own fans walking to the buses, but that was it.

A point lost, but still unbeaten at home, and a winnable game at Wednesday next Saturday.

Enjoyable afternoon thanks to the Millwall fans.

Actually I went to watch the football

We all did. Football and atmosphere go hand in hand. The game was shit in parts, the atmosphere wasn't.

Agreed. Average game, Millwall deserved a point... blah blah, but getting a rise out of those idiots and watching them eat themselves was funny.

[Royal Lady]

Not sure who MOTM would be really. No-one stood out today, they all made quite basic mistakes at times. Passing was woeful sometimes too. Seemed all over them first half but then went off the boil. NO WAY was that a corner to them near the end - ref was an idiot.

Can't be bothered to say much more than that, which is a change for me.

[Royal Ginger]

Well that was awful.

Feds -7 - Decent, safe hands. From where I sat it looked like a fair penalty.
Gunter - 6 - Better than most, especially as Millwall kicked him around in the 1st with no help from Mcleary.
Morrison - 7 - Not bad, had to cover or Pearce often.
Pearce - 5 - Positioning was poor and seemed terrified of the ball.
Bridge - 6 - Up all night with the baby? Silly errors, lost the ball a lot.
Baird - 6 - Barely noticed him.
Guthrie - 5 - Agree, worst game this season. Defensively ok, passing was shocking.
Mcleary - 3 - Woeful. Constantly lost the ball. Lost the ball trying to be clever on the edge of the area.
Obita - 5 - But for that flash before he went off, couldn't get into the game.
Le Fondre - 6 - More in the game then recent weeks, but mostly doing what Obita should have been.
Pogrebnyak - 7 - Not a great 1st half. Made up for it in the second. Only player with a pass on him today.

HRK, McAnuff - 7 - Steadied the ship. Have earned starts in my mind.
Kelly - 6 - not much to say.

Notable:

Our crap wingers couldn't get round slow motion fat man Danny Shittu.
Congrats to those in Y25 -26. The away fans were rattled.
We regressed to playing it to Pog's head I the first which didn't work
Le Fondre is never travelling as fast as he looks like he is
That first half hop on Gunter should have been a red.
Poor scrappy game of football.

[RoyalBlue]

Well that was extremely poor and shows what happens when Guthrie doesn't perform/a team prevents him from performing (although I don't agree with IR view that he was lazy - I thought he worked hard throughout). Too often we reverted to the long ball - it's clearly going to take Adkins a long time to stop the players automatically regressing to that approach when things aren't going well.

And before the Federici lynchmob string him up, it was a mistake by him that cost us today, it was the miss from ALF. 2-0 up and the team would have relaxed a bit more and would probably have reverted to the decent football that has been winning them games. Even had Feds then made a 'mistake' we would have had the cushion of another goal. As it was, he still made a couple of very decent saves (and yes, I know that's his job) to keep us in the game until injury time.

Oh, and whilst IR thinks we should have had a penalty for a hold on Morrison we definitely should have had one for the handball just prior to the shot from Pearce that was really well saved by their keeper.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Dreadful and embarrassing performance from beginning to end, only Obita can feel he's earned something this week.

Issue remains that we are lacking a Gylfi type of player and a 20 goal striker. Until they are remedied we will lack consistency to get automatic promotion and be fighting a will we wont we game with the playoffs. We also need a left back to cover Bridge and a central defender but we could probably manage without if luck ran favourably.

Given the injuries we've got, it doesn't aid Adkins' decisions as there is nothing available that offers anything different to whatever 11 start a game.

[floyd__streete]

That was truly awful. Luxury of an early goal, opposition goal disallowed, opposition sending off and we still couldn't beat a side who have conceded 3s, 4s and 5s on their travels this season. In fact we were second best overall. Not good enough.

If Pog had missed that chance which ALF did then he'd be getting all sorts of abuse. That was about the only telling touch of the game from ALF as it happens, otherwise he was entirely anonymous as ever. Guthrie poor as well, wasting possession all game. Mediocre performance from the substitutes too, particularly HRK who has been pig-swill all season. Morrison the stand out once again, a very good player in the making there.

Can't help but feel underwhelmed as we bob around the top 7 places with the luxury of our parachute payments. Don't feel as if we're particularly over-achieving under Adkins (who was tactically out-done by that football genius Steve Lomas today - ALARM BELLS), given the comparative resources he has available. And as for TSI taking us on to the 'next level'..... Disappointing.

The only question for me this season is.....which hungrier, better organised side is going to knock us out in the play-off semi finals.

[Royal Ginger]

Well that was extremely poor and shows what happens when Guthrie doesn't perform/a team prevents him from performing (although I don't agree with IR view that he was lazy - I thought he worked hard throughout). Too often we reverted to the long ball - it's clearly going to take Adkins a long time to stop the players automatically regressing to that approach when things aren't going well.

And before the Federici lynchmob string him up, it was a mistake by him that cost us today, it was the miss from ALF. 2-0 up and the team would have relaxed a bit more and would probably have reverted to the decent football that has been winning them games. Even had Feds then made a 'mistake' we would have had the cushion of another goal. As it was, he still made a couple of very decent saves (and yes, I know that's his job) to keep us in the game until injury time.

Oh, and whilst IR thinks we should have had a penalty for a hold on Morrison we definitely should have had one for the handball just prior to the shot from Pearce that was really well saved by their keeper.

Agree with most of this. How that Obita cross didn't go in is beyond me. It was just a good job that Millwall were as bad with the ball as we were.

[winchester_royal]

Woeful. Should have controlled that, especially when they went down to 10, but we couldn't get any sort of meaningful possession before lumping it forward and it coming straight back at us. Dull game, should have grinded it out, didn't have the heart to do so.

[bcubed]

Seems to be a lot of apathy in these reports
Not sure I can be bothered to finish what I was going to say

[Ian Royal]

Well that was extremely poor and shows what happens when Guthrie doesn't perform/a team prevents him from performing (although I don't agree with IR view that he was lazy - I thought he worked hard throughout). Too often we reverted to the long ball - it's clearly going to take Adkins a long time to stop the players automatically regressing to that approach when things aren't going well.

And before the Federici lynchmob string him up, it was a mistake by him that cost us today, it was the miss from ALF. 2-0 up and the team would have relaxed a bit more and would probably have reverted to the decent football that has been winning them games. Even had Feds then made a 'mistake' we would have had the cushion of another goal. As it was, he still made a couple of very decent saves (and yes, I know that's his job) to keep us in the game until injury time.

Oh, and whilst IR thinks we should have had a penalty for a hold on Morrison we definitely should have had one for the handball just prior to the shot from Pearce that was really well saved by their keeper.

I didn't say Guthrie was lazy. I said his passing was lazy. There's a difference.

[RoyalBlue]

Was amazed at how poor (in numbers) the Millwall support was. Maybe the rest have had their membership cards taken away. That having been said, I'm surprised that some of those who were there today haven't been banned too.

There was a guy who looked no more than 5 feet tall and about 50 years old down the front trying to lead the assault on the East Stand - grow up you stupid old fool!

[bcubed]

Well that was shit and so were we. We still should have won comfortably though. Adkins takes the blame for me. We were getting out numbered in midfield all game and they were passing rings round us. At leazt they had zero goal threat for most of the game.

Federici 7 don't see much fault with him. He had to go for it and it looked offside anyway
Gunter 5 poor paszing and didnt get tight time and again
Bridge 6 decent
Pearce 5 sloppy although nearly scored
Morro 6 Sloppy but improved in the last 5 all our defenders and midfielders needed to do more to find a reading shirt with clearances or find touch.
Guthrie 5 worst performance I've seen this season far too lazy in the pass and overrun.
Baird 5 similalrly poor
Obita 5 ok but needs to produce better end product and do more defensively
McCleary 5 same tried to do too much sometimes
Alf 5 should have scored but not in the game enough.
Pog 7 tireless but nothing came off.

Can't be arsed to rate the subs. McAnuff steadied the ship when we were under pressure and we should have won the game when we took back control. Couldn't see HRK well from my end. Kelly barely on.

Adkins 4
Ref 4 gave them evdry minor touch and us very little, yet still had to send one of them off. Can't see how that was a cnr at the end and we should have had a pen first half for holding on morro at a cnr.

Millwall fans really ought to be in cages.

Two penalties from two corners in a row I thought

And yes Millwall fans are scum but amusing and they did at least provide some entertainment

[RoyalBlue]

Well that was extremely poor and shows what happens when Guthrie doesn't perform/a team prevents him from performing (although I don't agree with IR view that he was lazy - I thought he worked hard throughout). Too often we reverted to the long ball - it's clearly going to take Adkins a long time to stop the players automatically regressing to that approach when things aren't going well.

And before the Federici lynchmob string him up, it was a mistake by him that cost us today, it was the miss from ALF. 2-0 up and the team would have relaxed a bit more and would probably have reverted to the decent football that has been winning them games. Even had Feds then made a 'mistake' we would have had the cushion of another goal. As it was, he still made a couple of very decent saves (and yes, I know that's his job) to keep us in the game until injury time.

Oh, and whilst IR thinks we should have had a penalty for a hold on Morrison we definitely should have had one for the handball just prior to the shot from Pearce that was really well saved by their keeper.

I didn't say Guthrie was lazy. I said his passing was lazy. There's a difference.

Accepted, although disagree with your assessment using that interpretation too! And what do you mean by lazy on the overrun?

[Westwood52]

That was very poor and Millwall deserved a draw-they well organised, worked hard but had little threat up front-we on the other hand just sleep walked through the game. It seems stop Guthrie and you stop Reading.

Feds: 5 Had little choice on the penalty, just to slow and for once his kicking was inaccurate.

Gunter : 6 As usual kept going after a clattering, but little quality.
Bridge : 7 MOM but thats not saying much.
Morro : 5 Indecisive but good goal.
Pierce : 4 Partly to blame for the goal.
Guthrie : 6 If he doesnt have time & space Reading don't play on the front foot-seemed short of ideas
Baird : 6 As usual a very safe performance-but lacks creativity
Mcleery : 5 Not his usual self-switched off for long periods of the game
Alf : 6 Missed a good chance to bury Millwall and just did not look sharp
Pog : 7 Worked very hard but two tough centre backs outmatched him.
Obita : 4 Apart from one brilliant piece of play too often looked out of his depth

Mc Anuff : 6 Pretty average
Kanu : 6 Little impact
Kelly : 6 Looked very rusty

Adkins seemed unable to influence our performance

Linos good- once again Ref clueless-worse than Durso.