Scunthorpe - back from the lame

[strap]

So its the Xmas party for the team tonight. Personally, I'd prefer them to drive down to ashton gate and start attacking the City goal now. Maybe we can get our equaliser in before next saturday?

oxf*rd me that's going to be a barrel of laughs after this week isn't it!?

[RoyalBlue]

So its the Xmas party for the team tonight. Personally, I'd prefer them to drive down to ashton gate and start attacking the City goal now. Maybe we can get our equaliser in before next saturday?

oxf*rd me that's going to be a barrel of laughs after this week isn't it!?

I'm sure they'll still all have a great time. Nowadays there don't seem to be that many professional footballers around who take a bad result to heart.

[Jimmy the Tree]

Dominated the game, had enough chances to win 10 games, didn't take them. Ingimarsson screws up yet again for the equaliser and we're robbed of 2 points. Cue over-reactionary shit on the radio and on here, good on Rodgers for putting that twunt Dellor in his place - I'll happily stump up a tenner for anyone to hit the tosser square in the face with a spade at Bristol, he doesn't know football from his ar$e.

I fully expect the usual idiot crew of here to bitch and moan at my post and call for Rodgers head, but then again I don't really care as I don't need sectioning, unlike many of our fans clearly.

If any of the players do read this, which they'd be ill advised to do given the average IQ present on HNA? , chin up, more of the same at Bristol and things will look a lot better come the new year when we have Thorvaldsson and more attacking options.

I'm off for the evening, tarra.

same old story played well had chances but still did not win when we should have. unless a striker is on the way its down we go, we should have brought one in on loan

There is a striker on his way, it's been confirmed.

So we are just going to write off the next 3 games before the window opens are we?

[strap]

So its the Xmas party for the team tonight. Personally, I'd prefer them to drive down to ashton gate and start attacking the City goal now. Maybe we can get our equaliser in before next saturday?

oxf*rd me that's going to be a barrel of laughs after this week isn't it!?

I'm sure they'll still all have a great time. Nowadays there don't seem to be that many professional footballers around who take a bad result to heart.

Shame they couldn't give a toss about home many home supporters' saturday nights they've oxf*rd up whilst they go on to enjoy theirs.

[Southbank Old Boy]

There is a striker on his way, it's been confirmed.

So we are just going to write off the next 3 games before the window opens are we?

Long will be available again for City, and I doubt Church will be injured for too much longer

Our options are great, we have known that all along, but the financial restrictions have obvioulsy tied our hands to some degree

[winchester_royal]

FWIW

Reading are an exceptionally good football side, who will cut teams to pieces this season.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

FWIW

IW fuck all if we keep missing gilt edged chances

[Woodcote Royal]

Dominated the game, had enough chances to win 10 games, didn't take them. Ingimarsson screws up yet again for the equaliser and we're robbed of 2 points..

It's a team game tho, surely we should have been outr of sight, one error may cost a goal, but other errors meant we did not score enough to cover one defensive cock up.

When you hit the crossbar twice and their keeper is their MoM by a country mile you just know it isn't your day.

I agree with Winchester and others in that the idiot crew (including 100's of East Stand W*nkers who decided YET AGAIN!!!!! that a draw justified the booing of the team they never stop telling others how to support ) are judging the result rather than the performance.

Having not attended for the last 2 months due to work, I can only imagine the frustration some fans are feeling after just 2 league wins at the Mad Stad since February but we played some delightful football for much of this game, had the chances to win 3 games and would have scored five or six without the intervention of their keeper and the woodwork.

Having said all that, things started to go downhill with the pointless subbing of Robson Kanu who had a decent game and yet again Marek showed why his touches of sheer class don't compensate for his cock ups.

Scunthorpe's goal was under siege for much of the game as their keeper pulled off some impressive saves and it is hard to think of any Reading player who had a really poor game.

However, this is a new team and it's bound to suffer some defensive frailty while it continues to gel but I find it very hard to believe this was a worst performance than Tuesday's 2-4

I think the club should offer Tim Dellor a free season ticket in the East, where his footballing knowledge will be well matched, in return for the end of his broadcasting career as far as RFC is concerned. If we didn't know already, the man is an utter tool.

Whilst the jury is still out on BR's future, we were desperately unlucky not to win today and a second goal would probably have opened the floodgates but some of Brendan's decisions do him and his team no favours at all.

[Row Z Royal]

Biggest LOL of the day was kebe coming on, true to form absolutely embarrassing and the groans said it all. Robson-kanu played well, poor decision from rodgers.

Not bothering to read everything this evening, but despite an 8/10 first half, HRK had been ineffective for at least a quarter of an hour by the time the change was made. I might not have brought on Kebe, but taking HRK off was the correct move (FOR A BLOODY CHANGE).

[winchester_royal]

FWIW

IW oxf*rd all if we keep missing gilt edged chances [/quote]

We won't miss that many every game.......

At least I bloody well hope we won't.

[Row Z Royal]

FWIW

IW oxf*rd all if we keep missing gilt edged chances

We won't miss that many every game.......

At least I bloody well hope we won't.[/quote]

It's rare for us to create that many, hence the panic in front of goal.

[Southbank Old Boy]

Biggest LOL of the day was kebe coming on, true to form absolutely embarrassing and the groans said it all. Robson-kanu played well, poor decision from rodgers.

Not bothering to read everything this evening, but despite an 8/10 first half, HRK had been ineffective for at least a quarter of an hour by the time the change was made. I might not have brought on Kebe, but taking HRK off was the correct move (FOR A BLOODY CHANGE).

That and he has only been playing for the stiffs so was probably starting to feel the pace a bit

Nice to see Gylfi complete 90 mins for a change though

[winchester_royal]

Regardless of how BR's tenure ends up, in Sig we really do have an absolute star. Brilliant once again today.

[Row Z Royal]

Biggest LOL of the day was kebe coming on, true to form absolutely embarrassing and the groans said it all. Robson-kanu played well, poor decision from rodgers.

Not bothering to read everything this evening, but despite an 8/10 first half, HRK had been ineffective for at least a quarter of an hour by the time the change was made. I might not have brought on Kebe, but taking HRK off was the correct move (FOR A BLOODY CHANGE).

That and he has only been playing for the stiffs so was probably starting to feel the pace a bit

Nice to see Gylfi complete 90 mins for a change though

Complete and have some in the tank. Maybe the rest on Tuesday was sensible after all.

[floyd__streete]

FWIW

Reading are an exceptionally good football side, who will cut teams to pieces this season.

Yep, that's why we're 21st in the table

[clauski]

I think Dellor was off the mark suggesting today was worse than Tuesday - it wasn't. Tuesday we were outplayed, didn't ever look like winning. Today we dominated first half and should have won by a mile, didn't take the chances then faded and faded. But we were far better than Tuesday. As for the interview no-one came out well - Dellor hiding behind "some fans think" and Rodgers losing the plot and not looking very clever even though I can understand his irriation at the question (imagine if Roy Keane had been asked the same, Dellor wouldn't be standing).

Where does it leave us? In trouble. Tough games ahead, not looking likely to win many of them. January too late and likely to lead to more panic buys. We need someone who can get the team to relax and enjoy themselves a little more, make the right tactical decisions, and sign the right players not bench warmers. Is BR that man?

[Row Z Royal]

FWIW

Reading are an exceptionally good football side, who will cut teams to pieces this season.

Cheese graters cut things to pieces, mate, but they're still full of holes.

[Southbank Old Boy]

Heaven forbid!!!!

I think its a bit *lame* for a young professional like him not to have the stamina for 90 mins anyway, and 3 games in a week should be perfectly doable too, but if thats all his body can do then Rodgers was right to rest him durng the week against what was always going to be a pretty physical Palace side

[Elm Park Old Boy]

Can't understand the hysteria. We deserved to win the game by a mile. We know we're lacking up front, but nothing can be done about it before January now, and at least Rodgers is trying different ways of addressing it.

Having said that:

- I was puzzled why Sig was put out wide, with Robson-Kanu supported Rasziak down the middle. HRK's best moment was when he went wide left and got the cross over for the goal
- as the game went on, it became more and more worrying that we didn't get the 2nd (and 3rd or 4th) goal that frankly we deserved - the sucker punch felt inevitable when it came
- some of our fans don't help, with their lack of appreciation of anything other than lumping the ball forward. people near me where moaning that we didn't play the ball forward ('through the middle') enough, but kept it at the back. But we were winning, why give it back to the opposition cheaply?
- I was never sure what he did, but do we perhaps miss Howard?
- we are undoubtedly in a relegation scrap - the Club need to recognise that, and Rodgers needs to be given some resources to address the problems. We need a goalscorer, and some leadership and organisation, and a bit of pace in the centre of defence and/or defensive midfield

Sidwell's out of the Villa team - maybe he'd fancy a loan (only kidding....)

[handbags_harris]

Whilst the jury is still out on BR's future, we were desperately unlucky not to win today and a second goal would probably have opened the floodgates but some of Brendan's decisions do him and his team no favours at all.

If you concede a late equaliser after missing so many guilt-edged chances you are not unlucky not to win. It is not unlucky to miss so many chances. IMO it is sheer ineptitude under the most pressurised situation a football player can find himself in. A couple of missed chances can possibly be put down to bad luck. An absolute hatful cannot.