• LW Lower West 14 Aug 2018 · 11:31pm

  Enjoyed the game with lots of positives to take from the performance. Seems to be a unity in the squad coupled with leadership. Opposition very poor. Job done, a major confidence boost. Roll on round 2.

• AR Armadillo Roadkill 14 Aug 2018 · 11:48pm

  An OK performance against the second string of one of the weaker Championship teams. For much of the second half Reading were ineffective, retreating into a Stam like shell of sitting deep and playing countless pointless cross field passes. Overall a justified result, but not the wholly convincing win we might have hoped for. But a win is a win. For positives, look to Yiadom who is just class. Was surprised to hear Adie Williams on BBCRB criticise Ilori, who I thought was excellent - Williams was the professional footballer and a centre back to boot so I will defer to his judgement. Meite was excellent - all tricks and strength.… More →

• OO Only one Trevor Morley 14 Aug 2018 · 11:54pm

  Unlike previous poster I though McNulty was excellent tonight. A really clever player who always added something positive with every touch and who has that bit of extra vision. On a night when he didn’t have many clear cut chances he still made a reading by his vision and work rate. his ball for meite was world class and showed excellent awareness and unselfishness to pass to Baldock who should have scored. More to come from McNulty I think.

• AN Anonymous 15 Aug 2018 · 1:23am

  Very happy with what I saw and loved that starting line up, really clicked.

• RD Rea Ding 15 Aug 2018 · 2:26am

  Went into this game with little excitement yet it proved to be very enjoyable. Good all round team performance and 2 nice goals against pretty feeble opposition. Bring on saturday and a decent draw on thursday :?

• HO Hound 15 Aug 2018 · 7:20am

  It’s games like last night that show How desperately poor we had become last year. Was a genuine pleasure to watch the full backs bomb forward, the forwards causing problems and pressing, Swift running his backside off for 90m and some fast attacking play. The whole atmosphere in the crowd was much more positive and supportive Brum were to$$ but bar a dodgy period of 15mins at the start of the second half we were well on top. Should have won by 3 or 4 really and Baldock missed a sitter that his overall performance deserved Walker looked solid and made a couple of good saves Yiadom is great. 1st half particularly he was superb… More →

• ES Esteban 15 Aug 2018 · 7:24am

  Agree with this. Played in between the lines and made it difficult for their defenders to pick him up. Used the ball well. I was right in line with the chance he gave Baldock. I think he was expecting McNulty to shoot and the ball was a yard too far I'm front of him to react. That link up play will improve with time. There were signs of them building an understanding.

• PB Pandoras Box 15 Aug 2018 · 8:37am

  In another vein of BFTG. Why were there SO many first timers there last night? The haribo brigade. Was it that the £3-£7 ticket made it a better prospect than Chessington or Alton Towers? Loads of disinterested parents, many who knew less about football as a game than they knew about Reading. Special thumbs up to the tw@t directly behind me, who in the loudest voice extolled the virtues of the best way to book a holiday, Spanish holidays in general, his kid’s holiday booking, purple bricks, zoopla, Lower Earley, Tilehurst, fish and chip shops in the area, Didn’t comment on the game once and then decided that Reading were not going… More →

• MU muirinho 15 Aug 2018 · 8:53am

  No, no we can't. Because some of the kids that were brought along will want to come again. and again. And will eventually turn into "proper" fans. If you want the club to grow, you can't restrict attendance to the people that already have a culture of going, or know anything about the game. It's elitism. And it doesn't help the club. In a normal game, without free seating, that type of attendee will be safely tucked away in North, and won't be bothering you with their inanities.

• HO Hound 15 Aug 2018 · 9:17am

  It was games like last night that I first took my kids to to get them interested, when it was a bit more relaxed and a bit more space for them to mess about in if needed. We'd probably have been the annoying family 2 years back. Now we are season ticket holders, and the kids watch every minute of the game (when they are not going to the toilet for the 15th time), buy the merchandise etc

• PB Pandoras Box 15 Aug 2018 · 9:28am

  Fully agree with your sentiment, of course we need new blood. It was a school special as a parent that got me going with my daughter many years back. It’s not the kids that rile me, it’s the lack of respect and inconsiderate behaviour of those parents that bring them under sufferance. I mean, if you had to take your kids to a Disney film, would you sit there and have a living room chat out loud the whole way through the film, or at a concert, because you aren’t interested? That one bloke ruined the first half for about eight people. Now we could tell him to shut the f* up but that would hardly be the welcoming attitude we are… More →

• BO bobbybottler 15 Aug 2018 · 9:30am

  Who was it that completely scuffed his shot, trod on the ball and fell over about half way through the second half? I think that was about the only time the atmosphere soured a bit. The O'Shea stuff was a bit of fun (I thought) and he gave us a clap at the end, he didn't seem to mind it at all. Moore got an ovation from Y24/5/6 at the end, just in case anyone was wondering what those outside the HNA bubble thought about him staying.

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