• RJ Royal_jimmy 4 Sep 2023 · 10:26pm

  Awful tonight. Didn't look like scoring really. The away from is the same as last season but vs even weaker sides. Truth is we've had a poor start to the season. We've lost every game except Cheltenham to an OG and against 10 man Stevenage. We've lost the rest. I am not Dellor's biggest fan but he has a point about it not being a good start. Onto the game: 1) Button was solid 2) Hutchinson was good and love the guy but him and Savage can't play together, it has to change and Selles needs to do it. 3) Kelvin made us look better when he came on. We looked poor otherwise. 4) The rest of the team were poor 5) Michael Morrison won't… More →

• OR Orion1871 4 Sep 2023 · 10:33pm

  Abbey was Motm. No threat until Ehibhatiomhan came on. Poor management. Femi Azeez is woeful. Cambridge are a woeful team yet still had enough to beat us. Hearing Jobi on TV reminded me of when we used to play with width and pace. Things that have been lacking for years.

• NR Norfolk Royal 4 Sep 2023 · 10:40pm

  Even allowing for the well documented problems we have that was a brainless performance. Pumping long balls up to a small lad who should be playing in the under 18s up against two experienced lumps. Great idea. Our best attacking thread benched for what reason? He looked fine when he came on. Most shocking thing was that Cambridge looked to have more energy and zest. That is one thing you might expect from our young team. They played like a load of dead-legged 35-year olds after five pints and a curry the previous night. Button played well, Nelson Abbey obvious quality, Hutch did what he does, Mbengue occasionally did something… More →

• WE WestYorksRoyal 4 Sep 2023 · 10:48pm

  Lots of "a better team would have scored 3 or 4" comments on Twitter. We're in L1. There are 2 or 3 teams at most who are a step up from what we've faced so far. Our performances don't have to improve much to get results.

• SR Snowflake Royal 4 Sep 2023 · 10:48pm

  Mostly unthreatened and then a shit breakaway goal. Nearly equalised. Ehib came close another time. Selles - 4 poor team selection. Poor set up. Its like he thought a Reading side that haven't looked like winning away for what feels like years were on to a cert so rested Ehib and gave Azeez another go for confidence. No idea why hetook Elliott off. Either wrong players or wrong shape. Fucked around with the fullback subs too. Brought on a RB/CM at RW. God we're shit at playing out. I hate it. I HATE IT. I F U CKING HATE IT! Button - 7 swept well, kicking at times poor Mbengue - 6 ok, not a fullback Carson - 4 sorry, very bad. Needs… More →

• YU yuomi 4 Sep 2023 · 10:51pm

  Punting long balls at Morrison and Bennett with a front two of Azeez and Vickers was beyond stupid. Vickers was the only player I saw run at anyone tonight, everything else was trying (and mostly failing) to pass the ball around them (10%) or sideways/backwards (90%). Credit to Button again. No chance with the goal, but quite enjoyed his sweeper keeper antics. Every single one of those professional fouls were necessary, that's how easily we were getting torn apart. Button 7 as above Mbengue 5 the WBs were so high in the first half that they weren't even outlets for Button or the CBs. Mbengue managed this better than Carson, but… More →

• ST stealthpapes 4 Sep 2023 · 10:54pm

  Staying in Christ's so back nice and early. Good day, under-rated train line through West to east, through Rutland and then down through the fens. Nice afternoon strolling around Cambridge. Then, the football .... The difference between two sides was grit and energy, basically. First to loose balls, forcing errors, keeping us from building any real momentum. That said... Our midfield isn't working, especially as we seem to want to pass ball out from back. When that fails, don't hoof it to Vickers. There was a spell when he got the ball down and we looked dangerous. Button kept it respectable. Their goal seemed inevitable when it… More →

• UR URZZZZ 5 Sep 2023 · 12:00am

  Think Camara is a bit of an unsung hero in this modern 4-2-2-2 style. Picks up pockets of space well higher up the pitch. Coincidence or not, our record stands at 3-0-0 when he’s started and 0-1-4 when not. Elliott does the job fairly well but really struggling with what Knibbs is supposed to be offering us. Not enough movement, not enough involvement and persistently leaves his fullback exposed. Think he’s been really poor personally with Azeez not being much better. With the likes of Smith, Wing and Ballard to come in, those two really have to buck up their ideas and quick. That being said, just not a fan of the formation. I… More →

• BL blythspartan 5 Sep 2023 · 4:35am

  Some really good analysis above. I wanted a team full of young hungry dynamic players, but we didn’t have the same energy levels as Cambridge last night. Tbf, we have a bit more experience to come back into the team, but maybe we should have got a couple more tried and trusted League One players. It’s like we froze mentally at the beginning of the game and ran around like headless chickens. I thought we got a bit better towards the end of the first half, but it all looked more in hope and we lacked composure. I am just glad of the international break and I really hope that Selles can use the time well and that players can recover… More →

• LO Loafer 5 Sep 2023 · 6:42am

  Do we ever have a BFTG post by people who actually go to the game?

• RR Royal Rother 5 Sep 2023 · 7:30am

  1st time I’ve seen this lot play and I was happy with what I saw. Looks like a decent team in the making. Many of the comments above smack of entitlement.

• SR Snowflake Royal 5 Sep 2023 · 8:05am

  I'm not seeing that at all. There's very little 'should be beating Cambridge'. Just frustration at leaving out our top scorer, tactics of high balls to Vickers against Bennett and Morrison and a lack of creativity. I've seen all our league games and I'd say bar second half against Vale, that was our worst performance. It's a very young team that will improve, but at the moment the balance is wrong. We look like conceding any time the game opens up and there's a break where someone can run at us and cross. At least without Binden.

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