Bolton (A) Match Thread sponsored by Alex Fernandez

[genome]

Reading starting XI vs Bolton: Al-Habsi, Gunter, Obita, Cooper, McShane (c), Norwood, Quinn, Williams, Piazon, Vydra, Kermorgant.
Reading subs vs Bolton: Bond, Taylor, Evans, Ferdinand, Fernandez, John, Cox.

Piazon and Vydra a bit of a surprise, no John in the starting 11. 4-3-3?
And Fernandez is on the bench!

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Are we losing yet?

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That does strike me as "season over, let's have a wee tinker"

[Dick Habbin's hairdo]

That does strike me as "season over, let's have a wee tinker"

Errr, no sh!t, Sherlock.....

[blueroyals]

4-4-2 diamond is what I'm hoping for. Our crossing is so poor I don't think we'll miss wingers

[stealthpapes]

That does strike me as "season over, let's have a wee tinker"

Errr, no sh!t, Sherlock.....

Given the OP went with

Piazon and Vydra a bit of a surprise, no John in the starting 11. 4-3-3?
And Fernandez is on the bench!

I'm going to go with "fair comment" and I'm also going to think you're a bit of a dick from here on in.

Great start, m8, let's see where we can go from here.

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4-4-2 diamond is what I'm hoping for. Our crossing is so poor I don't think we'll miss wingers

There's a lad in row G breathing a sigh of relief.

[Ian Royal]

That does strike me as "season over, let's have a wee tinker"

Strikes me as what we should be playing.
Assuming 4-3-3, it's easily the closest available to the formula we were using at our most successful under Clarke.

If it's 4-4-2 with Piazon in the 4 it's a disaster. I don't see how it can be though.

Norwood was at his best sitting in a midfield three. Quinn gives us energy and all round quality. Williams gives us drive through the middle and will support the attack. Vydra gives us pace. Piazon gives us ingenuity. Kermorgant gives us a presence upfront. Norwood, Piazon and Vydra should be capable of linking very well.

Hector may have been performing well in a holding role, but for me he didn't fit the rest of the team dynamic well, making it less than the sum of its parts. John looked exciting and produced not a whole lot.

[Dick Habbin's hairdo]

I'm going to go with "fair comment" and I'm also going to think you're a bit of a dick from here on in.

Great start, m8, let's see where we can go from here.

Bless, feeling a tad hormonal, *m8*? Don't worry, you'll grow out of it.

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I'm going to go with "fair comment" and I'm also going to think you're a bit of a dick from here on in.

Great start, m8, let's see where we can go from here.

Bless, feeling a tad hormonal, *m8*? Don't worry, you'll grow out of it.

'bit of'

[Ian Royal]

Well we appear to be on top, if still basically rubbish. Bolton sucker punch out of nothing still perfectly possible.

[Gordons Cumming]

Well we appear to be on top, if still basically rubbish.

[tidus_mi2]

Penalty Reading, red card to Notlob!

[Ian Royal]

Well we appear to be on top, if still basically rubbish.

Vydra wins a penalty and red card for Bolton.

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Resistible force meets movable object.

[tidus_mi2]

Vydra bloody missed.

Tim Dellor is having another meltdown about Vydra but I'm starting to turn against him too.

[blueroyals]

[blueroyals]

That's four 1-on-1s he's missed so far

[Winston Smith]

Lol @ Vydra

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