Hampshire Royal Fair enough. It dinarf look like a head butt from where I was sitting!!
You still in your vehicle in the car park then? Headbutt lol.
by paultheroyal » 18 Apr 2017 10:20
Hampshire Royal Fair enough. It dinarf look like a head butt from where I was sitting!!
by royalp-we » 18 Apr 2017 10:23
by Hound » 18 Apr 2017 11:34
by WestRoyal » 18 Apr 2017 11:45
marlowukmarlowuk The second goal was also a great ball across the goal from Gunter and clinically finished by Swift.
I should have added that the pass from Williams that set up Gunter was a brilliant defence-splitting ball!!
by Maguire » 18 Apr 2017 12:22
by Vision » 18 Apr 2017 12:26
Maguire Not been to a whole lot of games this season but I enjoyed yesterday. Very flat first half but much more dynamic after HT and deserved the win.
- Meite isn't very good
- I like Swift as a player but he had a shocker until he scored
- Kelly was excellent, very continental in the way he keeps the ball moving
- Williams a clear MOTM
The main negative though is that I genuinely don't think Reading fans really understand football.
This season has surpassed any credible expectation but all I heard was "why are you going backwards?" "get it forwards Reading" "booooo" and other idiotic proclamations. Do people's memories get wiped every time they leave the ground like Men In Black so no matter how many matches they attend they have to learn the game all over again?
by Ian Royal » 18 Apr 2017 12:53
by Top Flight » 18 Apr 2017 13:05
Ian Royal One of the things I haven't missed is the endless hordes of negative moaners with no appreciation or understanding of football.
I genuinely think at least 2% of our crowd only goes to get angry and abuse someone.
by 3points » 18 Apr 2017 13:12
by Top Flight » 18 Apr 2017 13:15
Top Flight When we played at Elm Park, probably 20% of the fans went there just to get angry and abuse someone. So we have definitely improved in that regard. RFC has gone through a process of gentrification. Soon a Costa coffee will open in the councourses and a Waitrose will spring up outside the East Stand selling prawn sandwiches to Ian Royal and the like.
by BR2 » 18 Apr 2017 13:33
Hampshire Royal Fair enough. It dinarf look like a head butt from where I was sitting!!
by Top Flight » 18 Apr 2017 13:35
BR2Hampshire Royal Fair enough. It dinarf look like a head butt from where I was sitting!!
Very much agree with you HR and Williams does have history.
The daft thing was that the kick( for which their player was booked) rather than giving Danny a broken leg ,which he would have us believe, actually served to spur him on to be our most effective player.
IMHO Beerens is comfortable (not his best game yesterday) on either the right or left whereas McCleary, one of our most important players, is uncomfortable on the left and is only half the player that he is when out on the right as shown in the second half.
BTW regarding time-wasting, the ref could have added on time in the first half with all of our time-wasting (Moore-Blackett, Blackett-Moore etc.)
by BR2 » 18 Apr 2017 13:39
by Top Flight » 18 Apr 2017 13:42
BR2 I know a lot of you divs are so pissed up at games that you don't see the opposition but I thought their centre-back was commanding in the air to the extent that Yann hardly won a challenge.
Checked him out last night- he has a bit of a pedigree as an Arsenal youngster but was bought by Cardiff and has been on loan at Rotherham where I guess he has been quite busy.
by Hound » 18 Apr 2017 13:45
by Top Flight » 18 Apr 2017 13:47
Hound their keeper and no. 9 Ward were useful as well. I know Ward was getting some interest earlier in the season.
I think the make up of the Reading fans at home influences the atmosphere greatly. To be honest, I just see an absolute load of kids - more than I've ever seen at any other ground, and quite a few old boys. There isnt really any sort of hardcore element anywhere, who may be prone to a bit more vocal encouragement than a sort of fairly annoyed sigh, which is what I heard mainly at half time
by Whore Jackie » 18 Apr 2017 14:41
Hound their keeper and no. 9 Ward were useful as well. I know Ward was getting some interest earlier in the season.
by BR2 » 18 Apr 2017 14:43
Top FlightBR2 I know a lot of you divs are so pissed up at games that you don't see the opposition but I thought their centre-back was commanding in the air to the extent that Yann hardly won a challenge.
Checked him out last night- he has a bit of a pedigree as an Arsenal youngster but was bought by Cardiff and has been on loan at Rotherham where I guess he has been quite busy.
Apart from when Kermie outjumped him and thumped a header which the goalie did well to tip over the bar.
by Top Flight » 18 Apr 2017 14:49
BR2Top FlightBR2 I know a lot of you divs are so pissed up at games that you don't see the opposition but I thought their centre-back was commanding in the air to the extent that Yann hardly won a challenge.
Checked him out last night- he has a bit of a pedigree as an Arsenal youngster but was bought by Cardiff and has been on loan at Rotherham where I guess he has been quite busy.
Apart from when Kermie outjumped him and thumped a header which the goalie did well to tip over the bar.
I'm not absolutely certain if he was marking him for that cross but if so, yes once in 90 minutes.
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