by Millsy »
01 Jan 2018 11:24
RoyalBlue 2 world wars, 1 world cup 10539.4 Miles Away Great cross by Blackett for the goal which we celebrated before Kermit connected with it, shame he was then done like a kipper for their goal.
I love it!
When the lineups were revealed I smiled turned to my wife and said "Well if he's on that's at least one goal we're conceding today..."
If a fan can predict this from an armchair what the **** is a ex-defender manager doing? I'm guessing Omar Richards is injured. Even then I'd play anyone else there other than the ridiculous defensive liability that Blackett is
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As for Stam.... I'm done with him.
I voted IN on the thread but have changed my mind. I actually cheered when we let one in. That's not right. You know you're done with a manager when you want his team to lose.
Come on Brum!
Actually it's your team that you are wanting to lose.
If you want Birmingham to win, kindly get a ticket in the away end.
As for your criticism of Blackett - at least he came out even yesterday (one assist and one scapegoating - who was supposed to be marking the guy who scored?) , unlike many of his team mates who have escaped your criticism
Your points are fair. Why would a Reading fan want Reading to lose? In my head I don't, but my emotions betray me and that's when I know there's something wrong. We all love Reading in our different ways. Some just like us to play less badly on a game by game basis so any goal or result is good as we may end up say 16th instead of 17th, But some of us take a more long term view and are willing to sacrifice a point or three if it will mean there will be meaningful change for the long term good. The former are happy for the odd goal to paper over the cracks, the latter want the cracks to be visible to everyone so there's meaningful change. The former are happy to us scrape the odd draw or win and end up midtable, hold onto a clueless n00b of a manager who will serve up the same shit next year if not get us relegated. The latter are wanting things to get worse before they get better so we bring in a manager who knows what he's doing and gets this set of individually excellent set of players to perform to their true potential. Whatever our view we all love Reading the same or we wouldn't be here. I feel I love Reading even more than you do. You will probably feel the opposite. That's fair and there's no right or wrong. For what it's worth I'd actually LOVE to be hearing on BBC that we're suddenly clicking and playing decisive flowing football and having lots of chances and to have won 5-0. That may happen against Brum and I'd be delighted. But when they keep moaning that the footy we play is shocking, we haven't learnt anything etc etc.. it just seems more of the same and there's no reason I'd want to let a lucky goal perpetuate the farce.
As for Blackett - yeah the assist sounds great, good man! Credit to the lad for that! But he's not well known for doing those sorts of assists, and he IS well known amongst most fans and pundits for being quite frankly a defensive liability. How uncanny that I rolled my eyes when his name was read out and surprise surprise he was at least partly responsible for the goal. Fair point though about the team mates. They are certainly also to blame certainly but they don't have the misfortune of having built up a poor reputation that's all so poor Blackett gets more grief I agree. An odd mistake is acceptable. Repeated blunders that build you up a reputation is different.