Immediate thought, credit to Port Vale. They could, and probably should, have won that. And my God we made it easy for them. I can sort of understand trying to do what we did in the second half against Bolton, but to do it here is frankly unforgivable. Had we continued to press and try to play into ...

Stickland to Farnborough on a short-term loan.

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Leam Richardson praises future Reading FC star Sean Patton Reading FC forward Sean Patton joined Aldershot Town in January on loan to the end of the season. The 19-year-old arrived to Berkshire in the summer after a trial period and has so far impressed, scoring the winner against MK Dons in the Ve...

Leam Richardson praises future Reading FC star Sean Patton Reading FC forward Sean Patton joined Aldershot Town in January on loan to the end of the season. The 19-year-old arrived to Berkshire in the summer after a trial period and has so far impressed, scoring the winner against MK Dons in the Ver...

Just watched the game. Few thoughts: - At any level, you simply can't back off as much - and allow as many crosses - as we do. - Ditto marking. We're currently tracking players at an u14 level. - Lane is properly awful. You'd be forgiven for thinking he was playing for Wycombe. - Doyle's weird habit...

Twatter abuzz as Ronan Hale was left out of the Ross County squad that beat Partick Thistle tonight...

Two months ago, if the 4th official showed 8 minutes w/ us at 1-0, you could have put the mortgage on (at least) a Stockport equaliser and taken it to the bank. The football hasn't got much prettier, but this side is so much better at staying in and managing games. A few good moves in the transfer m...

Delightful irony in the fact that this feels like the most Huntball performance all season.

Interesting to see 3 of the 4 loans on the bench and the one who played easily replaceable by other options. I liked the front line probably for the first time this season. Kelvin has his faults of course but I don’t think we can leave him out. With Kyeweera prob playing himself out the side and Ri...

Great thanks. Will try to have a listen later Having been in countless senior leadership meetings, where words tend to be carefully chosen and often weighed with different meanings, my take away was: we are 25% of the way into the season - results on the pitch are not where the ownership expected t...

It wasn't great but seemingly for the first time this season it built on some of what had worked in the match before - and that's an improvement, right? There's still too much hoofing going on, but we're playing the ball on the deck more. The thing we're noticeably still lacking is movement off the ...

Would be great to carry the Cardiff performance (defensive brainfarts aside) into this match and go at them from the get go, but wouldn't be surprised if we revert to our ponderous, sloppy, low-energy selves. Love to be wrong, mind. Would give Ryan a go at LB and bring Elliott in for Doyle. Otherwis...

He's following the same path that Garcia trod before him. Glowing debut and first couple of games, then regressing to the sort of form you'd expect from a player his age. Even if he was a generational talent (and I don't think he is), he's very young to be playing this number of games at this level....

We're still in this bewildering situation where Fraser's strongest position/role is the one we're currently shoehorning our most creative player in to. Without Wing joining attacks we look disjointed and devoid of ideas, and he can't seem to help a bunch of defenders with a collective kink for putti...

Admittedly I am not a regular at games these days but I watch what I can. Genuinely surprised to hear that the away end were booing and singing what they were singing. - After the relative unity during the end of the Dai era, how have things become so toxic so quickly? - Since when did these matche...

Given he was sold during the previous regime, would any potential income generated by a sell on clause be subject to the SPA & make its way back to them? Sell-on clauses attach to a club, not a holding company. Given how litigious Couhig is i'd be shocked if he'd have let anything different pass.

Would we have signed Williams if O'Connor hadn't been injured so quickly and with the end of the transfer window approaching? Possibly. So far, so good with Williams who is a bit older than O'Connor but has generally played at a higher level than him and has helped our defence look just that little...

Would like to see something like:

El Gato
Abrefa/Ahmed Burns Williams Jacob
Fraser
Wing Elliott
Kyerewaa MoM Lane

Bench: Camara, RB, Savage, Doyle, Marriott, Stevens, Dorsett

Are we any clearer on when Paudie's due back?

O'Mahony is an obvious target for criticism. Just not on the same wavelength, not entirely sure what he gives to the side. It's not even like he could be a goal poacher type player as he's rarely in a position to feed off mistakes etc in the penalty area. I am less certain he will come good. MOM ju...

We seem a bit obsessed by ‘loaning players out’. Do L1 clubs really do this a lot? Thinking back a decade or so I can only think of Kelly, Tshbola and Dorsett who ‘benefitted’ from a loan from us anyway and none have exactly pulled up trees as their career has progressed. Loaning Stickland to a L2 ...