Looks like we impressed our old friend David Prutton anyway - he has gone for a 2-1 Reading win...

Loved Baker, but we didn’t really dominate games last year anywhere near the way we did on Sunday Put that down to the system working better and Ovie and Swift having more freedom. I don’t think Baker is a DM at all (and I believe his defensive stats were actually very poor). If he’d had Pele (or a ...

At the start of the season it looked as though we had a weaker team that the one we finished with due to the loan signings returning and the self imposed embago etc affecting new signings. (when this was put to him by Tim Dellor, the open and honest Jose Gomes understandably didn't put his current ...

Yeah agreed. Can take a defeat as long as there is something to keep building with

WBA did lose in the cup at home last week. Know it’s a weakened side etc but still worth noting

URZZZZ Haven’t won an away game with a clean sheet for 22 months now

Leeds?

Yaks is obviously a little low at the moment. Seen his best mate move on, lost his place in the first 11, no longer the main man - and thats without doing anything wrong himself - he scored in his first game, unlucky to hit the post in the second. Could see he really wanted the penalty - partly to p...

Somebody in here has been making a point, and it's a good one, that Gomes needs to adapt game plans to win away games in the Champ. Think we need to win a few games 1-0, esp away. We don't do that, and haven't in a while. It's great to win games like we did yesterday, but we need to eek out more wi...

Odd to worry about us not having a Plan B when we've already used at least 3 formations and used different players to do different roles. That's exactly why I'm concerned; those other formations/roles lead to 2 defeats and a draw in 90mins with a lower league side. So if by plan B we mean systems t...

just flicking through their results, the fact they lost and drawn at home to Millwall this season is a little interesting

Wondering if they are a little soft. Was very impressed with how physical we were against Cardiff, so maybe more of the same is needed

I was sceptical about going 3 at the back - but it worked against Cardiff soooo well!!! I think it will suit us away from home even better; we have a really strong spine and it will make us difficult to break down. I feel confident Miazga, Morrison and Moore (& Rafael) can deal with the best at...

yeah Nova is surely on his way

JS wasn't completely right thankfully as he did play for us vs Sheff Wed

But he is probably well down the list, which is likely Puscas > Joao > Meite > Boye > Loader > Baldock > Nova at the moment

playing 3 at the back does allow you to morph into 3-5-2 or a close variant of it. Even 3-3-4 if we wanted to push Yiadom and Richards (who are both capable of playing as full on wingers) if we needed to I've always quite liked it as a formation and seems to suit the current line up. Its not great ...

Gomes, when asked about Rinomhotas absence, stated that it will happen with a larger team. So he didnt pick up a knock. Who's jumping to conclusions now Mr jumping to conclusions? We won pretty convincingly so I'll stick by my method of not throwing my toys out of the pram when one player is droppe...

playing 3 at the back does allow you to morph into 3-5-2 or a close variant of it. Even 3-3-4 if we wanted to push Yiadom and Richards (who are both capable of playing as full on wingers) if we needed to I've always quite liked it as a formation and seems to suit the current line up. Its not great n...

food looked great yesterday - had already eaten so didn't partake but all looked very impressive - and at a decent price as well. Good vegetarian options as well. Big thumbs up for this

I cant remember a single call the ref got wrong tbh. Hull fouled way more and that ref was useless. he certainly wasn't the worst, and like I said, think he did well after the hour They definitely got away with a lot of sneaky kicks etc prior to that. There was one in particular early in the second...

yep standard Twitter outrage, boring and pathetic

The ref was pretty average to poor until about 60 odd mins when he picked up what Cardiff were up to and started pulling them up for their multiple fouls Joao did fall over to easily, but he was still being constantly kicked, pulled and wrestled before the ball came to him. You're not actually allow...

WBA 1-0 Reading HT
WBA 2-1 Reading FT

WBA to Score First <<<<<<<



33 WBA
57 WBA
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72 Joao

I still think we can improve massively from set pieces. We've a big side now - Meite, Puscas, Joao (who was bigger than I expected), Moore, Miazga, Blackett, Pele, Morrison, Ejaria - all our 6ft plus and decent in the air. Swift needs to work on his delivery - some of his corners were good, but a fe...