Ian Royal ...to give us the opportunity to play from the back....

The problem so far is that we don't play from the back we play at the back.

Frustrating night, to say the least. The number of back-passes last night went from our usual, rather more than I'd like to something close to does the back four have a bet spread bet on? . I would expect us to move the ball through the areas of the pitch to create opportunities to score (assuming t...

'Put a Wales shirt on, Gunter!' Instead of him putting on a Welsh shirt, maybe it's the supporters that need to. Doubt he's the only player on the team that would play better if they weren't constantly being barracked. Gunter was barracked? When have you heard this? I've been to virtually every hom...

[McCleary]made some mistakes,(agree on the floaty nonsense) but pretty much won every one of our twelve corners, and delivered most of our crosses. and along with beerens was our only attacking threat. It's not limited to the floaty nonsense. It was also not seeing Gunter's runs when better placed ...

Williams infuriates me at the best of times, but tonight was on another level, suppose it's the result of an accumulation of frustrating performances from him He just has no ball control whatsoever. The ball bounces off him for his first touch, and when dribbling he never once looks like he knows w...

Wow, Obita is warming up to come on and Dellor just described him as a "very capable left-sided attacker".....

Piglets are the new pie supplier.. Tomorrow we have ‘Minced Beef and Reading Sauce ’! :shock: *Shudders* Reading Sauce was a thing. Lost out to Worcester Sauce a while back. Wonder what's it's like? awesome. nicely spicy. mentioned in around the world in 80 days , don't you know Reading Sauce recip...

Seems as if the front 5 are intentionally pushing high up the pitch to create space . That's why Stam is looking for technically good defenders that are comfortable with the ball. OK, but the point of creating space is so that you can exploit it. If there are no players IN that space, it's just spa...

The new Chicken Balti pies are, simply put, not up to scratch. The pastry looks good as has quality crimping, but the filling has insufficient Chicken and is too heavily tomato influenced. Big step backwards, Stam out.

Overall verdict, if we are going to play around at the back, then the midfielders need to give the defenders more options by running more off the ball, promising and the beginnings of something good Seems as if the front 5 are intentionally pushing high up the pitch to create space . That's why Sta...

I didn't go last night, so I'm talking in general here, but I don't get the negativity about Cooper's ability on the ball. Obviously he's no Wdowczyk but previously he's been pretty comfortable on the ball and used it pretty reliably. He didn't used to be too adventurous with it but when he first c...

When there's no options on it's clearly better to pass backwards or sideways and keep the ball I think this highlights the area where we haven't quite got it right yet. We are clearly looking to play the ball out from the back (no issue there), but the formation of the team when we have the ball at...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/night-world-realised-hal-robson-11557008 :D What's with the happy face? If your point is "I always told you all he was a great player" then why aren't you mad as hell at him for repeatedly failing to show this greatness in a Readin...

Everybody in football knows and understands what a great player Hal Robson Kanu is. The Wales supporters appreciate all of the good work he does, even if he doesn't score a lot of goals. Reading fans, mainly nobbers, don't really understand football and seem to want all the good footballing people ...

tidus_mi2 Was looking at an article about HRK and good lord is his girlfriend thin, either that or the camera angle makes her look it.

He looks like he's celebrating next to the corner flag.

floyd__streete Comes across as a decent chap

The key attribute of a top, top player.

Maneki Neko

ladida_gunner_graham

Silver Fox WTAF is that shit?

Performance analysis. The enemy of the Robson-Kanu apologist.

Hal scored 30 goals in 136(+91) appearances for the club

a much better record than I assumed

Translation : Robson-Kanu's miserable record was much better than the totally abject record I assumed....

CountryRoyal HRK finally leaving?!?!?!

http://youtu.be/zzeNAUOp17c

Thank you for not linking to some oxf*rd HRK highlights reel which give a wholly false impression of his time at the club.

Silver Fox WTAF is that shit?

Performance analysis. The enemy of the Robson-Kanu apologist.

Disappointed HRK is off, our braindead fans will be happy though There is nothing brain-dead about being happy to see one of our highest paid, most disappointing players turn his back on the club after half a dozen reasonable performances over the last 3 years. By any measure he's been a non-perfor...