Millwall Match Thread

[Gav]

LOL @ playing "it's getting better all the time" at the final whistle, I hope it was someone being ironic. The reality is that the opposite is true, it gets worse as the team has millions syphoned out of it year after year.

Was last season not an improvement on the one before? In fact wans't it our most enjoyable and successful season since 2006/7?

Yes, in the circumstances we did sensationally to make the play offs, but you can only defy gravity for so long and if you seriously weaken the team/squad every year, there is only one eventual outcome.

Keep at it, you'll be right eventually.

[Rex]

great game.we looked in control.lost it at the back and lucky we werent 3 nil down,but great stuff from beast.looked lean and mean, 2 great finishes. Great substitution from brian. About fair in the end. Hopefully pearce and bonghani will gel with games.

Edit that to 4 nil down.

[sandman]

Just seen the goals on SSN. Lots of people dressed as blue seats.

How many times have you used that line? F-

[Arch]

Quite clearly, there is a lack of ambition beyond financial stability

That's not clear at all. There's ambition to get promotion on the back of financial stability. You may share the view that that's impossible, but that doesn't mean the ambition isn't there.

[RoyalBlue]

great game.we looked in control.lost it at the back and lucky we werent 3 nil down,but great stuff from beast.looked lean and mean, 2 great finishes. Great substitution from brian. About fair in the end. Hopefully pearce and bonghani will gel with games.

Edit that to 4 nil down.

Everyone goes on about the great substitution but at 2-0 down and making no impression at all, anyone could see we needed to try something different and, now we are down to 5 subs on the bench, what other alternatives did he have?

[brendywendy]

think i saw ten decent crosses from jimmy flashed between defence and keeper , or up at the back stick. He may also have mishit 20,but thats still 1 in 3 and therfore his most consistent game im terms of service.

[RoyalBlue]

Quite clearly, there is a lack of ambition beyond financial stability

That's not clear at all. There's ambition to get promotion on the back of financial stability. You may share the view that that's impossible, but that doesn't mean the ambition isn't there.

Financial stability or on the cheap? All Madejski's comments point as much to the latter as the former. He doesn't like the fact it costs a lot of money and I'm not sure he'd be keen to spend it even if we had (have?) it.

He talks of ambition and no doubt he has some but does he have enough and, as you say, does the underlying philosophy make it realistic.

I've ambition to be a millionaire without having to work hard, invest or take any risk!

[brendywendy]

great game.we looked in control.lost it at the back and lucky we werent 3 nil down,but great stuff from beast.looked lean and mean, 2 great finishes. Great substitution from brian. About fair in the end. Hopefully pearce and bonghani will gel with games.

Edit that to 4 nil down.

possibly 5. We were lucky.defensively we let it slip 2nd half,but with a new partnership its no wonder. Rest of team were all ok. The goals paper over alot of cracks.but it was a pretty enjoyable gamf.half an hour of dire defending aside.

[Arch]

Quite clearly, there is a lack of ambition beyond financial stability

That's not clear at all. There's ambition to get promotion on the back of financial stability. You may share the view that that's impossible, but that doesn't mean the ambition isn't there.

Financial stability or on the cheap? All Madejski's comments point as much to the latter as the former. He doesn't like the fact it costs a lot of money and I'm not sure he'd be keen to spend it even if we had (have?) it.

He talks of ambition and no doubt he has some but does he have enough and, as you say, does the underlying philosophy make it realistic.

I've ambition to be a millionaire without having to work hard, invest or take any risk!

You could say results speak for themselves. I think you get a much more compelling argument for why we didn't get promoted last season by focusing on the 45 minutes at Wembley where played below the standard we had set over the previous four or five months than starting from the premise of lack of investment.

[Royal Rother]

LOL at all the people who were no doubt thinking up long posts to write about lack of ambition, no signings etc at 0-2 down, but will no doubt now be spunking themselves at a great comeback.

Its impossible to comment on anything after the first game, some teams will have had better pre-seasons than others, new signings need to settle, nerves, new tactics etc.

Great comeback today, although its seems we got out of jail a little. But lets assess things after the first 10 games, in stead of jumping to conclusions and sprouting the usual pesimistic boll*cks if we are in a bad position after the first few.

Quite clearly, there is a lack of ambition beyond financial stability and a 5-0 win, a 0-5 defeat or a 2-2 doesn't change that.

LOL @ playing "it's getting better all the time" at the final whistle, I hope it was someone being ironic. The reality is that the opposite is true, it gets worse as the team has millions syphoned out of it year after year.

Where is it being syphoned off to?

[winchester_royal]

Griffin is shit.

[retro royal]

What ever way you want to paper over the cracks, which was the reason for signing Harte, we now have another crack in Griffin, never been to keen on Feds add to that the two centre backs. Two very attack minded wingers granted jobi's getting better at covering. result will be too many leaked goals, nervousness will spread and even the goals might dry up.

I can't see anything positive from this season other than staying up.

[Big Ern]

I love that never say die attitude we have. We are the Man U of the championship

NO MORE DRUGS FOR THAT MAN!!!!

[LoyalRoyalFan]

What was happening between the Reading and the Millwall fans?

[BenReadingFC]

What was happening between the Reading and the Millwall fans?

Nothing

[Friday's Legacy]

What was happening between the Reading and the Millwall fans?

nothing. they got over excited, reading fans being reading fans were good at taking the pee back and the neanderthal fans reacted. amazingly one father and his (what looked like 10 yr old son) tried to reach y26 and were both thrown out after trying to take on the stewards. brilliant to watch, but what a pathetic bunch they really are.

the game:

i felt we shaded the first half but were a different side in the second. god knows how we took a point, yet felt unlucky hitting the woodwork three times. all good efforts.

long was quiet. unlucky with a rasping effort against the crossbar.
hunt was ok but slow.
kebe, no one wants to tackle him but the end product is rarely there. they looked uncomfortable when he had possession.
mcanuff was handy but tries to do too much too often. unlucky with his shot against the post.
didn't notice harte too much but his free-kicks weren't great today. a couple not clearing the first defender.
karacan impressed me. solid, harassed and chased everything.
legs also. bit worried about his groin after his late lunge. looked uncomfortable after that.
good couple of saves from federici but we know he can do that well. he should have done better for the first. kicking was poor.
bongani was solid. will get better with games.
pearce was ok. his lack of pace concerns me.
very disappointed in griffin. he's far to slow and got caught out numerous times, not to mention giving possesion away to often.
manset fantastic. first goal was superb. from where i was sat the ball moved all over the place. good header for no.2 as well.
hrk i can't say i noticed.

summary:

need to perform much better. manset has good feet and what a left foot. should start ahead of hunt for pace at the very least.

[BenReadingFC]

amazingly one father and his (what looked like 10 yr old son) tried to reach y26 and were both thrown out after trying to take on the stewards.

A proper oxf*rd, Who the oxf*rd does that with their kid with them.I hope he's enjoying a night in the cells. nobend

[SHORT AND CURLY]

My observations in a quite enjoyable game (in the end) in which a draw was probably a fair result.
Hunt was awful
Long a shadow of his former self
Manset was appalling up until the goal.
Kanu anonymous
Karacan played well and the midfield was lacking after he left the field
Defence Not very good
Kebe and Mcanuff good in patches, off the pace in others.
Feds saved us a few times.
Poor ref
Millwall fans simply LOL

[FiNeRaIn]

Millwall fans are pretty pathetic, all they do is gesture and run about trying to look hard. Bunch of them got halfway across the back of the stand and could have easily continued to get into the Reading end...but simply stopped and walked back at the first sign of a steward approaching. Reading fans are pretty annoying for giving it the big one, especially as they won't back it up, however they don't look half as brain dead as millwall fans and they are the same every season. I thought when our equaliser went in they would kick off and it might get nasty, however they were more passive than when their second went in and they started giving it large. Really enjoyed watching them all shell shocked and gutted as the taunts went their way after the equaliser until full time, thoroughly deserved.

[winchester_royal]

My observations in a quite enjoyable game (in the end) in which a draw was probably a fair result.
Hunt was awful
Long a shadow of his former self
Manset was appalling up until the goal.Kanu anonymous
Karacan played well and the midfield was lacking after he left the field
Defence Not very good
Kebe and Mcanuff good in patches, off the pace in others.
Feds saved us a few times.
Poor ref
Millwall fans simply LOL