Blackpool (H) Prediction Thread

[Royal Ginger]

1-2
Norwood

[Mike Hunt]

Reading 4 - 0 Blackpool

Tangerines were had by all.

[chilipepper91]

3-1
Murray (2), Mackie

Crowd get restless after we don't score in the first ten minutes

Attendance: 15,883

Golden Gamble: both sold "outside the ground"

Pre-match video makes an unwelcome return (emo version)

Post-match interview: Adkins spends five minutes telling everyone the chances that happened in the game with zero analysis or insight

[Tilehurstsouthbank]

Post-match interview: Adkins spends five minutes telling everyone the chances that happened in the game with zero analysis or insight

And waxes lyrical about how we controlled possession of "The Football".

[GH Royal]

4-2 Reading
x2 Murray, Cox, Blackman
x2 Miller

[leww_rfc]

Reading 1-0 Blackpool

52' Mackie

[Royalclapper]

2-2 Draw.

Oyston and The Zinger seen playing a high stakes card game in the hospitality suite buried under piles of cash shouting 'bring me another of your finest bottles.......Roxanne and Mimi seem to be running dry'.

[RoyalBlue]

A sizeable minority of the crowd will arrive with an extremely negative attitude towards the manager and players, almost hoping to be proved right by a defeat at the hands of Blackpool.

The more sensible majority will be very nervous and these nerves will be passed onto the team who will already be edgy due to the amount of abuse received from thhe negative minority the moment someone made a mistake.

As a consequence, it will be an extremely edgey affair with a high risk that Blackpool will capitalise on the atmosphere and nick three points through a very lucky goal and some bus parking.

[Royals-lad14]

A very nervy win.

2-1 reading
cox
blackman

miller

[sandman]

A sizeable minority of the crowd will arrive with an extremely negative attitude towards the manager and players, almost hoping to be proved right by a defeat at the hands of Blackpool.

The more sensible majority will be very nervous and these nerves will be passed onto the team who will already be edgy due to the amount of abuse received from thhe negative minority the moment someone made a mistake.

As a consequence, it will be an extremely edgey affair with a high risk that Blackpool will capitalise on the atmosphere and nick three points through a very lucky goal and some bus parking.

Nope, will always want Reading to win whether that man is in charge or not.

Once again people like you try to paint people who rightly question the many bizarre decisions made by the manager as being unreasonable when they are not.

Then again RoyalBlue I suspect you don't really care about the manager and are conveniently using his failures as an excuse to attack Sir John Madejski.

[Reading4eva]

A real 6 pointer 14 games into the season. 3-1 win watched by the lowest crowd of the year, 14.000

Have a small feeling that the attendance may surprise you as floating visitors become intrigued by the car crash ramifications of a loss.....
Not that Blackpool will bring any.

Id say this has draw written all over it, but Blackpool really are the team NA wants to face right now.

Blackpool really aren't the team he wanted to face. A club in turmoil beating us would highlight a major issue. Whereas a defeat against Watford would be able to be covered up by the "best team in the league" cack he credited to Derby. Likewise beat them and it won't carry the kudos of beating a more capable side even though Blackpool are improving.

I'd say a Cardiff or Brighton would be more for him.

Anyway 2-1 Reading. Close game very close game. No confidence from me. Nigel goes off on a tangent on how all his ideas have worked. Quite clear we only won as Blackpool are in more of a mess than us

[Stooper]

4-0

Kerr, Lovell (2), Quinn

[kwik-silva]

2-1

Blackman, Cox

[PieEater]

Adkins tries to stop the rot with a 4-1-5-0 formation. If Blackpool score first we are oxf*rd.

[Woodcote Royal]

In competent hands, our current squad would be competing at the other end of the table but Adkins possesses a rare quality at this level to fashion defeat at home to lowly Blackpool.

Should this come to pass and our dreadful manager walks or is pushed, I won't be alone amongst long suffering fans in opening a bottle by way of celebration.

[harry]

Both teams are short of confidence. As per other posts I can see it being a nervy game.
If we score first and early I can see a scenario where confidence floods back into the team and we score a hatful.
Equally if they score first I can see it being a horrible, nasty afternoons with boos and slamming of seats.
At the moment I can't see us coming back if we go a goal down which is worrying.

Naively dreaming of a win with a clean sheet (cake and eat it scenario).

0-0 then.

[urz13]

In competent hands, our current squad would be competing at the other end of the table but Adkins possesses a rare quality at this level to fashion defeat at home to lowly Blackpool.

Should this come to pass and our dreadful manager walks or is pushed, I won't be alone amongst long suffering fans in opening a bottle by way of celebration.

+1

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

In competent hands, our current squad would be competing at the other end of the table but Adkins possesses a rare quality at this level to fashion defeat at home to lowly Blackpool.

Should this come to pass and our dreadful manager walks or is pushed, I won't be alone amongst long suffering fans in opening a bottle by way of celebration.

+1

It's a prediction thread, but you don't seem to have made one, it's Wimbledon all over again, then many on here at the time were baying for blood.
Got my tenner on at a 3-0 for Blackpool.
And this group that we have should really not be doing much better, for reasons outlined elsewhere often enough.
If only we had sacked the.manager back then, think where we could be by now.

[AirRaidSiren]

Who will be up for it most?

Sorry to say, I think Blackpool will win 3-1.

[Woodcote Royal]

In competent hands, our current squad would be competing at the other end of the table but Adkins possesses a rare quality at this level to fashion defeat at home to lowly Blackpool.

Should this come to pass and our dreadful manager walks or is pushed, I won't be alone amongst long suffering fans in opening a bottle by way of celebration.

+1

I'd take it up the arse for Nige, if he'd only ask me