Just on the highlights we should have won comfortably
Those chances for Meite and Ince - have to put those away

Let’s be honest, no silly injuries in the internationals or training and we are in a far stronger position than even the most optimistic of us could have imagined
Good strong first 18, 3rd place and 18 from 10
We’ll get tonked now and again I reckon but we do seem capable of grinding out games - even more so once everyone fit

Yep. That's the encouraging thing. We score first and win the game. Its a great start to the season

At the moment, as soon as we score, we've won. We've scored in 6 games and taken 18pts from them. Failed to score in the other 4...you get the picture.

PInce said his daughter could have scored that header,

PInce said his daughter could have scored that header,

Is she a free agent ?

Dai Yongge was there today, interacting with the fans too.

I’ve always the worst type of team to support is a heavy drawer. The score differential makes it a dangerous game - would much rather be feast or famine like us this season.

Thought you might like this, from someone who doesn't have a HNA? account.....
And within moments of getting indoors the police helicopter begins circling. Guessing some disgruntled Wigan fans have reported me for the theft of three points. #readingfc

IMS, Alan Pardew had a feast or famine attitude, which culminated into a, drawn to success finale, so whatever keeps us competitive and successful will be a very pleasant change IMHO!!!

I’ve always the worst type of team to support is a heavy drawer. The score differential makes it a dangerous game - would much rather be feast or famine like us this season.

Yep. Look at WBA this year. 7 draws from 10. Pretty painful.

I’ve always the worst type of team to support is a heavy drawer. The score differential makes it a dangerous game - would much rather be feast or famine like us this season.

Yep. Look at WBA this year. 7 draws from 10. Pretty painful.

Think that’s better now than the Reading way of drawing 9 out of 10 right at the business end of the season. :o

Apart from the one that hit the post and rolled along the line :shock: :shock: i didn’t really feel anxious at the end.

Mbengue (correctly spelt?) looked eager, a little too eager, but he’s a youngster. Rahman was either confident that nothing was going to happen or very unfit yesterday. There was one time when Holmes ( or was it TMc) was marking two players in the 2nd half. Dim and Mick lost their sh!te, but quite rightly. TINce looked a class above again, but what was the celebration about :lol: ?

Please start AC2 with Lucas next game. I think it’d be an interesting combo. Then bring Shane on for one of those 2 late on for his hard work. Hendrick did well yesterday in that deeper role. Tyrese looks like a gem, can we have him next season as well? The defenders defended solidly and Hutch at the end doing shuttle runs near the end to prevent them getting near the box :shock: , mega impressed

LOL @ 8 minutes added time.

First half was soporific. Great freekick. Efficient (!) game management. Other than that post and out moment, where cloth was touched, did not think much about Wigan.

Solid away win.
I also went to a few delightful pubs and had a pie.

10 games in, clear third and we only have three of the current top eight to play.

Also played 12th, 13th, and 14th, beat all three, two of those away.

Some reactions I`m seeing on twatter are quite frankly laughable, listen we are NOT making the play-offs and we are NOT going up, 50 points is my target, 32 from 36 games, less than a ppg.

Should be a cake walk in truth but footballs a funny old game, got some hard games coming up before the WC. keep our feet firmly on the ground for now.

Don’t dispute this but we are nit yet playing with a full squad and ATM no player has hit a hot scoring streak
For example, if we were seeing Joao at his best, Ejaria, Loum, Sarr…
Who knows?
Categorically we aren’t in the Sheffield United class and Burnley, Norwich, WBA, Watford (etc) have classier elevens and squads
But six wins from ten and we could’ve got something at Blackpool and we’ve yet to field our best eleven or really hit top form
I already think we will be 13th or better by season’s end
I wouldn’t be surprised to finish, say, 8th… but if we hit striking form top six (6th) might be just about reachable
Seems to me that the league is for the most part quite even and any club might surprise

Would expect to see a fair few of that top 8 drift down as the season continues though. Us, Rotherham, maybe Sunderland, Blackburn and QPR.
Although only really Watford are well placed to take over, from the teams you'd expect to see at the top but aren’t there.

We won't stay in the top 6 but we'll be OK i think. We can get 9 wins and some draws from the last 36 games. Its the lack of draws which are benefitting our points tally.
A lot of the teams tipped to struggle have started well

We should be fine really
Do like the look of our first 18 or so with some useful youngsters to help out
Not enough real quality in midfield and an over reliance on Ince to create will prob prevent us getting top10 but that’s fine
Of course if everyone did stay fully fit (they won’t) then we’d have a shot. But a lot of our players are injury prone and prob won’t manage more than 30 games

Important win yesterday, not flashy to say the least but gritty and were probably well placed to get the win, glad to have a clean sheet as well, even though Wigan would have probably said a draw may have been a fair result.
Tidy free kick from Ince, particularly considering the talk was we didn't have any sort of free kick specialist either. But it was a solid performance all around really, so should be happy to go home with the 3. Get our way to 30 points by game 23 minimum (easily doable now) and we should be ok really.
Agree with P.Ince re taking our chances as well, 10 goals in 10 games isn't exactly brilliant and we probably should be finishing off one or two more opportunities to kill games off, but whilst our defence stays strong (when we win at least) then it shouldn't be an issue, it's just if there becomes a situation where we start leaking a couple of goals which ends up costing us points potentially.

How many seriously decent chances have we fluffed this season/
Not a challenge. I really don't know
And have we missed a sitter that was very costly?

How many seriously decent chances have we fluffed this season/
Not a challenge. I really don't know
And have we missed a sitter that was very costly?

The Hendrick and Long misses in the Milwall game probably the most glaring (outside of yesterday).

How many seriously decent chances have we fluffed this season/
Not a challenge. I really don't know
And have we missed a sitter that was very costly?

Any sitters missed in victories cost us nothing.

We don’t tend to lose by single goals….

How many seriously decent chances have we fluffed this season/
Not a challenge. I really don't know
And have we missed a sitter that was very costly?

Any sitters missed in victories cost us nothing.

We don’t tend to lose by single goals….

All depends on if you think GD will come into things. If we'd scored the sitters we've missed, we have a GD of 0 now.

Any sitters missed in victories cost us nothing.

We don’t tend to lose by single goals….

All depends on if you think GD will come into things. If we'd scored the sitters we've missed, we have a GD of 0 now.
Every time could have changed the entire outcome

Let’s settle for enjoying the rollercoaster

7 tricky games in a month is going to be very rough. I don’t think we’ll be in the playoffs by the end of it, but if we can get about 3 wins out of it we’re already halfway there well ahead of schedule.

First match I missed in a couple of years I think, just found out the result. NICE!
Can we get a BTGF with ratings please, Ian, someone, anyone?

Off the teams that have played 10 games (most in the division), only 3 have scored less than us and only 4 have conceded more.
Funny old game!

Any sitters missed in victories cost us nothing.

We don’t tend to lose by single goals….

All depends on if you think GD will come into things. If we'd scored the sitters we've missed, we have a GD of 0 now.

Unless the opposition had tucked away all their chances too….

All depends on if you think GD will come into things. If we'd scored the sitters we've missed, we have a GD of 0 now.

Unless the opposition had tucked away all their chances too….

Well quite, all if buts and maybes and fully expect to miss sitters occasionally.
I'm actually encouraged by it as it shows we are able to create a decent number of clean cut chances, whilst in most games not giving too many away (bar the 3 stuffings) - so over time if we continue making these sort of chances we'll score more. Take Ince's header on Saturday 99 times out of 100 that goes in - better for it not to go in at 1-0 up than 1-0 down even if it does make the last few minutes more nervous than they could have been.