Certainly wasn’t a 4-1 game, but Arsenal’s finishing was impressive. Their entire squad were teenagers too. Shows the gulf between our academy and the top sides at the moment. Was impressed by Duah (despite the own goal). Wingers were direct. Ehibhatiomhan was the best of our first teamers; unlucky...

Most fans who are staying away will be blissfully unaware of how well the team is/isn't playing and probably only mildly aware of the league position - why? because they are floating fans - our hardcore is probably around what we are seeing now. The key difference is people are less likely to spend...

It's a results business for Leam to justify his methods to the owner. For fans who attend to be entertained, it's not a results business. If all you care about is points accumulated, is football really for you? Rugby has more points in a game. Football is and has always been about being excited and ...

Old Man Shouts At Cloud nonsense . With the number of subs and the extended spell dealing with a particular injury, nine minutes was about right. At Orient away there were 13 minutes of added time, no bad injuries, just Reading having 3 team talks while JP sat on the floor. If you look at football ...

We also waste time-word must have got round amongst referees as last night once again we had a big chunk of added time which ultimately led to dropping 2 points Old Man Shouts At Cloud nonsense . With the number of subs and the extended spell dealing with a particular injury, nine minutes was about...

Things that led to that goal. Savage needlessly hoofing ball away to no one under no pressure, which leads to Wing needlessly barging their player over, which leads to Pereira mysteriously punching a non dangerous free kick out, which leads to Pereira coming and missing a routine corner catch into h...

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Greatwesternline We're quite bad at having throw ins in our own 3rd.

In many different eras I've always thought the same

Same. I know this sounds stupid but back in the 06/07 prem season I told my uni mates we weren't very good at throw ins, and that it felt like a routine you should be able to learn.

We're quite bad at having throw ins in our own 3rd.

First season in years the pitch hasn't been a mud bucket by this time of year.

And a hell of a lot of rain recently too.

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Sutekh And there goes our season.

How was he injured?

He was rubbing his lumbar.

Hopefully just a stiff back

Not a defender, but not quite sure what was happening at RB. Nyambe was marking the man, then someone else came across and just sort of did nothing. Nyambe decided "oh someone else is there so I don't need to bother marking him". The man doing nothing continued doing nothing. Guy crossed ...

I feel like with the transfer window we've had we've spent quite a lot of money on extra wages signing on fees and transfer fees such as agent fees. And we're in all likelihood not going to be promoted. Feel it may have been better to hold the money back and target a better squad assembled well bef...

I feel like with the transfer window we've had we've spent quite a lot of money on extra wages signing on fees and transfer fees such as agent fees. And we're in all likelihood not going to be promoted. Feel it may have been better to hold the money back and target a better squad assembled well befo...

Match day revenue in the 23/24 season was 4million according to the accounts. Average attendance was 13000. Similar to this season. 4 million divided by 23 home games is £173k per game. 173k divided by 13,000 is £13 per person - that’s how much a fan spends on a match day Increase the attendance by...

Attendances can't bridge £1m a month. And extra 5k a game will include kids, plus you need to deduct VAT. Let's estimate £15 a ticket, that's £75k a game. 23 games plus perhaps an FA Cup draw and that's £1.8m, allegedly what they're putting in every 2 months. Perhaps extra food, merchandise etc., c...

"Al Habsis in ISIS" or words to the equivalent made me feel a bit sick. Coupled with what I was hearing at Salmon and Ball, and our fans have properly regressed to neandthals. Absolute divs I was in the home end right along side the Reading fans. For the Reading goal someone threw a batte...

biff What's the away boozer of choice for this one?

The closest pub the coach and horses doesn't let in away fans and checks tickets.

With him and Marriott, we basically have a guarantee that if we create chances we'll score goals. So how we get the best out of Wing, Savage, Kyerewaa, Doyle etc., is the key thing to work on. There is never a guarantee of goals https://files.catbox.moe/9v2k4r.png Especially if you stick him out on...

WestYorksRoyal With him and Marriott, we basically have a guarantee that if we create chances we'll score goals.

So how we get the best out of Wing, Savage, Kyerewaa, Doyle etc., is the key thing to work on.

There is never a guarantee of goals

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it. It's not like w...