Tesco Vs Waitrose Match Thread

[PEARCEY]

Bottom 5 starting to cut adrift from the rest of the championship.

It's a fricking miracle Plymouth and Ipswich are having starts bad enough to keep us out the bottom three.

My thoughts exactly. With just 10 points out of 36 we are very lucky not to be bottom three as we are heading for something like 38 points at seasons end based on our form so far this season..and I cannot recall a single season when that kind of points tally would be enough to stay up.
Very disillusioned with all of this.

[Royal Lady]

2-0 sort out your quoting - it looks like I'm picking on SC and not Royalee!!

[surrounded by saints]

another weekend ruined. no improvement. get rid of this clueless clown NOW!!

[PEARCEY]

Fed
Cummings
Ingi
Mills
Bertrand
Cisse
Karacan
Howard
Mcanuff
Kebe
Nhunt

Just look at this line-up. Where is the fight in this side..the tough midfielders that can lift a team when its getting a bit difficult?
There is a really soft under-belly with the likes of McAnuff in this team. Why did Rodgers sign him? His track record speaks for itself FFS

[peterroyal76]

Is anyone else having problems with Reading Player?

I'm having trouble with plenty of Reading players!!

[Victor Meldrew]

Just out of interest there was just the one (karacan who played last season) of our much vaunted Academy players out there today.
Not sure what that says about Rodgers and the philosophy of the club this season but in the space of a couple of months the Academy boys have generally been ditched.

[PEARCEY]

Just out of interest there was just the one (karacan who played last season) of our much vaunted Academy players out there today.
Not sure what that says about Rodgers and the philosophy of the club this season but in the space of a couple of months the Academy boys have generally been ditched.

Thats a pretty good point. It doesn't say much for the early season team selections.

[Royal Lady]

He played them as a stop gap, before he could spend the money from the Doyle and Shunt transfers - I could see that at the time, he spouted a load of bull then and he's still doing it. He hasn't got a clue.

[Ian Royal]

I wouldn't mind losing so much if we were cultivating a young home grown team with Siggy, Davies, Karacan, Pearce, HRK, Church...

[I was there at Elm Park]

Just out of interest there was just the one (karacan who played last season) of our much vaunted Academy players out there today.
Not sure what that says about Rodgers and the philosophy of the club this season but in the space of a couple of months the Academy boys have generally been ditched.

Thats a pretty good point. It doesn't say much for the early season team selections.

I actually think Swansea apart that the early season team selections are preferable to the current selections. People might have been a lot more patient if we had more youngsters in the team instead of say Howard or Cummings who Rodgers brought in.

[RoyalBlue]

Before we all blame Steve Coppell, Mr Mad and Steve Hammond, I see Malky Mackay has picked up another win for Watford today having had to see all his best players leave and manage on a transfer and wage budget this season a lot lower than ours. How about we sack Brendan and nick Malky?

It may be sour grapes on their part but the Watford fans I know have been saying that whne Rodgers first joined them, he stopped doing it the Malky way and things started going to rat shyte. Only when he reverted to the Malky way did things take off for him.

[peterroyal76]

I hate to turn on managers, but Rodgers has got to get this right within the next 3-6 games or he's out.

Bad mistakes, poor decisions, naive tactically, slow to react to obvious problems on the pitch, lack of team ethic, fitness issues, poor & inexperienced players.

Absolutely dire.

+1
I'm trying to remain positive, but something is obviously wrong.
We're making too many unforced errors and we seem to lack direction ON and OFF the pitch.

[Hogmeister Royal]

The only team we haven't matched away from home this season has been Newcastle and we've got much better since then. We all have different opinions, but we have 7 points from 5 away games so far. If we were good at home, we would be in a seriously strong position at the top.

In one half. We've been more battered by Peterborough and by the sounds of it Preston 2nd half than we did in matching them 1st half.

Great, we've matched all but one team for a bit of each away game! We're definitely staying up.

Feds keeping us in the game there. Just FYI all those blaming him.

BBCRB commentary:

'Federici makes a dodgy decision again - 3-1; Adam Federici what are you doing?'

That's rather a selective quote - Yes, Tim Dellor did say that, but Mick Gooding immediately disagreed, saying that Feds was not at fault at all. Dellor at the time was in middle of major rant/sulk about the whole performance and just lashing out at who ever was nearest, IMHO.

Match reports talking about a "one-man show" from Feds to keep us in the game during the second half.

[rhroyal]

Just out of interest there was just the one (karacan who played last season) of our much vaunted Academy players out there today.
Not sure what that says about Rodgers and the philosophy of the club this season but in the space of a couple of months the Academy boys have generally been ditched.

Thats a pretty good point. It doesn't say much for the early season team selections.

I actually think Swansea apart that the early season team selections are preferable to the current selections. People might have been a lot more patient if we had more youngsters in the team instead of say Howard or Cummings who Rodgers brought in.

There was 100000000% more promise and hope that the team who played moderately well against Forest on the opening day could develop together and go on to have a decent season. When you have Howard instead of Davies and Gyfli, McAnuff instead of HRK or Henry and Rasiak instead of Church it doesn't feel the same. These are meant to be experienced pros and they're even worse than the youngsters who are learning their trade. Then he got rid of Rosenior and replaced him with Cummings too. A traffic cone would have been a better investment at right back.

I have little confidence that this team will improve and pull away from the bottom. That's the key difference between bad results now and the bad results that happened in August and September, and the main reason why I now want Rodgers to go.

[I was there at Elm Park]

I actually think Swansea apart that the early season team selections are preferable to the current selections. People might have been a lot more patient if we had more youngsters in the team instead of say Howard or Cummings who Rodgers brought in.

There was 100000000% more promise and hope that the team who played moderately well against Forest on the opening day could develop together and go on to have a decent season. When you have Howard instead of Davies and Gyfli, McAnuff instead of HRK or Henry and Rasiak instead of Church it doesn't feel the same. These are meant to be experienced pros and they're even worse than the youngsters who are learning their trade. Then he got rid of Rosenior and replaced him with Cummings too. A traffic cone would have been a better investment at right back.

I have little confidence that this team will improve and pull away from the bottom. That's the key difference between bad results now and the bad results that happened in August and September, and the main reason why I now want Rodgers to go.

Agree with you apart from Rodgers going. Give him till the next international break but if we haven't improved then my support and hope for Rodgers will be dwindling. I know it's bad when I'm nostalgic for Brendan's Babes let alone Doyle, Hunt, etc.

[Gandalf Presley]

Just showed the goals on Sky Sports News. Mills was a free header from - quelle surprise - a set piece. Equaliser - McAnuff, oh dear. Second doesn't reflect what has been said on here. while the third - ok, Afed didn't exactly punch it out with conviction but not one outfield player close West Brom down.

Next Monday look ever less appealing, London Irish will soon be getting better gates.

[Thou Voice]

Brendan's Babes

...jesus, that kind of phrase sounds like your trying to make him out to be a Legend.

The only thing he is a Legend in, is his Bullshit Press Conferences.

What exactly so you mean by "Brendan's Babes"?

I will tell you what you mean, that they are a hopeless bunch of players that have no ability and the silly twat of a manager thinks they can live up to RFC legends of the past.

It is an insult to Reading players of the past to even mention this bunch of losers, sorry "Brendan's Babes" in the same sentence.

DO YOU SEE?

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

2-0 sort out your quoting - it looks like I'm picking on SC and not Royalee!!

I cant cope with this embedding thing, however i was basically agreeing with you.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

No point firing the manager when the man at the top wants out!

New manager gets 50p and a used bus ticket to rebuild in the next transfer window. Hapless Hammond wakes up just as the window slams shut again!

A new manager might not insist on trying to play Jose Mourinho's favourite formation using playing incapable of playing that way.

He can't play to the player's strengths.

He can't pick players to buy that'll fit his system.

He doesn't seem to have any idea what his best side is.

And following another second half collapse, he's not much good at the motivational side of things either.


I still feel sacking a manager this early is a knee-jerk reaction, but it's getting hard to make a case for Brendan Rodgers at the moment.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

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oh bollox to it