Reading vs Wycombe Wanderers

[Sarah Star]

I know you can't base much on our performance in friendlies but they're not exactly inspiring me with confidence for the start of the season. May have to revise my expectations.

You can't make any sort of assumptions based on pre-season. In our 106 season we lost to Farnborough.

And if it makes you feel better, Bristol City lost 3-0 to Aldershot yesterday....so it could be worse.

Yes, yes it does make me feel better. Back on for the playoffs then

[readingbedding]

Pre-Season friendlies are phoney war grot

[Big Foot]

One real negative: Marcus Williams - looks like he reacts too late to situations and certainly offers very little in an attacking sense. Improvement required...

Thought he looked good out in the Balkans

[handbags_harris]

One real negative: Marcus Williams - looks like he reacts too late to situations and certainly offers very little in an attacking sense. Improvement required...

Thought he looked good out in the Balkans

Basic defensive skills are ok - good tackling, decent in the air, and strong. But when it comes to more mental skills such as positioning, tracking, etc it looks like the former is dubious at best and the latter he is too slow to react. In certain scenarios he should be anticipating an opposition player's movement, not reacting to it.

In an attacking sense all too often he seemed to just freeze when he reached the final third. Gets there ok, passing, movement etc, but then seemed to just leave it to McAnuff. All too often he passed and just stood there, not once did he look to support, or overlap and get a left footed cross in a la Kerr, Bodin, Shorey, Robinson, Armstrong, Bertrand...mind you, Chris Makin didn't do this much either!!

[Big Foot]

One real negative: Marcus Williams - looks like he reacts too late to situations and certainly offers very little in an attacking sense. Improvement required...

Thought he looked good out in the Balkans

Basic defensive skills are ok - good tackling, decent in the air, and strong. But when it comes to more mental skills such as positioning, tracking, etc it looks like the former is dubious at best and the latter he is too slow to react. In certain scenarios he should be anticipating an opposition player's movement, not reacting to it.

In an attacking sense all too often he seemed to just freeze when he reached the final third. Gets there ok, passing, movement etc, but then seemed to just leave it to McAnuff. All too often he passed and just stood there, not once did he look to support, or overlap and get a left footed cross in a la Kerr, Bodin, Shorey, Robinson, Armstrong, Bertrand...mind you, Chris Makin didn't do this much either!!

We'll see in the games that really matter whether he's a weakness or not I guess

[Franchise FC]

I think I've got the answer to The Sig's penalty miss.

I was sat immediately above the tunnel with Mrs F (her family are Wycombe fans) and the two little F's. Someone, and I can't tell you who, brough out a change of boots for GS and when he placed them for GS to put on, managed to firstly put them facing his way, then turned them round, but put the left one in front of GS's right foot. He managed to get it right eventually, but surely this would have played on Gylfi's mind when striking the ball ?

[havoc]

BOOOOOOOOOOORING

[havoc]

lol @ us being turned away from the bar at the ground coz we had a child with us. "sorry lads, you'll have to go to the other bar" - it seems a club with less than half our capacity has not 1, but two decent drinking venues on site.

just heaps more shame on our shitty plastic bowl tbh

[3 veesinarow]

That is of course correct. But you don't have time to step 2 yards forward and dive full length to the right between the time a striker hits the ball at 50 mph from 18 yards away and it reaching you.

[Ian Royal]

lol @ us being turned away from the bar at the ground coz we had a child with us. "sorry lads, you'll have to go to the other bar" - it seems a club with less than half our capacity has not 1, but two decent drinking venues on site.

just heaps more shame on our shitty plastic bowl tbh

You're a right moaning minnie aren't you...

[Sun Tzu]

And ignores the fact that we're got two 'drinking venues' on site...

[Maguire]

And ignores the fact that we're got two 'drinking venues' on site...

Good luck getting in them as away or transient fans though.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

lol @ us being turned away from the bar at the ground coz we had a child with us. "sorry lads, you'll have to go to the other bar" - it seems a club with less than half our capacity has not 1, but two decent drinking venues on site.

just heaps more shame on our shitty plastic bowl tbh

...except that the bar you'd have been turned away from (I presume the one under the main stand) was the smallest club bar I've ever been in. I'd say it was 1/4 of the size of the jazz cafe at best. Bracknell Town's club bar is bigger. And has more people in it.

[havoc]

And ignores the fact that we're got two 'drinking venues' on site...

but two decent drinking venues on site.

[Stuka]

Nice photos Rev Stickleback.