I ENJOYED that.

[jollyjiminy]

I enjoyed it as well. If it wasn't for our track record over the last couple of months, we'd have put that down as pretty unfortunate and got on with it. We were much more aggressive and imaginative than Leicester, and created loads of those moments that make a game worth watching - that bit where your eyes follow the ball towards the goal and seruiously believe that it may just end up in the back of the net. Could easily have been 1-0 to us. Tbf Leicester missed chances too. This board is full of negativity, which is reasonable re. our position in the table, but there's no point dragging all the bollx from previous games into this - Howard and Kebe are toilet and all the rest of it. The fact is, Howard played really well. They all did. Simon Church needs to go to a geometry lesson or something, as his shots always seemed to be 5 or 10 degrees out, but he could easily have scored. I hope Brendan keeps the same team for Cov as they need morale. If they continue playing like that we'll win some games and stay up. Simple as.

[Rex]

It was actually the first time this season at home that i acually got out of my seat and got involved in the game. The previous detatchment of just sitting there with a glum and resigned look on my face led to me not enjoying the home experience. Even watching the dross of a WBA and QPR game got me involved. Albeit for the wrong resaons. Last night in the first half it had positive written all over it. Sadly just a bad case of squandering chances which at least gave encouragement. The second half i ebbed slightly as everyone would expect with us chasing a goal down and me clock watching in the hope that the chances came for us.

[rg6royal]

I enjoyed last night more than I have enjoyed any other game this season, but we still lost the game.

Roll on Coventry...

[Ian Royal]

You are arguing that either the players deliberately missed by inches several times ?

No I'm not.
I'm suggesting they were a lot more responsible for not hitting the target than being merely unlucky, however.

There's a massive % of football that is down to luck

While there's a large number of seemingly random occurances, I don't for one second believe you can't weigh the odds on each 'bounce' in your favour though.

Take the two shot/crosses across the face of the goal. It was not luck that had our two midfielders 20 yards behind play and barely entering the penalty box - let alone the 6 yard box - when the ball went across an utterly unguarded net.

'Bad luck' is something that a well-prepared, fit, well-conditioned team can mostly avoid or, at the very least, minimise.
Resorting to saying 'it was bad luck' is merely short-hand for refusing to accept that it was a failure somewhere else.

Spot on, we didn't fail to score due to bad luck. We failed to score because our strikers were low on confidence and match practice so they failed to hit most of their shots well enough to go in.

[Terminal Boardom]

For the neutral oberserver, it would have been an entertaining game. A fair number of shots on target and no lack of effort.

For the Reading fan? More misery owing to a lack of ability to put a football into the goal. That was unfortunate as one particular move from a first half corner deserved better.

For the Leicester fan? Grateful to have won without playing particularly well.


Bear this in mind. Leicester were ordinary and we could not even score against them. Out of interest, how many shots on target did we have in the second half? We are not Russell.

[Vision]

For the neutral oberserver, it would have been an entertaining game. A fair number of shots on target and no lack of effort.

For the Reading fan? More misery owing to a lack of ability to put a football into the goal. That was unfortunate as one particular move from a first half corner deserved better.

For the Leicester fan? Grateful to have won without playing particularly well.


Bear this in mind. Leicester were ordinary and we could not even score against them. Out of interest, how many shots on target did we have in the second half? We are not Russell.

Maybe we made them look "ordinary". They're 5th in the table for a reason just as we're 22nd for a reason.

Equally they'd conceded only 1 goal in their previous 4 games before facing us so defensively they're about as solid and organised as this division gets. Given those factors I can't see as it can be seen as anything other (albeit in isolation) than a good performance on our part.

You'd have to be taking a pretty extremely negative outlook to suggest it was due mainly to how poor the opposition were, particularly given their current form.