BFTG - QPR

[Dixeyroyal]

There was a time when we’d have enjoyed mocking clubs such as QPR for spending vast sums assembling sides full of mediocre, disinterested mercernaries. Guess what.....that is exactly what we have at Reading these days and now we’ve arrived at that point there is very little prospect of reverting back to the days when we used to scout young and hungry players such as Kitson, Shorey, Doyle etc. Where are the players from the much-hyped Academy? Only Hector started last night, and he’s a Chelsea player these days anyway (his headless performance should guarantee him a place in Mourinho’s 2015/16 failures). Why is Samuel out on loan, surely he can’t possibly be any worse than Orlando Sa? I don’t really like or care about any of the XI we started last night, frankly.

A dreadful football match, no real quality on show. Reading had no pace in the team, no width and Vydra was horribly isolated. Poor tactically and in the last 15 minutes or so it was QPR doing all the pressing, not good enough at home to a team who hadn’t scored in 5 league away matches. Our team of loan players and journeymen looked de-motivated and dispirited throughout, it was absolute dirge in front of a tiny crowd. I have paid to watch one Reading home league game in a season and a half. That won’t be changing any time soon as I don’t want to waste a decent wedge of money watching mercenaries led by an uninspiring manager at a ground owned by property developers. And the sad thing is, increasing numbers of people will feel the same way. I feel sorry for those who attend every week out of blind loyalty, some of whom are very good friends of mine who tell me ruefully that it is this bad every time.

I find it incredible that you believe yourself to be the font of all knowledge when you don't even attend games, and rely on your mates to update you, and on that basis you can make an informed judgment.

For me it sums up everything that is wrong with this board, clearly run and influenced by armchair fans who think that everyone actually gives a s**t about their opinion

[tilehurstender]

They say a good player doesn't become a bad player overnight so Vydras form must be down to the system that our manager is playing. Surely it's obvious?
Also, I can't be surprised if the players hearts don't appear to be in the club, the manager has made it clear that his isn't

[Top Flight]

I don't think we should keep slating Clarke.

This nonsense is all being lead by Tim Dellor and Adie Williams on Berkshire. They just can't get over the fact that he had talks with another club. Unlike the true traitors McGhee and Pardew, Clarke realised he was on to a good thing at Reading and stayed. That shows how far the club has come under the Thai's that we can offer managers better career prospects at Reading than our rivals can. Now let's just get over this stuff and support Clarke.

Lead by Dellor and Williams we are starting to make Clarke's job untenable and extremely difficult. We need to change the mood music ourselves as fans and start backing the gaffer and his team. They can achieve good things if we get behind them. Don't listen to Tim Dellor. When has he ever made any sense? He's always talking rubbish. He got over excited when we were winning games earlier in the season and now he is getting overly gloomy and casting a dark cloud over the madejski stadium. It's Dellor that needs to be fired not Steve Clarke.

[Top Flight]

Hearing that Clarke just got sacked now makes my above comments look stupid. I still think Tim Dellor deserves to face the sack as well.

[Jano]

Tim and Adie are just doing their jobs, you can't blame them. The Thai's obviously want promotion this season, and 1 win in 8 isn't promotion form. With the Fulham flirtation, he was a walking dead man.

[paultheroyal]

Tim and Adie are just doing their jobs, you can't blame them. The Thai's obviously want promotion this season, and 1 win in 8 isn't promotion form. With the Fulham flirtation, he was a walking dead man.

not forgetting 19 wins in 53

[Westwood52]

Last night was baaaad.

Ali : 3 Nothing to do until the howler oh and also one incredibly weak punch out from a cross.

Gunter : 3 Typified the performance overall-insipid no connection with G Mac.
Taylor : 4 Gave it a go but technically weak-Obita is better going forward.
Anton : 7 Our best player-but he is carrying long term injuries.
Hector : 4 Should have scored twice-terrible clearances but better than of late. Why on earth was he captain ?

Ollie : 4 The worst I have seen him play this season.
Williams : 2 Our worst player-again poor technique-just couldn't spot obvious passes.
Fernandez : 4 Nearly put them in during the first half-no connection with Ollie-which there should be.

Blackman : 6 Didn't do much wrong but clearly fed up with his team mates ineptitude. Has let it effect his play, even though last night he was in the shop window.
Vidra : 2 Has startling pace but totally out of the game.Waste of space & all that money we are paying him.
G Mac : & Put in a shift-the Ref didn't help.

Now to the departed Clarke:
Our sole tactic was trying to lob the ball beyond their defenders for Vidra & that was it. We never do anything at corners-think Allardyce's Bolton or Pulis at Stoke where corners are an integral part of their attacking game.He talked of working harder in training, but just doing the same & more of it-isn't the answer. He just isn't any good.

Ref: G Mac was hacked down three times in the first ten with a goal scoring chance-albeit not obvious ones. Although they were first offences they were clearly yellow cards-which would have changed the game. He missed a lot.

QPR: They got lucky-they were even worse than us.

[melonhead]

poor game.

no urgency, no quality, no tempo
still managed to look by far the better team, and lost to an inevitable late goal, after comedy goal keeping.

players looked disinterested, crowd was poor in terms of numbers and volume.

I backed Clarke, but after that game, and hearing the news im actually quite relieved.

alhabsi- did well, then ruined it all.
Hector/Ferdinand- looked decent
taylor- half decent game
gunter - not great
norwood- struggled
Williams - poor
alex- meh
mcleary- looked strong and pacey
vydra- was on the shoulder waiting to be released every time we won the ball, but got no service whatsoever
blackman- ineffective

[tidus_mi2]

players looked disinterested, crowd was poor in terms of numbers and volume.

For me the crowd was summarised when I was trying to get into the match cheering the team and the young gentlemen 2 seats down just turned and looked at me like I was doing something weird.

[Angry Shed Sex]

Well that was disappointing, although not entirely unexpected but never mind.......

.......we are are getting a big new screen to improve our match day experience

They're going to position it between the supporters and the pitch?

[melonhead]

There was a time when we’d have enjoyed mocking clubs such as QPR for spending vast sums assembling sides full of mediocre, disinterested mercernaries. Guess what.....that is exactly what we have at Reading these days and now we’ve arrived at that point there is very little prospect of reverting back to the days when we used to scout young and hungry players such as Kitson, Shorey, Doyle etc. Where are the players from the much-hyped Academy? Only Hector started last night, and he’s a Chelsea player these days anyway (his headless performance should guarantee him a place in Mourinho’s 2015/16 failures). Why is Samuel out on loan, surely he can’t possibly be any worse than Orlando Sa? I don’t really like or care about any of the XI we started last night, frankly.

A dreadful football match, no real quality on show. Reading had no pace in the team, no width and Vydra was horribly isolated. Poor tactically and in the last 15 minutes or so it was QPR doing all the pressing, not good enough at home to a team who hadn’t scored in 5 league away matches. Our team of loan players and journeymen looked de-motivated and dispirited throughout, it was absolute dirge in front of a tiny crowd. I have paid to watch one Reading home league game in a season and a half. That won’t be changing any time soon as I don’t want to waste a decent wedge of money watching mercenaries led by an uninspiring manager at a ground owned by property developers. And the sad thing is, increasing numbers of people will feel the same way. I feel sorry for those who attend every week out of blind loyalty, some of whom are very good friends of mine who tell me ruefully that it is this bad every time.

I find it incredible that you believe yourself to be the font of all knowledge when you don't even attend games, and rely on your mates to update you, and on that basis you can make an informed judgment.

For me it sums up everything that is wrong with this board, clearly run and influenced by armchair fans who think that everyone actually gives a s**t about their opinion

woah woah woah, coming on here with your 40 posts and your somethingroyal username and getting all snippy about the board
WTAF?!

[melonhead]

Hearing that Clarke just got sacked now makes my above comments look stupid. I still think Tim Dellor deserves to face the sack as well.

don't worry about it, the comments looked stupid before he got sacked

[melonhead]

highlight of the game for me was the drunk chavs and their missus' in the n stand on my row, with their beers and wines, swearing and being obnoxious.

they were literally the best thing about the game, and they were cnuts

[No Fixed Abode]

It was a very dour game. Might be due to the game being played behind closed doors.

[sandman]

It was a very dour game. Might be due to the game being played behind closed doors.

So many empty seats, how can fans call for managers to be loyal when they can't even be bothered to turn up and support the team?

[melonhead]

we were clapping loads, but our winter gloves muffled the noise kes.

[genome]

I was cheering really loudly (on the inside) at home with a beer.

[Vicky Pollard]

I don't think we should keep slating Clarke.

This nonsense is all being lead by Tim Dellor and Adie Williams on Berkshire. They just can't get over the fact that he had talks with another club. Unlike the true traitors McGhee and Pardew, Clarke realised he was on to a good thing at Reading and stayed. That shows how far the club has come under the Thai's that we can offer managers better career prospects at Reading than our rivals can. Now let's just get over this stuff and support Clarke.

Lead by Dellor and Williams we are starting to make Clarke's job untenable and extremely difficult. We need to change the mood music ourselves as fans and start backing the gaffer and his team. They can achieve good things if we get behind them. Don't listen to Tim Dellor. When has he ever made any sense? He's always talking rubbish. He got over excited when we were winning games earlier in the season and now he is getting overly gloomy and casting a dark cloud over the madejski stadium. It's Dellor that needs to be fired not Steve Clarke.

The only person that made Clarke's position untenable was Clarke. He has single handedly ruined a season with such great potential. Lost the team , lost the fans and had to go.

[No Fixed Abode]

I don't think we should keep slating Clarke.

This nonsense is all being lead by Tim Dellor and Adie Williams on Berkshire. They just can't get over the fact that he had talks with another club. Unlike the true traitors McGhee and Pardew, Clarke realised he was on to a good thing at Reading and stayed. That shows how far the club has come under the Thai's that we can offer managers better career prospects at Reading than our rivals can. Now let's just get over this stuff and support Clarke.

Lead by Dellor and Williams we are starting to make Clarke's job untenable and extremely difficult. We need to change the mood music ourselves as fans and start backing the gaffer and his team. They can achieve good things if we get behind them. Don't listen to Tim Dellor. When has he ever made any sense? He's always talking rubbish. He got over excited when we were winning games earlier in the season and now he is getting overly gloomy and casting a dark cloud over the madejski stadium. It's Dellor that needs to be fired not Steve Clarke.

The only person that made Clarke's position untenable was Clarke. He has single handedly ruined a season with such great potential. Lost the team , lost the fans and had to go.

Surely if it was Fulham that made the Clarke approach public then it isn't Clarke that made his position untenable?

[Sutekh]

I don't think we should keep slating Clarke.

This nonsense is all being lead by Tim Dellor and Adie Williams on Berkshire. They just can't get over the fact that he had talks with another club. Unlike the true traitors McGhee and Pardew, Clarke realised he was on to a good thing at Reading and stayed. That shows how far the club has come under the Thai's that we can offer managers better career prospects at Reading than our rivals can. Now let's just get over this stuff and support Clarke.

Lead by Dellor and Williams we are starting to make Clarke's job untenable and extremely difficult. We need to change the mood music ourselves as fans and start backing the gaffer and his team. They can achieve good things if we get behind them. Don't listen to Tim Dellor. When has he ever made any sense? He's always talking rubbish. He got over excited when we were winning games earlier in the season and now he is getting overly gloomy and casting a dark cloud over the madejski stadium. It's Dellor that needs to be fired not Steve Clarke.

The only person that made Clarke's position untenable was Clarke. He has single handedly ruined a season with such great potential. Lost the team , lost the fans and had to go.

Surely if it was Fulham that made the Clarke approach public then it isn't Clarke that made his position untenable?

I thought that Clarke heard of the vacancy and asked Reading to speak to them should they enquire, which they did. Does anyone know for sure how that actually came about?