Reading (A) match thread - 20th Feb

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2 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:

Do you know what? I'm going to call it now. If or is when we go down, Darren Moore will not be here next season

I said that myself mate he won’t stay the 5 year deal means nothing he’ll walk 

[Bimbleabout]

Shouldve got the Yak on and shoved Smith over on the left. He would've done a better 'job' than Grant.
Putting Grant there cost us big time.
Resigned myself after Cheltenham we are down, just for sanity purposes.
Farce of a season.

[osprey]

Why didn’t we pick OG ??

beyond me 

[ginginator]

1 minute ago, valiant steve said:

Hopefully DM will work out quickly that Grant is useless and shouldn't be anywhere near our squad, let alone team. 

We've had some <ovf censored> left backs over the years. He is up (down) there amongst the worst! 

Hopefully Garrity will replace the <ovf censored> Wilson and the ineffective Loft as our striker for our final 15 games of the season. 

On the plus side, we've looked more solid first half with 4 at the back. We need to lift our team on Saturday more than ever and try and inspire some sort of performance out of them.

It's sad that a club with an (apparently) awful owner has got better players than us. Do they have a campus? 

Yes hence the debt 

[Portvale4]

At least we went 75 minutes without conceding a goal… 

In all seriousness, I think that is us about done for this season.

Well done Carol & Flickers! 

[Nippy Naylor]

12 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Fail to win Saturday I think we’re down 

I think it's goodnight Vienna 

[Vtid]

The Vale after that result 😏 there’s no coming back from this. Curtains unfortunately 

[davehartshill]

5 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:

Do you know what? I'm going to call it now. If or  when we go down, Darren Moore will not be here next season

I genuinely believe he will quit if we haven’t won in the next couple of games. 

[Vtid]

1 minute ago, Nippy Naylor said:

I think it's goodnight Vienna 

Yeah we’re gone now mate 

[andy jones]

Watching the pathetic home performances we have 'smelt' like a relegation side for ages.

It's like a golfer missing a 4 foot putt then trying it again and again and getting the same result and refusing to accept he is wrong.

Edited February 20 by andy jones

[JoeB2]

The thing is, none of this really matters to Dave Flitcroft.

Up until last month, he was doing 2 days a week. We were a part-time hobby for him amidst his other 'business interests'.

If we go down? Eh. Carol loves him and will blame everyone else, especially those dreadful, abusive fans. It's all part of the long-term plan.

Worst case, he gets a lovely payout and can go back to his other interests.

The bloke has used us as a toy, trying to run us like Man City for a bit of fun on Tuesdays and Wednesdays before leaving Carol and Paddy to handle it the rest of the week. Anyone with any football experience, like Garlick, are unceremoniously dumped. 

He's created an atmosphere of supporter-belittlement ("where did everyone go at the end of the Derby game?", the patronising JoeB2Censored). We've got stalwarts like Dicko packing in the fun bus as he's that disenchanted.

We've won 11 of 53. A lovely 21% win ratio. Carol thinks Flickers has met all his targets and we're all in the wrong.

[darren1810]

Least my Coral account getting healthier. 

[nodge]

8 minutes ago, philpvfc said:

I don’t care…. GRANT is not a left back! Put the Yak on, not the best but at least he is a defender.

Much as I don't rate Grant, Yak would have been the same, he has zero pace.

There was this lad we had called Benning that could have played there, please someone tell me that Grant has been an upgrade in any game this season

[TJHValiant]

10 minutes ago, Valiiant said:

She needs to do the right thing and look to sell the club. We need someone with deeper pockets and just as importantly, understanding of football. She gave it a good go, just go as soon as possible before you start to do real damage.

I agree. I wish we had an owner who’d put some money in like Daii Yoonge. I don’t know what Reading fans were moaning about. That squad of theirs is chock full of players who earn much more than ours and they were still paying Andy Carroll 15k a week until about October. 
 

Of course they are not moaning now…spent tonight jeering our fans when they were up 2-0. 

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These two upcoming home games are of acute significance.