S-Clarke

I would hope he takes the players in, shows the the video from this game - highlights the individual errors and then draws a blue line under it.

As much as the players need to put this result behind them, so do we. Blue line and all that. Go to posh, get a win, pick up something @ boro and take it to the last day. Happy with that.

He was poor, stripped by Le Fondre on numerous occasions when he came on and made everyone a bit nervous. But players make mistakes and they have bad games, unfortunately this was the night for his bad game - but you cannot ignore his contribution over the season.

He was more involved than Chaplow, who had a mare and it was nice to see some natrual width out there. I still personally think he flatters to deceive though.

Yep, but let's be honest...they won't. Brighton are pants.

It wasn't a bad performance from us at all, but we were undone with criminal lapses of concentration - exactly the same as in the Pompey game. We need to sort that out, and fast. Fox was abysmal all night, his ball retention was non existent and he was at fault for the first goal, no question about that. He played a stupid square pass to no one, we were out of position and reading pounced. Nice one fox. The 2nd goal was pretty much another breakaway, we lost out in midfield through another sloppy bit of play (when we actually had the ball...) and they broke, skinned Fox and then it fell to Le Fondre. The 3rd goal was inevitable with the way we were pressing, and they just hit us. We dominated the game though to be honest. We just lacked that clinical finish and a consistent final pass, we had it once...but not enough. Unfortunately tonight was one of those nights where individual mistakes were punished, and if you give opportunities to players like Kebe and Roberts then you've got no chance. The title has gone now, which is devastating for me because i wanted to see us win a league, but with Reading playing 2 home bankers they have that wrapped up - no worries. We just need to keep our composure and do the business at posh, get a win there and we take it to the last day against Coventry. I'll be happy with that, but still bloody disappointed we didn't win the league. The message tonight though is - chin up, we were hit by 3 sucker punches today but can take alot of heart from the display. We're 3 games from the premier league.

From a reading fan: Karacan, Connolly and Tabb are definitely out. Robson-Kanu and Leigertwood will have late fitness tests but expectation is that both will fail

to be honest, if it's ADSL, then the speeds are dictated by the quality of your line and the distance from the exchange. If you pop your postcode into the 02 checker then it might give you an estimation of the speed you can expect to get. Can't comment on the reliability, so i'll let someone else who's used 02 to comment on that.

It's exciting, even though it's been a short week it's bloody well dragged hasn't it? Tomorrow will be unbearable trying to work... Bring.it.on

To be fair, apart from the first game of the season, if a neutral had watched our live games after that, they'd be sat there thinking ''how the **** are they top?". But it's not because of TV, the games on TV just feel during our injury crisis and dips in form. We should be well up for Friday though. Can't wait.

Here go the agents. He's not been great for M'Boro to be honest, but he flopped in the premiership for wolves too. Wouldn't see him as an improvement to our right-side.

Well finally I have my ticket 12 days after ordering, the royal mail decided it would be a good idea to post it to another house on another street. Thankfully the guys were honest enough to bring it up to me earlier today. So thanks to them!

Oh well, never mind. Not very critical though is he?

You cannot look at it as simplistic as that. Derby games create an even playing field, it was never a case of top facing bottom 3. It was level from the moment we kicked off. Generally they are ****, but a Derby gives you an extra % and that got them through - although I still think we took the **** at times against them. 2 wonder goals, albiet with too much space.

Mcanuff (sp?) took a knock as well, but I expect he'll be ok. Last night will have taken a huge amount out of them though. I wouldn't have felt confidet about a game straight after Leeds away, due to how much we had to withstand. Luckily we had a week until our next match. Reading have 3 days. That's a huge factor IMO.

Teams will create chances against us. If you're now starting to moan if a team has a chance against us then you have no clue. Last night for example, the amazing, fantastic, breathtaking Reading side were taken to the cleaners by Brighton and we well battered in terms of possession and chances against, but they held on. Like we did at Leeds.

They will be absolutely desperate to go 3 points clear of us, make no doubts about that. A win against us will pretty much win the league for them due to the 2 home games they have directly after. This is huge for both teams.

To be honest, thinking about it - we need to win this for the title. No other result will really do. Reading have 2 very winnable home games after us (Home to Forest and then Palace). I'd expect them to easily pickup 6 points there, and we've got 2 tricky away games @ P'Boro and M'Boro. So a win for us takes the pressure of those games, slightly, but a draw or a defeat hands the gauntlet into Readings hands you'd have to say.

and portsmouth are all but relegated

This. Every word of it.

WHU should win it, but I've said that about their last 8 home games. Brighton are all style but no substance.

This game is such a great setup, probably the best choice of a live champ match Sky have made for ages - It means so much for both sides. We're a big game team though, with big game players. Reading should be worried, and by the ease Brighton took them apart tonight then we have to be confident. Hopefully they've used all their luck up tonight.

Draw wouldn't be the end of the world, it would still be all in our hands. But I feel that if we really want the league, then we'll need to knock points off them.

Goodbye Portsmouth.

FT. All over. Huge result. WHU will be sick tonight, it's almost all over now. The title is another matter! Round 1 starts on friday...