alpine_saint

What a truly stupid post. Reading played better than us. They might have had less presence in the final third, but they defended and covered superbly, and snuffed out our thread. "Better team" isnt just determined by time spent on attack, FFS.

I see Sharp has joined Guly in the ranks of "convenient scapegoats" Oh well, at least we can exclude racism as a motivation, I suppose.

Then you are dellusional, I'm afraid. I am far from meltdown. This defeat is, along with Blackpool, one of the easier to take, because we were beaten by a team that was hungry, energetic, well organised, and I know that we werent up to their standard on the day. I go into meltdown after losing to crap like Bristol City.

I just watched the last 70mins of that game, and I am telling it how I see it.

If I were a Reading fan, I would be quite offended at the "mugging" comments. The defended superbly, harried us for posession, and broke quickly and intelligence. FFS, get over it. The better team won.

This. Automatic promotion has to be earned.

Ergo, ineffectual. Apart from entertaining some little kids and blue-rinse brigade members with his tidiness and cleverness

How on earth does Lallana merit an 8 ? He is totally ineffectual.

Not a chance. Look at the teams current in 3rd to 9th. We have very patchy records against them. We could get Cardiff, Brum, Blackpool or Brighton.

The scoreline doesnt lie, and we did deserve it. Forget the specifics and think about what Reading just did. Their organisation, movement, defending and soaking up pressure was superb. They did a thorough job on us.

There was no cheating There was no robbing There was no mugging Reading are a good team. Their defending, movement, counter play, energy levels and agression get the job done. They withstood our pressure and hit us as soon as we literally took our eye off the ball. By contrast we are too casual, too slow, too into one touch too many and the clever pass. Rickie was the best player on the pitch, but there was far too many screw-ups in midfield and our defence is f**king shocking. Reading are the Champions, and over 46 games will have earned it. Us ? We have some serious sh*t soul searching and work to do in the next few days to prevent this season being for nought.

Fonte is f**king useless.

Butterfields crosses are sh*t.

The better team has won this game. Theyve shut it down and we cant even get posession.

unlucky schteve

Cue the boos

Sorry, they made Grade A muppets out of us with that goal. We are too casual and trying to be too clever

****

FFS, Jack

oooooh

Jesus. Roberts

Gorkss flattens Rickie and they get the freekick.

oooooooh

starting to get careless again

jesus