Baird of the land

Different to being all over by 21 minutes.

Where's Gallagher?

Playing Long is as good as not playing a striker at all

That's a horrible depressing thought. Getting rid of the horrid useless Hughes only to replace him with horrid Fat Sam. Please no.

Sack the useless idiot Hughes. Garbage lineup getting treatment it deserves.

Other poor teams kept us up last season rather than anything particular Hughes did. This season is just showing how mediocre he is.

So maybe no Ings. Extra helping of joy of watching the waste of space that is Long given yet another chance.

You wonder if McCarthy has been told not to come for crosses after coming & missing last game or if his confidence was dented by those misses.

3/10.

Lovely goal by hojberg. Pretty Atrocious game on the whole that we found a way to draw. Long laughably bad. Falling over, handling the ball, clearing it when through. If an academy player played that badly we’d be told they should be loaned to league one.

Hardly, it’s the double whammy of being loan signings and ones that were signed extremely late in the window. Sims has already made an impact twice, so you’d expect him to get a start soon at reading.

Mccarthy Cedric Vestergaard Hoedt Bertrand Redmond Hojberg Lemina Mo Gallagher Ings Subs Gunn, Yoshi, Targett, Davis, Gabbi, Romeu, Austin

Get the feeling England just considered McCarthy and latterly Bettinelli as bodies to make up the numbers in training.

Gallagher.

Article didn’t even mention the movement away from youth progression which I expected to be a point when I read the headline. Thought on the whole it was rather poorly written. Who are the identical strikers it mentions?

Love international football. Nations league has a lot going for it in principle. Interested to see how it goes.

Guess vestergaard isn’t going on international duty then!

Didn't seem like a certain goal to me. That fumbled shot wasn't very likely to beat Hennessy who was right behind Wan Bissaka.

Cardiff Huddersfield Any of multiple including Saints

Odd as the burton match thread I was looking at described him as looking like a great addition.

That makes it even stranger that we had all jwp/Davis & Romeu on the bench.

Happy to see elyounessi look more effective.

Prefer he didn’t miss those but I’m happy that he’s at least willing to come for crosses. Coming & missing is better than just sitting imo. Did well getting a punch on one later too. Made some key good saves too.

I agree Austin up top by himself is stupidity. However that doesn’t mean someone who would miss an open goal from a yard out is better alongside Ings. For some reason Hughes decided to load the bench with midfielders today rather than include 2 better strikers he had at his disposal.

I watched the game we had 2 of our best chances once he left the pitch.(penalty & bar hit) Losing ings was when we sank into our own area.