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[bob_da_royal_94]

Hello all - Just a few points I'd like to make after watching yesterday's game:

We need a big target man up front, someone to hold the ball up whilst creating chances and scoring. Adebola was an excellent example of this yesterday, taking the workload so that the quicker attackers could concerntrate on their game. We do not have a decent target man.Just make do ones like Noel Hunt.. We have Doyle,Lita,Long and even Hunt who all fit the same mould, which is a quick player who can play off a target man. Lita tries to do the job by consistantly backing himself up into defenders, then getting knocked off the ball. Makes me want Kitson back to be honest. And where on earth is Mooney? If he's not good enough then why is he here? Surely the scouts at Reading who from what i see, spend all their life at Cork City training ground could have picked out a promising player who they thought would come in and make an impact at Reading.

It baffles me why Coppell is/ was so loyal to his players, even in the Premiership, we failed to buy any names, look at all the other clubs that go up, they have brought players here and there to ensure their survival. Yes we survived the first season, when nobody knew about us or how we play. But as far as the second season goes - its funny how the club who denied the 'second season syndrome' so veermently, succummed to it so easily. All you read in the programme notes every week was "We're not going to get sucked into all the paper talk of the second season syndrome" when it eventually happened. But that was purely because we stuck by our championship class players and failed to bring in the next step of quality. I am not for one minute saying to lay off all the players which got us up, because there has to be loyalty. I am simply talking about one or two quality signings. Even in the championship, why do we fail to make quality signings in the transfer window? Again, i'm talking about one or two quality signings, who do we bring in? Steven hunt's brother....who to be fair, is better than Steven.. And thats another thing, why we got rid of Bobby Convey is beyond me, creative player, may have not been the loudest on the pitch like Hunt but he created alot. For all Hunt is worth, he looks like he doesn't want to be at the club, scurrying up and down the touchline like a scoulded badger and producing balls that have no results..

The fact that all our game is and has been for the past 3 seasons is get it to the wings, S Hunt cross in - to players who are reletively short and can't actually head the ball isn't good. Thats all our game is - cross in, then gamble that sumone will get on the end of it. Our central midfield may aswell not be there considering we never, ever attack down the middle or shoot for that matter, alwaaays a long game, spreading to the wing, passing it cross the midfield and then crossing, again. And as we have seen, there have been no results come from it as of late which is why we haven't scored a goal ourselves may i add, for a handful of games.

What happened to the free flowing football we were playing when we got promoted? Playing it along the floor and with real precision, that is the football that got us promoted and we beat teams convincingly. Why we play our football up in the air and spend half the game headering the ball around and not actually playing controlled football i shall never know.

One positive that is constantly there is Marek Matjeovski, fantastic creative midfielder and too good for players around him, his brain is so quick and has great vision that the players around him simply don't read him down to the one dimensional football they've been used to playing for the past 3 seasons or so..

We need to change it up if we're to get promoted again, and make no mistakes, it isn't Madjeski or 'the players' who need to change it, Coppell does as he is the tactician and manager of the team. IF 'the players' are to blame like Harper or Hunt, why didn't we sell them off? Instead of them now seemingly not playing for the badge, afterall theres proberbly a few Cork City players we got have for free.

Let me say, I have been going to watch Reading play for 8 seasons now and there is nothing more i'd love than to see them back in the top flight I just think we should all wake up if we're to be promoted.

Thanks all!

[Petercccccc]

Were third in the oxf*rd league with a game in hand how can anyone slag any of the players off, little bit of bad form and all of a sudden were not good enough

[The Cap]

Blimey that was a long post bob. What was that about 'all waking up'

[bob_da_royal_94]

Lol if you think that, maybe you'd want to read the other posts on this forum. All i'm doing is pointing out the raw facts that that some fans don't want to realise, having spoken to a few fans yesterday, i know that others feel the same. I'm not slagging players off or "not a real fan" because i've been watching them for 8 seasons now week in week out and theres nothing more i'd want than for them to go up. I think that Coppell is the best manager Reading have had for sure, all i'm saying is, recently his tactics have perhaps been not the best. I'm not slagging anyone off, its built up frustration of watching them every week which has caused me to write this, I'm not looking for an argument, i simply would like to share my views and would like to know if other members who watch them every single week like me, agree or not.

[BallRoyal]

Were third in the oxf*rd league with a game in hand how can anyone slag any of the players off, little bit of bad form and all of a sudden were not good enough

Were you at the game yesterday, there can be no excuses, we have no tactics, we are playing poorly. Long ball game, no midfield . If we carry on like this our position in this league
will show how poor we are really are.
And for you to say a little bit of bad form, we've playing like this for sometime now.
Clueless is what you should be saying. Still time to sort this out,but there are a few teams who are up for the push, we are not at present.

[bob_da_royal_94]

Thanks Ball Royal, im actually relieved someone who goes reguarly to our games agrees with me, we do need to sort it out and have got time to ofcourse. Would have helped if we did a bit of business in Januray but thats in the past now..We need to make changes, however i'm not sure where..

[Petercccccc]

Fair enough, ive only been supporting the club for 6 or so seasons now so never saw my team lower than the championship never been through the pain of so many relagations but i still think people are going a little over the top loosing to an on form team. were still in the mix and all the players are still here that put us there just need a few results and well be flying again.I didn't expect us to do so well at the begining of the season so im delighted, piss poor performance against bristol but this isn't 2006.

[Royal Lady]

Were third in the oxf*rd league with a game in hand how can anyone slag any of the players off, little bit of bad form and all of a sudden were not good enough

Were you at the game yesterday, there can be no excuses, we have no tactics, we are playing poorly. Long ball game, no midfield . If we carry on like this our position in this league
will show how poor we are really are.And for you to say a little bit of bad form, we've playing like this for sometime now.
Clueless is what you should be saying. Still time to sort this out,but there are a few teams who are up for the push, we are not at present.

mid table championship at best you could say. Oh. Schards did say it!

[SteveRoyal]

Can someone cut down the first post for me?
Summarise it? Go on, just for ickle me?

[Rex]

We need a big target man on the pitch scurrying up and down the touchline like a scoulded badger and producing balls.

Thanks all!

[bob_da_royal_94]

1. Buy a target man
2. Play centrally down midfield so we can score goals. Our tactics don't work which is why we haven't won in ages.

That is all.

[Elm Park Old Boy]

Are you really Marek Matejovsky?

[SLAMMED]

Were third in the oxf*rd league with a game in hand how can anyone slag any of the players off, little bit of bad form and all of a sudden were not good enough

2 games in hand over wolves as well.

[Sun Tzu]

1. Buy a target man
2. Play centrally down midfield so we can score goals. Our tactics don't work which is why we haven't won in ages.

That is all.

Although it's not been that long since we've won and we've not lost many games.

There's a pretty major problem with Point 1 of course now the transfer window has closed.

And playing through the middle kind of makes a target man a waste of time.

And do we swap tactics that have worked for much of the season for something undefined and not really thought out ?