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Theres probably already a thread about this but Reading may need to reconsider their tactics when it comes to free-kicks. We've conceded two goals this season trying the play the oppo offside (Watford and Sheff Utd) and there have been others where they have not been called offside.
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I think it's become too predictable now. Managers who know how Reading play (notice sheffield UTD and watford were only teams to score from this going wrong) will know we use it, and as we saw yesturday, use clever tactics to work around it.
I think that many teams will be aware of it next season, and so we should stop, depite it being very effective when pulled off correctly
I think that many teams will be aware of it next season, and so we should stop, depite it being very effective when pulled off correctly
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King's presence and actions did indeed interfer with play so on that basis you may have a point.
However the manager needs to factor in that the refs and linesmen are human and can not be expected to get all marginal decisions correct, So the tactic should be to ensure the decision isn't marginal and that the linesman has an easy decision to make.
However the manager needs to factor in that the refs and linesmen are human and can not be expected to get all marginal decisions correct, So the tactic should be to ensure the decision isn't marginal and that the linesman has an easy decision to make.
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report in The Mirror today
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... _page.html
POOR READING HAVE PASSPORT TO NOWHERE
BARCLAYS PREMIERSHIP Reading 0 Watford 2
By Mike Walters 07/05/2007
READING are in Europe - and that's official. But Steve Coppell's men had better enjoy their three-day break in Spain because they won't need their passports next season.
Forget about qualifying for the UEFA Cup: on the evidence of the Royals' impoverished home defeat by doomed Watford, they won't get past Dover.
This season's breath of fresh air could be next season's stale flatulence, and with orange politician Robert Kilroy-Silk still at large, we've already got enough embarrassing envoys on the continent.
Whether you prefer Vorsprung durch Technik, parlez-vous francais or just one cornetto, European football requires a certain sophistication, but Reading can offer only a park-and-walk depot by the M4 and a half-hourly rail shuttle to Didcot Parkway.
Central defender Michael Duberry would love to fly the flag with a third club after winning the Cup Winners' Cup with Chelsea in 1998 and reaching the Champions League semifinals with Leeds six years ago.
But Duberry has also seen how European football can give glory-hunters delusions of grandeur. His former Elland Road chairman Peter Ridsdale's worst loan signing, a tropical aquarium, became a symbol of Leeds' nosedive towards insolvency.
Exotic fish proved expensive mascots for Ridsdale, but Duberry is saddened by Leeds' plight and he says their decline should serve as a warning to clubs who become obsessed with Finding Nemo and take their eyes off the haddock and chips at home.
Duberry said: "When you play in the Champions League and the Super Cup, it makes you want to test yourself against the best players in Europe.
"You are sitting at home on a Tuesday evening watching other teams playing in a big semi-final, and you want to be there.
"But what happened to Leeds is very sad. Everyone has got to learn from the Leeds scenario, the textbook of how not to do it.
"That's why every football club chairman is now saying 'We're not splashing out and we're not spending £5million on goldfish.' Everyone has got to take the Leeds thing on board and be a bit more conservative.
"Whether or not we get into Europe, everyone knows next season is going to be harder. The surprise element has gone and we should learn from Wigan's experience of second-season syndrome."
Coppell, the thinking fan's nomination for manager of the season, has already seen the danger signs and recognises that Reading's biggest challenge is not squeezing into the UEFA Cup frame at Blackburn next Sunday but staying above the dotted line 12 months from now.
He said: "People talk about second-season syndrome but first-season syndrome is fatal as well. What we've achieved in the last two years will not be one iota of help to us next season."
Reading were undone by Danny Shittu's cool finish and Hornets captain Marlon King's first goal for seven months after a longterm knee injury.
King revealed that former Reading striker Darius Henderson, who left the Madejski four years ago, recognised the home defenders' call signal to clear the box at set-pieces to catch Watford offside. Double agent Henderson duly baulked Duberry's attempts to step up with the rest of the chorus line, leaving Shittu to meet Lee Williamson's dead-ball delivery at the far post. Memo to Coppell: Better change that call signal.
Watford have now exceeded the 24-point mark with which they collected the Premiership's wooden spoon seven years ago, but there are stormy times ahead at Vicarage Road.
Directors Vince and Jimmy Russo, dubbed the Salad Brothers because of their horticultural business empire, have been sacked in a boardroom blitz without explanation. They are unlikely to pack up their radishes and leave quietly
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... _page.html
POOR READING HAVE PASSPORT TO NOWHERE
BARCLAYS PREMIERSHIP Reading 0 Watford 2
By Mike Walters 07/05/2007
READING are in Europe - and that's official. But Steve Coppell's men had better enjoy their three-day break in Spain because they won't need their passports next season.
Forget about qualifying for the UEFA Cup: on the evidence of the Royals' impoverished home defeat by doomed Watford, they won't get past Dover.
This season's breath of fresh air could be next season's stale flatulence, and with orange politician Robert Kilroy-Silk still at large, we've already got enough embarrassing envoys on the continent.
Whether you prefer Vorsprung durch Technik, parlez-vous francais or just one cornetto, European football requires a certain sophistication, but Reading can offer only a park-and-walk depot by the M4 and a half-hourly rail shuttle to Didcot Parkway.
Central defender Michael Duberry would love to fly the flag with a third club after winning the Cup Winners' Cup with Chelsea in 1998 and reaching the Champions League semifinals with Leeds six years ago.
But Duberry has also seen how European football can give glory-hunters delusions of grandeur. His former Elland Road chairman Peter Ridsdale's worst loan signing, a tropical aquarium, became a symbol of Leeds' nosedive towards insolvency.
Exotic fish proved expensive mascots for Ridsdale, but Duberry is saddened by Leeds' plight and he says their decline should serve as a warning to clubs who become obsessed with Finding Nemo and take their eyes off the haddock and chips at home.
Duberry said: "When you play in the Champions League and the Super Cup, it makes you want to test yourself against the best players in Europe.
"You are sitting at home on a Tuesday evening watching other teams playing in a big semi-final, and you want to be there.
"But what happened to Leeds is very sad. Everyone has got to learn from the Leeds scenario, the textbook of how not to do it.
"That's why every football club chairman is now saying 'We're not splashing out and we're not spending £5million on goldfish.' Everyone has got to take the Leeds thing on board and be a bit more conservative.
"Whether or not we get into Europe, everyone knows next season is going to be harder. The surprise element has gone and we should learn from Wigan's experience of second-season syndrome."
Coppell, the thinking fan's nomination for manager of the season, has already seen the danger signs and recognises that Reading's biggest challenge is not squeezing into the UEFA Cup frame at Blackburn next Sunday but staying above the dotted line 12 months from now.
He said: "People talk about second-season syndrome but first-season syndrome is fatal as well. What we've achieved in the last two years will not be one iota of help to us next season."
Reading were undone by Danny Shittu's cool finish and Hornets captain Marlon King's first goal for seven months after a longterm knee injury.
King revealed that former Reading striker Darius Henderson, who left the Madejski four years ago, recognised the home defenders' call signal to clear the box at set-pieces to catch Watford offside. Double agent Henderson duly baulked Duberry's attempts to step up with the rest of the chorus line, leaving Shittu to meet Lee Williamson's dead-ball delivery at the far post. Memo to Coppell: Better change that call signal.
Watford have now exceeded the 24-point mark with which they collected the Premiership's wooden spoon seven years ago, but there are stormy times ahead at Vicarage Road.
Directors Vince and Jimmy Russo, dubbed the Salad Brothers because of their horticultural business empire, have been sacked in a boardroom blitz without explanation. They are unlikely to pack up their radishes and leave quietly
JC
King revealed that former Reading striker Darius Henderson, who left the Madejski four years ago, recognised the home defenders' call signal to clear the box at set-pieces to catch Watford offside. Double agent Henderson duly baulked Duberry's attempts to step up with the rest of the chorus line, leaving Shittu to meet Lee Williamson's dead-ball delivery at the far post. Memo to Coppell: Better change that call signal.
You have to doubt that !
We have a different manager, a new defece coach, a different set of defenders and didn;t use thetatctic 4 years ago !
Darius may have heard a shout and reacted but it seems unlikely it was as a result of anything he learned while at the club !
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