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by Armadillo Roadkill
22 Aug 2025 15:54
Forum: The Team
Topic: Hunt out.
Replies: 160
Views: 15444

Re: Hunt out.

I find this suggestion that he doesn't know what he's doing tactically laughable. He's got a UEFA Pro license. Whilst it's no guarantee of success, it does mean that his tactical awareness will be better than 99% of us on here. Of course, we're fans, and we're entitled to our opinions and interpreta...
by Armadillo Roadkill
21 Aug 2025 15:06
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)
Replies: 361
Views: 21064

Re: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)

morganb Who was the last decent striker the Academy produced?


Wareham.
by Armadillo Roadkill
21 Aug 2025 13:45
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)
Replies: 361
Views: 21064

Re: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)

At one point in the first half our pass completion was under 50%. That is the first thing that needs to be addressed. Presumably the professional footballers haven't lost the ability to kick a football with a reasonable degree of accuracy; it's more that they're too far apart, or the intended recipi...
by Armadillo Roadkill
21 Aug 2025 13:35
Forum: The Team
Topic: Hunt out.
Replies: 160
Views: 15444

Re: Hunt out.

You lose the players that contributed to two thirds of your goals the previous season. You manage a club that has been hollowed out of resources for years until it's only just operating. You lose two of the best centre halves to play in League 1 for many seasons - one to a Premier League club, the o...
by Armadillo Roadkill
20 Aug 2025 22:55
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)
Replies: 361
Views: 21064

Re: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)

I hope I'm not one to over react, but that really was one of the worst Reading performances I've seen in 25 years. Rarely have I seen us so outclassed - maybe once at Old Trafford, once for 20 minutes at Pride Park in the FA Cup (when we went on to win). It was truly abysmal. Then we started to atta...
by Armadillo Roadkill
20 Aug 2025 22:46
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)
Replies: 361
Views: 21064

Re: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)

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Snowflake Royal Players I would start upfront over MOM.

Ehibhatiomhan
Savage
Doyle
Garcia
Stickland
Burns
Kyerewaa
Okine-Peters
Osho



Kingsley


Ian Royal.
by Armadillo Roadkill
20 Aug 2025 15:37
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)
Replies: 361
Views: 21064

Re: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)

Well guys a quick view from the other side if you’ll allow me? I think all of us are surprised at your poor start and I really don’t think it’s reflective of your team or their capability as you seem to have played pretty well in games but missed chances and conceded bad goals which can happen over...
by Armadillo Roadkill
20 Aug 2025 10:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)
Replies: 361
Views: 21064

Re: MATCHWATCH : Bolton Wanderers (a)

Today is, as I'm sure you're all aware, St. Bernard of Clairvaux's day. The patron saint of very strong Belgian beer and under-performing strikers.

The 'Ding to win by a margin of two goals, at least one of which will be the debut goal for MoM.
by Armadillo Roadkill
19 Aug 2025 09:59
Forum: The Team
Topic: Hunt out.
Replies: 160
Views: 15444

Re: Hunt out.

The really worrying thing is after 4 games, there is zero idea what our team identity is. That and Hunt's seeming inability to adjust to the actual game, as opposed to what he expects to happen. Criminal that no subs were made before 60 odd minutes, and his justifiaction for not using Elliot is lau...
by Armadillo Roadkill
16 Aug 2025 18:28
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : AFC Wimbledon (h)
Replies: 155
Views: 12705

Re: MATCHWATCH : AFC Wimbledon (h)

We played like strangers. Wimbledon played like a team. They deserved to win. We're not just suffering because of not having a striker. We're also shipping two goals per game. It's all so disconnected - no fluency, because they don't seem to know what the others are doing. Don't know what happened t...
by Armadillo Roadkill
16 Aug 2025 13:01
Forum: The Team
Topic: Quick Question - Stadium Atmosphere
Replies: 5
Views: 1286

Re: Quick Question - Stadium Atmosphere

Hello all Having previously been a regular attendee for the best part of two decades, work and family took me away and I am returning for the first time in nearly ten years. Do the club still provide Rumblestix, or, with recent budget cuts, is it now necessary for us to supply our own? I don't want...
by Armadillo Roadkill
14 Aug 2025 10:12
Forum: The Team
Topic: New Owners - Redwood Watch
Replies: 378
Views: 135635

Re: New Owners - Redwood Watch

Really insightful interview. Explains most of the big issues. Should be mandatory viewing before anyone is allowed to post on social media. Present company excepted, many football fans have little to no idea about how football clubs (or any other business, for that matter) are run. They'll never be ...
by Armadillo Roadkill
13 Aug 2025 10:27
Forum: The Team
Topic: New Owners - Redwood Watch
Replies: 378
Views: 135635

Re: New Owners - Redwood Watch

I think maybe there is a difference of opinion in relation to the signs striker thing. There is buya striker who will rip the league apart for 5 million and where I am which is just a plan b which we do not have at the moment. Which I think is where most of us are, in vest 250-500k of the knibbs mo...
by Armadillo Roadkill
09 Aug 2025 18:30
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Royals
Replies: 4214
Views: 3341123

Re: Ex Royals

Doesn't help that there's a section of Sheff Utd fans desperate to hate him. They can go fück themselves, can't they? Although he's a quietly spoken young man, he must have quite a steely self belief to have got this far in football, so I suspect the views of a few morons won't affect him too much.
by Armadillo Roadkill
09 Aug 2025 18:24
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Huddersfield Town (h)
Replies: 162
Views: 21765

Re: MATCHWATCH : Huddersfield Town (h)

Decent individual performances - just not quite there yet as a team. Jacob and Abrefa were the pick of the bunch for me. First goal was obviously disappointing, second one was a good strike which, to be fair, and maybe got a bit lucky travelling through a crowded box. We will never get anywhere with...
by Armadillo Roadkill
07 Aug 2025 15:38
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Huddersfield Town (h)
Replies: 162
Views: 21765

Re: MATCHWATCH : Huddersfield Town (h)

Yes, because we're easily good enough to mimic the technical and tactical excellence of the Spanish national team and Man Citeh.

To be fair, the W-M formation was good enough for the Arse in the 1930s, so we could probably still win the league doing that too.
by Armadillo Roadkill
31 Jul 2025 16:37
Forum: The Team
Topic: Squad for 2025-2026
Replies: 1270
Views: 383415

Re: Squad for 2025-2026

Have to remember as well that unlike the last few windows Reading are once again competing for players that generally other clubs actually want so things aren’t going to return the quick & smooth outcome of seeing a name linked and them joining a week later. Would be nice to be back under embar...
by Armadillo Roadkill
30 Jul 2025 11:25
Forum: The Team
Topic: Squad for 2025-2026
Replies: 1270
Views: 383415

Re: Squad for 2025-2026

Reading fans a few months ago: "All I want is the club to survive and to be run well. "

Reading fans right now: "Why aren't we out-spending all the other clubs in League 1? We've been lied to. Couhig out!"
by Armadillo Roadkill
30 Jul 2025 09:41
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Lincoln City (a)
Replies: 226
Views: 33713

Re: MATCHWATCH : Lincoln City (a)

You’ve seen the same games as me then :) Though I’d keep O Mahony up front and Kelvin wing, Osho on bench but first attacking sub I do think we’re over reacting a bit yo pompey though, the defence was decent in the previous games. I’m going for a 1-1 or 2-2. I don't see us scoring 2. We scored 5 in...
by Armadillo Roadkill
29 Jul 2025 14:43
Forum: The Team
Topic: Squad for 2025-2026
Replies: 1270
Views: 383415

Re: Squad for 2025-2026

We obviously needed a few bodies in because of the departures, but from what I've seen, out home grown players look better than our new signings (Kyerewaa might be the exception - he may well turn out to be a good fit as we are a bit lacking in pace). We clearly need more firepower up top - O'Mahone...
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