Reserves vs Pompey

[M4 Junction 11]

at a reserves game do you get to sit where you want?

If you want to sit in the directors box, then no, you do not get to sit where you want.

I'm not going then! Where does most of the noise come from at a reserves game?

[Tamworth_Royal]

Anyone know the HT score ?

[Barbazza]

2:0

[warrpp]

scorers ?

[RG30]

Game finished 6-0

[bassavage]

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/pa ... 91,00.html

[mattyougg]

Sodje was MOTM for me
Followed by:

Halford
DLC
Duberry
Cox
Church
Bennet
Seol

[MartinRdg]

Sodje was MOTM for me
Followed by:

Halford
DLC
Duberry
Cox
Church
Bennet
Seol

Would someone give a fullr report please.

[Tamworth_Royal]

Sodje was MOTM for me
Followed by:

Halford
DLC
Duberry
Cox
Church
Bennet
Seol

Would someone give a fullr report please.

Calm down

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/pa ... 91,00.html

[Tamworth_Royal]

Didn't notice Chelski Res only drew earlier in the week 5 pts clear at the top.

Well done Greg H on his first goal

[Tamworth_Royal]

As at: Wed 07 Mar 07 21:40

P W D L F A GD PTS

Reading Res 12 10 0 2 36 7 29 30

Chelsea Res 12 8 1 3 21 7 14 25

Watford Res 13 7 2 4 18 18 0 23

Tottenham Res 13 6 4 3 18 15 3 22

Aston Villa Res 13 6 3 4 28 21 7 21

Charlton Res 12 4 3 5 16 19 -3 15

Fulham Res 13 3 3 7 12 25 -13 12

Arsenal Res 11 3 2 6 12 18 -6 11

Portsmouth Res 10 2 2 6 9 25 -16 8

West Ham Res 11 0 2 9 8 23 -15 2

I think you can see where West Hams problems start from........ " I aint playing in the reserves"

[bassavage]

I'm surprised Arsenal reserves are so low down, unless Wenger doesn't do a Coppell and sticks the cup side in the reserves.

[Tamworth_Royal]

I'm surprised Arsenal reserves are so low down, unless Wenger doesn't do a Coppell and sticks the cup side in the reserves.

I think Wenger, reserves the right to revert playing his reserves in the reserve games only when he reverts from playing the reserves in cup games and not league games…………………

[Mr Angry]

Very quick match report then...........

Fed
Sodje, Bennet, Doobs, DLC
Church, Halford, Karacan, Seol
Cox, Long


We played 442 with Halford in centre mid, Church on right, Seol on left, and our domination was clear from the start which bizarrely began when Benjani for Pompey tried a shot straight from the kick off.

It was there only effort on target for the whole game.

Long was winning everything in the air and both he and Cox were cutting through the Pompey defence at will. We had a couple of decent chances before Halford latched onto a cross from Church to score the first on approx 6 mins.

The 2nd came less than 5 mins later, Cox scoring with a shot.

it was all pressure from us, with Pompey looking vulnerable both in the air and on the ground, and it was only superb saves by their keeper to keep out Bennet and (I think) Sodje, plus Shane hitting the post when thru 1 on1 with the keeper, that kept the score 2-0 at half time.

2nd half started and the first attack in the first minute saw Seol out-trick the right back to put over a sweet left foot cross which Sodje headed in from about 3 yards.

From then on it was wave after wave of attack, and as the Pompey lads tired, Shane scored with a header from another Seol cross, then smashed home from 12 yards for numbers 4 and 5, whilst the 6th came from the 3rd sub whose name escapes me at the moment! (sorry!), a great shot from outside the box.

Frankly, everyone played well, but against practically a youth team (Benjani notwithstanding) thats what you would expect. Halford looked composed in centre mid but you can't tell against that opposition how he would be in a premiership match, tho he clearly has a lot of class.

Very encouraged by Karocan and Church, whilst Bozanic who came on showed a lot of quality.

Sodje my MOTM, showed what a skilfull player he can be tonight.

one final point, why don't teams like Pompey put out a proper reserve side? Our policy of treating reserve games with a degree of respect, where squad players, players returning from injury to get match fit and youngsters getting blooded at a higher level are used in the team and this allows the management to draft players into the first team as and when needed with as little disruption as possible.

Players like Little, Bikey, Gunnarsson and Oster have all been helped by stints playing for the reserve team that has allowed them to produce for the first team.

Yet more effective management by Sir Steve.

[shadesrwrf]

Seol's assist was sublime.

[M4 Junction 11]

With Pompey's first team squad in Dubai, it was highly youthful reserve side which travelled to the Madejski stadium and they were given a football lesson by their experienced Reading counterparts.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

FWIW i think he's got all the attributes to be a central midfielder. He's tall,athletic,strong running and has pretty potent long range shooting ability so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that he could be very good there. The reserves is as good a place as any to find out at this stage.

without wishing to be picky, I'd have thought being a good passer, tackler, and having the vision to create are rather more important attributes than being tall, athletic and strong. Bas Savage was all those things, and it hardly helped him play centre midfield.

[Vision]

FWIW i think he's got all the attributes to be a central midfielder. He's tall,athletic,strong running and has pretty potent long range shooting ability so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that he could be very good there. The reserves is as good a place as any to find out at this stage.

without wishing to be picky, I'd have thought being a good passer, tackler, and having the vision to create are rather more important attributes than being tall, athletic and strong. Bas Savage was all those things, and it hardly helped him play centre midfield.

Fair enough but it wasn't meant as a fully comprehensive list of his attributes but more of those that would make him a replacement for Sidwell.

[Adrian's Fool]

How many fans there tonight?

[Glen Little's Nose]

I thought Halford looked really useful in Central midfield - long and short passing was good and what I really liked was the times he nicked the ball with his toe - reminded me of Vieira in his prime

DLC looked really assured and SKH did nothing apart from two superb crosses with his left foot which resulted in goals.

Of the youngsters I think Karacan has a future whilst Long just gets better and better.

Simon Cox is one I am not sure about. I just think he may find there are too many in front of him.

PS. I know it was their Youth Team but I have taken that into account.