by skipper » 19 Oct 2024 21:11
by Hound » 19 Oct 2024 21:26
BrogueOrion1871Hound
Did mention this in my post earlier. We regularly out foul our opponents - I think we probably are quite a ‘dirty’ side but it does feel on days like today that the ref is coming prepared to pick up every small foul we do, whilst letting them do much the same without punishment. But maybe that’s just natural bias on my part
I don't think we're too dirty. I do think that other teams are better at "managing" the ref than we are.
Yeah. We are team full of kids who haven’t yet learnt that part of the game
by WestYorksRoyal » 19 Oct 2024 21:42
skipper Credit to Crawley, they were much better than the score line suggested. I cannot see how they haven't won in 8 games.
It will still be a moral boosting win for us and keeps up the atmosphere here!
Glad the flag it getting routinely walked around the stadium now too. Gotta help Reuben want to stay!!
by Millsy » 19 Oct 2024 22:12
skipper Credit to Crawley, they were much better than the score line suggested. I cannot see how they haven't won in 8 games.
It will still be a moral boosting win for us and keeps up the atmosphere here!
Glad the flag it getting routinely walked around the stadium now too. Gotta help Reuben want to stay!!
by morganb » 19 Oct 2024 22:34
BrogueOrion1871Hound
Did mention this in my post earlier. We regularly out foul our opponents - I think we probably are quite a ‘dirty’ side but it does feel on days like today that the ref is coming prepared to pick up every small foul we do, whilst letting them do much the same without punishment. But maybe that’s just natural bias on my part
I don't think we're too dirty. I do think that other teams are better at "managing" the ref than we are.
Yeah. We are team full of kids who haven’t yet learnt that part of the game
by stealthpapes » 20 Oct 2024 07:18
by Snowflake Royal » 20 Oct 2024 07:43
stealthpapes It's a common feature of this season and last - 50:50 stuff routinely does not break in our favour.
by Gunny Fishcake » 20 Oct 2024 09:24
by PlasticRoyal » 20 Oct 2024 10:06
by The Cap » 20 Oct 2024 10:20
Gunny Fishcake Think the " Dunkirk spirit" with the team is becoming a great asset for us , yes we were outplayed for sections of the game yesterday but we dug in there for a fine victory.
Mbengue typifies that spirit and is a wonderful player for us exemplified by the amazing clearance of the line.
Not many who were there will ever see a strike and goal as sweet as Wings stunning goal .
Great atmosphere with so many kids in the ground and I thought it was a lovely touch when the youngster announced the goal scorers on the PA.
by From Despair To Where? » 20 Oct 2024 10:50
WestYorksRoyalskipper Credit to Crawley, they were much better than the score line suggested. I cannot see how they haven't won in 8 games.
It will still be a moral boosting win for us and keeps up the atmosphere here!
Glad the flag it getting routinely walked around the stadium now too. Gotta help Reuben want to stay!!
They missed chances. Our 1st and 3rd goals were both soft from their perspective. They have conceded 9 goals in 2 games against sides in the bottom half. That's why they're near the bottom.
by tidus_mi2 » 20 Oct 2024 11:15
by Snowflake Royal » 20 Oct 2024 11:19
by WestYorksRoyal » 20 Oct 2024 11:41
From Despair To Where?WestYorksRoyalskipper Credit to Crawley, they were much better than the score line suggested. I cannot see how they haven't won in 8 games.
It will still be a moral boosting win for us and keeps up the atmosphere here!
Glad the flag it getting routinely walked around the stadium now too. Gotta help Reuben want to stay!!
They missed chances. Our 1st and 3rd goals were both soft from their perspective. They have conceded 9 goals in 2 games against sides in the bottom half. That's why they're near the bottom.
Reading their forum, yesterday was a tale of their season, play decent football but poor in both boxes.
You look at their chances and, the Button save from the free kick aside, not taking anything away from our players but a better forward would have been more clinical.
by South Coast Royal » 20 Oct 2024 11:51
Snowflake Royal It was certainly an interesting choice giving Lewis 'Screamer' Wing acres of space and hours of time outside their box.
by Snowflake Royal » 20 Oct 2024 12:25
South Coast RoyalSnowflake Royal It was certainly an interesting choice giving Lewis 'Screamer' Wing acres of space and hours of time outside their box.
Was sat in line behind him and was delighted when nobody challenged him.
Everybody else from both sides when trying anything similar sent the ball wide or way over the bar.
I think Wing is probably the best striker of a ball that I have ever seen for Reading and how he never went on from his Middlesboro days to be at the very least with an upper end Champs side is a bit of a mystery.
Funny old game as posters have said and you can see why Crawley has the worst goal difference in the division and missing their suspended normal centre-back yesterday couldn't have helped.
by WestYorksRoyal » 20 Oct 2024 12:40
by Snowflake Royal » 20 Oct 2024 12:49
by stealthpapes » 20 Oct 2024 13:01
Snowflake RoyalSouth Coast RoyalSnowflake Royal It was certainly an interesting choice giving Lewis 'Screamer' Wing acres of space and hours of time outside their box.
Was sat in line behind him and was delighted when nobody challenged him.
Everybody else from both sides when trying anything similar sent the ball wide or way over the bar.
I think Wing is probably the best striker of a ball that I have ever seen for Reading and how he never went on from his Middlesboro days to be at the very least with an upper end Champs side is a bit of a mystery.
Funny old game as posters have said and you can see why Crawley has the worst goal difference in the division and missing their suspended normal centre-back yesterday couldn't have helped.
I think he probably doesn’t quite have the touch or legs against higher quality sides and better sides won't give him time or space for those screamers.
But maybe he just had a run of clubs where it just didn’t click. So much about football is right place, right time.
wikipedia Wing later ended up in the youth system of Darlington until he was released at the age of 14 for "being too small". Wing quit playing football for two years following his release by Darlington, instead he focused on getting his golf handicap down to five.
by stealthpapes » 20 Oct 2024 13:05
Snowflake Royalstealthpapes It's a common feature of this season and last - 50:50 stuff routinely does not break in our favour.
I think it's the nature of the young side. They play against people with years of experience of hiding shoves and pulls or going in just hard enough at the right time to jostle your control. They're slightly less physically developed so it affects them more. They go in slightly harder to achieve the same thing in reverse because of it and so are a bit more obvious.
We've got so much better at doing the dark side. The holding and nudging and tactical fouling than in recent years, but we're not as good at hiding it.
We press hard so we're always snapping at heels. It wins us a lot of turnovers, but also gives away a lot of freekicks. Smith is a busy little shithouse up front being disruptive. Knibbs is always trying to steal it. Savage, Mbengue and Yiadom pull out of almost nothing.
And Smith in particular, but also Knibbs, Kelvin and Elliott all go over pretty easy, looking for it at times. Especially if they're touch is heavy and gets away from them.
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