Back from the game , Swansea home,

[brendywendy]

Net profit in transfers, not as a club - sorry I haven't posted much for a while so I forgot how simple you were and the need to spell everything out in detail.

so you still cant accept that rodgers spent alot, and achieved worse than nothing?and feel the need to insult and belittle others to cover up for your utter wrongness.
nice.

[brendywendy]

better than your accounting it seems.

i said what rodgers spent. not what the clubs net profit was.

he spent loads. and still couldnt get us playing.McD was in the job around ten minutes before we managed to start again. the end.

Plymouth and Sheffield United were more than five minutes after he took over. You take Sigurdsson out of that team and you get what were are now, a side going nowhere.

we have taken sigurdsson out of the team, and are still in the top half. remind me again where we were when brendan was so unceremoniously dumped and how many games hed had?

[Royalee]

id still rather watch good quick wing play, and a team pushing forward, than watch swansea pass it around the back for an hour, and have 3 breaks in a game.
but then tbf i do hate the way arsenal play, cant stand it, and i understand i am in a minority there apparently

Ah right, so you're one of those people who thinks pub football is the way forward and wonders why Stoke haven't won the Premiership yet? I understand why you come up with such rubbish now, you don't understand the basics of the game, keeping the ball and how to build attacks.You'd prefer a 50/50 hoof every time and no thought behind play - fair enough.

[Royalee]

Net profit in transfers, not as a club - sorry I haven't posted much for a while so I forgot how simple you were and the need to spell everything out in detail.

so you still cant accept that rodgers spent alot, and achieved worse than nothing?and feel the need to insult and belittle others to cover up for your utter wrongness.
nice.

If you have a £12 million house which you sell and then buy a £4 million house, you probably don't have as good a house as you did before.

[brendywendy]

id still rather watch good quick wing play, and a team pushing forward, than watch swansea pass it around the back for an hour, and have 3 breaks in a game.
but then tbf i do hate the way arsenal play, cant stand it, and i understand i am in a minority there apparently

Ah right, so you're one of those people who thinks pub football is the way forward and wonders why Stoke haven't won the Premiership yet? I understand why you come up with such rubbish now, you don't understand the basics of the game, keeping the ball and how to build attacks.You'd prefer a 50/50 hoof every time and no thought behind play - fair enough.

im amused you seem to think you are in a position to decide what i think.

i said i dislike the way arsenal play. oxf*rd all to do with stoke, pub football, 50-50 hoofs- thats all just from your deranged head. the same head that thinks rodgers was great for us.

i clearly do understand, as i credited brendan with being tactically better yesterday. but im just giving my opinion, that watching someone pass it around the back for an hour is dull as ditchwater, and i dont like the way arsenal will pass it around until someone walks it into the net. its just opinion, and again theres no need to get all uppity about it you big gaylord.

[brendywendy]

Net profit in transfers, not as a club - sorry I haven't posted much for a while so I forgot how simple you were and the need to spell everything out in detail.

so you still cant accept that rodgers spent alot, and achieved worse than nothing?and feel the need to insult and belittle others to cover up for your utter wrongness.
nice.

If you have a £12 million house which you sell and then buy a £4 million house, you probably don't have as good a house as you did before.

ok. thanks for that

ok let me put it in a way you can understand.
how many players did he buy, and how much did he spend.
how many players has McD bought, and how much has he spent.

and where did both of their efforts get us by this stage of the season?

any answer? or will you just come back with more patronising, insulting arse water?.......


(thats a rhetorical question by the way)

[floyd__streete]

Whatever you say Schards, keep telling yourself McDermott's the bald Mourinho as yet another Matt Mills hoof bounces off of long to their centre back.

Who signed Mills for £2 million and didn't play him?

[floyd__streete]

Long is hopeless

Should have ended your post there

[Pants of Primus]

my god we need a striker.

[floyd__streete]

Basically LOL at all the h8ers. Firmly put in your place by Brendan today. Easily better than us.

Tbh, Swansea are probably the best side I have seen since we came back down into the Championship so you'd always expect them to have enough to see off a Reading side continually weakened by the sale of anyone basically worth selling. I didn't attend the game but it doesn't really seem that a 1-0 win over a side with probably the worst selection of forward players in the division is a ringing endorsement of anyone's management.

[floyd__streete]

I'd much rather have finished a couple of places (and that was all it would've been, not relegation as some people would have you believe) lower last year building towards the future

Do you really think that? Ok, fair play Personally, based on everything I saw in the first half of the season I'd say we were stitched on relegation certs if we hadn't changed things. I guess you've always had your own agenda here though, Royalee, after you very stridently nailed your colours firmly to Rodgers mast early on and rubbished his predecessor. Now you're slating his successor, a successor who has a far superior points to games ration than your hero, a successor who saved us from relegation last season and has had to operate within the belt-tightening constraints set by the board. I'd suggest that Rodgers was allowed far more money to spend on wages and certainly transfer fees than McD has!

[floyd__streete]

Anyway, I understand that Rodgers got a polite reception on his return? Fair play to you all for that, and one in the eye for the hand-wringing hate-our-fans brigade who feared a catalogue of all sorts of embarassing abuse. I don't particularly care for Rodgers billy big-b*llocks approach towards management, perhaps he has become more humble for his humiliating experience with us last season. I don't much care to be honest, but as I say fair play to those of you who attended the game for giving an ex-manager who tried his best a polite welcome. Contrary to popular belief, Reading fans have always been excellent in acknowledging returning ex-players.....even the very many crap ones have been politely applauded on their return. It is just the ex-managers who double-crossed us who get the grief .

Anyway, Brendan got his win so hopefully that will draw a line under his regime at Reading now and we can all move on. I think Royalee should do too

[Ian Royal]

Why don't you cretins move on and stop bleating on about Coppell & Rodgers. It's tiresome and it has precisely nothing to do with anything now.

The simple fact is we were out of sorts yesterday and we are weak upfront. Either McDermott got it wrong or the players he used couldn't / didn't play the way he wanted to. Swansea are an extremely well drilled passing, defensive side with good pace on the break and they did a number on us. But they were far from convincing and a better strategy from McDermott, performance from the players, or a more fully functional attack would have punished them yesterday.

Still McDermott has done a lot of good work here, is relatively inexperienced and Rodgers new the club inside out so I really see very little to worry about. All this game confirms is that we're in exactly the position anyway with half a brain could see before the season started.

We're a nearly there, mid-table, work-in-progress team missing a few vital chunks. Our future, at least at our current position is relatively sound, which is much more than a lot of clubs can say. Lose a couple more cogs without replacing them and relegation dog-fight is quite on the card, add a couple and promotion dog-fight is where we'll be.

[PEARCEY]

Anyway, I understand that Rodgers got a polite reception on his return? Fair play to you all for that, and one in the eye for the hand-wringing hate-our-fans brigade who feared a catalogue of all sorts of embarassing abuse. I don't particularly care for Rodgers billy big-b*llocks approach towards management, perhaps he has become more humble for his humiliating experience with us last season. I don't much care to be honest, but as I say fair play to those of you who attended the game for giving an ex-manager who tried his best a polite welcome. Contrary to popular belief, Reading fans have always been excellent in acknowledging returning ex-players.....even the very many crap ones have been politely applauded on their return. It is just the ex-managers who double-crossed us who get the grief .

Anyway, Brendan got his win so hopefully that will draw a line under his regime at Reading now and we can all move on. I think Royalee should do too

^ Agree with all of this.

[Sarah Star]

I thought the goal was a bit lucky. Karacan slipped at a vital moment, then Feds went to ground leaving Sinclair with an open goal... though someone should probably have stopped him a bit sooner.

Looked like Feds committed too early and made it easy for Sinclair. You're meant to stand big for as long as possible in 1 on 1 situations, something USA was good at. It's possible that Feds slipped and then had to commit, in which case it was pay back for the silly game of soaking the pitch before kick off!

Tip for the bald one. Rather than going to all the trouble of considering what effect the sprinklers can have on the pitch, you'd be better off concentrating on the effect your players can have on the green stuff!

I thought Feds had slipped, but I didn't get the best of views from where I was sat. I'll have to watch the highlights.

[brendywendy]

Despite the BBC claiming 3 attempts on target, I can only remember one genuine such attempt - Jobi's freekick in the first half!

That is completely unacceptable for a home game, as is the tactic of playing poor old Long up front on his own, hoofing the ball forward to him and then not having anyone in position to take advantage of him winning the ball in the air.

If Ego Madejski and his poodle still genuinely believe we do not need a striker, then the lunatics clearly have taken over the Mad House!

As McDermott commented after the game, Rodgers 'spent money on Scott Sinclair who looks a very good player'. Well Brian it's time you started pointing out things like that to your tight-fisted chairman who is still squatting on the very considerable ill-gotten gains from encouraging The Sig to move on.

On final thought: Shorey to Harte - such is the 'progress' under the brilliant financial management of Madjeski and co!

yawn

Great argument, you've really excelled yourself here.

coming from the captain of moronic replys and arguments that is some compliment.
i think im allowed to yawn if RB posts exactly the same thing every time he posts tbf

[skipper]

come on folks tell us drifters what it was like, sounded dire on BBC Berks, shot shy?

IMHO started first 20 mins well pressing well up the field, Swansea make a change and suddenly we look like the away team, no ideas, prob 2-3 attempts ontarget max

Griffin, Harte, Long, Feds played well Hunt looked hungry when he came on.

The rest, poor

As for Jobi did not look like he wanted to be there at all and def not a replacement for Gylfi in the hole. Also thought Amstrong and HRK were well below average

Swansea fans were in good voice and nice moment when Brenda responded to give us a wave chants

Are you fecking kidding me!!!!

The only players to come out with any credit were Karacan, Feds, Harte and Jobi. Jobi was all over the place trying to make things happen, Karacan was his usual busy self, feds was solid and harte was assured at the back (nothing he can do about being beaten by pace).

What game were you watching mate!!

The rest were dire. Griffin to a lesser extent.

Are you kidding me? If Jobi could just PASS we would much better. But he was rubbish all game. Sure he tried and was all over the place, but nothing came off.

For the whole team, every pass, bobble, deflection and ricochet was just wrong, it was always just out of reach or over hit or what ever, very unlucky today.

That said, Hunt was superb, and should of done better with his chance, but he hasn't played much. Hungry but rusty.

Long did well, Kebe too but why on earth are we playing Armstrong in midfield? What's going on with Howard - surely he would be a better option right now?


Looking forward to City to put it right

[RoyalBlue]

Managaing to drag a playoff team down into relegation certainly takes some, um, 'creativity'.

We didn't have a playoff team, we finished mid table and we weren't in the relegation zone when Rodgers was sacked. Rodgers also wasn't able to sign the experience of Griffin and Zurab when he was here, although he did help the club make £7 million by doing what Coppell didn't have the bottle to do and blooding the youngsters.

Why didn't he sign them then? Because nothing changed in terms of players out to finance those two buys.

.

No nothing changed in terms of finances but Madejski hadn't started to realise the folly of his actions at that point. Don't forget there were suggestions at a bust up prior to Rodgers getting the elbow because he wasn't being given the finances he felt he needed for signings. Post the departure of Rodgers, McDermott (the trusted one) clearly managed to convince Madejski that he had to open up his tight fists and finance some loan signings or continue to watch the team spiral towards relegation.

[Alan Partridge]

Had nothing to do with that RB.

[RoyalBlue]

Had nothing to do with that RB.

So you say/think.

Despite the BBC claiming 3 attempts on target, I can only remember one genuine such attempt - Jobi's freekick in the first half!

That is completely unacceptable for a home game, as is the tactic of playing poor old Long up front on his own, hoofing the ball forward to him and then not having anyone in position to take advantage of him winning the ball in the air.

If Ego Madejski and his poodle still genuinely believe we do not need a striker, then the lunatics clearly have taken over the Mad House!

As McDermott commented after the game, Rodgers 'spent money on Scott Sinclair who looks a very good player'. Well Brian it's time you started pointing out things like that to your tight-fisted chairman who is still squatting on the very considerable ill-gotten gains from encouraging The Sig to move on.

On final thought: Shorey to Harte - such is the 'progress' under the brilliant financial management of Madjeski and co!

yawn

One effing day your kip will be disturbed by a nightmare as you finally open your eyes and realise what Madejski is doing/has done!

Net profit in transfers, not as a club - sorry I haven't posted much for a while so I forgot how simple you were and the need to spell everything out in detail.

so you still cant accept that rodgers spent alot, and achieved worse than nothing?

Spent not that much in Championship terms and didn't get a chance to achieve anything in the very short time that ****S like Howe and co allowed him, particularly given the way the squad had been decimated by the black hole sales.

Just how many poor signings did he make? McDermott isn't exactly blameless when it comes to iffy signings either - Williams?

coming from the captain of moronic replys and arguments that is some compliment.
i think im allowed to yawn if RB posts exactly the same thing every time he posts tbf

First mention of the Shorey to Harte performance indicator actually - and no more repetitive than the blind fools who have their heads firmly wedged up the emperor's arse!