MATCHWATCH : Birmingham City (a) sponsored by Nigel Adkins last game

[Snowflake Royal]

Nice to see Meite get another at least.

[Hound]

Meite looked very useful on the few times we got the ball to him

Great header saved as well

McCleary did ok I thought. Looks so much fitter than last year - completely different

[JR]

Disagree with many on here - thought that was best we’ve looked for a while.

Enjoyable to watch going forward with a few moments that didn’t quite go our way.

Frailties at the back costing us points.

[Barney]

That was garbage. Slow. Painful. Players not interested. Just absolute trash.

[Hound]

Disagree with many on here - thought that was best we’ve looked for a while.

Enjoyable to watch going forward with a few moments that didn’t quite go our way.

Frailties at the back costing us points.

We look ok. Certainly better than the dross against Norwich and QPR

First half we did well. Second half we just didn’t ‘go for it’ when we went behind. Far too casual, like we couldn’t kick start ourself into life

Not going to go down the ‘we are sh1t’ route as there were good things. However we need to get Bod, Baldock and McCleary back up to full fitness and Eza is missed massively (though Bacuna did quite well)

And need to stop making stupid mistakes at the back. Ilori and Moore are better than they showed tonight. Both had poor games I thought

[Zip]

We just cannot get going under Clement. Yet again we concede early in the second half. Swansea away now looks very difficult. It looks almost certain we will be in the bottom three by Saturday night at the latest. Simply not good enough.
Meanwhile our best attacking outlet from last season can’t get in the squad.

[Gunny Fishcake]

In the main rubbish, no fight, no desire. How Kelly keeps playing is beyond me. Millwall was a blip on what’s proving to be a predictably crap season

[paddy20]

If we took out the mistakes we played well. Trouble is we made so many simple mistakes. How can we give away a corner like we did. How can Ilori get muscled off the ball so easily ? how can we not complete our passes so often? We just seemed far too confident and casual!

[Norfolk Royal]

Agree with the previous poster who said it’s difficult to see what we are trying to achieve. What was the game plan tonight? Search me.

Birmingham sat off us in the first half like an away team which nonplussed us. No attacking threat.

Can’t see why the Saints fans rate Sims so highly, very poor tonight. Kelly ditto. Bod not at the races, Moore marking time, shocking errors at crucial moments, little real fight. and so it goes on.

[Hound]

If we took out the mistakes we played well. Trouble is we made so many simple mistakes. How can we give away a corner like we did. How can Ilori get muscled off the ball so easily ? how can we not complete our passes so often? We just seemed far too confident and casual!

Indeed. We had more possession (though they let us have it tbf), more shots on target, more corners...

Could and should have come away with at least a point but for ridiculous mistakes

[URZZZZ]

One person I'd like to point out is Tiago Ilori. He seems to avoid any flak, in my eyes he's gone from a calamitous 2/10 player last year to a still poor 4/10. When was the last time he had a good game? Ilori has started 11 games at CB, and we've conceded in every single one of them. Is it a coincidence that when O'Shea partnered Moore, we kept a clean sheet. You can argue that it was Hull, but a clean sheet is a clean sheet. Something we do not seem to get with Ilori CB (refer to his contribution to the second goal tonight)
However, it is harsh to singularly blame an individual. The whole team are just rank, only players this season to have impressed even slightly are Yiadom, Blackett, Eza and Bodvarsson.
Finally if Kelly and Swift are on the same team sheet on Saturday, I think I will just about give up. Kelly just isn't good enough, academy player or non academy player. Unfortunately he believed his own hype around the beginning of the 17/18 season when he banged in a few goals. Since then, he's been a complete disappointment, and I'm really not sure what he offers. Meyler may not have had a good start to the season, but you can't properly judge someone after 5 starts, give him another go, he cannot be any worse
Next three games should break or make Clement, makes the Ipswich game absolutely huge

[leon]

We just cannot get going under Clement. Yet again we concede early in the second half. Swansea away now looks very difficult. It looks almost certain we will be in the bottom three by Saturday night at the latest. Simply not good enough.
Meanwhile our best attacking outlet from last season can’t get in the squad.

He can’t get in the squad because the manager has never (at Swansea and now Reading) liked him. Fcuking great.

Meanwhile that sack of shit Aluko gets on as a substitute.

And we lose. Again.

[Zip]

In the main rubbish, no fight, no desire. How Kelly keeps playing is beyond me. Millwall was a blip on what’s proving to be a predictably crap season

If Millwall had taken their chances in the first half they would have been out of sight. That win has bought Clement a little bit of time but 12 points out of a possible 42 is dreadful. We desperately need a settled line up. Every game there are a minimum of two changes.

[Zip]

We just cannot get going under Clement. Yet again we concede early in the second half. Swansea away now looks very difficult. It looks almost certain we will be in the bottom three by Saturday night at the latest. Simply not good enough.
Meanwhile our best attacking outlet from last season can’t get in the squad.

He can’t get in the squad because the manager has never (at Swansea and now Reading) liked him. Fcuking great.

Meanwhile that sack of shit Aluko gets on as a substitute.

And we lose. Again.

Yep posters are questioning Barrow. No one was last season when he was doing so much to keep us in this division. In the meantime the useless Aluko gets game time ahead of him.
I also think Moore needs to get used to playing at this level as I don’t think any top flight teams will be coming in for him in January.

[Cape Town Royal]

Man we're shit.

Not for the first time, am watching us thinking just what are we trying to achieve? We seem to play like a group of players who vaguely know each other. They are all doing their thing, but there is no clear shape or direction to our play.

Was taken to MadStad for my 60th by sons Saturday, and that is EXACTLY what I said to them! We really are a shambles of a club.

You're slightly older than me. Forgive the negativity in my posts this evening, but have been watching Reading since '77 and apart from the Burns era have never felt so down about our club. Even taking into account the play off season, pretty much since we got promoted to the premier league the second time this feels like the winter that never ends...

Watching Reading you accept we are not going to win the premier league, but we always played with passion, direction, attacking wingers and it was entertaining... apart those few games under Clark, I just don't think we have played entertaining football since we got promoted....

I hate to say it but I just don't believe in this team or the clubs ability to change it.... For me tonight, the only positive I saw was the goalie and I thought McLeary looked pretty sharp when he came on, which could be a big boost for us.

[Sutekh]

Fcuk off Clement. This team is clueless.

Wonder how much longer he’ll get. More rubbish with no threat. Can’t see anything changing and now getting into playing the teams who have actually started quite well. Could be well adrift of the rest by Christmas.

[leon]

In the main rubbish, no fight, no desire. How Kelly keeps playing is beyond me. Millwall was a blip on what’s proving to be a predictably crap season

If Millwall had taken their chances in the first half they would have been out of sight. That win has bought Clement a little bit of time but 12 points out of a possible 42 is dreadful. We desperately need a settled line up. Every game there are a minimum of two changes.

Agreed. There’s no continuity and absolutely no improvement.

[Kulshaw72RFC]

Oh well.

Looking at booking.com for hotels in Lincoln.

[Westwood52]

That was absolute garbage; were they on the wacky bakkie. How often did we give the ball away.

Clement has to go we keep on making the same mistakes week in and week out.

[genome]

If we took out the mistakes we played well.

Classic HNA.