by RoyallyFcuked »
16 Mar 2013 02:37
LOL at the cry babies whining about the fans that were booing, it happens at every ground in the country when things aren't going well, get over it. We lose most weeks because not only are we are not good enough, but we also don't even play as well as we can or the way that we should. That alone is frustrating enough, so its hardly surprising that some fans feel the need to make their feelings know. That is because they are the ones paying the money to watch, and if your team is playing terribly every week due a tactically inept manager and it is horrendous to watch you have every right to feel aggrieved. (By the way I genuinely did not boo us myself and never have or will, but you can certainly understand the point they are making)
Just because these fans don't want to suffer in silence, you have a go at them. If everyone of our fans did that, then the manager and players would think that the display they had put on was acceptable, and they wouldnt need much of an improvement, which clearly wasn't the case. You could even call them the real fans, the ones who care most about Reading FC and dont want to see it go back down with whimper. If all our fans had stood and applauded at the final whistle of the Wigan and Villa home games, rather than booed, then the team/manager wouldn't have a clue that we all thought the performance was woeful, and they would carry on it doing it (they already seem to anyway). I do think the sarcastic applauding and even the majority of the booing, was directed at McDermott (rightly so) and not the players. Example - the majority of the fans were not booing Leigertwood. They were booing the decision to start him every week when its quite obvious he shouldnt be starting any longer, therefore booing the manager. Then appluading Guthrie as he came on as if to say "wheeeyyyyy, you're finally letting him play".
We know its not the players fault that the most of them are not good enough for this level, and you usually cant fault them for lack of effort (except the Wigan game and a bit in some other games) However, McDermott could certainly have been doing more to improve things. His constant persistence with the same shit tactics, the same distinctly average favourites, the same clueless team selections, decisions and substitutions, and the same woeful style of football, is the biggest reason we are going down. Not playing Pearce, not playing Guthrie due to pathetic little tiffs that, judging from his interviews (which I might add, have been another laughing stock of the season) we are the type of club that wouldn't hold any grudges over and they would be forgotten about, or at the least not allowed to get in the way of issues on the pitch. But apparently not. Some of the post match interviews have been just hilarious, with the ready made excuses, the nerve to say we competed and played well when we rarely did, and of course the bullshit examples of us punching well above our weight, and about us being better off than we were 2-3 years ago. Don't even get me started on all the reasons why he should not be saying that and why it is completely wrong.
Lets face it, every game we have won this season, we probably deserved to lose (with the exception of Sunderland at home). The same goes for the majority, if not all of the games we have drawn, and it was very similar last season. When we actually play well, we often look like scoring. This is usually at the end of games when the players realise they need to try and get something and pull their finger out, and also abandon McDs tactics. And, we actually convert quite a good percentage of the few chances we create. That for me tells us something good about some of our players, but it mostly tells us that the problem is the way the manager was setting the team up to play. Fair play to the sets of fans that wanted to tell him they are not prepared to put up with it any longer. And neither it seems, was our owner.
at attempting to garner sympathy for the mega rich Russian who, like the owners of Blackburn, Chelsea, et al, has bought the club as a plaything or ego boost but has refused to back the manager financially in any meaningful way. Any idiot could see that we had no hope of staying up by spending £10m. It's a miracle we've amassed 20 points with the amount of money we were prepared to spend.
