Derby Match Thread

[Royal With Cheese]

Rosenior not even in the 16. Is he injured?

[rotherwick_royal]

No Rosenior at all is even more surprising imo

[andybsroyals]

Today John Oster will become a READING LEGEND??????

[Kevin Doyles Right Foot]

Woop, lets rest our best player over the last 4 games, lets take away our only attacking winger, It seems like Coppell wants us to lose, please say I'm wrong.

[mr_number]

i guess oster's in for doyle to make sure we keep some width. maybe doobs in for bikey because he's likely to make a mistake?
it should be enough to beat derby though. should be.

[higher]

31 Roy Carroll : Marcus Hahnemann 1
24 Tyrone Mears : Graeme Murty 2
23 Darren Moore : Ivar Ingimarsson 16
30 Lewin Nyatanga : Michael Duberry 29
15 Eddie Lewis : Nicky Shorey 3
21 Mile Sterjovski : John Oster 11
44 Robbie Savage : James Harper 15
40 Hossam Ghaly : Marek Matejovsky 28
7 David Jones : Stephen Hunt 10
9 Emanuel Villa : Leroy Lita 8
14 Kenny Miller : Dave Kitson 12

2 Marc Edworthy : Kalifa Cisse 4
1 Lewis Price : Andre Bikey 22
41 Paris Simmons : Kevin Doyle 9
22 Benny Feilhaber : Jimmy Kebe 30
32 Miles Addison : Adam Federici 32

[Royal Rother]

Woop, lets rest our best player over the last 4 games, lets take away our only attacking winger, It seems like Coppell wants us to lose, please say I'm wrong.

You're wrong but I'm left scratching a hole in my bald head over Bikey (and Marek).

[Fitzroy]

No Long either!

Let's just say he's gone for experience over youth.

[TomTheRoyal]

No earnshaw for Derby which is good news.

Can't help thinking Savage and Ghaly will have us in midfield though

[howser]

With the selection no Bikey, Rosenior out, Oster in are we all missing something here in that the club don't want to stay in this league ? has the financial ramifications frightened them out of it ...................just wierd ......................but we wont know for another two hours..............and if we don't make it the club will never explain its transfer policy, if we have one that is ?? or any reason why we havent made a decent effort to stay in this league.

[TomTheRoyal]

With the selection no Bikey, Rosenior out, Oster in are we all missing something here in that the club don't want to stay in this league ? has the financial ramifications frightened them out of it ...................just wierd ......................but we wont know for another two hours..............and if we don't make it the club will never explain its transfer policy, if we have one that is ?? or any reason why we havent made a decent effort to stay in this league.

Staying up would earn us £60 million. So i hope not.

[mr_number]

Portsmouth have included Defoe, Kanu, Utaka, Kranjcar & Distin... at least it's a good team

[strap]

No Bikey is a disgrace

And who would you leave out to accommodate the the one-paced, red-mist liability?!? Apart from the Welsh right-winger, I am struggling to think of anyone else in the starting XI who could do worse than the Bike.

Or did you miss out a comma?

[rotherwick_royal]

No earnshaw for Derby which is good news.

Can't help thinking Savage and Ghaly will have us in midfield though

Well that's been the weak point all season but I do think we need Marek in there to create something. We've got to score.

[TomTheRoyal]

Portsmouth have included Defoe, Kanu, Utaka, Kranjcar & Distin... at least it's a good team

Redknapp has said he will play full strength team, and they'll definitely be looking for a win

Defoe was always going to play though because he's cup tied.

[mr_number]

apparently they're playin 3-5-2, with gally out wide... hopefully a different formation to what we expected won't oxf*rd us over again

[Arch]

Doyle hasn't been effective at RW (or anywhere for that matter). Oster is the only real alternative. I'm a bit puzzled about Bikey too, but maybe SC like the Doobs-Ivar partnership. It hasn't been bad. No way Harper was going to be dropped for a game as big as this. Other than Bikey instead of Doobs, I'd have thought it was a pretty expected line-up.

[rotherwick_royal]

Portsmouth have included Defoe, Kanu, Utaka, Kranjcar & Distin... at least it's a good team

Defoe's cup tied so he's not going to hold back. I fancy him to nick one today, but will it be enough?

[TomTheRoyal]

No earnshaw for Derby which is good news.

Can't help thinking Savage and Ghaly will have us in midfield though

Well that's been the weak point all season but I do think we need Marek in there to create something. We've got to score.

Exactly. But Savage especially if he is on form i think he would run rings round Harper and Marek, hopefully i'm wrong.

I'm expecting a 2-0 win though.

[TomTheRoyal]

apparently they're playin 3-5-2, with gally out wide... hopefully a different formation to what we expected won't oxf*rd us over again

Derby with 3 at the back

How much have we paid Jewell for that one?