Royals @ Charlton Match Thread

[Row Z Royal]

Noel > Kevin?

The question raised by Mrs RZR just now.

[Schards#2]

Schards

Go and have a strong drink and cheer up.

It's one game.

If Doyle had put that pen away we wouldn't have lost the game.

You need to wake up, we were second best and pretty appalling throughout the entire match. If Doyle had scored it would have levelled it. We did level it eventually but the vast superiority of Charlton produced the win.

Seriously, what will it take for you to accept we are poor and will struggle. Just how bad for how long would we have to be?

[Focher]

cashing in on Doyle will shape our season, if he goes it will make way for hungrier players who will actually be given a chance rather than watch the managers pet play like dog shite week in week out from the bench. Doyle has been w4nk since he pulled his hamstring at Everton.

SELL HIM NOW

[ITFC]

When will the one-match ban for Sonko come into force?

[RobRoyal]

Schards

Go and have a strong drink and cheer up.

It's one game.

If Doyle had put that pen away we wouldn't have lost the game.

That is a wildly optimistic thought. We were 2nd best all game in my opinion, and Charlton caused our defence constant problems. We made chances, but deserved nothing out of the game.

[Big Ern]

All over.

From what we've seen today

1 - We are not going up, and look more likely as relegation candidates

2 - The continued under investment in the team is a disgrace

3 - We are making not just the same mistakes, but worse mistakes than we did last year with regards to transfer policy

4 - Hunt is a liability at Left Back

5 - Our Central Midfield is lightweight and not up to the job

6 - Doyle is no longer intrested in playing for us.

7 - Madejski is holding the club back. The sooner he goes the better.

8 - We need about 4 more players to be comptetitive this season, but as anhone with more the 2 brain cells knows (which excludes the RTG brigade, this won;t happen.)

[Geekins]

Charlton looked good and showed what a midfield pairing can do. Dominated us and play some good passing football. Closed down quickly and made us look like amateurs. We need a midfielder to compliment Matejovsky and i don't think Harper or Cisse is the right player. Cisse didn't do much wrong but him and Harps seemed to be marking themselves all game. Disappointed, roll on Luton and then Palace!

[Platypuss]

RTG ReaLOLity Check.

PLOLatypuss - constructive as ever.

Yep, ignore all the other comments I've made.

DeLOLuded.

So Gordon, happy with the squad and starting eleven, or would you like to see improvement?

[The whole year inn]

LOL @ the car park crew

[RoyalChicagoFC]

RE: Sonko's ban

Luton on Tuesday would be nice.

[Geekins]

All over.

From what we've seen today

1 - We are not going up, and look more likely as relegation candidates

2 - The continued under investment in the team is a disgrace

3 - We are making not just the same mistakes, but worse mistakes than we did last year with regards to transfer policy

4 - Hunt is a liability at Left Back

5 - Our Central Midfield is lightweight and not up to the job

6 - Doyle is no longer intrested in playing for us.

7 - Madejski is holding the club back. The sooner he goes the better.

8 - We need about 4 more players to be comptetitive this season, but as anhone with more the 2 brain cells knows (which excludes the RTG brigade, this won;t happen.)

Good Summary.

[Gordons Cumming]

Schards

Go and have a strong drink and cheer up.

It's one game.

If Doyle had put that pen away we wouldn't have lost the game.

You need to wake up, we were second best and pretty appalling throughout the entire match. If Doyle had scored it would have levelled it. We did level it eventually but the vast superiority of Charlton produced the win.

Seriously, what will it take for you to accept we are poor and will struggle. Just how bad for how long would we have to be?

What is the point in being uptight and negative?

What good will it do?

All a supporter can do is be optimistic can't he/she? If not why bother?

[Platypuss]

When will the one-match ban for Sonko come into force?

Straight away.

[Avon Royal]

All over.

From what we've seen today

1 - We are not going up, and look more likely as relegation candidates

2 - The continued under investment in the team is a disgrace

3 - We are making not just the same mistakes, but worse mistakes than we did last year with regards to transfer policy

4 - Hunt is a liability at Left Back

5 - Our Central Midfield is lightweight and not up to the job

6 - Doyle is no longer intrested in playing for us.

7 - Madejski is holding the club back. The sooner he goes the better.

8 - We need about 4 more players to be comptetitive this season, but as anhone with more the 2 brain cells knows (which excludes the RTG brigade, this won;t happen.)

1 - Half right, half rubbish

2- Agree

3 - Too soon to tell.

4 - Agree

5 - Cisse didn't do too badly, Harper did oxf*rd all.

6 - Agree, the sooner he does one the better.

7 - Shut up.

8 - Only if they are better than the current first teamers.

[Coppell's Right Footed 11]

Hopefully Sonkos ban will strech to the end of his contract. Embarassing is a compliment on that showing.

Lost for words after that match i really am

[Gordons Cumming]

RTG ReaLOLity Check.

PLOLatypuss - constructive as ever.

Yep, ignore all the other comments I've made.

DeLOLuded.

So Gordon, happy with the squad and starting eleven, or would you like to see improvement?

Nope. Not happy. There are players who weren't in the team today that can improve us. However.............

................ I can do b*gger all about it.

[g]

Our first game against a team that will actually be in the upper half of the table come seasons end. Hunt being a good LB against the massive Forest and Plymouth. LOL. Mugs. I knew this was going to happen once we played against a team that will be competing for promotion. Reading back to midtable obscurity.

Such a massive squad on massive wages... we can't afford a LB.

[Focher]

its strange that 2 unbelievable seasons will long term probably destroy Reading, we are like an old age pensioner, we don't like change, and are living in the past.

[Thou Voice]

Oh, come on. It's been an entertaining game. Charlton have played well, they have been very strong on the flanks and have done well to pick on Steve Hunt. Cissé has been a nonentity on the ball, which is a huge problem - he has consistently given the ball away and that has put a lot of pressure on us. However, we have certainly competed, no matter how much the melodramatists deplore everything about the club, in an end-to-end contest. Charlton are a strong side. They are playing at home. It is one game. A new left-back will come in, and if he doesn't, then I'll eat my words. Matejovsky's return will hopefully stop us throwing the ball away in the midfield. Hunt will move to left wing and Convey will piss off back to the bench until he remembers how to play well. We won't get relegated. At worst, we'll be in the upper parts of mid-table. Same as most relegated clubs. But in a topsy turvy league, anything can happen, and the teams who go up will lose a lot of games.

Get. Over. Your. Selves.

Probably the most impressive thing said in this thread today.

Thou Voice was pleased to agree that it was an entertaining game, however I would have liked to seen more of Noel Edmounds, sorry Hunt rather then Mr Doyle. Surely our strikers should practice at spot kicks once in a while, that was truly terrible.

[Platypuss]

Seriously, what will it take for you to accept we are poor and will struggle. Just how bad for how long would we have to be?

What is the point in being uptight and negative?

What good will it do?

All a supporter can do is be optimistic can't he/she? If not why bother?

To improve you need to identify weaknesses and address them. Closing your eyes to glaring inadequacies is folly.