Back from the Burnley game

[Sarah Star]

Things I remember about the game:

Doyle getting taken out by one of the Burnley guys who got let off with a warning.
Shane Long making some lovely neat passes and getting one back to score a goal.
Armstrong struggling to contain their numbers 10 & 11, who seemed to be mouthing off to each other and the referee, but managing it. Their no.23 seemed to get away with a lot too...until he got his yellow and red cards.
Bikey having a good all-round game.
The two Burnley players running into each other to give Bikey the ball.
I'm sure there were two more goals in there too. Didn't both Hunts score with headers?

There were probably more things, and these might not have been in this order.

[Chaney]

Things I remember about the game:

Doyle getting taken out by one of the Burnley guys who got let off with a warning.
Shane Long making some lovely neat passes and getting one back to score a goal.
Armstrong struggling to contain their numbers 10 & 11, who seemed to be mouthing off to each other and the referee, but managing it. Their no.23 seemed to get away with a lot too...until he got his yellow and red cards.
Bikey having a good all-round game.
The two Burnley players running into each other to give Bikey the ball.
I'm sure there were two more goals in there too. Didn't both Hunts score with headers?

There were probably more things, and these might not have been in this order.

you should lay off the bacardi breezers love

[bobby1413]

It looks good for Reading when we can win 3-1 at home when the performance wasn't even that great in terms of overall team work. It was a bit of a scrappy, disjointed game which didn't have too much flow to it, but we still bagged 3 goals.

[PREMIERSHIP_ROYAL]

Armstrong (8) - Shorey, who? Very professional performance.

I hope we are not going to have a season of silly comments like this.

if it means the player in question has played brilliantly again then who really cares?

[loyalroyal4life]

the performance was below normal standard set in previous games, we still scored 3 goals, still picked up 3 points and are still moving forward.

If we can win when we play average then we will be well within promotion

[SCIAG]

I really think Elliot should have been sent off. He was fouling and mouthing off at every possible oppurtunity. They were definately lucky to get away with 4 bookings and 1 red.

[Platypuss]

We may well have to get used to away teams playing with 3 central midfielders for most of the game and thus having a lot of the ball.

[Sarah Star]

We may well have to get used to away teams playing with 3 central midfielders for most of the game and thus having a lot of the ball.

Why?

[winchester_royal]

We may well have to get used to away teams playing with 3 central midfielders for most of the game and thus having a lot of the ball.

Why?

Because the majority of teams will come to the Mad Stad looking to get a draw, and hence play 4-5-1

[Sarah Star]

Thanks, WR.

[Bristol Paul]

Agree with some that Hunt didn't have a great game by his standards this season. He needs to pass more and not try to beat players 1 on 1 because he isn't very good at it.

Kebe had a quiet game, but 2 great assists, can't ask for alot more. He WILL score soon...

Doyle I thought was excellent, the guys control and pace is just Premiershipo quality, if he doesn't go in Jan I'll be amazed (unless we are storming the league a la 3 years ago).

Long, still not convinced, thought he had his best game for a while and is really quick, but Lita must still wonder why he isn't in ahead of him.

Bikey, always thought he was class from the day he arrived, and far far too good for this league. A complete and utter monster in defence, 7 ft tall and eats babies....

[papereyes]

Long, still not convinced, thought he had his best game for a while and is really quick, but Lita must still wonder why he isn't in ahead of him.

Because he's at Norwich?

[juanpablo]

strangely i was in a way encouraged by Longs completely rank shooting.... atleast he is still confident enough to try it. Hopefully he can progress.....

[jonboy]

I read the first page of coments and apart from pie eater who was spot on, I do wonder if you guys actually watch the same matches as me. We were second best to most things, energy levels were not as high as they should have been,very few passing moves. If Burnley had a bit of luck we could have been struggling, a combination of bad finishing too. SC is right when he said whomever scores first in these games it is crutial. Hunt was really poor apart from set pieces and he missed a carbon copy header 5 mins before his goal (which was laid on a plate). That said, Doyle was outstanding as was Bikey and we have had 3 really hard games in a week which probably effected the players. If you can play like that and win I shouldn't really complain.

[West Stand Man]

I read the first page of coments and apart from pie eater who was spot on, I do wonder if you guys actually watch the same matches as me. We were second best to most things, energy levels were not as high as they should have been,very few passing moves. If Burnley had a bit of luck we could have been struggling, a combination of bad finishing too. SC is right when he said whomever scores first in these games it is crutial. Hunt was really poor apart from set pieces and he missed a carbon copy header 5 mins before his goal (which was laid on a plate). That said, Doyle was outstanding as was Bikey and we have had 3 really hard games in a week which probably effected the players. If you can play like that and win I shouldn't really complain.

You're right, you were at a different game from some of us. Don't let that stop you from commenting though.

[rotherwick_royal]

Things I remember about the game:

Doyle getting taken out by one of the Burnley guys who got let off with a warning.
Shane Long making some lovely neat passes and getting one back to score a goal.
Armstrong struggling to contain their numbers 10 & 11, who seemed to be mouthing off to each other and the referee, but managing it. Their no.23 seemed to get away with a lot too...until he got his yellow and red cards.
Bikey having a good all-round game.
The two Burnley players running into each other to give Bikey the ball.
I'm sure there were two more goals in there too. Didn't both Hunts score with headers?

There were probably more things, and these might not have been in this order.

you should lay off the bacardi breezers love

Actually summed up the game quite nicely for me. I thought Burnley were very negative, just focussed on disrupting the game in any way they could, reminded me of Bolton. They seemed to come with the approach of just keeping the score down, which is a huge compliment to Reading.

[Chaney]

If Burnley had a bit of luck we could have been struggling, .

no son, you were the one at a differnt game, just give me one single example of where Burnley were unlucky?..yes they had more of the ball but I`m struggling to remember on single chance they created inside the box

[Chaney]

Things I remember about the game:

Doyle getting taken out by one of the Burnley guys who got let off with a warning.
Shane Long making some lovely neat passes and getting one back to score a goal.
Armstrong struggling to contain their numbers 10 & 11, who seemed to be mouthing off to each other and the referee, but managing it. Their no.23 seemed to get away with a lot too...until he got his yellow and red cards.
Bikey having a good all-round game.
The two Burnley players running into each other to give Bikey the ball.
I'm sure there were two more goals in there too. Didn't both Hunts score with headers?

There were probably more things, and these might not have been in this order.

you should lay off the bacardi breezers love

Actually summed up the game quite nicely for me. I thought Burnley were very negative, just focussed on disrupting the game in any way they could, reminded me of Bolton. They seemed to come with the approach of just keeping the score down, which is a huge compliment to Reading.

just having a little joke that she couldn`t seem to recall some of the things that happened

[LoyalRoyalFan]

While we are at it, the Kebe 'miss' was not relevant anyway since the lino was flagging him offside. Sorry to disappoint the anti -Kebe brigade.

In my view it was failed communication.

[Archie's penalty]

Just watched the goals on the Championship. All three goals were very good and all from open play. Nhunt's header was a bullet and brave, both of the first goals had great assists from Kebe. The third was the best goal though - great cross from Doyle and lovely finish from Long. If we can continue to finish like that we're going to win most games we play...