Next Reading Manager: Press Conference @ 9:15

[akranes]

Is it wrong to want the spanish guy in for purely non football reasons?

nope

[ManchesterRoyals]

Posted on Rumours but i thought i would post it here also

Just found this "How effectively is Luis Enrique implementing the Barcelona methods at Roma?"

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/12/14/ ... barcelona/

[Pepe the Horseman]

It'll be Dolan I reckon.

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/article ... 23598.aspx

^ club spin telling us "LOOK! We pass the ball these days!" = underwhelming appointment in the offing.

Btw, look at the Leigerwtood stat. Read that, weep and f*ck off Reading fans

I thought Dolan said he wouldn't take the job permanently because he's Brian's pal and it wouldn't be right.

That said Ledge was the one that let Ferdinand stroll pass him for the goal

So you think that might have changed Dolan's mind about taking the job?

[ManchesterRoyals]

So you think that might have changed Dolan's mind about taking the job?

Lol Sorry i was referring to "Btw, look at the Leigerwtood stat. Read that, weep and f*ck off Reading fans "

[sandman]

Yeah yeah, we should instantly start playing like Spain and Barcelona, that'll bring us instant success with the players available to us!!!

Nuh-uh we should play like Swansea!!! In fact I'm starting to think that most of our fans walk down the street, slapping their foreheads and repeatedly shouting ''Swansea'' like escaped mental patients.

[bracksroyal10]

Why does everyone want to be like Swansea? .............

Its our club we have our own identity we should want to make known our own style of football (obvs not the MCD way) but I don't see why we should want to copy these teams.

[ZacNaloen]

Big Foot, you on the wind up mate or did you really see Nigel Adkins buying Prada Candy Perfume in the Oracle? (bit of a specific wind up tbf)

[jellytot]

Agreed not a fan of tippy tappy football either. A Fast passing game would be great. Players who like to keep the ball rather than being on some kind of (lower league) hit the channels philosophy. We need players who are comfortable on the ball. Most of our squad are not. Pretty much every team that has visited mad stad has out passed and thought us.

Hopefully we will change. About 6 players need to be shown the door.

[LightwaterRoyal]

I think the game against United proved that certain players are capable of playing passing football.

[Royal With Cheese]

I think the game against United proved that certain players are capable of playing passing football.

When not put under any particular pressure, agreed.

[ZacNaloen]

The confidence to do so under pressure would come with time, they have the basic ability, give them time and they'll get more comfortable with it.

[akranes]

The confidence to do so under pressure would come with time, they have the basic ability, give them time and they'll get more comfortable with it.

Agreed. It's something that can be taught, not just based on natural ability.

Reading of the game is another thing, but that hasn't faltered most teams - that's where a player like Sigurdsson comes in, someone who can read the game and act as a hub for the rest of the team almost...

[winchester_royal]

I think the game against United proved that certain players are capable of playing passing football.

When not put under any particular pressure, agreed.

Better than not being able to do it even when there's no opposition on the pitch

[Royal With Cheese]

The confidence to do so under pressure would come with time, they have the basic ability, give them time and they'll get more comfortable with it.

While I'll concede the players have been almost scared to pass at times this season I don't think our first team squad and tactics were necessarily built around the passing game this season.

[winchester_royal]

The confidence to do so under pressure would come with time, they have the basic ability, give them time and they'll get more comfortable with it.

While I'll concede the players have been almost scared to pass at times this season I don't think our first team squad and tactics were necessarily built around the passing game this season.

Hence relegation

[tulip]

Is it wrong to want the spanish guy in for purely non football reasons?

I believe he is gay actually. First openly gay manager in the English League, let alone the Prem?

Is he? Oh well, I didn't think I was in with a chance anyway, so no worries!

[ZacNaloen]

The confidence to do so under pressure would come with time, they have the basic ability, give them time and they'll get more comfortable with it.

While I'll concede the players have been almost scared to pass at times this season I don't think our first team squad and tactics were necessarily built around the passing game this season.

Don't think that was the players fault tbf

[melonhead]

no, of course brian has been telling them all for years to just hoof it aimlessly upfield any time an opposition player comes with 2 ft

[Royal With Cheese]

The confidence to do so under pressure would come with time, they have the basic ability, give them time and they'll get more comfortable with it.

While I'll concede the players have been almost scared to pass at times this season I don't think our first team squad and tactics were necessarily built around the passing game this season.

Don't think that was the players fault tbf

I'm not sure you can blame the management for a mis-placed pass or awful control of a ball. And we've seen a fair amount of that this season.

I'm not disagreeing with you but there are some players at Reading that are less comfortable on the ball than others.

[ZacNaloen]

I was referring to squad and tactics. Everyone misplaces a pass now and then. Even Xavi and Iniesta.