Back From The Game - Bolton

[Royal Ginger]

Expert punditry that amounted to: "Le Fondre was good", "Yes, he's a goalscorer".

[SydenhamRoyal]

Obita was great, yes, but he wasn't tested defensively today. Very positive early signals, but I'm reserving judgement.

he was tested last week at watford and met the test extremely well

[leon]

Great result and performance today. Fairly obvious what has happened, as NA himself has alluded to after the poor performances and results in the first half of the season, he's had to bow to player pressure and abandon his slow keep ball style and revert to the formation and method of playing which brings results in this division - the 4-4-2 with a solid midfield pairing, good wing play and strikers playing off each other.

Shame it's taken him over half a season when we all knew it from the start though...

Absolute nonsense about him having to bow to player pressure. For those watching with their eyes open there was still a lot of passing from us, including several phases of numerous effective short passes. It was just that it was done at a higher tempo (something I'm sure Adkins has always wanted) and in the opponents's half. At least one of the players also clearly stated in the post match interview how Adkins had told the players how he wanted a much higher work rate from them (we have certainly seen that in the past two games) and for the to press the opposition more.

so it took half a season to ask the team to do the very basics.

[Very near...far away]

Honestly, I don't believe the game could have been very good - it didn't even get two minutes on the Football League Show. That Steve Claridge knows his onions. How else does he get paid for stating the bleedin' obvious.

[melonhead]

Williams MOTM

Guthrie's slow motion play and his Hollywood balls into row Z not being there made a massive difference

Whether or not the team is better off without Guthrie, that is an idiotic, ignorant and factually incorrect comment!

Agreed. Most if the balls he hits out of play go around rows c to f

[royalsteve]

The BBC are run by a bunch of clueless t**ts - why wasn't the Royals on longer and virtually no commentary afterwards

[royalsteve]

Honestly, I don't believe the game could have been very good - it didn't even get two minutes on the Football League Show. That Steve Claridge knows his onions. How else does he get paid for stating the bleedin' obvious.

Claridge is a clueless t**t - 2nd worst pundit after Michael owen

[royalsteve]

Solid win. Not a bad performance today.

true, I think Bolton helped though as they were dreadful

[seahawk10]

[windermere_royal]

Solid win. Not a bad performance today.

true, I think Bolton helped though as they were dreadful

Yep when we win the other team are always dreadful , coincidence?

[howser]

I hope that some of our prospective new owners were in attendance yesterday to see what a fine display it was and convince them to hasten their purchase.

[Avon Royal]

Honestly, I don't believe the game could have been very good - it didn't even get two minutes on the Football League Show. That Steve Claridge knows his onions. How else does he get paid for stating the bleedin' obvious.

Claridge is a clueless t**t - 2nd worst pundit after Michael owen

He's ex-Aldershot and openly dislikes Reading.

As a pundit, file alongside Don Goodman.

[Franchise FC]

Honestly, I don't believe the game could have been very good - it didn't even get two minutes on the Football League Show. That Steve Claridge knows his onions. How else does he get paid for stating the bleedin' obvious.

Claridge is a clueless t**t - 2nd worst pundit after Michael owen

He's ex-Aldershot and openly dislikes Reading.

As a pundit, file alongside Don Goodman.

I'm no longer surprised at the complete lack of understanding of the laws of the game by the ex-players

No longer surprised because most of the them didn't know e laws when they were playing

Oh, and by the way, our pen was more of a pen than the Liverpool one - and our's probably wasn't a pen

[Royal Ginger]

Yep when we win the other team are always dreadful , coincidence?

I get the point you're making, but no team get's spanked 7-1 without being dreadful. On this occasion Bolton would have got dicked in the Skrill leagues playing like that.

[peterroyal76]

You're more likely to stay in the PL by signing quality players and using the money you're given. Style of play doesn't matter and quite frankly the PL is not a great league for passing football bar a few exceptions.

Oh and on that "scale" McD was also a 6 mixing short passing and longer passing with pace and wing play. It only went longer when confidence was down.

Don't think so.
We got a large proportion of our goals in the promotion season through counter attacking and set pieces. We rarely dominated games. A CB got PoTS, with GK in 3rd place, which says it all really.

I'm not sure player of the season awards always clearly represent the way a season has played out anyway. Dylan Kerr won it in 94 and as good as he was that year the goals from Quinn and Lovell and goal keeping of Shaka probably made more an impact. I'm not decrying Dylan's performances either, every player obviously has a role to play.

[marcusopp]

You're more likely to stay in the PL by signing quality players and using the money you're given. Style of play doesn't matter and quite frankly the PL is not a great league for passing football bar a few exceptions.

Oh and on that "scale" McD was also a 6 mixing short passing and longer passing with pace and wing play. It only went longer when confidence was down.

Don't think so.
We got a large proportion of our goals in the promotion season through counter attacking and set pieces. We rarely dominated games. A CB got PoTS, with GK in 3rd place, which says it all really.

I'm not sure player of the season awards always clearly represent the way a season has played out anyway. Dylan Kerr won it in 94 and as good as he was that year the goals from Quinn and Lovell and goal keeping of Shaka probably made more an impact. I'm not decrying Dylan's performances either, every player obviously has a role to play.

Yeah, but who would you rather go to the pub with? I reckon Dylan Kerr would be a great laugh and get absolutely smashed! Shaka and Quinn are too serious.

[peterroyal76]

I'd be concerned that with all the time he spent in the Yorkshire and Scotland he might not get round in.

[tmesis]

The BBC are run by a bunch of clueless t**ts - why wasn't the Royals on longer and virtually no commentary afterwards

I used to think the same when I was a kid - wondering why Match of the day would show highlights of three mundane games when there'd been a 4-4 draw the same day. Then someone pointed out that they have to send commentary teams to the matches before they know the score, not after.

[the taphouse]

The BBC are run by a bunch of clueless t**ts - why wasn't the Royals on longer and virtually no commentary afterwards

I used to think the same when I was a kid - wondering why Match of the day would show highlights of three mundane games when there'd been a 4-4 draw the same day. Then someone pointed out that they have to send commentary teams to the matches before they know the score, not after.

[McClearyChops]

Does anyone have a link for the NA interview after the game with BBC Berkshire or is it not up yet ?