Derby Away Match Thread (League Cup)

[SCIAG]

Surely "non-lifting" was a dead giveaway there?

Gunter's great if you're doing well and he has an understanding with McCleary that I have never seen rivalled. He's a bit weak defensively. Hopefully the return to fitness of Kelly and Keown will give him an incentive to step it up a bit. Hopefully McCleary will be fit soon and his defensive lapses will become less meaningful than his attacking contribution.

[Royal Ginger]

That we do, that we do.

[St. Brynjar]

I hope Blackman and Feds and Akpan can sleep at night knowing they've handed the scapegoat position over to Gunter.

+1

[melonhead]

Can't really play the ' you're not worth replying to, I hardly noticed your posts' tactic, while replying to a post u noticed

[leon]

Surely "non-lifting" was a dead giveaway there?

Gunter's great if you're doing well and he has an understanding with McCleary that I have never seen rivalled.

ever?

I can think of three combinations of right back and right midfield that were superior to those two.

[Hendo]

Murty and Little were the best I have seen at Reading.

[Ian Royal]

Kebe & Griffin for number 2

[SCIAG]

Surely "non-lifting" was a dead giveaway there?

Gunter's great if you're doing well and he has an understanding with McCleary that I have never seen rivalled.

ever?

I can think of three combinations of right back and right midfield that were superior to those two.

Clarification: I don't think McCleary and Gunter is our most effective right hand side ever. That's obviously Little and Murty, because one of them was Glen Little. But the link up play between the two of them is particularly thrilling. McCleary is particularly good at finding Gunter on the overlap, they know how they time their runs, there's just this synergy between them that I don't remember a previous partnership having.

A more extreme example would be Brooker and Shorey. Brooker was a totally forgettable player, but he was quite good at drawing defenders and making space for Shorey. Doubtless Shorey's best partner was Bobby Convey by a long way, but they didn't link up in quite the same way (though of course their link up play was still good). Or take the partnership between Hunt and Doyle - not the thrilling results of Kitson-Doyle, but probably a better partnership.

[Sutekh]

Remember the days when the left hand side partnership could effectively be just Gilkes as he could overlap himself.