Simon's ChurchAthleticoSpizz Wrttop
Back to you Pepe
Eternal lol
Spot on
Pepe the horseman?
More like Pepe the fuckingmug!!
POTD
by Green » 14 Sep 2015 14:28
Simon's ChurchAthleticoSpizz Wrttop
Back to you Pepe
Eternal lol
Spot on
Pepe the horseman?
More like Pepe the fuckingmug!!
by Green » 14 Sep 2015 14:29
AthleticoSpizzthe perennial "pick on a player...give him no time" TB postPepe the Horseman Yep, absolutely proving me wrong. Good on him. Let's hope he can keep it up.
Some of us just "shut up".....watched and waited
Before spouting off ( smilie face)
by melonhead » 14 Sep 2015 15:05
by Ouroboros » 14 Sep 2015 15:26
OuroborosWoodleyRoyal i think he is the most talented footballer at the club
'Greed.
by Franchise FC » 14 Sep 2015 15:28
BR2 It might be churlish to criticise the player after all the good things he did in one game-possibly more in one game (plus Brentford) than in all the time that he has been with us.
The problem I have with wingers is that by nature they tend to be weedy.
Blackman probably had about twenty 50/50 headers with his full back and won none of them.
McCleary is not much better in that aspect nor is Kanu but McCleary and now the rejuvenated Blackman both are bringing so much more that their lack of combatitiveness becomes almost irrelevant.
I suppose all wingers can't be Steve Coppells and we have to accept their limitations.
Well done Nick on an excellent attacking performance on Friday and with Hurtado, John and McCleary challenging for that position it all looks so much healthier for our club's prospects and what a wonderful evening on Friday-IMHO possibly the best we have played for at least 4 years with people leaving the ground with smiles on their faces and with that feeling of not being able to wait for the next game-even old cynics like me.
by genome » 14 Sep 2015 15:48
OuroborosOuroborosWoodleyRoyal i think he is the most talented footballer at the club
'Greed.
VINDICATED
by RoyalBlue » 14 Sep 2015 16:00
by genome » 14 Sep 2015 16:08
by WoodleyRoyal » 14 Sep 2015 16:23
OuroborosOuroborosWoodleyRoyal i think he is the most talented footballer at the club
'Greed.
VINDICATED
by SCIAG » 14 Sep 2015 18:10
RoyalBlue With the benefit of hindsight, McDermott and the club could have spared the likes of Blackman a fair amount of grief had they explained that they were being signed as a longer term prospect and weren't really regarded as someone who was expected to help us avoid the drop. The fans were expecting the signing of 'saviours' and that weight of expectation then fell on the players that we did sign.
by Winnershroyal » 14 Sep 2015 18:28
No Fixed Abode I felt really pleased for Blackman on Friday night. He had a blinder. I was half expecting him to stick two fingers up at the fans who berated him massively last season....
I know he had a bit of go at the Reading fans last season when he scored.
by Oilroyal » 14 Sep 2015 20:09
by chilipepper91 » 16 Sep 2015 08:14
Big Foot I wrote up a piece on Blackman for The Tilehurst End over the weekend - copy & pasted below / available here - http://thetilehurstend.sbnation.com/201 ... the-debateHere's a quick Reading FC related trivia question to get you really excited for the new Championship season. What do Jamie Cureton, Martin Butler, Nicky Forster, Shaun Goater, Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita, Shane Long, Kevin Doyle, Grzegorz Rasiak, Adam Le Fondre and Pavel Pogrebnyak all have in common?
They were all signed by Reading for transfer fees less than that of Nick Blackman.
Let that sink in for a minute - in our club's 144 year history, Nick 'nobody' Blackman is the striker we've paid the highest transfer fee for - wow. Brian McDermott did numerous truly great things for our football club in his years as a scout and later as manager. However, paying £1.2m for Nick Blackman in January 2013 wasn't his finest hour.
The fact that the most memorable thing he's done in a Reading shirt is to give it the big one to our travelling fans after scoring an immaterial goal away at Derby speaks volumes. I'm struggling to think of a more selfish Reading player than him since Nicky Forster - the only difference being I'd back Fozzy to finish his dinner, never mind bury the ball in the back of the net. I'm not so sure on Blackman. Neither was McDermott, nor Nigel Adkins - as both struggled to decide whether Blackman was a striker or a winger. For what it's worth, he was equally dull & ineffective in both positions.
So I'm really rather confused as to how on Earth he thinks he can comment and say he's got nothing to prove to anybody. Erm, excuse me? Not even Sir Les came out with such tripe in his disastrous, brief spell with us. So for this to come from someone like Nick Blackman is stunning. Any player saying that after last season should take a serious look in the mirror, let alone Blackman. What exactly has he achieved at Reading? No tears would be shed here should he be leaving us in the short, medium or long term future.
I suspect this is indicative of the selfish streak we've seen in his play and hopefully Clarke takes no prisoners and moves Blackman on; for his nature must be a disruptive force in the dressing room. In order for us to have the best possible chance of success in the forthcoming season, the only point to prove when it comes to Nick Blackman is that money clearly doesn't buy you success. I hope Clarke cashes in at the earliest opportunity.
by Green » 23 Sep 2015 09:54
by WoodleyRoyal » 23 Sep 2015 10:28
Green He's banging the goals in but has his attitude improved any
by St. Brynjar » 23 Sep 2015 11:16
by JC » 23 Sep 2015 11:33
St. Brynjar lol at the people still voting on this poll.
by Forbury Lion » 23 Sep 2015 16:22
by tidus_mi2 » 23 Sep 2015 16:30
JCSt. Brynjar lol at the people still voting on this poll.
And why shouldn't they?
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