Thank god that's over and it's only 5

At least the pending points deduction has galvanised the team!

Post deduction Reading will be 6 points clear of relegation however goal difference is now getting worryingly as bad as those 3 clubs.

Good job we got 6 from the last 3.

Our shape was terrible. They constantly had players in space, we frequently over committed in the wrong places, I'm not talking attack just marking and closing, making it trivial to just breeze through us at will. So much time and space on the ball.

The bottom half of the Championship is an absolute dog's dinner of shitness this season.

Those teams are scraping odd points as well. Though Huddersfield have been utterly destroyed this afternoon.
5 wins in 23 and we need 4 in the last 12.....on current form we are praying those other teams don't show up.

Just thinking in terms of football management PI is down there with Terry the Taxi driver and Tommy Burns.

And Gomes

Still a step up from Velcro…

Away record, defeats 13 (most in the league) Goals scored 11 (least in the league) goals conceded 35 (most in the league)

Knowing us though, we’ll take unexpected point(s) off Sheff U on Tuesday…

We've taken dickings up north for years

Knowing us though, we’ll take unexpected point(s) off Sheff U on Tuesday…

I feel like we need at least a point on Tuesday. Feels unlikely since Sheff United have won at our ground 6 times in a row and we've not beaten them at home in the league since 2007.

Knowing us though, we’ll take unexpected point(s) off Sheff U on Tuesday…

I feel like we need at least a point on Tuesday. Feels unlikely since Sheff United have won at our ground 6 times in a row and we've not beaten them at home in the league since 2007.

And it`s going to be cold, very low home attendance i reckon, and my seat will be empty

I feel like we need at least a point on Tuesday. Feels unlikely since Sheff United have won at our ground 6 times in a row and we've not beaten them at home in the league since 2007.

And it`s going to be cold, very low home attendance i reckon, and my seat will be empty
And the club won’t even have the excuse that the low attendance is down to it being on TV.

I resigned myself to painting the spare room whilst listening…two very tedious wastes of time

BFTG post - expected a tough game, that was special sauce. First goal - tough penalty, would want to watch a replay. Second goal - LOL. Third and fourth - folded. Fifth?
Up there with Fulham away a few years ago when Gunter sensed an imaginary striker early doors.
I also liked the moment when Mbengue, who I do like, tried to go shoulder to shoulder with Archer. And bounced off.

Could do a pub post but will rely on highlights - Zetland Hotel solid before game, very few pubs, fair few solid micro-pubs, Baker and Bedford Street the hub of activity. Live music and characters. Green can post up the monster chicken parmesan. Sulfurous smell from dusk to midnight did put the edge off.

I can't say I'm massively surprised, I think I said in the Cardiff game that, with the way Middlesbrough play, they could put a few past us. They use width really well and we are so narrow, whether it's 4/5 at the back, that we just invite crosses and we invite teams into areas where the most goals are created from these days, the half spaces down the side of the 6 yard box.

I actually kind of agree with Ince, two decisive moments went against us. I did think the penalty on Yiadom was harsh personally as it was quite close and his arm I wouldn't say was in an unnatural position and I'm still not massively convinced by Long's, but he's the wrong side and it does look like he brings him down so I can certainly see it being given on another day and he's probably right, the picture looks different if those two decisions go our way, although I wouldn't have expected the outcome to be different.

I respect Ince in his post-match press conferences for not hanging the team/players out to dry even though they may deserve it because the capitulation after the second goal was really, really poor. Probably the worst of the season so far. Although I would like to see some more accountability from the performance yesterday rather than just a couple of bad decisions. We need to show a bit more character and stand up for ourselves when things go against us, not just fold in the way we did. Although I accept that Boro are streets ahead of us as well. Tough to take was right and sometimes not hammering the players after a heavy defeat can be a better way of handling it.

it's amazing what a good managerial appointment can do though. Carrick appointed towards the back end of October and have been on an upward trajectory ever since having been in the relegation zone when Wilder was sacked

it's amazing what a good managerial appointment can do though. Carrick appointed towards the back end of October and have been on an upward trajectory ever since having been in the relegation zone when Wilder was sacked

They were massively underachieving though really. Agree to an extent, funny what a good appointment can do, but they will probably finish where you'd expect them to at the start of the season, in the top 6.

West Brom you would have said similar with, but the wheels have come off with them recently and I don't think they will finish in the top 6 now. Whatever implications that will have for them long-term, we will have to see.

Chicken Parmo:


That sulfurous smell is still with me