What an awful all-round game of football. Reckon both keepers fell asleep in that first half
Two goals conceeded with no pressure applied to crosser/shooter, and nothing gelling up front. Just painful

Hoilett is a complete waste of space as RWB and Rahman is just bang average. Loum has the occasional good game but was completely off the pace again today. Yiadom had a stinker too

The only people that had half decent games imo were Holmes, Hendrick and Fornah

You can see why Preston score and concede so few, but its frustrating as they were there for the taking. In our few, brief spells their defence looked rocked

Great…just great

I hope Ince doesn't complain about fixture congestion.
We have plenty of options. He could have freshened the team up


Not sure what Fornah did to be dropped but he has to start on Tuesday.

Yeah he very bright and injected some oomph

We were awful for large parts. Which makes it even more frustrating that just after we equalise and were in the ascendancy they go up the other end and score.

McIntyre is terrible right now, but we have no choice but to play him because there is no one else.

club1871 were a disgrace tonight, ruining the minute silence

You'd know all about hooliganism at football...

A man who was left heartbroken by the split from his high-school sweetheart has admitted threatening her new boyfriend at a Royals’ match.

XXXXXXX appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Monday last week charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour intended to cause fear of violence.

XXXXXXXX had already been given a police caution for calling his ex more than 100 times after their break-up but was arrested following an incident at the Madejski Stadium, when Reading were playing Birmingham on Sunday, May 3.

The court heard the former XXXXXXXX pupil had been to the game and seen his ex with her new boyfriend when trouble began, and the two engaged in ‘playground behaviour’.

Martin Chandler, defending, said: “Mr XXXXXXXXX admits flicking beer in the direction of XXXXXXXX and making two hurtful comments during the first half of the game, and he says there were looks at him during the second half of the match which he perceived as belittling.

“He accepts that on the way out of the ground he shouted abuse and accepted he was doing that before his parents met up with him and then there was nothing further.

“It was playground behaviour, an unfortunate incident of childish behaviour.”

XXXXXX, a first year business studies student at XXXXXXX, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

It was stupid and clearly certain parts weren't paying attention when they said the silence would follow the Last Post but it didn't seem intentional as they quickly shut up.

We got suckered into Preston's appalling tactics. Preston are the most boring team I've seen us play in a very long time and have no idea how they're 5th. Continuous time wasting, strutting back after scoring both goals and their goalkeepers antics as bad as Lumley. They scored from our mistakes and didn't really create anything and although they are a stubborn side, they are limited.

Onto us, that was dismal from us tonight, as bad as I've seen us play all season. I didn't understand why Rahman started over NGW or why Joao didn't start. The whole team selection was negative and we lacked any kind of bite going forward, we created literally nothing all game. The penalty wasn't a penalty in my opinion but that was the only way we were going to score. We had to take the game to Preston and try and score first, but we never looked like it and if anything the players looked knackered. Pince keeps moaning about fixture congestion.. yes it's not great but he needs to rotate more.

4/10: Hoilett, Rahman
5/10: McIntyre, Meite, Ince, Loum, Carroll
6/10: Lumley, Holmes, Yiadom

Subs: we played slightly better when they came on but were still poor.

Very disappointing defeat. We need to win one of Watford or Hull. The games after the world cup look tough as well. We could still be sucked into a relegation battle yet.

I was shouting close him down for the second. It was unbelievable that we had numbers and he didn’t steam out and he did fcuk all Absolute basics.

Tbf we’re missing Hutchinson the sooner he’s back the better.

Holmes is coming on well. His passing in the second half was very sharp. Fast, incisive.

Watched the first half and last 15 minutes of the second.

Dull.

My 7 a side earlier this evening was on a par.

It was stupid and clearly certain parts weren't paying attention when they said the silence would follow the Last Post but it didn't seem intentional as they quickly shut up.

Tbf someone in the ED started clapping after the last post. This led to a smattering of applause. Someone in the away end shouted something and then 1871 piped up.

All in all, a fcuking shambles.

Rahman, Hoilett and yiadom - all been shit for last few games, the worst of the lot tonight, utter dreadful, all going to the world cup!

Coincidence?

Thoroughly dismal game. PNE an awful watch and we fell into their rubbish trap

You could see why they are such a hard side to beat, but if I had to watch that every week I would give up on football, we absolutely gifted them the points.

Disappointing performance really. There seems to be a conundrum with selection up front. Do we go for the battering ram approach of Carroll and Meite or the more ground-based and subtle approach of Joao and Long.

Last night Ince opted for the battering ram. Before the game that must have seemed a decent ploy. Preston very well organised defensively, maybe Carroll and Meite could rough them up a bit and knock them out of their stride.

That only works of course if the balls into them give them something to go at. On too many occasions the balls into them were directed badly giving them too much to do to retrieve the situation. Carroll barely got a decent ball into him the whole game, let alone a cross to go at.

Tbf to Ince he spotted it wasn’t working and he made the right changes. We looked better with the Joao/Long axis on the pitch.

Admirable as Preston’s defensive resolution was, our defence was poor tonight. McIntyre had a poor game, Yiadom a mare, Holmes OK, Baba, poor.

Loum rightly hooked, never got close to Preston.

Don’t really blame Ince for that, just one of those games but the worrying aspect now Is that we are on a poor run and now seem to lack confidence.

PS. I nearly vommed at the Preston celebrations around Evans for the winning goal.

- We started with our ‘away’ team
- Everyone was crying out for a Blackburn esque performance
- Can’t complain about fixture congestions if starts majority of same attacking players
- Fornah just had to start and has to start Tuesday
- Baba a liability, MGW has to start next game
- Stating obvious - horrendous night
- Would start Ince and Long up top Tuesday
- Ince much better off front man high pressing
- Sarr and Hutchinson really are big players we are missing

It was stupid and clearly certain parts weren't paying attention when they said the silence would follow the Last Post but it didn't seem intentional as they quickly shut up.

Tbf someone in the ED started clapping after the last post. This led to a smattering of applause. Someone in the away end shouted something and then 1871 piped up.

All in all, a fcuking shambles.
Club 1871 let the club down again. End of. And on TV for the world to witness. An utter embarrassing shambles, much like the movement as a whole.

Good connection.

I agree with all of this. As it was our last home game before the World Cup I honestly thought we’d put in a decent performance. At the end of the game I felt that we were back to last season.

We desperately need a win from the Watford or Hull game but I am not confident we’ll get any points. I think a side will get relegated this season with 50+ points and I am hoping it won’t be us.

You'd know all about hooliganism at football...

A man who was left heartbroken by the split from his high-school sweetheart has admitted threatening her new boyfriend at a Royals’ match.

XXXXXXX appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Monday last week charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour intended to cause fear of violence.

XXXXXXXX had already been given a police caution for calling his ex more than 100 times after their break-up but was arrested following an incident at the Madejski Stadium, when Reading were playing Birmingham on Sunday, May 3.

The court heard the former XXXXXXXX pupil had been to the game and seen his ex with her new boyfriend when trouble began, and the two engaged in ‘playground behaviour’.

Martin Chandler, defending, said: “Mr XXXXXXXXX admits flicking beer in the direction of XXXXXXXX and making two hurtful comments during the first half of the game, and he says there were looks at him during the second half of the match which he perceived as belittling.

“He accepts that on the way out of the ground he shouted abuse and accepted he was doing that before his parents met up with him and then there was nothing further.

“It was playground behaviour, an unfortunate incident of childish behaviour.”

XXXXXX, a first year business studies student at XXXXXXX, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.


What’s that?

The fatigue one is interesting as its the same for both sides and Preston had a long journey down.

We lost because of mistakes at the back though which is where we haven't been able to rotate all season.

Agree with previous posters I'd bring in NGW now for baba, he's coasting through games obviously due to the World Cup round the corner.

Hull next week is key, as even if we play well on Tues we will likely lose.

Tbf someone in the ED started clapping after the last post. This led to a smattering of applause. Someone in the away end shouted something and then 1871 piped up.

All in all, a fcuking shambles.
Club 1871 let the club down again. End of. And on TV for the world to witness. An utter embarrassing shambles, much like the movement as a whole.

More embarrassing was the utterly pathetic display from the team.

You'd know all about hooliganism at football...

A man who was left heartbroken by the split from his high-school sweetheart has admitted threatening her new boyfriend at a Royals’ match.

XXXXXXX appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Monday last week charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour intended to cause fear of violence.

XXXXXXXX had already been given a police caution for calling his ex more than 100 times after their break-up but was arrested following an incident at the Madejski Stadium, when Reading were playing Birmingham on Sunday, May 3.

The court heard the former XXXXXXXX pupil had been to the game and seen his ex with her new boyfriend when trouble began, and the two engaged in ‘playground behaviour’.

Martin Chandler, defending, said: “Mr XXXXXXXXX admits flicking beer in the direction of XXXXXXXX and making two hurtful comments during the first half of the game, and he says there were looks at him during the second half of the match which he perceived as belittling.

“He accepts that on the way out of the ground he shouted abuse and accepted he was doing that before his parents met up with him and then there was nothing further.

“It was playground behaviour, an unfortunate incident of childish behaviour.”

XXXXXX, a first year business studies student at XXXXXXX, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.


What’s that?
An example of DD/Loafer's behaviour at football.

Having watched the highlights back does anyone else think Lumley should have done better on the 2nd goal? He moves far too close to the near post before Evans shoots and gives too much of the goal to aim at. Feel if he stayed central he would have saved it.

I have this nagging feeling Lumley could have done better on about half the goals he concedes. But then I could probably say that for quite a few keepers

If he’d made the right decision yes, but he goes further out and Evans gets a better connection everyone would be saying he came too far out. The game rests on those margins.

Well, that was just really bad, other than a 10-minute spell up until the penalty and goal. A really poor performance basically all around, with a few exceptions including Holmes who did ok, Fornah did well when he came on I thought and Joao's goal and he did try and do the right things. The rest were really poor.

I've seen a few fans criticising Lumley on the goal and, as much as I don't think it's an "error", maybe he could have done better. My initial reaction was that it was a good finish and having seen it back, it's still a good finish but maybe he is stood half a yard closer to the near post than necessary. I think maybe more could have been done, I think both finishes were just good finishes and had too much pace on for him.

The ease of the goals is poor though, TMac has to get out quicker to Evans for the second goal and the first goal is simply switching off from the second phase of a set piece, basics really. Passing was wayward, both Hendrick and Loum were poor with the ball, Ince had plenty of endeavour as always but took too many touches, decisions were poor and lost the ball often but looked like he had some threat at times so probably gets a bit more credit. Our pressing was non-existent at times, but that's understandable with the number of games.

Our wing backs have been really poor for a few games now. NGW simply has to come back in. It's a tough position to play and we need energy in those areas to get up and down to make sure we don't get pinned back but we don't really have that flexibility at the minute to change much other than NGW coming in.

The team really needs the WC break to get some bodies back in, get some work done on the training field and some rest into the legs of the players. I do actually agree with P.Ince, I do think the sheer number of games with the same players being asked to play at the same level every week is difficult, but it was a poor performance. It looks like it's caught up with us now. Incidentally, not one to open a can of worms but, when does the talk in change of management seriously come into play? 1 win in 8, poor performance last night? Watford (A) will be tough, Hull (A) is typically a graveyard for us, so I'm not expecting much but, a couple of heavy defeats and performances similar to last night (with the WC break there) and maybe a change in management would be considered?

We don't ever see Lumley make any really great saves. He has done OK but no more than that.

I can think of a couple impressive saves, particularly Blackburn at home and he made a couple of decent one's at QPR as well to no avail, but obviously that one big disaster at Rotherham and maybe one or two moments (like last night) when you feel he could have better.

I think he's been solid. Not outstanding, just solid in the main. I think he's pretty quick to get criticised based on his previous reputation, but overall has done pretty well bar Rotherham. As said, he doesn't pull out many fantastic saves, but doesn't make many errors either really, one game against Rotherham in 19 games isn't disastrous. I don't know what other Championship sides feel about their goalkeepers though or how he compares.

For those who do criticise his shot stopping ability, I just don't think his footwork is the best, but I think that's the trade-off with a strong, physical goalkeeper. One or two hairy moments from crosses, but in the main has been commanding from them when called upon and naturally being a taller, bigger goalkeeper does make it tougher for the opposition forwards to score as there is less target to aim at. The club will have matrixes to measure this, I'm sure.