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interestingly mowbray confirms he spoke to bielsa a couple months ago. Intere4sting to see if it was one of thier players? Jansen? Roofe maybe?

Reading are a weird team. Mowbray alluded to such previewing the upcoming games. They've got some good players, and play some good football, but they haven't started the season well. Got some good results (3-0 v cardiff), but theyve had soem shockers too.

Gonna go for a 1-1 draw here, Gallagher to score for us. Mowbray will look to play on the counter here, with pace. Think Rothwell will start, some thing similar to what we finished with vs Millwall. Travis has to start these sort of games, hopefully Downing will play over Armstrong.

Walton

Bennet Lenihan Williams Cunningham

Travis Johnson

Downing Dack Rothwell

Gallagher

2 minutes ago, RV Blue said:

You’re forgetting that he’ll also have to prove that he deserves a place in the u23 side after their fantastic season. He’ll probably be ready after a full preseason next August.

Cunningham came straight into the side though? As has Tosin when hes been fit? And Johnson? And Downing? And Gallagher?

Holtby would be a good signing, played 26 times for Hamburg last season and their fans held a petition for the club to offer him a new contract!

Not sure where he really fits in to the team, is more of an attacking player so maybe on the right, as an inverted winger, but then again Mowbray doesn't have a fixed 11, will depend on the game. Don't think he'll replace Travis as they are 2 completely different players. 

interesting one for sure, but will definitely improve the quality of our team and help keep the ball better which Mowbray is v keen to do.

Just now, philipl said:

Just out of interest, the last time we scored from outside the area from open play before the Williams strike?

downing v oldham 

in the league maybe rothwell v forest?

mowbray alluded to this weakness of ours too after the game

id go with

walton

bennet lenihan williams cunnigham,

travis johnson,

downing dack rothwell,

gallagher/graham

maybe switch rothwell and downing depending on how the game is going, may be too narrow for Millwall who will come to frustrate. would help push the FB's right up though, and ask one of Johnson/Travis to drop off in between the CB's. Graham will be advantageous against thier big CB's but ga;;aghers pace in behind may cause them more problems. Armstrong on the bech and use him how we ddi versus Cardiff, give him the last 20/25 to get right up with thier CB's and in and around and see if he can cause problems with his pace and psuh them right back.

going to be a tight game this, with us looking poor going forward so far this season, and Millwall with their usual 2 tight banks of 4. Expect Dack to be crowded out at every opportunity. Think Millwall will fancy their chances of keeping a clean sheet here, maybe even nick one on set pieces with Cooper. Rovers will need to look out for Mahoney, been very impressed with him this season. Gonna go for a 1-1.

1 hour ago, Stuart said:

Like Downing before him I think Raya went to Mowbray’s office and said I want to leave. Tony being Tony likely said if you don’t want to be here then go.

Meanwhile Leutwiler said after two years on the bench... I’ve really enjoyed these last two years.

Waggot confirmed Raya asked to leave and his agent was activey seeking a transfer after he was dropped towards the end of last season

1 hour ago, 1864roverite said:

Then why isn't he at a top premiership or European club ?? Thing is he is at Brentford a middle of the road Championship team

cuz hes not the finished article just yet. hes very young for a gk too. once everything clicks fro him as he matures further, hell be in the prem no doubt

I was always confident this would happen. In most cases, if Brentford want your player you shouldn't be letting him go, definitely not for cheap. King of recruitment outside the PL. Also, raya was always more of a continental keeper, his distribution has always been good, he's good with the ball and fast on his feet, a perfect sweeper keeper for a Brentford side who play a lot more attractive football than we do. He'll be in the prem/la liga in the next year or so.

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

We did similar last season.  Early doors we ground out a few narrow away wins e.g. Bolton and Hull  but then those were mixed up with horror shows at Bristol City, Swansea etc. 

My view is that we can haul ourselves to those narrow wins when the opposition aren't up to much and aren't really firing. But when we come up against sides that have goals in their locker who will put us under pressure with pace, power and trickery we have no answer to it. Nothing has changed on that front because it is less a personnel issue and more a coaching and tactics issue. The individual errors excuse is a kop out to deflect blame away from inadequate tactics.

West Brom away - Going 1-0 up was arguably the worst thing to happen because our game plan went out the window and we didn't really know how to approach the game from there on, and most importantly West Brom had to immediately apply serious pressure which we crumbled under. Same story at Brentford, Bristol City, Swansea last season. Under this manager our chances of success away from home are increased the longer the game is 0-0. We go ahead and we lose our heads against the decent sides.

have to agree, immediately recognised we wont the game once Dack put us up in the first 20 seconds 

decent enough start, always gonna be tough these first stretch of games, these next 6 fixtures are a lot easier so will be interesting to see where we are going into the next international break..

any one have link to the goal?

I’d drop Dack for the game against wba and start Rothwell in the 10 spot...

0-0 was probably the rigjt result. Thought Bennett had a good game today. Armstrong should have come on a lot earlier, they couldn’t deal with his movement when he came. Started getting on top of them too late but unlucky not to win with Williams hitting the post. 

Btw what’s happened to Rothwell this season? He’s been so poor whenever he’s come on, looks completely invisible.

does anyone else think we should make a move for Ben Marshall still available on a free? can play RB, RM and LM would solve a few problem positions for us

hes a good player but god he needs to improve his passing gives it away constantly