His dad is Tony's mate from their Boro days.

That first goal is the worst I've seen us ship in a long time. Dire all round.

Think apart from being quick to seize on errors at the back and one fine finish, they look like a bang average midtable side who have come to stifle as they know our weaknesses, personally. So just the goals really. Apart from the goals its pretty much like the Cardiff and Forest games. We need to be able to start figuring these teams out pronto.

You lucky bastard. That's how we're looking.

Believe it was the lad who displaced Nyambe...

Would like the commentators to stop blaming Reading's clinical finishing. The first two were easy as hell. The third was a great strike. Our defending is unacceptable. Still.

Defence is pathetic.

Well that's that. Fucking clumsy from Douglas.

I can't say I sure his optimism whilst he keeps dropping him from the side. Nyambe would be a fool to sign another contract right now. So I guess I'm hoping he's a fool.

Tbh that seems an excessive reaction to what we have seen so far. Made two fantastic saves, a few decent ones, a bunch of simple ones. Looks confident, passes well. Handling has looked slightly suspect at times, and I'd argue partial culpability for a couple of the goals we have shipped. Looked solid and an upgrade on Walton but the jury is still out for me.

I feel like this wasn't meant as a reply to my post?

Even more worried now. The mighty Rotherham were allowed to have the ball, more than any other team had allowed them. You can be absolutely certain they will play the same way against a team that have handed out three heavy drubbings already but been stumped by teams playing that exact way. And that really won't play into our hands, especially against a defence who have only conceded one. I think we're going to be praying for the lucky bounce of the ball on this one, so we can grab a goal and force Reading to open up.

What worries me is that yesterday Reading won 3-0 with 36 percent possession and less shots than their opponents. That's exactly the kind of trap we fall into. Throw in that they've only conceded one goal, and this becomes another big test. They're almost certainly going to come with a plan to spoil our play.

Problem is, 4 of those are young players we own who could still improve. At the end of the season, if we're promoted then fantastic, but if we're not we lose the loanees, have a lot of contracts running down, and didn't build some of our assets enough. Hopefully it's the former outcome.

He really was. He was the worst player in the team on the day.

Buckley was fucking awful last time out. Right now I would only start him as a last resort.

Yep. Because it's a really goddamned easy way to beat us.

Wanking.

I just wondered something. When Harvey Elliott plays his first game for us, he will have played for two Premiership-winning clubs at the tender age of 17. Will he be the youngest player to have done that? If so, could you extend that to English top-flight and not just Premiership? I'm guessing not on the latter, as just from my memory, Rekeem Harper came to us at 17 and WBA have been English champions before. Dunno who was younger in days though.

The / signifies 'a choice between'

I know he had committed. As I said in my post, he didnt look to have over committed and like he still had time to adjust. I could do with seeing the behind the goal view again really.

Can someone tell me if I'm imagining things here, because I didn't think it at the time, but having just watched the highlights, Kaminski looks awfully slow to react to the deflection. He doesn't seem to have overcommitted himself to going the other way and I dunno, it just looked like he had time to react and make a fist of stopping it. Maybe it's just the angle the highlight is at.

Sounds a bit Evans-ish

Ultra defensive or not, they managed 15 shots to our 6.

Not particularly important but anyone know why they are mowing the pitch after the game?