Season 20/21: The Reading v Swansea City Match Thread

[Badlands]

How many times has Lowe failed to keep control of the ball?

 

[eteb]

Bye bye coopy take Mike Minge and Alan Tit with you too please

 

[Baron Goblet]

well done rfc

 

[Magic_Michu]

Is it bad that I now want us to get an absolute spanking from Reading to increase the chance of Cooper being show.n the door!?

 

[sainthelens]

What can Cooper realistically do? At some point the players have to step up. No shots on target.

They dont look motivated FFS, basic that for a manager.

 

[Badlands]

What can Cooper realistically do? At some point the players have to step up. No shots on target.

Stop playing Grimes and Hourihane
Drop Lowe
Coach positional play.

 

[magicdaps10]

Thankfully Reading still have to go to Norwich, so even if we lose here as looks likely we’ll probably still hang on to sixth even if we lose our last two. I can’t say I’m excited for the playoffs with the way we’ve been playing recently though.

We have no chance in the play offs, we are absolute garbage.

Worry is that if Cooper stays then the rot continues into next season.

Coopers time is up.

 

[MrSwerve]

Thankfully Reading still have to go to Norwich, so even if we lose here as looks likely we’ll probably still hang on to sixth even if we lose our last two. I can’t say I’m excited for the playoffs with the way we’ve been playing recently though.

The fact that we're even discussing hanging on to a playoff spot considering where we were a month or so ago is staggering.

 

[bakajack]

The best through ball Hourihane has played all game has been to a reading player. That aside he almost always goes backwards and kills any momentum from breaking the lines.

Pull him off and put on Ayew at half time and put Routs in centre midfield

 

[LeonWasTheDog's]

Hourihane and Cooper... just get out of our club.

Trouble with Hourihane is that he's a bit like Ayew in terms of not being in the game at all, until he pops up out of nowhere and scores the winner. His goals must have secured us a few points just before our good run stopped. Without him we'd have probably dropped off the pace sooner. He may even have made the difference between securing a PO place and not (assuming we can get at least a draw in the last 3 games including this one).

Frustrating player though - he's not the quality we're used to in open play for sure - all our other midfielders put in more work and understand our system better.

 

[Baron Goblet]

game of two halves

 

[eteb]

Wolves getting spanked - Cooper is a great manager I highly recommend!

 

[eteb]

Also can’t see how you can blame Lowe for anything - smashing a ball into him without anyone around him ffs

 

[Swanjaxs]

Apathy is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki

^^ THIS ^^

 

[monmouth]

Bidwell should not play in a back four. We’ve known that since early last season.

Mannings injured. So I suppose it’s amusing that the one time 3-5-2 makes some sense he didn’t do it.

Reading are terrible, but better than us. I still think we might well pull this out of the fire as both teams look so bad. We’re going down next year though unless we find ourselves a proper football manager.