11-03-2022, 10:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2022, 10:09 PM by Joe Baker Legend.)
Reading Fans Pre Match Comments.....
Reading are off to Nottinghamshire on Saturday, pretty much a year to the day since the last visit, hoping to avoid yet another pointless exercise in keeping a clean sheet and yet another ridiculous and total wasteful game of late substitutions.
Forest have lost 1 of their last 9 league games (at Cardiff in January) and have 2 wins and 3 draws from their last 5. They haven’t been beaten at home this year, have only failed to score in 1 game this year and have turned both Arsenal and Leicester out of the FA Cup (and are currently doing Huddersfield over in the same competition tonight as well). All of that is largely pointless though as Reading have proved themselves to be fairly incompetent against any opposition from any level in pretty much any sort of form.
Should be fun. only need to keep Davis Johnson and Spence quiet.
They lost fairly recently to cardiff
I don’t think they are all that tbh. Seem to have relied on quite a few late goals (worthy in itself of course) but they aren’t amazing by any stretch
Still we’re pretty crap so it’ll be a big struggle. Just hoping Joao/Swift are on form and we can grab a goal or so. And make some useful subs. Don’t hold out much hope mind you
Prob go same team but Dann in for Holmes, Meite and Ejaria for Hoilett and Ince. Or at least one of them
Interesting conundrum for Forest, win and keep their play-off dreams alive but also aid Derby in their survival bid.
Johnson and Spence are lightning quick. Too quick for us I suspect.
Easy 3 points.
Looks on paper like we are going to get a good hiding but we will probably go up there and win 3-0 out of nowhere.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have an utterly irrational dislike of Steve Cooper?
Never met the guy, and he is probably a really good bloke, but I cannot shake my total antipathy towards him
We'll lose but at this stage of the season, you often get surprise results. So who knows, we may fluke a 0-0.
They were on a decent run when we played them at home and I thought we matched them for large parts of the game to come away with a 1-1. No reason why we couldn't do it again, would be delighted with a point.
Our record there in recent times hasn't been too bad, in terms of draws anyway, which I'd take all day long. They seem to be playing really well at the moment but yet the results maybe do not translate to the performances they've been putting in. They can look every bit a play off side, but yet they do drop points in games.
It really depends on how which narrative you want to spin with them really. On one hand, you could say 1 defeat in 6, on the other hand you could say only 2 wins in 6, in the league anyway. Again though, those draws coming against Preston, Sheff United and Stoke who are straight up better than us whereas they've been the likes of Bristol City, Barnsley and Derby since the turn of the year (including Blackburn and Millwall away) so they will be thinking that this game against us is no banana skin and they'll walk away comfortable winners.
I want to believe our decent record of sharing the spoils with them in many games in recent years gives me some confidence of a result, but I also can't see anything other than an easy 2-0 win really.
Another week on the training ground to work on defence. Another week for Ince to assess the players and get his message across.
Forest aren't especially big scorers and they don't have anyone prolific, but they do have two on good numbers.
We know we can do damage going forward.
If we can score first I think we've got a great chance of getting points. If we go behind we probably won't.
I fancy a little something for us.
We have a very strong squad many would love to have. There's no reason we can't get a result ffs
Forest 3 Reading 0.
Lucas Joao has been ill, may miss Forest
- Yakou Meite NOT close to being ready to play 90 mins (even though he played 90 minutes for the U23s)
- Laurent in contention for Saturday
- Hein OUT for the season, gone back to Arsenal
- Hoping to sign a goalkeeper (free agent) tomorrow
Joao is crucially the biggest miss there out of them all, that is for sure, especially if Meite isn't ready for 90 minutes. That would leave us without a recognised CF unless Clarke was to play, which I'm not in favour of. I don't mind the prospect of a free agent goalkeeper though really, I can't understand why we didn't do that the first time.
Reckon Thomas Ince will play upfront if Joao isn't fit.
He can play as a striker. Personally think he might be more suited centrally than as a left winger playing on the right.
Re the keeper position, is It more that Southwood is too inexperienced to play behind the ever changing sitcom that unfolds in front of him every game or just that he isn’t quite good enough for this level?
This one could be a massacre but I am going for 1-0 to us. The last time I went to Forest it was the homecoming of Stuart Pearce our B Team from memory got beat 4-0 and I remember Antonio had a field day against us. Also, fair play as there was one Reading fan giving it large to the Forest fans.
Don't get me wrong, Pantilimon is about my 50th choice in terms of a new goalkeeper but out of the three names I have seen mentioned he fits the profile of what we need currently.
Reading are off to Nottinghamshire on Saturday, pretty much a year to the day since the last visit, hoping to avoid yet another pointless exercise in keeping a clean sheet and yet another ridiculous and total wasteful game of late substitutions.
Forest have lost 1 of their last 9 league games (at Cardiff in January) and have 2 wins and 3 draws from their last 5. They haven’t been beaten at home this year, have only failed to score in 1 game this year and have turned both Arsenal and Leicester out of the FA Cup (and are currently doing Huddersfield over in the same competition tonight as well). All of that is largely pointless though as Reading have proved themselves to be fairly incompetent against any opposition from any level in pretty much any sort of form.
Should be fun. only need to keep Davis Johnson and Spence quiet.
They lost fairly recently to cardiff
I don’t think they are all that tbh. Seem to have relied on quite a few late goals (worthy in itself of course) but they aren’t amazing by any stretch
Still we’re pretty crap so it’ll be a big struggle. Just hoping Joao/Swift are on form and we can grab a goal or so. And make some useful subs. Don’t hold out much hope mind you
Prob go same team but Dann in for Holmes, Meite and Ejaria for Hoilett and Ince. Or at least one of them
Interesting conundrum for Forest, win and keep their play-off dreams alive but also aid Derby in their survival bid.
Johnson and Spence are lightning quick. Too quick for us I suspect.
Easy 3 points.
Looks on paper like we are going to get a good hiding but we will probably go up there and win 3-0 out of nowhere.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have an utterly irrational dislike of Steve Cooper?
Never met the guy, and he is probably a really good bloke, but I cannot shake my total antipathy towards him
We'll lose but at this stage of the season, you often get surprise results. So who knows, we may fluke a 0-0.
They were on a decent run when we played them at home and I thought we matched them for large parts of the game to come away with a 1-1. No reason why we couldn't do it again, would be delighted with a point.
Our record there in recent times hasn't been too bad, in terms of draws anyway, which I'd take all day long. They seem to be playing really well at the moment but yet the results maybe do not translate to the performances they've been putting in. They can look every bit a play off side, but yet they do drop points in games.
It really depends on how which narrative you want to spin with them really. On one hand, you could say 1 defeat in 6, on the other hand you could say only 2 wins in 6, in the league anyway. Again though, those draws coming against Preston, Sheff United and Stoke who are straight up better than us whereas they've been the likes of Bristol City, Barnsley and Derby since the turn of the year (including Blackburn and Millwall away) so they will be thinking that this game against us is no banana skin and they'll walk away comfortable winners.
I want to believe our decent record of sharing the spoils with them in many games in recent years gives me some confidence of a result, but I also can't see anything other than an easy 2-0 win really.
Another week on the training ground to work on defence. Another week for Ince to assess the players and get his message across.
Forest aren't especially big scorers and they don't have anyone prolific, but they do have two on good numbers.
We know we can do damage going forward.
If we can score first I think we've got a great chance of getting points. If we go behind we probably won't.
I fancy a little something for us.
We have a very strong squad many would love to have. There's no reason we can't get a result ffs
Forest 3 Reading 0.
Lucas Joao has been ill, may miss Forest
- Yakou Meite NOT close to being ready to play 90 mins (even though he played 90 minutes for the U23s)
- Laurent in contention for Saturday
- Hein OUT for the season, gone back to Arsenal
- Hoping to sign a goalkeeper (free agent) tomorrow
Joao is crucially the biggest miss there out of them all, that is for sure, especially if Meite isn't ready for 90 minutes. That would leave us without a recognised CF unless Clarke was to play, which I'm not in favour of. I don't mind the prospect of a free agent goalkeeper though really, I can't understand why we didn't do that the first time.
Reckon Thomas Ince will play upfront if Joao isn't fit.
He can play as a striker. Personally think he might be more suited centrally than as a left winger playing on the right.
Re the keeper position, is It more that Southwood is too inexperienced to play behind the ever changing sitcom that unfolds in front of him every game or just that he isn’t quite good enough for this level?
This one could be a massacre but I am going for 1-0 to us. The last time I went to Forest it was the homecoming of Stuart Pearce our B Team from memory got beat 4-0 and I remember Antonio had a field day against us. Also, fair play as there was one Reading fan giving it large to the Forest fans.
Don't get me wrong, Pantilimon is about my 50th choice in terms of a new goalkeeper but out of the three names I have seen mentioned he fits the profile of what we need currently.
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