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the sex ghost posted:Leeds look loving dreadful, please copy and paste this in the thread for the next 42 games
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this is the biggest indicator of the north/south divide ever imo e: the donny players are now helping the ground staff clear the water haha thehappyprince fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Aug 24, 2013 |
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Aug 24, 2013 15:46
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Ross McCormack. My goodness
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Aug 24, 2013 16:07
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Agreed, McD is a great manager but somehow makes it look much harder than it should be for most of the season before Xmas. It's weird seeing Reading fans giving it "Adkins out" without any sense of irony, because we're 4 games unbeaten against good sides and drawing 0-0 away to Blackpool. I get the impression they were never exposed to a proper loving at the hands of Grimsby in the third tier.
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Aug 24, 2013 16:08
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thehappyprince posted:lol we're 3 up at charlton and they've gone off for rain The club twitter keeps mentioning "farcical conditions" as though that's a reason for us being complete poo poo
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Aug 24, 2013 16:15
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loool donny down to ten men. we're gonna lose 4-3
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Aug 24, 2013 16:17
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Bacon of the Sea posted:Agreed, McD is a great manager but somehow makes it look much harder than it should be for most of the season before Xmas. Money getting to our heads obviously, we are going to have a spectacular crash at some point Andre Le Fuckface fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Aug 24, 2013 |
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Aug 24, 2013 16:26
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Hunt seems to have slotted into things nicely. Dude is everywhere.
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Aug 24, 2013 16:31
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If Poleon works on his end product and passing he could be very very good
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Aug 24, 2013 16:34
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Smiley Face posted:Money getting to our heads obviously, we are going to have a spectacular crash at some point
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Aug 24, 2013 16:42
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I'll have those cheeky three points all day
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Aug 24, 2013 16:52
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this is our year lads
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Aug 24, 2013 16:54
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The Burnley keeper got two yellows in our game today, that can't happen too often. The first for taking down a player in on goal (should have been red). The second for picking up the ball twice in the box without anyone else touching it (think the boos got to him).
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Aug 24, 2013 17:30
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deletebeepbeepbeep posted:The second for picking up the ball twice in the box without anyone else touching it (think the boos got to him). Was he pulling it away from an attacker? Can't imagine how that would be cautionable otherwise. edit: \/ Ah yeah, that'll do it Lamont Cranston fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Aug 25, 2013 |
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Aug 24, 2013 17:57
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Lamont Cranston posted:Was he pulling it away from an attacker? Can't imagine how that would be cautionable otherwise. He chucked it up in the air and a forward coming from behind him went to header it, the keeper then caught it again.
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Aug 24, 2013 18:50
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Apparently our chairman literally got hit by a bus on his way to Ipswich today. I bet it was that dastardly Mick McCarthy trying to demoralise the opposition
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Aug 24, 2013 19:49
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the sex ghost posted:Apparently our chairman literally got hit by a bus on his way to Ipswich today. I bet it was that dastardly Mick McCarthy trying to demoralise the opposition C'mon, you now that's Uncle Ken's handiwork.
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Aug 24, 2013 20:01
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Went to the Vic to see Watford v Forest, it was a bloody good game with some proper end to end footy and a tasty free-kick from McGugan. I'm so glad we got Mcgugan cause he was pretty decent on the ball in the second half, but the defence was lacklustre at times trying to play the ball when they should have just cleared it though.
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Aug 25, 2013 16:36
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Went to see Wigan v Boro today, if Wigan play like they did today on saturday then Forest will have them on toast imo.
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Aug 25, 2013 18:50
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so the goals don't count from the abandoned game but the red card does. great rule.
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Aug 26, 2013 16:17
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Adkins just laid into Jimmy Kebe in his post-match interview, saying he declared himself unfit yesterday and you can "read what you like into that". Apparently unaware that Kebe called up BBC Radio Berkshire on Sat and said he was fine to play against Blackpool but hadn't been picked, despite Adkins claiming he was injured. Massively unprofessional. Double so to try to shift the blame after a 6-0 loving by a side a league bellow you onto a player who's not played for six months. I don't expect Kebe to be here in a week's time and I expect Adkins laying the blame on a massively popular player probably won't help him keep control of the dressing room. What a massive prick.
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Aug 27, 2013 22:28
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Bacon of the Sea posted:Adkins just laid into Jimmy Kebe in his post-match interview, saying he declared himself unfit yesterday and you can "read what you like into that". Apparently unaware that Kebe called up BBC Radio Berkshire on Sat and said he was fine to play against Blackpool but hadn't been picked, despite Adkins claiming he was injured. I liked when Jimmy Kebe decided to stop and do his socks mid dribble. Who's likely to pick him up? And shocking from Adkins, thought he was good at man-management.
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Aug 28, 2013 01:50
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The comments about Kebe are on loads of news websites including Sky who hosted the interview, however the text in the version published on Reading's site removes all mention of Kebe. Another thing I missed was Adkins said that Kebe's not played since he's been here, but if he was fit from March he'd have kept Reading in the Prem. So, it looks like he's claiming Kebe's been sick noting for six months. I can't remember a manager losing so much respect from so many fans in a single night before. I wouldn't be shocked if he goes to Palace or Cardiff or similar. He's a fantastic player but he's prone to injury. I imagine we'd get about £2m for him, which is fair, he's come on massively since Coppell brought him in. *EDIT* Adkins also wins points for claiming in his post match interview that "Some of the players hadn't played before" apparently unaware that 19yo Jordan Obita had his debut for Reading in 2010. Every other player in the team Adkins had himself picked for a team previously. Bacon of the Sea fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Aug 28, 2013 |
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Transpires Kebe was told to pull out of Tuesday by the club physios. Kebe was fit for Blackpool and Watford but not picked by Adkins, but tweaked his hamstring in training on Sunday and went to a local private hospital for a scan with two members of the medical staff from the club. This was noted at the time by a Reading fan who happened to work there. Adkins spoke on live tv saying how he had no idea what was going on Kebe and insinuated he was a sick note, when if he'd bothered talking to any of the medical team in the two days prior to the game he'd have been told why he pulled out.
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Bacon of the Sea posted:Transpires Kebe was told to pull out of Tuesday by the club physios. Kebe was fit for Blackpool and Watford but not picked by Adkins, but tweaked his hamstring in training on Sunday and went to a local private hospital for a scan with two members of the medical staff from the club. This was noted at the time by a Reading fan who happened to work there.
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Aug 30, 2013 11:37
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Where is this from and do they have it for other teams?
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Overminty posted:Where is this from and do they have it for other teams? http://www.whoscored.com/
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Cheers mate
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Bacon of the Sea posted:The comments about Kebe are on loads of news websites including Sky who hosted the interview, however the text in the version published on Reading's site removes all mention of Kebe. Another thing I missed was Adkins said that Kebe's not played since he's been here, but if he was fit from March he'd have kept Reading in the Prem. So, it looks like he's claiming Kebe's been sick noting for six months. I can't remember a manager losing so much respect from so many fans in a single night before. It's nice not being the club that's in the worst state in the league, it's been a while 
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Aug 30, 2013 17:17
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Charlton Characteristics Strengths (Team has no significant strengths) Weaknesses (Team has no significant weaknesses) Oh well alright then
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Kebe is off to Palace. I think a decent number of Reading fans are getting a bit sick of the spin. The club has claimed in the recent past: We're out to win in the championship this season We are aiming to score 100 goals and keep 21 clean sheets in the league We want to emulate Wigan and win cups We have a transfer budget of £30m We have an 8 year plan to be established in the Prem like Everton or Spurs We will bring in six or seven prem league quality players Reality however is that we've brought in 3 players at a combined spend of £700k and Adkins has managed to only win 2 of his 13 games in charge. We have an awful record of having kept two clean sheets and conceded 34 goals in those 13 games too. Scapegoating Kebe dodged the bullet, but we have to start keeping clean sheets. Adkins has said he wants 3 players before the window shuts and lots of our fans are currently excited that we'll sign Defoe, Vaz Te, Marcello Trotta or blah, but the reality is no one of that stature is coming. It's still early days and Adkins is trying to bring about a sea change in the way we play football, so he'll have plenty of time to change things and the fans are in general quite realistic. The club ramping up expectations isn't helping though.
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Bacon of the Sea posted:Adkins has said he wants 3 players before the window shuts and lots of our fans are currently excited that we'll sign Defoe, Vaz Te, Marcello Trotta or blah, but the reality is no one of that stature is coming. It's still early days and Adkins is trying to bring about a sea change in the way we play football, so he'll have plenty of time to change things and the fans are in general quite realistic. The club ramping up expectations isn't helping though. All the QPR lot are gagging for Defoe as well. I don't really understand it, he's past his best and is the exact opposite of what we need in terms of age, wage demands etc. but they're mad for him.
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It's always the same. I remember our fans moaning when we signed Le Fondre for £300k rather than an aged striker from the Prem, even though ALF had hit almost 30 a season for the previous two years.
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Aug 31, 2013 11:00
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Leeds looking solid, thick, tight. Consistent patient build-ups, defending as a unit, all that cool poo poo. QPR haven't really had a look in in the first half and I'm enjoying this match a lot
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Pretty solid performance from Leeds, not giving much away thus far. Still not sold on Hunt, but the defense is doing its job and the midfield is holding onto the ball nicely
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Aug 31, 2013 13:05
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I hope Austin properly has Barton
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Aug 31, 2013 13:45
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Gutted to have lost that, swtiched off for one minute and that was all it took! encoruaging in other ways though
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Aug 31, 2013 14:11
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Well that all went a bit poo poo. Gutted that Austin's last minute 40 yard strike hit the bar. Would have been a quality goal.
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Well that was alright then, wasn't expecting results from either of the last two games and we managed two scrappy 0-1 wins. I'm starting to feel positive about the season which is worrying!
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