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I get the impression some people are drooling at the prospect of Max failing tonight. When he came on against Gillingham and scored it was excrutiating to watch people try to invent reasons to criticise him. They were furious. Go on Max me old son, shut the fuckers up.

But Reading aren't a possession based side. They had only 37% at home to Rotherham and 34% at Blackburn. We should have a lot of the ball tonight.

Not come across a single person who has suggested Robins should go (internet trolls don't really count), nor have I encountered anyone who thought we'd make the play offs. You're inventing people that don't exist. Oh, and I fancy us tonight. Said it.

Pretty much echos what many of us have said and been jumped on for saying. A very honest assessment, which actually gives me confidence that he is the right man to take us forward. Trust him to put it right. No lame excuses about them having players earning more money and receiving...

Of course there's a chance, and we all know it's going to be a struggle. I think the concern is we look like a soft touch and we look a million miles off the pace at times. The last thing we need is to be cut adrift at the bottom so early in the season. There was a point there for us tonight...

Yeah well it was, it was a direct reference. To be honest, you're having fucking mare tonight, an absolute SBT shocker. Posts are all over the joint so I'll let you off.

We might as well give up now then. If that's what it's going to be evey week. Crying about the fact the team are above us in the table, have more money, have a striker who played champions league 35 years ago. It's always something. Most teams that come up from league 1 could say all that, but...

I think you're right to a point, but even you must agree that we need to show more attacking intent than that. I'm sure we will, perhaps tonight was inevitable after the drubbing at the weekend. I do worry that we lack the power and pace needed to punish teams on the break.

As poor as we have been going forward, there are possibilities here with a change in personnel 2nd half. Boro haven't impressed. Wouldn't surprise me if we nicked this.

No ball carrier and no real pace in the side. We look fairly solid tonight so far but without O'Hare there is nobody to move the ball up the pitch.

We were so dominant with the ball last season so it's hard to watch us be so wasteful in possession this term. We just have to get used to it I guess. It does seem that we're going long a bit more tonight.

Wasn't it 3-0? Great day either way. Edit: it was 2-0. A result that saw us go 4th in the Premier League in February.

O'Hare could perhaps benefit from sitting one out, but that side looks pretty toothless and lacking both in pace and the ability to carry the ball up the pitch quickly. Another night of chasing shadows for Godden awaits, do feel for him. I was actually quite positive this afternoon, but fear...

Would rather Kelly over Sheaf and O'Hare over Allen, but we'll see.

Looking at the state of our defending today, then you remember we have an international defender on the bench who was dropped because he went to play for his country. We have been abject today. But no point overreacting. Chance to put it right in a few days.

That was a hard watch. Still, we're somehow still in the game. Regroup at half time, take the game into the last 20 and you never know. Changes clearly needed though, we look lost.

Err...no. Of course not.

The point about us acclimatising is entirely valid and as the season goes on you'd hope we'll get closer to these sides. The way some people are going on though we've no hope. How easy would it have been for Luton to declare their trip to Elland Road as a lost cause as some seem to view our...

This sort of defeatism is tiresome. The idea that the gulf in class is so great that we just rock up to these places, take our defeat and then walk away, because it's OK, we'll beat Rotherham in a few weeks and that'll be enough... Of course we're coming up against better teams. But that...

Shipley has been excellent.