[Archived] READING V ROVERS Sat 22nd Feb 2014

[thenodrog]

Good 3 points today Rovers....well done.

Despite the Bowyer lovers on here I am not convinced one bit. Watching Rovers these days is like watching daytime TV, boring, kean and full of repeats. However he is the best of a poor bunch, probably cheap with minimal financial liability if potted by the loons from Poona.

Poor league, poor to middling players and fair to middling manager.

We would get crucified if promoted.

Role on the Clampets.

Who knows? And who cares? cos what we would definitely get is £100m.

[Mike Graham]

Who knows? And who cares? cos what the loons would definitely get is £100m.

[rigger]

What we as supporters would get for certain, is stiffed with exorbitant entry prices.

[ABBEY]

What a victory. Fantastic result, especially away from home. Well done to Gary and the team. Hope a few of them come on here and have a good laugh at some of the horrific posts littered throughout this thread.

A win and a clean sheet away from home. 3rd consecutive clean sheet, first time since April 2010. 4 points off the playoffs with a game in hand over Reading in 6th...

...and still Bowyer will no doubt get mercilessly blasted by the armchair critics. Would like to think a result like this would cause a few to re-evaluate their misguided views on our manager but it'll probably just make them even more determined to see Gary fail. Rhodes didn't score again so there's something for people to gnash their teeth over, at least.

Armchair ? How do you watch games ?

Talk about sooty arse pan n kettle

Credit where credits due, I had us losing this one, just goes to show the inconsistency in this league

I really hope we don't make the play offs, we'll not go up and I hate the play offs.

Plays offs are horrible

[DE.]

Armchair ? How do you watch games ?

I'm an armchair supporter pal, not a critic. Well... not this month anyway.

[Stuart]

I'm an armchair supporter pal, not a critic. Well... not this month anyway.

Still a daft comment, having a pop at armchair critics from the comfort of your... armchair!

[rovers11]

MASSIVE win today. It was a really pivotal set of fixtures with us playing Reading and Wigan playing Brighton. I expected us to lose which would have killed off any realistic chance, instead we are bang in the chase for the play offs.

To keep a clean sheet against a team that has been banging them in for fun recently is extremely impressive. We sent out a big message today that we are serious contenders. We restricted them to ONE shot on target which is incredible considering how potent they usually are.

QPR seem to be imploding which was always a strong possibility with the egos they've got in that squad. I wouldn't be surprise if they dropped like a stone and missed out on the play offs which would be good news for us. With 1/3 of the season left, today is the day we have announced ourself as a top 6 team.

[DE.]

Still a daft comment, having a pop at armchair critics from the comfort of your... armchair!

Not really. I think everything I said was perfectly valid.

[West Yorks Rover]

MASSIVE win today. It was a really pivotal set of fixtures with us playing Reading and Wigan playing Brighton. I expected us to lose which would have killed off any realistic chance, instead we are bang in the chase for the play offs.

To keep a clean sheet against a team that has been banging them in for fun recently is extremely impressive. We sent out a big message today that we are serious contenders. We restricted them to ONE shot on target which is incredible considering how potent they usually are.

QPR seem to be imploding which was always a strong possibility with the egos they've got in that squad.n the p I wouldn't be surprise if they dropped like a stone and missed out olay offs which would be good news for us. With 1/3 of the season left, today is the day we have announced ourself as a top 6 team.

Neither would I !

[DE.]

MASSIVE win today. It was a really pivotal set of fixtures with us playing Reading and Wigan playing Brighton. I expected us to lose which would have killed off any realistic chance, instead we are bang in the chase for the play offs.

To keep a clean sheet against a team that has been banging them in for fun recently is extremely impressive. We sent out a big message today that we are serious contenders. We restricted them to ONE shot on target which is incredible considering how potent they usually are.

QPR seem to be imploding which was always a strong possibility with the egos they've got in that squad. I wouldn't be surprise if they dropped like a stone and missed out on the play offs which would be good news for us. With 1/3 of the season left, today is the day we have announced ourself as a top 6 team.

QPR won't fall out of the playoffs, but I think Reading will. Plenty of clubs, including us, quickly catching up with them now.

[Bucksrover]

Really enjoyed today.

Lots of positives all over the pitch.

Still need evans back in for williamson in my opinion.

Hope cairney isn't badly injured!

[Roverthechimp]

An excellent win that was essential for keeping the race for 6th alive and people seem to be having to apologise for being pleased??

Get a @#/? grip! I'm absolutely @#/? delighted tonight and can't wait for the next game - win lose or draw

[rovers11]

QPR won't fall out of the playoffs, but I think Reading will. Plenty of clubs, including us, quickly catching up with them now.

I could easily see them dropping out. 1/3 season to go and zero team spirit at that club plus a lot of old players who are beginning to struggle. Wigan are only 7 points behind them.

[Stuart]

This a is a blooming good result. But why do B*rnley have to go and do one better?

I had a vision earlier...

After a hang-up about only getting a draw at Ewood, Burnley started to slip up over the last ten games and slipped back down into the play-offs. They failed to win in the play-offs and Summer saw a struggling Premiership team nab Dyche away from them. Ings and vokes went off to higher plains and Burnley ended up with another Brian Laws.

Meanwhile, Rovers had battled through to get some good results and just about managed the play-offs. On a high, we tub-thumped both teams in our path and got back to where we belong.

I'm going to the fridge for another.

We can all hope!

[DE.]

I could easily see them dropping out. 1/3 season to go and zero team spirit at that club plus a lot of old players who are beginning to struggle. Wigan are only 7 points behind them.

I imagine Redknapp will keep them in the top 6, just about. It would be a cock up of monumental proportions if QPR failed to get even a top 6 spot at this point.

[Hasta]

One thing I cant see is a rovers/Burnley playoff final. We are scrambling for 6th at best and they aren't going to finish below 3rd.

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[LondonRovers]

Well well, what a game. Fantastic away support for starters, loud throughout the game, we really were the 12th man today.

I thought all the players had a brilliant game, but my MOTM was Williamson! He was great in midfield, good control and passing the ball around well, as well as getting back to defend in the latter stages of the second half.

It's not often I quote George Michael, but you gotta have faith! We're unbeaten in 5, including 2 of our toughest games of the second half of the season, Derby and Reading, and we've kept clean sheets in the last 3. I know we've been a bit stop and start this season and as soon as we think we are progressing we seem to have a calamitous few games, but for me, that is promotion form. Yes, we threw away what should have been 3 points at Barnsley and we got battered by Middlesbrough, but I think the signs are good.

Excluding the game against the Dingles, which I don't want to think about considering the form they are in, we have 3 games coming up before Leicester that I would hope we would be getting 6 or 7 points from. If we can do that and sneak a point or 3 against the 6 fingered ones then I think we are in with a shout of finishing the season in the playoffs.

Bring on the keans.

[m1st]

One of the pleasures this evening for this glass-half-full fan and supporter of our team has been to trawl through this thread and read some of the comments from "fans" of what we used to be proud to call This Great Club Of Ours. The pre-game negativity is pathetically amusing in the light of the result.

Some of you make me realise why, apart from contributing the occasional Preview, I almost never post on here. I know that singling out contributors is invidious; but honestly posts like this:

Crock of kean..could up 13th today and 10 points off playoffs..Kean sake i hate seeing them two in the middle..readings midfield will have a field day..kean off bowyer you negative nob

posted 3/4 hour before kick-off, is beyond the pale. It is the last comment I could find from this individual and to be honest, it makes me sick that the individual who posted them has not had the courtesy, after the game, to offer some mitigation of them.

I realise that we all have our own views of Rovers' players and I'm not saying that Lowe & Williamson would necessarily be my first choices in midfield but such ill-tempered vituperation reflects badly on the person who left that comment and, by extension, on the Board itself.

[DE.]

Good post m1st, totally agree. I think some have gotten so used to complaining about literally everything over the past few years (with good reason) that they just can't break the habit now.

[Leonard Venkhater]

Well well, what a game. Fantastic away support for starters, loud throughout the game, we really were the 12th man today.

I thought all the players had a brilliant game, but my MOTM was Williamson! He was great in midfield, good control and passing the ball around well, as well as getting back to defend in the latter stages of the second half.

It's not often I quote George Michael, but you gotta have faith! We're unbeaten in 5, including 2 of out toughest games of the second half of the season, Derby and Reading, and we've kept clean sheets in the last 3. I know we've been a bit stop and start this season and as soon as we think we are progressing we seem to have a calamitous few games, but for me, that is promotion form. Yes, we threw away what should have been 3 points at Barnsley and we got battered by Middlesbrough, but I think the signs are good.

Excluding the game against the Dingles, which I don't want to think about considering the form they are in, we have 3 games coming up before Leicester that I would hope we would be getting 6 or 7 points from. If we can do that and sneak a point or 3 against the 6 fingered ones then I think we are in with a shout of finishing the season in the playoffs.

Bring on the keans.

Thanks for that post. I always like to hear from those who attended.

Williamson is an interesting one. There have been times when I have been really impressed. I liked the way he was always available for the short pass/ his composure on the ball etc. Huddersfield at home last season is one I seem to recall, when he reminded me of none other than David Batty! Lately, though, he has seemed a bit off the pace. Today's commentator said he was a big Williamson fan.

I made a resolution that I wasn't going to follow it on live radio any more, but I gave in to temptation. It is hard not to hope, but every time Rovers seem to dash our hopes after a day like today. In the circumstances, this could be the best result of the season so far. Evans can only be getting fitter by the week and Conway is a good player. Oh for things to click now!

[Stuart]

Sadly DE, some seem to want to shut their eyes to the fact that we are in a mountain of debt and have owners who have destroyed the club, and appear to have been forgiven by some despite NEVER apologising or offering 'mitigation' as m1st puts it.

We seem to be getting back to normal on the face of things, and with that come the normal moans and groans and frustrations from our position. My 'mitigation' is that despite a fortuitous win today, Bowyer continues to play the same sorry midfield game after game. Once or twice this works but, from the games I have seen, it more often doesn't.

I won't apologise because I don't pretend our troubles are over because of one win.

My first comment in this thread was that it was an excellent win. That remains the case, but that is all. Sanctimonious and (equally patronising) posts from the likes of Chaddy - who will turn on players if they are out of favour with the manager or champion the very same if they are back in the team - are far more frustrating than the consistent and justifiable complaints of those not so easily pleased.

[old darwen blue]

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[blueboy3333]

One of the pleasures this evening for this glass-half-full fan and supporter of our team has been to trawl through this thread and read some of the comments from "fans" of what we used to be proud to call This Great Club Of Ours. The pre-game negativity is pathetically amusing in the light of the result.

Some of you make me realise why, apart from contributing the occasional Preview, I almost never post on here. I know that singling out contributors is invidious; but honestly posts like this:

posted 3/4 hour before kick-off, is beyond the pale. It is the last comment I could find from this individual and to be honest, it makes me sick that the individual who posted them has not had the courtesy, after the game, to offer some mitigation of them.

I realise that we all have our own views of Rovers' players and I'm not saying that Lowe & Williamson would necessarily be my first choices in midfield but such ill-tempered vituperation reflects badly on the person who left that comment and, by extension, on the Board itself.

I was gonna quote the same post myself and highlight the irony of someone calling Bowyer a 'negative nob' before the match had even started. Considering we've only lost 2 out of our last 15 league games i can't quite grasp the hatred shown towards Bowyer on this match thread.

[T.J.Newton]

I'm picturing it going down to the last game of the league season, Us against Wigan for 6th place

and in my dreams id like to play and stuff qpr at some point in the play offs(Arry rednapp my arse) Ideally id like to see us and Burnley both get promoted(but if we have to stomp over them in the playoffs, then so be it!)

side note- we really need to improve our GD as it could easily be the deciding factor(Rhodes needs to get his scoring boots back on pronto)

[RussP]

I must have been at a different game than you, LondonRover. Willo was shocking. Always looking to pass back & it put us in trouble time after time.

Without a doubt, Killa was MoM. Best defensive individual performance I've seen all season, from any club. All the back 5 played well. Also thought Rhodes looked really sharp in the first half.

Very enjoyable day. Despite their possession, we never really looked like losing. Thoroughly professional.