Well......what an embarrassing pile of crap that was. As soon as I saw the line up I said that Reading would boss the midfield. If I can see it, what the hell are Harry and the other dinosaurs on the coaching staff looking at?
Playing the God-awful Kranjcar in the centre of a two man central midfield was suicidal. The young, athletic Reading midfielders must have thought it was Christmas!
The commentators were banging on about how we'd kept possession so well in the first part of the season. That's because we played 3 central midfield players in a 4-2-3-1. Thus we controlled the games and managed to sneak a lot of them. Now we've lost Charlie, Harry has decided that we need two up front to try to replace his goal scoring threat. A fair assessment imo, but he keeps on playing it without a holding midfielder...........today was the result, as was Burnley. 6 goals conceded in the last two home games. FFS Harry, it isn't rocket science. Trouble is, Harry rates Kranjcar and will just keep on picking him, even though the set up doesn't suit him. Same goes for Zamora, who looked so slow when he came on, but Harry rates him!!
Our ageing, slow centre backs are being badly exposed by a lack of cover and their resulting collapse in confidence is also now making us look like conceding at every set piece.
Today, Hill lost his man for the 2nd and Green could have come for the cross. For the 1st, Barton was just jogging back and never tried to fill in in the centre.
To be fair, Dunne had a better game, but BAE just jogs around. He never once tried to stop his man crossing the ball and he didn't try to make a challenge before that thunderbolt 3rd.
Kranjcar was absolutely awful today and he shouldn't play again in a two man central midfield. In fact, he just shouldn't play.......except ol' clueless rates him!
Hoilett and Traore were good at times and Keen looks a good player.
Doyle, although he scored, was awful too.
I can see no difference between how clueless Harry looks and how clueless Hughes was. Both completely useless and both just think the only way to get a good team is to buy "names", regardless of whether those players will actually give their all. We have made the same mistakes with this team as we did under Hughes. Also, Harry said he doesn't like too many loanees....really? Could have fooled me!!
The only way to get our season back on track, taking into account that we're stuck with all these journeymen and loan players, is to go back to playing 4-2-3-1 and try to control games and hope to nick enough wins.
I have nothing against Harry as a person, as I believe some on here have, but he is really ****ing this up!! There are also rumours coming out from contacts at Spurs that he never really wanted to come here and doesn't feel he belongs.
All in all, a right old pile of cack!!
Playing the God-awful Kranjcar in the centre of a two man central midfield was suicidal. The young, athletic Reading midfielders must have thought it was Christmas!
The commentators were banging on about how we'd kept possession so well in the first part of the season. That's because we played 3 central midfield players in a 4-2-3-1. Thus we controlled the games and managed to sneak a lot of them. Now we've lost Charlie, Harry has decided that we need two up front to try to replace his goal scoring threat. A fair assessment imo, but he keeps on playing it without a holding midfielder...........today was the result, as was Burnley. 6 goals conceded in the last two home games. FFS Harry, it isn't rocket science. Trouble is, Harry rates Kranjcar and will just keep on picking him, even though the set up doesn't suit him. Same goes for Zamora, who looked so slow when he came on, but Harry rates him!!
Our ageing, slow centre backs are being badly exposed by a lack of cover and their resulting collapse in confidence is also now making us look like conceding at every set piece.
Today, Hill lost his man for the 2nd and Green could have come for the cross. For the 1st, Barton was just jogging back and never tried to fill in in the centre.
To be fair, Dunne had a better game, but BAE just jogs around. He never once tried to stop his man crossing the ball and he didn't try to make a challenge before that thunderbolt 3rd.
Kranjcar was absolutely awful today and he shouldn't play again in a two man central midfield. In fact, he just shouldn't play.......except ol' clueless rates him!
Hoilett and Traore were good at times and Keen looks a good player.
Doyle, although he scored, was awful too.
I can see no difference between how clueless Harry looks and how clueless Hughes was. Both completely useless and both just think the only way to get a good team is to buy "names", regardless of whether those players will actually give their all. We have made the same mistakes with this team as we did under Hughes. Also, Harry said he doesn't like too many loanees....really? Could have fooled me!!
The only way to get our season back on track, taking into account that we're stuck with all these journeymen and loan players, is to go back to playing 4-2-3-1 and try to control games and hope to nick enough wins.
I have nothing against Harry as a person, as I believe some on here have, but he is really ****ing this up!! There are also rumours coming out from contacts at Spurs that he never really wanted to come here and doesn't feel he belongs.
All in all, a right old pile of cack!!
