After Garner dashed our hopes at Wigan, where we stopped the rot of eight straight defeats under Lambert = record now ( DLLLLLLLD. Christ alive ) we entertain Reading in our final FINAL opportunity you could say I think............ ( if kind!!! ) 12 to play, 9 off with a worse goal difference - 3 points is absolutely essential. £12 a ticket for adults, cheaper for concessions ( fair play Ipswich ) so perhaps worth getting yourself along to Portman Road if available! We're 3 unbeaten ( dear god give me some more straws to clutch ) so I guess given how pants we've been this season, we're perhaps on our best run - have we gone 4 unbeaten all season!? Reading are actually on relatively decent form considering how bad the bottom 4 have been, 1 loss in 6! Looking on Soccerway, they have used various systems of late. 4-2-3-1 / 4-3-3 + 3-4-1-2 so no idea how they'll line up v us! I think Oliviera is a good signing for Reading, and they have some talent...... I think head says draw, 1-1 looks right, but I've had a couple of pints today / afternoon watching Arsenal Kiev so lets go 2-1 win for..... well I don't know! Lets be positive, we cannot not win every game!? It is an opportunity. C O Y B.
We just have to win any way we can, like you I believe this really is the last throw of the dice for Championship survival, I 'll be there and hope to see the same attitude from us which has come with recent matches and hopefully get us 3 points.
Two sides fighting for their lives and I think it’s going to be an ugly game, have a feeling this is going to be the final nail in the coffin. 2-1 Reading.
Correct - hence my opinion of Joey Garner. Far as I'm aware, football isn't rugby ( bonus points ) or Ice Skating where points are awarded for style. Championship - 46 very tough fixtures, and being streetwise as a characteristic is to me seriously underrated. Granted, there are many upon many ways to win, but yes. Require an element of this in the squad.
Garner would have made eff all difference to our position this year,he’d probably have just run around some more,fallen over and bashed his head again! As for next Saturday,very much depends on the extent of Keane’s injury as to how it will go.Will wait and see what the news is on Monday.
I’ll be there. Can’t see anyway that Keane will play. Trying to be positive so I will go for a 3-1 win
Well, people all have an opinion which makes football what it is, but I'm quite sure a fully fit Garner all season - and we'd certainly have a higher points total than what we currently have now. Of course, I could be wrong and we'll never know.
What makes you say that a fit Garner would not have made a difference to us this season ? After all any extra goals would have helped,we've hardly been banging them in which is the reason we are in this lousy situation.
I’m sure Waghorn would have made a difference Garner not so much. Yes he may have won us the odd game and then it’s the butterfly effect. But it would have taken a top striker to bang them in regularly the way we’ve been playing until recent weeks. The isolated forward was always my biggest criticism of Hurst. The reason we are in this position is that we have fallen short all over the park.
Oh he did, you're right Hampy. That is fact, true. More what I'm getting at here, is the fact he's not viewed as a better player than he was for us. Quite surprised really, but hey, that's football. He's been a big miss this season. Absolute pain.
From what I saw of him last Season (every home game he played in)I really wasn’t impressed by him,just “not for me”.He benefitted from playing alongside Waghorn,picking up his leftovers, but offered very little that I think would have made a difference this Season. This whole “he’s a nuisance,bully type”is completely overstated. Waghorn is the one who would have made a difference.
It means a tiny change ( like winning a game you drew early on in the season ) can effect everything else that happens or would have happened.
