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Ridiculous from Hourihane there! He had acres of space to drive central towards the area possibly even shoot……..but he was so focused on getting it pointlessly wide he didn’t see the space. Absolutely dreadful

Nice work from Wilson and then Barks but Chelts are doubled up on us and the defender snuffs out the chance

Sibley’s probably been the best of a poor bunch

Lordy…that pass from Barks

Collins offside again

Decent work from CBT to get it to NML there

See how they aren’t pressuring our CB’s but are straight onto our full backs when they get the ball. Smart management

Cheltenham have done their homework, double up on us in wide areas and try to break quickly isolating our defenders

Great defensive work from Sibs when he was the last defender there

Wilson has been caught trying to do too much in potentially dangerous defensive positions twice now. Luckily we’ve got away with it

Bit of a wild start with Cheltenham arguably having the better of it and should be 1 up

Yep, get that midfield right and things will look a lot better. Pretty sure we need to revert to three in there away from home!

Very poor fare

Lucky that was offside, Ward was tripe there

Indeed, five in without any departures would give us a heavy squad and wagebill. Smith would be an obvious candidate to be moved on this window. Out of contract in the summer, plenty of competition for his position. Other than that I’m not sure who’d be out the door. Maybe Ward, but he’s only been here six months.

Reading back, lots of posters on here wanted shot of him, because they thought he’d never be good enough and thought it was the correct decision by a manager they rated highly. With the benefit of hindsight they were wrong on all counts.

Seems a decent player for this level, hopefully his link up play is decent. Would have preferred a Lapado style striker with a bit of pace, strength and presence, but if we can’t get that then maybe this is the next best option for a 6 month loan. After that it’s a mobile central midfielder and we’re good.

I was just about to post exactly the same 🤣

Urgh the absolute state of some people!

Darren Witcoop is most certainly a real person. He’s doesn’t get much right, but he’s definitely real.

He must be at the end of his tether with everything that happening at Reading

If we’re in league one next year then I’d offer Collins a one year deal. We’d absolutely need to sign another striker as well, if we hadn’t already (this Jan). If we get promoted then I’d lean towards not renewing, unless he was prepared to be a back up player we could bring on in the last 15 mins to harass the oppositions defence.

Decent player, but not the type we’re supposed to be after and he’s older than we should be looking at. Maybe a decent loan option if we can’t get our primary targets