Sparkle
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There are about 16 teams capable of relegation this season which is the major contributing chance to our possibilities.
Teams like Cardiff have to be down the FFP route and future deductions as well if their owner is putting in £3 million a month as reported which might help as well
Another issue is that most of those clubs cannot spend money to help their situation and may have to sell the odd player
we don’t have the firepower to pick up the points we deserve so far this season but if by some stroke of fortune gets us the much needed goal scorer who knows?
Could we possibly catch up 21 points and stay up ? I doubt it but I like the way we are trying our very best
we obviously need to avoid having to sell what we have currently in January as well.
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Allsop - showed that he is an experienced keeper - he did well
Byrne - did ok
Stearman - deserved some game time and did well
Davies - excellent apart from his one blooper
Forsyth - Great to see a home goal from Forsyth - he is our out ball isn’t he
Shinnie - he’s just a very good pest
Bird - looked settled
Morrison- surprised he stayed on so long as he looks shattered by 65 mins in most games
knight - worked very hard closing down the Reading players
Lawrence - I thought he had a very good game
Baldock - not sure if he came of injured
sub - Stretton - I do like him
Reading - lots of decent attacking players but you could tell they were missing their more confident defenders
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1 hour ago, Srg said:
If staff can get made redundant why can't players? Genuine question... someone like David Marshall who may as well not be here, surely you'd save more money than sacking a cleaner.
Well HM government have the ability to get that changed and football related debs being paid 100%
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20 minutes ago, Sidd10 said:
You don't have to be born perfect to know you shouldn't be chanting what was about Billy Sharp ?
I was there at Sheffield and the ones making those remarks were in groups of 6 and with a combined age of less than a pair of Derby county centre half’s - I don’t even think they know what they were chanting actually means!
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40 minutes ago, SoneAluko said:
I’ve been lurking on this forum last hour being a Reading fan curious to see what people were saying then I remembered as you could probably tell by the username I set up an account to post something about a game we played, I think we won 4-2 having been 3-0 up. Was convinced we turned a corner with how good we had been lately at the time and that the playoff hangover was over, ended up surviving on goal difference. ?
Its actually as many as 13. 4 should be back this weekend. You can’t play a Warnock team and not get a few injuries. Southwood, Hoilett and Tetek all picked up injuries but are expected to be back for today. Dann is touch and go, but may be rushed to partner Josh Laurent at centre half.
The rest of the injuries are mainly within the central areas. Moore, Morrison, Holmes and McIntyre our centre halves are all injured at the moment, won’t be playing today. Rinomhota is touch and go, could be on the bench. Azeez and Joao are significant injuries that hurt us, again not back. Otherwise Araruna hasn’t been fit for ages and we all knew for a while Meite won’t be fit this season.
If they were all fit I’d say only Joao and Holmes would warrant a place in the starting 11 at the minute. The summer signings have fit in really well, Drinkwater hasn’t headbutted someone yet and is very positively contributing so all looking very rosy in that regard. We’re all expecting to survive this season despite our points deduction, but expectations aren’t very high.
Also re points deduction, it’s looking like 6 deducted and 3 suspended according to one local journo. I still wouldn’t rule out a full points deduction however.
In terms of points deductions the EFL make the rules up as they go along even if everything you have done is perfectly legal and once other clubs have their teeth into you, you are doomed one way or another - expect to be In The same situation in a year or two !
we only have a few old ( but good ) men and a few kids which Rooney seems to be doing an excellent job with but we have no goal scores - yes we have Baldock on no more than £4,500 per week and probably less than that but he scrats around but he is no goal scorer based on what I have seen. -
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2 minutes ago, OohMartWright said:
On the subject of Roos' suspension, can someone please enlighten me whether he misses just this game or others too?
Usually just one match - obviously the EFL could ask the FA to make it longer
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4 minutes ago, Pearl Ram said:
21,035. ?
18,000
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22 minutes ago, eccles the ram said:
This match is by far the most important we have played for a few years (even more than the last home match last season against Wednesday). Win it we a) go into plus points (for the time being); b) we claw back hopefully some points from the teams above; c) reduce the gap between us and Reading, especially if they are going to be docked up to 9 points.On top of that we are gaining confidence. Another home game to come. If we win that it's 4 points showing. What with Cardiff starting to slip and possibly others in the EFL firing line with perhaps deductions being implemented, it might be the start of something interesting! COYR
Even with the points deduction Reading FC will be fine because they have a very good squad with goal scorers and when their injuries clear up they will have a huge squad - if it was one of the others near the bottom then it would be different but Reading will be fine this season
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1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:
Everyone seems to pick out the Birmingham game, but I didn't think we really looked under pressure except when we made our two errors. Same to a certain extent for the Peterboro game when we had a real bad wobble.
If only we could score with a bit more ease...
#COYR
With a decent goal scorer we would be challenging the play offs in more normal times
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5 hours ago, jono said:
It’s the unknown supplementary deductions that bother me - allied to when they will be applied. I can’t help feeling (because I am an old cynic) that the size and timing of further penalties will depend on how many points we score in the next 10 games or so. If it looks like we are in with a fighting chance then we’ll get them sooner; if we are looking doomed they’ll save them and hit us again next season
They want us to carry on trying so they can say the league is competitive before they put the final nails in the coffin with further point deductions - having a club relagated in September is pathetic look caused mainly by the EFL - sure MM has made a mess but we would have been sold off a year ago
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The lady who has been doing the Sky EFL match chairperson this this season Michelle Owen is extremely good and hugely knowledgeable and also doesn’t appear to have been injected by foreign substances or been beaten up by a sack of spuds.
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10 hours ago, Yani P said:
One thing we will need to do is get a grip in midfield..Reading seem to score plenty of worldie type goals and certainly we need to keep Swift quiet.
They are a good footballing side
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5 hours ago, i-Ram said:
Did they tell Mel when the fun stops, STOP?
That’s what he has actually done though ?
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1 hour ago, ScamRam said:
Reading that you would think he was sympathetic to our current plight so is there really an EFL agenda to 'punish' us with these further -9 points? Nice to see he acknowledges parachute payments are a major problem.
60% wages to revenue would be great but unfortunately its players and agents pushing rising wages
After they have done us in they will start to let all the others off
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1 hour ago, ScamRam said:
Reading that you would think he was sympathetic to our current plight so is there really an EFL agenda to 'punish' us with these further -9 points? Nice to see he acknowledges parachute payments are a major problem.
60% wages to revenue would be great but unfortunately its players and agents pushing rising wages
You can sit on the bench or the stands in the premiership and get £60,000 per week and that’s just the average - here lies the problem
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4 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:
I’ve been vocal about how proud I am of our fans’ support this season. The singing has been pretty much non stop. I think it’s partly because there seems to be more younger fans (16-21) going at the minute.
However, there have also been a lot more unsavoury chants in recent months, generally led by that age range. Barely a game goes by without hearing songs about Nigel Doughty these days. And I must have heard the words “Billy Sharp” and “sex offender” 1,000 times yesterday.
Not sure there’s really a point to this post. Just an observation.
I was there also and me and my mates couldn’t understand it and didn’t partake in it and it was unfair on the player regardless of his history
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1 hour ago, G STAR RAM said:
Think that would make him comfortably the highest paid manager in the division, don't see him being on that much personally.
Well the bloke we played today at Sheffield United is on 3.5 million pounds per year as manager
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Great day out today totally enjoyed it - the players did their very best and our crowd were very supportive and a great atmosphere from our fans - Sheffield United deadly quiet
just seen the highlights - sorry that’s not a sending off - penalty it sure was but it shouldn’t have been as their player booted the ball out for the corner - so incredibly unlucky not to get something out of the game considering we hit the woodwork twice.
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1 hour ago, brady1993 said:
I think there is an amount of room beyond 12 points we could possibly recover from. The following is some very rough, surface analysis:
Their are currently 4 teams in the league who are averaging 0.88 points per game or less, if they continue like that for the whole season then they end up on 40.25 pts. Beyond that their are a further 3 team averaging a point per game carried out over a season that will mean 46 points. What I suspect this means is that it's very likely this year that the team who finishes 22nd has a points total between those two numbers and that we are looking at a relatively low bar to finish 21st. Something like 44 points could well be enough.
Currently we are sat on -2 and have been averaging 1.25 points per game which would put us at 45.5 come the end of the season and I think we would likely be safe at that points total. What this means is that any further point deduction likely has to be compensated with an improvement in performance. Assuming that 44 is enough here are the rate we'd need to go at for further penalties:
- 0 - 1.21
- 3 - 1.29
- 6 - 1.37
- 9 - 1.45
In real terms what this roughly means is if we get hit by another 9 point penalty then we need to be picking up an extra point every 5 games which isn't impossible. I don't think it's likely mind especially given that none of this factors in the mental aspect of it and how it affects the players, nor does it factoring in anything going wrong or transfer activity. I just wanted to highlight that given the context of the league that our position as it stands today looks like it's recoverable and it still could be recoverable with a small amount of extra penalty.
All in therory but we are still operating on a very restricted squad and the big one is that we still have no goal scorers so gaining those extra points is extremely unlikely 12 points is still unlikely but it would give us something to actually play for
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Does anyone really care what someone says who is paid to be controversial?
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None of this makes sense - I was there and there was next to nothing with the sending off
secondly are the FA a football creditor? Because they shouldn’t be stopping anyone else getting their money
utterly ridiculous