Irish treble for Royals as Swans are sunk

Four Goals from the Royals' Irish contingent of the Brothers Hunt and Kevin Doyle ensured an easy victory in the autumn sunshine against Swansea City. A dominant first half display saw the Royals coast to a 3-0 lead with some assured and attractive football. It was always going to be tricky to keep the momentum going with the game effectively won, and so it proved to be true as the Welsh side played the better football in the second half, though their only chance of note was a free kick that struck the bar. Noel opened the scoring with a sweet header from a corner, Doyle made it two with a close range effort and Stephen Hunt slotted home the third after good work opened up the Swansea defence once again. Doyle finished well for his second late on after some good interplay through the middle.

So the excellent home form continues, and we must hope that this is the confidence booster we need to improve our fortunes on the road. We'll need to be at our best because we go to Molineux on Tuesday night; Wolves are in outstanding form and although we have moved up to third in the table, we are trailing them by 8 points, and a defeat would make it 11 points. That's a hefty deficit so early on in the season.