Wednesday 11 March 2009

Royals fail to beat basement boys

Reading could only draw with lowly Charlton Athletic last night and consequently lost the opportunity to gain ground on Bongo and Wolves. This was another poor performance at home, and I'll review it by rating each player with a brief comment on their performance.

Federici
Not much to do, but culpable for their second goal and looked a little uncertain at times.

Armstrong
Fine.

Duberry
Rubbish and surely cannot keep Bikey out of the side for much longer.
Prone to excessive hoofing. At fault for the late equaliser.

Pearce
Looking more assured as time goes by; easily one of our better players yesterday.

Rosenior
Another horror show. Poor distribution the sum of which was aimless lumping up the channel. At fault for the late equaliser. 

Hunt
Not good enough once again. Rightly removed to make way for....

Tabb
Can do everything Hunt can't at the moment. Enthusiastic, lively and bagged an assist for Long's second.

Matejovsky
Engimatic. Some good flourishes but drifted out of it and looked disinterested towards the end.

Cisse
Anonymous in the first half; performed well in the second and got stuck in. Made way for...

Harper
Not really enough time to make an impression.

Little
A first half performance that reminded us what we've been missing. Went looking for work and used the ball efficiently and sensibly. Predictably faded in the second half but a welcome and generally impressive return. Alarming how much better he looked than most of the other players. 

Doyle
Contributed very little, an off day.

Long
I've been critical but took his goals well and was a threat at times. Deserves the nod ahead of...

Hunt Jr.
A five minute cameo, did nothing wrong.

Frustrating once again. We really have to start winning at home soon.




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a bad summing up, I presume Liam's hoofing up the field was in anticipation of the arrival of our red haired target man!

A draw was a far result, as we are pants at the moment! I would even put the yank back between the sticks and start tabb instead of Hairy McClary in our vital 3 pointer against Ip-shit.

Strig said...

It's about right. Federici has gone downhill in recent weeks - where has the quick distribution gone? How about Kitson and Shane Long for a start or Kitson and Noel Hunt.....now that would be interesting. Jay Tabb looks bright. Pearce has been terrific. Matejovsky is either Dr. Jeckyll or Mr. Hyde with no in between. Too many half performances from the rest though.

The Royal We said...

The 'funniest' moment was when 'Row Z'nior' headed it directly upwards, then to make amends spooned it even further towards the heavens where it came down almost in our own penalty area! We need Murts back!