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Hindsight in football is an unavoidable yet dangerous thing. Once the raw emotion drains from another road trip that yielded nothing, you can almost convince yourself it wasn’t all bad. In isolation, this was actually a good performance. We created more chances here than in several previous games combined. The passing was sharper, the movement […]
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The Royals suffered a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Cardiff City in what manager Noel Hunt called our most complete performance of the season. Lewis Wing put the Royals ahead in the first half to take us into the break ahead. Cardiff scored twice in the second half to take all three points. The […]
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Football’s a deeply ironic game, really. For instance, Reading can go on an unbeaten run despite being very poor going forwards, and then lose that unbeaten run despite putting in – by far – their best attacking performance of the season. My main gripe with Noel Hunt’s management has been just how stale, flat and […]
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Jack Stevens: 5 Brought in to replace the injured Joel Pereira, having played pretty well in his cup games. Helped smother away a dangerous play into his near post right after Reading took the lead. Let Cardiff’s equaliser through his body early in the second half, but had to deal with a very late deflection […]
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Form Cardiff City were relegated from the Championship last season after finishing bottom of the league, five points away from safety. This ended their six-year stay in the second tier, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2019. They have had a strong first quarter of the season and look to be in the […]
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It feels weird not having a midweek game to focus on, but here we are. Last time out the Royals shared the points with the Grecians – goals from Jack Marriott and Jayden Wareham cancelling each other out. It was a very poor game yet again from the Royals and things are starting to look […]
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Making your writing debut for TTE knowing that 86% of Reading fans are going to disagree with what you’re about to write helps focus the mind. That somewhat incredible stat, from a recent TTE poll, reflects the number of people who feel the time to replace Noel Hunt has now arrived. That’s the same all-round […]
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I was going to save myself a lot of time this week by using much of the text from last week’s column and just replacing the name of the opposition in question, because unfortunately it was rinse and repeat as far as the performance at Exeter City was concerned. My matchday bingo card was as […]
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“Football’s all about opinions” is a term you’ll hear, especially when listening to BBC Radio Berkshire. Fans on Twitter – including in polls by some Reading fan groups (The Tilehurst End, RFC Latest) – say (overwhelmingly) it’s time Noel Hunt was sacked. But apparently only “a tiny little minority” think so, says the ‘voice of […]
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We’ve been told quite often recently that we’re a miserable old, negative bunch at The Tilehurst End. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. TTE Towers is a regular hotspot of positivity – we have rainbows, fluffy white bunny rabbits hopping around and unicorns that fart glitter. Sim even regularly wears a spinning bow […]
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