Well that was the question at the end of the game last night. At four nil there was plenty of booing, plenty of 'you're not fit to wear the shirt' and 'what the fuck is going on', but after two goals, 30 minutes of at least trying, and Smith winning every header that came his way, many in the crowd didn't really know what to do at the end :-/
I said yesterday this league is shit, and Reading being in a play off place just goes to show that, they were hardly great, and yet still managed to win 4-2, their only real bit of proper quality being their second goal which was a lovely curled free kick, the others being helped by poor defending. Their third looked off side but i've not seen it on the telly so could well be wrong. We did actually have a few moments in the first half that looked like football - there was one sequence of three first time passes (I'm not joking, the ball was actually passed from player to player to player on their first touch!) but otherwise it was pretty nondescript. The game illustrated us well at the moment, odd bit of genius (Austin's goal), fair bit of hard work (Murphy put himself about), millions of aimless chipped balls from defence (Lees being particularly guilty), not passing to feet (most of them), no meaningful movement off the ball, and woeful woeful defending. I watched McD on the touchline and I can see what people mean about his lack of animation - he doesn't really go in for shouting at/motivating/instructing the players at all from the touchline. He's not going to be sacked though, as others have said GBH won't want to pay the compensation money he'd get. Why was the game delayed for 30 minutes cause of traffic congestion on the M62? There were only 19,000 people there? Were 10,000 stuck at Chain Bar? I still don't really know what to feel about that game, it was another defeat, conceding a heap of goals, with some tatty play, but it was entertaining and exciting, and nice and lively in the south stand, with lots of positive stuff, and lots of vitriol, with the highlight being the 'let's pretend we've scored a goal' chant followed by 'fake' celebration cheers. DRB _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
