Match Day Thread: Reading 23rd Aug 2025

Reading forum is bantz free. Like here, they are much too concerned about their own players to worry about the other side.

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Heatmap for Henderson last season, I guess he plays in Fred’s position.

Hard to base much on this stats seeing as they got relegated last season, but he didn’t score or create that much.

Heatmap at full time

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Just saw Dan Rice on his phone…hope its for a striker rather than planning his Saturday evening.

Please lets have some snap, crackle and pop this afternoon…and not a rice pudding!

First relegation 6 pointer of the season, a must win.

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With the ball it’s

Van Sas

Grimmer, Taylor, Anders

Leahy Abbot

Fred, then a massive gap- - > mullins, Lowry, Harvie

Udoh


Shame Junior is out and Fink still not fit enough for the bench. Really struggling with attacking options at the moment. Time for Lowry to convert his promise to goals lets hope. COYB!

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We will win but have no idea how we did it with that team.:slightly_smiling_face:

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I think you could write most of the Dodds era off as poor form for a lot of these players.

Fred has had some nice runs with the ball. Probably no worse than any other player

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I strongly disagree the Dodds era is due to players poor form.

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pre-match dodds

The way I took that, is yes Henderson is in the squad, but he’s got no intention of playing him…

While it’s clear Doddsy isn’t getting the best out of the players I’m not sure we can say any player has really been in top form for a long while.

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Over a 23 game period, if every single player seems out of form, I’d argue there’s bigger factors at play than each individual merely being off the boil.

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Nick Freeman

Grimmer, been pretty poor for a while = start him

Fred, been very poor for a while = start him

Allen, shown real attacking quality and delivery’s = drop him…..

Beginning to think Dodds is suffering from a undiagnosed brain injury

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It’s disgraceful that we are 4 games in and we have no number 9 , Rice and the management team need to be called out, for a professional club we are behaving like a step 5 team…this is not acceptable

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That doesn’t wholly explain or begin to excuse the lack of energy and bravery, the lack of doing the basics right we’ve seen this season though.

Sure, Dodds is letting the players down, but they’re returning the favour.

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Rice sits in the main stand…. At half time you can walk in the gates are open. You should go and tell him it’s not acceptable, you could mention Leahy too

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