Match Day Thread : Reading

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Is this the first matchday thread on 3.0?

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I see they’ve honoured Kone by sticking his crown on their badge

Looks like they’ve stolen one of our change kit ideas - red with blue & white stripes in quarters.

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come on you Biues …lets do this !

This is it. A month to define this season’s fate and destiny. And today’s task is to defeat our stricken, fallen neighbours. Subplots aplenty running through this one, such a shame it’s been moved to the sleepy and diluted 12.30 slot.

Onto the game itself…how pragmatic is Dodds prepared to be in matching up to the opposition or sticking with controlball dogma until he unleashes changes on 70+mins?

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For anyone who didnt pre-book tickets just called Reading and they can be bought on the door.

Yes. And possibly the last one featuring Reading.

Feeling very positive today. Big chance of three points with their injury issues at centre half. Come on you blues!

Yes - https://x.com/wwfchelp/status/1908185865547043188

Tickets never arrived and didn’t see the tweet about replying back to the confirmation email until now, am I still going to be able to show confirmation and collect at Reading? Had to do this at Shrewsbury away a few weeks ago when my name wasn’t on the list.

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Can’t see Dodds being anything other than conservative today, at least initially. Burton still have a decent chance of survival, so might give Wrectum a difficult game. You would expect the Welsh to win however, so at some point we’re going to have to score a goal. Or even two, gulp. Fine margins again I’d say. Difficult viewing ahead I suspect. Or maybe we’ll go for broke and blow them away. Yeah.

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I think we’ll play on the counter. Reading’s midfield three are superb and will likely have ‘control’ of the ball. I’d like to see us go direct to Kone against their weak centre halves.

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I have a bad feeling about today. So hopefully this post acts as a jinx. But by mentioning ‘jinx’ I’ve jinxed the jinx and now my bad feeling is valid.

Shit.

After this fixture last season it the whole Bearwood purchase news broke.

What “epic bants” are we going to do to top that this year?

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Back to four at the back I think.

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Good line up. Not surprised Lowry benched. Gonna wind up the Gasroom with that one. Did say he wasn’t very good on Tuesday.

I would have been pretty surprised if we kept the formation against Shrewsbury today, Reading will be a completely different kettle of fish to arguably the poorest team we’ve faced at this level for some time.
It will be a battle but the 11 on the team sheet have it in them to go toe to toe with anyone in this league, hopefully they’ll bring the shooting boots they forgot on Tuesday.