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I feel like this could go one of two ways. We might come out on fire and roast the Swans as players respond well to Wilder's comments. Given how poorl...

To be fair to Muniz, he hardly got a look in because Fulham played with one striker and that was Mitrovich. That said, his record in the Championship ...

Andy's opener lays it out well. Reading, like us, are a team in transition and appear to be very inconsistent. It is also a real surprise to see Paul ...

Another game I didn't get to follow except from alerts on my phone. Must admit that when Stoke scored early I feared the worst. I was figuring that...

We signed Kamil Conteh for the U21s from Watford. Pretty much agree with your analysis. It looks like Wilder thinks that none of the U21s (includi...

Couldn't follow the game at the time but have just watched the extended highlights. You can't tell much from that but it was good to see us ending the...

Thanks for the starter from Andy. On paper, this match can only end one way. Thankfully, games aren't played on paper. Sheffield Utd are probably t...

Thanks Andy R for that research. Backs up my understanding which is that Wilder's teams tend to have slow starts to the season. I find myself flip-flo...

To be precise, I was thinking more of our academy players like Boyd Munce, Gibson, Brynn and so on. Fry and Tav are massively experienced Championship...

Thinking more about it, we have no one to play Howson's role and no sign of anyone being trained to do it. You don't rely want to be experimenting in ...

Gayle has signed for Stoke. Played two games already.

Thanks OFB for a foam-powered opener. I think that we need as much of the first team to play as makes sense because we need to start building some mom...

That was painful. Could say that on the balance of the game that we deserved a point but the first 40 minutes was so rank that it is hard to say any t...

It seems that Larsen was all but signed until his club moved the goalposts. Looking at the line up then I think we are short of a first choice striker...

It's tempting but I have noticed in the past that it takes McNair several games to acclimatise when switching between midfield and defence. If he hasn...

Thanks Andy. I always have the feeling that Loftus Road is one of those places we do badly at but I have no idea whether it's true in fact. QPR fans s...

Agreed. We're a possession-based team and the first rule of possession-based football is keep possession. The reason we dominated the first half is th...

All things considered, I think that was more positive than negative. In particular, when we got put under pressure we managed to, just about, hang on....

On the positive side, we haven't brought that many players in and we're playing the same system. Lenihan and Giles have had a full pre-season as has S...

I do think this is something that Scott is leading on rather than Wilder. We bought McGree last season as, clearly, a replacement for Tav when Tav wen...

That's a really insightful post. Being cynical about it, a director of football position won't do anything to ensure continuity because there's always...

My thoughts exactly. He *might* be a £7m striker but no one knows. I think people are over-excited because Fulham paid £7m for someone who hardly play...

So there is increasing belief that we'll be loaning Muniz for a year. Last year he was on our hit list but went to Fulham for something like £7m. What...

This does feel like an eyeballs in the sky kind of game. I expect WBA to sit back and hope to pinch a win. If we don't have any new players in, I doub...

hmm Boro 4th-6th. (Lot does depend on our remaining recruitment though) Auto: Norwich, WBA (Though this could be the year that Norwich get broken ...

Watched the highlights. You can't learn a lot but things I did notice. Both of OM's first-half chances came from Jones getting caught out of position....

I've not seen the game but by all accounts, Akpom did well when he came on. I do remember that the scored in his first two games for us and looked ok ...

If a premier league team really does put a proper bid in for Tav and offers him enough, it's hard to see why he should stay. If I were Tav I would be ...

I do think we have an informal agreement with all our players that if a top level club comes calling for them that we won't demand an unreasonable fee...

I think the way we play makes us, to use a cricket term, flat-track bullies. The general idea is to keep possession in the opponent's half and keep on...