Missed most of the second half as I got a phone call I needed to take. Good workout within the limitations of our squad. Hope we can get up and running quickly over the next couple of weeks. More established bodies needed unless we are going with the kids as back up.
Wonder why Wassim not getting any minutes - been on the bench every match and not got onto the pitch yet
Not sure he’s actually on the bench today, it seems that Vennings has his shirt numbet
Vennings wasn't even in the squad....
It was said on comms that they were initially confused because Wassim was listed as 21 on the team sheet but when 21 came onto the pitch, it was actually Vennings wearing that number.
thought we looked decent. Claire and dobson were good, jayasemi and Connor looked good wide and Davidson did OK. add an inform stockley and that's a pretty decent front 3. inniss and famewo at cb. just need some back up. roddy looked pretty good, and a good cameo from Claydon. looking at that I'd say we need another centre back maybe as backup, maybe a left back but Roddy did look good, a winger, and a 10 to challenge Morgan for that role. harsh to judge gomez on 30 mins, but didn't show much
Decent enough workout and it looks to me like we have a plan. Just replace some of the chess pieces with a bit more quality and we might look good. Nothing to moan about but we do need some attacking recruits.
Roddy should be nowhere near the first team. He gave their winger too much space time and time again and nearly every Reading opportunity was initiated from that side. Other than Famewo being sloppy with the ball, the rest of the potential starters looked decent. Albie looked excellent. Even though he gave a lot of effort, Davison was anonymous - I certainly hope he is not our primary reserve for Stockley. The yoof injected a lot of energy in the second half.
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Sure it's 'just' a friendly. But we looked as good as they did for decent spells.
Clayden and Dj both looked dangerous.