Eight minutes into the second half, we’re 1-0 down and Darren Wrack is one on one with their keeper.
He hits the post.
If he hits the inside of the post the ball will go in and we’ll go on and win this game comfortably. If he hits the outside of the post then we should call time and go home there and then.
He hit the outside. It was one of those nights.
Reading arrived on the back of 14 consecutive away defeats and somewhat inevitably left with a 2-0 win and all three points. The boys played fairly OK but when the chances came we didn’t take them. We needed a lift from somewhere and Wrack had that chance. An equaliser at that point would have undoubtedly changed the game but it was not to be.
Rammell had a quiet game, Brissett and Simpson were relatively anonymous and the absent Pointon left a not so fab back four. Reading stifled the midfield and we ended up lumping long balls to the front two. This method doesn’t suit us one bit and we will have to find a way around teams who employ such a tactic. If we don’t then the word will so be around about us.
Wednesday is becoming a bit of a bogey to us. Played four, lost three (QPR, Man City and Reading) and won one (Sheffield Wednesday....sorry). This was the first time the team has gone backwards under Uncle Ray and although it was always going to come at some inappropriate time, did it really have to be night when we could have gone second? Still if I had been offered 19 points at the end of September I’d have taken them and should I really bemoaning the fact that we’re sixth in the table?