Saturday we host Watford for our second home game. They stumbled in the play offs last year after having been close to automatic promotion, condemned for their misuse of a loophole in the loan system.
Saturday they come to the Madstad, table toppers and on the back of a 6-1 win over Bournemouth.
This fixture is one I dislike, in all the years of following Readingfc there has never been a good game played, difficult to sum up in a few words, but it always seems dour and not very exciting.
Given the close proximity there has never been much of a local rivalry, not sure either team is excited to bothered by the other. The signing of Brendan Rogers stirred the pot a little, but outside of the two clubs barely even a ripple was noticed. Though the ghost goal brought feelings to a Luke warm tepid temperature.
So on a positive we meet as two unbeaten teams, one top, the other seeking a return to the Premiership, both teams with managers who want to play exciting football. So this has the recipe and all the ingredients for an exciting game, or will history remained unchanged.
Reading need to be making more impact on the game especially in the first half, both against Ipswich and Bolton we were fortunate not to be more than one goal down.
No news on a strickercoming in, and still no signs of Pogrebnyak moving on, and in the local press statements such as we don't want to put the club in a bad place by overspending, is getting to be the annual statement. One has to say that the commercial side is still that of a club that has not moved on since our days at Elm Park, harsh, but given the potential earnings and rewards that have been within touching distance, still eludes us.
Heart says
a close, exciting game won in the dying moments by the Royals
Head says
Poor game to watch through the eyes of a Royal,where we lacked promise in the final third which cost us the match, and questions murmured again about strategy on signings.
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