Countdown to Pride Park

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Derby v Reading-- a pointless game

[Skin]

Deby - down
Fulham - down

..I just don't see "Reading" as the third name on that list.

LOL, Reading are 3 points away from being the second name on that list.

[Platypuss]

One positive out of the Bolton and Fulham results is that a lot of the lazy compLOLacency has quite rightly gone out the window. And not before time.

If any of the players have even had so much as a whiff of it (and who could blame them with there being so much of it in the fans) then hopefully SC (and that result) can stamp it out.
We are in a right battle now and have to make the most of what we do have. There is no white knight on the horizon.

Therefore the team has to fight for 90 mins and must not shirk. And that includes you, Harper.

[Half Man Half Biscuit]

One positive out of the Bolton and Fulham results is that a lot of the lazy compLOLacency has quite rightly gone out the window. And not before time.

If any of the players have even had so much as a whiff of it (and who could blame them with there being so much of it in the fans) then hopefully SC (and that result) can stamp it out.
We are in a right battle now and have to make the most of what we do have. There is no white knight on the horizon.

Therefore the team has to fight for 90 mins and must not shirk. And that includes you, Harper.

The boy nearly rescued a point for The Royals at Goodison, just a whisker away from scoring!

[Coppelled Streets]

I feel we will stay up this season but i am worried about next

I share your concern. It's never too early to worry.

[Cookie]

We would have been OK today with a bit more bite in midfield.
The OS was last updated 12 Feb on the injury/suspensions page. So it's hard to understand where Gunnarsson is on the recovery time-line. The notes suggest he was playing with a groin injury and using pain-killers to get him through each game. I always think that's a bit short sighted. Recovery is a natural process.

It's hard to say this, but we need him back.

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Derby v Reading-- a pointless game

Changed my mind, I think Derby have a chance of staying in the Premier League

[Half Man Half Biscuit]

One positive out of the Bolton and Fulham results is that a lot of the lazy compLOLacency has quite rightly gone out the window. And not before time.

If any of the players have even had so much as a whiff of it (and who could blame them with there being so much of it in the fans) then hopefully SC (and that result) can stamp it out.
We are in a right battle now and have to make the most of what we do have. There is no white knight on the horizon.

Therefore the team has to fight for 90 mins and must not shirk. And that includes you, Harper.

The boy nearly rescued a point for The Royals at Goodison, just a whisker away from scoring!

The Everton game was different, they had already scored, so his nearly goal would only have got us one point. But today he made up for it with THREE beauties.

James Harper the ace in the pack.

[Half Man Half Biscuit]

Assuming that we don’t have a game on Saturday 17th May our last game will be the meeting with Derby County at Pride Park on the 11th. May.

Following today’s game at The Villa we have sixteen league games left, that’s a possible total of 48 points and would give The Royals a 70 point finish.

But with home games against Bolton, Villa, Man City, Birmingham, Blackburn, Fulham and Spurs we can arrive at Pride Park not needing the win.

I’ve not budgeted for anything against Manchester United.

Do the sums for the three most likely relegation candidates, Derby, Sunderland and Fulham. Any Royals total of 40+ will surely equal safety.

Would be very interested to know where, in your opinion, the required 18+ points (or six wins) are going to come from? It OK listing the home fixtures but do you really think we will beat Villa, Man C and Blackburn?

Why not, we might even nick something at any of Wigan, Newcastle or Boro away.

What he said as well.

[Cookie]

My dream that we would arrive at Pride Park not needing to win is looking a stronger possibility after our 2-0 beating of Man City yesterday.

Back-to-back wins, back-to-back clean-sheets, wow!
My tinted specs need a repair job.

[Cookie]

They’re going to keep us on tenterhooks until the end. Aren’t they?

[Beelzebub]

Here's to Birmingham having a points reduction!

[earleyroyal]

I know none of us are confident that we would win a 'must-win game' at Derby but, having just seen MOTD, they were so bad that I'm a little more hopeful. If we can't beat that team, and go down as a result of it, we will (rightly) be a laughing stock for years to come.

[Archie's penalty]

They’re going to keep us on tenterhooks until the end. Aren’t they?

You're damn straight!

[AthleticoSpizz]

I know none of us are confident that we would win a 'must-win game' at Derby but, having just seen MOTD, they were so bad that I'm a little more hopeful. If we can't beat that team, and go down as a result of it, we will (rightly) be a laughing stock for years to come.

just like today (Fulham had not won on the road since circa 1945) Reading will oblige and play a part in the history books of somebody elses club.

Derby could yet outscore their manager

[Cookie]

They’re going to keep us on tenterhooks until the end. Aren’t they?

You're damn straight!

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They’re going to keep us on tenterhooks until the end. Aren’t they?

Oh I don't know. Another 3 performance like today's and we'll be going to Derby already down!!!

(Subject to other results not going our way of course!)

This gallows humour ain't all it's cracked up to be is it!?

Pissed, as well as pissed off, and retiring for the night. Hopefully through tomorrow's hangover I'll feel a little better and more positive ..... but probably not!

[Cookie]

I'm a little sceptical but I just took a look at Middlesborough's home record and well mmmm who knows. If Sonko comes back from Africa with his judgement and timing like it used to be maybe a three-pointer.

You deserve a cigar sir.
But it was nothing to do with Sonko I think.

[rg6royal]

Could prove to be a massive game for us....

[Cookie]

Could prove to be a massive game for us....

by the time we get to Derby we'll be six points better off.