| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread 12:14 - Jan 13 with 54361 views | Monkey_Roots | My first (I think) match thread. I have no clue which version of us will turn up. I assume if there is a 'first' to be had for Reading, they will achieve it here, or if a player hasn't scored for 400 matches, he'll likely bag himself a brace in this game, or the first might be that they actually fill the stadium. Nevertheless, I'm hoping, foolishly, that Sheff Utd was the new normal, and Fleetwood was the anomaly (albeit typical cup result). 1—2 with Chair and Willock on the scoresheet. |  | | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:45 - Jan 14 with 2852 views | kropotkin41 | I think I may have heard enough. Blimey. I'm hoping there are some more rubbish teams left in this division than we have become. We're not offering much by way of a response. |  |
| ‘morbid curiosity about where this is all going’ |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:45 - Jan 14 with 2851 views | BklynRanger | Yeah but no but you really couldn't make that up! Shirley? |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:45 - Jan 14 with 2843 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:44 - Jan 14 by OldPedro | Why didn't Hendrick play like this for us!!!! |
Because he's a lazy, gutless bastárd. I may have mentioned this before. |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:45 - Jan 14 with 2844 views | qprxtc | Bourbons in the bin now. Jeff bloody Hendrick. What a c unt. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:46 - Jan 14 with 2758 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:44 - Jan 14 by stevec | Stelling says first goals in eight years, did I hear right?!! |
That;s not right anyway, Steve. Maybe his first double? |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:46 - Jan 14 with 2691 views | BrianMcCarthy | 45 of 49 played. |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:47 - Jan 14 with 2604 views | queensparker | This is absolute dogshit. Like they’re playing on half speed. Genuinely worried for our season at the moment |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:47 - Jan 14 with 2589 views | BrianMcCarthy | Chair through-ball for Roberts, JUST too long. |  |
|  | Login to get fewer ads
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:47 - Jan 14 with 2596 views | jtuck | One of our midfielders bottles a challenge in the center of the pitch and leads to Reading second goal on break. Critchley should do a 'Paul Hall' and hook Willock at half time for Lowe. |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:47 - Jan 14 with 2592 views | joolsyp | We look a team devoid of confidence, fight, self-belief, leadership. Critchley has a massive task on his hands (as if we didn't know that already). |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:48 - Jan 14 with 2519 views | BrianMcCarthy | I think we've played ok. |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:48 - Jan 14 with 2477 views | traininvain | Once again we’ve looked shaky in defence from the start which is why Ince replaced an injured defender with an attacker. He saw an opportunity. Dickie and Dunne in a back four doesn’t work. I was surprised to see them both starting again as a central defence partnership. Three at the back or one of JCS alongside Dickie or Dunne. Bit worrying that Critchley hasn’t worked this one out after the past few games. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:48 - Jan 14 with 2440 views | JAPRANGERS | 15th right now. Only 1 more place to drop and we are where we want to be. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:49 - Jan 14 with 2429 views | OutintheOrne | May as well take the Roberts and Iroebognum out of this team. They offer nothing. This is a very poor team off the ball, I don't think they've won a second ball all game. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:49 - Jan 14 with 2395 views | themodfather | damn damn and damn, bow locks even. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:49 - Jan 14 with 2367 views | paulparker |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:48 - Jan 14 by traininvain | Once again we’ve looked shaky in defence from the start which is why Ince replaced an injured defender with an attacker. He saw an opportunity. Dickie and Dunne in a back four doesn’t work. I was surprised to see them both starting again as a central defence partnership. Three at the back or one of JCS alongside Dickie or Dunne. Bit worrying that Critchley hasn’t worked this one out after the past few games. |
I don’t even think this lot are arsed with him as manager if truth be told |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
|
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:49 - Jan 14 with 2362 views | karlski |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:44 - Jan 14 by BrianMcCarthy | Cross headed half-clear, follow-up shot is saved but it balls to an unmarked Hendrick who taps in from a foot out. |
Think the shot was falling in anyway despite Seny's attempted stop. He could - should? - have done better there. Nothing could do about the first though. Absolute sickener. Can't really say they've been better than us. First goal a worldy, second very frustrating because there were multiple occasions we could have stopped the move that got them up the pitch in the first place. Might as well try a different formation second half? We aren't going to come back in this shape. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:50 - Jan 14 with 2266 views | BrianMcCarthy | Good work by Dykes, isolated, wins a throw, HT. |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:51 - Jan 14 with 2224 views | jtuck | Sorry to harp on about it but Willock looks DEPRESSED put there. Torn between being angry with him to feeling sorry. Gone from attacking threat to attacking impediment. Chair trying. Hard. |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:51 - Jan 14 with 2200 views | Damo1962 |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:47 - Jan 14 by joolsyp | We look a team devoid of confidence, fight, self-belief, leadership. Critchley has a massive task on his hands (as if we didn't know that already). |
Like Northern said in his preview...we haven't seen the worst yet. Once we get dragged in at the bottom, does anyone hand on heart...think these players will get us out of it? Not me. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:52 - Jan 14 with 2152 views | BklynRanger | Can anyone see who's supposed to have been tracking Hendrick? He was deep covering Chair at certain points but somebody gave up completely for that 2nd in particular. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:52 - Jan 14 with 2109 views | QPRSteve | It's all right playing Willock, Chair and Roberts, but it leaves us severely overrun in midfield, especially as the game seems to pass Tim by. [Post edited 14 Jan 2023 15:54]
|  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:53 - Jan 14 with 2076 views | Damo1962 |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:49 - Jan 14 by paulparker | I don’t even think this lot are arsed with him as manager if truth be told |
Starting to seem that way, but they are still shite. |  | |  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:53 - Jan 14 with 2076 views | RangersDave | 16th is looking good this year, and we may have to resign ourselves to that position forever! |  |
|  |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:54 - Jan 14 with 2016 views | nix |
| Berkshire FC Fakes Match Thread on 15:49 - Jan 14 by karlski | Think the shot was falling in anyway despite Seny's attempted stop. He could - should? - have done better there. Nothing could do about the first though. Absolute sickener. Can't really say they've been better than us. First goal a worldy, second very frustrating because there were multiple occasions we could have stopped the move that got them up the pitch in the first place. Might as well try a different formation second half? We aren't going to come back in this shape. |
Seriously making Hendricks and Carroll look like Modric and Ibrahmovic. Bereft of ideas, urgency and confidence. Faffing around outside both boxes. No one driving, no one supporting in the box. Barely a shot at all. Woeful. We need a response in the second half as it’s hard to get any enthusiasm going in the crowd. |  | |  |
| |