A trip to the Royals

[The Blobster]

Footy is back after the Xmas break , 2000 JBs are on their way to Berkshire to watch us hopefully stuff an experienced Reading team.
Game kicks off at 5.15 pm and is live on sky sports.
I think there will be a few goals in this one and it should be an entertaining game .

 

[ivoralljack]

We need to play the entire game as we did in the second half against Coventry. If we do we should have a decent chance of three points. The thing is, can we play like that for 90 minutes? I'm hoping we can because we need to break that winless streak pronto!!

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Away end is sold out. Should be a lot of noise. Almost like a home game

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Martin is quoted on the Match Center thread as having a selection headache ... I really don't see how that is possible. If he doesn't have a sense of what his strongest XI is by now he never will.

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Swansea City: Steven Benda; Nathan Wood, Harry Darling, Ben Cabango; Matty Sorinola, Joe Allen, Matt Grimes (captain), Ryan Manning; Jay Fulton, Ollie Cooper; Joel Piroe.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jamie Paterson, Luke Cundle, Liam Cullen, Armstrong Oko-Flex, Joel Latibeaudiere, Kyle Naughton

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Maybe Martin does pay attention.

3+2 with Wood, Darling, Cabango

Allen starts alongside Grimes. Fulton used further forward (good) with Cooper. Piroe still starts ... he'd need a broken leg for Cullen to be given a chance.

Lati is dropped in preference to Sori

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Flex, Cundle, Cullen are on the bench. No place for Ntcham. I thought he was the stronger of him and Paterson against Coventry. Pets prevail

 

[Yankee_Jack]

On paper, I have to believe that Allen, Grimes, Cooper and Fulton is our strongest midfield setup by far.

My only other tweak to this line-up is to switch to a back 4, play Flex instead of Darling, play Naughton instead of Sorinola.

This gives us a solid midfield, with Flex in a Sinclair type role up-front, and the experience and ability of Manning and Naughton as FBs.

 

[KVetch]

A win would be really nice. It's hard to be positive with our form lately. We're still competing for a playoff place somehow.

 

[jackodiamonds]

I heard a rumour Ntcham will be sold in January. Maybe that's why he's not in the line-up?

 

[The Blobster]

Evening all, I hope you all had a good Xmas,
COYJB

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Nothing changes …. We fuck around from the get go

 

[The Blobster]

They are strong on the break and they've got Andy Carol for set pieces , we are going to have to be strong defensively

 

[The Blobster]

All to slow in the build up , normality resumes after the Xmas pudding!

 

[The Blobster]

This is surreal , I'm listening on radio Wales but with Reading commentary team !

 

[Yankee_Jack]

This is surreal , I'm listening on radio Wales but with Reading commentary team !

Does it sound like we’re doing any better

 

[Victoria Swan]

Is there no stream even in the dark markets?

 

[The Blobster]

They only seem to talk about play when reading have the ball !

 

[jackodiamonds]

https://wiziwig1.eu/soccer/nubis-17b5hg-reading-swansea-city?l=1522912174 stream, best use adblocker though

 

[Victoria Swan]

This is surreal , I'm listening on radio Wales but with Reading commentary team !

Apparently Andy Robertson is stuck in traffic so BBC Wales switched to BBC Berkshire commentary.