Reading v Aston Villa Pre Match thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Madjeski Stadium, 18th Oct, 8pm KO.

Yay, another game!

[RichardBatchelor]

Gollini- Bacuna, Baker, Chester, Cissokho - three hopeless chancers - Ayew, Kodjia, Grealish

1-1. outplayed after scoring early, but Bruce is a 'lucky' manager, which will augur well for the future.

[kiddylion]

At least in the championship you usually get chance to get a shit performance out of your system within 72 hours or in our case heap more misery on.
1-1 standard

[tomd2103]

Gollini- Bacuna, Baker, Chester, Cissokho - three hopeless chancers - Ayew, Kodjia, Grealish

1-1. outplayed after scoring early, but Bruce is a 'lucky' manager, which will augur well for the future.

Hutton was brought on before Bacuna on Saturday, so I would have thought he will get the nod at RB.  You know what, after re-reading that last sentence, I just haven't got the will to add any more!!

[sickbeggar]

After wolves i can't see beyond a defeat. you don't get that lucky twice. 2-0

[aj2k77]

2-0 Reading.

[KRS]

10 votes in and not a single prediction of an away win.

[LukeJames]

We'll win 1-2, I genuinly don't know why I think that.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I reckon we lose. The first games of this season it seemed like this was a team about to break into winning form, the last few it feels like we are about to break into a losing streak. Reading feels like that game and I regard the new manager as neutral at best so I expect no help from there.

[willenhall villa]

Would like to see Rudy start and hopefully get the ball to stick and work off him. Who he takes out to play him though is a toughy.

[wittonwarrior]

In a nutshell v Wolves the players simply didn't have a clue as to how Bruce wanted them to play, so why some 3 days later should that change.  Footballers are thick!

Got to bring Westwood back in if only because he is less "crap" than the other options.

We could play Pele up front and  I don't think it would make a great deal of difference so the area we need to look at is defence, Bacuna  at right back and Baker in centre of defence, again the best of a very average bunch.

I am starting to fear for us this season, confidence has clearly been wiped out and the change of manager will take sometime to have any positive effect. 

[Villa in Denmark]

1-1, because that's what we do.

Anything else will probably rip a hole in space time and start the end of the multiverse.

[cdbearsfan]

Fuck off football.

I hope there's a decent film on.

[PeterWithesShin]

I was very tempted to have draw as the only option in the poll.

[AvFc4eVeR]

I think we will draw 2-2 after being 1-0 up through Ayew only for them to turn it around to 2-1 before we finally show some steely determination and equalise late on through Gestede.

I think we should line up 4-3-3 as follows;

Gollini

Bacuna
Baker
Chester
Amavi

Westwood
McCormack
Tshibola

Kodjia
Gestede
Ayew

Use McCormacks brain to better effect in middle of Park with Pointy and Tish the ankle biters.

Gestede up through the middle to hold it up with Kodjia and Ayew working off him in the channels.