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The Alternative View Special - Wolves (A) & Brentford (H)

Wolves away and Brentford at home - how did the media and social media react to two Reading defeats?

By davemc_exile
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After a win in Brian McDermotts first game against Blackburn, the Royals entered the Christmas programme with two games, firstly away at Wolves and home against Brentford. An optimistic person mayhave expected at least three points from one of these games, however a fruitless siege that resembled the Alamo at Wolves was followed again with another reversal to leave Reading without a point.

So without further ado, let’s see how the fans and the media outlets reacted to both of our festive fixtures.

Boxing Day – Wolves away

Social

Kenny Jackett seems to be a man under pressure at Molineux and much of the fans reaction was incredulous in that they won and the fact that they aren’t playing well.

Under pressure……

Many Royals fans are asking the same question….

Defence wins games…..

You make your own luck……….

Media

We'll start with SkySports as due to the game being on TV who give us nearly four minutes of highlights to torture us with.

The BBC call our performance "sustained pressure" and when you look at the stats at the bottom of the page it's hard to disagree.

ESPN FC as usual carry Sky’s report as do Sporting Life, HITC do a little round up of the tweets from the players and TalkSport play more on our miserable run on the road, but do say that the Wolves goal led a charmed life.

Looking at the local outlets then the Wolves Express and Star give a fair write up of the game, wondering how they actually won it! Charles over at GetReading takes a philosophical look at the game, pointing towards some slack defending by Blackman for the goal and questions Vydra’s state of mind, and the decisions that McDermott must make in January.

28th - Brentford FC Home

Social:

Only one place to start – reaction to "that" goal.

And another view of it…..

Goal of the month?

Ordinary?

Nice touch

Half time viewpoint…..

The names Bond, Jonathan Bond…. (Been waiting for this all season!)

We can all dream of Septembers form…..

Media

Once again it was a slow news day on the Reading FC front, even though the game had three superb goals in it. However looking at the reports that did come in, the BBC call it an absorbing contest and reckon that Reading had a chance of an equaliser, until Hectors second yellow for diving, to back up his first for dissent. That’s probably the worst way to receive two yellow cards.

Over at Skysports then we have the usual highlights package as they reckon that all three goals oozed class.

ESPN FC & Clubcall as usual carry the Sky report, but both have good stats packages should you wish to analyse the finer details of the game. The shots/on target totals do point to us giving it a good go, with the total of the two games over Xmas being 38 shots but just seven on target. That’s pretty much a must try harder grade.

Over at London24 the Bees manager Dean Smith gives us praise saying that the Royals dominated the 1st half and should have been ahead. The two "Get" sites, GetWestLondon and GetReading carry full coverage of the game with GetWestLondon saying that the Bees where on the back foot for most of the 90 and where lucky to come away with the win, whilst GetReading point to an improved performance following the Wolves game but lamenting the defensive frailties.

So that's your lot for 2015! I'll be back after the City game with another round up of the Media and Social verdicts of the game, until then have a Happy New Year and hopefully 2016 will be nicer to the Royals than 2015 was!

Urzzz

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