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Reading FC 4 Derby County 1

By Jonny Fordham
March 10, 2010

Follow all the action as Reading take on Derby County tonight (8pm kick-off) with Royals reporter Jonny Fordham.

Royals, in 19th place, are unbeaten in the Championship at Madejski Stadium in 2010 and will be looking to continue their good run with a win over Nigel Clough's 16th-placed Rams.

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Jonny writes: Reading will be looking to rectify the 2-1 loss at Pride Park to Derby in November with a win at Madejski Stadium.

Royals come into the game on the back of a 4-2 defeat to Aston Villa in the FA Cup on Sunday, but their league form at home in 2010 has been very impressive with three wins from three games.

Brian McDermott has plenty of in-form strikers to choose from, but is likely to stick with Shane Long and Simon Church. Former Derby man Grzegorz Rasiak could start on the bench.

I’m going for another Reading home win – 2-0.

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Good win and good to see us moving up the table. But we do 'wobble' at the start of the second half: Mills loses his first half composure and Howard is okay when we go forward but no-existant when we come under pressure. The pitch still a worry, and I think that shows SJM's lack of total commitment to being a football chairman more than anything.

Silver Royal, Woodley
12/03/2010 at 16:49

Robsy, I was going to ask the same about Emma Green Hornet.....

Dr Watson, Reading
11/03/2010 at 19:50

I am horrified by what TilehurstSouthbank reports Madejski as saying on SSN last night. Is there no bounds to this man's ego or is it just stupidity? Does he not realise how close his cost cutting at the start of the season came to undoing everything that had been achieved? And we are still not completely out of the woods!

Just because we are back from the brink he seems to think he can cash in again. How come such a great business man can't achieve his stated intent of selling off the club? I can not see how he can remain fully committed to something that he wants to sell, so the sooner he goes the better as far as I am concerned.

HARB
11/03/2010 at 19:35

Anyone heard from Watford Hero lately -- he's gone awful quiet - Wonder why that is?

Robsy , Reading
11/03/2010 at 18:09

Cracking first half, excellent goals, could easily have scored a hatful. Kebe is so on fire and got my vote for MOTM just ahead of Tabby. Not sure whether it was complacency or tiredness on our part, or better organisation by them, but we were poor in the second half until we scored again.

Our squad looks very strong now, McD able to rotate in most positions bar the fullbacks. Not sure if Griffin had a hamstring niggle last night, but the old boy deserves a short rest. Rather he missed one game than several with an injury.

Great to see so many goals at the Madstad now. 9 for us in our last 2 home league games compared to 8 in Rodgers 11 home league games. There's only one Uncle Fester.

Biffa, Didcot
11/03/2010 at 10:51

LOL, I predicted 3-1 in Wednesdays web chat... but then nobody could have predicted Robbie Savage ending up in goal

Doctor Dave
11/03/2010 at 10:12

Sir John's interview with SSN last night hinted otherwise. When asked about our top players moving on he said;

"It would be good for their careers and good for the club".

Not the comforting words i was looking for. Surely now we're in a position not to have to sell?

Anyway, another god win last night, even though on our second half performance, 4-1 flattered us a little. We should have been out of site within 35 minutes and just seemed to go a little flatt after the sending off. Credit to Derby who played well for the second 45. Nothing can stop me being a happy Royal at the moment though. Bring on the Brizzle on Saturday! Come on you Royals!!!!!

TilehurstSouthbank, Tilehurst, Reading
11/03/2010 at 09:22

Playoff's?

Nimrod Maximus
11/03/2010 at 09:11

Is the club going to make any a temp to sign those loan players and keep the young players who have started to come good? Or they going to stay tight lipped and wait till the start of the new season?