v Farnborough

[Reading Rebel]

After missing last week hopefully George Alexander, Dom Hutchinson and Josh Jackman are all available.

[GlenSTFC]

30 minutes ago, Reading Rebel said:

After missing last week hopefully George Alexander, Dom Hutchinson and Josh Jackman are all available.

After his 2 goals v H&Y will Minhas start or be dropped in favour of the loan duo? Tricky one and a headache for Scott to ponder. But great to have these options and we’ll certainly need these 3 players back to have any chance of continuing our winning run. 

[Sir Rebel1965]

Scott will need to first find out how many "fans" Farnborough will be playing.

[Reading Rebel]

1 hour ago, GlenSTFC said:

After his 2 goals v H&Y will Minhas start or be dropped in favour of the loan duo? Tricky one and a headache for Scott to ponder. But great to have these options and we’ll certainly need these 3 players back to have any chance of continuing our winning run. 

Minhas will get another chance to impress next week so I'd definitely start with Alexander and Hutchinson.

Early days but they seemed to have struck up a decent partnership in the short time they've played together.

[3spirit]

16 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

Minhas will get another chance to impress next week so I'd definitely start with Alexander and Hutchinson.

Early days but they seemed to have struck up a decent partnership in the short time they've played together.

Why can't Scott play all three?

I don't believe it sends out the right signal to drop Nathan Minhas. I would rather build on to his scoring form than alienate him from the starting line up. 

[GlenSTFC]

I’ll take that point! Always difficult playing at Farnborough and after they took the lead twice I had a feeling it’ll be another one of those days… but we showed great ability and desire to fight back and gain a deserved point. George had a very quiet game by his standards and wasn’t effective today. But great for Nathan to score again just hope his injury doesn’t rule him out for next Saturday as we’ll need him.

[Curtis]

I hadn’t expected us to get anything from this match (we lost 4-1 there last season), so I would say that’s a bonus point.

[rocking rebel]

Where was Dan bayliss today?

[GlenSTFC]

Just now, rocking rebel said:

Where was Dan bayliss today?

He was physically at the game so I imagine injured. Hopefully nothing too serious. 

[PaxtonLee]

Thought half-time came at the wrong time for us as we were well on top and playing some good stuff. Then caught cold at the start of the 2nd half (just like the start of the 1st) and struggled to find the same kind of rhythm. They seemed to stop Hutchinson getting on the ball. So credit that we found a way to get back level, then we seemed the more likely to go on to win it. A well deserved point but the game was there for the taking.

[Reading Rebel]

Not the best start to the game when we gifted Farnborough the lead after only a couple of minutes on the clock.

We then settled down with Nathan Minhas tapping in from practically on the goal line following a very well worked move.

We then dominated the rest of the half without testing Jack Turner.

Not sure what happened at half time because we started the second half on the back foot conceding another poor goal when a player was allowed to run unchallenged to the edge of our area scoring with a good strike across our keeper.

The game looked to be petering out to a 2-1 loss until Scotty stepped up to score a stunning free kick from just outside the area with Jack Turner rooted to the spot.

A scrappy game with both keepers hardly having a save to make but in the end a very good point was earned the hard way.

Edited September 24, 2023 by Reading Rebel

[Sir Rebel1965]

12 hours ago, rocking rebel said:

Where was Dan bayliss today?

Dan was sat just in front of the on-line radio team.

[Tom]

Per Scott’s post match interview, Dan suffered concussion against Hayes so sat this one out.

[Reading Rebel]

Attendance was 887 which is their highest of the season so far.

Previous highest was 783 against Hampton.

[sdelaney2308]

Letting a goal in early in the 2nd half has been our biggest problem over last number of seasons.

Still a good result COYREBELS

Edited September 24, 2023 by sdelane2308