Cheltenham Town v Reading

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Jon Palmer
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Team news, live updates and reaction all here this evening: https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/s ... ve-9001157
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Time to put the ghosts of Morley and FA Cup games past to bed.
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Shade
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Darrell Clarke touchline ban.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Electric first 30 mins. Hope it is good viewing for those on iFollow.
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joes dad
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Great viewing, shame It’s Berkshire commentary
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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joes dad wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 20:24 Great viewing, shame It’s Berkshire commentary
Surely even they are purring at Tom Pett playing like Pirlo.
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Wtf. That went from the best half of football for years to a f#!$ disaster in 3 minutes. Intensity just suddenly dropped right off, players not covering back...DC needs to wake them up. Complacency.

Btw, what's Lloyd done to the ref? Could be raped and not get anything.
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Ben3
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Wow. Best 45 minutes in a long time. Then two of the worst.

Football huh? Such a stupid, stupid game
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asl
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HTF has that half finished 2-2...?
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CTFCfan99
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How the fooking fook has that happened
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asl
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Their keeper has made four decent saves, too.
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Ben3
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Reading fans were winding up to boo them off. They’ve been awful and us completely dominant. And then that
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robinsrule
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Big team talk required now, we absolutely battered them!!! If we can somehow keep up that momentum and pressing in the second half we can still win this game. Hopefully those goals haven’t rattled us too much. An absolutely breathless 45 mins of football!
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Ihearye
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The defence just stood and gave him all the space and time he needed to make the cross for the second
Anyway the slope next so still confident
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Football isn't fair. BBC live reporting can't believe it either. Said "Cheltenham have been brilliant for 45 minutes but somehow Reading find themselves level". Sums it up perfectly, really.

We could be 4 ahead, even after their two. Let's hope we come out second half without it affecting us.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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We go again in the next 45.

Keena needs to perform as Street was absolutely rampant down the right.
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Ihearye wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 20:43 The defence just stood and gave him all the space and time he needed to make the cross for the second
Anyway the slope next so still confident
Thompson has been helping Williams out with Azeez all half. However, that time, Williams nor Thompson were anywhere to be found. Tiredness or complacency, I'm not sure, but the last few minutes there was a lot less tracking back and attempting to win the ball within 5 seconds.
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Keena just looks lost. Please prove me wrong and pop up with a winner!
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It's all turning from gold...into s#!t.
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The ref is getting increasingly horrendous as the game goes on. Doesn't want to give us any of the incredibly obvious fouls against our forwards.
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Ihearye
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robinsrule wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 21:10 Keena just looks lost. Please prove me wrong and pop up with a winner!
yep, the game seems to pass him by
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Ihearye
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Thought we played well tonight, probably should have taken a couple of our other chances, but hey ho. Definitely two points dropped against a team that is very average
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Nham68
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Ihearye wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 21:59
robinsrule wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 21:10 Keena just looks lost. Please prove me wrong and pop up with a winner!
yep, the game seems to pass him by
I wonder if a loan spell to Div 2 or NL would help. He does seem lost. Even the way he chases players down was so easy for the reading defenders to telegraph….
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How close was B-O’s effort in injury time?
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Nham68
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 22:13 How close was B-O’s effort in injury time?
It curled about 1 foot wide .. I was right behind the left hand goalpost …
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Ihearye
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 22:13 How close was B-O’s effort in injury time?
Hard to tell from block 2 but it was one that should have been taken
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Nham68 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 22:17
RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 22:13 How close was B-O’s effort in injury time?
It curled about 1 foot wide .. I was right behind the left hand goalpost …
Thought it looked close but hard to tell from half way. I was starting to celebrate before seeing it went wide…just a foot wide means I don’t feel too silly!
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Ben3
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The referee wins an award for worst decision of the season. Lloyd being grappled for a full minute (I watched it unfold). Ref puts whistle to his lips - hallelujah, at last he’s seen what’s been going on!! But no - free kick against the angelic innocent. Absolutely the worst decision I’ve ever seen

Good performance. There is no team to fear in this league
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ctfc-fan
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The ref was really poor. Let too much go and we got nothing from him.
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As I said, I can't believe Lloyd didn't win a single free kick. The number of times he was literally dragged around by his shirt, which must have been well into double figures, and got nothing is criminal. Same as on Tuesday. And as soon as the defenders know they can get away with it they start doing it even more, and even worse. I am absolutely sick of these cretinous refs week in, week out.

It seems all they will give is for trips now, such as when Keena went over a leg right at the end. Think that was one of two fouls he gave our attacking players in attacking positions all night.
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robinsrule wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 21:10 Keena just looks lost. Please prove me wrong and pop up with a winner!
Some good moments with nice touches and passing triangles, and I felt he was going to pop up with a scrappy goal but no.

At other moments he was piggy in the middle, chasing down players who passed before he got there so always behind or in front of the ball.
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ctfc-fan wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 22:29 The ref was really poor. Let too much go and we got nothing from him.
We all see things differently and maybe I'm in the majority,but yes, he did let lots go but these last two seasons refs have allowed far more pushing and grappling etc. go unpunished and games like tonight are far more exciting because of it.
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shevates
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robinsrule wrote: ↑29 Dec 2023, 21:10 Keena just looks lost. Please prove me wrong and pop up with a winner!

Looks totally uninterested, no effort what so ever. Get rid of if we can find someone to take him
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Jerry St Clair
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Slightly concerned by the knocks and injuries we’re starting to accumulate. The Curtis Thompson and Ben Williams changes looked tactical.

But Street and Lloyd were both injured. Starting to look very light up front if Goodwin is still a week or two away.
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Loyal Royal
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Reading fan here. We were absolute dog sh1t first half could barely string 3 passes together. You ran rings round us should have been at least 4-0 up before we somehow got back into the game. 2nd half it seemed both sides were content with a draw. You guys must be kicking yourselves that you didn’t come away with 3 points. Play like that for the rest of the season and there will be no danger of you guys going down.

First time I’ve been to your ground, and really liked it. Much nicer than the soulless modern stadiums. A bit of character. I like the fan zone for the away fans too, a nice touch. Chatting to a few of your fans before the game and their genuine empathy for our situation was refreshing. You seem like a decent bunch.!Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this evening. All the best for the rest of the season and hopefully we shall be playing each other next year… in league one….
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