Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
And what would he have done to improve things? They've flooded their defence and Paterson has spent half of his time tracking back into midfield and out wide to make up the numbers. Even Tomlin has dropped deep. Service from out wide has been almost non existent and any time we have tried to play through the middle we've been hopelessly outnumbered. We need to get our full backs further forward and match them for numbers up at that end of the pitch. A striker along with Paterson would be good as well, not instead of. Reading are doing a good defensive job.