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Whilst the result suited both parties in the end, should have Fulham done what they could have and won, then the cheating, time wasting and unsportsmanship could have cost us promotion.
In essence we’re lucky Fulham ****ed up as we wouldn’t have scored in a month of Sunday’s. Literally.
Fulham were completely outplayed. No luck involved.
surprised by the timewasting right from the first whistle
Gunts looks a master at it, fair play
We were in dreadful form coming into this game and could still have gone down. We were ultra defensive and set up purely to get a point. Not great but I suppose it was job done. We are very lucky to be staying up. Glad the season is over.
Second half Warnock had obviously told his players to have a breather. Morrison had stopped taking long throw-ins into the box being one small example.
Had Fulham been winning, we definitely wouldn't have been that lax. In the first half it was a miracle that Reading were level.
That's how I saw it too. There was a drop in our energy levels and intensity after half time but I'm sure that's because we knew Fulham were losing.
However, it was frustrating to watch, we were poor in front of goal and Reading were terrible. They were wasting time almost from the first minute and got away with that and a fair few fouls. Thought the ref was weak considering he's meant to be PL.
Jeeezus, we were shit today. Thank gawd for Brum.
Warnock must have told them that a point would mean Fulham needed 3 goals. I'm sure he was doing what we've done all season, game management. If Fulham did start to mount a comeback to get 3 points, Neil would have released the fullbacks to go forward to try and get a winner.
I agree, although those two goals before half time seemed like bad news for Reading at the time, paradoxically, they turned out to be very good for them. I'm confident we could have won that game if we had to- after all, we've made a habit of beating teams from the lower half of the table at Cardiff City Stadium all season long