Commiserations mate. I might put a cheeky fiver on you guys to get promoted next season, hopefully you can keep your players and add some more.
Obviously, I hope we won't be playing you :D
Well, we got "battered" when we tried to match up Fulham at Craven Cottage earlier in the season, Stam adjusted the game-plan to stop that happening again and it worked (twice), so in my eyes the tactics were spot on. Let's not forget that had Swift not missed a sitter we would've taken a...
Well, I no longer have any nerve ends left. That last half an hour was the longest of my entire life. Genuinely felt sick during injury time!
Great defending though. Our tactics were perfect over both legs.
OFF TO WEMBLEY!!
http://www.twtd.co.uk/league-tables/competition:championship/daterange/fromdate:2016-Dec-26/todate:2017-Jun-01/type:home-and-away/
^ Fulham's last 23 games, from Dec 26th to the present date. Which is the second half of the season...
They weren't, they were third across the last 23 games, with a PPG of 1.91. Reading just 2 points behind them over that range (1.82 PPG) and 1 point behind them in the form table over the last 6 games approaching the playoffs.
The playoff clubs only allocated each other 2,000, which Reading sold out. Fulham have the same at the Madejski.
Couldn't make the match as couldn't get a ticket. Currently on my 4th beer of the evening... lots of time wasting so far, and we look wound up like a spring. Cagey.