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RE: Steve Clarke appointed to Reading - aries22 - 19-12-2014
We were blown away at Swansea, 3-0 wasn't it, we absolutely failed to turn up or put up any sort of fight. I went to the Fulham home game and we should have won that but we let their midfield boss us and Berbatov scored with a soft goal. Reading was the last straw for me. At 2-0 and with little more than 10-15 minutes to go, Clarke made a substitution he didn't have to make - taking off Dorrans of all people, who I think had scored one of our goals, not sure - and we collapsed. The run of four successive defeats did for him, and Irvine's been given more leeway, having also suffered the same losing run, and I do wonder if JP is being weak over Irvine, realising we can't keep chopping and changing managers, or whether he realises he sacked Clarke just a tad too early. Only JP knows the answer to that one. I was glad he was gone, but we failed to replace him anywhere near adequately or quickly enough.
RE: Steve Clarke appointed to Reading - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 19-12-2014
It was 3-1 against Swansea in the end, Lukaku got a consolation in the second half which we didn't really deserve. Pretty sure it was Lukaku that Clarke took off at Reading too, after he'd scored both goals; he was the main reason we'd been bossing them, and as soon as he came off we just had no out-ball whatsoever, no one who could keep possession in their half. Literally the most disastrous substitution I've ever seen an Albion boss make (I think Neil Warnock bringing on Santos at Bramall Lane in 2002 takes the award for the all-time worst sub!)
RE: Steve Clarke appointed to Reading - aries22 - 19-12-2014
Ska'd, it was indeed Romelu Lukaku who scored both our goals, and he stayed on and it was Graham Dorrans who came off with 10 mins to go to be replaced by the mighty Markus Rosenberg. A useless substitution that was.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/20919136
RE: Steve Clarke appointed to Reading - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 19-12-2014
That really surprised me to the extent that I went back and checked my 606 match thread for that game - http://www.new-606.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=21348 - but yes, comments show that it was Dorrans!
Other comments show that we weren't a happy bunch that evening
RE: Steve Clarke appointed to Reading - aries22 - 19-12-2014
Anyway, Steve was a decent guy, still is, and let's wish him all success at Reading.