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Quite simply, if we play like that against Reading then they'll demolish us.

It's no coincidence that our best moves of the game - including the one we equalised from - came when we kept the ball on the deck and moved it around, with the fullbacks pushing forward to give us width. The problem is that we're so poor at doing that for so much of the time, hoofing it aimlessly just seems like an easier option. We're not a long-ball team in the sense that Wimbledon of old were, or the likes of Bolton or Blackburn in the last decade, because being a long-ball team generally means that you're actually effective at playing (and scoring from) the long ball. We aren't at all, and never have been. We're a team whose Plan A is to get the ball up to the striker or wingers and hope they can create something from nothing with next to no midfield support; if we can't even get that far up the pitch, it goes back to the defence and we get another Olsson special into no man's land.

The worst thing is that we've seen glimpses of an Albion team better than this, and yet this keeps creeping back in, over and over again.