Tom Maynard

Nobody really came away with much credit today but Keane is offering absolutely nothing to us at all. Dorsett looks like a man who's totally lost all confidence which is sad to see, he couldn't head or a kick a ball straight all afternoon #readingfc

Startling lack of ambition today, we honestly looked like a relegation threatened team coming to just scrap out a point. Results since Leam came in are undoubtedly better, but there is zero evidence we are developing a team that can have any long term success at all #readingfc

Outfought completely. Deserved nothing. Usual soundbites incoming. Despite the mathematical possibility of us still making the playoffs, nothing on the field is telling me we’ll do it #readingfc

Can't get over how poor that was, the standard of the game in general was awful, looked like a relegation battle. Find it really hard to come up with any excuses for Leam, the way we're playing isn't a path to a long term success and it's awful to watch in the meantime #readingfc

That was a genuinely atrocious performance and it's far from the first time either. Total refusal to even attempt to pass the ball and keep it on the ground, absolutely dreadful anti-football crap. Played the game exactly as Stevenage wanted to, complete disaster-class #readingfc

Abysmal #readingfc

Injuries are adding up now as well and it's been a hard watch but we're still in the game and Stevenage have shown nothing to worry us either. Big 45 coming up #readingfc

Keane not offering anything really up top, I'd put Kadan Young up there or even Doyle alongside Kelvin E 2nd half. Dorsett looks as though he's really lost all confidence and in general nobody has been able to put their foot on it and get some passing going #readingfc

Dreadful half of football, extremely low quality and very scrappy which has suited Stevenage. Just need to get it down and have more football and less head tennis. We've played far too many aimless long balls forward which has got us nowhere #readingfc

Goes without saying today is huge up against a direct play off rival and other teams on and around us playing each other as well. Big result needed, up the Ding! #readingfc

I don't mind the wing backs approach if you have the right personnel. With Randell Williams giving us some pace and Doyle being able to play centrally that helps a lot. Also means Kelvin E isn't isolated up top on his own, we will need much more from Keane today though #readingfc

I’m really bored of the idea that the football can’t be criticised because we’re getting results. I can be both happy about results and frustrated about performances at the same time. Forgive me for me wanting to enjoy watching my team play football. #readingfc

@mattwilliams100 Sadly that's been quite a theme of our play as well, I think that's the frustration that we've seemingly repeated these odd and negative patterns of play

@ttmaynard Yesterday there was a moment where Savage could turn & start an attack. His only thought was to play it back to our defence, whose only role was to play it across the line to a right-footed centre half playing left back. He shanked it out of play. Just feels like there's more.

Whichever way you look at it, as with most things the truth is somewhere in the middle. Definitely come round to the fact it can't be luck anymore, no matter how bad we seemingly play, we've got results consistently over a period of time now #readingfc

@mattwilliams100 @sbendall23 That's pretty much exactly how I feel

@ttmaynard @sbendall23 Yep, there felt more point to it (maybe we convinced ourselves due to Dutch heritage) plus was in a harder league. This just feels like we're doing it due to a lack of ideas, low confidence & fear of taking risks.

@CScott____ No I totally agree, just have to hope that we can keep results going but improve the style and way of playing over time

@ttmaynard It may not be luck, but it simply isn’t sustainable. If they somehow got promoted, huge changes would be needed or we’d have no chance of surviving in the championship.

@sbendall23 @mattwilliams100 I agree to an extent, Stam football was boring but it did have a very clear structure and plan. The football under Leam doesn't feel like that at times

@mattwilliams100 @ttmaynard It’s just like the Stam year. Boring football but got results. So boring my kids who had season tickets refused to go again.

@mattwilliams100 Yeah totally agree, it's impressive the turn around in results and purely based on that he's done a great job, but boy has it been hard to watch and we never look convincing. Just have to hope we can evolve and improve the style over time I guess

@ttmaynard It’s not the done thing on Twitter but definitely two things can be true. Leam has clearly made a difference in the way we grind out games & organise and I’m backing him short-term, but I’ve also not been more frustrated with or enjoyed watching Reading less since Bullivant.

Seems to be two extreme opposites with Leam, people either hating the style and even with us getting results doubt it can continue with performances the way they are. Or people who just see the results and don't feel the performance levels or style are an issue #readingfc

@yellowblackfanz It was accidental and I think there were players covering but for it to not be spotted and him given a yellow is crazy to be fair, that's just league 1 officiating sadly

@ttmaynard Lucky your keeper didn’t get sent off in the first minute

It's awful but we've somehow got the result we needed, it does leave you wondering again how on earth we did though. Huge result with Stevenage losing and Huddersfield conceding late as well #readingfc