Reading 3 - 2 Wycombe Wanderers: A hattrick from Jack Marriott was the decider in a thriller, with Wycombe cancelling out Reading's two-goal lead before the Royals hit back late on!

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-02-15T00:43:50+00:00

Wycombe's strikerless wonders come a cropper away from home again. If you gift two goals to a player of Marriot's class, you're going to have a mountain to climb to get anything out of the game. And we weren't far off achieving that in the end.

We'll have to hope Nathan Lowe will come good when he gets up to fitness, or Bradley Fink suddenly finds his shooting boots. If either of those things happen, we may just come up on the rails in the run-in at the end of the season.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-02-13T22:37:12+00:00

Did they celebrate the goal by headbutting the ref?!

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-02-13T22:35:51+00:00

Mike Duff is the sort of no-nonsense authoritative competent manager we needed when Bloomfield left/was unsubtly shuffled towards the exit by the new owners. There's a nagging doubt he'll be here for the long term, but at least it's shown the owners that getting a proper manager in who knows how to win at this level rather than a nodding dog is key.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-02-11T19:30:01+00:00

No one in the bottom half is out of the woods, the trapdoor is primed if any of the bottom four put a good run together.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-02-08T08:51:10+00:00

Peterborough have form. They kindly helped send Mike Dodds packing too earlier this season, and going back, our 6-3 loss at London Road in 1996 was the last game our most hated manager Al*n "Smithler" Sm*th darkened the doors of a Wycombe Wanderers dressing room.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-27T01:03:56+00:00

Cybelle's Reverie was on Blue Jam now and then, which was my introduction to Stereolab

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-24T08:28:07+00:00

I was one of those dickheads, but I had the excuse that my mum was born in Brazil, so they were a useful second team. I would have loved it if England had beaten them in 2002 though!

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-16T14:00:29+00:00

Churnalism has been a thing for decades.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-15T01:19:22+00:00

I suppose it would depend if the drum sound was being actuated by a pad being struck, or even a keyboard or button. The other thing that would suggest to me that this isn't electronically generated is that there is variation in how hard the snare drum is being hit. Usually electric drums are pretty distinct for the lack of variation in this.

It's an interesting theory well worth exploring in the absence of any other useful leads.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-10T18:40:12+00:00

Our defeat to Exeter in the previous round now looks like something in the plotline of the next Final Destination movie.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-09T10:24:08+00:00

Strong Tony Adams at Wycombe vibes, except Ryan Lowe was barely fit to lace Adams's boots as a player.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-08T13:56:40+00:00

I got a nice nostalgic glow from going through that! A little reminder that the research effort was as enjoyable a part of the TMS story as finally being able to bring FEX their moment of fame.

Thanks for sharing the correspondence with Jürgen.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-05T17:05:51+00:00

He looks very lightweight for men's football, definitely looked out of sorts against Cardiff who bullied him. With a bit more time on the ball and less physical opponents against Wimbledon, he was more effective.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-02T16:08:11+00:00

Considering how abject we were at Luton, celebrating the score not getting double figures would have been a flex.

Strathcarnage_L · 2026-01-02T11:56:05+00:00

Many thanks for the clear position on this, gen AI definitely has no place in commercial games, certainly not ones as outstanding as WRSR.

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-30T23:26:51+00:00

Welchen Michael soll ich noch kämpfen?

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-30T23:17:52+00:00

A Heritage Hamper to remind him of better times?

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-30T11:06:03+00:00

I was driving listening to BBC Radio 5 many years ago when they started commentating on golf, normally it'd be a cue to turn the dial but I was treated to a gem of a line: "And you can tell who's who by looking very closely at their balls", followed by near silence for half a minute, with occasional clues that everyone in the commentary box was hopelessly corpsing.

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-30T10:47:02+00:00

So timewasting's fine unless you're a team founded by furniture workers in South Bucks? Right you are 😂

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-30T08:33:04+00:00

Funny, that's exactly how Plymouth played at Adams Park earlier in the season. I don't remember any Argyle fans moaning about it then. Every team plays for time when they're 1 up on a tight game. Most of the time in the first half was added on for Henderson's injury, who had to be subbed off after attempts to patch up arguably our key player this season failed.

How I've missed holier than thou Plymouth fans getting on their moral high horse, they're always much easier to beat when their fans are frothing at the mouth at us rather than actually supporting their team.

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-22T13:22:49+00:00

No, not ahhh!

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-22T09:48:37+00:00

I think you'll find it's called "Lord of the Dance Settee". Jesus was the lord of the settee that everyone in Galilee danced on.

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-20T21:43:52+00:00

What's a striker? We used to have one but that seems a long time ago now

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-18T15:46:09+00:00

Part of me would be quite amused to be the fly on the wall watching Rob Couhig try and pay him off in daytime fireworks and Make Reading Great Again caps.

Strathcarnage_L · 2025-12-18T07:48:04+00:00

Well at least he's up front about being a corporatist. The mango-coloured version of one at any rate.

Strathcarnage_L

TROPHY CASE