Reading 0 - 0 Derby / France 20-22 Ireland

Finally a thread to celebrate football and to remember Tony Benn R.I.P

Anyway, had to do 15YO's paper round - some good pictures of the Assembly Rooms on there...........15YO doing DoE walk up in the hills................

Big shout to Igor who has an extended weekend due to the driving out of snakes from his homestead................Happy Saint Patricks Weekend.....weekend??? and any other green we can find on the emoticians

Slainte!

Are we lacking confidence? Is this a goal drought? Derby have seemed bereft of that certain je ne sais quoi that we had when we were on THAT run. Bolton, we looked a whole lot better but still failed to unlock a fairly ordinary team.

Reading, we never seem to get anything at Reading - I am fairly pessimistic on this one but would love to be proved wrong and will gladly take any "ha! you were wrong...."

Team news:-

Grant (GK); Wisdom, Keogh, Buxton, Forsyth; Eustace, Hughes, Bryson; Ward, Martin, Dawkins.

Substitutes: Legzdins (GK), Whitbread, Hendrick, Russell, Sammon, Thorne, Bamford.



Reading: McCarthy (GK); Gunter, Obita, Gorkss, Pearce; Akpan, Guthrie, McCleary, McAnuff; Drenthe; Robson-Kanu.

Substitutes: Federici (GK), Kelly, Hector, Taylor, Blackman, Le Fondre, Pogrebnyak.