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I've always liked him - he's our only right winger that seems to want to get to the byline. Puncheon has mysteriously disappeared again, Chaplow shows effort but prefers to cut in, and Guly doesn't seem to want to put in decent performance anymore. Whatever league we end up in next season, we need major surgery on that position. De Ridder may not be the perfect right winger, but he's the best we've got for now. I'd start him.

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He looked pretty good going forward and gave us width, but he needs to make an earlier decision to attack the byline. He's got the speed and skill to do it. Still, after what he did to them on their ground, they had 2-3 guys on him right away.

 

His best contribution for me, though, was actually defensive - when he caught Roberts from 10-20 yards back when we looked dead and buried on their counter-attack.

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Agree DD there was only one occassion where he didn't actually get a ball into the box.

 

You could critique him that not enough balls got past the 2nd defender but then that was the fault of the support players.

 

Also thought Guly did well in CM - not his normal position and although I (like everyone else in the pub) was baying for him to get into the box, he was clearly under orders and covering for Hammond who looked like his legs had gone.

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A the end of the day he WAS getting the ball in the box, it is up to the rest of the team to be there to meet it. If he was crossing the ball and the keeper was using it as catching practice I could understand the comments. So I would like to see him get a run for the final games.

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This is the problem with so many people.

 

(For the record I though he looked great when he came on.)

 

Back to the problem. People seem to want every player to do everything. They want De Ridder to dribble round 3 players and score. They want Guly, Chaplow, Lallana and Cork to do the same. Do you think this is Barcelona we're watching? They are going to make mistakes and have bad games. Please don't jump on their backs because they don't perform amazingly 100% of the time. It's a team game and everyone has a role to play.

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De Ridder is most effective coming off the bench in the 2nd half and running at the opposition. When he starts he is more cautious and doesn't attack the full backs. I tweeted him this a few weeks back and he replied that he can't run at them every time as he wouldn't have the energy - hence I was right impact player off the bench 20 minutes to go.

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Shocking today, unbelievable that a player at this level can only kick with one foot!

 

Reading showed him inside every time and he didn't have the capability to do anything with it. Antonio plus another two years development with team-Nige would have been a far better option.

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Shocking today, unbelievable that a player at this level can only kick with one foot!

 

Reading showed him inside every time and he didn't have the capability to do anything with it. Antonio plus another two years development with team-Nige would have been a far better option.

but they never what so ever

were you asleep at the numerous crosses he put in....had their keeper making saves?

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He looked pretty decent tonight, certainly offered more than Lallana IMO. He got a few decent crosses in, unlike the others who just played the same high floating ball in to the back post, which was either easily caught or went out for a goal kick. He also won a few corners getting in behind and putting a cross in and worked space well for Butters.

 

De Ridder wasn't the problem, far from it. Reading just wanted it more and we gifted them 3 goals through carelessness.

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but they never what so ever

were you asleep at the numerous crosses he put in....had their keeper making saves?

 

He got outside three or four times and hit lollipop floaters every time - I didn't see any of his crosses hit one of our players - their keeper must have thought he was back down at the training ground second half - has he had an easier second half all season?

 

Our goal was a deflection, which he probably had covered, and I can't remember him making a proper save second half ... SDR ain't very good ... get over it.

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He got behind the defence?? An 82 year old Ian Harte had him in his pocket! Butterfield beat more players.

 

De Ridder = nice guy... sh1t winger

 

Yes he ****ing well did right in front of me. I am not blind or senile. ****. No one had him in their pocket. He could not find an outlet. Lambert was sublime - that means excellent. I remember Butterfield who i thought had a good game, receiving the ball from Steve who had taken on and beat some players.

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You must have been watching a different game to everyone sitting near me. No end product whatsoever and turns back on himself all the time despite space to attack. We lost control of the game the game when chaplow was subbed!

 

Agree when Chaplow went off we let Reading off the hook - they were really struggling to stay in the game, DeRidder came on to soon however thought he did ok but his final ball never found anyone...and he os infuriating with this turning back on himself....

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he's annoying. He has real ability, great tricks and pace as well, but time after time he takes 15 touches when two would do, fails to beat the first man from a cross, eats the fullbacks space, stops and goes round and round when a quick turn and drive straight would cause far more problems.

 

He's frustrating because you just know he can do almost anything he wants to do with the ball, but he seems to just try too hard. More than happy with his effort and often his impact. I just want more from him. Hopefully we'll get it in the next three games.

 

Wrong sub last night. Chaplow had just found his feet nearly scored and although not having a great game was making the runs we needed.

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I thought De Ridder did OK and in my opionion after Lambert was our best player in the 2nd half, at least when he got the ball I felt that something could happen, but then I like players who run at the opposition rather than looking for a sideways or backwards pass. The whole team lacked invention and ideas after the 2nd Reading goal.

 

I have been told by people who were watching the match on TV that the ref had a word with Adkins that Chaplow was close to be sent off (could have had a 2nd booking) and the substitution was made shortly afterwards.

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Reading simply doubled up on him forcing him too often to pass back to Butterfield to lob crosses from deep that were easier for their centre backs to defend than crosses from the byline. Consequently, but for one decent cross from the byline, he was largely ineffective.

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He seems a bit negative to me. He doesn't like to run at defenders or use his pace, he's always turning backwards instead of getting to the touchline and putting a cross in. His crossing is quite poor. I know Reading doubled up on him but he was up against Harte, who let's be fair has never been the quickest, but he should have known that and used his pace against him

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