The Weekly Bobbins: Patience Running Thin
In this week’s column, Bobbins examines the bigger picture at Reading, as well as Saturday’s defeat to Cardiff.
Another day, another team winning promotion in our own back yard. Another dollop of salt rubbed into wounds that were already raw after a week of every scab being picked off one by one. It’s not supposed to be like this, is it?
And yet here we are. All week the rumour mill churned out the same line: Leam Richardson was on the brink. And honestly, if he had gone, nobody would’ve blinked.
Instead, Rob Couhig doubled down, insisting Richardson was still his man. In his open letter – which covered a whole range of topics – Couhig leaned heavily on the idea that we’re still a work in progress. And yes, that’s undeniably true.
We still feel the lingering pain of the ruin Dai Yongge left behind. Fans, myself included, are impatient and do want the moon on a stick. But the more pointed issue is this: we’re not seeing a single ounce of progression, on the field at least.
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