Sim grades the Royals after an extra-time defeat to the Championship Clarets.
Games against higher-standard opposition are always tricky to grade, except when Reading are overtly good or bad. The Royals were overall fine today, but when the lineup includes players out of position at full-back (x2) and out wide (x2), and the opposition are from the league above, it’s difficult working out what expectations are performance-wise and how well we fulfilled them.