'Clueless' and 'Sackable Offence' - Fans Call For Paul Clement's Sacking After QPR Defeat

Reading slumped to another defeat in the Sky Bet Championship, against fellow strugglers Queens Park Rangers at the Madejski Stadium in a dull game with few shots on target.

With the Royals languishing dangerously close to the foot of the Championship table, picking up points against QPR would have propelled the home team further up the division and out of immediate relegation trouble.

Fans were already irate after this shoddy performance, and post match comments from the Reading manager Paul Clement only fuelled more anger from the supporters towards him. The manager himself admitted that he could have picked a better starting lineup as opposed to the starting eleven he choose to face QPR.

Did he really say that #clueless

— Dave McCormack (@davemc_exile) 2 October 2018

The Berkshire side looked to have turned a corner after picking up four points from a possible six in their last two league games, with a 3-0 win against Hull City at the Madejski and a 2-2 draw against high-flyers Brentford. This was before their meeting with another West London side, Queens Park Rangers. The two positive results against Hull City and Brentford relieved increasing pressure on the current boss. However after this poor result, there are already calls on Twitter for the manager to be relieved of his duties.

Sackable offence this, manager has just admitted he picked the wrong team #clementout #ReadingFC https://t.co/k900rQOT5X

— Jack (@thesimpsonRFC) October 2, 2018

5 losses in our last 6 home matches. Enough is enough now, time to go! #ClementOut

— Max Mortimer (@MaxMortimerRFC) October 2, 2018

Sorry but dropping Swift and putting Aluko back in the team has definitely made me #clementout, absolutely awful line up, I’ll say it again, we need a no nonsense type manager who will rip into these players when not performing. #readingfc

— George Blair (@GeorgeBlairr) October 3, 2018

After a very slow start to the season, Clement was given the benefit of the doubt by the vast majority of supporters due to the club's horrific form at the end of last season when Jaap Stam left the club. The fans' disconnection with the current players was covering up the fact that Reading's form under Paul Clement was, and still is, woeful.

Despite most of the anger caused by the QPR defeat being aimed at Clement, the players also took their fair share of criticism. There were a lot of damning comments towards a lot of the players on the hashtag timeline associated with Reading Football Club.

I’ve said it since the start of last season, any 11 with Aluko, Barrow and Bacuna in it is gonna struggle! All arrived at the same time, probably the same agent too. #readingfc

— Jordan Norris (@Jordannorr1s) October 3, 2018

Utterly woeful again from #readingfc. Barrow is a terrible footballer, Meite is useless, Nothing to say on Aluko, Kelly too weak, Gunter dreadful (but improved when Aluko went off), the management was inept at best. The club is in disarray #sadtimes #dontevencareanymore

— Mark Wratten (@MarkWratten) October 2, 2018

Criticism is now more noticeable than ever with the availability of social media. This barrage of negative comments from the Royals supporters on Twitter reflects the current unrest at the Madejski Stadium. Results will have to pick up again quickly to prevent fans turning against Paul Clement and his players even further.