Approval Rating: Reading Fans Pleased With Leam Richardson’s Start

Key Highlights

• A point of Alex’s that I found particularly poignant was this:“It’s hard to get a feeling of how much we are benefitting from [Richardson’s] leadership, or whether it is just a case of us having an actual manager who knows what they are doing.”Which I would agree with.
• Has Richardson made this Reading team – now into the top half of the table and in good form – the sum of its parts, or anything more than that?
• Only time will tell, especially given Richardson’s not actually had that many matches so far, despite being in post since October.
• The fixture list is an odd thing sometimes. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRichardson’s average works out to 3.67/5, a decent enough score for a manager’s first approval rating.
• For context, it’s a big chunk higher than the 3.02/5 which Noel Hunt signed off with, but well below Ruben Selles’ numerous ventures beyond the 4/5 level.“Ah, but only if I had another big DataWrapper chart so that I could visualise all the manager approval ratings The Tilehurst End has ever done!” I hear you cry.