Reading fell to a heavy 4-0 defeat to Stoke City.

Here is every word from boss Paul Ince.

Ince on the match

I said before the game that you’re coming to a team that have won three out of however many a home and you’ve got a great opportunity to quieten the crowd, so it’s important you score the first goal and don’t concede. It wasn’t like they cut us open, we’ve lost three goals from defensive mistakes. You look at the score and think it was a hammering and it wasn’t. At half-time I could’ve taken all 11 off, apart from the goalkeeper. You cant give teams like that, who are poor at home in front of their own fans, an initiative to go and win the game. That’s how it panned out.

Ince on mistakes

Some of the things that these players are doing baffles me, especially away. Our record away isn’t great and you’re thinking what’s the answer? Why aren’t we winning games away? But then we go to Norwich and drew, should’ve beaten Swansea and Burnley, you think what is it? As a manager you can’t coach basic mistakes or players making bad decisions. With everything we’ve done in training, where the preparation has been really good, all of a sudden, for some reason, individuals want to start doing the wrong things. We have to do the basics right, and if we don’t do that we get beat.

Ince on distractions

I banned all talk of Man U this week, maybe it’s different for players. You can’t make excuses but maybe people are asking for tickets, I don’t know- I’m not a footballer, although I could have been today. The QPR game was fine, it was disappointing we didn’t get the three points but Luton were 2-0 up and lost 3-2. There was nothing in between the two teams but you can’t keep making basic mistakes, and we made three of them. You let yourselves down today, you let me down, you let the fans down. We didn’t compete, and one thing about my team is that you have to compete.

Ince on injurier

Naby was injured after the QPR game and hasn’t trained all week, AC did his ankle. Missing Hutch too, someone with experience of keeping the ball in the middle of the park.

Ince on team

The amount of times we lost the ball in the middle of the park, it’s so naive at times. They’re three big names for us, so to lose them is disappointing. I was more disappointed with the lack of effort, we didn’t compete and weren’t us. It was a bad day for us, you’re going to get them. We have to compete, do the basics right and cut out the school-boy mistakes we did today. Defensively we were diabolical. Sometimes we think we’re a possession-based team. We’re not. To be a possession-based team you need very good players who are good on the ball, and at times we don’t do that. We give it away too easy. Maybe we have to go back to basics. You keep performing like this, you’ll go down. At home we’re strong, but we have to start picking up wins away. This one and the Rotherham one is the worst two performances we’ve had this year. Hopefully it’s a wake-up call for everyone. A kick-up the backside. All these players who moan that they’re not playing and then they get their opportunities, they have to show me that they want to play for this club and stay at this club. it’s not just the ones under contract, the ones on loan have to do more. We’re all in it together, so hopefully it’s the last time I have to say that we’ve let the fans down and the club down.

Ince on transfer window

It's tough. You see all these clubs bringing in players and making them stronger and we can’t do anything. At the moment we are what we are, and we have what we have. If we do it right, what we have is fine, I have no problem with that, but when we don’t do it right then it becomes an issue.