ROVERS boss Mark Hughes felt that the draw was a fair result after both sides served up a game to forget at the Madejski Stadium this Saturday afternoon.

After a first half where there was only Morten Gamst Pedersen's free-kick that tested a goalkeeper, the second half was at least livelier, but even so neither side did enough to warrant all three points.

"0-0 pretty much summed up the game in fairness," said Hughes after the match. "It was a really flat game and a flat performance from both sides I felt.

"We had a lot of guys away and a lot of travelling so we hadn't had a lot of time to prepare for the game so that can possibly be put up as an excuse.

"I just felt over all that the game just petered out and there was never really any energy or any dynamic play in the game which we always see when we play at a decent level so really the game petered out from our point of view."

Last week Rovers had to play the majority of the game a man down and made it really tough for Wigan, so Hughes knew when Marek Matejovsky got his marching orders that his side would have to work hard to overcome a stubborn Reading side.

"We had opportunities, with twenty minutes to go with an extra guy you expect us to really go on and win the game, but as we know ourselves it can be more difficult when you've got the extra guy as we proved with ten men last week.

"So it wasn't easy, they took one of their front guys off so they tried to get two banks of four so really the exercise was to break them down and cause them a problem and in fairness we never really put them under any concerted pressure for any length of time, and as a consequence as I said the game petered out."