The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[yuomi]

Stickland to Farnborough on a short-term loan.

https://x.com/ReadingFC/status/2025208895191347240

[Hound]

Goal for Patton - thinks that’s 3 and and assist for him

Encouraging stuff

[Hound]

And another

[Royals and Racers]

Reading U 18’s 2 WBA U 18’s 1
Jubilee Ntege 48 mins
Fuller-Thompson 67 mins PEN
Royals finished with 10 as Omoregie sent off in injury time.
T Borgnis
Dove
Irish
Neptune
Kaninda
Lonmeni
Zie
Coffey
Barbieri
Jubilee Ntege
Fuller-Thompson
SUBS
Yensu
Imafidon
Lewis
Omoregie
Ojo

[The Cube]

U16s beat West Brom 8-0 today.

Also noticed that Okine-Peters scored for Uxbridge, where he is now on loan.

[Clyde1998]

U16s beat West Brom 8-0 today.

Also noticed that Okine-Peters scored for Uxbridge, where he is now on loan.

Impressive result for the U16s - seems there's something positive forming in the lower age groups. Anyone playing we can expect to see in the U18s next season?

Good to see Okine-Peters scored; didn't realise he'd gone out on loan.

[Clyde1998]

Stickland to Farnborough on a short-term loan.

https://x.com/ReadingFC/status/2025208895191347240

Good move for him, tbh, to get some senior football. He'll probably be at that level come next season.

[Sutekh]

Goal for Patton - thinks that’s 3 and and assist for him

Encouraging stuff

Another 2 goals yesterday for “the General” and against playoff bound Scunthorpe too, hopefully we might have another Doyle/Long prospect there.

[Sutekh]

Goal for Patton - thinks that’s 3 and and assist for him

Encouraging stuff

Another 2 goals yesterday for “the General” and against playoff bound Scunthorpe too, hopefully we might have another Doyle/Long prospect there.

[Royals and Racers]

Next up for the U 18’s is a rare midweek match on Wednesday 18th February home to Ipswich Town KO 1pm at Bearwood.
Next up for the U 21’s is the long journey on Monday 16th February to play Graeme Murty’s Sunderland away in the PL 2 KO 7pm. The match is being played at the Eppleton Colliery welfare ground.

U 21’s match at Sunderland tomorrow already postponed.

U 21’s return to the SCL stadium for their next PL 2 match against Arsenal next Monday evening February 23rd KO 7pm.
Royals are 21st and Arsenal 10th.

Tonight - hopefully a decent crowd in.
Royals now 23rd Arsenal now 11th.

[Four Of Clubs]

Stickland to Farnborough on a short-term loan.
....

Good move for him, tbh, to get some senior football. He'll probably be at that level come next season.

.....not if this Sat is anything to go by
...and boro are plummeting to'ard STEP03
As per NL on GF, I watched him first-hand in a heavy defeat [0-5] vs fellow relegation strugglers Enfield T.
The distressing take for this thread, albeit may just have been a collective nadir on the day, is that fellow RFC-loanee Beacroft wasn't much better at FB and ex-RFC lad Louie Holzman was hauled off at HT.
Maybe an indicator that he (Holzman) couldn't cut it at STEP01 Eastleigh, who'd released him in Dec.

[Clyde1998]

The U21 game against Arsenal is at the stadium tonight. Andy Rinomhota is here, so presumably will be starting.

[Clyde1998]

Ehibhatiomhan starts

https://x.com/rfcacademy/status/2025998 ... f-Gr-Pczbg

[Royals and Racers]

Rhone
Osho
Abrefa
Rinomhota
Duah
Sackey
Jones
Howard
Ehibhatiomhan
Hicks
Coke-Miles-Smith
Subs
Welland
Harrison
Bowdery
Barough
Evans

[Royals and Racers]

0-1 35 mins
H-T 0-1 very poor goal given away. We gave Arsenal the ball and goalscorer chipped the keeper from 35 yards.
0-2 54 mins
0-3 58 mins
1-3 68 mins Jones
1-4 75 mins OG
F-T 1-4 classy performance from Arsenal- Royals better than a 3 goal deficit. Never a dirty game but ref booked 9 !!

[Clyde1998]

Certainly wasn’t a 4-1 game, but Arsenal’s finishing was impressive. Their entire squad were teenagers too. Shows the gulf between our academy and the top sides at the moment.

Was impressed by Duah (despite the own goal). Wingers were direct. Ehibhatiomhan was the best of our first teamers; unlucky not to score at least one.

Didn’t think Rinomhota or Abrefa stood out unfortunately.

[Hound]

Still sounds fairly encouraging. Hold Kelvin got a game and good to hear Duah did well.

Arsenals set up is about the best there is so no shame in the scoreline. Good we competed

[Brogue]

so whats going on with Rushesha then. not in the first team, not in the u21's, not injured, not loaned out.

[Orion1871]

Certainly wasn’t a 4-1 game, but Arsenal’s finishing was impressive. Their entire squad were teenagers too. Shows the gulf between our academy and the top sides at the moment.

Was impressed by Duah (despite the own goal). Wingers were direct. Ehibhatiomhan was the best of our first teamers; unlucky not to score at least one.

Didn’t think Rinomhota or Abrefa stood out unfortunately.

A consequence of category 1 academies being able to take top prospects even from other category 1 academies with relative ease. Shouldn't be allowed imo.

[Clyde1998]

Here are the goals from last night, thanks to the Arsenal YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sxiRnoGlGs