The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[Royals and Racers]

U 21’s home to Everton tonight in PL 2 at the SCL KO 7pm.
Very much the business end of the season and Royals just have 5 matches remaining ( 3 H 2 A). Currently we are 25th but a win tonight could see us jump 5 places in the table. As i have said previously a top 16 place to compete in the play-offs looks out of reach now, so the aim must be a 17th-24th finish to qualify for the new end of season tournament against the top 8 teams in the CAT 2 PDL league.
Everton lie 16th.

[Royals and Racers]

T Borgnis
Osho
Saint-Louis
Sackey
Duah
Harrison
Coke-Miles-Smith
Howard
Evans
Hicks
Camara
SUBS
Pullinger
Bowdery
Barough
Jones
Okine-Peters

[Clyde1998]

No Rinomhota then. Could he be in the first team squad for tomorrow?

[Royals and Racers]

1-0 11 mins Coke-Miles- Smith
H-T 1-0
F-T 1-0
Decent game and decent performance from the team although our goal led a charmed life on occasions. Standout performers for me were Duah again and Saint-Louis, while Bowdery when he came on showed what a talented player he is.
Up to 20th in the table after tonights matches.

[Royals and Racers]

2nd game this week sees the U 21’s play West Ham away on Friday 13th March KO 7pm. The match is at the Hammers training centre in Rush Green Romford.
West Ham are 8th Royals 20th
The U 18’s return to action on Saturday 14th March with a home game at Bearwood KO 11am against Crystal Palace. Royals are 13th Palace 3rd.

[Sutekh]

1-0 11 mins Coke-Miles- Smith
H-T 1-0
F-T 1-0
Decent game and decent performance from the team although our goal led a charmed life on occasions. Standout performers for me were Duah again and Saint-Louis, while Bowdery when he came on showed what a talented player he is.
Up to 20th in the table after tonights matches.

A match report on the club website

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2026/m ... h-report-/

[Royals and Racers]

West Ham are saying tonight’s U 21 match will be streamed live on their website and app.

[Hound]

See it was 7 years to the day yesterday that Olise made his debut against Leeds

Still remember that game pretty well. Looked through the match thread for old times sake and nice to see me and Ian arguing over Whoscored stats. Obvs some things never change

[Hound]

1-0 11 mins Coke-Miles- Smith
H-T 1-0
F-T 1-0
Decent game and decent performance from the team although our goal led a charmed life on occasions. Standout performers for me were Duah again and Saint-Louis, while Bowdery when he came on showed what a talented player he is.
Up to 20th in the table after tonights matches.

A match report on the club website

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2026/m ... h-report-/

That link doesn’t seem to work but did see it on the news page. Sounds quite encouraging

[Royals and Racers]

T Borgnis
Duah
Osho
Harrison
Abrefa
Camara
Coke-Miles-Smith
Hicks
Howard
Sackey
Evans
SUBS
Pullinger
Irish
Bowdery
Saint-Louis
Jones

[Clyde1998]

West Ham are saying tonight’s U 21 match will be streamed live on their website and app.

Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXeGTwGCiw

[Snowflake Royal]

See it was 7 years to the day yesterday that Olise made his debut against Leeds

Still remember that game pretty well. Looked through the match thread for old times sake and nice to see me and Ian arguing over Whoscored stats. Obvs some things never change

A stat is a stat, unless it's average rating.

[Royals and Racers]

T Borgnis
Duah
Osho
Harrison
Abrefa
Camara
Coke-Miles-Smith
Hicks
Howard
Sackey
Evans
SUBS
Pullinger
Irish
Bowdery
Saint-Louis
Jones

West Ham 0 Reading 1 39 mins Saint-Louis
Late change in starting line-up Saint-Louis starts and Camara on bench
1-1 45+3
H-T 1-1
1-2 67 mins OG
F-T 1-2- great 3 points for the Team

[Royals and Racers]

Reading up to 18th with just 3 matches to go in the regular season.
Man Utd H
Sunderland A
Derby H

So with these last 2 wins we are back in the mix for 16th to qualify for the play-offs.
Certainly we are on track to finish in the top 24 to qualify for the new end of season comp for positions 17th to 24th.
168 the attendance for the Everton game last Monday.

[Clyde1998]

Reading up to 18th with just 3 matches to go in the regular season.
Man Utd H
Sunderland A
Derby H

So with these last 2 wins we are back in the mix for 16th to qualify for the play-offs.
Certainly we are on track to finish in the top 24 to qualify for the new end of season comp for positions 17th to 24th.
168 the attendance for the Everton game last Monday.

Feel we'll miss out on the top sixteen with our slow start, but certainly we appear to have been improving as the season's gone on. That's despite sending a lot of players out on loan. We should be finishing in the top twenty-four though.

The current top eight from the Category Two league (and would be in that new play-off competition along with 17th to 24th in the Category One league) are: Sheff Utd; Brentford; Peterborough; Bournemouth; Huddersfield; Watford; Cardiff; Swansea.