The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[The Cube]

Reading 0 Everton 1 1 min
1-1 26 mins Howard
H-T 1-1
F-T 1-1
Into Extra time
2-1 102 mins Osho
F-T 2-1 great result for Harrison Gilkes and the team.

Kiyan Smith sent off at 118 minutes.

[Royals and Racers]

Reading 0 Everton 1 1 min
1-1 26 mins Howard
H-T 1-1
F-T 1-1
Into Extra time
2-1 102 mins Osho
F-T 2-1 great result for Harrison Gilkes and the team.

Kiyan Smith sent off at 118 minutes.

Thanks - he is of course Coke-Miles -Smith, who i didn’t realise was playing as i would have listed his proper name.

[The Cube]

Reading 0 Everton 1 1 min
1-1 26 mins Howard
H-T 1-1
F-T 1-1
Into Extra time
2-1 102 mins Osho
F-T 2-1 great result for Harrison Gilkes and the team.

Kiyan Smith sent off at 118 minutes.

Thanks - he is of course Coke-Miles -Smith, who i didn’t realise was playing as i would have listed his proper name.

Actually, that passed me by as well, although I had noticed that he sometimes only uses the first part of his triple-barrelled surname. Anyway, the red card was for two yellows, which possibly means he is suspended for the semi-final, which will be against Liverpool, West Ham or Derby.


Other news - Tyler Adjei started on the bench as England U15 beat Turkey 8-0 this afternoon. I don't yet know if he got on the pitch, but he was not one of the goalscorers. The two teams play again on Sunday, so there's a good chance he will start then.

[Royals and Racers]

Kiyan Smith sent off at 118 minutes.

Thanks - he is of course Coke-Miles -Smith, who i didn’t realise was playing as i would have listed his proper name.

Actually, that passed me by as well, although I had noticed that he sometimes only uses the first part of his triple-barrelled surname. Anyway, the red card was for two yellows, which possibly means he is suspended for the semi-final, which will be against Liverpool, West Ham or Derby.


Other news - Tyler Adjei started on the bench as England U15 beat Turkey 8-0 this afternoon. I don't yet know if he got on the pitch, but he was not one of the goalscorers. The two teams play again on Sunday, so there's a good chance he will start then.

On a different topic Jacob Borgnis has a younger brother called Tobias who is a goalkeeper with the Royals academy and was the sub keeper for the U 18’s last Saturday.

[SCIAG]

Thanks - he is of course Coke-Miles -Smith, who i didn’t realise was playing as i would have listed his proper name.

Actually, that passed me by as well, although I had noticed that he sometimes only uses the first part of his triple-barrelled surname. Anyway, the red card was for two yellows, which possibly means he is suspended for the semi-final, which will be against Liverpool, West Ham or Derby.


Other news - Tyler Adjei started on the bench as England U15 beat Turkey 8-0 this afternoon. I don't yet know if he got on the pitch, but he was not one of the goalscorers. The two teams play again on Sunday, so there's a good chance he will start then.

On a different topic Jacob Borgnis has a younger brother called Tobias who is a goalkeeper with the Royals academy and was the sub keeper for the U 18’s last Saturday.

That's Tobias Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis

[Sutekh]

Actually, that passed me by as well, although I had noticed that he sometimes only uses the first part of his triple-barrelled surname. Anyway, the red card was for two yellows, which possibly means he is suspended for the semi-final, which will be against Liverpool, West Ham or Derby.


Other news - Tyler Adjei started on the bench as England U15 beat Turkey 8-0 this afternoon. I don't yet know if he got on the pitch, but he was not one of the goalscorers. The two teams play again on Sunday, so there's a good chance he will start then.

On a different topic Jacob Borgnis has a younger brother called Tobias who is a goalkeeper with the Royals academy and was the sub keeper for the U 18’s last Saturday.

That's Tobias Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis

That’ll distract officials esp. when in the same teams as Coke-Miles-Smith, they’ll spend ages counting the players at every opportunity just to make sure.

[The Cube]

Tyler Adjei started on the bench as England U15 beat Turkey 8-0 this afternoon. I don't yet know if he got on the pitch,
but he was not one of the goalscorers. The two teams play again on Sunday, so there's a good chance he will start then.

In Sunday's England U15 match Adjei was on the bench, the only outfield player in the squad not to make a start in one of the two games. Again I don't know if he got on, but England won 3-0 and he neither scored nor assisted the goals.

[Crusader Royal]

On a different topic Jacob Borgnis has a younger brother called Tobias who is a goalkeeper with the Royals academy and was the sub keeper for the U 18’s last Saturday.

That's Tobias Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis

That’ll distract officials esp. when in the same teams as Coke-Miles-Smith, they’ll spend ages counting the players at every opportunity just to make sure.

There is a law change on the table that limits teams to 34 names in their match days squad to avoid this crazy name inflation. If you have a triple barrelled player you’ll need to single surname to offset it.
Will only be a matter of time before we see players with a dozen hyphenated names…..

[Sutekh]

That's Tobias Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis

That’ll distract officials esp. when in the same teams as Coke-Miles-Smith, they’ll spend ages counting the players at every opportunity just to make sure.

There is a law change on the table that limits teams to 34 names in their match days squad to avoid this crazy name inflation. If you have a triple barrelled player you’ll need to single surname to offset it.
Will only be a matter of time before we see players with a dozen hyphenated names…..

Now that’s just sad!

[Royals and Racers]

Next up for the U 21’s is an long away trip on Monday 17th February to play Sunderland in a Pl 2 fixture KO 7pm. The match is taking place at the Eppleton Colliery welfare ground.

Boyce-Clarke
Yiadom
Abrefa
Holzman
Beacroft
Kanu
Rushesha
Bodin
Akande
Okine-Peters
Spencer
SUBS
Norcott
Barough
Senga
Borgnis

[Hound]

Strong side and nice to see starts for Yiadom and Akande

[Royals and Racers]

Sunderland 0 Reading 1 29 mins Okine-Peters Pen
H-T 0-1
0-2 48 mjns Akande
1-2 74 mins
F-T 1-2 great away win with 2 home games to come next week.
19th now- just a point off 16th

[Hound]

Sunderland 0 Reading 1 29 mins Okine-Peters Pen
H-T 0-1
0-2 48 mjns Akande
1-2 74 mins
F-T 1-2 great away win with 2 home games to come next week.
19th now- just a point off 16th

Good stuff. How long did yiadom play?

[windermereROYAL]

Sunderland 0 Reading 1 29 mins Okine-Peters Pen
H-T 0-1
0-2 48 mjns Akande
1-2 74 mins
F-T 1-2 great away win with 2 home games to come next week.
19th now- just a point off 16th

Good stuff. How long did yiadom play?

An hour

[Clyde1998]

Next up for the U 21’s is an long away trip on Monday 17th February to play Sunderland in a Pl 2 fixture KO 7pm. The match is taking place at the Eppleton Colliery welfare ground.

Boyce-Clarke
Yiadom
Abrefa
Holzman
Beacroft
Kanu
Rushesha
Bodin
Akande
Okine-Peters
Spencer
SUBS
Norcott
Barough
Senga
Borgnis

Good to see we won and that's a much stronger squad than we've played at U21 level for a while. Good to see Yiadom, Abrefa, Holzman, Kanu, Rushesha, Bodin and Akande all get good minutes to hopefully boost their fitness - as a number of these (especially thinking Abrefa and Bodin) should be considered starting against Birmingham.

[Royals and Racers]

Next up for the Academy teams are
U 18’s Saturday 22nd February v Tottenham KO 11.30am at Bearwood
U 21’s Monday 24th February v West Ham KO 7pm at SCL stadium.

[The Cube]

Looks like the U21 game v Man U (initially set for 28 February) has been moved to April.

[Royals and Racers]

Looks like the U21 game v Man U (initially set for 28 February) has been moved to April.

Yes now on Friday 11th April KO 7pm at the SCL stadium- nothing from the club as expected

[Royals and Racers]

Updated qualifiers
Group A Valencia and Nottingham Forest
Group B Lyon
Group C Nordsjaelland and Fulham
Group D Brighton and Sporting Lisbon

Final Group B qualifier is Athletic Bilbao
3 English and 5 foreign in last 8

QF draw done
Fulham v Sporting Lisbon Tuesday 11th March KO 7pm
Notts Forest v Nordsjaelland Tuesday 11th March KO 7pm
Brighton v Athletic Bilbao Wednesday 26th February KO 19.30
Lyon v Valencia Tuesday 11th March KO 19.00- ground in England TBC

Lyon v Valencia is being played at Woking FC

[Royals and Racers]

Draw is correct but match dates are not
Chelsea v Liverpool Saturday 1st Feb -result 2-3
Derby v Fulham Wednesday 12th Feb
West Ham v Man Utd Tuesday 4th February
Reading v Everton TBC

Reading v Everton at Bearwood on Friday February 14th KO 2pm
West Ham 2 Man Utd 2 after ET- West Ham won 5-4 on Pens

Reading v Everton this Friday 14th February KO 2pm at Bearwood in QF of the PL U 18 cup
Derby 4 Fulham 0

Draw done for Semi’s
Liverpool v Reading Wednesday 5th March KO 12pm