The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[Vision]

18 year old ex Bournemouth defender Jay Williams has joined the Royals.

Cat 2 to a cat 1 club. Makes sense

Clearly impressed by our Wycombeness

[West F]

18 year old ex Bournemouth defender Jay Williams has joined the Royals.

Cat 2 to a cat 1 club. Makes sense

Clearly impressed by our Wycombeness

Wycombe don’t have an academy. Only just started the process of applying for cat 4 status.
It will be the latent Readingness and reputation of our academy that is the allure.

[Royals and Racers]

Cat 2 to a cat 1 club. Makes sense

Clearly impressed by our Wycombeness

Wycombe don’t have an academy. Only just started the process of applying for cat 4 status.
It will be the latent Readingness and reputation of our academy that is the allure.

Plus the fact that they were scholars and weren’t offered pro- contracts.

[Royals and Racers]

PL Cup draw done - we are in Group A
Bournemouth
Birmingham City
Hull
Reading
Fixtures
Friday 12th September Bournemouth home at Aldershot KO 7pm

Friday 17th October Birmingham away
The Arden Garages stadium
Stratford upon Avon KO 7pm

Friday 21st November Hull away
Dransfield stadium North Ferriby FC KO 7pm

Monday 1st December Bournemouth away Vitality stadium KO 7pm

Saturday 13th December Birmingham home SCL stadium kO 1pm

Friday 19th December Hull home at Aldershot KO 7pm

Only 14 Cat 1 clubs in the comp this season ( out of 32). so hopefully should finish in the top 2 teams in our group to progress into the last 16 round.

[Royals and Racers]

No line-up yet for Reading !!
John Ryan plays at 3

[Royals and Racers]

Rhone
Beacroft
Ferguson
Duah
Ryan
Spencer
Borgnis
Barough
Sackey
Okine-Peters
Evans
Subs
Welland
Williams
Hicks
Coke-Miles-Smith
Howard
H-T 0-0
F-T 0-0

[Hound]

Rhone
Beacroft
Ferguson
Duah
Ryan
Spencer
Borgnis
Barough
Sackey
Okine-Peters
Evans
Subs
Welland
Williams
Hicks
Coke-Miles-Smith
Howard
H-T 0-0
F-T 0-0

Oh well not clamour for academy CFs to be called up

Guess it suggests Ferguson has done ok again

[Royals and Racers]

U 18’s v Leicester
T Borgnis
Zie
Dove
Irish
Saint-Louis
Nour
Booth
Covus
Daka
Hunte
L Omoregie
SUBS
Pullinger
Martin-Grant
Agyekum
Ntege
S Omoregie

Reading 0 Leicester 1 3 mins
0-2 40 mins
H-T 0-2
0-3 81 mins
1-3 90+ 2 Agyekum
F-T 1-3

[Royals and Racers]

Busy week ahead for the Academy with 3 matches for the U 18’s and U 21’s.
1st up on Wednesday 27th August the U 18’s play their opening PL League Cup Group H match away to Tottenham KO 12pm. The match is at Spurs training centre.
Next up the U 21’s make the long trip to the North East on Friday 29th August to play Middlesborough in a PL 2 fixture KO 7pm. The match is being played at Heritage Park the home of Bishop Auckland FC.
The U 18’s return to PL league action on Saturday 30th August playing Ipswich Town away KO 11am. This match is at the Ipswich training ground.

[The Cube]

Some news from the U16s. Last week they beat Spurs 3-0 and yesterday beat Leicester 4-0. Games (so far) have been played on the next pitch to the U18 match. Also, I think some second half U18 subs have played the first half for the U16s.

[Clyde1998]

Some news from the U16s. Last week they beat Spurs 3-0 and yesterday beat Leicester 4-0. Games (so far) have been played on the next pitch to the U18 match. Also, I think some second half U18 subs have played the first half for the U16s.

I have wondered how much our youth teams have been affected by the financial situation we’ve had, especially losing players and coaches to better funded and more stable teams. Based on those results, perhaps it’s only the current U18s who’ve been badly afflicted.

[The Cube]

Arsenal U 18’s v Reading U 18’s
Arsenal 1 Reading 0 14 mins
2-0 25 mins
H-T 2-0
3-0 55 mins
4-0 88 mins
F-T 4-0

Meant to post at the time, but never got round to it. In this game back in April, all 4 Arsenal goals were scored by 15-year-old Max Dowman, who made his Premier League debut this week.

[RG30]

Arsenal U 18’s v Reading U 18’s
Arsenal 1 Reading 0 14 mins
2-0 25 mins
H-T 2-0
3-0 55 mins
4-0 88 mins
F-T 4-0

Meant to post at the time, but never got round to it. In this game back in April, all 4 Arsenal goals were scored by 15-year-old Max Dowman, who made his Premier League debut this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIvPlcobWU

[Royals and Racers]

PL U 18 cup away at Spurs KO 12pm
Tottenham 1 Reading 0 5 mins
T Borgnis
Zie
Dove
Irish
Saint-Louis
Ntege
Booth
Agyekum
Daka
Hunte
Omoregie
SUBS
Pullinger
Martin-Grant
Nour
Covus-Brown
H-T 1-0
1-1 63 mins Covus-Brown
1-2 64 mins Covus-Brown
2-2 90 + 5
2nd time in under 3 weeks that Spurs have scored deep into injury time to stop us collecting the 3 points !!!
The 2 other teams in the group also played today -result Derby 2 Burnley 1

[Royals and Racers]

3 mins of highlights from yesterday’s U 18’s match on Spurs play.
https://play.tottenhamhotspur.com/video/849483

[Royals and Racers]

Rhone
Duah
Ferguson
Williams
Chard
Spencer
Borgnis
Coke- Miles-Smith
Sackey
Hicks
Evans
SUBS
Welland
Beacroft
Obodo
Barough
Bowdery

[Royals and Racers]

Middlesboro 0 Reading 1 3 mins David Hicks
1-1 17 mins
Middlesboro 2 Reading 1 34 mins
3-1 42 mins
H-T 3-1
4-1 53 mins
5-1 73 mins
5-2 90 + 2 Evans
F-T 5-2

[Royals and Racers]

Ipswich U 18’s 1 Reading U 18’s 0 24 mins.
T Borgnis
Zie
Dove
Irish
Saint-Louis
Ntege
Booth
Agyekum
Omoregie
Zion
Covus-Brown
SUBS
Pullinger
Martin
Hunte
Nour
Fuller-Thompson
H-T 1-0
Ipswich down to 10 as keeper sent off on 49 mins.
1-1 90+ 5 Nour
F-T 1-1

[The Cube]

In the U18 game at Ipswich George Booth missed a penalty when it was still 0-1. Not related to the keeper's red card, which came a bit later.

Anthony Dove is in the U18 Premier League team of the week (think that must be for games last week).

[Mid Sussex Royal]

On the U21's front does anyone know how John Clark is doing; Is he near to a return yet? Tuma also - he's been out all season and most of pre-season. Osho too?