Under 10

[Sutekh]

Given that in a couple of months time all we might have left of the club are memories, thought I’d compile a list of the lesser (possibly many already forgotten) players who, since 1990, made under 10 league appearances in total for the club (excludes anyone currently still at Reading)…

(L) loaned

(L) Benik Afobe - 3 apps
(L) Nathan Ake - 5 apps
Mikkel Anderson - 3 apps
(L) Kwesi Appiah - 6 apps
Felipe Araruna - 7 apps
Steve Archibald - 1 app
Tyrell Ashcroft - 4 apps
Yakubu Ayegbeni - 7 apps
(L) Chris Baird - 9 apps
Brandon Barker - 4 apps
(L) Darren Barnard - 4 apps
(L) Sekou Baradji - 1 app
Josh Barrett - 3 apps
Tony Barrass - 6 apps
Sal Bibbo - 7 apps
Nicholas Bignall - 1 app
(L) Steve Blatherwick - 7 apps
Dean Bouzanis - 6 apps
(L) Michael Branch - 2 apps
Ethan Bristow - 7 apps
(L) Gerry Britton - 2 apps
Garry Brooke - 4 apps
(L) David Byrne - 7 apps
Darren Campbell - 1 app
Alan Carey - 3 apps
Daniel Carrico - 3 apps
Peter Castle - 1 app
Eric Chuckwunyelu - 6 apps
Alan Cockram - 6 apps
Robert Codner - 4 apps
(L) Nick Colgan - 5 apps
(L) Matthew Connolly - 6 apps
Neale Cooper - 7 apps
(L) Tomas Cywka - 4 apps
Omar Daley - 6 apps
Scott Davies - 4 apps
(L) Michael Dobson - 1 app
Ryan East - 1 app
Ryan Edwards - 7 apps
Emerse Fae - 8 apps
Nathan Feeley - 1 app
(L) Alex Fernandez - 8 apps
Robert Fleck - 9 apps
Andy Freeman - 1 app
Joe Gamble - 7 apps
Aaron Giamettai - 2 apps
Scott Golbourne - 2 apps
(L) Dean Gordon - 3 apps
Neville Gordon - 1 app
Danzell Gravenberch - 2 apps
Alex Haddow - 3 apps
Gregg Halford - 3 apps
John Halls - 2 apps
(L) Dan Harding - 3 apps
(L) Karl Hein - 5 apps
(L) John Humphrey - 8 apps
Paolo Hurtado - 5 apps
(L) Darren Jackson - 5 apps
(L) John Keeley - 6 apps
Julian Kelly - 7 apps
(L) Paddy Kelly - 3 apps
Martin Keown - 5 apps
(L) Bongani Khumalo - 4 apps
Zat Knight - 2 apps
Aaron Kuhl - 6 apps
Peter van der Kwaak - 4 apps
(L) David Lee - 5 apps
(L) Jim Leighton - 8 apps
Rowan Liburd - 3 apps
(L) Kevin Lisbie - 2 apps
(L) Aruba Masika - 5 apps
(L) Alan Maybury - 8 apps
Darren McCance - 1 app
(L) Mark McKeever - 7 apps
Andy McLaren - 9 apps
(L) Zane Monlouis - 1 app
Paul Moody - 5 apps
(L) Hayden Mullins - 7 apps
Michael Murphy - 1 app
(L) Jordon Mutch - 9 apps
(L) Mark Nicholls - 5 apps
(L) Darren O’Dea - 8 apps
(L) Michael O’Neill - 9 apps
Jayden Onen - 1 app
Gabriel Osho - 7 apps
(L) Reece Oxford - 5 apps
(L) Graham Potter - 4 apps
Mark Reilly - 6 apps
(L) Ben Roberts - 6 apps
(L) Mark Robins - 5 apps
David Robinson - 8 apps
(L) Leo Roget - 1 app
(L) Lee Sandford - 5 apps
Rashawn Scott - 1 app
Ben Smith - 1 app
Sam Sodje - 3 apps
Jack Stacey - 6 apps
Graham Stack - 1 app
Neville Stamp - 1 app
(L) Brian Statham - 8 apps
(L) Steve Sutton - 2 apps
Craig Tanner - 3 apps
Stuart Taylor - 4 apps
Terrell Thomas - 2 apps
Michael Thorpe - 5 apps
Tony Thorpe - 6 apps
Gunnar Thorvaldsson - 4 apps
Jure Travner - 1 app
(L) Joao Virginia - 2 apps
Sam Walker - 7 apps
(L) Ray Wallace - 3 apps
Tennai Watson - 4 apps
Marcus Williams - 3 apps
(L) Tony Witter - 4 apps
(L) Chris Woods - 5 apps
(L) Andy Wright - 2 apps
Jamie Young - 1 app

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Two others that come to mind for some reason, but don't make your list's criteria:

Peter Maté - our only ever Hungarian? 1 league cup appearance, one goal. That's a world-class goal-per-game scoring record.

Deniss Rekels - made 14 league appearances, which is about 12 more than I would have thought. Good lad though - followed him on Instagram for years as he bumped around Cyprus, Latvia and Poland, getting ever more tattooed.

[stealthpapes]

Typo on first one.

Don't think Péter Máté actually played in the league.

Deniss Rekels - came out of nowhere, last minute winner vs Charlton, vanished into ether. Scrawny but looked like he'd fill you in.

[Sutekh]

Typo on first one.

Don't think Péter Máté actually played in the league.

Deniss Rekels - came out of nowhere, last minute winner vs Charlton, vanished into ether. Scrawny but looked like he'd fill you in.

Thanks, now corrected, ****** spellcheckers!

[Brum Royal]

Remember one of van der Kwaak's 4 appearances, an absolute horror show away to Wrexham on the opening day of the 98-99 season after we'd been relegated - conceded an own goal by miskicking a back pass in (possibly) the opening 20 minutes or so. Lost that one 0-3. Would it have been Phil Whitehead that replaced him? Scott Howie maybe?

[SCIAG]

Few more typos - the ones that jump out are Mikkel Andersen and Greg Halford.

Sal Bibbo is a clear odd-one-out in that he still managed to be a hugely significant figure for the club, by being our goalkeeping coach for a decade or so when we had a string of good goalkeepers.

[Sutekh]

Few more typos - the ones that jump out are Mikkel Andersen and Greg Halford.

Mikkel is NOT a typo…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel_An ... ootballer)

Presume you’re confusing him with Jokull Andresson who finally left last season. He never made a league appearance for Reading so is absent from the above list

[SCIAG]

Few more typos - the ones that jump out are Mikkel Andersen and Greg Halford.

Mikkel is NOT a typo…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel_An ... ootballer)

Presume you’re confusing him with Jokull Andresson who finally left last season. He never made a league appearance for Reading so is absent from the above list

No, it is clearly a typo. You spelled it "Anderson". It is "Andersen".

[AthleticoSpizz]

That’s some list, and some forgotten, some best forgotten, but to help kick restart the missing name thing, I’ll raise you an Andrija Novakovich (3 league games)

[JedMaxwell]

That’s some list, and some forgotten, some best forgotten, but to help kick restart the missing name thing, I’ll raise you an Andrija Novakovich (3 league games)

I remember someone telling me they'd seen him in a youth game and that he was doing to be our next great striker.

Just looked and he's now 28(!) playing on loan for Bari from Venezia, one of the coolest Serie A teams. Fair play to the lad.

[AthleticoSpizz]

That’s some list, and some forgotten, some best forgotten, but to help kick restart the missing name thing, I’ll raise you an Andrija Novakovich (3 league games)

I remember someone telling me they'd seen him in a youth game and that he was doing to be our next great striker.

Just looked and he's now 28(!) playing on loan for Bari from Venezia, one of the coolest Serie A teams. Fair play to the lad.

yeah, was the classic ‘expected better’ Reading thing. Never really got going with us but it was well versed here of what we expected (and thought was coming our way).

[LightwaterRoyal]

Can't see Joao Virginia in the list. Easily the worst player I've ever seen for Reading other than Zane Monlouis.

When we signed Thorvaldsson I thought he'd be amazing just because he was Icelandic. Shame it didn't work out.

Carriço should've been our best player ever. Not sure what went wrong there.

Aaron Kuhl was a weird one, got rave reviews for the academy.

Felipe Araruna probably would've played a lot more if it weren't for the injuries.

[Royal Ginger]

Shouldn’t forgettable mistake Zat Knight be on the list?

[bcubed]

I remember the guy in front of me, when I had a season ticket in Y26, turned up in a new team shirt with Gravenberch on it!

He also used to wear shorts to every game...

[Sutekh]

Shouldn’t forgettable mistake Zat Knight be on the list?

Yes! Somehow I forgot about him

Added now.

Incidentally, according to wiki, he now lives in LA and owns fragrance and real estate businesses.

[stealthpapes]

Can't see Joao Virginia in the list. Easily the worst player I've ever seen for Reading other than Zane Monlouis.

We'd done so well with Martinez the previous season that I was "he's got to be good, they've done their ... "

It wasn't that his overall performance was bad, it was that he had absolute clangers in him.

[stealthpapes]

Aaron Kuhl was a weird one, got rave reviews for the academy.

I've written a few posts about 'the vortex' but the one thing is does cripple is the chances of the players coming through. It's already tough, an injury at the wrong time will do for a career. But the manager changes, has his own ideas, and 9 times out of 10 will bring in someone rather than use a youth player.

So, recent past:
Kuhl looked good, if a bit lightweight, in the appearances I saw. Likewise Tetek. I think injuries worked against player here.
I cannot understand why we didn't keep Clarke as a different type of forward player.
Saw Josh Barrett once, thought he was good.
There's got to be more examples. Have a look through the list and how many are young players, wonder where they all ended up.

One of the things I have liked the last two seasons is the approach of giving players some game time to adapt and grow. The odd mistake (Kanu, Colchester, ) but nothing really serious.

[stealthpapes]

hat-trick post

(L) Bongani Khumalo - 4 apps

LOL, he was desperate. 42 caps for South Africa.

[Sutekh]

Can't see Joao Virginia in the list. Easily the worst player I've ever seen for Reading other than Zane Monlouis.

We'd done so well with Martinez the previous season that I was "he's got to be good, they've done their ... "

It wasn't that his overall performance was bad, it was that he had absolute clangers in him.

Joao Virginia - 2 apps

[LightwaterRoyal]

Trying to find some more absentees and was surprised to see that Joseph Mills made 15 apps.

None of Lawson D'Ath, Gozie Ugwu, Dave Mooney and Karl Sheppard made a single league appearance either.