And the draw for Reading is

Round 2

Reading v Luton Town

Round 3

Reading or Luton Town v Manchester United

All behind closed doors

Veljko apparently selected the starting XI though Eddie and John took charge during the game. Poor first half, struggled to show anything very much against a useful looking Colchester and deservedly fell behind. Thankful for Joao being fit and getting the club back into things in injury time with on...

Draw is after the Brentford v Wycombe game tomorrow (so probably around 2pm). Both second and third round draws being completed. Second round is still regionalised and those ties will be played on 15/16 September. Third round ties will be played on 22/23 September. Teams through to second round are:...

Through to the second rund.

Draw for both the second and third rounds of the League Cup tomorrow 1.45pm

In other league cup news; Cardiff are losing 3-0 at Northampton Swansea are losing 2-0 at Newport Norwich are losing 1-0 at Luton Birmingham are losing 1-0 at home to Cambridge Forest at losing 1-0 at Barnsley. From the highlights on the TV Cardiff look bloody awful. Obviously no idea about what so...

Joao off, Melvin-Lambert (a striker) on

Joao 3-1 Colchester

Baldock off, Richards on.

Joao again

Snowflake Royal Fuk me Rinomhota makes a difference

Guess that’s the end of McNulty at Reading, let’s hope Gillingham can make a good offer.

And internet BBC Berks coverage suddenly decides it’s not contractually correct to broadcast the match

Joao....... 1-1

Paunovic out

Nice to see Reading so dominant.

Eddie Niedzwiecki will leave Reading after managing the club in today’s game From Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status/1302211933148508160 (Backed up by Courtney and ITK Eddie) Not a surprise sadly. Quinton Fortune will take over Eddie's role and I think Marko Mitrović (NOT the Sw...

Watson, Walker, Smith and East are all rumoured to be “available” with Smith attracting the interest of Wimbledon.

In addition McNulty is rumoured to be attracting interest from Gillingham.

Ifollow have a guy by the name of Ethan Briston starting for Reading and McNulty playing the lone striker role up front

QPR are the first "shock" of the round, losing 3-2 at Plymouth.

Colchester knocked out Spurs and Palace from last year's competition so are hardly going to be phased by a trip to Reading's semi reserve side.

SCIAG Am I right in thinking Meite is suspended?

Meite got a straight red in the last game of last season v Swansea, therefore is serving a 3 match ban. He'll also miss the trip to Derby and the home game v Barnsley.

Yay! Aluko starts :lol: Reading: Southwood, Araruna, Bristow, Moore (c), Morrison, Laurent, Olise, Aluko, McNulty, Baldock, João. Subs: Andresson, Abbey, Samuels, Richards, Rinomhota, Tetek, Melvin-Lambert. Colchester United: Gerken, Scarlett, Brammall, Eastman, Smith, Pell (c), Stevenson, Chilvers,...