The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[Royals and Racers]

PL U 18 Cup groups drawn. We are Group H
Tottenham v Reading Wednesday 27th August
Reading v Derby Saturday 4th October
Reading v Burnley Saturday 22nd November

[JedMaxwell]

Norcott has gone on 2 months “youth” loan to Woking.

He's older than I realised

Hell of a story for Would I Lie to You

[Royals and Racers]

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

[Royals and Racers]

1st home PL 2 fixture against Leicester City a week tonight Friday 22nd August has been confirmed as being played at the SCL stadium KO 7pm.
Tickets now on sale £5 for adults
Seating is reserved in the lower west as previously.
For this season the ridiculous car parking charge is removed !!!

[Royals and Racers]

Sadly Reading FC’s coverage of the Academy gets no better. We must be the only club out of the 29 Cat 1 teams not to have any PL 2 U 21 fixtures on the website. The U 18’s are there to be fair.
I am not expecting any coverage from the opening PL 2 match at Norwich KO 7pm at all from the club - which if so is just pathetic !!

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Sadly Reading FC’s coverage of the Academy gets no better. We must be the only club out of the 29 Cat 1 teams not to have any PL 2 U 21 fixtures on the website. The U 18’s are there to be fair.
I am not expecting any coverage from the opening PL 2 match at Norwich KO 7pm at all from the club - which if so is just pathetic !!

That's really sad given what the academy have provided for the first team recently.

[JedMaxwell]

Hopefully now with a bit more stability in the background, that's something that could change. I'm sure the club has the ability to do a few more features etc. within RoyalsTV with this new matey that's come in.

[Royals and Racers]

Norwich 0 Reading 1 15 mins Beacroft
Norwich 1 Reading 21 mins

Rhone
Beacroft
Borgnis
Duah
Chard
Okine-Peters
Ferguson
Bowdery
Barough
Sackey
Evans

[Royals and Racers]

Subs
Welland
Hicks
Howard
Coke-Miles-Smith
Williams

H-T 1-1

[Snowflake Royal]

Sadly Reading FC’s coverage of the Academy gets no better. We must be the only club out of the 29 Cat 1 teams not to have any PL 2 U 21 fixtures on the website. The U 18’s are there to be fair.
I am not expecting any coverage from the opening PL 2 match at Norwich KO 7pm at all from the club - which if so is just pathetic !!

That's really sad given what the academy have provided for the first team recently.

Tbf, the other 28 are in the PL and Championship mostly with at least double our resources.

Whilst we all love what the Academy does, I expect they have all sorts of web analytics data showing only about 15 people look at Academy fixtures, so it's low on their priority list.

[Royals and Racers]

F-T 1-1
Bowdery sent off 90+ 4 for 2 yellows