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.