Vote For Player Of The Season

09 April 2026
By Hob Nob Anyone?

With the 2025/2026 season coming to a close it's time to vote for your player of the season. The Royals look set for a finish just outside the play-off positions, but with four games to play have a very slim chance of sneaking into the top six should they pick up maximum points. You can cast your vote within the topic on our discussion forums by signing in. If you have any issues with your forum account please Email Us and we can fix your access so you can contribute to the discussion and place your vote.

Vote for your Reading FC player of the season 2025/2026

With the 2025/2026 season coming to a close it's time to vote for your player of the season. The Royals look set for a finish just outside the play-off positions, but with four games to play have a very slim chance of sneaking into the top six should they pick up maximum points. You can cast your vote within the <a href="https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=192929">topic on our discussion forums</a> by signing in. If you have any issues with your forum account please <a href="mailto:graham@royals.org?subject=Discussion%20Forum%20Access">Email Us</a> and we can fix your access so you can contribute to the discussion and place your vote.
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Discussion On This Story:

Brogue

» 09 Apr 2026 11:00

4 games to go, its that time of the season again. vote for your player of the season - list comprises of all players with over 10 appearances in the league, minus two players: MoM and Matty jacob who have left the club.

Orion1871

» 09 Apr 2026 11:05

Top 3 is pretty obvious imo
Marriott

Wing

D Williams
In that order.

tidus_mi2

» 09 Apr 2026 11:07

Yeah, agree 100% with that.

scumbag

» 09 Apr 2026 11:11

Snowflake Royal

» 09 Apr 2026 11:27

Agree on the top 3. I'd move Wing up to top. 11 goals, 11 assists, good defensive contribution, played far more games than the other two.

Mid Sussex Royal

» 09 Apr 2026 12:14

Yep agree - Wing first as its over a full season.

stealthpapes

» 09 Apr 2026 12:14

Boyd Beacroft or Reece Evans

West F

» 09 Apr 2026 12:54

Wing.
Guy deserves a statue for all he has done since arriving. He is the only player who would walk into any other team in this division.

South Coast Royal

» 09 Apr 2026 13:35

Wing

Pereira

Marriott

In that order for me.
Without the first two we might well have been nearer the relegation places than the play-off spots.

Beaulux

» 09 Apr 2026 14:26

All three have saved our season.
FTR I voted Pereira.

Hound

» 09 Apr 2026 16:56

Yeah prob that. Williams and Marriott not played enough to get into that top 2.
Mind you I’d give it a few games yet. If Doyle, Kelvin or Savage have a great last 3-4 games they’d have a shout

AthleticoSpizz

» 09 Apr 2026 17:02

+1

Marriotts’ goals have also helped stave off relegation of course.

MR. CYNICAL

» 09 Apr 2026 18:21

Lewis Wing for obvious reasons.

Charlie Savage because he stays fit and so is almost always ever present.

Marriott for his goals.

JP slips to fourth choice due to his time wasting and shithousery.

windermereROYAL

» 09 Apr 2026 18:57

Will Keane, anyone that have voted otherwise need to give their heads a wobble.

Clyde1998

» 09 Apr 2026 19:16

I went with Derrick Williams due to the level of impact he has on our defence. He reads the game well; leads the defence well; good in the air; powerful; fairly comfortable on the ball. I think we've only lost four times when he's started (and two were in back-to-back games). I hadn't realised he'd missed so many games though, which is really the key mark against him.
Will probably be Marriott getting the official award; Wing second. Goals and assists get attention (spectacular saves for keepers), but Derrick does a lot of the intangibles well; and completely changes the team in a way I don't think anyone else does (perhaps Wing).

AthleticoSpizz

» 09 Apr 2026 19:39

Still the (allbeit outside) chance of Lewis’s goal tally outweighing Jacks…..plus 11 (so far) assists tho’?

South Coast Royal

» 09 Apr 2026 21:37

Good player Williams but surely he hasn't played enough games to qualify for the winner's spot?

andrew1957

» 11 Apr 2026 17:14

Frankly not sure any player this season has played well enough to justify a vote. Very inconsistent performances and too many injuries preventing momentum.
Wing will win as he has scored a few, but he has been a shadow of the Wing of last season. Marriott would probably have won if he had played all season.

AthleticoSpizz

» 11 Apr 2026 17:26

Well yes, of course, but don’t discount Lewis’s assists

Winston Biscuit

» 15 Apr 2026 07:34

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/ranking-the-eleven-best-efl-league-one-players-this-season/

Sutekh

» 15 Apr 2026 07:58

Wonder if Reading be considering any for a move in the summer, after all the club’s AI data reporting should be highlighting many as a matter of course.
In a similar vein, the top players, stats wise, in L2 are…
Top scorers
Aaron Drinan (Swind*n) 21

Isaac Hutchinson (Cheltenham) 16

Michael Cheek (Bromley) 16
Top assists
Tommi O’Reilly (Crewe) 11

Liam Mandeville (Chesterfield) 10

Mitchell Pinnock (Bromley) 9

Mr Angry

» 15 Apr 2026 14:27

Marriott for me; his goals got us up to the fringes of the play offs and had he not got injured, we would have been much more likely to have finished in the top 6.
A key issue for the Summer to indicate the genuine ambition of the club will be whether they succumb to the inevitable offers that will come in for him.

West F

» 16 Apr 2026 21:43

Highly unlikely that any offers will come in for Marriot. His injury issues are well known in the industry and he will only be available for 50% of matches over a season. Having him as first choice striker leaves you at risk of coming up short in terms of goals and therefore having a massive effect on your league position. As a back up option, then yes maybe someone would like him. But, he is going to want the sort of wage warranted by a first choice player. Our season was effectively bookended by Marriot fitness. He was absent at the start, costing Noel his job, and absent at the end.

Forbury Lion

» 17 Apr 2026 09:14

Sutekh

» 17 Apr 2026 12:01

Forbury Lion

» 17 Apr 2026 12:19

Another key issue is whether they try to sign adequate cover for him in the event of injury, If we had two interchangeable strikers of the same quality who didn't get injured at the same time we'd be in the playoffs for sure.
You don’t think Kelvin da man? :o
He isn't at the same level yet and I'd feel more comfortable if we had another Jack Marriott or a Simon Church in the squad to give us cover and options because you ideally need one striker starting and a second one to bring off the bench.

Sutekh

» 17 Apr 2026 12:25

You don’t think Kelvin da man? :o
He isn't at the same level yet and I'd feel more comfortable if we had another Jack Marriott or a Simon Church in the squad to give us cover and options because you ideally need one striker starting and a second one to bring off the bench.
Perhaps Patton and/or Evans could be decent but it’s still too early to know. Would agree the club should look for a bargain to be had in that area and, of course, Mick Gooding says you can never have too many centre forwards🤪
There has been speculation that Josh Stones (York) is on the radar…..

WestYorksRoyal

» 17 Apr 2026 14:57

One of the greatest abilities a player can have is availability. That's why I'm going for Wing over Marriott.

West F

» 17 Apr 2026 16:47

Yerp

Ascotexgunner

» 17 Apr 2026 20:04

WTF? Who voted Paddy Lane? Top trolling that.

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