The non snowball stat thread

[Clyde1998]

Got me thinking, we must have played some of them in the 4th tier too. How long would that list be?

Four clubs by the looks of it: Portsmouth; Swansea; Watford; Wigan.

In addition, we played Portsmouth; Swansea and Watford in the Southern League before joining the league. Swansea and Watford are the only sides we've played in all four levels of the league; the FA Cup; the League Cup and the League Trophy (we haven't played Portsmouth in the Trophy).

[Sutekh]

Got me thinking, we must have played some of them in the 4th tier too. How long would that list be?

Four clubs by the looks of it: Portsmouth; Swansea; Watford; Wigan.

In addition, we played Portsmouth; Swansea and Watford in the Southern League before joining the league. Swansea and Watford are the only sides we've played in all four levels of the league; the FA Cup; the League Cup and the League Trophy (we haven't played Portsmouth in the Trophy).

Seen Reading v Portsmouth in all 4 divisions.

Think the only other possibles in all 4 divisions would be Palace, Coventry and Notts County but the timing was never quite right.

[Ark Royal]

Birmingham City's relegation got my thinking, they can be added to the list of teams I've seen us play in the top 3 tiers. Having followed the club closely since 99/00 or so, the list currently includes Wigan, Bolton, Charlton, Stoke, Portsmouth, Derby and Swansea to my memory.

Got me thinking, we must have played some of them in the 4th tier too. How long would that list be? And has anyone on here seen us play the same club in 4 tiers?

Fulham and Wigan for me

Pompey.

[rabidbee]

Got me thinking, we must have played some of them in the 4th tier too. How long would that list be?

Four clubs by the looks of it: Portsmouth; Swansea; Watford; Wigan.

In addition, we played Portsmouth; Swansea and Watford in the Southern League before joining the league. Swansea and Watford are the only sides we've played in all four levels of the league; the FA Cup; the League Cup and the League Trophy (we haven't played Portsmouth in the Trophy).

Could make a nice pre-season tournament, that.

[Clyde1998]

Got me thinking, we must have played some of them in the 4th tier too. How long would that list be?

Four clubs by the looks of it: Portsmouth; Swansea; Watford; Wigan.

In addition, we played Portsmouth; Swansea and Watford in the Southern League before joining the league. Swansea and Watford are the only sides we've played in all four levels of the league; the FA Cup; the League Cup and the League Trophy (we haven't played Portsmouth in the Trophy).

Could make a nice pre-season tournament, that.

I've always thought the early rounds of cup competitions should be during pre-season, especially the EFL Trophy. No-one's too bothered about the early rounds anyway and would allow them to be played on a Saturday.

Would allow for something like that to happen if you had a League Cup group stage, such as the one in Scotland.

[Brogue]

Only 5 Academy graduates have scored more goals for Reading than Kelvin E - now on 15 goals.

Long 56
HRK 30
Simon church 24
Gylfi 22
Smith 17

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Another one whilst we're on stats.....what's our record in scoring in successive games?

Someone on Twitter said after Brum it was now the best this century; would be interesting to see how much further this goes back.

I'm guessing we'd still have a way to go to break the club record as pre 1960 games were much more high scoring.

[Brogue]

Andre Garcia debut against brum means he is now one of just 6 players to have made their Reading FC debut aged 16. The other 5 being:

16 years 49 days - Peter Castle
16 years 186 days - Neil Webb
16 years 191 days - Steve Hetzke
16 years 246 days - Jordan Obita
16 years 359 days - Danny Loader

[Brogue]

Another one whilst we're on stats.....what's our record in scoring in successive games?

Someone on Twitter said after Brum it was now the best this century; would be interesting to see how much further this goes back.

I'm guessing we'd still have a way to go to break the club record as pre 1960 games were much more high scoring.

Just found the stat on Twitter

Reading have scored in each of their last 22 games; the longest current run of any team in England’s top 4 tiers

This is the club’s longest such run of the century

So we can make that 23 games now…

[Brogue]

Another one whilst we're on stats.....what's our record in scoring in successive games?

Someone on Twitter said after Brum it was now the best this century; would be interesting to see how much further this goes back.

I'm guessing we'd still have a way to go to break the club record as pre 1960 games were much more high scoring.

Just found the stat on Twitter

Reading have scored in each of their last 22 games; the longest current run of any team in England’s top 4 tiers

This is the club’s longest such run of the century

So we can make that 23 games now…

The numbers have been crunched. this the longest streak since 1967

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Yep - but we have beaten 1967 on just league games now, not much going on today so checked it out:

1967 - 21 league games, plus 2 in league cup
2024 - 22 league games, plus 1 in league cup

So if you count tomorrow night, and we score, we take out 1967 and are then back to 1951/52 season.

That year we scored in 27 successive league games from the start of the season (failed to score in last game previous season away to Bournemouth). We also scored in 4 FA Cup games so quite a way to go still. The run was ended with a 1-0 defeat at Brighton.

The 1952 team did have Ronnie Blackman in it who was our record goal scorer until Trevor Senior arrived.

[Stranded]

Only 5 Academy graduates have scored more goals for Reading than Kelvin E - now on 15 goals.

Long 56
HRK 30
Simon church 24
Gylfi 22
Smith 17

Honest question: Can we really count Long as an Academy graduate? Signed in the summer of '05 and was regularly on the bench by the New Year.

[Brogue]

Only 5 Academy graduates have scored more goals for Reading than Kelvin E - now on 15 goals.

Long 56
HRK 30
Simon church 24
Gylfi 22
Smith 17

Honest question: Can we really count Long as an Academy graduate? Signed in the summer of '05 and was regularly on the bench by the New Year.

it's a good question, the club list him as a academy graduate, so that's good enough for me

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/academy/graduates/ - number 9

[Brogue]

Yep - but we have beaten 1967 on just league games now, not much going on today so checked it out:

1967 - 21 league games, plus 2 in league cup
2024 - 22 league games, plus 1 in league cup

So if you count tomorrow night, and we score, we take out 1967 and are then back to 1951/52 season.

That year we scored in 27 successive league games from the start of the season (failed to score in last game previous season away to Bournemouth). We also scored in 4 FA Cup games so quite a way to go still. The run was ended with a 1-0 defeat at Brighton.

The 1952 team did have Ronnie Blackman in it who was our record goal scorer until Trevor Senior arrived.

Well tonight’s result means we are now chasing the 1952 record

[Clyde1998]

Only 5 Academy graduates have scored more goals for Reading than Kelvin E - now on 15 goals.

Long 56
HRK 30
Simon church 24
Gylfi 22
Smith 17

Honest question: Can we really count Long as an Academy graduate? Signed in the summer of '05 and was regularly on the bench by the New Year.

I think the club counts anyone who played for the U18s or a younger age group before playing for the first team as an academy graduate.

If you go through the profiles on the club website, there's a lot of players considered youth graduates who joined the club at sixteen or older. The I went through some of them to find: Michael Hector; James Henry; Julian Kelly; Gylfi Sigurdsson; Ryan Edwards; Sean Long; Mikkel Andersen; Niall Keown; Andrija Novakovich; Josh Barrett; Andy Rinomhota (the two in bold were 18).

[SCIAG]

Only 5 Academy graduates have scored more goals for Reading than Kelvin E - now on 15 goals.

Long 56
HRK 30
Simon church 24
Gylfi 22
Smith 17

Honest question: Can we really count Long as an Academy graduate? Signed in the summer of '05 and was regularly on the bench by the New Year.

I think the club counts anyone who played for the U18s or a younger age group before playing for the first team as an academy graduate.

If you go through the profiles on the club website, there's a lot of players considered youth graduates who joined the club at sixteen or older. The I went through some of them to find: Michael Hector; James Henry; Julian Kelly; Gylfi Sigurdsson; Ryan Edwards; Sean Long; Mikkel Andersen; Niall Keown; Andrija Novakovich; Josh Barrett; Andy Rinomhota (the two in bold were 18).

Henry had been around the club for a while before agreeing to a scholarship.

With Barrett you’ve misread the reference to his U21 debut at 17. He had been with the club since at least the age of 15. Did very well for our U16s.

You could add Ben House, Axel Andresson and Darius Henderson. I think Axel was a first year (16) while House and Henderson were what we would now call second year scholars (17).

I think the unfortunate thing is that way back in the early days of the modern academy we called Henderson one of its first graduates because he was signed as an academy player, even though he hadn’t been at the club long when he signed professional terms.

The difference with Long is that he was 18 when we signed him, and we signed him on professional terms from the off. But he did sneak into some U18 lineups iirc - these days he wouldn’t be eligible because he’d had his birthday in January.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Interesting stat from today.....same score and same goal times as the game V Charlton at home last season; that can rarely happen when 2 goals in the game.

[Brogue]

[Sanguine]

We've probably had this in various guises, but a +1 to anything and anywhere that notes the turnaround that Selles has driven and overseen.

Up to 11th November 2023, our league record was P16 W3 D2 L11 (Pts 8 PPG 0.50)
Since 12th November 2023, it is W15 D10 L9 (Pts 55, PPG 1.62)

And all this with what has been going on at the club. It's been a phenomenal effort. That PPG, if we can maintain it, puts us right in the play-off picture.

[RG30]

What was the last season we had a home Boxing Day fixture? Feels like it's been at least 7 or 8 years?