Who is Readings most successful youngster in recent times?

[rg6royal]

Is it possible to score 'World Class' goals against League 1 opposition?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/may/26/european-goal-of-the-season The Guardian newspaper have his strike against Walsall listed in it's 'European Goal of the Season' list.

Bloody hell ...absolutely fantastic goal!

[Tommy Youlden's Ears]

Do you mean most successful who has left us recently? If so, will turn out to be Simon Cox - no argument at all.

If it's those still at the club, Pearce probably holds the accolade for now, although Karacan has potential and Simon Church is starting to get noticed. Hopefully James Henry will knuckle down and take his place o teh wing for us next saeason so we actually get to start matches with 11 footballers on the pitch for us for a change, and Baggie is going to be a big star in the not too distant future. Hopefully it'll be with us and not Swindon or elsewhere.

Letting Cox go for £200k was the worst bit of Business Sir Steve did whilst with us, and that includes the signing of Kebe. Yes I know Cox wanted 1st team football etc etc, but just a little bit more man management might have meant he would have been a 1st XI forward for us next year. It was pretty cxlear to anyone watching the FAC game v Spurs that Cox had something. Oh well, it's in the past. Just hope it's a lesson learnt.

Only bright side is we get 40% of sell on fee.

Interesting quote from Cox in new issue of 442 - says that when he went on loan "...Steve Coppell told me to go down there and do well. I scored eight goals in 18 starts and my fitness improved, so when I came back to Reading I felt ready to play a part in the first team set-up. When I discovered nothing had changed, that was it for me and I joined Swindon permanently in the January". We all know you can't keep everyone happy, but in retrospect, this looks like poor man management.

As has been written on HNA ad nauseum recently, let's hope that the change of manager and the exodus of the over-paid leads us to discover how good the current crop of youth really is, before it too gets driven away.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

Laurie Sanchez... Reading, Wimbeldon then manager of a national team not bad for a local lad!!

[handbags_harris]

So to summarise.

Reading have a useless Youth Academy?

No.

Now fcuk off.

[Harry Carry]

So to summarise.

Reading have a useless Youth Academy?

No.

Now fcuk off.

LOL! Some people take things far too seriously.

[handbags_harris]

So to summarise.

Reading have a useless Youth Academy?

No.

Now fcuk off.

LOL! Some people take things far too seriously.

The last thing I would ever do is take a Chelsea fan seriously.

Got any meathead mates called Nige? Or Nobby? Or Smiffy?

[yuomi]

yikes. crowded banks today. too many lines in the water.

[SteveRoyal]

Long.

[bobbybottler]

Neil Webb.

End of thread.

[leww_rfc]

Give it a couple of seasons and it'll be Churchy

[bootboy]

Is it possible to score 'World Class' goals against League 1 opposition?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/may/26/european-goal-of-the-season The Guardian newspaper have his strike against Walsall listed in it's 'European Goal of the Season' list.

Bloody hell ...absolutely fantastic goal!

James Henrys goal v Simon Coxs Swindon was a pretty darned good goal to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JaRc1zP7F8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARe7bmyO ... PL&index=1

[RG30]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/AcademySquad/0,,10306~1427545,00.html Seems a bit cheeky for the Academy trying to claim credit for Shane Long

[Ian Royal]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/AcademySquad/0,,10306~1427545,00.html Seems a bit cheeky for the Academy trying to claim credit for Shane Long

Long's a slightly odd case as he came to football very late. So in all probability the academy did play a very large part in developing him. He can't have had much more than a season at Cork.

[Plymouth_Royal]

Do you mean most successful who has left us recently? If so, will turn out to be Simon Cox - no argument at all.

If it's those still at the club, Pearce probably holds the accolade for now, although Karacan has potential and Simon Church is starting to get noticed. Hopefully James Henry will knuckle down and take his place o teh wing for us next saeason so we actually get to start matches with 11 footballers on the pitch for us for a change, and Baggie is going to be a big star in the not too distant future. Hopefully it'll be with us and not Swindon or elsewhere.

Letting Cox go for £200k was the worst bit of Business Sir Steve did whilst with us, and that includes the signing of Kebe. Yes I know Cox wanted 1st team football etc etc, but just a little bit more man management might have meant he would have been a 1st XI forward for us next year. It was pretty cxlear to anyone watching the FAC game v Spurs that Cox had something. Oh well, it's in the past. Just hope it's a lesson learnt.

Disagree. 200k for a striker who had less than half a season's worth of games under his belt and a 40% sell on clause is a great bit of business. He's worth at least 2.5 million in their eyes and if they can sell him at that price without any dodgy transfer plans we can get about 1.6 million.

[Plymouth_Royal]

Theo Walcott - was at our academy for a while i believe.

fraid not. he was at swindon school of excellence. My mate was playing against him for devizes in a friendly and he said he was the best player on the pitch. reading had a look at him but southampton grabbed him for a snip at 25k with no sell on clause, before his big move to arsenal.

[Cookie]

Adrian Williams ?

[SteveRoyal]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... to_explode

This excites me.