The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[Royals and Racers]

Seedings announced for the revised PL 2 season 23/24. Not surprisingly we are seeded 26 with Man City at 1 and Liverpool 2 Chelsea 3 Arsenal 4 and Man Utd 5

[Royals and Racers]

More info has come out about the format.
4 groups of 5 teams and 1 of 6.
We will play each of the other teams in our group ONCE and then will play 3 to 5 teams in all the other groups ONCE to give a 20 match regular season( 10 home 10 away.)
At the end of the regular season the top 16 in the 26 team points table will play a knock out comp(1 plays 16, 2 plays 15 etc with the highest placed team at home).
The top 12 teams at the end of the regular season will play in the International Cup in the 24/25 season.
This season’s fixtures will be announced next week.

[Sutekh]

More info has come out about the format.
4 groups of 5 teams and 1 of 6.
We will play each of the other teams in our group ONCE and then will play 3 to 5 teams in all the other groups ONCE to give a 20 match regular season( 10 home 10 away.
At the end of the regular season the top 16 in the 26 team points table will play a knock out comp(1 plays 16, 2 plays 15 etc with the highest placed team at home).
The top 12 teams at the end of the regular season will play in the International Cup in the 24/25 season.
This season’s fixtures will be announced next week.

Weird, what logic is used to decide which clubs from the other groups a club will have to play?

Not that it matters too much, being seeded as 26 basically means Reading are expected to lose every game they play anyway.

[Royals and Racers]

More info has come out about the format.
4 groups of 5 teams and 1 of 6.
We will play each of the other teams in our group ONCE and then will play 3 to 5 teams in all the other groups ONCE to give a 20 match regular season( 10 home 10 away.
At the end of the regular season the top 16 in the 26 team points table will play a knock out comp(1 plays 16, 2 plays 15 etc with the highest placed team at home).
The top 12 teams at the end of the regular season will play in the International Cup in the 24/25 season.
This season’s fixtures will be announced next week.

Weird, what logic is used to decide which clubs from the other groups a club will have to play?

Not that it matters too much, being seeded as 26 basically means Reading are expected to lose every game they play anyway.

Wait until the Champions league use it in 24/25 then there will be moans

[Royals and Racers]

Holzman gone on loan to BFC Dublin until the end of their season.

[Sutekh]

Holzman gone on loan to BFC Dublin until the end of their season.

Is that the same club as Bohemian?

[Hendo]

Holzman gone on loan to BFC Dublin until the end of their season.

Is that the same club as Bohemian?

Yes.

[RG30]

Still no fixtures out for the academy, thought that was due this week?

[Royals and Racers]

Still no fixtures out for the academy, thought that was due this week?

W/C 31st July

[morganb]

Full fixture list on the following link

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2023/a ... -released/

Our home fixtures will be split between games at the Select Car Leasing Stadium, our training ground at Bearwood Park, and 4 games played a short trip down the road at Aldershot Town's EBB Stadium.

Important dates for your diary include the away fixture against Arsenal at Boreham Wood on Sunday 3 September, the journey to Kingsmeadow to face Chelsea on Friday 26 January, and matches against Liverpool and Manchester City at the SCL on Sunday 10 March and Monday 29 April respectively.

[Royals and Racers]

Shame that even though they list the Aldershot games they haven’t listed them correctly in the fixtures !

[Royals and Racers]

Not sure what Group we are in but that doesn’t really matter as we only play each team once whether in the group or not.
The 5 teams we don’t play in the 20 match regular season are
Aston Villa
Everton
Man Utd
West Ham
Wolves

[Hound]

Extremely grainy footage of Jahmari scoring a very good goal in the u21s vs Brighton, so hopefully back fit

[Royals and Racers]

PL cup draw made and we are in Group B and will play - home and away.
Blackburn
Sheff Utd
West Brom

8 groups of 4 with top 2 in each group progressing

[Royals and Racers]

PL cup draw made and we are in Group B and will play - home and away.
Blackburn
Sheff Utd
West Brom

8 groups of 4 with top 2 in each group progressing

Provisional home game dates
Monday 11th Sept v Blackburn SCL stadium
Monday 13th Nov v West Brom Aldershot
Friday 19th Jan Sheff Utd Aldershot

[Royals and Racers]

The U 21’s open up their PL 2 season tomorrow with an away match against Stoke City KO 7pm. The match is being played at the FA’s St Georges park in Burton On Trent.

[Sutekh]

The U 21’s open up their PL 2 season tomorrow with an away match against Stoke City KO 7pm. The match is being played at the FA’s St Georges park in Burton On Trent.

And of course the OS will cover the game with regular monthly updates.

[Royals and Racers]

The U 21’s open up their PL 2 season tomorrow with an away match against Stoke City KO 7pm. The match is being played at the FA’s St Georges park in Burton On Trent.

And of course the OS will cover the game with regular monthly updates.

A preview would be a start- Stoke City might stream- will know tomorrow.

[Royals and Racers]

The U 21’s open up their PL 2 season tomorrow with an away match against Stoke City KO 7pm. The match is being played at the FA’s St Georges park in Burton On Trent.

And of course the OS will cover the game with regular monthly updates.

A preview would be a start- Stoke City might stream- will know tomorrow.

Preview on Stoke website- no mention of stream so best we can hope for are highlights.
U 18’s lost 2-0 at Fulham on Saturday morning in the season opener- Royals line-up on flashscore.
Couple of bits on the Academy Twitter on the U21’s in the last couple of days which is certainly an improvement on last season.

[Royals and Racers]

Bouzanis
Abdel Salam
Paul
Stickland
Maragh
Craig
Rushesha
Harris
Senga
Clarke
Wareham
SUBS
Collins
Borginis
Purcell
Maunder
Okine-Peters
Not sure if Jayden Wareham is playing as a trialist or has signed ?
Taylan Harris U 18 RFC academy