Rotherham Away

[harry]

Brighton winning

[CholseyRoyal]

Brighton now winning

[windermereROYAL]

Brighton winning

what is it with them and late goals?

[Humanistic]

Zamora with the late BHA goal - just like 2001/02 all over again.

[sputnik]

They've brought that twat Maguire on, I see

Were you surprised that Green wasn't pulled off?

[ZacNaloen]

Looking like a good draw atm

Rotherham have tested us

[harry]

Boro losing

[bcubed]

Crap

[blueroyals]

But can they do it on a cold Tuesday night in Rotherham?

No, no they can't....

[genome]

Boro losing!

[loyalroyal4life]

oxf*rd my acca up

[marlowuk]

Boro losing!

Boro lost!

[scumbag]

We need to learn to get that 2nd goal. Fast.

[sandman]

But can they do it on a cold Tuesday night in Rotherham?

No, no they can't....

I blame Pogrebnyak.

[genome]

We need to learn to get that 2nd goal. Fast.

What, like we did two games ago against Middlesbrough? And against Burnley, Bristol City, Ipswich, Brentford, and Portsmouth?

[Maguire]

Surprised to see the Milers start Green and bench Maguire.

Bad experience, Mags?

I was punished for wearing my lanyard to Tesco at lunchtimes.

[strap]

Dellor, What a div.

any comment in particular, or are you just hoping to start a discussion?

In case anyone is interested, today was the 28th time we have fielded 9 different nationalities in our starting League 11. We have yet to start with 10 different.

The first was 05/12/2009. ALso found 2 in the LC (1st on 20/09/2005) and 1 in the FAC (27/01/2007).

I think I have found a 10 in the FAC match on 09/01/2007 - Australia, Cameroon, England (x2), Iceland, Ireland, Nigeria, South Korea, USA, Wales and Ecuador.

[glass half full]

Dellor, What a div.

any comment in particular, or are you just hoping to start a discussion?

In case anyone is interested, today was the 28th time we have fielded 9 different nationalities in our starting League 11. We have yet to start with 10 different.

The first was 05/12/2009.

Yes, I am interested. thanks for these continuing pieces of information.

Apologies if this has been asked before but what is the highest number of 'home grown' players in a match?

[strap]

In case anyone is interested, today was the 28th time we have fielded 9 different nationalities in our starting League 11. We have yet to start with 10 different.

The first was 05/12/2009.

Yes, I am interested. thanks for these continuing pieces of information.

Apologies if this has been asked before but what is the highest number of 'home grown' players in a match?

Depends on what is meant by "home grown". Could be taken as Academy Graduates, or maybe those born in an around Reading.

I think we once had 14 of the 18 match day squad graduating from the Academy. Sounds too many to be fair, so here goes - correct please as you see fit:

Starting -
Federici - ex Academy (bit of stretch I think but factually correct)
Gunter
Hector - ex Academy
Pearce - ex Academy
Obita - ex Academy
Edwards (Ryan) - ex Academy
Kuhl - ex Academy
Norwood
Taylor (Jake) - ex Academy
Cox - ex Academy
Mackie

Bench:
Akpan
Tanner - ex Academy
Cooper - ex Acadmey
Long (Sean) - ex Academy
Stacey - ex Academy
Fosu - ex Academy
Andersen - ex Academy

So 8 of the 11 starters and 6 of the 7 on the bench! For the record, we won 1-0 at Middlesbrough! We were actually missing 12 first XI players. Aside from Akpan, the bench totalled 0+4 RFC 1st class appearances.

The previous Saturday we also had 8 ex Academy starting, but "only" 5 on the bench. No other instances I can find of 8 or more ex Academyt starters, but we have had 2 complete 7 man benches comprised of ex Academy players, 16/08/14 and 26/08/14. You have to feel for Adkins!

In comparison, last night we had 1 ex Academy starter, (Hector), and 3 more on the bench, (Obita, Cooper and Moore. I'm not including Liburd as "Academy" as he is "Development")