The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[SCIAG]

Welland
Osho
Source
Harrison
Neptune
George
Saint- Louis
Bowdery
Savage
Jones
Coke-Miles-Smith
SUBS
Pullinger
Fuller-Thompson
Beacroft
Kabza
Irish
F- T 1-4
Osho 17 mins
Coke-Miles-Smith 27 mins
Jones 45+1 mins
George 63 mins

Where does Neptune play? I hear he's out of this world!

Anchor in the deep.

[Snowflake Royal]

Welland
Osho
Source
Harrison
Neptune
George
Saint- Louis
Bowdery
Savage
Jones
Coke-Miles-Smith
SUBS
Pullinger
Fuller-Thompson
Beacroft
Kabza
Irish
F- T 1-4
Osho 17 mins
Coke-Miles-Smith 27 mins
Jones 45+1 mins
George 63 mins

Where does Neptune play? I hear he's out of this world!

Anchor in the deep space.

[Sutekh]

Where does Neptune play? I hear he's out of this world!

Anchor in the deep space.

Usually he’s a sub.

[Dirk Gently]

Anchor in the deep space.

Usually he’s a sub.

I thought he was part of a three-pronged attack.

[The Cube]

Reading have two players called up for an England U15 training camp - forward Tyler Adjei and a player I've not previously heard of, Kanazawa Kanninda. The camp runs from 28 November to 1 December.

Also, forgot to mention this at the time, but centre-back Sam Harrison was in the U18 Premier League team of the week after the win over Arsenal a couple of weeks ago.

[Royals and Racers]

Upcoming fixtures for the Academy are
U 18’s
Royals play there final PL U18 Cup Group C match on Saturday 23rd away at West Brom’s training ground kO 12pm. Royals need to win to stand any chance of qualifying for the QF’s(7 group winners plus best 2nd).
U21’s
The Royals return to PL 2 action a week on Saturday 30th with a home fixture against Liverpool KO 12pm. The match is at Aldershot’s EBB stadium.
Currently Royals are 16th and Liverpool 4th.
Match is live on LFC TV

Tickets available online from the Aldershot FC website for the 2 Royals games at the EBB stadium over the next 7 days starting with tomorrow’s Liverpool match and next Wednesday’s PL International cup match against Dynamo Zagreb KO 7pm.
Prices are Adults £4 over 65 £3.

The U 18’s make a quick return tomorrow to West Brom’s training ground, this time to play them in a PL league match KO 12pm.

[Royals and Racers]

U 21
Norcott
Stickland
Beacroft
Osho
Duah
Wellens
Senga
Borgnis
Sackey
Okine-Peters
Barough
SUBS
Rhone
Fuller-Thompson
George
McMillan
Zie

[Royals and Racers]

U 18
Welland
Source
Irish
R Beacroft
Harrison
Neptune
Trialist 1
Saint-Louis
Trialist 2
Coke-Miles-Smith
Jones
SUBS
Omoregie
Hunte
Pullinger

[Royals and Racers]

Reading U 21’s 1 Liverpool 0 2mins OG

[Mid Sussex Royal]

U 21
Norcott
Stickland
Beacroft
Osho
Duah
Wellens
Senga
Borgnis
Sackey
Okine-Peters
Barough
SUBS
Rhone
Fuller-Thompson
George
McMillan
Zie

So Kanu, Rushesha, Tuma, Spencer, Holzman & Ahmed likely involved tomorrow.....Happy with that.

[Royals and Racers]

Reading U 21’s 1 Liverpool 0 2mins OG

1-1 43 mins
H-T 1-1
H-T West Brom U 18’s 0 Reading U 18’s 0
West Brom 0 Reading 1 49 mins Omoregie
Royals down to 10 Jones sent off 69 mins
West Brom 1 Reading 1 80 mins
West Brom down to 10 88 mins
F-T 1-1
F-T Reading 1 Liverpool 1
Attendance 224

[Royals and Racers]

Reading U 18’s have qualified for the QF’s of the U 18’s PL Cup. We won group C after Sunderland lost 3-2 at home today to Blackburn. We and Sunderland finished with identical points and GD but we scored 8 to their 7.

[morganb]

Up until today I had always wondered why Michael Stickland hadn't been moved up to the first team especially as he'd won last season's Academy player of the season award.

However today I realised how important he is to the organisation of the Unders 21s team and to Noel Hunt.

I do wonder what will happen to him at the end of the season as I seem to recall he will be over age next season, but he hasn't had a chance with the first team and others have moved past him in the pecking order

[Sutekh]

Up until today I had always wondered why Michael Stickland hadn't been moved up to the first team especially as he'd won last season's Academy player of the season award.

However today I realised how important he is to the organisation of the Unders 21s team and to Noel Hunt.

I do wonder what will happen to him at the end of the season as I seem to recall he will be over age next season, but he hasn't had a chance with the first team and others have moved past him in the pecking order

Presume he will get a chance when Bindon goes, if not then the club possibly don’t think he could make the step up.

[Clyde1998]

Matt Rowley has extended his loan at Tonbridge Angels until the end of the season: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2024/n ... -extended/

He's played four times and had three clean sheets since joining in October - including today against Weymouth in the National League South.

[Royals and Racers]

Highlights of today’s U 21’s v Liverpool on you tube youth football channel.

[The Cube]

Reading have two players called up for an England U15 training camp - forward Tyler Adjei and a player I've not previously heard of, Kanazawa Kanninda. The camp runs from 28 November to 1 December.

Training camp ended with an in-squad game today. "England U15" beat "England U15" 4-1, with Adjei getting one of the goals on the winning side.

I think Kanninda is a left-back (and his name might be Kaninda).

Apparently, England run three U15 training camps with different squads at this time of year. This one had 26 players, so probably 78 in total.


More international call-ups - Joseph Ntege and Jubilee Ntege have both been called up to the Sweden U16 squad. They're twins and joined Reading this season. They play in our U15s because England has different cut-off dates for age groups. Jubilee is a midfielder and Joseph looks to be a winger. In the clips I've seen both look sensational. Also qualified to play for Uganda.


U17 Premier League Cup - we were meant to play Brighton at Bearwood on 26 November, but it seems that the game didn't happen.

[Royals and Racers]

Just a reminder that the PL International cup adventure continues on Wednesday 4th December home to Dinamo Zagreb at Aldershot’s EBB stadium KO 7pm.
This is our 3rd of 4 matches in Group A ( won 1 lost 1) with Valencia to come in January.
Tickets available from Aldershot or pay on the day.