Reserves, Academy and Women 2019-20

[Luke8]

The Under 18s lost 3-4 against Reading at the weekend in the Premier League Cup.

The Under 23s are also playing Reading (away) this evening.

[cdbearsfan]

The women came from behind to draw one all with Durham and remain three points clear of them at the top.

[Legion]

U23: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2019/october/report-reading-u23-v-aston-villa-u23/

[Legion]

In general, coverage of the U23s from the OS or official social media channels is quite frankly absolutely pathetic.

[pooligan]

Agree Legion the so called coverage of our reserve and youth teams are absolutely pathetic .All we get now if we are lucky is the team line up the half time score if we are lucky and the final score .When we start playing the 7pm kick off games at Bodymoor Heath i fear we will not get even that .Decent point at Reading tonight seeing as Reading played several first team players and good see Cam score again

[Luke8]

The coverage is just basically non existent. I understand it won’t be of interest to everyone, but for those that are (and you’d think given fans desire to see ‘home grown’ players that it would still be significant) it is absolutely pathetic - especially compared to others clubs output.

[Legion]

Cam's goal is now on our FB Page.

[dcdavecollett]

Luke8, you're right; our club's coverage of the youth players is a disgrace. They don't even seem to want people to turn up and watch their home games!!

[Kimaster1976]

I notice that our womens team are top of the league, albeit in the 2nd tier. Courtesy of Sky Sports and their current obsession with the womens game and also to have as many current/ex female players reporting on the mens game as they can.

Just wondering if anyone from here has attended any of the games and what the standard is like and what the average attendance is for these games?

[ASHTONVILLA]

Can't imagine it's much good.

[cdbearsfan]

You can watch a few of their games if you download the FA Player App. Watched them away at Charlton and they played well against an admittedly poor team. Some excellent finishes in that game. I think women's football, generally, has at least doubled in standard in the last two decades and is only going to get better.

I keep meaning to get down and watch them in person but their insistence on only playing on Sundays when I'm hung over puts me off. I'd love it if they played on Saturday during the international break.

[KRS]

If they scheduled the womens games a few hours before the first team games kick off then it would benefit the game immensely and generate more interest/support than anything else. It seems pretty obvious so I can only assume there must be unknown reasons why this doesn’t happen.

[JD]

You're right KRS. The women are playing Liverpool in the Womens Cup on Saturday. A double header at Villa Park would have been a great advertisement.

[AsTallAsLions]

I've really enjoyed watching the women's team this season. Gemma Davies is doing a great job there. Credit to Christian Purslow also for putting added focus on it.

[UK Redsox]

You're right KRS. The women are playing Liverpool in the Womens Cup on Saturday. A double header at Villa Park would have been a great advertisement.

If the women's game had been scheduled at VP after the men's match, I'd certainly have stayed on to watch.