On a decent little run at the moment - unbeaten in 4 and just 2 goals conceded in that time to lift them just outside the relegation spots
Considering their financial plight, and reportedly having recently sold a fair few first team players (which has helped Bindon get game time), good news for Reading. Hopefully they can stay up.
We need a top tier CB coming through in a tough league, and as far as I can see, he's it. 19 years old and cutting his teeth in League One is the highest calibre CB playing week in, week out that we've got at the moment outside of Boxall in the MLS - So a succession plan is well needed. Surman will be there or there abouts one day.
We're running pretty dry on up and coming CB's which is a shame given how we've had a good production line at the back over the years (Seems we're going through a good cycle of producing top GK's at the moment though) it will be at least a few more years before the likes of LKH or even Isaac Hughes progress, but there's some good signs with those two.
Do you think we have him sown up for the national team? He’s not tied to us yet and there’s been plenty of interest in him from the US setup and it doesn’t take a genius to realise there’s more opportunity if you can cut it for the US team (that’s a big if). I just can’t help but wonder if we are insurance for him.
Whereas with MDD, despite having heard less from him, I’m more confident that if he plays for a national team it will be us.
You cant just pick and choose which laws to follow. Sure Id like to tape a baseball game without the express written consent of major league baseball, but thats just not the way it works.-Hank Hill
Do you think we have him sown up for the national team? He’s not tied to us yet and there’s been plenty of interest in him from the US setup and it doesn’t take a genius to realise there’s more opportunity if you can cut it for the US team (that’s a big if). I just can’t help but wonder if we are insurance for him.
Whereas with MDD, despite having heard less from him, I’m more confident that if he plays for a national team it will be us.
It really looks the other way round. Bindon has clearly stated his future is with NZ, though yes won’t be cap tied until June's ONC. But he’s openly said it’s NZ. He sounds like a Kiwi and has spent more of his life in Aotearoa than Stateside. There will be 10 or more CBs ahead of him with the US.
MDD yeah is a long long shot for either England, Portugual or Brazil. But for now he’s taking his time. Can see him avoiding the ONC like Tyler Boyd did with Hudson's AWs in PNG, keeping his options open a bit longer. Then he'll go with the Olywhites to Paris see how it goes at the Olympics. Maybe I'm wrong and he's now decided it's NZ all the way.
I really hope we can somehow get Jack Iredale eligible. Be great for the CB stocks, especially being left sided.
I suspect/hope you’re right, and Iredale would be great if he’s an option. But there is a part of me that frets for all kiwi footballers with dual nationality so I couldn’t help but wonder if Bindon told the reporter how committed he was to NZ because it’s too awkward to say anything but.
You cant just pick and choose which laws to follow. Sure Id like to tape a baseball game without the express written consent of major league baseball, but thats just not the way it works.-Hank Hill
Surman did just keep the best attacking outfit in the A League scoreless and toothless for 90 minutes.
Sometime I think people just assume because its overseas it has to be better (which I agree with, if the league is a good enough comp).
Regardless, great to see him and Surman doing well.
Isn't the rule of thumb ALM, is lower Championship/upper League One??
End of the day they are likely playing well at a pretty similar level, and could team up as the Olywhites CB pairing in Paris later this year.
Unless Bazeley goes with an overage (oa) Boxall or Tuiloma. But can see 3 oa players being from Wood, Singh, Payne & Cacace - depending on who's available.
Good Bindon update in this week's Niche Cache. Him and Surman at the Paris Olympics could be great CB double act.
Weird to think it, but after the desperate shambles that Tyler Bindon found himself in at Reading FC a month or two ago... suddenly things are going alright for them. They cleared up some (some) of their financial woes with January player sales, which also cleared the path for Bindon to become a starting CB again, and now they’re grinding out results like they haven’t done all term. It was last week that they jumped out of the drop zone. This week they’ve gone surging into the mid-table.
The 2-0 win over Charlton on the weekend was the big one. Taking points off a fellow relegation battler, serving new Charlton boss Nathan Smith a defeat in his first game. Reading were really good. Bindon had them steady at the back while they created several chances up the other end, with only some inspired goalkeeping denying them. However the denials could only last so long. Femi Azeez scored on 66’ and 76’ to secure the points. There was one brilliant Bindon tackle to prevent a 1v1 situation – he’s got a boyish face but know that TB definitely does not hold back from a challenge. He’s a menace in the aerial duels too.
They were then so close to making it three wins in a row. Up against Fleetwood Town in the midweek it was looking like a casual nil-all draw for the longest time until suddenly Lewis Wing scored a belter of a goal on 74’ and Reading began thinking about victory. Yet having looked sturdy at the back for most of the match, that extra layer of desperation saw the home side snatch an equalised in the 90+5th minute. 1-1 final score. Unable to quite hold on... but still a decent point that keeps them undefeated in six matches. Bindon was booked after 21 minutes yet otherwise looked as calm and composed as he has done throughout that unbeaten streak.
....Reading, who did get thrashed 4-1 by division leaders Portsmouth on the weekend but they bounced back this morning with a 2-0 win over Port Vale. Lewis Wing (76’) and Harvey Knibbs (83’) with the goals as a strong second half performance was the key to this victory also. Tyler Bindon has had his ups and downs this term for a team that has been all over the place but since re-emerging as a starting CB following some outgoing transfers he’s been marvellous.
Reading have taken 15 points from their last eight games with that Pompey one being the only defeat. An astonishing turnaround from where they were previously and Bindon’s been a big part of that.
By the way, this Port Vale clash was the rescheduled game that had to be abandoned after fans stormed the pitch in protest against Reading’s absentee ownership. The ownership hasn’t changed... but the atmosphere sure has thanks to a resilient young squad of players.
Full game Bindon in a 2-3 loss to Shrewsbury. That's a feast of goals for the Shrews who have been struggling to score all season. Good move by Mata to return to LOI for a few months.
Reading FC deducted an immediate 2 points for late HMRC payments.
That's a bit of a hammer blow that is, dragging them back in to a relegation picture that it looked like they were just about pulling away from given their recent run of results.
Club statement | An immediate two-point penalty has been applied with a further two points suspended as a result of persistent late payments to HMRC in 2023.
Not a good time for contracted Kiwi's at Reading, Burton Albion or Shrewsbury - All clearly in a relegation scrap as we get into the business end of the season over the next couple of months.
Right back to winning ways for Reading Football Club, who continue to defy the odds despite their young squad, financial struggles, and absentee owner. They’ve lost six points in deductions and are still out there banking results... with Tyler Bindon now firmly established as a key player in central defence.
There are 17 players who have played in League One this season born in 2005 or later. Of those 17 players, Tyler Bindon has played the most minutes with 2,499. None of the other have even reached 1,000 yet. He’s played more than any of the 2004 class too. There have been some ups and downs but 19 year old defenders are simply not supposed to be this good this soon.
Reading FC owner Dai Yonnge is reportedly selling Bearwood Park Training Ground (Reading's relatively recently built £50 million training facility) to local rivals Wycombe Wanderers in a cut price deal...
They're not my team, and I follow them mainly because of Bindon's presence there, but what that fat cnut Yongge is doing to the club is absolutely vile. Raked them through the mud, and now selling off valuable club owned assets in what could only be described as a fire-sale - And to local rivals no less. Just embarrassing.
Prospective owners have also now walked away from a potential deal because of this whole ordeal as well.
Get that fat clown out of football! It's beyond farcical.
Reading FC owner Dai Yonnge is reportedly selling Bearwood Park Training Ground (Reading's relatively recently built £50 million training facility) to local rivals Wycombe Wanderers in a cut price deal...
They're not my team, and I follow them mainly because of Bindon's presence there, but what that fat cod Yongge is doing to the club absolutely vile. Raked them through the mud, and now selling off valuable club owned assets - to local rivals no less, how embarrassing... Prospective owners have also now walked away from a potential deal because of the whole ordeal as well.
Get that fat clown out of football. It's beyond farcical.
Some of the worst I've seen in football - can't imagine how the fans must feel. Get that vampire out of the sport
Reading FC owner Dai Yonnge is reportedly selling Bearwood Park Training Ground (Reading's relatively recently built £50 million training facility) to local rivals Wycombe Wanderers in a cut price deal...
They're not my team, and I follow them mainly because of Bindon's presence there, but what that fat cnut Yongge is doing to the club is absolutely vile. Raked them through the mud, and now selling off valuable club owned assets in what could only be described as a fire-sale - And to local rivals no less. Just embarrassing.
Prospective owners have also now walked away from a potential deal because of this whole ordeal as well.
Get that fat clown out of football! It's beyond farcical.
Live fast, Dai Yongge. Up the ding, you’ve just been Paul Inced etc.
20240315_000701.jpg355.96 KB A half price sale for one of the clubs biggest assets, might as well be a nail in the coffin for Reading FC. Now talk of mass protest at every remaining game for the rest of the season.
The phrase being thrown about "What have we got left to lose?"
