Today the Academy are due to face Newcastle KO 2.30pm at Richmond.

No activity at the ground. Apparently cancelled due to lack of Broncos medical staff. Hope the visitors had not travelled.

The wheels have truly come off the bus...

Cancelled due to covid in the med staff ranks

Neither first team or reserves were playing. Was everyone taken out ?

No they're on holiday!

1 member of staff gets covid....academy game postponed.
This club is no longer a club...it's a rich mans folly

Seems an odd situation. We had actually only named a squad of 14 too.

Academy away at Wigan today. Good luck to them for what is likely to be a tough fixture.

Good win for Academy 34-22 I made it

Good result against Giants.

A bit of a flurry of posts on Twitter account including an actual match day 17 post showing it can be done. Result not up yet but suspect it will be. Looks like some energy around announcing this game and the ladies match perhaps more than we’ve seen for first team in a bit and certainly the reserves which is almost completely ignored.

Team sheet for the academy shouldn't have CTM or key and eagle logos....I believe the LBSA are the the principle sponsor if the lads???
Still. It shows effort is being made and at present I feel crass criticising effort

You are quite right Orangeman in pointing out the clubs failure to identify the LBSA as the team sponsor.
Ironically the LBSA I believe, are the only sponsor to pay actual money for their sponsorship. And the club treat them rather badly. Especially under Monkey.

Someone needs to collar Hughes at a game and spell this out to him....he has no idea of how far backwards we have gone whilst other sports clubs are doing well post covid

We don’t know the in and outs at our own club let alone other Championship clubs, but we do seem to have had a bad COVID which is particularly odd as we seemed to take a very risk averse approach precisely to avoid that. Our running down of back room staff, match days at Ealing (with crowds of paying attendees barely making 3 figures (in my opinion) )and fan engagement to name but 3 disappointing trends.

I agree now is the time for the club’s decision makers to offer their updated views on progress and next season. As you’ve said before where are the JC monthly updates: possibly morphed into the one minute post- match post-mortems that no one is enjoying. I’d really like to hear from the club now. I note that the likeable Illies Macani is interviewed on our Twitter feed and over a series of posts gives answers to quite difficult questions. I’m a little surprised it was him in the frame not the manager or,indeed, the club captain but he gives it a go in an engaging manner. 2 takeaways: his thoughts on going PT are quite illuminating- they don’t really gel with the ‘nothing to see’ approach the club took to the move to PT and, secondly his thoughts that youth/lack of experience was (in part) at the heart of some of the poor outcomes. I think I see what he’s getting at but if you look at the 17 for Newcastle I’m not sure how many are ‘young’ by professional sportsman standards. I make it about 3.