The Royals' under 18s' season is now well underway, and we have drawn two and lost one in our first three fixtures of the campaign.

We began the year with a trip north to Huddersfield Town, but were on the wrong end of a 2-0 scoreline.

Eamonn Dolan's boys got themselves up and running in the next game though, with our international strikeforce of Ghana's Kelvin Bossman [pictured] and Bulgaria's Radoslav Vasilev on target in a 2-2 draw at home to Fulham.

We lost Norwegian youth international Alex Stockinger in the tenth minute, but readjusted well to take a point from the Cottagers.

This past Saturday we travelled to West Ham, and again Bossman was among the goals, this time after coming off the bench; notching in the 70th minute. Under 16s player John Goddard came on with 15 minutes to go for his first appearance of the season.

Team vs Huddersfield: McCarthy; Mitchell, Browne, Kamdjo (c), Cox; Kelly (Joyce 60), Stockinger, Baggie, Frewen, Bossman (Bryant 75), Vasilev (Downes 60)
Subs: Locke, Walcott

Team vs Fulham: Locke; Joyce, Browne (Downes HT), Kamdjo, Mitchell; Kelly, Stockinger (Tyler 10), Bryant (Taylor HT), Frewen; Bossman, Vasilev
Subs: Pritchard, Rowe

Team vs West Ham: Locke, Tyler (Goddard 75), Browne, Kamdjo (c), Mitchell; Locke, Kelly, Downes (Bossman 35), Frewen; Vasilev, Walcott (Baggie 66)
Subs: Pritchard, White