Town visit Reading on Saturday for their final away game of the season, looking for their first point under caretaker-boss Bryan Klug and their first victory at the Madejski Stadium since March 2009.
Chris Hogg says it s been a good and enjoyable year working with the Blues U23s during 2017/18 with success measured by how many of the squad break through into the club s senior side.
Aston Villa inflicted Town’s heaviest home defeat in precisely seven years as the Blues were beaten 4-0 having had Grant Ward sent off just prior to half-time. Ex-Blue Conor Hourihane put the Villans ahead on 25 and then in the second half, after Ward had been dismissed for catching Neil Taylor with a high boot, Lewis Grabban scored on 57 and 78 and sub Henri Lansbury in the 82nd minute.
Rising star Tristan Nydam wants to follow up his elevation to the Town first team by winning a place in the England squad for this summer’s UEFA U19 European Championship to be hosted by Finland in July.