New Team Photo

[The 17 Bus]

1/3rd of the people in the photo are not players, pile of crap, IMHO, and the lucozade thing is toss too.

[iang040563]

... but the amount of new signings means the Board members were needed to make the squad look bigger.

[premiership_bound]

The photo will also be available as an A4 poster in the first issue of our new 84-page £3 Premiership programme this Saturday.

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[RG30]

Always strikes me as odd to see the Board in the squad photo, and especially when it is them taking the limelight - do other clubs do this?

I was under the impression the board was JM and Ian Wood-Smith only, not Nigel Howe.

[shadesrwrf]

Another photo was taken which is exclusively available to hobnob users and can be found here.

[Jackson Corner]

Gutted there's no trophy it used to be a tradition.

[Reading Abbey]

LOL @ Harper's hand on Kitson's leg, he really does seem to love him.

Is that Sodje with red hair!

[The 17 Bus]

Another photo was taken which is exclusively available to hobnob users and can be found here.

cant believe Ron Grant has the right kit on there shades

[Im Spartacus]

1/3rd of the people in the photo are not players, pile of crap, IMHO, and the lucozade thing is toss too.

But apart from that you like it, yes ?

[Alan Titchmarsh]

ou est la trophy du championship? sonko - la buffon rouge

[Einstein agogo]

1/3rd of the people in the photo are not players, pile of crap, IMHO, and the lucozade thing is toss too.

But apart from that you like it, yes ?

I've heard it on good authority , that the guy that took the picture of the chelsea squad , had to stand 1/2 a mile back to fit them in

[Rawlie19]

I see from the official site they are selling copies of this picture. That'll explain the shite quality online then. Milk it for everything this season RFC. You are embarrasing yourselves.

[bassavage]

LOL @ Harper's hand on Kitson's leg, he really does seem to love him.

Is that Sodje with red hair!

No it's Sonko.

[The 17 Bus]

1/3rd of the people in the photo are not players, pile of crap, IMHO, and the lucozade thing is toss too.

But apart from that you like it, yes ?

nope there is also too much of the stand in the picture, oddly it almost spells someones name, not sure who tho.

[WhatsTheSitch]

With all of Harps' shenanigans, I almost missed that my wee BC is standing tippytoe.

[bracknell loyal royal!]

Is that Sodje with red hair!

Racist pLOLastic!

[Dawn]

It's a shame we didn't get to see this version of the team photo


WHAT should have been a straightforward team photo almost turned into a brush with the lawyers for The Reading Chronicle.

In the old days we, like all local papers, took our own team photos every season.

But the Premier League now supply them and they only use their official photographers to snap every club.

Reading had theirs done at the end of last week and, in order to meet our Premier League supplement deadline, they were kind enough to send us an early copy.

But, literally seconds before we went to press, our eagle-eyed sports editor, Pete Phillips, spotted something was awry.

There, slap-bang in the middle, was Graham Stack wearing a wig.

It wasn't any old hairpiece either but a jet-back, shoulder-length retro bob.

Stack must have whipped it on while the photographer wasn't looking and, of all the pictures he could have emailed, it had to be that one.

We immediately called the Premier League who apologised but insisted we remove the offending picture from our pages. We said it might be too late but when the league threatened an injunction and legal action we had to back down.

Unfortunately, they could not supply us with a replacement team-photo - less the wig - before we went to press, although we received a printable version the very next day.

All in all it was a pretty hair-raising experience and a brush with the Premier League wasn't what we imagined before a ball had even been kicked.

http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0275readingfc/0100news/tm_objectid=17577899%26method=full%26siteid=50102%26headline=smudger%2dand%2dchuck%2ds%2dpremiership%2dround%2dup-name_page.html

[Farnborough Royal]

It's a shame we didn't get to see this version of the team photo


WHAT should have been a straightforward team photo almost turned into a brush with the lawyers for The Reading Chronicle.

In the old days we, like all local papers, took our own team photos every season.

But the Premier League now supply them and they only use their official photographers to snap every club.

Reading had theirs done at the end of last week and, in order to meet our Premier League supplement deadline, they were kind enough to send us an early copy.

But, literally seconds before we went to press, our eagle-eyed sports editor, Pete Phillips, spotted something was awry.

There, slap-bang in the middle, was Graham Stack wearing a wig.

It wasn't any old hairpiece either but a jet-back, shoulder-length retro bob.

Stack must have whipped it on while the photographer wasn't looking and, of all the pictures he could have emailed, it had to be that one.

We immediately called the Premier League who apologised but insisted we remove the offending picture from our pages. We said it might be too late but when the league threatened an injunction and legal action we had to back down.

Unfortunately, they could not supply us with a replacement team-photo - less the wig - before we went to press, although we received a printable version the very next day.

All in all it was a pretty hair-raising experience and a brush with the Premier League wasn't what we imagined before a ball had even been kicked.

http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0275readingfc/0100news/tm_objectid=17577899%26method=full%26siteid=50102%26headline=smudger%2dand%2dchuck%2ds%2dpremiership%2dround%2dup-name_page.html

OMG WTF?

[M4 Junction 11]

Another photo was taken which is exclusively available to hobnob users and can be found here.

I wonder what they might get up to next year. Do you think Murts might wear a kilt?