Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

Should Reading FC adopt a new nickname

Poll ended at 30 Jun 2021 19:21
Keep The Royals I love the Royal family
9
30%
Keep the Royals but I wish the grifters would bugger off
9
30%
New name and I am lukewarm about the royal family
4
13%
Return to an old name like the kennetsiders :?:
8
27%
I have no opinion (ian)
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 30
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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by Green » 22 Sep 2021 19:09

AthleticoSpizz Which side of that vintage pitchside fencing are you on Gruners?

I'm sitting on it

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by AthleticoSpizz » 22 Sep 2021 19:12

Atop your grand dads cloth cap to stop the splinters no doubt

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by The Green Programme » 23 Sep 2021 20:26

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‘The Biscuitmen’ always seemed a dusty, old-fashioned, almost ridiculous kind of nickname to me.

It came about because of a Company that made biscuits and was based in the town. Hardly exciting or relevant.

‘The Royals’ was, has been and remains an improvement.

I would rather our Club remained associated with the home of the monarchy of our Country, who
happen to be one of the wealthiest, most influential and successful families in the world throughout the past few centuries…

…..than some old factory that once made biscuits….


Who’s going to tell the Stoke fans that pottery isn’t relevant to them or that furniture isn’t relevant to Wycombe or millinery to Luton etc

I’d rather the club nickname celebrated what was part of the community that gave rise to it than some family that couldn’t really give a stuff about football let alone Reading.


Spot on.


‘The Bakers’ or something similar then, ‘the ‘biscuitmen’ sounds more like the title of a 1950s pre-school children’s ‘’watch with mother’ TV series.

Cobblers, Potters, Hatters, Mariners etc all fine…

Biscuitmen…. Not so!

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by fartdad » 17 Feb 2022 14:20

Bump

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by SpaghettiHoop » 04 Jun 2022 14:24

PATRIQT I would love us to link back to tradition and be the biscuit men again.

Agree and dump "Sweet Caroline" at the same time.


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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by Forbury Lion » 28 Jun 2022 17:13

Nicknames are given and used by others, all the club can do is to stop using it theirselves on merchandise and so on.

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by Forbury Lion » 28 Jun 2022 17:17

Chairman Mao biscuitmen is literally the worst nickname in the history of football
The Cottagers (Fulham) and Los oxf*rd (Deportivo oxf*rd) fans object to this statement.

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by dontbedaft » 28 Jun 2022 20:05

How about Half-Man-Half-Biscuitmen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpJ6XYykHE

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by Millsy » 29 Jun 2022 13:48

The one time in a poll "Ian Royal" would actually work as an option and it's not included?


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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by morganb » 29 Jun 2022 15:19

Millsy The one time in a poll "Ian Royal" would actually work as an option and it's not included?


Would also need to be renamed to "Ian Biscuitmen"

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by St Pauli » 08 Jul 2022 14:19

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Chairman Mao biscuitmen is literally the worst nickname in the history of football

The Shaymen for me.

See what they did there? Yeh me too :|


The Chairboys for me.

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by St Pauli » 08 Jul 2022 14:24

Green Clubs and towns clinging onto their 19th century industrial heritage as they haven't really got anything going on now


Something more current for Reading then: The IT Crowd

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by Green » 08 Jul 2022 14:39

The mondeo men


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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by fartdad » 08 Jul 2022 14:47

Thames Valley Paper Pushers

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by Jack Celliers » 08 Jul 2022 22:14

The republicans.

I am going to call them that anyway.

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by AthleticoSpizz » 08 Jul 2022 23:23

^ that’s me eternally OUT then

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by .:BigDaveInTheDungeon:. » 08 Jul 2022 23:26

The Commuters would be more appropriate with current demographics of the town and our recent addition to the tube map.

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Re: Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

by blythspartan » 09 Jul 2022 08:36

Have said before that I don’t mind the Royals. As some supporters of other clubs like to call us tinpot we could always go with the Tin Men. Huntley and Palmers produced lots of tins of biscuits so there’d be a connection.

We could also chant Tin Army or Tin, Tin, Tin. Also, the latin word for tin is stannum so we could go with Stann Army or Stann, Stann, Stann. However, the Geordies who like to use the word Toon might not appreciate us using a similar chant.

Of course this is all utter bollocks but it’s early on Saturday morning and I’m bored. Mind you, having a barbecue later with plenty of beers.

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