Pre-Season Social @ The Purple Turtle

[Whore Jackie]

Anyone able to transcribe Selles' Q&A session?

Ruben Neves* as per DJ Megaparty

Absolute clown that fella.

Confirmed Wing and Savage would be in the squad for tomorrow, plus a new player. Sellés came across well, nice sense of humour. Endearingly kept referring to Reading as a city. Sparks seems pretty switched on. Noel Hunt spoke well about the Academy, how much effort had been put into regaining Cat 1. Got the impression that Sellés thought only some of the Academy boys he's been working had the right mentality.

Amazons were great. Lead singer spoke with a lot of passion and sense about the club.

[Snowflake Royal]

Do we actually have a third kit, and if so, why?

[Whore Jackie]

Do we actually have a third kit, and if so, why?

Yep, as posted above. We had the all-black third kit last year, pretty sure there was at least one game they wore it.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Do we actually have a third kit, and if so, why?

I think it will make its first appearance at Port Vale if they still play in white.

[Stranded]

Do we actually have a third kit, and if so, why?

I think it will make its first appearance at Port Vale if they still play in white.

Yep this is why we have a 3rd strip - the grey may be considered two close to the white of Bolton, Vale, Derby so a 3rd kit would be needed.

Oh and to make money, mainly to make money.

[Sutekh]

Do we actually have a third kit, and if so, why?

I think it will make its first appearance at Port Vale if they still play in white.

Yep this is why we have a 3rd strip - the grey may be considered two close to the white of Bolton, Vale, Derby so a 3rd kit would be needed.

Oh and to make money, mainly to make money.

Depends I think a lot of the kit changes can be dictated by clashes in socks more than the shirts themselves.

[East Grinstead Royal]

It's definitely a money thing! Until replica kits became a "thing" (late '80s?) most clubs wore plain red, blue, white or yellow for their away kits, but only when strictly required. Generally speaking, clubs would wear different shorts as a first option, such as Reading wearing blue shorts at Swindon in order to avoid a clash of shorts. Nowadays, away clubs only wear home kit if both their away kits are deemed to clash with the home side. Also worth remembering that the idea of three new kits every year is a much more recent thing. Did we not wear the same Kyocera kit in our first two seasons in the PL? And when we clinched promotion at Leicester, we used the previous season's white away shirt but adorned with that season's sponsor's logo.

[St Pauli]

During the Q&A did anyone ask why the event wasn’t open to non season ticket holders?

Would have been my first question.

[Orion1871]

Yeah, they said they didn't want people who called for female footballers to be murdered by drug cartels to be there.

[St Pauli]

Yeah, they said they didn't want people who called for female footballers to be murdered by drug cartels to be there.

How did they know?!?

What’s their login?