Should Reading drop the Royals nickname ?

[Green]

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

I'm sitting on it

[AthleticoSpizz]

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

etc

[The Green Programme]

‘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!

[fartdad]

Bump

[SpaghettiHoop]

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

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

[Forbury Lion]

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

[Forbury Lion]

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.

[dontbedaft]

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

[Millsy]

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

[morganb]

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"

[St Pauli]

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.

[St Pauli]

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

[Green]

The mondeo men

[fartdad]

Thames Valley Paper Pushers

Reading City Excelers

Reading FC Ocean Boilers

[Jack Celliers]

The republicans.

I am going to call them that anyway.

[AthleticoSpizz]

^ that’s me eternally OUT then

[.:BigDaveInTheDungeon:.]

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

[blythspartan]

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.