Shirt Numbers 2014/15

[McClearyChops]

The Royals can confirm their squad numbers for the 2014/15 Sky Bet Championship campaign.

Changes include Sean Morrison taking the number six shirt, Danny Guthrie moving to number eight and Hal Robson-Kanu named as the club's number nine.

Jem Karacan moves from number four to number 21 - a personal preference due to his admiration for Italian maestro Andrew Pirlo! Player of the season Jordan Obita will be number eleven for the new campaign.

The club can confirm that Royston Drenthe has not been allocated a squad number.

Shirts can be pre-ordered from Reading FC Direct today - complete with the name and number of your favourite Reading star!

Squad List 2014/15
1 Adam Federici
2 Chris Gunter
3 Stephen Kelly
5 Alex Pearce
6 Sean Morrison
7 Pavel Pogrebnyak
8 Danny Guthrie
9 Hal Robson-Kanu
11 Jordan Obita
12 Garath McCleary
13 Reading Fans
15 Michael Hector
16 Hope Akpan
18 Aaron Tshibola
20 Alex McCarthy
21 Jem Karacan
22 Nick Blackman
23 Daniel Williams
24 Shaun Cummings
25 Jake Taylor (shirt to read J.Taylor)
26 Pierce Sweeney
27 Craig Tanner
28 Aaron Kuhl
30 Dominic Samuel
31 Mikkel Andersen
32 Sean Long
33 Shane Griffin
34 Niall Keown
35 Jake Cooper
36 Ryan Edwards
37 Jack Stacey
38 Liam Kelly – (shirt to read L.Kelly)
39 Tariqe Fosu
40 Stuart Moore
41 Daniel Lincoln
42 Jonathan Henly

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[shaka's shorts]

Some interesting highlights for me - Drenthe not getting a number is the headline for me. Also HRK asking for 9 - he obviously sees himself as a CF as he could have taken 10 for example. Guthrie moving to 8 - indicates he is not going anywhere (or why bother to change shirts).

Pleased that they have left some low number gaps 4, 10, 14 etc which implies we are leaving space for some signings....

All of the u21's from last season that are here have a squad number. Tshibola has 18, much lower than the other u21s.

Interesting, but maybe I am reading too much into it all.....

[Nameless]

Feds gets the 1 shirt....

Jake Taylor to have 'J Taylor' on his shirt, suggesting we will be signing another player called Taylor.

Obita wears 11, Kelly wears 3. Obita now a winger again ?

[Pepe the Horseman]

Hal Robson-Kanu named as the club's number nine.

[Gordons Cumming]

Hal Robson-Kanu named as the club's number nine.

Ditto.........though someone's got to have it..................

[Nameless]

It's OK, he's our false number 9

[winchester_royal]

Interesting that Tish gets 18. Likewise the 26, 27, and 28 for PS, CT, and AK hint that those 4 are the most likely to be included.

[PistolPete]

I still think HRK can be a very good striker.

[St. Brynjar]

McCarthy moving to 20 could suggest he's off. Surprised that Williams didn't take the vacant #4 shirt.

[Davezk]

We need a number 10...

[Elm Park Old Boy]

We need a number 10...

10 kept free for Gylfi's return....

[loyalroyal4life]

Can see 3 coming in with MCcarthy more than likely to go

Shirt numbers 4,10, 14 maybe.....

Maybe Return of the Kebe (he has just bought a house in Reading)

[Royal Biscuitman]

Perhaps the manager knows we won't be getting a new striker in so no need to save the no 9 shirt.

[Royal Biscuitman]

25 Jake Taylor (shirt to read J.Taylor)

er... why?.... Are we about to sign another Taylor?

[SPARTA]

Hal Robson-Kanu named as the club's number nine.

Pretty much sums up most peoples opinion of that. It looks like he's getting an extended chance up front. Would rather he just left tbh!

[Royal Ginger]

25 Jake Taylor (shirt to read J.Taylor)

er... why?.... Are we about to sign another Taylor?

Club's claiming it's a personal preference. More alarmingly the Twitter feed just described him as a 'young forward' suggesting another stop gap up front.

McCarthy giving up his 21 shirt? I know they're claiming that Karacan wanted it, but combine that with Feds retaining number one... All circumstantial, but not looking good for us keeping hold of him.

[JakeTheRoyal]

Obita number 11 thats not a left back number

[Nameless]

25 Jake Taylor (shirt to read J.Taylor)

er... why?.... Are we about to sign another Taylor?

Club's claiming it's a personal preference. More alarmingly the Twitter feed just described him as a 'young forward' suggesting another stop gap up front.

Not sure how you'd describe him. He's played full back, midfield and various forward positions. He's as much a forward as anything else.

McCarthy giving up his 21 shirt? I know they're claiming that Karacan wanted it, but combine that with Feds retaining number one... All circumstantial, but not looking good for us keeping hold of him.

Maybe some footballers really don't give a toss what number they wear. It was so much simpler when a club had 11 shirts and you just wore the number of the position you were playing that day ! We've now got yet another thing to massively over analyse and try and draw conclusions from nothing from !

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Jem Karacan and Andrea Pirlo - I couldn't name two more less-a-like players if life depended on it...

[Nameless]

Jem Karacan and Andrea Pirlo - I couldn't name two more less-a-like players if life depended on it...

Danny Bailey and Neymar ?

Messi and Mark Whitlock ?