Kit thread: Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!

[Booker4]

I personally like it I wasn't sure about the white back but after thinking about it I think it will look so much better with the player names and numbers on them and will also make it easier to see the names and numbers which I quite like the names and numbers got a little lost in the design from last year. Overall I think the shirt is really nice think last year's probably just pips it for me but still really happy with this shirt.

I'm sorry mate but seeing the players names on the shirt isn't the priority for me! I know who our players are and the programme tells you the names and numbers anyway. The white backs will make us look like Derby County when we're kicking to the away end!

We play in stripes end of and Adidas have totally disrespected that.

 

[Harry's Game]

Been thinking (probably too much) about this and a way the club could restore some goodwill from this monumental cock up would be to offer anyone buying the new shirt the number and name of their choice printed on the back for free rather than have to pay extra for it.

 

[vorpal blade]

.......and offering iron on stripes for the sleeves?

 

[vorpal blade]

A thing about striped sleeves.

adidas® tried to stop making them as early as the late 1970s - their white sleeved template shirts then (Notts. County etc.) looked terrible and sparse.

I think they don't like striped sleeves because they think that their trade mark triple stripe will be lost amongst the stripes.

But now, they aren't even putting their trademark stripes on those sleeves, they have lost that excuse. I suspect it's just cheaper to use plain white fabric in their sweat-shops than striped shirting fabric.

One reason last year's kit was so nice was that because the stripes were so broad, then you can visually interpret that the sleeve is one of the stripes. Narrow striped bodies look like they 'need' striped sleeves otherwise they look like tabards or bibs .... which is what this one does.

I suppose that because they've decided they only ever need short-sleeved shirts, they think that the problem has gone away - also the trend for footballers to wear long sleeved vests underneath their shirt adds to plain sleeves being the lazier option for adidas® .... it gives them an excuse.

I expect they'll sell far fewer of this year's shirts than they did last year, and what's the point in that?

 

[The Crab]

Have you seen the new Saints kit? It's a right mess, looks like they let a five year old stitch it together with the dodgy seams sticking out. The manufacturer logo looks naff in a wider bit of stripe and the red of the stripes is a different shade to the sleeves and top, a bit like when we had the cheap stretchy crap on the back of our shirts with plain red backs. Even Elev-8 are probably laughing at how tinpot and cheap looking this is.

They also wouldn't be a good fit as Under Armour tend to make things about two sizes smaller than everyone else, so everyone who wears medium would need XL.

Someone like Hummel would be good if we changed as hardly anyone else has them, but they aren't cheap and nasty.

I usually like Under Armour but that's shocking

 

[HighfieldBlade]

A truly dreadful shirt, and that's putting it mildly.

 

[Bert]

It's good in a way because they'll only sell half the number they usually do and then they will realise that they can't manipulate the fans and they will buy any old shite.

Treat your fans like shit and you will reap what you sow.

 

[bromtom]

A thing about striped sleeves.

adidas® tried to stop making them as early as the late 1970s - their white sleeved template shirts then (Notts. County etc.) looked terrible and sparse.

I think they don't like striped sleeves because they think that their trade mark triple stripe will be lost amongst the stripes.

But now, they aren't even putting their trademark stripes on those sleeves, they have lost that excuse. I suspect it's just cheaper to use plain white fabric in their sweat-shops than striped shirting fabric.

One reason last year's kit was so nice was that because the stripes were so broad, then you can visually interpret that the sleeve is one of the stripes. Narrow striped bodies look like they 'need' striped sleeves otherwise they look like tabards or bibs .... which is what this one does.

I suppose that because they've decided they only ever need short-sleeved shirts, they think that the problem has gone away - also the trend for footballers to wear long sleeved vests underneath their shirt adds to plain sleeves being the lazier option for adidas® .... it gives them an excuse.

I expect they'll sell far fewer of this year's shirts than they did last year, and what's the point in that?

I always assumed it'd be cheaper to make a chuffing massive roll of striped material and just use that for everything. It's like decorating the living room and deciding you want to have a dado rail and two different wallpapers. Reyt ballache and twice the paper.

I assume the problem lies in getting everything perpendicular sleeve wise, and centred with the front when it comes to the back.

 

[vorpal blade]

just read

Reyt ballache

and until it dawned on me I thought it must be a colour of wallpaper I'd never heard of!

and about the technical 'difficulty' for possibly the biggest clothing company in the world to construct the garments correctly ... I suppose you're right, it's the difference between a 14-year-old Cambodian tailor earning 4p per shirt or 12p probably?

 

[bromtom]

just read



and until it dawned on me I thought it must be a colour of wallpaper I'd never heard of!

and about the technical 'difficulty' for possibly the biggest clothing company in the world to construct the garments correctly ... I suppose you're right, it's the difference between a 14-year-old Cambodian tailor earning 4p per shirt or 12p probably?

Yeah they probably have to pay someone a decent wage to do striped sleeves. Can't be having that.

 

[vorpal blade]

aye, adidas® do make a pigs ear of design quite regularly (what about when they introduced the word 'adidas' in an insert above the stripes on all their trainers, including gazelles and people scoured the shops for originals in the mid 1980s?) - they soon changed their design strategy back to 'old school' -influenced by an article in The Face written by a friend of mine btw.

trouble is adidas® are far too big to take any notice of a club like Sheffield United still less our fans - their economy is probably bigger than most countries. If they produce crap football shirts they don't care because so many people will buy them just as part of their collections I suppose.

 

[Blade58]

Pigs shirt launched today

Stripes are back

Plain blue back

 

[derfblade.3]

Looked better on Boro's kit last season...

 

[bromtom]

Looked better on Boro's kit last season...



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Yeah but their first Ramsdens was shithouse

 

[zablade]

Been thinking (probably too much) about this and a way the club could restore some goodwill from this monumental cock up would be to offer anyone buying the new shirt the number and name of their choice printed on the back for free rather than have to pay extra for it.

Or just send it back to Addidas and say we’ve changed our minds and we are sticking with last season’s kit for another year.

 

[vorpal blade]

I didn't even know they were part of the Ginster's Empire

 

[Sean Thornton]

Pigs shirt launched today

Stripes are back

Plain blue back

One Pig explained PL clubs had to have plain backs on their shirt, they were the rules* Presumably the Pork are getting PL ready.......

* Rules seemingly broken by Palace and Huddersfield.

 

[bromtom]

Or just send it back to Addidas and say we’ve changed our minds and we are sticking with last season’s kit for another year.

We'd still have that Ramsdens transfer though.

 

[zablade]

We'd still have that Ramsdens transfer though.

I’d just about put up with that, owt to avoid the abortion we look like playing in next season.

 

[BigBed]

Promotion season to the PL was solid back aswell wasn’t it

It was.

 

[Addison]

Yeah but their first Ramsdens was shithouse

You do wonder if the Smoggies complained about the puke green logo so they changed it in subsequent years.

 

[Addison]

One Pig explained PL clubs had to have plain backs on their shirt, they were the rules* Presumably the Pork are getting PL ready.......

* Rules seemingly broken by Palace and Huddersfield.

Suprised they haven't suggested their shirts are made by Adidas because they don't do striped backs this year. Stripes they've just painted on two white road markings onto a Blue Shirt.

 

[biggey blade]

I'm sorry mate but seeing the players names on the shirt isn't the priority for me! I know who our players are

I never said it was a priority I simply said I like the front of the shirt not sure about the back but after thinking about it I think it will look a lot better once the name and numbers are on them as it won't look like a total plain back?

 

[Booker4]

I never said it was a priority I simply said I like the front of the shirt not sure about the back but after thinking about it I think it will look a lot better once the name and numbers are on them as it won't look like a total plain back?

Yeah I think you're right re the players. The only problem is that for the fans it makes it a very expensive shirt to have the numbers and a name on.

 

[Booker4]

Been thinking (probably too much) about this and a way the club could restore some goodwill from this monumental cock up would be to offer anyone buying the new shirt the number and name of their choice printed on the back for free rather than have to pay extra for it.

Great idea mate. Will it happen? Will it fairy cake.

 

[bromtom]

Great idea mate. Will it happen? Will it fairy cake.

Not for free it won't. Half price maybe. A £45 shirt goes up a third if you get name and numbers on it, they won't want to lose that profit entirely.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Addidas have obviously run out of red stripes.

 

[BigBed]

Addidas have obviously run out of red stripes.

Looks like ADIDAS have too........

 

[mattbianco1]

One Pig explained PL clubs had to have plain backs on their shirt, they were the rules* Presumably the Pork are getting PL ready.......

* Rules seemingly broken by Palace and Huddersfield.

I keep saying this is a fallacy. Back in 2005 when were were going up the "reason" for our plain back was for the PL. I've pointed out on multiple occasions Palace, Huddersfield, Newcastle and Bournemouth all had striped backs last season. Thats without even bothering to check back on other seasons.

However, thinking about it, I don't think Bournemouth have ever had a solid back. Or Palace.

 

[Inter_blade83]

If Argentina can have stripes on the back... Why can't we?