New kit 2025/26

[GKhantRebel]

Names and numbers in white will help definitely, a bit anyway

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

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They don’t help themselves do they

I think they're just trolling us now.

Why don't they just randomly stick them on, fuck it, upside down, at 180 degrees, they might as well!

 

[Blade56]

Worst kit I can remember. Looks like we’re amateurs wearing training bibs. Necks for women’s team, pin stipe missing, can’t see numbers in black, solid red back FFS.

Sack the designers

 

[Blade56]

I think they're just trolling us now.

Why don't they just randomly stick them on, fuck it, upside down, at 180 degrees, they might as well!

Notice they’re not showing back where they ran out of stripped material in launch pics.

More upset about feckin shirt than sh!te performance (Brooks not included).

 

[Jon Bon II]

Great from the front, absolutely abysmal from the rear. Whoever signed off on a plain back wants shooting, I don't care who it is.

 

[blAdes96]

White numbers and name set will sort out the issue, then the red back will be fine.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

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White numbers and name set will sort out the issue, then the red back will be fine.

No, it really won't.

 

[GKhantRebel]

I think I've noticed another reason why the back looks so odd, they seem to have a black and white horizontal pinstripe at the bottom of the red block which really gives a training bib vibe!

 

[D34dxBladeZz]

This works with black numbers!!!

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Same shitty quality we expect from errea. Announce Hummel

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Every time I see the Midnite sponsor on the home kit it somehow looks cheaper and nastier than the previous time I saw it. It's possibly the most obviously "stuck on" sponsor we've had since John Holland (14/15 - that will never be beaten!). It's a shame as the Midnite logo is actually better than the likes of the Maneki cat and CFI trade, but it's just not come out well - think mattbianco1 is correct what says about the border around the word being just too much.

 

[CoatesyBlade]

New kit looked awful in the flesh didn’t it! It’s really bad with that solid red bid design and black numbering!

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Bit of a weird one but I went on the errra website to see if I could still get last years 3rd shirt and inadvertently came across these…
I wonder when the back got changed?

 

[Tezza1889]

Shocking shirt in the flesh, looks cheap and nasty, won't be wasting money on that one..

 

[Blade56]

Daft question. Does anyone consult with fans who are being asked to pay £50+ for a cheap bit of kit about the shirt design?

No one in their right fecking mind would vote for that abhorrent specimen.

DH Gate must be wringing their hands at <£8 a pop

 

[Ron_Justice]

Daft question. Does anyone consult with fans who are being asked to pay £50+ for a cheap bit of kit about the shirt design?

No one in their right fecking mind would vote for that abhorrent specimen.

DH Gate must be wringing their hands at <£8 a pop

Sounds like a good idea in principle, but in reality design by committee never ends well. Just look at the consensus in every Kit thread here. You never get people agreeing.

Simple Red and White stripes
Black Pin Stripe
Central Red Stripe
Solid Arms
Too much Black
Stripes are too thin
Stripes are too thick
Why can't we have a central Badge?
Not enough Black
Hummel
Umbro
Adidas
Puma
Errea
Stupid to have a sponsor that you can't put on kids shirts
Technically, it's a Lancashire rose, because it's red
The Shield badge is better
Don't mess with the round badge
White numbers
Needs stripes on the arms
Stripes are too thin, makes it look pink
Solid back

There's a similar length list just about sponsors. You'd think 'build a website with options for each design feature, let the fans vote, we get what the fans want.' No, you get what some fans want. The same as if you'd not bothered.

Design is a tough gig. Small tweaks, for economic, aesthetic, practical, performance, supply, regulatory, colour conflict reasons can all snowball without careful curation. Like most things, it looks simple, and people only notice the 'mistakes' (to their mind) but overlook the 1000 things that went right to make it happen in the first place.

 

[Blade56]

Sounds like a good idea in principle, but in reality design by committee never ends well.

That shirt was designed by a committee that couldn’t agree on a design. 4 in 1 was the outcome.

 

[Ron_Justice]

That shirt was designed by a committee that couldn’t agree on a design. 4 in 1 was the outcome.

Maybe, and that was just the owners. Turn those decisions over to 1000's of fans and see what you get. What you'd get is the exact same result. Some would love it and some would hate it. The difference would be that you'd also have another stick to hit the club with for 'askin't fans'. - 'Tinpot, can't even sort out a design for a shirt, it's not hard, Red and White stripes, nice collar, bit of black if your feeling fruity.' etc etc etc

 

[mancunianblade]

No idea why they went with black numbers for this game, it will be white during the season, no chance officials are letting black on red slide.

We will end up back with adidas, its the best option for us imo. As for black I think its really important part of the kit, it sets us apart from all the other red and white teams and adds that element of aggression to the kit too, simple red and white is sunday league stuff, dont tend to get those 3rd colours in the Sugg Sport catalogues

 

[Inter_blade83]

Or this one, but to be fair I hated it at first sight anyway View attachment 216741

That collar is a beaut though

 

[stringjunior]

Alright Ron_Justice, pipe down with your sensible answers. We're all about the knee jerk reactions on here pal

 

[mancunianblade]

No point consulting the fans because you end up with mass conflicting opinions and youre are back to square one & on top of that, lead times etc mean its an incredibly long process unless youre adding badges to templates which all fans seem unanimous in thier dissaproval of (which is fair), also if we know what the kit is 12 months in advance then whats the point in producing a video with a draped flag and a player wearing jeans and the new shirt whilst rubbing their hands to the beat of a royalty free track

Im no Errea fan boy but I think a lot of people dont seem to realise that the brands produce multiple options to present to the club and the club always chooses the shirt, its not like the club receives hundreds of boxes and when they open it, its the first time theyve seen the kit, its litterally the kit the board or whoever have chosen, if the kits shit its the clubs fault. Any designer on here will tell you that you present 5 options, the client will nearly always choose the worst design of the 5.

 

[Stockport blade]

Same shitty quality we expect from errea. Announce Hummel

Shitaly

 

[designblade]

Bit of a weird one but I went on the errra website to see if I could still get last years 3rd shirt and inadvertently came across these…View attachment 216844View attachment 216845
I wonder when the back got changed?

Could be total bollocks but I read last night that the plain red back is not the final version and it's supposed to have a stripes on the back. I did wonder whether this had something to with the anticipation of being under Premier League regulations.

 

[Inter_blade83]

Could be total bollocks but I read last night that the plain red back is not the final version and it's supposed to have a stripes on the back. I did wonder whether this had something to with the anticipation of being under Premier League regulations.

These "regulations" are always bollocks.

 

[mattbianco1]

I quite simply needs White Shirt Printing. It will be fine then

 

[mattbianco1]

Could be total bollocks but I read last night that the plain red back is not the final version and it's supposed to have a stripes on the back.

You could see the plain back in the promo video. If it isn't meant to have a plain back, they would have made sure not to show it.

They wouldn't have worn it last night either

 

[designblade]

You could see the plain back in the promo video. If it isn't meant to have a plain back, they would have made sure not to show it.

They wouldn't have worn it last night either

Agreed, it doesn't really add up but it's also weird it's shown with stripes in the leaked visual and on the Errea website. It does seem like the design has been changed at some point.

 

[mattbianco1]

Agreed, it doesn't really add up but it's also weird it's shown with stripes in the leaked visual and on the Errea website. It does seem like the design has been changed at some point.

Errea don't strike me as much of a company with attention to detail. They have a very Italian "be reyt" attitude.

The images on their site also don't show the correct cuff print.
You'd think as the kit designers, they'd display it EXACTLY as it actually is.

"Andrà tutto bene"

 

[originaltrueblade]

It looks like a red bib has been put over the back of the shirt. It looks terrible and what’s needed is to reintroduce the stripes on the back…Not many will be purchased