23/24 season kit thread

[FHP]

Other alternate jersey concepts

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Surely if that horrifying shirt is our actual shirt for this coming season, it will be one of the ugliest lowest selling shirts in living memory?

Would sell whatever, think the vast majority would buy anyway.

 

[Le Cynique]

I hate that colour and design. Reminds me of an old mate when we called to pick him up on our Lambretta to go to Skeggy. He had overslept and dashed downstairs in his yellow pants to open door. When he turned to rush back upstairs to get dressed he had a huge brown skid mark up the back. Scarred me for life that sight.

"Like a Battenburg... yellow at the front, brown at the back."

(I know Battenburg is pink and yellow, but this is a quote from Aunt Nesta in Man Down)

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Asked AI for an attempt (just ignore the hands )

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That first one has potential if done in an elegant way like the promotion shirt was.

 

[mattbianco1]

That first one has potential if done in an elegant way like the promotion shirt was.

 

[CPB]

Reckon new home kit will be obv. usual red white and black etc. Be nice if there was some classy design touch to it as well.

Away kit I'd be up for us going full mad 90s style. A crazy pattern etc.

 

[Swannyblade]

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That's quite nice - would prefer a black collar

 

[CrookesBlade]

I know we’re talking mostly about design here but the PL relegation shirt is probably the worst quality football shirt I’ve ever owned. It’s up there with a Barca fake I got when I was 11 years old on holiday. It genuinely put me off buying another Blades shirt.

I liked the shirt but sizing was mental. Got a medium which was skin tight so sized up and the large was like a tent

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

Just seen this online (not mine)

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Looks like a Barnsley fan with a white scarf on.

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

I disagree. I think the front of the shirt is absolutely fine. If the back had stripes, it wouldn't have got the stick it did:
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The back being plain white puts lots off. If Adidas insisted on a solid back, it should be red, not white.

However, with the design of that shirt having solid shoulders and sleeves, the back had to match the sleeves, otherwise it would have looked out of place.

Solid back...
Official white versus red back:
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To go solid red, they would have had to go red shoulders as a minimum, maybe sleeves too.

Red Shoulders:
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Shoulders AND Sleeves:
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Each to their own obviously, but IMO, white shoulders and sleeves look much better on that shirt than red.
It's the lack of back stripes that cost it for me.

Each to their own indeed, I much prefer that bottom mockup to the monstrosity we actually wore. I'd probably have bought that one.

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

I disagree. I think the front of the shirt is absolutely fine. If the back had stripes, it wouldn't have got the stick it did:
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The back being plain white puts lots off. If Adidas insisted on a solid back, it should be red, not white.

However, with the design of that shirt having solid shoulders and sleeves, the back had to match the sleeves, otherwise it would have looked out of place.

Solid back...
Official white versus red back:
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To go solid red, they would have had to go red shoulders as a minimum, maybe sleeves too.

Red Shoulders:
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Shoulders AND Sleeves:
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Each to their own obviously, but IMO, white shoulders and sleeves look much better on that shirt than red.
It's the lack of back stripes that cost it for me.

The problem is that template is awful. Nike are using a very similar one now - see Inter Milan. The way the material is cut and sewn below the collar is both unnecessary and makes any shirt that isn’t a plain colour very difficult to work with, design wise.

Loved the pixelated design of the stripes - and they highlight how that there is plenty of scope to do different things with striped shirts - but on the whole it’s a bad shirt.

On top of that any shirt without stripes on the back is automatically doomed to the average at best category.

Be interesting to see if we keep the stripes on the back this season. There is no reason whatsoever to not have them. No rules, nothing. The club made a point of the last shirt possibly having stripes on the back for the last time due to potential EFL rule changes. Not sure if that rule change has happened but it doesn’t concern us - for now at least. Newcastle - a team in Europe - have released there’s and it’s striped on the back. They will have blocked numbers on the back for the CL games so even then it’s not a difficult workaround.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

OK it's not 2023, but wow. This is the standard we should be looking for. This is a memorial shirt, granted, but if we're having a third shirt we need something 'different'. Not just the same Owd tried and tested and boring block colours.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

This is Venezia's club shop website. We are really lacking when it comes to selling stuff. I don't know what Lido is but I want one.

 

[biggiesablade]

This is Venezia's club shop website. We are really lacking when it comes to selling stuff. I don't know what Lido is but I want one.

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There shirts are all over my ads cause of dhgate and they all look amazing. Very Gucci.

 

[Champagneblade]

As per usual with United once the window is open and other teams are releasing their kits…

 

[biggiesablade]

As per usual with United once the window is open and other teams are releasing their kits…

Start of July according to the club

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

As per usual with United once the window is open and other teams are releasing their kits…

Pigs release their shirt today, we don't even have a picture.

What a club.

 

[brownblade]

Pigs release their shirt today, we don't even have a picture.

What a club.

 

[Inter_blade83]

Pigs release their shirt today, we don't even have a picture.

What a club.

So?

 

[mattbianco1]

Pigs release their shirt today, we don't even have a picture.

What a club.

Careful what you wish for.

Short Sleeved £65.
Long Sleeved £72.

Then there's the news announcement

 

[Balti Pie]

Careful what you wish for.

Short Sleeved £65.
Long Sleeved £72.

Then there's the news announcement

Looking at the piggies' latest offering I find myself wondering, "Isn't that just the same as last years? And the year before? And the one before that?!" In fact, my perception of that lot is that their shirts hardly vary at all year on year. Same boring template it seems, same width stripes, same sleeves - same shit different season!
Ours seem to vary much more - Different width stripes, solid sleeves / shoulders, plain backs, stripey backs, black pinstripes sometimes.
Personally I'm glad about that.
Should we be applauded for trying different stuff season to season?
I think so.

 

[coolasanidiot]

Careful what you wish for.

Short Sleeved £65.
Long Sleeved £72.

Then there's the news announcement

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Collars= Wank

 

[biggiesablade]

Collars= Wank

I like button collars but the ones with no buttons like that shite up there are nasty

 

[leppingslaneblade]

Careful what you wish for.

Short Sleeved £65.
Long Sleeved £72.

Then there's the news announcement

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Truly awful shirt. Looks like a pork sarnie on the front.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

So?

Be nice to see what's coming that's all. I don't understand why it's not possible to do it.

 

[BigBed]

International Women's Shirts started to be released. Here's a ton of them... modelled...by, erm, men!

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They're not men, they're them! Sexist pig!

 

[BigBed]

Blades take on PSG kit

That is truly horrendous.

 

[BigBed]

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Its nice, but the promotion shirt would be perfect as a home kit next season.

 

[Swannyblade]

Collars= Wank

Traditional collars are class, but the more recent ones made out of the same floppy material as the rest of the shirt are crap. Any shirts with big gaping neck openings are also crap.

 

[blade too long]

and heres me thinking itd be hard to make Wendies look more village idiot than they already are