Kit use

[calcalcal]

I quite like the away kit but its only been used once so far. The trend seems to be to favour the purple one. This got me thinking, have we ever had a kit that wasnt actually used?

23/24 3rd shirt was used just the once I think, in a woeful defeat to arsenal. Thats about the best I can muster up

I cant think of many times they'll use the white one this season. Charlton, Wrexham and Bristol city being possibilities unless they go with purple again

Sorry this is a naff topic, im just curious if we ever had one that never got used at all

 

[Deadbat]

We had a grey and lime kit we never used from 2010-11 (I think) but was available to buy (I have one)

 

[mattbianco1]

We had a grey and lime kit we never used from 2010-11 (I think) but was available to buy (I have one)

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That and also the anniversary kit that absolutely everybody owns.

 

[Goodpinchofclough]

2006-2007 3rd shirt

 

[Ginger Gnome]

2006-2007 3rd shirt
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Given that we already had red and white stripes and black and white stripes as shirts that season, how would an all white third ever be much use? I guess it's just the away from the year before with the new sponsor.

 

[Goodpinchofclough]

Given that we already had red and white stripes and black and white stripes as shirts that season, how would an all white third ever be much use?

Just Sheffield United doing Sheffield United things!

 

[Swannyblade]

We had a grey and lime kit we never used from 2010-11 (I think) but was available to buy (I have one)

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Why did I instantly think of Jamie Ward when I saw this shirt if we never wore it?

 

[Ginger Gnome]

Why did I instantly think of Jamie Ward when I saw this shirt if we never wore it?

Because much like Jamie Ward it was crap and pointless.

 

[CrookesBlade]

That and also the anniversary kit that absolutely everybody owns.

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Yeah this wound me up at the time. Made a big deal of this anniversary kit (given away free to season ticket holders) then played in a non descript black shirt with a white round neck collar that was never available to buy.

We also had the white away shirt with red stripe to one side that same season. Got used twice I think.

 

[Swannyblade]

Given that we already had red and white stripes and black and white stripes as shirts that season, how would an all white third ever be much use? I guess it's just the away from the year before with the new sponsor.

That black and white shirt was a bizarre choice…did Warnock want a link to Notts County or something?

 

[Bladesman]

2006-2007 3rd shirt
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I never understood the point of that shirt.

 

[diode_blade]

Ok one for the statto's, which away kit over recent years has been our best away kit in terms of wins, including this season.

 

[mattbianco1]

Ok one for the statto's, which away kit over recent years has been our best away kit in terms of wins, including this season.

Undefeated away kit



We lost 6 games all season. 3 at home, 3 away.

The away games we lost were Bolton and Millwall where we wore our home shirt.

Then Walsall when we wore a one off Luminous Green shirt:



We did lose in it once though. Bolton away in the FA Cup 2nd Round

 

[Aganarama]

Why did I instantly think of Jamie Ward when I saw this shirt if we never wore it?

He modelled the kit - perhaps in the programme? Or for the online shop?

I remember seeing a load of these shirts (in season) in the Sports Direct by St. Paul's Cathedral - random.

 

[Rochdaleblade]

That and also the anniversary kit that absolutely everybody owns.

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Literally in my gym bag now

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

I like it when we have the away shirt as the following seasons third shirt and then a new away shirt. We don't seem to do that very often.

What about one off shorts?
Anyone remember the 2002/4 home shorts... but in black? Not white.

Talking about kit use and that season in particular, I would love us to keep a home shirt for more than 1 season. (21 years since we last did that)

 

[Sithblade]

We had a grey and lime kit we never used from 2010-11 (I think) but was available to buy (I have one)

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Not sure when the club announced its release that season, but I remember getting FIFA 11 when it came out end of Sept? Then toggling our kits and seeing it and thinking WTF is this?

 

[Balham]

Undefeated away kit

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We lost 6 games all season. 3 at home, 3 away.

The away games we lost were Bolton and Millwall where we wore our home shirt.

Then Walsall when we wore a one off Luminous Green shirt:



We did lose in it once though. Bolton away in the FA Cup 2nd Round

As I love this sort of thing.. I looked into the four 89+ point seasons we've had in the past decade as those are logically the ones with fewest defeats.

2016/17
As mattbianco1 rightly points out, we didn't lose in the (frankly diabolical) black/orange away shirt. We played in the classic home shirt 36 times, the away 9 and the green once.


2018/19
We played in the luminous yellow away kit far more than we did the black and orange, only turning out away from home in the half-Derby, half United Ramsdens shirt at Norwich, Yesterday FC and Humberside Jungle Cats (W1 D2 L0). As a result, the away kit has a decent record. There was no third kit this season.


2022/23
We reverted back to playing more away games in the home shirt this season, playing 12 of 23 away from home in the red and white stripes. The other 11 matches were split between the away (white with red stripe) and third (black with gold) roughly 2:1 and proportionally results were almost identical for those two


2024/25
Again, we played around half our away matches in the home shirt, this time 11 of 23. The designated away shirt (black/jade) saw fewer uses than the third (off-white/maroon) but results in the away were much better with the only defeat coming at Sunderland in a match which would have gone the other way had Kieffer Moore and/or Jack Robinson been able to kick a football properly.


I've covered the unlucky shirts elsewhere which covers the worst shirts in our history in terms of results. There may be movement on there depending on where this season goes from here; as it stands our purple third shirt isn't doing particularly well (P4 W1 D0 L3) and the away has only been used at Hull (L). Looking at the rest of the season, I reckon the away will be used at Wrexham, Charlton & Bristol City; the purple at Stoke, Southampton, Watford, Derby and possibly Norwich and the home shirt used everywhere else.