New kit - now released

[Foxy]

Took this earlier today for those asking, but someone beat me to it above

 

[vorpal blade]

Just one thing;

Why do we never just have a square or even circular patch on the back (not the whole lot) so that we can have a readable number? I've always thought our numbers were the least readable in the league.

Is that tactical? if so it hasn't really worked.
The numbers are always sponsored by the league and hence look carp.

The shorts have something of the bedsit curtain about them. Actually, they have something of the trouser about them...

 

[blade too long]

The numbers are always sponsored by the league and hence look carp.

fishing for an argument ?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Took this earlier today for those asking, but someone beat me to it above

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Hang on.... RED SHORTS?!!

 

[KeyffSmyff]

The kit apart from the back shoulder area. The yellow one gets worse now seeing it has the custard creme stripes going on. Wonder what that looks like from the back.

 

[S5Blade]

I actually liked the new kits alot more in the flesh than I did in the amazing marketing images. So much so that I bought the home one at the game. The shirts this year seem alot bigger...... I bought the same size as last year, last years is still a bit clingy in all the right / wrong places depending on how fat you like your men, but this years just hangs off me! Surely the same size, from the same kit supplier, should fit exactly the same? Or is that expecting far too much?

 

[grafikhaus]

It's a third-rate 'design' for a Third Division club. Throw in painting the back of the South Stand in hideous red and white stripes, cheap unknown sponsors on the shirt and the desperate naming of a stand after an extremely tenuous link to a sports 'star' and the marketing people at the Lane (if we have any) have plenty to answer for.

As others have said, the backs should be solid so the names/numbers are legible. There's only so much you can do with stripes and we've reached saturation point. Time for a total change? Didn't do Southampton much harm. If shirts are to be a commercial success, they've got to become iconic items of leisure wear - something to don in Tenerife etc. (although, as usual, United have failed to react in time to tap into this market). I'd suggest red/black stripes a la AC Milan. White shorts, white socks.

And the away kit would have been easily sorted. Go back to the iconic fluorescent yellow of Bassett days and since copied by (among others) Chelsea and Dortmund.

 

[Hartley Hare]

These kits do not inspire at all and the away one is truly hideous. I will not be buying either.

I just can't understand who at our club approved these designs, they must have had a choice from the manufacturer?

OK, it is only a shirt but it represents much more than that.

Second rate, I hope the team don't turn out that way.

HH

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

Whoever gave the order to paint the south stand like a 1970s brentford programme kiosk should have faced a firing squad.

 

[vorpal blade]

Yes, in front of one of the white stripes, that'll learn him.

AND

It'll look like we've got 11 managers out there, which what it has sometimes looked like in the past.

 

[judge]

as had already been said why does anyone care ? anyone over the age of about 12 shouldnt be wearing one anyway

 

[vorpal blade]

Your Honour,

It doesn't matter that we shouldn't care about what our team wears, we obviously do.

You could say the same about clothing in general, after all style and fashion can seem like a pointless waste of money. But fashion seems endemic for the human race.

AND I agree with you, I haven't bought a Blades shirt since I was in my teens but that is the point. Because they are so poorly designed and made, No man out of his teens should wear one, but if they were beautiful, comfortable and attractive it would be quite appropriate for a stylish gent of any age to wear one.

I am interested in fashion and sometimes work in the field. I often wear a classic Australian Rugby League shirt under a blazer, I used to wear a classic Juventus shirt as well and the game changing Kappa 'pure' Italy shirt of the late 1990s is in my wardrobe too.

If there were ever a 'good' SUFC shirt a grown man would legitimately sport one on a daily basis. Don't you wear any 'Polo' shirts or Fred Perry tennis shirts Judge?

 

[Gavlar]

An example off of twitter...

football manager georgi, is that a new signing?

 

[mattbianco1]

as had already been said why does anyone care ? anyone over the age of about 12 shouldnt be wearing one anyway

So why's that then?

Should people wear Burberry, Stone Island or Aquasctum instead?

Each to their own. I hardly wear shirts to games although I'd sooner be seen in a blades shirt at a game than one of the said brands above in order to prove you're a hooligan or in order to pretend you're a hooligan.

 

[Ted Danson]

And the away kit would have been easily sorted. Go back to the iconic fluorescent yellow of Bassett days and since copied by (among others) Chelsea and Dortmund.

^^^ This

 

[Foxy]

Here's how it looks without the sponsor...

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[metalblade]

Crap

 

[vorpal blade]

DESIGN BULLETIN
I have to say, I don't mind this design too much as shown on Foxy's post, it looks better in action than it did on little Napoleon Brandy (or whoever it is) in the publicity shot, the contentious design issue being the 'yoke'.

The yoke seems to be used by Macron® to provide a solid background for their logos and thereby to render them the more legible. Therefore shouldn't it be the location for the players name on the back too? Instead we have a list of unrelated graphics dragging the shirt back down and the numbers are too low to look good (its like a sagging rucksack on kid's back). If the referee tells the player to tuck his shirt in, its in danger of ending up below the waistline. Graphics look better higher up because, unless a shirt is tightly tailored it becomes baggier (and more folded and creased) the lower it gets on the torso, we are talking footballers here not dartists.

OK, the manufacturer's logo looks good! on the front, but the SUFC badge is lost among the stripes (c.f. my comments on the numbers above). The badge should be up high on the yoke to balance the MACRON logo, I think. Because I reckon that when anyone outside Britain were to see a full frontal view of that shirt they would immediately think, 'this is a Macron shirt', I don't think they would immediately think 'this is a Sheffield United shirt'.

That is my take..... and I'm not yolking.

 

[IOM Blade]

Here's how it looks without the sponsor...

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Can you buy them without the sponsors Foxy?

 

[vorpal blade]

I think I agree with your sentiment Isle of Man. Why not hold out for while? With a background in the notorious A4e, the owner of the advert on the front is quite likely to default on the rent sometime this season.........

 

[Darren]

Your Honour,

It doesn't matter that we shouldn't care about what our team wears, we obviously do.

You could say the same about clothing in general, after all style and fashion can seem like a pointless waste of money. But fashion seems endemic for the human race.

AND I agree with you, I haven't bought a Blades shirt since I was in my teens but that is the point. Because they are so poorly designed and made, No man out of his teens should wear one, but if they were beautiful, comfortable and attractive it would be quite appropriate for a stylish gent of any age to wear one.

I am interested in fashion and sometimes work in the field. I often wear a classic Australian Rugby League shirt under a blazer, I used to wear a classic Juventus shirt as well and the game changing Kappa 'pure' Italy shirt of the late 1990s is in my wardrobe too.

If there were ever a 'good' SUFC shirt a grown man would legitimately sport one on a daily basis. Don't you wear any 'Polo' shirts or Fred Perry tennis shirts Judge?

I don't.

As I have said before, if I were world dictator I would ban the wearing of all sportswear other than whilst playing sport and spectating sporting events.

 

[vorpal blade]

Not wearing your trainers at the moment then Darren?

 

[vorpal blade]

I take it because you don't have a pair of 'boxers' or 'jocks' you must be commando down there?

Oh and steer clear of blazer or (sports) jacket.

Mate, there are few items of contemporary clothing that aren't sportswear other than some that are derived from military uniform.

 

[Foxy]

Can you buy them without the sponsors Foxy?

Doubt it, it isn't usually the case.

Had they been a gambling firm, you'd have been able to purchase kids sizes without.

 

[cooperblade]

Looks like weds have trumped us in the embarrassing kit launch stakes

 

[mattbianco1]

Looks like weds have trumped us in the embarrassing kit launch stakes

Where's that from ??

Their spomsors are nearly as bad as ours

 

[cooperblade]

Where's that from ??

Their spomsors are nearly as bad as ours

Tweeted by a journo.

 

[vorpal blade]

Thank God no sound effects;

Not a Music exam pass between them.... pathetic that they think they are good for the atmosphere, arrogant that they play at England matches too.

Their kit looks worse than ours, Puma has slipped so far from SPA kings, look at slanty 'yoke' thing, it says gymnastics.

 

[vorpal blade]

A note from their sponsors (internet site). What in the name of sanity?

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[blade too long]

now anyone dissing our kit , jesus the new pig shirt is hideous, that round neck looks like well this


circa 1965, they look like a team of vicars