The stripe debate

[knowsnowt]

Stupid geeks.

 

[essyoueffsee]

Agreed. I'm always struggling to tell the difference between Sharp, McBurnie and McGoldrick unless they've got their back to me...

Or it's more aesthetically pleasing.

 

[Ron_Justice]

If the shirt has numbers and a name, solid backs look great. If you're not going to shell out for the afore mentioned Letraset, then a striped back looks better IMO.

 

[HolmesfieldBlade]

Why do we all do this every year

The shirts look completely different with the league badges, player names etc on them. Especially when it’s a white kit, which otherwise looks blank.

I will reserve judgement until I actually see them play in it.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

This poll was the hardest to decide.
You see i like the solid back, but when I am wearing it on Skegness sea front it reduces the amount of pigs it winds up, because it just looks like a normal Red or a White T-shirt from the Back.
So I have gone for the bit of both option.

 

[guancheblade]

My preference is solid/stripe mix. Solid making the number easy to see, don’t much mind red or white but prefer red , and stripes at the bottom so in the colder months when you are wearing a jacket you can have your shirt tails out and theirs no mistaking you’re a Blade.

Why we can't just recreate the back of the 92-92 shirt? Striped back with a red block for the number to reside in? Very classic European style

 

[Selly]

Bloody awful...

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Bloody awful...

The red of the name/number spectacularly doesn’t match the red of either the stripes themselves or the arm trim (which themselves are different shades from each other).

 

[metalblade]

Bloody awful...

Christ the back looks worse than the front look like a cheap tailor has added a bit to a shirt what's too small.

 

[DifferentClass]

Stripes all the fucking way, with or without the black number on a white square.

Classic.

 

[BladeFisher]

Fair point, but from the back of the Kop to the away end goal, (with players facing away from you) is a long way.

But if you're watching tv (remember the new normal) you are helluva short sighted.

 

[Putney Blade]

Crap shirt. We play in stripes. Not half stripes. Half white. Can you imagine Liverpool turning out in anything other than red shirts (back & front)? No. ‘Cos they don’t fxxx around with tradition!

 

[Booker4]

As we SHOULD be playing in stripes, I'll go for stripes. I do really get a tad annoyed at a solid back shirt I do admit! But I get equally annoyed at solid sleeves etc.!

 

[Shirty Blade]

Also irritates me when we play in an away kit when there is no colour clash. We should always play in those red and white stripes, front and back if at all possible.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

As we SHOULD be playing in stripes, I'll go for stripes. I do really get a tad annoyed at a solid back shirt I do admit! But I get equally annoyed at solid sleeves etc.!

I must admit that now I’ve taken this first step on kit polls, the sleeves debate, collar debate, and exact Pantone of red debate, are all falling into the realm of future kit polls.

 

[SHOREHAMST.com]

For what it's worth I reckon this is the colour of the away kit. It's called Signal Coral.

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The alternative is fully Barbie pink, which is called Glory Pink - I just can't see us going for that.

The above is a sort of fluorescent peach colour, though subtlety when it comes to colour isn't something Unitedites are renowned for, it'll just be "That fuckin pink kit" to most, like the Teletext holidays was blue when it wasn't.

Anyway, we'll almost certainly have a third kit - we're Premier League.

It’s not that colour mate. It’s pink. Just normal pink.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Why we can't just recreate the back of the 92-92 shirt? Striped back with a red block for the number to reside in? Very classic European style

Agree. This was the right size, although black numbers on a red block meant poor contrast:




This is complete overkill:

 

[bromtom]

It’s not that colour mate. It’s pink. Just normal pink.

Welp.

RIP Sheffield United's twitter account then haha

 

[JimW1889]

I actually like the colour of the light pink kit if it ends up being that one in the leaked photos. I'm not overly arsed about fans of a team that starts next season on -12 points laughing about it.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I don't mind really.

Depends on the overall design of the shirt.

I hated the 2006-07 shirt with the red back but the 2018-19 shirt with the white back was a belter.

Both promotion shirts though.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Both promotion shirts though.

One was a relegation shirt.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Doh! Was thinking of the HFS loans shirt.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

One was a relegation shirt.

We lifted the DIY shield wearing the 06/07 kit vs Palace. So strictly speaking we were promoted in that. It also wasn’t a kit we were relegated in – we were relegated in the kit used in 07/08 after debuting it vs Wigan. That had a back of stripes up to the shoulders.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Stripes, the new kit is awful. It looks like 2 different shirts sewn together, the neck joint to the red stripe is crap.

I agree

It looks like a trainee machinist's Friday afternoon attempt

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

We lifted the DIY shield wearing the 06/07 kit vs Palace. So strictly speaking we were promoted in that. It also wasn’t a kit we were relegated in – we were relegated in the kit used in 07/08 after debuting it vs Wigan. That had a back of stripes up to the shoulders.

Nice try.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Nice try.

The confusion of seeing stripes on the backs of his teammates’ home shirts for the first time in over two years is what caused Jagielka to handball it.

 

[VictoryBlade]

For what it's worth I reckon this is the colour of the away kit. It's called Signal Coral.

ADIDAS ADIPRO 20 GK JERSEY LS SIGNAL CORAL/BLACK

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The alternative is fully Barbie pink, which is called Glory Pink - I just can't see us going for that.

The above is a sort of fluorescent peach colour, though subtlety when it comes to colour isn't something Unitedites are renowned for, it'll just be "That fuckin pink kit" to most, like the Teletext holidays was blue when it wasn't.

Anyway, we'll almost certainly have a third kit - we're Premier League.

Ah going for Barbies pink eh?