Next Seasons Kit

[Hoop Blah]

Having seen and got my hands on the kit in a shop today can I just say it feels even worse than it looks. No wonder it's cheaper than usual, it feels like a cheap fake you get of the lookie lookie men!

Interesting that SSN are running a news item on Stella McCartney having a hand in the design of the GB athletics kit and how Denise Lewis and Victoria Pendleton have both said feeling and looking good in their kit helped them perform.

[paultheroyal]

Having seen and got my hands on the kit in a shop today can I just say it feels even worse than it looks. No wonder it's cheaper than usual, it feels like a cheap fake you get of the lookie lookie men!

Interesting that SSN are running a news item on Stella McCartney having a hand in the design of the GB athletics kit and how Denise Lewis and Victoria Pendleton have both said feeling and looking good in their kit helped them perform.

but it won't make them run faster.

Poppycock!

[paultheroyal]

Quelle surprise, another summer rant from the Hob Nob faithful regarding the latest RFC kit release! In all fairness I decided upon release to withhold judgement until I'd seen the kit in flesh, so to speak. However from what I've seen in the match galleries on the official site so far, its a big thumbs up from me. I like the freshness of the shirt and the design is certainly something different that will stand out from a crowd. The V neckline is also a major plus as I'm not keen on collars on football shirts.

Clubs have the yearly dillema of ensuring that a new design is sufficiently different from previous seasons to ensure maximum profit from those mad enough to buy their replica year on year. Sure we'd all love to see the lads line up in a classic plain blue and white hooped design, with the traditional white shorts and socks. But lets face it, in the modern money driven world of football this would make absolutely no commercial sense.

This of course is just my opinion and matters not one jot as I choose not to wear such an overpriced, ill-fitting, uncomfortable item of clothing emblazened with the clubs latest corporate partners logo in public.

Perhaps those that insist on wearing the clubs colours to matches would be happier to spunk their cash on the following item, currently in the club shop sale at £17...

spot on

[Mike Hunt]

Quelle surprise, another summer rant from the Hob Nob faithful regarding the latest RFC kit release! In all fairness I decided upon release to withhold judgement until I'd seen the kit in flesh, so to speak. However from what I've seen in the match galleries on the official site so far, its a big thumbs up from me. I like the freshness of the shirt and the design is certainly something different that will stand out from a crowd. The V neckline is also a major plus as I'm not keen on collars on football shirts.

Clubs have the yearly dillema of ensuring that a new design is sufficiently different from previous seasons to ensure maximum profit from those mad enough to buy their replica year on year. Sure we'd all love to see the lads line up in a classic plain blue and white hooped design, with the traditional white shorts and socks. But lets face it, in the modern money driven world of football this would make absolutely no commercial sense.

This of course is just my opinion and matters not one jot as I choose not to wear such an overpriced, ill-fitting, uncomfortable item of clothing emblazened with the clubs latest corporate partners logo in public.

Perhaps those that insist on wearing the clubs colours to matches would be happier to spunk their cash on the following item, currently in the club shop sale at £17...

Just a quick question before I "spunk" my cash on said item - do the hoops go all around, or is there a super ugly back panel?

[havoc]

stop fvcking moaning about it.

no

[Z175]

Regardless of the bizarre kit, isn't the issue more that yet again, we have TWO new kits!

I was prepared to accept this upon promotion to the premierleague, the explanation being that the sponsor had changed so we needed two new shirts anyway.

However it is the norm for most clubs to change kit every two seasons. Now I don't know that many people who buy both home and away shirts, people tend to alternate. So all this is doing is meaning the fans, who lets face it ARE the club, are continually wearing different shirts to their team - just look around you at any home game.

The similarity of the hoops means people keep their old shirts anyway, so I doubt the change raises club revenue by any significant amount. In fact, if you don't get the shirt in the first few months you tend to wear the old one and wait and this can easily lead to people buying less than every two years anyway.

Has anyone at STAR raised this issue and what was the clubs response? I acknowledge the need to raise cash, and arguably voluntary payments like shirts are better than increased season ticket prices.

Yet, as above, the shirt does make you feel part of things. With so much recent glory, selling more shirts for our low budget youth based side presumably depends on fan goodwill. A nice gesture would be acknowledging that we will keep one of these shirts for next year (preferably the away one!)

The Puma deal that Reading signed, stipulates new kits each season IIRC. That deal runs till 2011/12. Waitrose sponsorship ends this year (2010/11).

Thanks for that info- it does explain it.

I appreciate one doesn't have to buy the shirt but in my most I referred to the many people who don't. ?
I think a more sensible policy of less frequent changes would actually increase sales. 6+years ago we could refer to each season by which kit we had at the time - now they are instantly forgetable!

However the puma deal explains it. However thats another point - how bad is it that our proud hoops are now designed to be identical with the other Puma franchises - eg. http://www.ptfc.co.uk/news/2010-2011/ju ... t_unveiled

[Hoop Blah]

Having seen and got my hands on the kit in a shop today can I just say it feels even worse than it looks. No wonder it's cheaper than usual, it feels like a cheap fake you get of the lookie lookie men!

Interesting that SSN are running a news item on Stella McCartney having a hand in the design of the GB athletics kit and how Denise Lewis and Victoria Pendleton have both said feeling and looking good in their kit helped them perform.

but it won't make them run faster.

Poppycock!

Take that up with the British Cycling Team them, I mean they've not been very successful recently have they so they probably need your help...

Pendleton said they had a saying in the team, it went something like 'look good, feel good, go good'.

It's similar to when Tony Jacklin took over the Ryder Cup team and said they had to have the best shirts and jumpers and fly first class so they felt the equal of the US stars. It's a boost to feel you look the part.

It doesn't mean you increase you maximum level of performance, but it might well mean you perform closer to it because you feel better about everything because your comfortable and look good. As I said earlier in the thread, I don't think it makes a massive amount of difference, but I do think it could add a bit here and there and when the margins are so fine at the level they compete at then why not consider it?

[Z175]

Having seen and got my hands on the kit in a shop today can I just say it feels even worse than it looks. No wonder it's cheaper than usual, it feels like a cheap fake you get of the lookie lookie men!

Interesting that SSN are running a news item on Stella McCartney having a hand in the design of the GB athletics kit and how Denise Lewis and Victoria Pendleton have both said feeling and looking good in their kit helped them perform.

but it won't make them run faster.

Poppycock!

Take that up with the British Cycling Team them, I mean they've not been very successful recently have they so they probably need your help...

Pendleton said they had a saying in the team, it went something like 'look good, feel good, go good'.

It's similar to when Tony Jacklin took over the Ryder Cup team and said they had to have the best shirts and jumpers and fly first class so they felt the equal of the US stars. It's a boost to feel you look the part.

It doesn't mean you increase you maximum level of performance, but it might well mean you perform closer to it because you feel better about everything because your comfortable and look good. As I said earlier in the thread, I don't think it makes a massive amount of difference, but I do think it could add a bit here and there and when the margins are so fine at the level they compete at then why not consider it?

You can't really see what you're wearing though?

Unless your name is Nicky Shorey or Stephen Hunt and you keep admiring how superior your feet are to the team you inconveniently still play for...

[No Fixed Abode]

Have you seen the 'models' the club used for the ladies kits on the OS??....

Do the hover, zoom in option.....or maybe don't..

[Hoop Blah]

You can't really see what you're wearing though?

Unless your name is Nicky Shorey or Stephen Hunt and you keep admiring how superior your feet are to the team you inconveniently still play for...

They don't have mirrors? Do they all shut their eyes when looking at each other? Do they suddenly become unable to feel what they're wearing?

You must be right though, because I've never seen a picture of a footballer either or see them on TV, so yeah they'd have no idea how the kit looks and feels on them!

[Mike Hunt]

At least ours didn't make it into this list....

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/wor ... cle/17751/

But they have this kit!



Another team has the same abomination!

[Davyc]

I have to say i like the New kits! maybe not the best design but i like them

[Tad Showbiz]

I have to say i like the New kits! maybe not the best design but i like them

I saw someone wearing the new shirt in town today, it looks awful and far worse than on the OS pictures.

[FORSTERS_RIGHT_FOOT]

Keepers kit ftw.

[Barry the bird boggler]

My favourite is still circa 1981-83 (and I actually quite like the Man City light blue we had in the mid to late 60s)

Worst is still the abominations from 1991-92 (although the toilet from the last couple of seasons (and 1998-99) run them close). The current design is at least an improvement on those.

[Jerry St Clair]

I'm not reading all this.

Needless to say that replica football shirts are for children and any adult who wears one is a Grade A tool.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Why are they sitting with their legs wide apart like that?

so its comfortable for their penis

[FiNeRaIn]

Haven't bought a reading shirt for years, they've been awful for the most part. But that said, football shirts as a whole are pretty crappy these days.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Yep, much rather the kits from before the mid 80s when things started getting too much like an advert for the manufacturer and what crappy new "twist" they could put onto something which - to be honest - is so simple.

Bit like how things are these days with Panini and Merlin collector card/stickers, you know everything taken in the same crappy plastic style when in the 70s you used to get cards that stood out 'cos they were unique and had different shots of players.

[Irvinchangeyaname]

I can see why they didn't get Griffin to do the modelling of the new kit.