Next Seasons Kit

[No Fixed Abode]

We always come up with better ones on here, thay the 'actual' shirts.

[Alan Partridge]

Have RFC ever consulted fans over a kit design? I can't recall it ever happening.

I know that other clubs have sometimes given the fans 3 or 4 options and asked them to choose.

Given the amount of negative comments, pretty much every time we change kits, it might be worth STAR raising this question at some stage.

I raised this point with them a few seasons ago and their view was 'it's too easy to get hijacked' for use of a better term. That other fans could find it hilarious to vote on the worst looking one, which from the look of the last few years has happened anyway.

A fair few clubs do it, then you contact the club via email to decide the favourite. As long as it's not just a tickbox on the website, but email with member numbers and all that jazz, it's really a lot of pointless effort for any wannabe comedians to do to rig the vote.

[Hoop Blah]

And, you don't like it, don't buy it! Nobody's forcing anybody else into purchases.

I don't ever buy any of the replica shirts thanks and certainly wouldn't get this one if I did.

I do still have to put up with this being the most recognisable image of my team for however long it is until they decide to launch another one and so I happen to have an opinion on what it looks like.

[It Is What It Is]

That goal keepers kit, is HIDEOUS! Looks as though somebody as been munching purple crayons and just puked out some rough purple pattern onto a shirt

[Hoop Blah]

Have RFC ever consulted fans over a kit design? I can't recall it ever happening.

I know that other clubs have sometimes given the fans 3 or 4 options and asked them to choose.

Given the amount of negative comments, pretty much every time we change kits, it might be worth STAR raising this question at some stage.

I raised this point with them a few seasons ago and their view was 'it's too easy to get hijacked' for use of a better term. That other fans could find it hilarious to vote on the worst looking one, which from the look of the last few years has happened anyway.

A fair few clubs do it, then you contact the club via email to decide the favourite. As long as it's not just a tickbox on the website, but email with member numbers and all that jazz, it's really a lot of pointless effort for any wannabe comedians to do to rig the vote.

They could easily do it with a postal vote card to member card holders, or by emai for those that they've got email addresses for. I wouldn't expect them to go 100% with the response, but it might be an idea to do some consultation on it.

Has anyone ever heard of them holding a focus group or anything like that on the kit?

[YateleyRoyal]

No goalkeepers away kit? I assume it won't be dark as that'll clash with the outfield players.

[Maquisard]

mauve keepers?
Not ghey at all

[YateleyRoyal]

Also, no third kit?

[havoc]

You really are an idiot. They give the opportunity for people who can't or don't want to drive/pay through the nose for public transport to go to away games.

lol @ you calling anyone an idiot after your performance on this thread.


and yeah, STAR book a few buses once a fortnight, gr8 work

[havoc]

Also, no third kit?

[Kitson12]

Also, no third kit?

Last season's away kit. HTH

[Sarah Star]

Also, no third kit?

Last season's away kit. HTH

The orange one from last year and the year before that

[No Fixed Abode]

Having looked more closely at the kit, oh dear.

Who at the club, made the decision to go with this design?

The idea is to pick a nice design so the kit so the club shift a lot of units. The club obviously have enough money not to worry about kit sales.

[Sarah Star]

How close did you look and why?

[Dirk Gently]

I raised this point with them a few seasons ago and their view was 'it's too easy to get hijacked' for use of a better term. That other fans could find it hilarious to vote on the worst looking one, which from the look of the last few years has happened anyway.

A fair few clubs do it, then you contact the club via email to decide the favourite. As long as it's not just a tickbox on the website, but email with member numbers and all that jazz, it's really a lot of pointless effort for any wannabe comedians to do to rig the vote.

They could easily do it with a postal vote card to member card holders, or by emai for those that they've got email addresses for. I wouldn't expect them to go 100% with the response, but it might be an idea to do some consultation on it.

Has anyone ever heard of them holding a focus group or anything like that on the kit?

The problem is that if they put 4 kits up to the vote and they got something like 20%, 20% 20% & 40%, of the votes each, the winning one is the one that 60% of the voters didn't want, so the whole process loses credibility. It's only worth doing if one kit gets over 50%, which is only really likely if you have only two selections - which is hardly real choice.

Can anyone see any parallells here with our current elctoral system

[Gobsheik]

It looks like something designed down TKMAX!!!!!!!!! Awful.

[No Fixed Abode]

How close did you look and why?

I looked so I could get a glimpse of Simon Church's todger in the official photshoot

[Sun Tzu]

The annual 'I hate the new kit thread' is on Club Policies isn't it ?

[MmmMonsterMunch]

Rank! Yet another crap home shirt that I won't be buying. Why can't they just stop messing around with it. Last year it was the collar & this year it was the hoops they screwed up.

Does a blind person design these kits or what? Cannot remember the last time I liked the home shirt. Away shirt it is then.

[Forbury Lion]

Where have all the threads gone, this really is changing for changing sake, the new kit is awful.
Problem is there are plenty of mugs out there that buy the shirts year on year, good luck but I won't be ripped off with this unfinished article.

New kits are aimed at those who buy a new one for the sake of it regardless of whether it is awful or not.

However that is a awfull home shirt, worse I've ever seen and absolutely no chance I will ever buy it and I expect some of those who buy regardless will actually have second thoughts this time, particularly as there's a recession on.