[Archived] The 2009/10 Football Kit Thread

[texasrover]

i doubt very much that it is the new kit. not only is the collar horrifyingly dated, but it is completely different than the (already released and OFFICIAL) away kit's collar. Umbro, and really all of the major manufacturers for that matter, are extremely meticulous and do a good job of having continuity within the kits. This is important not only from a design standpoint, but from a player/coach's too. Silly little things like playing one week in a kit that feels completely different to the one that you play in on another week is all very important to the psychological aspects of a player, and those who study them for a living. Believe it or not, it could easily have the same effect as playing in different boots every week. So if i had to guess..... this coming seasons will be blue and white. with a very similar collar to that of the away kit.

[unluckymorton]

If that is genuine then it's a half blue/half white shirt with a club badge and sponsor's logo on the front. What were you all expecting?

I love this messageboard. So many people who'll moan at the drop of a hat!

Good speech Simon, Rovers just can't win.

Surely all we ask for is a blue and whit halved kit? How bad can it be? I like the bit of red, it's looking a bit more like the kit of the '80's.

The kit would look for better with Tugay in it next season....

[Eddie]

Well I would say all we can ask for is a blue and white kit and then not a big black box of a sponsor. Make the sponsor's badge look relatively nice and you've hit all the basics. If that is the true kit then I just don't understand why it has to be done like that? It isn't like that on the away kit, where it looks much nicer.

It makes our kit look amateurish. A bad photoshop or something a school team might put together with the local grocery store throwing in a few hundred to pay for the kit and getting their name on the front.

Beyond that, I'd also hoped we'd get one of the classic looking kits and get a true collar back and go down the England/City route that umbro have been using. Obviously not a huge problem that we haven't, but the sponsor is a huge shame.

[Mc Love]

Would it not be too much to ask to have red lettering on the front with Crown written in it?

[super_arran]

i doubt very much that it is the new kit. not only is the collar horrifyingly dated, but it is completely different than the (already released and OFFICIAL) away kit's collar. Umbro, and really all of the major manufacturers for that matter, are extremely meticulous and do a good job of having continuity within the kits. This is important not only from a design standpoint, but from a player/coach's too. Silly little things like playing one week in a kit that feels completely different to the one that you play in on another week is all very important to the psychological aspects of a player, and those who study them for a living. Believe it or not, it could easily have the same effect as playing in different boots every week. So if i had to guess..... this coming seasons will be blue and white. with a very similar collar to that of the away kit.

look at the new sunderland home and west ham away....same collar as our "new home shirt"

[mattym]

This site has lots of different views of the new kit, it doesnt look photoshopped to me from this evidence.

http://www.soccer.com/IWCatProductPage.pro...oduct_Id=496231

[Mc Love]

Another few pics:

[Mc Love]

Groobs just banned me from Official boards

Anyone posting pictures of kits will receive a fortnight's ban, these items are copyright and the club cannot be seen to be in breach of such.

Would have been nice to get a warning

[Cocker]

Looks like I can save my pennies for another year then

[Tom]

The watermark effect behind the badge isnt too bad and I like the back of the shirt with the halves going onto the sleeves I just wish they had used that style on the front as well.

Not sure yet

[Hughesy]

The sponsor bit in the middle isnt the clubs doing - the sponsor itself gets a big say in how it is promoted on the shirt - hence why they pay us a tidy sum. So Crown are to blame for the big black patch, not the club.

Very similar - although the red adds a nice touch to the new shirt

[Ninjathunder]

It could have been worse, but not impressed with the collar. What I'm less impressed with is the annual rotation of home kits, whilst lacking the value for money that we were getting when kits were originally changed each season i.e. shirts at £25 each meant I was more likely to spend £50 on one each, whereas I see £40 for one as representing such poor value for one season's wear that I don't bother at all with the home kit.

[Stuart]

The sponsor bit in the middle isnt the clubs doing - the sponsor itself gets a big say in how it is promoted on the shirt - hence why they pay us a tidy sum. So Crown are to blame for the big black patch, not the club.

Very similar - although the red adds a nice touch to the new shirt

I got into a conversation with a Crown employee who was defending this logo (Wigan fan, by the way). I was saying how it looked pap and really needed to be another colour than black ("Black's not a colour - it's a shade") and certainly get rid of the black box.

He was defending the choice of black as being the anti-thesis of the colours Crown offer - seemed a stupid argument to me. It seems to me that we have got the corporate logo rather than the brand logo, anyway.

And what's wrong with them using a stencilled effect, e.g.

Doesn't necessarily have to be green either, although that would probably work better than the current version...!

[RevidgeBlue]

The blue logo above surely wouldn't look right on a blue and white halved shirt.

And a stencilled effect wouldn't show up on the halved shirt would it?

[Hughesy]

Il be getting one. My shirt from last season was signed by the whole squad at the awards evening so that one is soon to go up on my wall.

[Amo]

Baah. Looks like it's gonna be a shoddy year for us kit-wise. What with the half-baked away kit, and now this effort...

[Hughesy]

The away kit is quite smart, and doesnt appear to of done badly sale wise - iv seen many of those about!

[Amo]

Commercial success doesn't necessarily mean value for money.

Designing a white kit (and not a very stylish one at that) whilst incorporating the other two colours of our home shirt was ridiculous.

[eddiewac]

I think I like it, looks better on the photo where it looks like someone is wearing it, love the watermark effect!

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

The home shirt does look slightly retro to me with the v-neck,also is the shade of blue slighty darker?

[ni_rover]

The home shirt never really changes much so I normally buy the away one. I bought the new away one at West Brom game. I love it.

[RibbleValleyRover]

Looks like i won't be buying either of the kits this year.

[ni_rover]

Whys that then?

[67splitscreen]

As i have said previously, some agree some don't, the patch in black is shoite.

Here is a link to all the club shirts from day one.

Many of the shirts from the days of perspex had no patch, some had the patch in white, some started with no patch and then had a patch added the following season.

As for crown Liverpool never had a patch, I do accept it is much more visible on a single colour shirt, as our new away kit.

To me it's all about the colour of the logo.

I'm pretty sure with a bit of thought an amicable design could have been achieved, maybe it was with crown and the club.

I think what really puts me off the patch as a background is it reminds me of back of the old rugby shirts.

Strips.

[ni_rover]

Nice one. There has been a fair alot of changes through the years. I personally loved the Premier League winning one cause it was genuinely a lovely top. Have any of yous any favourites? Why did we have a light blue/white one randonly from 90-92?