2014-15 new kit launch

[Tuscans]

Unless you're close enough to be touching it I think it looks more or less exactly the same. I'll be buying the away.

[PeterWithesShin]

Looks much better in short sleeve. I like the 1874 on the back. I'm easily pleased.

[SteveN]

Not bad with short sleeves, looks like a body warmer with the long sleeves.

[dave.woodhall]

I really don't like stripes... however, it is only tiny pin-stripes. We're still basically the traditional claret shirt, blue sleeves so I'm willing to let that go. Plus they have the correctly coloured shorts and socks.

Seems nice enough to me.

Still hope for something radical with the away kit. Anything with dinosaurs on it.

A stripe is a stripe.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Now available for pre-order here:

http://shop.avfc.co.uk/shop/aston-villa-home-shirt-2014-15-long-sleeve/index.html

Long sleeve football shirts are just wrong

Cobblers!  How else would one effect the super cool Denis Law playing-while-holding-the-cuffs look that made me look so good as a player? Cough.

And I like it. As Mr Nuts says it hasn't got the over-designed look of last year's thingy.

[cdbearsfan]

No. Some stripes are stripier than others. Put it this way, if Newcastle brought out a shirt with those sort of stripes on, there would be uproar. Because it's not a proper stripe. Therefore it is fine for our purposes.

[PaulWinch again]

I like it.

[pauliewalnuts]

The long or short sleeve thing.

It depends what kind of player we're talking about. A creative midfielder along the lines of Sid, for example, should always wear long sleeves. That's because players like that need to have a bit of what I believe the kids call (or called a few years ago) "swagger" about them, and you can't really do that in short sleeves, they need to cover as much of their bony, talented frames as possible, which means long sleeves every time.

Centre halves need to be in short sleeves, partly from a "roll your sleeves up and get stuck in" kind of thing.

re wingers, the point about creative midfielders - "number 10s" as Paul Lambert calls them - also applies to wide players. Think of that Tony Morley goal at Everton in the 80-1 season. Imagine him in short sleeves for that. It just doesn't seem right, does it?

Your traditional big man up front, your Peter Withe absolutely must have short sleeves (in his case for easy access to sweat bands), never long ones. That's because big strikers need to appear to be rugged and hard to handle. You can't do that in long sleeves.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Your traditional big man up front, your Peter Withe absolutely must have short sleeves (in his case for easy access to sweat bands), never long ones. That's because big strikers need to appear to be rugged and hard to handle. You can't do that in long sleeves

Duncan Ferguson was a long-sleeved man

And Heskey.......

[mrfuse]

Looks good to me.

[pauliewalnuts]

And Heskey.......

Ah, the tumbling bear.

[dave.woodhall]

No. Some stripes are stripier than others. Put it this way, if Newcastle brought out a shirt with those sort of stripes on, there would be uproar. Because it's not a proper stripe. Therefore it is fine for our purposes.

Thick or thin it's still a stripe.

[cdbearsfan]

At the risk of over-complicating things, maybe wear short sleeves if it's warm and long sleeves if it's cold?

[Toronto Villa]

Like it. Simple, tidy and they've gone with one collar.

[olaftab]

I like it. Shame it has the  betting  house name on it otherwise I would buy it .