Under Armour

[in exile]

...Id wear both at home and to gym.

Lah-de-dah

[Smirker]

I personally don't understand the obsession with blue sleeves.  For me so long as Claret is the main colour on the body and there's a decent amount of blue in there then I'm ok with it.  Tradition is important but I think sometimes football fans get hung up on traditions and refuse to consider any changes.

I agree mate. What people don't realise is there is nothing you can do with a kit for the most part if you can't change the design about a bit. If you change it too much people mention tradition. If you stick to the template it looks no different to last year.

[edgysatsuma89]

I personally don't understand the obsession with blue sleeves.  For me so long as Claret is the main colour on the body and there's a decent amount of blue in there then I'm ok with it.  Tradition is important but I think sometimes football fans get hung up on traditions and refuse to consider any changes.

I agree mate. What people don't realise is there is nothing you can do with a kit for the most part if you can't change the design about a bit. If you change it too much people mention tradition. If you stick to the template it looks no different to last year.

I agree. For those that buy the shirt every season I would want something different. You may as well just buy one shirt a decade otherwise. I rarely buy it but when I do I pretty much always buy the away shirt because it's different. Also we don't always have just blue sleeves, it's not like a complete anomaly. Admittedly since the 20th century it's something like a bit under 8-10% of the time we've had something other than completely blue sleeves. Rises to around the 20% mark if I remember correctly if you go back to the start. So it isn't a completely new thing.

P.S. I remember roughly figuring it out from looking at the historical kits website a couple of years ago. I obviously had nothing better to do. I'm think that's roughly what it was anyway, eitherway check the site out. I like it.

[FatSam]

For me it's about wanting some surety about what we stand for and who we are - what our identity is. It's all wrapped up with wanting the players, managers, and even administrators who represent us to have the right principles. Of course you can say that what the kit looks like doesn't affect this, but I just think it does. I appreciate its extreme, but I see us at one end of the scale, and MK Dons at the other. Also for me it's ultimately more important than being fantastically successful. Of course I want success, but I don't want it at any price, or in a kit that I don't recognise.

[mattjpa]

Well either way, those kits were designed by someone on villatalk so will not be the kit next year, Ive even seen the same design with the old badge on it. So all the blue sleeve old fart brigade can go back to grumbling about the weather now

[ChicagoLion]

Every time they redesign the kit it just gets a little bit worse.
Vill play in claret shirts with light blue sleeves and anything else does not look like a Villa shirt.

[FatSam]

Well either way, those kits were designed by someone on villatalk so will not be the kit next year, Ive even seen the same design with the old badge on it. So all the blue sleeve old fart brigade can go back to grumbling about the weather now

Nothing passes the time like complaining about something that hasn't happened yet!

[chrisw1]

I personally don't understand the obsession with blue sleeves.  For me so long as Claret is the main colour on the body and there's a decent amount of blue in there then I'm ok with it.  Tradition is important but I think sometimes football fans get hung up on traditions and refuse to consider any changes.

I agree mate. What people don't realise is there is nothing you can do with a kit for the most part if you can't change the design about a bit. If you change it too much people mention tradition. If you stick to the template it looks no different to last year.

I love tradition and generally would want a long term theme of claret body and blue sleeves.  But this has by no means always been the way and I would also like an occaisional change.  In particular I love the 1957 FA cup final shirt and think that would be great as a one off.

[Ian.]

Yep, the '57 kit is a classic. I love it too.

[ChicagoLion]

Yep, the '57 kit is a classic. I love it too.

yes me too.

[Chico Hamilton III]

The '57 kit was our away kit

[Ian.]

Was it? I never knew that.

[darren woolley]

Hello Chico I also never knew that.

[chrisw1]

The '57 kit was our away kit

I'm no kit historian an will bow to greater knowledge on this, but this site suggests it was a one off, albeit there was one with broader stripes in 55-57
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa-change-kits.html

Either way, I think it would make a great one off home kit.

[ChicagoLion]

We have had some shocking away kits in recent times.