Kits 23/24

[Dogtanian]

As long as not fat stripes, a la 99-2000.

Personally I loved that kit, Carbone hat trick v Leeds.

One of my favourites too.  I think of it as the Merse kit.  I'd love stripes again for a year.

I’ve never known anyone be so wrong as you two! 

[Axl Rose]

Polka dots anyone?

[VILLA MOLE]

As long as not fat stripes, a la 99-2000.

Personally I loved that kit, Carbone hat trick v Leeds.

One of my favourites too.  I think of it as the Merse kit.  I'd love stripes again for a year.

I’ve never known anyone be so wrong as you two! 

I dont mind stripes but they need to be claret and sky blue

[maidstonevillain]

Stripes should be nowhere near a Villa kit, we are not west baggage fkin all bran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_villa_1887.jpg

[chrisw1]

Stripes should be nowhere near a Villa kit, we are not west baggage fkin all bran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_villa_1887.jpg

1887



aquinas institute


1957




1993-95



deerwood country club


1987




1999

[chrisw1]

We all have our opinions, but the occasional change is not selling our souls.

[ChicagoLion]

We all have our opinions, but the occasional change is not selling our souls.

OK Ill relent on the first 2.

[Villan82]

Does any other major club change from its proper kit layout as often as we do?

People say stripes bring us luck? We weren't in stripes for '75, '77, '81, '82 or '96. We were in stripes in '57 because the away kit didn't stand out from Man U's. Yes we won a league cup in '94 but we almost got relegated in that kit the following year. We had a woeful day at Wembley in the 'Barcelona' striped kit of '99-00 and our last (pin) striped effort of 2014-15 saw us get humiliated at Wembley.

I hope it isn't stripes.

[chrisw1]

Does any other major club change from its proper kit layout as often as we do?

People say stripes bring us luck? We weren't in stripes for '75, '77, '81, '82 or '96. We were in stripes in '57 because the away kit didn't stand out from Man U's. Yes we won a league cup in '94 but we almost got relegated in that kit the following year. We had a woeful day at Wembley in the 'Barcelona' striped kit of '99-00 and our last (pin) striped effort of 2014-15 saw us get humiliated at Wembley.

I hope it isn't stripes.

I'm not sure anyone has mentioned luck?

[Brazilian Villain]

Does any other major club change from its proper kit layout as often as we do?

Bayern Munich. they've changed their kits and colours so much over the years I'm not even sure what their 'proper kit' is.

[algy]

Stripes should be nowhere near a Villa kit, we are not west baggage fkin all bran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_villa_1887.jpg

1887



aquinas institute


1957




1993-95



deerwood country club


1987




1999

Argh no, this is what the stripey people keep using and it's such an awful argument IMO.  We've had stripes
(a) before we established a distinctive style of kit (1880s)
(b) Once, as an away kit (1957)
(c) Once, when it wasn't really stripes, more halves, and as a near off-the-peg kit (1987)

Then somehow this has become justification for the kits in 1994 and 1999 that 'sometimes we wear stripes'.  No.  No, we don't wear stripes.  Claret body, blue sleeves.  That's our home kit.


I'm a bit of a wrong un in as much as I don't mind the odd change in style, and it wouldn't particularly bother me if our new kit was different this coming season, as long as it was clearly 1880s inspired version.  But to use a history of stripeyness as justification ... sorry, just no.

[Nii Lamptey]

Hated that Asics kit at the time, but I now look back fondly at that period, so that kit has a special place in my heart.... including the green, black and red nightmare fuelled away number, which I still own, with McGrath #5 adorning the back. 

Whatever the club unveil today, it's going to upset a portion of the fan base. What IS important is what the players DO in it. If they win something wearing it, it will be remembered as a great kit regardless. 

[chrisw1]

I don't think anyone is suggesting a long-term switch to stipes.  But just a few of us wrong 'uns wouldn't mind it as an occasional change.  Appreciate others hate the idea though.

[LeeB]

As the boy Lamptey says, the only thing that matters is what the team do wearing it

[algy]

Hated that Asics kit at the time, but I now look back fondly at that period, so that kit has a special place in my heart.... including the green, black and red nightmare fuelled away number, which I still own, with McGrath #5 adorning the back. 

Whatever the club unveil today, it's going to upset a portion of the fan base. What IS important is what the players DO in it. If they win something wearing it, it will be remembered as a great kit regardless. 

Oh absolutely.  If we win the League & Europa Conference next season, we could be playing in blue shirts, white shorts, blue socks with "Triton Showers" plastered over the middle and a pair of bollocks on the right hand side - it'd be an amazing kit.

Still, it's the internet and football ... so I'm allowed to have strongly held opinions on things one day, then have a separate strongly held opinions that completely contradict them the next.