Kits 23/24

[pauliewalnuts]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

[Risso]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

Agree entirely. Adidas is surely the really obvious choice with Nas's connection there.

[Ian.]

I’d have to agree with that too. Although I do like Hummel.

[itbrvilla]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

When we had Nike they didn't really give a shit.  Kit sales delayed every season. Give me anyone that does a nice kit and at minimum gets the colours right.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Our Hummel kits were great but I seem to remember that there were never any available to buy until a good few months into the new season. You could probably say the same about most of the kits we’ve had though.

[pauliewalnuts]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

When we had Nike they didn't really give a shit.  Kit sales delayed every season. Give me anyone that does a nice kit and at minimum gets the colours right.

We've never managed to replace them with anyone who could get kits on shelves at the same time as other clubs manager. Nike weren't perfect, but they made the nicest kits we've had in the last 20 years.

I don't ever buy them myself, but I understand why people get emotional about them, and I would rather we had a prestige manufacturer instead of the sort of shite the likes of Albion would wear.

Also, we've got stuck into Heck for his failings on the badge and the ground, this is another massive part of his objectives - sort the kit deal out, so let's see what he manages.

[VILLA MOLE]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

Agree entirely. Adidas is surely the really obvious choice with Nas's connection there.

Please dont let us look like Spam

[Bad English]

Please not Macron. I get all sorts of comments when that is plastered on my tat.

[algy]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

When we had Nike they didn't really give a shit.  Kit sales delayed every season. Give me anyone that does a nice kit and at minimum gets the colours right.

We've never managed to replace them with anyone who could get kits on shelves at the same time as other clubs manager. Nike weren't perfect, but they made the nicest kits we've had in the last 20 years.

I don't ever buy them myself, but I understand why people get emotional about them, and I would rather we had a prestige manufacturer instead of the sort of shite the likes of Albion would wear.

Also, we've got stuck into Heck for his failings on the badge and the ground, this is another massive part of his objectives - sort the kit deal out, so let's see what he manages.

One of the things I'd thought after Heck's first (?) interview was that you have to market a team as a 'premium brand', at least to people from other countries.  I mean, we'll obviously support Villa regardless ... but nobody in the US or wherever is buying an Aston Villa shirt if it's made by some non-entity company they've never heard of.

You don't really want to be giving off the impression that you're some kind of Mickey Mouse outfit who'd be ecstatic if they were considered the biggest club within a 5-10 mile radius of their own ground.  Like the Albion, for example.  You need a proper kit manufacturer who people have heard of.

[pauliewalnuts]

We need to start with the geographical area in which we attract a lot of support.

I live 30 miles from the centre of Birmingham, and you hardly ever see Villa shirts in the shops around here. All sorts of other dross clubs, but never Villa, despite there being a lot of Villa support around here.

[PeterWithe]

One of the things I'd thought after Heck's first (?) interview was that you have to market a team as a 'premium brand', at least to people from other countries.  I mean, we'll obviously support Villa regardless ... but nobody in the US or wherever is buying an Aston Villa shirt if it's made by some non-entity company they've never heard of.

Isn't all the globally bought NBA, NFL etc stuff unbranded?

[Bad English]

£16.50 per hour plus Luncheon Vouchers by the looks of it.

[Brazilian Villain]

Would this be Heck's doing?

It better be, he needs some credit after all the debits. However if it's Hummel, I'll drive him to the airport myself.

[Smithy]

I hope it's not Gymshark. I think they're a great brand and local company and it's brilliant to see them doing well, but after previous experience with the likes of Castore, Macron etc, I'd rather we just had someone with existing prestige in the game and years of experience of designing, making - and, for a change, making available to buy - football shirts.

Agree entirely. Adidas is surely the really obvious choice with Nas's connection there.

I'd be disappointed if it WASN'T Adidas at this point.  Given the creative lengths the other wealthy clubs will go to get money into their clubs, with massive sponsorship deals from companies they own outright, I'd like to think the ability to get a decent deal from Adidas should be a forgone conclusion - particularly given our upward trajectory in the last 12 months.

[Ads]

We need to start with the geographical area in which we attract a lot of support.

I live 30 miles from the centre of Birmingham, and you hardly ever see Villa shirts in the shops around here. All sorts of other dross clubs, but never Villa, despite there being a lot of Villa support around here.

Villa shirts in Liverpool One's Sports Direct. Makes me proud.