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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1320 on: May 19, 2026, 11:14:29 PM »
You haven't, but you do have a username that looks like "andyh", if someone isn't really concentrating.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1321 on: May 19, 2026, 11:14:56 PM »
Wrong uns, bounders and ne'er-do-wells, 2026 edition

chrisw1
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darren woolley
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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1322 on: May 19, 2026, 11:15:34 PM »
Hold on a second, how’s my name down there? Not once have I supported that abomination of a kit - in fact, quite the opposite!

I’m not one of those!

You're the Andrew Malkinson of H&V.

*I did wonder why andyh wasn't on the list.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1323 on: Today at 07:21:06 AM »
Love the lion on the black kit, and the sponsor says "serious club".
Love it.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1324 on: Today at 07:41:48 AM »
Away kit there is lovely. Like the black 3rd kit too. Not keen on the home though.

Still better than the Lerner years when we kept having check patterns on the kits.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1325 on: Today at 07:43:29 AM »
I don't get the fuss over the purity of the home kit, but I don't like pale blue away kits at all.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1326 on: Today at 08:02:30 AM »
I don't get the fuss over the purity of the home kit, but I don't like pale blue away kits at all.
In my lifetime, the prevailing Villa shirt has been claret body and blue sleeves: it's what defined us in my formative years, and the 1969 all-claret shirt was a nasty deviation.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1327 on: Today at 08:38:44 AM »
I've had a look at their website and as per their drivers, Audi are giving no indication.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1328 on: Today at 08:50:09 AM »
The blue square in the middle of the collar ruins it.

Would be OK otherwise.

Still a million miles better than Macron, Under Armour, Kappa, Luke and Castore.

You might be going on the list, but dissing the Luke shirt may save you.

I'm not keen on the new thicker Adidas stripes. Totally unnecessary, like the oversized polo player on Ralph Lauren polo shirts.

I don’t know how anyone can dislike the Luke shirt.
For me it was the beginning of this journey.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1329 on: Today at 08:54:24 AM »
I've had a look at their website and as per their drivers, Audi are giving no indication.
..from next season when we play out from the back, I'm assuming we will be trying the Vorsprung Durch Technique....

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1330 on: Today at 09:59:20 AM »
If our play in anyway matches the drivers of Audi's we'll be worse than Arsenal for being obnoxious twats.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1331 on: Today at 10:17:52 AM »
I don't get the fuss over the purity of the home kit, but I don't like pale blue away kits at all.

I'm not keen on the light blue one either, it's reminiscent of our 2019/20 W88 away shirt.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1332 on: Today at 10:18:32 AM »
I don’t know how anyone can dislike the Luke shirt.
For me it was the beginning of this journey.

I'll DM you.

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1333 on: Today at 10:29:49 AM »
Assuming the mockup of 3 together is correct...

I don't like the home kit but more for the silly neckline than the sleeves, the latter whilst unacceptable for many, is a design choice that I can understand from a 'mix it up a little' stance. The neckline is just ugly.

Like LeeB I have more problems with the 3rd kit which I really dislike.

However that away kit has everything you'd want for it to become an absolute classic, if it is that it will be one of my favourite VVilla kits for a very long time. Proper Adidas badge, standalone lion, excellent sponsor, interesting main colour but with plenty of things to make it a villa shirt mixed in, what's not to like about it?

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Re: Kits 25/26
« Reply #1334 on: Today at 10:33:45 AM »
These were on X last week. I'd prefer it if 'Audi' was in the centre (or better still, just have the four rings).


..apart from the home looking like something you'd play golf in, I really like them..

 


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