Aston Villa Kit 26/27

[PhilVill]

Its ok, the 'clarets' certainly no worse than the Under Armor interpretation, which I hated.

Its a lot of money for what it is, I'll wait for the away top (if it is the black one as leaked).

[Crown Hill]

“We cannot leave the decade without considering a typical piece of audacity from the flamboyant Scot, Tommy Docherty. Having established his reputation as a aston villa 1969successful manager with Chelsea (1961-67) he had a brief spell with Rotherham United (relegated) and an even briefer one with Queen's Park Rangers (resigned after 29 days following a row with the chairman) before being appointed manager of Aston Villa in December 1968. In preparation for the 1969-70 season he introduced a radical redesign of Villa's treasured traditional strip. The contrasting blue sleeves, worn for more than 75 years were dropped and a novel flappy collar with v inset appeared. The claret shirts were now teamed with light blue shorts, the first time ever that such a combination had been tried. To cap it all the familar crest was gone, replaced by a somewhat scrawny lion rampant in light blue above the letters "AV" in an ornate script. Had the season gone well this might have entered the pantheon as a classic strip but in January 1970, Villa were bottom of The Second Division and "The Doc" was sacked. The board immediately made a request to the Football League management committee that they be allowed to switch back to their strip from the previous season, which was granted.”

So it only lasted a few months before fan power changed it!

[cdbearsfan]

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[Des Little]

Fully get that people don't like it, however loads of people wear the Asics 1993, Hummel 1987, Reebok 1999 & Luke shirts, so the club obviously think there's a market for non traditional shirts every few years.

[OzVilla]

And light blue shorts? Surely not.

[eamonn]

No sponsor would be epic. But why would Audi or whoever it is, allow the shirt go on sale without their branding on it? Thousands of sponsorless shirts will be sold this week...

Also, surely Adidas would stick to the same shade of claret from the last two seasons? We finally got the colour right and now we're reverting back to something brighter?

[Ads]

Having the same traditional kit is boring. If you're bleeding parents dry for these, then mixing it up is good.

[SaddVillan]

Not on sale on the website yet, waiting for the sponsor?

I imagine we're trying to negotiate a good deal and that qualification for the Chumps has increased our leverage.

Wonder how many they'd sell in "plain".

Have they had the shirts manufactured and shipped to the UK, ready to be overprinted with the sponsor in the UK?

Can't imagine they're all still at some Chinese/Vietnamese sweatshop ready to be finished off, given the shipping time - 5 weeks on a boat, plus customs and haulage over here = you're looking at a 7 week stretch.

That would take us to early August. Far too late.

The Prem season kicks off on 22 Aug and we'll have friendlies beforehand.



Just read the launch blurb on the club website - on sale from Thursday?

So no sponsor?

[PeterWithesShin]

Fully get that people don't like it, however loads of people wear the Asics 1993, Hummel 1987, Reebok 1999 & Luke shirts, so the club obviously think there's a market for non traditional shirts every few years.

They weren't shirts we were utterly shit while wearing though.

It would be like in 2040 the club do a shirt inspired by the 2015-16 kit.

[Beard82]

Maybe were massive like chelsea and dont need no sponsor.

I quite liked the release video

[Dave]

Looks fine to me.

[cdbearsfan]

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Percy McCarthy
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darren woolley
nigel
Clampy
Stu
LeeS
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eamonn
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andyh
KingstandingVilla
Tuscans
RamboandBruno
Sdwbf
Ads
Jacob Tanswell
Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle
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[Tuscans]

Not on sale on the website yet, waiting for the sponsor?

I imagine we're trying to negotiate a good deal and that qualification for the Chumps has increased our leverage.

Wonder how many they'd sell in "plain".

Have they had the shirts manufactured and shipped to the UK, ready to be overprinted with the sponsor in the UK?

Can't imagine they're all still at some Chinese/Vietnamese sweatshop ready to be finished off, given the shipping time - 5 weeks on a boat, plus customs and haulage over here = you're looking at a 7 week stretch.

That would take us to early August. Far too late.

The Prem season kicks off on 22 Aug and we'll have friendlies beforehand.



Just read the launch blurb on the club website - on sale from Thursday?

So no sponsor?

They can print a sponsor on the shirt at the shop, it's the same procedure. Go on sale in 2 days so I reckon they'll either announce in sponsor within 48 hours or give you an option to have it printed on in the future if they sell them without a sponsor.

[eamonn]

Yes I expected Harry Enfield and baggy-shorted players to follow him around the field in formation while the keeper had a crafty fag, leaning against the post.

[Hillbilly]

Both Burnley and West Ham ditched the sky blue sleeves this past season.

No good can come of this.