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The back is dreadful. All this shit that it has to be a block of one colour. Easy option is if you don't like it don't buy it. SAFC will soon get the message.
 
gipetto said:
I think you're looking too much into it mate. It's two local teams playing at Ashbrooke. They've used it as a showpiece to release our new strip. It's different and has a community feel about it.

As you say, we don't know which players will be here this season so it wouldn't make sense seeing Defoe, Borini and Khazri trotting around in it. It would only help but further antagonise the fans.

I'm not pleased with our situation, but it seems the club can't do anything without being criticised at the moment. The way some have reacted to the strip is crazy.



Real Madrid and Juventus have both had pink strips mate. Their fans won't have gone on like absolute twonks about it I'll bet.



Some like the strip. I doing unsually buy one but I think I will this time just for knocking about in around the house/having a kickabout.
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To me, it feels like they've been given this design by Adidas and have known the fans will hate it so they have sat in a room for a day trying to think of a way they can promote it. So during a period of heightened supporter unrest they've tried to create drama and suspense by posting snippet videos over a number of days and came up with a slogan to push it but like everything else, they have handled it wrong. At a time where fans are only wanting a manager in and some sort of insight into what the clubs intentions are this season, they are making a massive song and dance over a new kit.

All they have managed to do is create more pressure (with the inability to even manage to have one player model it) with a patronising slogan and a marketing campaign using a sunday league side as a direct focus to our future.

In other circumstances I wouldn't have an issue with using a sunday league side (not with that slogan) for the release of a kit, but at a time when we have no players and no idea what the club plans to achieve this season, its a piss take made even worse by the fact we don't even have enough certainty to even use one player in it
 
Noiser said:
Spot on mate.

People are looking way too much into this.

Our usual launch over recent years has been a very slight variation on the previous years strip, stuck up on the website and available in the club shops from xxx date.

Like this years or not, some thought has gone into it. The launch at Ashbrooke is different and fair play for getting local lads involved, I bet they're buzzing to be involved and I'd hate nothing more than someone like Rodwell's smiling chops modelling it knowing he has let us down massively this season and will be picking up 70k a week in the championship. The players who have done well this year are likely to leave, so the club can't win either way and have gone for a different approach.

As I said before, in 10 - 15 yrs time I would bet that people will remember this strip more than the past 5 yrs, or even the last 10 since we came back up really, none have really stood out and have typically been the standard design for whichever supplier we have used. I am more likely to buy this one compared to them and even if you don't like it, its only a strip man FFS :lol: if people are so pissed off about it, my advice would be to get off the internet and don't let it spoil your sunday.
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The only reason this shirt wil be remembered is because it is that bad. Change the sponser to Lever and it is a shit Sheffield United top.
 
samaistonsrightfoot said:
To me, it feels like they've been given this design by Adidas and have known the fans will hate it so they have sat in a room for a day trying to think of a way they can promote it. So during a period of heightened supporter unrest they've tried to create drama and suspense by posting snippet videos over a number of days and came up with a slogan to push it but like everything else, they have handled it wrong. At a time where fans are only wanting a manager in and some sort of insight into what the clubs intentions are this season, they are making a massive song and dance over a new kit.

All they have managed to do is create more pressure (with the inability to even manage to have one player model it) with a patronising slogan and a marketing campaign using a sunday league side as a direct focus to our future.

In other circumstances I wouldn't have an issue with using a sunday league side (not with that slogan) for the release of a kit, but at a time when we have no players and no idea what the club plans to achieve this season, its a piss take made even worse by the fact we don't even have enough certainty to even use one player in it
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I can't see that being the case. Plus a lot actually like the strip from what I've read.

I'm pretty sure adidas present a number of designs and the club select their favourite.

Personally I'm not bothered about the slogan. I think a shirt sells itself. Some will buy it regardless, others will buy it because it's different. I'll bet you find the majority of fans complaining about it wouldn't have bought the strip had they liked it. They just enjoy complaining because it's their default mode.
 
riffraff said:
It is.
No mono bloc shirt back thus no tv exposure thus no tv money. It astounds me that posters are obsessed to the far end of a fart degree with various aspects of 21st century football but aren't aware of the basic stuff.
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Thought so, thanks for clarifying.

Do you have a link mate?
 
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