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[geordiedean]

Just before my time those ones I think. Only started supporting Sunderland around '95.

Just before your time???

Try 10 years before

 

[samaistonsrightfoot]

I just can't understand why so many are wound up about it. We seem to wallow in a shallow pool of negativity.

Perhaps it stems from the club itself but it's also evident in the City of Sunderland imo. Nothing's good enough, and the high priority issues take second fiddle to petty stuff like this. The hysterics over a few stripes is quite amazing.

I wonder if the reaction would be different if we had a better team. Perhaps not. It just seems that anything is turned into a negative at the moment.

Think it's just the outcome of a culmination of fuck ups by the club. People are desperate for just a glimmer of positivity but even the unveiling/design of a kit feels like too much of a task for them to get right

The club are so out of touch with the fans it's unbelievable

 

[gipetto]

Have you ever visited Portland, Oregon?


We're you around for the Le Coq Sportif pinstripes?

This is the first home shirt that is anything majorly different since the first Avec one which was also way worse.

I thought the pinstripe one was very good. Agreed, the Avec one wasn't the best. The stitched on logo was awful.

 

[Themig]

I don't mind it from the front, the back is vom

 

[ReaL Madras]

You forgot the socks. We've reverted back to the black socks that were synonymous with the 105 point championship winning season as well as the two seasons we finished in the top 7 under Reid.

Whoever selected the strip knows the score.

Were you involved in this strip selection?

 

[gipetto]

Think it's just the outcome of a culmination of fuck ups by the club. People are desperate for just a glimmer of positivity but even the unveiling/design of a kit feels like too much of a task for them to get right

The club are so out of touch with the fans it's unbelievable

Perhaps they are in many cases but sometimes fans need to be led. If some of our fans had their way we'd have had the same blue away top every year since Rowell wore it.

 

[Mowgli]

The black around the badge is horrendous

 

[Bladecat]

Rumour has it that the new run out song at the SoL is the theme from Bullseye !!

Let's 'ave a look at what you could have won

 

[gipetto]

Were you involved in this strip selection?

No. If I was I'd have selected one of the mock ups from on here. However I have been advocating a similar design to the Milan strip from a few years ago. This is quite similar but they had stripes running down the back.

 

[samaistonsrightfoot]

The black around the badge is horrendous

This for me. I can deal with the thinner stripes and the red back (would have preferred a red panel where the names go like the older World Cup Nike kits instead of the full back) but that black around the badge is vile, especially as they've surrounded dafabet (which is already black) with white

Just looks like a f***ing splodge that photoshop does when you try and use the built in software to bold text instead of using a bold font

 

[SAFC11]

That is dreadful like. I used to take the piss of the mags for doing the same.

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Stripes with a square panel would have been better (still not right but better than a whole red back)

 

[samaistonsrightfoot]

Perhaps they are in many cases but sometimes fans need to be led. If some of our fans had their way we'd have had the same blue away top every year since Rowell wore it.

I'd just like to see a supporter forum used to test kit designs. The club will have known the thin stripes alone wouldn't go down well, never mind coupled with a blank back but they've chosen to use it and release it at the worst time possible. It comes across as a kick in the bollox by a board who seems to already be systematically f***ing over the fans any chance they get

 

[Lewberry pie]

I like it personally

 

[theinediblebulk]

Imagine the uproar when we changed to thicker stripes. Oh aye there won't have been one as blokes back then had better things to be complaining about.

We started in this.

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Went to this four years later.

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They were f***ing livid, riots in the ship yards I heard.

 

[Roy Cropper]

Save yersel 50 quid

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[Maximus]

That is dreadful like. I used to take the piss of the mags for doing the same.

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We took the piss out of them for being relegated as well. There's a moral in there somewhere.

In fairness, I don't think the shirt is as bad as other people seem to. It's certainly a lot different but after the last few kits and barely any change, at least it seems we will be getting more for the money. The club shop today confirmed a few things for those interested. There will be away and third strips, and the sizing is different with chest sized increased by 2in - i.e. Medium is now 40-42in as opposed to 38-40 previous. They are however more of a "slim fit".

 

[kwillhen]

It's definitely the worst in my lifetime!

You must be 12 then

 

[gipetto]

I'd just like to see a supporter forum used to test kit designs. The club will have known the thin stripes alone wouldn't go down well, never mind coupled with a blank back but they've chosen to use it and release it at the worst time possible. It comes across as a kick in the bollox by a board who seems to already be systematically f***ing over the fans any chance they get

It would be a good idea but there'll be a reason why the don't and it'll have something to do with adidas I'll bet.

Kick in the bollocks? Ha'way mate, it's a strip. People disagree with designs all the time. That's the beauty about opinions.

 

[brains]

Just before your time???

Try 10 years before

I was born in '86 so the strip was just before my lifetime. It was Hummel then AVEC when I was a kid.

 

[Smartie]

s'pose I'll get used to it. Not against the thinner stripes. The red back spoils it for me.