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I like yellow and blue kits. Personally, I like a darker, richer yellow and royal blue. I was as embarrassed as anything with the pastel, all-yellow kit we played in against Bolton at Wembley, very feminine, especially on the skinnier players!

Mind, this season's kit is a real 70s throwback!

Cheers

Bruce

i clearly remember our nickname in the 70's being the GoldenBlues. Thats seems a decent enough Nickname to me and brings back a host of memories

[quote="goldenblue"]Gold and Blue were adopted as the club colours to reflect the Golden beaches and Blue skies of Torquay, to my knowledge this has never been changed.[/quote]



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Gold and Blue were adopted as the club colours to reflect the Golden beaches and Blue skies of Torquay, to my knowledge this has never been changed.

Good luck Gull you mentioned a purple kit, If I remember we had the 2nd or third kit in purple back in the mid nineties.

Ps Remember Duane Darby wearing it with a dodgy movember!

I remember the change from black and white to gold and blue very well. As the excellent kit website says, the new synthetic material resembled silk and looked extremely gaudy. It did not go down at all well with supporters. At its first home outing the crowd (we used to get 7,500 - 8,000 in those days) greeted it with somewhat stunned silence, then there was a buzz around the ground as everyone discussed it with each other. Part of the trouble was that although it looked acceptable on beefier players who filled it out (eg Ted Calland), on the more diminutive forms of people like Graham Bond the shirt billowed out like a blouse. Obviously the club could only afford a limited range of sizes! Many people felt it looked "un-English" and resented the change. (Bear in mind that the England colours in those days were black and white.) I recall chatting to the then goalkeeper, Eric Gill, about it some time later and he said he was very glad to be a goalie! In those days, of course, [b]all[/b] goalkeepers wore green.

Still on the subject of club colours but slightly off at a tangent. Does anyone know why we wore white socks with our yellow shirts and shorts at Crewe last saturday? Whats wrong with the yellow ones?

I have wished for a purple away kit for some years now. Purple is the opposite colour to yellow in the colour spectrum and I just love the way Devonians say the word "purple"

[quote="royalgull"]my favourite away kit of recent times was our black and white striped kit. Would love to see a return of that.[/quote]

I second that, I loved that kit. The Yellow and Blue is now the colours of TUFC, but as Royal said I would love to see another away black and white kit.

I too enjoyed the link thanx

Personally I would welcome a return to the old yellow and white stripes we used to wear. I think i'm right in thinking that at the time we were the only club in the world to play in yellow and white stripes.

Whats the badge on the shirts from 1978 til 1984. Never seen it before in my life, look quite cool. Well looks more intresting than the one now. Even though we had this badge since 1986, i do feel we could do with a new updated one. A lot of clubs have changed them recently and i prefer them.

Thanks for the interesting and illuminating link. Of all the club kits, I think the simplest are the most effective, but I'd like to see yellow with a golden hue, adds a touch of class! And perhaps a Darth Vader away strip would have a more negative effect on the opposition!

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Interesting link that explaining the various crests used. Always thought our recent is very similar to Motorola :)

-Eirik-[/quote]

It's the same and I heavily doubt Motorola were formed pre 1899. Should sue them for everything they've got. Lets be honest no one would miss Motorola anymore, either that or I reckon we should get a new badge or revert back to the one used albeit briefly in the 70's. Our badge is a bit naff tell the truth.

my favourite away kit of recent times was our black and white striped kit. Would love to see a return of that.