well, we might as well blame the kit - suprised it took so long with some on here..... :}Burnhamgull wrote:Yellow and White striped shirts = Disastrous season
Chuck in white shorts and you have the ultimate in relegation kits........
I have been blaming the kit all season, IMO it is the worst kit in the entire football league.SuperNickyWroe wrote: well, we might as well blame the kit - suprised it took so long with some on here..... :}
of course the more obvious reason is that we have been sh*t.
I have been blaming the kit all season, IMO it is the worst kit in the entire football league.SuperNickyWroe wrote: well, we might as well blame the kit - suprised it took so long with some on here..... :}
of course the more obvious reason is that we have been sh*t.
Like chunkygull, this was my take on this kit and I thought we would struggle - but never did I dream it would be this bad.hector wrote: I always liked the yellow and white stripes because it was unique. Matchwinner were the original suppliers back in '91 and it was a revolutionary take on our colours. (It was partner by a purple away kit, identical in design to one sported by Notts County) It is often linked with our promotion play-off victory at Wembley against Blackpool but sadly, what followed was a dreadful season, in what is now League 1, where Impey was sacked early on (but too late in my view), Wes Saunders was caretaker for most of the season and then Ivan Golac took over when we were virtually already down. The season after, in the same kit, we nearly went down again, with the even worse Paul Compton as manager, until Neil Warnock saved the day.
It was a unique design but was scrapped in favour of the yellow and blue (with white) hoops that we wore the season we lost to Preston in the play-offs. In fact Don O'Riordan had built a decent team on the cheap, with Goodridge, Buckle, Trollope et al. This kit was also supplied by matchwinner.
A range of templates and designs were used until around 2000 when Superleague were kit suppliers and the re-introduced the yellow and white stripes in an identical template to the previous version. I remember away to Exeter we wore white shorts with it and I liked that and it linked back to my time starting to watch Torquay (late 70s) when we wore white, with yellow and a bit of blue.
As Farmer states, there was a Save Our Stripes campaign, when the kit was up for renewal, as fans liked the fact the kit was unique. However, the kit was worn during one decent season when we finished about 9th and then the year of Barnet when we early went down. So for 3 of the 4 years we have worn that design, it has been for teams fighting against relegation. The superstitious part of me thinks we are due a relegation struggle anyway and this kit might just confirm it. Also, both times we have had it before seem to be linked to Wes Saunders. He was captain and caretaker manager the first time and then manager the 2nd time. Lets hope a 3rd time does not see a 3rd coming!!
The Save Our Stripes campaign was unsuccessful and Mike Bateson actually told me that the reason he did not keep the stripes was that unless the new design was 'different' people would be less likely to buy it. The inference being that another kit with stripes, would be too similar to the previous one and as such people would wear the old one. In fact there was some truth in this, as you did see a revival of people wearing the 1991 kit instead of buying the 2000 version as the designs were virtually identical. Yet other teams who wear stripes, eg Exeter, don't radically alter the kit each year, so there is a precedent for the use of stripes and persisting with them. However, there is little point having a striped kit for two years and then going back to, say, all yellow. I hate the way lower league teams don't respect tradition in the same way clubs like Arsenal, Blackburn, Newcastle do. You can play around with designs but keep the basic design the same.
My main gripe with the choice of G is that it appears to be the exact same template as 1991 and 2000. Why not have a modern update of the yellow and white stripes? It doesn't have to be a 90s style collar. It doesn't even have to have a collar. G looks dated. I have no problem with stripes, I always liked them, but I do have a problem with a kit that looks - not retro and cool - but simply old-fashioned and out of date.
It usually works on a two year cycle, so we'll be keeping our home shirt and changing our away.tufcbrett wrote:Does anyone know if our current home shirt we had voted for is still with us next season or we getting a new one this summer? Is it a new shirt new shirt new league or we sticking with the unlucky stripes.
...although we have changed our away kit during this season as well...the light blue one seemed to appear for the first time around Christmas. Incidentally, I have seen in it Sports Direct, Exeter for less than £25, so I wonder if they are changing them again. I will be annoyed if they do after buying this season's kits.yellowforever wrote: It usually works on a two year cycle, so we'll be keeping our home shirt and changing our away.
The light blue one is actually the clubs 3rd kithector wrote: ...although we have changed our away kit during this season as well...the light blue one seemed to appear for the first time around Christmas. Incidentally, I have seen in it Sports Direct, Exeter for less than £25, so I wonder if they are changing them again. I will be annoyed if they do after buying this season's kits.
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