Our new kits for Euro 2016.
Our new kits for Euro 2016.
They look about twenty years out of date.
@CJay, that's some collar. Nice though.
Those are surprisingly crap from Errea, Amigo.
They made some great kits for us: (Warning: huge images)
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Do Brighton have a proper sponsor now? Football is shit.
@Giggles yeah it's massive. Not a huge fan of it.
I hope that picture on the right is the numbers on the back or it's going to be some mess.
It's definitely the back with a number 10.
Why on earth of England leaving it so late it release their kit...?
Late? The Euros are still months away.
No shit. You would have thought, however, that they would allow a bit of time for fans to buy the kit. Most (all except France, perhaps) have already released them.
It'll come out soon, and they'll have months to buy it before the Euros. It's a weird thing to take issue with.
It was more of a passing comment. I'll get over it.
Vancouver away wins for me.
They're quite a tidy bunch on the whole.
We have a special edition kit just for the two friendlies over Easter weekend. The UVF aren't happy about it. Just lol.
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/bel...6-rising/68009
I'd like it if you could all take a moment to look at the Columbus Crew away jersey on that link above. It's really something.
RSL have nice kits this year.
Meh. Had worse though.
http://www.balls.ie/football/ireland...and-its/326398
Won't this just look just the same as their home shirt on TV?
Their home shirt has blue and red stripes mate.
Unless I'm massively misreading sarcasm, what worries me most is that guy calling it a must-have and even setting aside a dislike for a club because of a purple shirt.
He should just get a Fiorentina shirt.
These were on The Sport Bible, so hopefully they're as far from the truth as everything on there.
Kit design doesn't really exist anymore, does it? Nike and Adidas both just create simple templates and roll it out in different colours.
Bring back the early 90's, I say.
Macron getting bigger might change things up - since landing the SRU contract they've given Glasgow and Edinburgh some cracking designs with unique touches around heritage and make up of the club/cities. Their latest Scotland shirt was a fan design competition too. Very 90's touch, that.
Perhaps though if they grow (as they're looking to do with some bi contracts signed in the last month) they'll also lose touch with that personalisation.
Adidas and Nike have always just done templates with slight tweaking. Look at your own first post in this thread for an example of that.
Your example of Nike having "..always done" this is kits also released this year
In the 90's kits from team to team were way different, at least that's how I remember it.
Sorry, second post then.
Ah, got you. Still, I reckon those USSR/Netherlands were the exception, rather than the rule.
It could be rose tinted specs, of course.
Have a look at a selection of Euro 96 kits for example:
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Rose tinted glasses then
There were definitely more distinct designs, but it's just because there was a greater variety of manufacturers rather than any change in approach from the big ones.
Here's the full set of kits from Euro 96:
I think that's 9 different manufacturers, so only Adidas appear more than twice. The likes of Umbro did seem to have very different designs for each team - maybe why they didn't make much money - while Puma look surprisingly lazy.
That Scotland kit was a disgrace.
No way, I'd have that Scotland one in a football kit hall of fame. Still regret not getting it at the time and getting that grey England one.
I still subconsciously judge European national teams based whether or not they made Euro 96. In my mind, Sweden are upstart impostors for example, but Romania's rightful place is qualification for every tournament.
I do exactly the same, I suppose it was my real watershed moment for international football as USA 94 being subject to time zone issues and Scotland and England not making it meaning that it wasn't such a big event and 92 was just a little too early.
Edit- also, see mid nineties Champions League - I think of Ferencvaros in 'big club' terms.
That's probably overstating it on reflection, Scotland actually do pretty well among national teams for unusual kits.
This one sure to divide opinion:
I hated this one at the time but it grew on me since
That looks as much like a rugby kit as mine looks like a goalkeepers.
Scotland's recent kits have been very good too, current away not withstanding. Pity they'll be lost to the ages with no major tournament nostalgia for anybody to attach to them.
I still have that Germany '96 one.
They don't really do bad ones, do they?
Lots of identikits in the 90s too:
Kalusha and Biyik.
Did Scotland have a home kit with this same collar?
My first football shirt was Scotland and I swear it was that but I can't find anything.
Love that 96 England kit. You can always rely on Croatia as well.
Kits were definitely more interesting back in the 90s, early 2000s. The worst case nowadays for identikit designs are Football League teams - e.g. our Nike kit being exactly the same as you can buy for your Sunday league team.