jimharri
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The shirts we had in the late 80s/early 90s had a navy collar on them;
The collars look black there, but I had the top one and it was definitely dark blue!
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2016/17 Home Kit Blue Shorts are back
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The collars look black there, but I had the top one and it was definitely dark blue!
The shirts we had in the late 80s/early 90s had a navy collar on them;
The collars look black there, but I had the top one and it was definitely dark blue!
It worked with these shirts because they were smart and the rest of the kit was as it should be.
In 12/13, the blue was faded, the collar and sleeves were black & the fucking badge was black and white.
In 14/15 we had an all blue kit with navy collar and sleeves, it just didn't work, mostly because of the complete lack of white. The one occasion last season where we wore white shorts, away at CSKA, actually enhanced the kit but that was it.
And as for Higor Douglas suggesting black shorts, hang your head in shame!!
CitizenTID
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Yeah these were the ones I had in mind. It'd be a nice change to that style as long as they don't fuck it up as @Seosa has pointed out - suppose they have to make the shirt different enough each season to drive sales. I still wouldn't have that red/burgundy (all red) away kit though - hopefully it's red and black stripes.The shirts we had in the late 80s/early 90s had a navy collar on them;
The collars look black there, but I had the top one and it was definitely dark blue!
Daren James
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Agree with you that the majority should be listened to in the main but the minority shouldn't keep quiet. We'd all be United fans if we were all sheep :P
Iamthemusicman
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What happened to freedom of speech?
In Nike's thinking, to sell a kit every fan, every year (each fan is a potential customer target) is that no fan will buy the same, identical kit year after year. So ever kit has to be changed each year to a degree.
Fan's thinking is that the kit should be one way and never messed with.
So, ifyou go for the fans wishes, then Nike suffers with their sale objective and jeopardise a bigger kit deal in the future. If you go with Nike's wishes the fans suffer. Yet fans moan they are are lacking behind with the top kit deals and deserve a better one, Nike wont do that if they have their hands tied behind their backs by the fans.
some will moan that United , Liverpool, Chelsea, Madrid, Barca etc etc dont have that problem and regain their iconic kits .... but that is because they are literally decades ahead of us of global success and history. City dont have that level of history as those teams have established already over the decades. Nike/Adidas/Puma cant use that as marketing trick to guarntee sales with City. Not yet at least.
So we have to either have a kit we want and not have a super mega kit deal, or have an increasing kit deal with changeable kits. That is our current situation.
Fan's thinking is that the kit should be one way and never messed with.
So, ifyou go for the fans wishes, then Nike suffers with their sale objective and jeopardise a bigger kit deal in the future. If you go with Nike's wishes the fans suffer. Yet fans moan they are are lacking behind with the top kit deals and deserve a better one, Nike wont do that if they have their hands tied behind their backs by the fans.
some will moan that United , Liverpool, Chelsea, Madrid, Barca etc etc dont have that problem and regain their iconic kits .... but that is because they are literally decades ahead of us of global success and history. City dont have that level of history as those teams have established already over the decades. Nike/Adidas/Puma cant use that as marketing trick to guarntee sales with City. Not yet at least.
So we have to either have a kit we want and not have a super mega kit deal, or have an increasing kit deal with changeable kits. That is our current situation.
I think I have to respectfully disagree wholeheartedly with that.
It is in the best interests of both Nike and City to create a strong global brand. Every time the kit has a major change to it, we take one step backwards to reaching that goal. By changing the kit drastically every year, they will arguably succeed in the increasing the kit sale in the short term, but in the long term they will be damaging the global branding.
Small changes are absolutely fine and I understand the need for them but the basic colors of our home kit should be decided and then stuck to.
We can't 'buy' good branding by changing our kit every year, we need to earn it by having a signature look and putting some success behind it. This works to the mutual benefit of both city and Nike
dickie davies
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Nonsense mate
Kit manufacturers fuck about with Barcelona's kit every season
This season they're playing in hoops and red shorts
I said once that Barca have played in halves, stripes, hoops, red and blue shorts etc. and all i got back was 'oh thats Barca, still identified as Barca'. I'm damned whatever i say it appears.
some are making this argument that the other teams have never been messed with.
Inter had a black shirt with pinstripes once, United had a red/white/white for European games one season, manufacturers change things to what they think will sell and make them money. They arent bothered if they need to mix things around.