New home kit?

[adammck]

I wonder how shirt sales will do?, in all honesty.

I generally buy the kit every release, this time is the first I won't (unless somehow my judgement changes miraculously).

But with our new gained respect and champions league football, will the newer breeds of fans continue to increase shirt sales anyways?

I understand the reason why they have made bigger changes then the last two releases, because it has to be different for people to buy it. I hope it looks class on the lads when were facing Barca at Etihad Stadium :)

 

[Ric]

I love overreactions to trivialities in the middle of the night.

At the end of the day I care more about the living bits of goo wearing the things on the pitch that the actual kits.

Yeah, I imagine once we start playing in it people will gradually warm to it. The shirt isn't that bad really, just not as nice as the last two. We've had far worse though. People will buy it regardless I suspect.

 

[Shaelumstash]

I love overreactions to trivialities in the middle of the night.

At the end of the day I care more about the living bits of goo wearing the things on the pitch that the actual kits.

What's trivial to you is could be a big deal to the next man. Would you think it trivial if we changed the colour of the home shirt to white for example? I'm sure some people would go absolutely bananas and others would think it was trivial and wouldn't care.

To me our name, where we play and the kit we play in all make up our identity and are a part of what makes us City. Our identity might be trivial to you, but it's important to me.

 

[Wheelsy]

I think the problem is that this kit isn't all that bad — it's just last years was the best kit we've ever worn.

Sky blue with white sponsors, the ever-so-subtle pinstripes, the traditional sky socks with maroon turnovers, and the pièce de résistance, the stretchy sleeves for a perfect fit on the arm.

To go from perfection to this — especially with sky blue shorts ffs — is disappointing.

 

[another generation]

How much is a club now recognised by the sponsor's name on the shirt, rather than the actual colour of the kit? Every time a club changes their kit sponsor, it takes me a good few games to work out who's playing. Coupled with that, some bizarre choices of colour for some teams' away kits, and I don't always know who I'm watching. S'pose they can make us play in sky-blue-pink, as long as it says 'Etihad' on the shirt.

Anyway, I can imagine there will be a whole lot less moaning about sky blue shorts, just as soon as Silva gets his arse into them!

 

[Dubai Blue]

This news hasn't ruined my day and I'm not gonna get all sweary about it, but there really isn't any excuse or need to be messing around too much with the shorts and socks; how many of these do they actually sell anyway? It's all about the shirts, so just leave the shorts and socks as white and blue/maroon, respectively. You can mess around with the design, but keep the colours the same. As others have said, that's exactly what all the other big clubs do, so I don't see why we don't. United don't baulk at producing yet another pair of white shorts and black socks every season, so why do we keep chopping and changing?

 

[Pigeonho]

Shaelumstash has made my day with his rant! Losing our identity? More dramatic than an episode of eastenders that! It's still City, just City in different colour shorts. Not a big fan of the blue shorts thing myself, but at the end of the day, and when all is said and done, who really cares?!

 

[Gary James]

I suppose City have historically played in blue shorts before (I'm sure Gary James can give more precise details) but it doesn't sit comfortably with me.

Should always be white shorts in my mind, but maybe that's just my generation as that's what I've grown up with.

Ultimately though I'm not really that arsed, as I've not bought a kit for 15 years. I'm sure we'll get used to it.

Blue Shorts were introduced in 1976 and lasted until 1985. It depends how you look upon it, but blue shorts heralded our decline from possible title contenders in 1976-77 to side that scraped out of Div 2 in 1984-85. I've always associated an all-Blue City as a side capable of near-misses or worse.

Billy McNeill re-introduced white shorts in 1985 saying that he always believed City played in white shorts and that blue shorts made City look less invincible and less clear about the direction they were heading.

We also wore them in 2006-07.

Personally, I have always been against blue shorts. It's very much against our history and heritage. I know other clubs have changed their traditional kits over the years (even Liverpool went to all red from white shorts), but it never sits comfortably with me.

When there was the big kerfuffle about crest on cup final shirt I was not as fussed as perhaps I should have been - despite what people said it wasn't the tradition some made out - but white shorts is something that matters to me.

 

[WNRH]

Not arsed about the shirt but to have sky blue shorts and stripy socks is indefensible.

 

[mcfc2112]

I love overreactions to trivialities in the middle of the night.

At the end of the day I care more about the living bits of goo wearing the things on the pitch that the actual kits.

Yeah, I imagine once we start playing in it people will gradually warm to it. The shirt isn't that bad really, just not as nice as the last two. We've had far worse though. People will buy it regardless I suspect.

Ric

Did you get chance to "feel" the shirt? Is the fabric as cheap and nasty as it looks on the images we've seen, or is it anywhere near the 1st 2 umbro kit material?

Cheers