Next seasons home shirt (allegedly)

[GeekinGav]

Do Nike still do the 'player' ones and the ' fan replica' ones?

used to be a noticeable difference in look and quality, the player ones used to sell around £90 snd the fan replica's £60. Maybe the players ones will look a look better and we get stuck with the crappy ones.

not gonna pay £60 for a pyjama top, so doubt i will pay £90 for a prper looking footy shirt, when we should be getting that at £60

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter that much to me, since even if I detest our kits, they'll change next season. Aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder.

I too believe the kit that best represents City's long-held identity is a sky-blue top and white shorts, despite our periodic penchant for blue shorts recently and as far back as 1976. From 1896-1975 -- near 80 years -- we were always in white shorts.

What I suspect irritates a lot of people is that we know goddamn good and well that today Utd's, Arsenal's, Liverpool's or Chelsea's kits would NEVER move away from the red/white, red with white sleeves/white, red/red and blue/blue shirt and shorts combinations those clubs have carried traditionally for several decades.

The fact that our combination is mucked about with just makes many feel that our iconography isn't as important as those other English sides. And I think they have a point. It grates.

 

[urban genie]

FogBlueInSanFran, post: 9493379, member: 41863"

What I suspect irritates a lot of people is that we know goddamn good and well that today Utd's, Arsenal's, Liverpool's or Chelsea's kits would NEVER move away from the red/white, red with white sleeves/white, red/red and blue/blue shirt and shorts combinations those clubs have carried traditionally for several decades.

The fact that our combination is mucked about with just makes many feel that our iconography isn't as important as those other English sides. And I think they have a point. It grates.

That is a very good point, it does grate as we know our core colours as long term fans, but it gets lost in rhe constant zig zagging between styles, and I know has been brought up before in this thread.
The thing is that it is the main point that matters and needs to be listened to, the trend to fuck about with the kits was in the 70's when Swales took over, before then we had had blue white trim tops, white shorts blue (possible black)socks for 80 years, and that was our colours, but old weetabix heads era saw, mish mash of kit combos (though fair the main elements were always there) after that we were in the doldrums and were dumped by umbro. As a club and let's be honest took whatever kit supplier wanted us and ended up with some right shite.
Now we are back at the top table and intend to stay there we need one iconic worldwide recognised standard kit combo, just like we did for 80yrs prior to 75, maybe the club want that too but look at sky/navy blue as the core colours or maybe they will revert back to sky/white next season. Either way decide on a set combo and stick to it each season, with the obvious subtle tweaks to keep the manufacturer intrested.

 

[NQCitizen]

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter that much to me, since even if I detest our kits, they'll change next season. Aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder.

I too believe the kit that best represents City's long-held identity is a sky-blue top and white shorts, despite our periodic penchant for blue shorts recently and as far back as 1976. From 1896-1975 -- near 80 years -- we were always in white shorts.

What I suspect irritates a lot of people is that we know goddamn good and well that today Utd's, Arsenal's, Liverpool's or Chelsea's kits would NEVER move away from the red/white, red with white sleeves/white, red/red and blue/blue shirt and shorts combinations those clubs have carried traditionally for several decades.

The fact that our combination is mucked about with just makes many feel that our iconography isn't as important as those other English sides. And I think they have a point. It grates.

By contrast though you could look at how much dortmund, bayern, spurs mess around with their kits. Juve, Inter, AC, Atletico all switch between primary and secondary colours and shorts colours too. Even Barcelona mess around with stripes width and prominent colours.

Personally I don't see much wrong with each season being distinct as opposed to one unchanging eternal identity.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

This thread is fucking mental.

It's a fucking football kit you lunatics!

It's the clubs identity, not just a football kit.

 

[dickie davies]

By contrast though you could look at how much dortmund, bayern, spurs mess around with their kits. Juve, Inter, AC, Atletico all switch between primary and secondary colours and shorts colours too. Even Barcelona mess around with stripes width and prominent colours.

Personally I don't see much wrong with each season being distinct as opposed to one unchanging eternal identity.

I've often wondered what Bayern Munich supporters think about the shirt totally changing from all red, to red and white stripes then to blue and red, but when you look into it, throughout their history they've constantly changed their home kit colours

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

By contrast though you could look at how much dortmund, bayern, spurs mess around with their kits. Juve, Inter, AC, Atletico all switch between primary and secondary colours and shorts colours too. Even Barcelona mess around with stripes width and prominent colours.

Personally I don't see much wrong with each season being distinct as opposed to one unchanging eternal identity.

Barca goes back and forth between red and blue on the shorts as well. Spurs are like City -- white with navy shorts forever until the mid-70s, then wore white for a few years, then back to the traditional template for 30 years, then began mixing in white shorts less than a decade ago and now go back and forth. I'd bet their fans feel the same as many of ours!

But I didn't mention any of those other clubs for a specific reason -- they aren't the "traditional" (or more recently) "big" English clubs. That's who the City traditionalists comp us against.

 

[urban genie]

Barca goes back and forth between red and blue on the shorts as well. Spurs are like City -- white with navy shorts forever until the mid-70s, then wore white for a few years, then back to the traditional template for 30 years, then began mixing in white shorts less than a decade ago and now go back and forth. I'd bet their fans feel the same as many of ours!

But I didn't mention any of those other clubs for a specific reason -- they aren't the "traditional" (or more recently) "big" English clubs. That's who the City traditionalists comp us against.

Remember the 90's when villa kits was badly fucked about with, don't think they had the maroon chest blue sleeves for about 10 years, know some villa fans and it royally pissed them off at the shocking stuff foisted upon them.

I always feel we have up until now had a similar trend short wise as shef wed, who are traditionally blue/white stripes and black shorts, but every so often have blue shorts instead, though this up coming kit sets itself apart as it isn't just the shorts being messed with, but the whole kits make up of blue with white trim

 

[dario2739]

Barca goes back and forth between red and blue on the shorts as well. Spurs are like City -- white with navy shorts forever until the mid-70s, then wore white for a few years, then back to the traditional template for 30 years, then began mixing in white shorts less than a decade ago and now go back and forth. I'd bet their fans feel the same as many of ours!

But I didn't mention any of those other clubs for a specific reason -- they aren't the "traditional" (or more recently) "big" English clubs. That's who the City traditionalists comp us against.

I've gone over it before, but where most teams are concerned (British especially) there is a point in the mid 60's when they settle on a strip and stick with it... Liverpool, United, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. etc. same goes with the top European teams too. Spurs have changed shorts to white on several occasions, but they never deviate from Navy as the predominant second colour... I could accept City wearing an all sky blue kit IF the trim or predominant secondary colour was white.

Barca and Bayern are exceptions – however with the former, their colour combination is so unique to them that they can afford to change short colour once in a while, though blue is the predomiant colour.
Bayern... well I think they're just so much of a dominant team in Germany they don't give a fuck.

My point is our colours should be set in stone, and immediately identifiable as City... so that if you asked anybody worldwide what our kit was, they'd say sky blue shirts, white shorts and ??? socks.
If you asked somebody what kit the Rags wore they'd know, same with the Dippers... even though there are loads of teams who wear all red, Liverpool are the first ones they'd think of... and you could say with 100% confidence that you know exactly what kit combination they'll have in 2yrs... 5yrs... 10yrs... I want City to have that uniqueness... we SHOULD have that uniqueness.
Most of all, we now have the status not to be fucked about by Nike or any other kit manufactuer.

 

[NickGw2]

The new Nike Ad featuring the tranny, clanked The Switch I believe, shows Barca playing Us in new kit. Looks ok in that