Wigan got their shirt(s) spot on this year. The sponsors weren’t overbearing or swamped with sponsors and the design (also being a team synonymous with a particular design) wasn’t near identical to that of a shirt they’d had five years before from the same manufacturer. The design was spot on as well. Our design isn’t that bad at all, I just find it lazy from O’Neills that it’s near identical to the 2017 shirt down to the collar and sleeves.
As said elsewhere, there’s nothing memorable about it. It’s near identical to 2017 so it could just be any Saints shirt, not one celebrating such a big anniversary in the club’s history. That’s the problem. Any other year, I think the majority like it, this year, it’s not good enough.
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How is it: a, bizarre; b, a rant? Your contributions outnumber mine by a factor of ten to one on both counts. I particularly like your bizarre rant about the shade of red.
And at 07:45 I doubt I’d be “boozing”, which is ironic coming from someone called Two Beers.
They wouldn’t though, would they? Some years will sell better than others, it’s natural. There’s also other factors why shirts may or may not sell but that’s well away from this thread. If they’re scared of producing a high quality, much liked shirt then making shirts isn’t really for them.
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Personally, I would have liked the club to have commemorated the anniversary with the colours pre vee. White with red band across the middle for the home kit and blue and white stripes for the away. But that's just my opinion.
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, as someone who doesn't buy replica kits anymore they could play in a bin bag as long as Robes in lifting trophies wearing it.
FWIW I like them both. Yes, it's similar to the 2017 kit, and yes, it's a variation on a very familiar theme, but it's a proper Saints kit. I haven't had a new Saints shirt for a while, but I think I might well ask Father Xmas for one of these.
20 years would be an extreme example, and it was more in reply to Gray77 than anything else.
However, my point still stands.
It's not really a question of being 'scared'. It's finding the right balance between releasing something long lasting, against persuading folks to buy something each season.
I said earlier that it wouldn't surprise me to see a 'special' shirt released once we've all bought the regular one.
Stick a special badge on and that will do. Unlike some other clubs Saints never seem to get this side of the business right.
They're fine and inoffensive but as a confessed kit nerd I agree with others they're a missed opportunity. I would have liked the home to be all white (inc. collar/cuffs) except the V. That silly O'Neill's collar has been on all but two of our home kits with them since 2015 and is boring and repetitive. I think that's a big part of the problem - we're limited to that tired old template and the only flexibility is what design gets slapped on around it. They don't even seem to vary the shade of red.
I also wish if they were going to put some patterning on the V on the away then it was some sort of artwork related to our history rather than generic geometric pattern number 4. 150 years and all that. But that's O'Neill's for you - they lack imagination and have never demonstrated all that much interest in our history or identity.
I'm sure most people will really like them anyway and a lot of people won't care either way
Have to admit I was expecting something a bit more special for the 150th. However the home one has a nice clean look to the cut and I like the blue one,
Nice shirts but have to agree with a lot nothing special to mark 150 years. I was hoping for the red band ,would've fit the sponsor in nicely without ruining the design also was hoping for a rehash of the heritage shirt or centenary shirt for away...
I thought it was lazy of the Pies shirt manufacturer to take the shirts off the production line before the run had finished. Surely that's the only explanation for the "smeared" cherry hoops that look like a child has moved his arm across a wet painting. their shirt looks awful.
I agree, whatever the club came up with people would moan, things like; its too simple, its not simple enough, why have we got the sponsors on, it should be a red band or a thin v, would be thrown around depending on what they had come up with. The red v is what we have been known for to the vast majority of our supporters, those born before 1961 would have seen the red band. I wouldnt have minded us going with the away top resembling our heritage jersey, but the simpleness of our away one is rather nice.
love the home kit. Proper Red V.
I like both home and away kits. Nice and simple designs. The only difference could have been to go back to a white shirt with a red band and a royal blue away kit but that would have been nostalgia for nostalgias sake. I'm not really sure how radically different it could have been
Doesn't mean your slagging your club you know just by giving your opinion on what you'd have liked to have seen, I thought that's what the forum was for?...
Both cracking kits it’s just a pity they won’t be made of cotton.
Who gives a flying f... what they play in.....
All these moaners...We win 5 in a row if we played in f.. all.
Just support the lads in whatever