Ive been on hols so only just catching up with our news tonight really. I really like all 3 kits but the away one is my favourite. I dont wear kits anymore but back in the day i was an avid collector/wearer. I used to go up town to a shop in Carnaby St or maybe off Carnaby St, and buy random kits from all over the world that i liked. Never any other English kits othet than ours but i would come out with a Fiorintina away kit or an Ajax 3rd kit and be chuffed as fuck.
The 3 kits are probably among the best we’ve ever had IMO and by far the best of any other teams. I don’t buy or wear football shirts usually but even I may be tempted by the red and black ones. Sometimes, everything starts coming together at the same time at a club and going right. We might be in the middle of that happening just now. Those kits definitely will look good at Wembley next May.
To be fair, I like the away kit as much as I dislike the home kit. It is terrific. I think with the home kit, the black gets lost in the red. I think a black pinstripe would have worked better with white sponsor and manufacturer logos.
Not only would the white sponsor look better, you’d think Children With Cancer would want their name in white. You can barely see it here, so will it get the exposure on TV?
Guessing there is no way of changing the home kit for the sponsor and the Hummel part itself to be in white? Far too much cost and hassle. But it’s a shame cause it definitely would’ve been better.
I wonder if the decision to make the logo black was so the kit looked like the one it’s copying, with no sponsor? You can’t see it at all on these pics Looks like we’re sponsorless
Guessing there is no way of changing the home kit for the sponsor and the Hummel part itself to be in white? Far too much cost and hassle. But it’s a shame cause it definitely would’ve been better.
Would love to know the thought process behind having a black Hummel logo and sponsor instead of a white one.
Not kit related exactly but I have a big problem with the picture above of Aneke.
Firstly, his shin pads are tiny. I know they're all getting like it and for some reason they seem to be getting smaller each year, but they're too small.
Secondly, they're closer to his knee than his ankle. If he was to get slide challenged and caught just above the ankle, he is far more likely to end up with a serious injury such as a leg break than if he was to get caught nearer his knee.
Compare his shin pads to John McGinn's.
It might be silly to some, but with my background it winds me up seeing this. It's small details like this that could cost us and our players massively. As I said, it might be petty to some, but I am actually rather disappointed.
Yeah, then look where Grealish's are, can barely see them. Also, the size of Aneke's thigh muscles in that picture, they're insane!
Exactly, they're protecting his ankle/lower tib-fib than closer to his knee, the weakest part of the leg.
Your point about Aneke's quadriceps is exactly what I said in the thread about Lewis Page's recent injury... "Hamstrings are a real pain and even with constant research and studies, they keep coming up in football. The only thing I can genuinely think is that players don’t have the correct ratio of strength between their hamstrings and their quadriceps. Hamstrings need to be stronger, but because they run so much, the game has got quicker, and we generate power on the ball through the quadriceps, it wouldn’t surprise me hugely if the average footballer doesn’t have the ratio between the two muscle groups that they need. Consequently, hamstrings are injured more often."
Aneke came off yesterday after going down as if he had been shot. He felt his hamstrings again. Now are you going to tell me that Aneke's hamstrings are stronger than his quadriceps? No chance.
really like the look of that £45 is daylight effing robbery for a polyester t-shirt/advertising hoarding streets better than the ham-fisted collage 1st kit will look smart on the dummies in the shop window the less said about the ambulant dummies purchasing before the twunt is gone, the better not a penny more, no concessions, no excuses I'll give the protest shirt a rest for Solly's testimonial and dig out a pre-twunt red one
The shop is outsourced, the twunt doesnt get the money.
You seriously believe the club doesnt get any money linked to the sale of replica shirts? So what, you think they just give away the rights to sell the shirts for free?
Guessing there is no way of changing the home kit for the sponsor and the Hummel part itself to be in white? Far too much cost and hassle. But it’s a shame cause it definitely would’ve been better.
Would love to know the thought process behind having a black Hummel logo and sponsor instead of a white one.
Agreed. They have to be the same colour so IMHO white would have been the natural choice. Black makes both the hummel logo and shirt sponsor invisible.
really like the look of that £45 is daylight effing robbery for a polyester t-shirt/advertising hoarding streets better than the ham-fisted collage 1st kit will look smart on the dummies in the shop window the less said about the ambulant dummies purchasing before the twunt is gone, the better not a penny more, no concessions, no excuses I'll give the protest shirt a rest for Solly's testimonial and dig out a pre-twunt red one
The shop is outsourced, the twunt doesnt get the money.
You seriously believe the club doesnt get any money linked to the sale of replica shirts? So what, you think they just give away the rights to sell the shirts for free?
Do they not get an upfront fee so its te same if the shop sell one shirt or 10,000 shirts?
really like the look of that £45 is daylight effing robbery for a polyester t-shirt/advertising hoarding streets better than the ham-fisted collage 1st kit will look smart on the dummies in the shop window the less said about the ambulant dummies purchasing before the twunt is gone, the better not a penny more, no concessions, no excuses I'll give the protest shirt a rest for Solly's testimonial and dig out a pre-twunt red one
The shop is outsourced, the twunt doesnt get the money.
You seriously believe the club doesnt get any money linked to the sale of replica shirts? So what, you think they just give away the rights to sell the shirts for free?
Do they not get an upfront fee so its te same if the shop sell one shirt or 10,000 shirts?
I wouldn't know for sure as I obviously havent seen the deal and these can be commercially structured in a number of ways.
But I wouldve thought it would be reasonable to assume there was an upfront fee plus a sliding scale of additional payments due based on certain parameters being met. One of those could be the number of shirts sold, or another could be the turnover and/or profit of sales in general.
But either way the number of shirts sold will almkst certainly have a direct bearing on the amount of income the club (and therefore RD) generates. Even if no additional cash is paid this all adds to the "value" of the club.
Therefore shirt sales = money to RD (or reduced losses for RD). To suggest there is no link is fanciful.
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i.e. What da fuck!!
For starters, and aside from the pink/grey colour scheme, why is the chevron across the stomach?!
I really like all 3 kits but the away one is my favourite. I dont wear kits anymore but back in the day i was an avid collector/wearer. I used to go up town to a shop in Carnaby St or maybe off Carnaby St, and buy random kits from all over the world that i liked. Never any other English kits othet than ours but i would come out with a Fiorintina away kit or an Ajax 3rd kit and be chuffed as fuck.
would love to see what a white version of that would like with the same stripes and shoulder effects
https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5d387ed69fd9a/pacific-support-services-named-as-new-dugout-sponsor-for-the-201920-season
I wonder if the decision to make the logo black was so the kit looked like the one it’s copying, with no sponsor?
You can’t see it at all on these pics
Looks like we’re sponsorless
Firstly, his shin pads are tiny. I know they're all getting like it and for some reason they seem to be getting smaller each year, but they're too small.
Secondly, they're closer to his knee than his ankle. If he was to get slide challenged and caught just above the ankle, he is far more likely to end up with a serious injury such as a leg break than if he was to get caught nearer his knee.
Compare his shin pads to John McGinn's.
It might be silly to some, but with my background it winds me up seeing this. It's small details like this that could cost us and our players massively. As I said, it might be petty to some, but I am actually rather disappointed.
Your point about Aneke's quadriceps is exactly what I said in the thread about Lewis Page's recent injury... "Hamstrings are a real pain and even with constant research and studies, they keep coming up in football. The only thing I can genuinely think is that players don’t have the correct ratio of strength between their hamstrings and their quadriceps. Hamstrings need to be stronger, but because they run so much, the game has got quicker, and we generate power on the ball through the quadriceps, it wouldn’t surprise me hugely if the average footballer doesn’t have the ratio between the two muscle groups that they need. Consequently, hamstrings are injured more often."
Aneke came off yesterday after going down as if he had been shot. He felt his hamstrings again. Now are you going to tell me that Aneke's hamstrings are stronger than his quadriceps? No chance.
But I wouldve thought it would be reasonable to assume there was an upfront fee plus a sliding scale of additional payments due based on certain parameters being met. One of those could be the number of shirts sold, or another could be the turnover and/or profit of sales in general.
But either way the number of shirts sold will almkst certainly have a direct bearing on the amount of income the club (and therefore RD) generates. Even if no additional cash is paid this all adds to the "value" of the club.
Therefore shirt sales = money to RD (or reduced losses for RD). To suggest there is no link is fanciful.