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I can't be the only person who loved seeing Swindon not wearing ALL red against huddersfield? I really wouldn't be against going back to the white shorts.

Think it looked spot on!!

Should bring it back, it looks so much better and reminds us of the good old times.

Please Mr Watkins....

Thought it looked great. I can't see that anybody would be against it...

I've always been a big fan of the all red with white trim...but i've gotta say that particular kit looks class with white shorts, decent amount of red trim on the shorts as well, spot on.

We wore all red when I starting going to, rightly or wrongly thats our colours to me.

We switched back to white shorts in the early 2000s didnt we? I always wanted us to go back to all red. Yet oddly I thought the red, white, red looked fantastic saturday.

Honestly though, red shirts, white shorts and red socks just makes us look like Bristol City!

Bristol City          - Founded 1897
Swindon Town     - Founded 1879

We win, they lose. They look like us in that kit.  ;D

Same, The white short kits we had around that time weren't great and I was happy to go back to red shorts....but this particular kit looks class with the white shorts.


I've never understood this argument, even with just the shirts...it seems every time one comes out there is always at least one clown saying 'it looks too much like a City shirt'

I couldn't give a monkeys what colour shorts the team wear,as long as the shirt is red. The kit choice at Wembley still grates me grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I don't like 'the people' on the shirt either. Those cunts helped ruin us in 1990

I'm just waiting for the guy that says "We wore all white at wembley. Wearing white shorts at home could have the same domino effect."

This

You seem to be overlooking the Slave Traders' reincarnation in 1982.

We were formed before them but they did wear the red & white before us,but it's a pointless argument and to be honest the thing that annoys me more is them pinching our nickname.

That's a bit like a rioter saying the newspapers were responsible for them being convicted because they published their picture in the paper.  Just because everyone else was rioting doesn't make it any less relevant to print the picture that resulted in a conviction.  The People were doing their job and if our management team had been doing theirs and being diligent there would have been no story to publish.

As I have said before, if it were Oxford they had exposed we'd all be rushing out to buy the shirt...

Wasn't that Cheltenham?

I can remember Roger Malone (cunt) from HTV referring to them as the robins in the 80s.

Roger Malone - now there was a good song  :clap:

I am definitely for having white shorts again just looks better in my opinion.

Its pretty simple really.

When I started going regularly we wore all red and city wore red and white.

Then we changed (back) to red and white - but by that time I'd already associated all red with us and red and white with City.

Of course people who started going long before  me, when we wore red and white will associate red and white with us rather than City.

Would love us to go back to the white shorts! Better look.

When did we go back to having red shorts? Wasn't it the last time we were in League 2 in 06/07? I'm sure we played with white shorts when we got relegated in 2006?

I stared going in 1986 and the kit was red with white shorts, in the 1969 final we wore white? Was white our "home" colours then or was that the away kit at the time?

White was the away kit at the time but in the final Arsenal were the 'home' team, so we had to play in our away kit - we didnt choose to!

Neither.....our away kit was all blue. It was a one off.

We wore White even though red was available....I blame Fitton.

Likely being a similar age to you, I feel the same. But it wasn't really directed at you....it seems regardless of the colour of the shorts there's always some moron saying the shirt looks like a City Shirt whenever a new one is brought out.

How many other teams in the league play in all red? Just Liverpool?

I like the all red kit, enough said.
I'm sure there is a thread where everyone digging up having red shorts a few years back.

I grew up with red and white, but I actually prefer the all red kit.

So many other teams play in red and white, its nice to be a little different.

While we're at it, I'd love to change our nickname from the Robins to the Moonrakers, it really annoys me that a few other teams are called the Robins, it just seems a little errrmm, generic?

Now I've been going regularly to the CG since 1979 so it not like I'm a new fan forgetting tradition or anything but for some reason, the Robins thing just annoys the piss out of me.

We've changed our crest as often as my Uncle has changed wives, so why not the nickname?

I await a torrent of abuse...

Wouldn't be the first time the nickname had changed. And we'd get rid of Rockin' Robin in the process!

Oh yeah, now that's a bonus I hadn't thought of.... perhaps we could get Ray Howell back with his gown and rake instead....

So what would the Robinette's be called then? The Moonies?

I like being called the Robins even if it's a name we share with many other clubs. They're one of my favourite birds  :-[

Booo!! They're the vermin of the sky (and many many cheap christmas cards....) They can piss off and take their jolly red breasts with them....  :D

It just pisses me off that City and Cheltenham are also called The Robins....but I like the name. I love our current badge, it's a great compromise between modern and traditional.

Also just saw Charlton are also the Robins despite having several other nick names as well as Wrexham who are also The Red Dragons....not quite sure how that works.

Kit sat looked decent with white shorts, but like many others long as the shirt is red!

Didn't we have black shorts one year ?

Both teams played in red and white, their alternative strip was yellow shirts with blue shorts whilst ours was all blue. The rules for the LCF were that in the event of a clash both teams had to wear their alternative kit, as these kits also clashed we as the away team play in our second alternate kit - all white.

I associated the white shorts with our bad seasons... 99/00, 00/01, 05/06. Whereas we were all redfor the Leicester play off, 95/96, playoffs under King, 06/07, 09/10..

We most certainly were not all red during 03/04

Really? The strikeforce kit? Hmmm maybe I'm thinking of the season after/before.

We wore white shorts throughout the King era when we had the Xara, Strikeforce and Lonsdale kits. We started wearing red shorts with Lotto in 2006/2007 I think.

In my living memory we have worn red shirt/red shorts in the following seasons...

91/92, 92/93, 93/94, 94/95, 95/96, 96/97, 97/98, 98/99, 06/07, 07/08, 08/09, 09/10, 10/11, 11/12

With red shirt/white shorts in the following seasons...

99/00, 00/01, 01/02, 02/03, 03/04, 04/05, 05/06

The club should do a poll at the end of the season.

I thought the red shirt and white shorts looked fucking shit. And what was with the XXXXL shirts that they were all drowning in? I felt sorry for Caddis............

Get with the times.

Yep, likewise. Plus white shorts look shit with a shirt that isn't white.....Keep the red shorts. Looks far better and a lot more modern.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Swindon_Town/Swindon_Town.htm

1894 was a good year

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By far the best kit we have ever worn, should really be sold in the club shop

Don't see why not as we're back with Adidas now. Man United sell retro shirts in their club shop but remove the umbro logo. I like how going through all the kits, you see the size of shorts change over the years.

Really like the spartans kit actually. Going to look into something similar for a sunday league team.

And not being funny, what were they thinking in 1897!?

This is a very good site.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/

The following League teams play in red shirts, shorts and socks.

Liverpool, Orient, STFC , Crawley. Pisses me off we are currently the bottom ranked League club of those 4!!!!

Playing in Red Shirts, white shorts - Arsenal, Man United, Barnsley, Bristol City, Nottingham Forest, Charlton, Walsall, Accrington, Crewe, Morecambe, Rotherham

Middlesborough play in red shirts with white shoulders, red shorts and white socks.

You'll get no abuse from me.  I think sharing our nickname with the Slave Traders, Num and whoever the fuck else is stupid.  Moonrakers is a much better nickname.

I prefer the red shorts too.  Look much better all in red.

We should protest.

Aahhh, it's been a while...

So the first time we played in Red shorts was when the badge changed to the Safeway's logo.

For that, if for no other reason, we should go back to white shorts :)

Yes indeed.... protesting, I remember all that nonsense....

Perhaps I should delete my account in some sort of childish lash out... a line in the sand if you will...it would broadcast the message loud and clear to Watkins and the rest of his cronies - "we're not taking this 'Robins' shit anymore!!"

I'll re-join when the nickname has changed... it'll hurt to do it as I love the club etc etc etc.

I quite liked the diamond logo, but am equally happy with the current crest.

For some reason, the kits with bits of green trim are my favourites.

I am a Wiltshire boy through and through, and like the idea of being called the moonrakers, but you can't just choose a new nickname - people just wouldn't use it, any more than anyone calls the Stratton Bank the Adkins Family Stand.

The Railwaymen should have stayed...with the  Industrial Railway Crest......fuck Crew and Derby,Swindon was where it was at.

Need to get the train right in the badge then.

Should we employ smock tactics ?

Very good.

The Robins has always been a half-arsed nickname anyway.  You never hear it sung in the ground.  It's a term used by journalists, not fans.

I'd agree in general Ardiles, although my great uncle (who i went to footy with for 25 years plus before his passing 18 months ago) used to shout "C'mon you robins" at least once a game.

I'd miss our knickname purely for that sentimental reason.

I quite like the "patriotic" 1926-27 kit........what was it like in the flesh Reg?  :)

Isn't it funny how some kits are so closely associated with certain players. As soon as I saw the 91-93 Diamond Leisure kit, I could almost see Fjortofts head above it, the same with 95-97 and Ian Culverhouse, 84-85 Andy Rowland & 89-91 Alan Mac. Not sure why these particular players, guess they are the ones that stick in the memory

Yes - 72-74  :)