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sorry if this has already been talked about but i can't hepl thinking that its about time we kept a strip for more than a bloody season! We havent changed sponsor since the kit was made my Mizuno and we had casrtrol, Strikeforce have been manufacturers for two seasons now as well. I love getting the new kit, but i am lucky to be able to afford them when they come out, some aren't. I just wonder why we change every year, thats all. :?

Think this will be the last necessary change under the Strikeforce deal.

They put the reason for so many changes was put down to making it worthwhile for Strikeforce, although that's a little questionable and I think it may be against the FA regulations/guidelines.

I'd wager the season after next we are once again voting on at least one new home or away kit.

I think we get away with it becasue they only charge £30

To be fair, 30 quid a year ain't too much

I pefer to have a new shirt every season. Wish we had one with a collar.

I bet you'd turn the collar up if we did.

Of course he would, just like me because we're cool

 :soapy tit wank:

I don't mind if we look more and more like Arsenal  :D

It's Lonsdale making it isn't it?? (Before someone says, yes I know Strikeforce own Londale..)

Lonsdale used to be huge in the 80's/early 90's...not sure if they're any good. The last time I saw Lonsdale Clothing was in Topshop after being 'dragged' in by the mrs...

how many bloody times. you can change your kit once a season if it is below £30. anything above that and it must stay for atleast one season.

we'll go back to one shirtfor every 2 season with a shirt costing 50 nicker next year

I'm sure the club would sell more replica kits if they kept the same one for two seasons.

A lot of people must be put off buying a shirt in, say, August which will be out of date in 12 months, or less, bearing in mind the team will be wearing a new kit before the end of that season.

Also, as the Dazzzzmiester says, I woud have thought it is against league rules.

Have Strikeforce stopped manufacturing sports wear and are just distributors now for Lonsdale?  I don't get it.

I imagine the new kit will look ok, as Lonsdale make Blackburn's kit which looks alright if blue and white halves are your thing.  I personally think the current home kit is the best they've had for ages.

I agree OST, our current home kit is the best we've had for ages.

Not keen on the pics of the new one, what with its Arsenal-esque white sleeves and all.

The official line on clubs changing kits is that they have two options.

You can either continue to charge £40 a shirt and keep it for two seasons

or

you have to reduce you prices (not sure what price) then you are able to change your shirt design once a season.  

That is what I read when the watchdog published their report from what I remember.

I think that's what the club say, but in truth they need the money. I think revenue wise we make more changing it each season.

Yeah I'd agree with that Si-man.  people who like the kit will def buy it cos it only costs £25, people who only kinda like it, probably would buy it cos it's only £25 and then there's the people who buy it whether they like it or not, ie those people who bought the green shirt from 1993, or that gold and black disgrace, last season.  To think if they paid £40 for those shirts they buy anything for £25.

I bought that shirt......reminds me of double yellow lines tho. If I lie in the road someone may try and park on me!  :soapy tit wank:

you could fine them and get your money back!

I was given the green shirt for my 7th birthday and I thought it was amazing. Only realised a few years ago what a disgrace it was. However, it does hold so many memories of that fantastic season where we went up.

Have a look here for some truly awful efforts.
http://www.premiershirts.net/hos.htm

Double lines means you can't park  :P

Shirts will be cheaper than match tickets pretty soon. What you moaning about?

Its good for us to change once a year because people will buy it, so that's £60 over two years rather than £40.
Sometimes I buy a keeper shirt too (depending on what it's like).

As fo rthe Arsenal thing, I don't like next years design, but Arsenal are wearing claret nxt year and I will probably have changed my mind by then anyway!

I rekon shirts should be £150 quid a piece and match tickets just a tenner.

Some classics there, must admit I used to think a few of those like the Liverpool and Villa efforts where quite trendy back in the day.

Juventus played in pink last year.

http://www.kitbag.com/product_images/large/114323-600.jpg

I enjoy having a new Swindon shirt every season.

I think that rule only applies for home kits, so the club could change the away every year and stillcharge 40 but obviously it wouldnt be had.

The likes of United get around it by charging 40 for a Home kit every two seasons and then change a Away and a third every year and still charge 40. Liverpool are ok because there Home kit changes every two years and they bring out a new away kit every year but there old away turns into there new third.

Last year the Liverpool kit was £25 in Sports Soccer.

which of the kits that we had to chose from won? i never found out!!! the away kit, i liked the black/grey one.

White/blue away

The Arsenal-esque home job

I preffered the other option on both

Didn't really like any of the home shirts as they looked on the PC, but then in real life they might be okay.
Have to say I like the new away kit.#

I honestly think its quite reasonable to pay £30 a year for a shirt.
That's no more than £1 per game for many fans.

ah man the other away kit was better. now we look like a wannabe deportivo :P


or even worse, blackburn-esque :shock:

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~662924,00.html?

Having doubts now....

That away kit is nearly as bad as the brown and 'gold' away kit a couple of years ago. Will not be buying for me but it might be OK for the nipper (9 months old).

Wannabe Deportivo? More like Real Nintendo I would have said!

Someone has probably already said, but I'm too lazy to look, but when are the new kits out to buy?

Both kits are hardly radical changes are they.

Not a lot to moan about and not a lot to get excited about.Run of the mill stuff.

You know those aprons you can get with the image of a french maid,Tarzan or a muscle man on the front?  Thats the way forward for football kits,that and feather boa's 8)

I thought the away kit was Dark Blue and White. Looks very girly in 'sky' Blue.
Still, I probably buy it.

Away mid June, Home mid July.