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Town will be wearing a new third kit against Wrexham

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I like.

They are only making 100 of them though, priced at £40 each!

Much better than the white one.

Love it

They could have ironed it.

Does it have Fifa 10 on the back?

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/Gallery/0,,10341~1884364,00.html


i like

Does anyone know when it go on general sale for season ticket holders?

i want

100 on sale only at tonight's game by the look of it. At general sale only.

Pretty - my like! Minger bringing it out day before I get paid!!!

If there are any left when I get there tonight, I'm getting one on the credit card :)

Coy marketing, I like. Just ready for christmas. Of course they'll bring more than 100 out if they sell like hot cakes.

which they will

Nice shirt........are there any shorts to go with it? (not that I would want to buy any  :) ).

I find it hard to believe there will only be 100 total of the new shirts. Isn't it more likely that they fucked up the wording of the article and there will be 100 of each size available?

Dont worry the player worn shirts will be available from specialist auctions in a few weeks time no doubt so I dare say that you can get Casal's shirt or Kennedys shirt for £20.00 with name and coca cola badges shortly instead of paying £40.00! :D

dont be mean to Callum :P

I haven't bought a town shirt for years. I think i'm going to go down now and beat the rush, because that's a tasty shirt.

I've just got mine. They've got them behind the counter at the moment.

I decided that as i needed to cook and do a few other things before the game, it was silly to risk rush hour, so will try before the game. Hopeully they'll still have one with my name on it.

I think that might be asking a bit much...

Fuckers!  That looks bloody great and I can't get one. >:(

I travel to Carlisle in the rain and floods and all I get is a nice shirt that I can't buy.  Not happy. >:(

And yes I could've come down tonight, but Carlisle cleaned me out.  >:(

i don't like the blue (admittedly not white or red as with our other kits but still...), but i like the central badge

I was going to post that word for word, luckily i won the tickets so i can go again this year!

I think the design is miles better than our homekit, would have been good to have it in red as well.

Saying that I don't think our home kit is too bad, I should probably get round to buying a shirt for if I ever play football and tings

Looks much better without the line that goes round everyones beer gut!

Its a nice shirt, but its blue. I have missed a few season due ti mis-spent youth/adulthood but i cant remember us wearing blue before.

I bought one before the game, the last one in medium i believe (which is probably too small - i still haven't tried it on). Plenty of XXL were available, although the club shop was one in and one out.

We had a blue away strip last season.

Haven't we had blue away strips for most of the late 90's - early 2000's?

we had lots of blue/black away kits in the 90s.

I went in the shop (no probs) around 6.50 and there were quite a few left. I saw L and XL (I wouldn't be looking for M)

oops

in 06/07 too

And in the league 2 season, and in 04-05 when the kit was made by Strikeforce

I am guessing a bit, but I'm pretty sure we've had more blue away kits than any other colour over the last 15 years.

in fact looking at swindon-town-fc.co.uk we've had blue away kits in various different shades for ages

i want this kit again:

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We had the one that was two shades of blue (halves stripes) light and dark blue. I've still got it.

I guess i should make the effort to go

that kit is brilliant. i think they'd sell shit loads just as a retro shirt in the shop....probably just as many as our actual kits.

Pardon me for intruding once again. It's a very aesthetically superb design. On a previous thread there was a link to a company producing replica shirts. Any design, badges, logo, colour - even long-sleeved. It might be a tad expensive, but so's £40 and hey, it's Christmas. Can anyone come up with the link ?

How many other clubs wore the same style of Adidas shirt as the blue one above?

Must have been quite a few back in those days. Really surprised Adidas don't re-issue it as it looks cool as fuck.

it couldn't be too hard to recreate surely

Toffs.com

I recreated the home shirt from that season (exactly the same, but in red) - I bought a plain Adidas shirt off eBay, and had the STFC badge embroidered onto it. It's not 100% accurate as the collar isn't wide enough. There are surprisingly few of them on eBay, otherwise I would have had more done.

Nottingham Forest wore the same shirt in the European Cup final.

Toffs wouldn't add the Adidas stripes to the sleeves.

I think this is it Hammer. You may need to look around but they have the blue top and a long sleeve version of it.

http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/depthome.asp?depthome=adidas-shirts&ALT=adidas-Football-Kits

http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/prodinfo.asp?PID=PDS-052-001-485&DEPT=052&BRAND=001&SS=1&GROUP=SS

26 quid.

They're for the current third kit. I think Hammer was trying to source the old 80's Adidas kit.

I've tried but can only come up with the old 40's-60's shirts from Toffs.

The club is missing a trick here, now the kit's made by Adidas, why not get them to manufacture the old 80's kit as a retro line and sell it in the club shop?

I'd buy it.

Me too. I fucking love that kit.

There is no way we'd sell enough of them to make it worth Adidas themselves re-making the kit. I wonder if Adidas would let us get another company to produce it instead. I'm sure there is some sweat shop in India that could do a 1,000 or so on the cheap.

Maybe surprising that Adidas don't do a range of old skool football kits. They'd sell shit loads as they've reached cool status nowadays.


I'm 99.99% certain that Adidas have a water tight copyright on sports gear with 3 stripes. Hence why you'll see stuff with 2 or 4 stripes but never 3, unless its Adidas.

Really stripes copyright! Shows how fucked up this world is.

One left in the shop as of about 1330 this afternoon. Not sure what size, but didn't look massive, so S I reckons. Looks nice.

how many did this cost you to make? any photos?

Adidas already do some retro shirts in the Originals collection - the Bayern Munich one from 80/81 is almost the same - just round necked instead of the chunky v-neck.
http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/store/content.jsp?pid=201

I've got a photo of my recreated shirt on another PC, will get it and post it here.  I think I paid about £40 or £50 for the two plain shirts, then it cost £25 to have them both embroidered, but most of this was a one-off cost to have the embroidery set up - think it was £2.50 for each one after that... it was a few years ago now.  I've worn it to a few away games.

not really. If you saw three stripes on clothing what would you think?

On that note it has caused a bit of a lovers tiff between adidas and several top sports companies. Nike and Puma both took the huff and got the stripes banned for the Olympics as they are larger than the legal size for sponsors logos in the olympics (cant remember the exact dimentions that logos can be). Adidas also too nike to court for putting two stripes on a range of their clothing.

ahhh found it....

in 2005 adidas accused the US Polo Association, fashion designer Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. before courts in the US of infringing the three stripe trademark with clothes and shoes with two stripe designs.

In 2006, the District Court of Cologne, ruled that Nike and German clothing manufacturer Tom Tailor had infringed upon adidas' three stripe trademark.

Adidas complained that two stripe designs by Nike and Tom Tailor were too similar to its three stripe trademark. In Nike's case two parallel stripes appeared stitched along the seam of workout pants, while in Tom Tailor's case two stripes were stitched along the sleeve of a jacket. The court ordered Nike and Tom Tailor to discontinue selling the offending clothes and fined Nike with € 1 million and Tom Tailor with € 500,000 in damages



In a prelude to the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, Nike, Puma (founded in 1948 by Adi Dassler’s brother Rudolf), Reebok and the Pentland Group (Speedo, Ellesse) took legal action against adidas’ Olympic preferential treatment before the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland.

For more than forty years, the three stripes have appeared on athletes’ dress, while other logos were limited in size to 20 centimeters. This was because the three stripes were considered a design motif and not a logo, like the Nike swoosh or the Puma cougar.

Yep

i was a bit naughty and produced a one-off home made ibiza 2006 shirt, then wanked all over it whilst crying i wasn't there :(

what did they look like?

mine looks all white now - snigger

racist!

Apparently more are on sale now despite "only 100" being made :)

That's a shock.

Booo, and there was me hoping to auction mine off for milyuns.

300 more to be sold from Friday, 18th, in the afternoon.

We're wearing the third kit at Fulham now. Quelle surprise!

"Chelsea, it's just like watching Chelsea..."

A long shot...but would anyone be able to buy a shirt in XXL for me?  If they have one?

take it you can't get to the game then mate this weekend?

Drop Ralphy a PM as i know he'll be there and may help out. he's a nice chap like that

No, skint.  Not sure I've met Ralphy, do you think he really do that?

If you're skint, maybe forking out for a "third kit" shirt isn't worth it?  Just a thought.

I will try and get one Donkey

PM me your number mate

Interesting technique for persuading someone to fork out £30+ for you. Surely no-one will be daft enough to do that ?............ :)

Got mine :)

Hang on, hang on, didn't you just win a shirt?

Am I being thick? (cue flood of yeses) But I thought they didn't go on sale till tomorrow?

You're being thick :)

very thick.

I bet Paul D enjoyed the film 'Superbad'

Fuck me, what an idiot :)

ordered one about 2 weeks ago in medium - phoned back a day later realising I was being a bit ambitious so ordered a large....got there today to pick it up and whats in the bag?? a small! classic, but luckily for me given the fact they are 'built for Italians' according to the girl in the shop, I ended up with an XL....mama mia!....there are plenty in the shop currently and its the first shirt I've bought in about 15 years so well chuffed with this xmas present I bought for meself :-)

Thanks for Paul D and Fred for offering, hopefully they'll still have lardy size tomorrow.  And yes I did win a shirt, I assumed it would be a red one.  And finally I didn;t think Ralphy or anyone I've not met would buy it, so glad two who I've met have come through for me.  Cheers guys. :)