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A cousin of mine wants the white away kit even though he's a liverpool fan- he's caught the Swindon bug!

Anyhow, are we changing our kit next season or is it for two years? Not sure to wait or get him the current one.

I think we will be changing our kit because the deal with EA Sports was only for a year so unless it is extended we will be changing the kits as obviously the home kit has Fifa 10 on the back and the white one has Fifa 10 on the front.

I would have thought we would be changing both bearing in mind we have Fifa 10 on both and I would have thought Fifa 11 would be out for the new season.

Maybe the sponsor will be different but I hope the basic kit stays the same as I think it looks rather good. Plus, we've changed our kit every year since about 2002 and it's about time it stopped as it's a very tacky practice which I associate with the previous regime. We should keep the same kit for two seasons IMO.

funny you should say that a couple of my parnets friends who are liverpool fans are starting to turn our way. Its ace :)

If we go up I might just get the home shirt regardless. Just to say that was the shirt we wore in our promotion winning season. Think they'll sell a fair few if we go up so may delay making a decision on a new kit.

They'll sell a lot more if there's a Wembley trip in the offing.

Two of my mates are Liverpool fans and I have turned them both in (albeit 2nd team) Swindon fans and they are coming round to mine on Monday to watch us on Sky.

Isn't this the 2nd of a two year deal with 442 also?

I believe so. It'd be nice if that could be extended - they're much better than Cowboy construction or whoever it was

Be disappointed if they didn't sign back up. I remember AF said it was for hardly any money just the exposure. So if that sill tied in with the boards thoughts, cant see why 442 wouldn't extend.

Adidas make some nice kits. I reckon we'll have another cracking kit next year.

My guess is the style that Middlesborough, Derby and Plymouth have this season. Adidas 'Trio' I think it's called.

hope we get to vote on the kit again :)

I really don't like that kit

No it was a 3 year deal and they had the option of pulling out after 12 months which they haven't done. I stand corrected if someone points out otherwise. EA Sports is up at the end of the season though.

no one keeps a kit longer than a year anymore.

wait a few weeks, then get him this seasons kit when its down to about a tenner.

I would imagine that, as with ticket prices, the board have two strategies for shirt sponsorship ready. One for League 1 and one for the Championship, as surely the club would be expecting to lever in more from sponsors if we go up to a higher league?

unless he wants to look the part at wembley (if we end up there) and get him to pay full price

arsenal do

The new kit was chosen in October!

No news on this yet?

Something like the schalke home kit would be amazing.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/schalke-04-adidas-2010-2011-home-kit-leaked.html

Would have thought they might have tried to get next season's kit out in time for the play-offs.

That is nice. The 3 stripes should run all the way down the arm though.

The gap is for the league badge.

Like Bob said, I'm surprised the club haven't brought anything out for the playoff's. Would certainly bring in extra income with the team doing so well.

I know, but its too big

Would love a red version of that Schalke kit

agree that if we were to get to Wembley getting the new kit out on sale would be a master stroke of marketing - might not be possible with deadlines etc tho - we arent a priority im sure

...and Fourfourtwo and EA sports might not be back with us next year, so unless they bring out one-off 'next years kit with this years sponsors', can't see it happening.

haha ive converted my friend who is a falkirk fan.

the kit looks wicked, esp the away one. hopefully they will keep with ea sports and the sponsor of fifa 11.

agreed that too many shirts is bad...i like this seasons, its the best for a long time

Converted my friend who is a Tottenham fan. He bought a shirt last year and came to a lot of games. And just to clarify, he didn't grow up in, or around Swindon.

Even got him to buy a season ticket this year under the £199 deal, and no doubt he'll buy a new shirt when that comes out too.  :clap:

the future's bright, the future's....red!

Shown him the light heh?

Funny how we adopt a fan as he thought the shirt is nice, sounds plastic. More to supporting a team than wearing a shirt. Most of the loyal fans this club has would not be seen dead walking around in a top they bought thats sole purpose is to promote brands like fifa10. More to supporting a team than buying a ST and wearing a shirt fella  :no:

My sister and her boyfriend are buying season tickets this season and they're Liverpool plastics. Although in his defence he spent his childhood in Liverpool. They both came to 2 or 3 games last season, less than they attended for Liverpool, and he was so upset after Millwall beat us, he decided he must support us all of next season.

Yeh, a season ticket and a shirt in the space of one season?! What a lame attempt at converting somebody. You could atleast get them to tattoo the badge on their chest and travel to Hartlepool or something.

Yes, but it's a pretty fucking good start though ::)

And WTF does this mean?..."Most of the loyal fans this club has would not be seen dead walking around in a top they bought thats sole purpose is to promote brands like fifa10.£...so anyone who has this season's shirt is not a proper fan because it's promoting EA10? (I don't have one as it happens)

Are you on a wind up or just on medication?

Oh im sorry reeves4england I do digress  :smugfu:

I don't believe that you shold need to get anyone to buy a ST if they want one let them buy one of own accord if they are interested. Im sorry but if he is a yid fan and not and not of the armchair kind then I expect him to not so easily switch alleigance to a town of whom he has no connection with.

I'm a corporate sucker as I still have gallons of Castrol GTX in the garage from our days as their little bit of advertising cloth :D

No OST just a reason alot of fans would not buy a shirt, at £40 football shirts these days are nothing of the type compared to the good old days.

Do you believe that someone who wears a official replica shirt is more of a fan? Personally I don't and im sure you'll agree. Seems to me we have recruited alot of fans because of the sponsor and design of the shirts the team wear this season.

So let me get this right. We've got loads of new fans because of our sponsorship deals....

Riiiight.

If it were true, it would be good news anyway.

Mudfish, he wasn't saying that.

He said you're implying that anyone who wears the shirt isn't a proper fan because it promotes 442 and Fifa 10.

We've had this argument before. Some people are shirters, some aren't.

A fan is someone who travels to all godforsaken parts of this great country following their team home and away.

Yes, it's not the purest of reasons but at least it gets the ball rolling, right? We can't all be Swindon/Wiltshire natives and/or those who were taken to games by their dads.

We were sponsored by GWR FM when I started my love affair with Town... It explains a lot. Probably why I still sing the radio ad for Corsham Building Plastics too.

Any story that results in new fans attending games is a good story, with nothing for me to complain about. Fuck me, we're not in a position to be choosy.

Very well said Ralphy, agreed. I just notice alot more replica wearers about than those of the dgi/strikeforce days and for children I find this great but for grown men in the pubs I drink in who have remotely no interest in Town in previous years, I just find it slightly false and the weaing of the shirt being made as more of a fashion statement. The very people who would normally don Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, L'Pool shirts and never be seen at the CG. Lets face it the shirt is a 500% improvement compared to tosh like the Kingswood shirt...? Rant over and opinions accepted.

So you are objecting to people who have recently switched allegance to the Town and bought season tickets and replica shirts. You also object to people who have previously worn the shirts of Premier League teams and now wear STFC shirts?

If we had just been promoted to the Premier League and you were pissed off about glory hunting band wagon jumpers etc. then I would see your point. However, I hate to disappoint you but we're in Division 3. As has been said, we cannot afford to be choosy and as far as I'm concerned, people switching allegance and starting to take an interest in the Town again is absolutely fantastic news and further proof were it needed, that the Club is on the up again.

I was more critical than most about our day trippers who completely ruined Wembley...

...however, we need more fans - no matter what they were before or how we got them. As long as they muck in like the rest of us, become a part of it, become a part of us.

Make no mistake Dave, it was the shit performance that ruined Wembley, nothing else..get that right and everything else would have looked after itself.

I still drink petrol, but I'll be damned if I can find a Burmah garage to get it from!

Perhaps I should have added atmosphere in there somewhere...

Although you are right, the team did play a huge part.

I think it's great that people with other allegiances are signing up. If they're living here and want live football then get them the fuck down to The Town End! Got a couple of mates who are passive football fans, but me dropping round there every Saturday with a fuck off huge grin, gushing about how great we'd been through the course of the season has got them hooked. They'll be back next season - well, one of them are moving away but the other can't wait to get back.

I was also heavily critical of the newbies at Wembley, but everyones gotta start somewhere right? Just hope a few hundred decide to come back next season.

FFS, who cares what fans wear to matches. Some of my mates wear Town shirts, some don't. It is completely irrelevant. What is important is that you support the team, surely?

And that takes us back full circle to DV's original point about spectators vs supporters. Spectators should have amphetamines handed out to them at the turnstile.

Sometimes people can't win.  If they turn up freely admitting they haven't been interested before, they are clearly a "plastic" and a "cunt".

If they continue not to attend, they are again a "plastic", and again a "cunt".

If we want attendances to increase, new people will have to come.  Quite logical really.  The already-going every week group can either make them welcome, or call them cunts.  I know which I would prefer.

"Welcome, cunt" ?

Something like that.

Fans have got to start supporting at some point. The plastics are those who start when times are good and ditch when times are bad.

I would love to see the County Ground packed out with old and new fans alike, for many seasons to come.

Incredibly late reply I know, but... (long rant coming up so prepare yourself)


Firstly he's a Tottenham supporter who doesn't get to many games. Can't afford a season ticket and a day out for him is about £100 per game (train + ticket + food), and that's if he can even get a ticket! Of course he's plastic if that's how you define it, I don't deny that.

Should I tell him to sod off then? To have not come to 14 games this season (inc Millwall away), stick £40 in the STFC coffers with his shirt, not bring more mates to Wembley, and to not decide to want to buy a season ticket next year? He must have personally spent £300 this year on STFC...


We didn't "adopt a fan as he thought the shirt is nice". He wanted to watch live football, as sky isn't the same! He bought the shirt after only coming to 3 games in the town end as he enjoyed himself, not before!

So you're right, what an absolute  :cunt:. I'll tell him we don't want people like him at the County Ground.


People start to turn up - what a plastic cunt, why weren't you here before?
People don't turn up -    why are you supporting teams via sky you plastic cunt?

"Plastic cunts" and the very young, are who will eventually become "loyal supporters". We should be trying to encourage them, not get rid of them. If they want to sing, they'll move to the Town End, if they want to watch quietly they'll be in one of the many spare seats in the Arkells or DR... it's all money for my beloved STFC! My mates favourite town song? Our little UB40 number.

Ok rant over, and hopefully I didn't offend anyone too much...  :baby:

You're completely right, after all he's only lived here about 4 years after moving to the area for work after uni. No doubt next someone will moan he wasn't going earlier or something!  :doh:

And for the record, my mate wanted to buy a season ticket, I didn't apply any undue pressure or anything, just suggested it might be better value for him as he'd been to so many games this season. In his own words "how can I not at £199?" (well done AF + the board). COYR!!!

quite right - that's how it starts - I don't come from here - family support Fulham the old man used to go to Chelsea so I supported Chelsea ( yes I used to go - when they were shit). I didn't jump on the STFC premirship bandwagon cos I thought it was unfair. Mates nagged me to go and now I've had a season ticket for 10 years and I've got a shirt - I am a fucking STFC supporter and if you say otherwise I'll make you eat my STFC duvet and matching curtains and I'll stick my STFC drinks cooler up your rectum !!!! 

What some silly comments from Mudfish.  Firstly, I don't believe many people would fork out £40 for a Swindon shirt unless they did have some genuine affection for the club whether it be loyal or part-time supporter.  As previously mentioned, we are a third division club and up until this season not a particularly good one.  On that basis I can't see someone who has no interest in the club making the effort to go to the club shop to buy a shirt because of who sponsors it.  Secondly, I don't think anyone could be talked into parting with upwards of £200 for a season ticket unless it was something they wanted to do.  Some of my friends pay £60 a month for gym membership and have tried to get me to join on the basis of the wonderful facilities on offer.  Personally it doesn't interest me, so I've not joined!

Does all this mean that there was no such thing as a supporter before replica shirts ?

Just offering an alternative point of view, all be it may seem like a cunt I stand by what I said although admittedly it was after a couple although in my book that doesnt excuse, nice to see some debate and I actually agree to what most have said  ;D

Exactly Nev


Mudfish you are a cunt

But aren't we all at times?  :beers:

Seeing as this is one of the kits next season [url width=320 height=320]http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/javaImages/3d/fd/0,,10341~8781117,00.jpg[/url]

And it is the same design as Bristol City's new home kit, so I'm guessing Town's home kit will be City's but Town badge & FourFourTwo.
Just wonder what colour the EA Fifa 11 away kit will be?

I really hope we don't have the same kit as City, it's just wrong.

Not much different to last season's really

Not necessarily.  They can have a different design shirt for the home and away shirts if they want, they have about 2 or 3 different designs to choose from.  Design was chosen in October though, so if City happened to choose the same design there would be nothing they could do about it now.

I thought Shitty were made by Puma? Have the jumped on the Adidas Bandwagon? :(

Edit: Just seen it. http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/bristol-city-2010-2011-adidas-home-kit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FootballShirtCultureBlog+%28Football+Shirt+Culture+Blog%29

Go on the site and vote the opposite of all the comments below the shirts. You don't even need to log in. :)

They had an official rebranding with Adidas last Monday or Tuesday to announce the new kit.

Bandwagon jumped on well and truly.

Oops, edited without checking for a reply! :)

It seems to me Adidas is all the rage now, which somewhat loses its exclusivity. Hull are the latest club...

Every fucking season when our new kit comes out, some cunt says..."Ooooh I don't like it, it makes us looks like Bristol City"......well, let's see...they wear red and white.....and we wear red and white...go figure :hmmm:

Even Scotland have their strip made by Adidas, and they barely play football!

There is being similar to shitty and the same. I can't believe we'll use the exact same template, i dont think people would be happy with it.

neither can england it seems ;)

Unfortunately, unless we become one of the best teams in the world overnight, we are going to have to accept that if we have the same manufacturer as another team, then there is a very good chance our kit will be the same template.

I cant help but predict disappointment with the new kits. Just because I liked the old ones so much.

Who's kit will be better though? Ours with Samsung, FourFourTwo and EA Sports or Bristol with there shitty sponsor? I think they'd be more pissed off than us, at least i'd hope they were.

THere was an interesting post or two on one of the Scotland message boards about the kit design process and who gets what templates etc... I will see if I can find it. Basically went that Adidas worldwide is a different entity to Adidas UK. There are also three levels of sponsorship deals. Top one: bespoke kit is provided by Adidas worldwide. level 2 kit is provided by regional Adidas, and is usually a template but slightly modified (like new Scotland kit) and third tier is your straight out of the catalogue with your badge stamped on it, like us and every other lower league team has.

I think our home kit should be like the Real Madrid away kit but in Red with white. Check out the link below.


http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/real-madrid-10-11-adidas-away-kit.html (http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/real-madrid-10-11-adidas-away-kit.html)

I would like to think that our kit would not be identical to City's. At the end of the day, the Slave Traders would not be any happier with it than we would.

Then again, I would have liked to have thought that, colour clashes aside, there would be no way we would wear anything other than red at Wembley...don't get me started on that again :suicide:

It would run the risk of our players running round looking like they were wearing the WWII Japanese Imperial Army Flag

[url width=220 height=179]http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-96901458480452_2096_63774705[/url]
Quite apart from the distress caused to older fans like Reg and Fred, I think we've seen enough kamikaze defending over the past few years.

And it would knacker any chance of getting Honda on board as a sponsor (Don't mention the war crimes, and all that)

Seriously, STA's right. We won't be getting a look at the "big teams" catalogue, we'll get to choose one of the standard templates from the "Lower Leagues and castoffs" catalogue. If you want to look at big teams' strips for inspiration as to what we might get, you need to go back a couple of seasons as their templates eventually make their way down to our level

Most of the lower league sides who have adidas and nike get it through a third party and do not have a deal with the manufacturer, unlike us.

I think most manufacturers still have pretty strict policies about what level they allow which templates to go to, irrespective of how you get to them - the likes of Real Madrid don't want to be seen to be turning out in the same kit as us or Peterborough do they? Imagine the embarrassment, daahling

I am certain this will be our kit next season.......

Away kit 2010/11?

[url width=317 height=360]http://www.trainerstation.com/images/adidas_trefoilteem_poolblu__med.jpg[/url]

That's the same as last season's blue kit. So probably not.

Spot on.

Any of these perhaps?
http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/staticfeature.asp?WID=7811&ALT=adidas%20Teamwear%20Football%20Kits%20-%202010-11%20-%20adidas%20Team%20Kits

Is this the samsung one?

http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/prodinfo.asp?PID=PDS-052-001-029&DEPT=052,053&BRAND=1&SS=1&GROUP=CONDIVO

I reckon it'll be this one:  http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/prodinfo.asp?PID=PDS-052-001-477&DEPT=052&BRAND=1&SS=1&GROUP=TIRO

true, but still doesnt change the fact that we will have to choose our kit from the catalogue as we arent a tier 1 or 2 club.

Yeah for sure, I wasn't disputing that, was just saying that at least we actually have a kit deal

I reckon it'll be this one:  http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/prodinfo.asp?PID=PDS-052-001-477&DEPT=052&BRAND=1&SS=1&GROUP=TIRO
[/quote] yeah thats my fave one

Anyone heard anything about the new home/away shirts? Dates, etc?

Really irritates not knowing their release date for some reason.

Well we have a game on 14th July, so it'll have to be some time in the next 2 weeks. Maybe it'll be on Thursday to coincide with the start of the new season? Or is that just wishful thinking?!

Not necessarily, we played some of the Austrian friendlies in black adidas training tops last year.

Worth mentioning that Macclesfield have released their new home shirt, seeing as though their design was the same as ours last season:

[url width=500 height=812]http://www.mtfc.co.uk/javaImages/14/4f/0,,10393~8867604,00.jpg[/url]

Doesn't look too pleased with it does he.

Sorry, but have the club actually said we're changing our strip? I know we've got the new 3rd kit, but I haven't seen anything from the club stating the strip is gonna change.

Maybe we'll stick with last years and just have the wording on the EA Sports (It's in the game!) advert changed to Fifa 11.

Fair point Herthab.

They had that design in orange and black  as their away kit last year.

I am sure we will be getting a new kit, but for the first time in history it'll be in the shop the day its announced.

that said,  I refuse to but it if its the same as city have chosen.

Yerp, i wont be either if its the case, and since we're the lower league team it will be " You copyed citys kit " blah blah, not the other way around unfortunatly.

We are getting a new kit, well a new shirt for sure. Not sure about shorts and socks.

Is the black shirt going to be on sale?

Yep, the agreement with Adidas is a new strip every year of the contract.

The new kit is being unveiled on the 24th July in town by the big screen, then on sale later that day. I asked when i was in the club shop earlier today.

 The club already have the kit. Fact.

What the hell are the scummers thinking?!! Their new kit is shit !!!

http://www.oufc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~2083190,00.html

It screams 'non-league'.

Ralphy you've now ruined this thread with that shite. You should've put it in the 2010/11 thread.

that means  they can keep it for 2   seasons;)

Since when did the scum have a black skid mark down the front of their shirt?  Looks more like Hull City than Oxford.

Is this our old kit?

that's that DGI potato sack thing

Is this the best the scum could come up with to model their kit?  Ok the one on the left is not too bad but the rest look like they were trawling the streets of Blackbird Leys touting for business before being picked up for a 'special' job.

http://www.oufc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~2083811,00.html

Think I've got one of them somewhere. I don't generally wear football shirts though, I'm not under 15 or have learning difficulties.

Peterborough new kit

[url width=320 height=320]http://www.theposh.com/javaImages/22/5e/0,,10427~8871458,00.jpg[/url]

Those kids don't look right

They look like they've been varnished.

They remind me of these guys:
[url width=450 height=360]http://mealsfromthegirlinthelittleblackdress.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/guidos_small.jpg[/url]

Keep up at the back.

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,39246.30.html

Have they got rid of blue? That's gonna spoil one of our songs  :)

no, their shorts are blue.

Those shorts look black in the photo.

The kids look like they are trying out for Nelson Mandela the childhood.

[url width=600 height=550]http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Nuremberg-10-11-adidas-away-kit-1.jpg[/url]

As long as it doesn't look like the inverse of this, I'll be happy.  So very, very gay...

Cracking mullet on the guy second from the left :D

So does Adidas not bother with stitched on badges anymore??  They all appear to be ironed-on and look gash in my opinion.

That kits not too bad. Cool collar. Nice and simple.

As for the hair, well that is just immense! I'm Jealous.

I haven't read right through this thread, so the answer may be in there, but does anyone know if we are changing our home kit for next season?  There's been no stock of Adult sized shirts since around March and it seems odd that they haven't got any in ready for the new season or for that matter announced a new kit and started selling it if there is one?

Yes, suggestion being that it should be available in the next couple of weeks, possibly 24th.

Apparently its being launched in the town centre by the big screen on th24th

Are you a mix of PaulD and Townend Romain?

who??? no fraid not just some old git who loves Swindon and thought i would join in on here i used to be on loud and proud a couple of years ago then just gave it up

I was in the club shop earlier and they said the new kit is released on July 24th, as previously mentioned.

I saw some white + green Adidas polos with the Swindon badge on, have they been around all season??

If not, could we be going back to the Green and White away strip? Burmah potato print shirt anyone?

The polo shirts are new but it's just adidas leisure wear,they also have a grey and a brown & white one aswell.

Ah ok, fair enough. That's the end of my promising Detective career...

Wharf Green (near McDonalds in town centre on 24th July you can buy the new kit)

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2087710,00.html

If you can pre-order from the 12th (This monday coming) there must be something in the pipe-line today maybe?

It says on the blarb that you can 'see and collect your kit on 24th July'. Surely before you pre-order you want to see what you are ordering.

Some people will buy one regardless. I'll wait until I've seen it though I think!

I think the idea is that there'll be pictures on the website etc but you won't be able to see it in the flesh (or the nylon I guess?) until the 24th

That makes much more sense.

Pictures should appear on the official site today or tomorow apparently.

Or, according to your mate, monday at the latest!  ;)

Got me.

Found these links for the Hull and Plymuff kits.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/plymouth-10-11-adidas-home-kit.html

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/forum/fsc-forum/10/11-kit-rumours/hull-city-2010/2011-home-kit-revealed.html#6907

Same design for both, but works better for the Hull kit. Just hope we don't end up with a two tone red disaster like plymuff!

I bet we had Greer modeling the kit in all the bloody photos n all!

I quite like that Plymouth design - except for the stupid big Ginsters advert of course.

[url width=521 height=177]http://www.stfconlineshop.co.uk/shop/skin_stfc/templateimages/headerpics/157_header.jpg[/url]

Anybody looked at the online shop recently.........

[url width=200 height=277]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/newkit.jpg[/url]

that white thing on the arm looks fucking stupid.

Middlesborough's kit from last year.

Ha i'm amazing. :D

So do we think the kit was meant to be released this way or has someone dropped a bit of a clanger? The official launch seems a bit pointless now

Yep, absolutely horrendous.

Agreed, presumably the short sleeve version won't have it.

Edit: Dammit!

[url width=200 height=277]http://www.stfconlineshop.co.uk/shop/uploads/images_products/560.jpg[/url]

Prefer last seasons.

That white bit is stupid. Not sure I'll bother, will wait and see what it looks like in the flesh and what the away kit will look like..

Nice kit... like it.

Is that an iron-on badge?

£43 fucking quid is a bit steep, I dont like it as much as last years

May I suggest that it probably wasn't the best Idea to get prutton to model it? He'd make a new tux look like a tramp, had slept in it.

That's for the long sleeved version. The normal short sleeved version is £37.99.

33 quid for kids' sizes!  :eek:

(Unless they're doing a separate kids' one that hasn't been launched yet - bloody hope so)

I can't believe somebody sat down and designed that kit, and thought a big white patch on the sleeve was a good idea. I normally buy one shirt per season and I'm thinking it won't be the red one this year.

Any reasoning behind Phil Smith modelling the Goalkeeper's shirt, and not David Lucas? Found it a bit strange, seeing as Lucas is our number 1.

Unless of course...   :hmmm:







 :D

Maybe Lucas had gone home early from training!

That white bit looks stupid as rodney said.

However its not as bad as the scums monstrosity

It's ok.

The white bit on the sleeve does indeed look silly but I expect I'll get used to it.

It's not exactly the same as Boro's, the bit between the the two white stripes going down the right shoulder, which is red on our shirts, was actually filled in with white on their shirts.

At least its FUCKING RED!!!!

Although it sounds totally gay, I've got to say that Prutton looks in bloody good shape.

Oh yes...fear no more..our kit is NOT going to look exactly like the slave traders'

[url width=150 height=263]http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Bristol_City/images/bristol_city_2010-2011.gif[/url]

I'm not normally into blokes either, but I'd probably have a go too.  :girlgiggle:

I'm going to get a crayon and colour the white patch red!!  :doh:

Use a permanent marker you silly cunt

Quite nice actually. Will get the npower patches to cover up the white sleeve though.

That said being a fat bastard this shirt is going to do nothing for my gut.

i dont like it,but it bothers me not as i wont buy one anyway

 :hmmm: think i will be buying the away top

Its not too bad, would be better without the white.

Probably covered elsewhere in this thread but I take it the away is white with blue trim and sleeve? Or are we just using the Samsung one?

No idea on away kits yet.

We should never use a kit like that again.

Personally Im still a fan of the old Yellow Shirt, Blue Shorts combo as sported in 93/94. Didnt we also turn out in an away kit that was mint green once?

The whitye sleeve is the only thing that bothers me, but it bothers me a lot. It's just so ridiculously pointless and ugly.

The white sleeve completely ruins what would otherwise be a decent shirt. Whoever thought that would be a good idea?!!

Also it's disappointing that again our new kit is a design that is a year old and has already been worn by other clubs (Middlesbrough's from last year is almost identical), when clubs like Peterborough are getting a current design for their kit.

Hopefully the away shirt will be better and not the same design in blue and white.

At first glance of the the picture of the long sleeved version, I thought his left arm was bandaged!  Looks bloody stupid, why try and be complicated?

I like it, well the short sleeved anyway.

But it's a bloody rip-off. 

I hope the away kit is pink, just for shits n g's.

Will get the away one if any this season i reckon.

hahaha

nice arm thing... makes me think of an army medic.

Meh... it's not the best but i don't think it's as bad as everyone is making out. The short sleeve is ok, will no doubt grow on me a bit  ;)

Smith lives locally.

I like the short sleeved one, the small white patch will be ok with an npower badge on it. But it looks silly on the long sleeved one...

Echo echo echo...

looks like the old one to me.

i'll save my pennies this year unless the away kit is a bit special

Not sure who's making money on the shirt, either adidas or the club but someones making a killing.

You can buy the shirt without sponsor or iron on badge for less than £19.

I reckon this will be the away shirt.

[url width=266 height=308]http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/prod_images/product/PDS052001545.jpg[/url]

That would suggest the club then surely?

I'm sure the club buy from a third party. So not sure what that third party are charging but a £15 difference is a bit of a difference especially in this economical climate.

I'm sure we have a kit deal direct with Adidas but may be wrong

I don't think anyone really buys a replica kit expecting good value do they? It's same as always, if you don't like the design/price/material, don't buy it. Bit different on the kids' ones though and the price hikes there are a bit steep. But I expect we'll still be getting one for both our kids

We so indeed have a deal directly with Adidas. I'd have liked a newer template, but its not terrible. Could certainly be worsr, could be lotto, macron, mitre etc etc

I've just noticed that the keepers kit is one of the latest templates. Same as brizzle shittys if I'm not mistaken. Weird.

What differerence does that make, I'm sure the pics were all done before / after training anyway

The white 'splodge' doesn't look quite so random on this illiustration...

[url width=150 height=263]http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Swindon_Town/images/swindon_town_2010-2011.gif[/url]

I expect we'll get used to it and in time, grow to love it.

Anyway, it's only for a season ::)

I'm sure we do have a 3rd party deal. When the blue third kit came out last season (before Huddersfield??) they had a pile of blank shirts in the club shop and were heat pressing the sponsor and club badge on as they were selling them...

That doesn't make it a third party deal, just a rush job.

Out home kit design for next season -

http://www.mfcofficialdirect.co.uk/

That's quite specific to Middlesbrough I believe, they've always had that white band accross the middle.

When did the terminology change from 'stockings' to 'socks'?

When they stopped selling them with suspender belts

Can you still buy sock braces?

The more I think about this, the more I think the prices for kids' strips have gone too high. My youngest went to his mate's birthday party this morning and chatting to his Mum and Dad they'd been dead keen to get him a new kit for his birthday. But when they found out it was going to cost the best part of 60 quid for a kid's kit, they went and bought him a Liverpool kit instead for half the price. I'm sorry but nigh on 60 quid is WAY too much for a kid's football strip.

I agree. A couple of years ago you could probably have got the full adult kit for that.

Well, that's the problem, the kid's kits have been effectively done away with and replaced with "Youth Sizes" and so have gone up to pretty much the same price as the adult kit. A couple of years back (well maybe 3-4) you got a full kid's kit for about 30 quid. And for some reason the shorts were always Ruddock-esque

EEK . £60. Really?! Makes the mascot package I have done for Alex birthday even more of a good decision (shhh its a surprise)!

58 to be exact IIRC. That's full kit (shirt, shorts and socks) though, the shirts are "only" 33 quid. I pre-ordered two for my lads, with the back printing came to 78 quid. Which caused intakes of breath, I have to confess

You better hope we don't sell whoever you got printed on the back!

When I was a kid I asked/begged my mum for a Swindon kit, she said no.

Not that I'm bitter, I got a bootbag from a tinpot sports shop in Westbury High Street (don't look for it, it's not there anymore) :)

You could've saved yourself £120.

I got a Rotherham shirt, on the basis it was the same colours but cheaper! 

Why don't you buy the new shirt, then cut the sleeves off?

Aussie rules!

a practical solution and thrifty. Think what could be done with the leftover material. Like making some orienteering flags or something.

I certainly hope we don't - we always get the kids' names printed on the back. I'm worrying now that there's some small print in the season ticket T&Cs I didn't read properly - I mean I consider myself a loyal fan and all that but allowing the club rights to sell off your kids is going a bit far

Ah, Tap.  Thanks for the reminder.  Might watch it on the projector this evening.

If we finish seventh instead of sixth I know who I'm blaming ;)

Are they showing the away and third kit on saturday?

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2087710,00.html

Surely the players won't be at the launch  - they'll still be in / on their way back from Austria?

Correct. It's being modelled by the youth team. Don't tell JFW.

I picked up my shirt Friday. Looks very nice in person but the quality is rather poor IMO on the home shirt. It picks up clicks and bobbles quite easily due to the thin-ness of the material (although they are made to keep the players cool). If for whatever reason you caught yourself on something it would rip very easily. Still its a nice shirt though.

I wouldn't have thought the players will be wearing replica shirts though Gaz. Theirs will be the real shizzle.

Thought they were all the same? Whenever I have bid on shirts from the club they all appear to be the same to me???

Taken my boys one back already as it had a tear in it , he has had the replacement one for the weekend and it is covered in snags and bobbles from just playing a bit of football with his mates. I like the design now I have got used to it but the quality of the material is pretty poor, the other son has the goalkeeper top which is no problem at all.

Usually they are the same as replicas, there has been a few seasons where players have different shirts but not for a while now

They appear to be designed to worn over base layers, they are uber thin

Dissapointing. Hope we aren't headed for a 'Kingswoodgate" style replica kit issue.

It's the 'climacool' shite it's made from. I'd imagine the players shirts will look pretty nasty on closer inspection after a couple of games.

More useless information for you all for the teams that used to wear adidas- the adidas replica shirts used to be climalite (team badge and adidas sewn on) and the players shirts were climacool (plastic badge and adidas and also has a horrible string vest style inner layer)

Very sad indeed eh!

I wasn't saying it as a bad thing, it's just a modern design. I dont think they're bad quality at all. almost every player now wears some kind of base layer.

At least we won't be playing in rugby shirts next season with a different sponsor each month...

that will be next years kit I bet

and at least we're not reliant on scottish hand me downs...woops!

Oh right. I put yours and lambourn red's posts together nd came up with 5.

I have a couple of climacool tops, if they are the same as that they'll be mainly fine.

Base layer = fancy vest.

It is a very thin material, I do have the suspicion that the shirt will easily get snaggs or pulls in it and I'm sure the club would not replace them either blaming you for not looking after the shirt

You'll have to give up doing your Iron Man assault courses in it then :)