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I see Newport have announced their new kit and it is on sale already.

https://www.newport-county.co.uk/news/20232/may/newport-county-afc-2324-home-kit/

How long before we see ours I wonder...?

They've been picked for months I believe, so shouldn't be long. Will be sat on our one part time football admin persons desks to do list for another month though, I suspect.

Is it still Puma, imagine it will be something pretty dull as always. I think the First City sponsorship was over several seasons so assume that won't be holding things up.

I think we have at least one more season of Puma, yeah.

Middle of June they came out last year so who knows.

Fairly sure there was talk/rumours that First city are withdrawing from being main shirt sponsor...

more waffle than a Belgian food festival in that description.

'The Newport County AFC Home Shirt is made from lightweight, breathable FreeMAX fabric that wicks away sweat and moisture, keeping players cool and dry during intense matches. The fabric is also designed to stretch and move with the player, allowing for a full range of motion without any restrictions. The side panels are made from our AeroMESH fabric to aid cooling.'

Best to just let the fans know if said shirt will accommodate a multiple X L stomach.

Reminds me of Soccer AM when they'd get new merch on and say the blurb given by the manufacturer.

Was usually about how it was the lightest football boot ever before every man and their dog started breaking bones in their feet and they realised that probably isn't what they should be aiming for.

We are with Puma until 25/26 Season

Yeay, more crap standard templates

I hope so!!

Wasn't there a big fuss this year that ours was not a template but bespoke in homage to the PL year shirt?

We had that one custom one that we ran out of and therefore wasn't cost viable to order more.

I've said it before but go for a lesser brand and get a better deal for the club. Those Strikeforce kits were some of my favourites, but I don't think they exist anymore.

That was marketing fluf. It had a black trim ffs.

Correct. So to be fair, neither this season's or last season's shirt was from a standard template... not that I'd be terribly bothered if they were...

It had the 'swirl' from the Premier League kit or something...

So much more the club could do to max out kit sales, with marketing around kit launches.

That bit didn't make sense but the swirly bits were from our Prem shirts...

That black trim needs to go and absolutely no white shoulder panels, we get relegated almost every time we have white on the shoulders.

I'd quite like green back on the kit. Despite the fact I can't see it, felt like it made us fairly unique in our colour scheme.

Darius?

True, but by the same token, EVERY time without fail that we've been relegated... we've worn red🤔

Re; Newport, I bet that's the same reason Shitty had their next season's kit on sale super early, they were both Hummel kits, who's UK retailer went bust and weren't able to sell any more stock.


Our home kit this season is definitely bespoke, that's the oil spill pattern from the early 90s.

Holy shit

Those brands were hit and miss as well though. I can’t remember exactly which manufacturer it was, but the shirt material one year was so horribly uncomfortable it was unwearable without another layer. (Might have been ‘dgi’? Sam Parkin era I think)

that was a diamandis special "coalsack"

Have you seen our kits for the last two seasons?
Anything but that.

Yeah that was DGI. I still have a pair of white shorts from that kit which is really high quality. not badges peeled off like the kits made 10 years later. The original shirts were totally the wrong material though.

Been saying this for years now.

So many teams play in red and white but we used to have a little touch of green just to look a bit different.

Although back then in the 90s & 00s half our club crest was green. Now it’s red, white with gold trimming. So I can see why a lot manufacturers wouldn’t think to add green to any STFC design.

On the topic of DGI, I thought the blue on that kit was a dark green when I first saw it. Why the fuck we had blue on our kit i'll never know.

Some of the t shirts in the club shop looked like a pepsi logo.

The away kit was lovely though.

I'd actually love us to go back to the 90s badge. Felt unique.

And some green trim would be very smart.

Same as this year with black. Black has absolutely nothing to do with us.

I like this seasons kit but would like it a whole lot more if the black trim was white & green.

Nostalgia has come back around on that badge for a lot of people, but its an objectively worse badge. It doesn't mean anything.

I'm not overly fussed on the inclusion of green, but if it was it probably would have improved it.

We did have black trim on a lot of our early kits, but that doesn't mean I like it anymore.

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

Not that horrible safeways logo, if we are going retro go back to the late 70s badge

Always hated that badge. Looked too plain and streamlined for a football club - which ironically is what’s in vogue now with a lot of clubs making their club crest more block colours and less intricate design.

I much prefer our current badge to the 90s effort but again, like kits if the train and outlines were green instead of gold it would feel a lot more STFCish if that makes sense.

We were ahead of our time on shite modernism.

Maybe it is the gold that annoys me. Or that it is never embroidered. Somehow I just think of the new one as 'cheap'.

The train should definitely be green.

I was rewatching the 1997 Portsmouth game earlier and the green socks were a great look!

Did those 'match worn' shirts (which were oddly advertised as from the Northampton away game) ever get sold? And how much did they go for?

read all about it

https://www.matchwornshirt.com/event/29-12-2022-northampton-town-swindon-town (https://www.matchwornshirt.com/event/29-12-2022-northampton-town-swindon-town)

£108*-£450 - the lowest was Roberts but he wasn't picked (as stated in advert)

it's much better laid out now

https://www.matchwornshirt.com/category/swindon-town

Thanks. Wow someone paid nearly a grand for Charlie Austin's shirt!

Jody Morris buying it to clean his windscreen perhaps?

haha - yeah maybe!

"windscreen"... not my first thought.

First City no longer front shirt sponsor.

Retained for back of home shirt sponsor.

The front sponsor is Mpermit the car park provider by all accounts.

Work Permit? It's a Zav thing.

MPermit the Frog?

Must be a leap of faith. Still would go well with the green away kit.

If true, it might please those who've been calling for a bit of green on the shirt

(https://www.chipside.com/images/mipermit-x-600-1.png)

Edit: apparently MiPermit were on our shorts last season. I had no idea.

Confirmed.

https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/2023/may/town-announce-mipermit-as-new-headline-partner/

I find it interesting that despite this being mentioned on the comms yesterday about First City;
"Swindon Town FC Commercial Manager, James Watts, commented: "We are delighted that First City have agreed to continue sponsoring Swindon Town FC for another season and I would like to thank Stephen Trowbridge not only for his continued support but also for agreeing to allow a new sponsor to come on board as our headline partner in a record deal for the club."

There is absolutely no mention of it being a record deal on the official website in the comms today. (apparently it was on twitter, although I haven't seen) You'd think it would be something to shout about, it's great news.

EDIT - they've changed it now, fair play.

A record deal compared to what ? under Clem or in the clubs history ?

I wonder if the work they are doing in the car park is linked or separate, you would not have thought they would take in one hand and give back in the other.

It's a bit vague and to me lacks a bit of fanfare. - it states 'Swindon Town are delighted to announce that MiPermit will become our new headline partner for the 2023/2024 in record club agreement'

Well its at least a better deal than last season, so that's good!

Possibly the latter given inflation since the Andrew Black days when we were doing alright with sponsors.

I think the 'big name' sponsors like Samsung, EA Sports and Four Four Two Magazine didn't actually bring in a lot of income I was told. Around that time we had that stupid Samsung win a contract thing so I think some of the sponsorship was in exchange for exposure rather than actual dollar and cents.

I'd imagine Burmah or Nationwide would have been our biggest sponsor and they were yonks ago so given inflation, this crowd could well be the biggest.

I don't know a lot about Mipermit and it's kind of irrelevant but I googled them out of curiosity and out of 65 google reviews they have an 'impressive' rating of 1.3/5

I saw the reviews too.

maybe they'll make their money back in parking fines for town fans!

I work for a local authority and MiPermit do all our back end stuff for car parking, so hoping for a few comps next season.

In fairness, I can't imagine many people go out of their way to review a parking company after a positive experience.

Yeah that's true.

I always take reviews with a pinch of salt to be honest. When I was looking for a place to go on Honeymoon I went onto tripadvisor to see what people were saying about a lovely looking place in St Lucia and it got a poor average because 'there was too much seaweed in the sea on the private beach'

 Could you imagine the uproar if we went retro and reinstated ISIS as shirt sponsors 😂😂

Fairly sure “the Kitmen” have hidden the new shirt somewhere in their TikTok with Charlie.

Is it the one with white trimmed sleeves hanging on the rail?

Review sites need to be 'reviewed' with a huge pinch of salt.  You have places that quite clearly send out their staff on a mission to up rate (usually you see a spate of first time reviewers post about the same member of staff over a few days or weeks with little other reviews inbetween) and then you get the idiots of the world like you describe.  People who moan about a resort in the Costas because the food was all foreign and the staff were speaking Spanish.

Isn't that the 18/19 home kit? That had a chunk of white on the hem of the sleeve? The Sky Bet responsible gambling patch appeared that year as well, I think.

I wouldn't be surprised if they'd snuck something in though.

Yeah, or some cunt will give a hotel a bad review because there was some problem using their loyalty card vouchers or something (which may not even have been valid) I'm really not interested in that if I'm thinking of staying in a particular hotel...

Last seasons kicked 50% off. Never usually bother but just got an away shirt.

How do the shirts size up? Chest size 48-50, is that XL,2XL,3XL?

Yeah I wasn't really sure. Went 2x fat bastard just in case. If that don't fit then I need to step up the gym.

Launching today via the Life of a Kitman podcast.

https://youtu.be/hA7gtVYcDYE

Price for an adult shirt has held steady at about £45 for a while.
Hopefully that will remain the case.
Still reasonable when compared with PL prices for example.

Wonder if our Chief Sustainability Officer was tempted to suggest an extra £10 for every additional X in required size.
A fat bastard premium if you like.
Surprisingly an XL is still a nice fit for me.

Could be a good move if Doughty was thinking of expanding his business into the football shirt market.

It's possible that a fair few fans have also expanded over the summer.

So is the kit being revealed by the podcast or are they just discussing it after being announced?!

No idea, hopefully they'll just release it online and then discuss it afterwards, but imagine the club will want to send traffic towards their podcast.

Club normally do a pre order option first don't they?

Get an idea of number & sizes before placing the main order with Puma.
Or just educated guesswork based on sales from previous years.

I just watch 2 mins of that Kit man thing - Couldn’t stand any more!

yeah. seems to be last year's white kit in red.

but with the twist, roundabouts woven in front, train back (the right train?)

I like a bit of individuality.

shame it's not otherwise innovative in style

It's got the magic roundabout on it....

That looks awful.

I think you are being kind! Yeah it doesn't look great.

Incredibly dull in my opinion. I like the effort they put into the details, but jesus from the stands its just boring as hell.

Roundabouts are quite funny but they should have committed and done them in full white...

I like the detail - so it will look pretty unique up close but from a football spectating distance - it’ll look about as plain as possible.

Looks alright, train on the back remains a nonsense, and it may be the pics but it looks a bit orangey red.

Ultimately who really cares, it's red, if the kids like it that's all that real matters.

Meh... Red shirt with trim, does the job. Personally would prefer white shorts to red but I know a lot of people like the red.

It'll do... we'll be changing again this time next year anyway.

My lack of excitement I think reflects how I feel about the Club in general at the moment...

Worst I can remember.

Wont care if we get promoted wearing it.

The person who posted a picture of Daisy May Cooper's Swindon BAFTA dress is spot on to be fair.

Think it like it more than most though.

I quite like it. The adver has a full pic of Charlie wearing it & I think it looks smart. Don’t @ me!

I think it is only MIPERMIT's shocking logo that is making this look a bit market stall. Possibly not quite the right red either. But at least some endeavour has taken place with the magic roundabout thing. And I like red shorts!

Their actual logo on their website has the MI in green and the permit in white. I think had they gone with those colours it may have worked better.

I think sadly your right about market stall and the Daisy May Cooper Swindon dress is also quite near the mark.

A generous 7/10 for me.
Dull previously mentioned, how I would also sum up.

Not worried, all about the cracking signings we will make……can only hope.

It's ok but still prefer white shorts.

Another (admittedly pointless) vote for white shorts. It’s traditional FFS.

The shirt is OK-ish but should be a darker red, more like the Adidas ones from the Samsung era.

red shorts in our last playoff final win though

Definitely looks like the Daisy May Cooper one. Agree a darker red would look better. Think it looks better when you see the whole kit together. Not sure I will be getting it this year.

Yeah, looks alright in that to be fair...

Simple design on the front, the back will be cluttered with name and number.

To be fair I also agree.

Fair enough :clap:

I like it, very similar to the castrol era.
Will see what the away kids are like before seeing if I get one or more. Will be buying that one though

Opinions and arseholes, some will like some won’t like, it’s ok, I don’t mind the shade of red and train on back is a decent touch imo.

The “roundabouts” thing I find bizarre though, just reminds me of science in secondary school learning about molecule structures.

Blue and black striped away kit would be good.

I quite like it, although the sponsor looks rubbish. At first glance I thought it said IMPERFECT.

What colour will the away kit be I wonder?

It's the back that will look shit. With the train, and the damn first city logo which has a huge logo above it, the players name will be half way down their back. Why they never learn that it looks dog shit when they do that I have no idea.

https://twitter.com/Official_STFC/status/1674134742076215298?t=ZqfE4ShsfZQLuBsFUtUN0A&s=19

Fucking hate Puma kits, and this is one of the worst we have had IMO.  And the red shorts can do one..

Because people buy them?

Overall, I think it's fine. I'm not sure what people want really...as I've already said, my preference would be for white shorts but we've worn red ones quite a few times over the years and quite a lot of people like the all red so...yeah...it's all good...better than last season's effort with the black mixed in which didn't work for me...

My wants from a home kit don’t really differ year to year. I also don’t think they are particularly over the top.

1. Somethings a bit unique that isn’t a bog standard template other clubs have or you can literally buy from the kit manufacturers website for £7.99.

2. A tertiary colour after Red & White because red and white is extremely common kit colours. Ideally for me - green as we did in the 90s (when half our club badge was green) even now I’d take gold because we have gold on our current club badge.


…the last three kits have been really good on the first point.
I said at the time - I really like last season kit. The swirls pattern was a nice throw back.
However, it was extremely poor on my second want. Black ffs. If it had been green (…or even gold) or a combination of both I’d have liked the kit infinitely better.

…well that’s what I’d like from a home kit away.

Point 2 i couldnt agree with more. Kits need a third colour as an accent. The best kits have it always. I guess its a cost thing at our level. The current kit with some gold/black/green accents would be twice as good.

Doesn't bother me as I'm a 50+ year old man  :)

Anyone seen Barnsley's new kit. Very Captain America esq.

Barnsley showing us that our kit could of been so much worse

That is incredibly busy on the front and then almost entirely plain on the back. It is also Puma, who are clearly absolutely on one this summer...

Didn't know Barnsley had won 6 World Cups  ???

In a perverse, bat crap crazy way I quite like that! I assume the US styling is being driven by the sponsor, strange they are sponsored by a US mobile company?

That is a shocker!

On the other hand, I'm not a fan of having a third colour... it's impossible to keep everyone happy. At least we won't have to put up with a Barnsley like abomination...

This thread shows you'll never get it right i suppose. I liked last years others hated it and so on

I'm not sure what a bunch of grumpy middle aged men think about it should really be  a massive concern for the club.  :D

Training kit is now in public domain

Quite like the Archibald Leitch inspired collar on the new Everton shirt

(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2023/6/29/6ad76f05-1d7d-4f52-b113-3f725e22aa72.png)

https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/2023/june/town-extend-partnership-with-grow-insurance-as-our-training-kit-partner/

Think the training kit looks quite a bit nicer.

Same every year, can’t buy a kit online as they are out of stock. Third year they have basically been unavailable unless you live in Swindon. The online shop even let me bag two of them in my basket before telling me they were out… useless. I’m gonna stop buying shirts I think

Out of stock of L within 3 hours. I have so much love for this club but it is simply a husk at the moment. Zombie club.

I literally want to give them £50. I don't live in Swindon so can't get a home shirt it seems.

Is it that we have a massive following or do we just not order enough ??.  Clem is a business man, surely he can understand the supply and demand’ theory.  There’s money to be made, why turn it away ?.  We’ll probably order more in January then have a shop full of leftover half price shirts at the end of the season the same as this year.

Even if Power torched the hard drives, Clem and Aberdeen should have 2 years worth of data on sales/sizes.

Is it that we are so broke that we can’t afford the stock?

Get the shirt sales right and it will pay for a few players.

I’m honestly running out of patience with this perpetual shoestring omnishambles.

frustrating you can't put a back order in but I guess they'll get more in before the start of the season

Would’nt bank on it.

Why can’t they simply get people to pre-order, so they can gauge demand…

Compared to every League Club, our shop and stock been shocking for the last 10-15 years.
Even if you had excess stock near the end of the season and sell for half price your still making profit surely. We must just order 20 training tops in all sizes last season.  :hmmm:

PS (don't leave it until the week after the season ends to try and shift the remaining white shirts at a decent price)  :doh:

Sizes I would guess.
Adidas ones fit a treat in the correct size, Puma always come up small. My Adidas is a large yet puma is xxxl as they shrink too.

I have only just noticed that last years away kit is basically the same as the home kit but with different colours?

Yeah, in a roundabout way :)

I smiled and I hate myself for that.

that's my take too:

Nice, albeit saw a close up picture of the kit last night and it looks more like the Atomium in Brussels?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Brussels_-_Atomium_2022.jpg/250px-Brussels_-_Atomium_2022.jpg)

TBF I loved visiting the Atomium, so I will be buying the shirt based upon that alone.

Maybe it's a cryptic message.

Atomium Brussels
Brussels is famous for the pissing boy (Manneken Pis)
They're telling us that we're going to piss the league.

Obvious when you think about it.

Maybe they are just taking the piss?

Loved Brussels when I went but never made it to the Atomium, so based on your remarks its on the list.

Albeit thanks to sodding P&O its now considerably more difficult to get to Belgium from here than it was 3 years ago!!

Belgium in general is a very underrated country in my opinion. Brussels is a great base for touring around. From there you can get to just about anywhere in the country by train in not much more than an hour.

And boy do they like their beer :pint: :) :)

Agreed, a lovely country with lovely people, good food and great beer.

The view from the Atomium is amazing, also a good view of the King Baudouin Stadium (previously Heysel)

My pic from the top of the Atomium a few years back.

(https://i.postimg.cc/k5HW871H/DSCF0294.jpg)

It was a very sunny day but the windows are very tinted up there.

Looks like they do have the stock

Given the sponsor then maybe the design on the front was a failed attempt at a network of interconnected wheel clamps.

Another vote for Belgium, Brussels & the beer.

seems so, but some people are reporting they can't check out at the last stage in some sizes.

the shop definitely has all sizes (confirmed by someone on Twitter).

Fake or real?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0DguYTX0AApgON?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Don’t mind it if real

Reminders me of the goalkeepers shirt from around 1997

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/07/70/98/07709855137ff01e70cea9e92eb2bba7.jpg)

Certainly looks convincing and I like it more than the home kit.

I bloody hope it’s real

That one looks like the fabric on a Barnes Coaches seat!

fake "concept kit"

https://twitter.com/elzeagle/status/1675593493475995649?t=dwYjhYXNrnfA21lcSioYxQ&s=19

We should possibly go down this route!!

https://www.trendsclothing-shop.com/collections/efl-hawai-shirt-collection-2023-new-model/products/bmcd345?variant=1000010669721235

Damn it. That is a blinder.

There's more Away kit rumours than there are Transfer rumours  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Yeovil Town went retro when they returned to Non League.  Now they're showing an upside to retro [imo] with their new kit. 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0VqEk4WwAAxhH1?format=jpg&name=medium (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0VqEk4WwAAxhH1?format=jpg&name=medium)

Nice kit tbf.

Like that..  imagine in red (similar to the play off season) but a smarter collar and more importantly, not puma

Away kit to be announced next week.

I have it on good authority that the away kit is actually rejecting our offer and going to be worn by a NL team instead.

Would take that design & colour as an away kit this season…

I keep going on about how we should bin the big brands after Puma and go for someone a bit random, Mizuno in the 90s totally fits that bill. Random Japanese brand.

Minus the itchy collar round neck that Mark Walters used to cut open to make his own collar, they were some quality kits and the GK ones show that. That purple one and the jigsaw one as well. Very 90s.

Which was the kit that resembled something your gran might have knitted, didn’t that come from some random unknown company

DGI

diamandis special

That’s the one, pretty sure I still have my sons one of those in the loft 😂

They changed the material after. The design was actually pretty good apart from having blue on the home for some reason.

Don't let it get wet, it will come through the ceiling!

Mizuno got quite 'big' in the sportswear world for a bit in the 90s didn't they? From memory quite a lot of guys in my school had mizuno bags and were sporting mizuno jumpers.

They seemed to have more of a presence than they do now. Seems to be mostly a golf brand.

I'd love to know what happened to Strikeforce. Some of our best kits.

They seem to have had us, Millwall and Rovers in 04-05 and then silence since. https://www.footballkitarchive.com/strikeforce-2004-05-kits/

That third one is a thing of beauty, still got mine and can still fit in to it when i'm not quite so fat and getting to the gym. Must have been a tent on me at the time.

Actually looking at it, there are not many kits that have got my juices running. https://www.footballkitarchive.com/swindon-town-kits/#2000s

In all my time I've only had 93-94 home, 97-99 away (that is the one shirt I loved!) 200-02 away (no idea why I had that, its rank!) and 09-10 away!

The Puma ones are all meh, and actually looking back not sure most of the Adidas ones were much better!

Puma have had some crackers with a few not great ones. Adidas were all pretty good.

Lotto both times a mixed bag as well. Some nice ones but their first home kit was almost pink. Lonsdale weren't great at all.

Loved the Strikeforce ones.

Was a fan of Xara too but they suffered from sponsor peel off Kingswood style.

Talking of companies who used to make a lot of football kits but now seemingly don’t

ASICS.
Some absolutely classics in the 90s

Hummel kits are quite distictive with the chevrons.

I think that AFC Wimbledon might have been the last club to have an Admiral kit, possibly not that long ago.

Think Leeds returned to their Admiral roots in about twenny oh six

Who remembers Bukta?? A sure way of showing your age if you do😉

Fun fact - Mizuno still make Lazio's kits:

https://www.footballshirtculture.com/new-kits/lazio-2023-24-mizuno-away-kit.html

 :)

Couple of Deutchy teams as well, this is *glorious* - https://www.footballshirtculture.com/new-kits/fc-augsburg-2023-24-mizuno-third-kit.html

https://www.footballshirtculture.com/new-kits/brentford-2023-25-umbro-home-kit.html

Interesting that Brentford are doing their kits every 2 years. There can't be many clubs around the world doing that?

I knew I'd seen a team wearing Mizuno kit recently, couldn't remember for the life of me who it was... They make quite good quality stuff. I think golf is their big thing isn't it? Certainly used to be...

I do like that tbf,

Crazy isn't it-used to be the norm for us.

I personally think more replica kits would be sold if teams only changed every two years as used to be the case*

*WTF do I know?

It is an interesting one isn't it OST? I wonder if anyone at Brentford has now been able to crunch their numbers and see whether there is any data to support your opinion.

Although with Brentford I guess their kit launch 2 years ago coincided with their promotion to the Premier league which is going to wildly skew their numbers.

Brentford seem to be doing a lot right these days so it will be interesting to see the results... hope it's a success... would mean I was right as well. First time for everything 😉

Sign them up. If they can reissue the Div 2 Champions petrol green shirt while they're at it would be lovely.

Fair play for doing that. 3 new ones every year at exterminate prices is the norm now.

Another good thing about Strikeforce, I remember the club priced them at £30 a pop when £40 was the standard norm and what we had been paying a year before.

Any idea how they are pricing them?

False economy if they are doubling the price!!

Doesn't a Premier League footy shirt cost about 80 quid these days?

I've still got that shirt. It's a bit tired these days but I do still wear it semi regularly

FIFY  ;D

Is this real??

Very Norwich City if true. I don't mind that at all if it is 'real'

I assume the goalkeepers kits has not been sorted yet as well, I note that on Saturday he was just wearing a plain green with no sponsor on etc.

Looks like that Arsenal kit from about 1991? But a knockoff version.

I like it.

Looks shite, so I hope not. We already had yellow and green like two seasons ago, can we not?

Couldn’t own a yellow Swindon shirt…!

Was hoping for a return to Blue and Black. Always thought those were great kits

Can you imagine hearing chants of yellows, yellows at away games😡

All white with some red trim.

We had a yellow and green away kit 2 seasons ago

I remember now but not something I could warm to!

You can't set-up a successful Aussie Academy without breaking some eggs.

Something like this would be acceptable for omelette and academy purposes 😀

We've had yellow away or third choice kits in loads of previous seasons, the 21/22 one, 93/94 (the PL Burmah Brazil kit) and pretty much all the 80's through early 90's.

Spall GWR has to be if not is the best we had. Loved it

The yellow Burmah PL kit was a thing of beauty. Didn't Crystal Palace also go down the 'Brazil' route with their away offering about the same time?

I really, really want that yellow Burma kit. So fucking nice.

Agree that pale yellow and blue Burmah kit is gorgeous. Forest went for a similar away kit last season. Which I was very jealous of.

Fucking yellow?   :no:

As has been noted we've had yellow away kits for some time. Plus, none of them have ever been predominantly piss stain yellow and dark blue...if they brought out an almost identical Pox shirt for an away kit, I'd shake my head too but nowt wrong with the more sunshine, pastel or lemon yellows that Town have had. And tbh, they've all looked decent.

Even the Norwich/Australia kit looked decent...nice own goal by Power there. If he'd sold to  anyone other than an Aussie, that would have been his attempt at a parting shot, for the club to play in colours he played in but really, it conveniently became a bit more synonymous with the new owner  :D

Nah I've had enough of yellow tbh. Its a shite colour even discounting the Oxford thing and we had it two seasons ago. Really hope it isn't.

I'd love to see an away kit themed off of the GWR livery. Always seems like something that would make sense for the club given the history of the town, but off the top of my head, we've never had a kit like it

Dark and pale blue, circa 96  8)

I’ve got a couple in the loft, having lost weight I might even be able to get into the bigger one again now.

I've always liked the retro Fiorentina shirts from the 90's

Can't even get the colour of the train on our badge right. Should try and do that first. But yeah, a dark green away kit I'd be up for.

Purple kits are pretty rare in football, aren't they? I wouldn't mind a tribute to Harchester away strip.

Brunswick Green or Chocolate and Green??


Its not the colour that's the problem, its the absurdity of having a tank engine with a tender  :D


Not that rare  ;)

(https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/siteassets/club-content/201920/away-cambridge/cambridge_swindon_0002.jpg/Large)

Would love to see something along the lines of this one (my favourite Adidas released kit this year), wont be to everyone's taste of course but I really like it  :clap:

https://www.footballshirtculture.com/new-kits/aberdeen-2023-24-adidas-away-kit.html

(https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/cwgallery/1039-aberdeen-2023-24-adidas-away-kit/thumb_1039_aberdeen_2023_24_adidas_away_kit_b.jpeg)

Very rare these days and the purple/blue would look good with white shorts.

Was thinking of the Brunswick green, but a chocolate and cream kit would be quite unique also

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https://youtu.be/N5bfomFlRHg

There we go😀

Gis the smaller one then. I fit into a medium. PWEASE

I’ll check what sizes they are & let you know

Legend

New away shirt is a beaut

Haven't bought a shirt in yonks but I do like this one. I'm a bit of a sucker for a blue away shirt, the 2014 Inter Milan style one was today's gym shirt and I also bought the blue/black Imagine Cruising effort from a few years back.

Definitely getting that. Size guide would be nice. Last years home large was a little bit tight but my mate had both and said the away was a larger fit in the same size.

Absolutely is, wouldn't be surprised if it sold better than our home

Cracking away shift with blue being my first choice.

Looks decent.
Not sure we needed to send a load of players to a fairground to launch it though.
Waste of money, we’re skint etc.

A pic of it online and a pic of someone wearing it would have sufficed

I know it's your schtick, but stop being such a grumpy cunt.

It’s not my schtick at all. You should try reading my posts. I’ve not been wrist slitting due to the lack of signings like the large majority. I also don’t believe what other posters are saying about our finances.

…I’m not sure it comes under grumpy to question why we’ve done a kit launch video at a funfair?

Just marketing innit, the logic is that the kit will be seen by more and sell more (and the club gets more social media engagement) than if we just published a few pics of players wearing it around the ground.

With the way that football kits seem to be more fashionable now, there probably is something in it - if we can sell a bunch more kits than usual (and it being nice helps I'm sure!) then great for the coffers.

I get the logic behind what you are saying but the large majority of your clientele are going to be Swindon fans, who already engage with the clubs social media who would engage with any sort of kit launch.

…not a social media expert but I can’t see why / how a funfair video will make more people watch it or engage people outside of the STFC fanbase…or further down the line make anyone who isn’t an STFC fan buy one.

Just so you know, the fairground is in the county ground car park, so it didn't take much to think up the idea, and i doubt they paid to use it.

Agree - cracking shirt.
Now a Centre back tomorrow to wear it.

As you would say Duke keep the faith!

Definite?

Baudry is coming out of retirement.

I'm clearly in a small, small minority.  I think the home one is OK and the away one is awful.

I am probably the only one whose brain reads Muppet when looking at the sponsor name as well.

Couldn't afford his Pension contributions, back as a modern slave.

Yeah, that part was sarcasm.
I didn’t really think we’ve travelled to one and paid to have exclusive use and paid the players extra danger money in case of injury.

I do like the away kit, but it does look like something a lesser county would wear in the t20 blast

Haha, so true. Beversbrook Blasters

Can you imagine if one of the players suffered a dislocated shoulder on the dodgems!

Oh, if only I had a few transfer rumours to post in this thread!

As for the away shirt - I don't support Millwall. I don't understand why they have gone for that colour.

I don't really understand the "it looks like another club" stuff - it's an away kit, it by definition can't look like a Swindon kit. Are we supposed to come up with a completely unique idea because I'm not sure cyan and magenta stripes will go down very well.

Same logic as saying I don't like our red home shirt as I don't support Man Utd, Liverpool, Barnsley etc

I like the away shirt

"One more car two more riders"

Haven't been a kit buyer since i was a kid but it’s an absolutely lovely kit

So what if it looks like a bit like a Millwall kit? Hopefully we get the same Millwall fighting spirit (on the pitch) from it as they do

Sorry, am I not allowed to have an opinion?

I don't like it.

I like 95-97. But I only have 00-02 (home & away):

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebc3741a092f47af648aca5/1668949034557-43T9Q49I82796D2LEDPM/Swindon-Town.jpg?format=1000w)

I heard it’s the main reason Iandolo decided to leave.
He knew the fairground away kit reveal was coming up and he couldn’t risk it…

95-97 looks a bit like Wycombe, do you support Wycombe? ;)

I also used to have that kit :)

Absolutely fucking would buy.

Would have poked himself in the eye with the Candy Floss stick!

I wore my 97-99 away kit on Wednesday.

Still fits!

The away kit colour choice from 81-84 and 87-89 was interesting/brave/.

Its a fair cop!

I still don't like the new one.

And I've just realised that its the 04/05 ones I have.

Opinions and arseholes mate, it's all good :)

It never bothered me as it was only our away kit. I don't actually remember anyone else making any adverse comments about it either. Times change I guess...or maybe my memory has just gone to shit...

Edit: could also be that we didn't play Oxford much around those times...

I like the away shirt, much better than the home shirt which is terrible IMO.  Dissapointed with the shorts though, just plain blue, would have been good to continue the shirt theme somehow, gold lines, piping etc.

Much more good than bad over the years I reckon.
2007-08 were awful though.

I wonder how red & black quarters would go down.
Would be a bold move & a proper nod to history.

Those Kingswood kits were miserable.

Nowadays it looks like what a jockey might wear at Haydock, but it's certainly different. I'd much prefer a 1901-19 offering than an 1897-01 however! :)

Yes, all very Edinburgh derby-ish...looks a bit out of place really...

It does! Didn't seem to settle into the 'proper' colours until 1919.

I think Town should employ scientists every summer to invent a new colour so that our away kits can’t be compared to anything that has ever happened.

The smaller one is a size 38/40

How about they stick with the same one?

They do that with home kits!

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This was my fear with the kit. That stupid First City logo is too deep with the design above the name. So now the player name and number are way too far down the shirt.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2hzWPGWsAI6_8k?format=jpg&name=large)

Wow, that does look shit. That First City logo could be re-arranged to have the rose on the left of the words and it would look much better.

Yeah looks shit that.

Wait until they have to double layer Hepburn-Murphy.

I guess as the club are printing the logo on, its within their power subject to commercial agreement to bin off the rose thing.

Does it have the Barnes Coaches on the sleeve?
If not then don't put first city care group on the back more so if you want a name and number

the train could have gone on the 'collar' bit above the double hem?

Yeah the train adds to the problem. Whoever designed/agreed this all needs a kicking.

Train (collar)
Name
Number
Sponsor

Why does the train need to be there at all means feck all, its not as if the present  badge is historic.

I thought you were a train buff, considering your avatars  :)

Oh I am, (with an old man and 2 generations before him who worked inside I had no choice), but the thing on the badge/back of the shirt is a bastardisation of anything that ever emerged from the works at swindon.

Positioning and spacing is mandated by the EFL, according to the diary of a kitman, so i don't think they can change the location or order of the sponsor/name/number.

But no-one else's shirt numbers are largely over the players arses are they. If Mr shirt tucked-in short  up  to cover his navel Steve White was still playing for us you'd only see the top inch and a half of his number.

Spot on.

Have we actually seen the shirts with numbers/names etc in the flesh yet, I do wonder whether the example pic is a kids shirt or a very small adult one where the numbers etc are never proportionate?

Where did the image originate from? Seems to be a fuck ton of artefacts on that image, especially around the First City logos and 'KEMP'  :hmmm:

I think if I had one request for next season it would be embroidered badges. It instantly elevates any kit.

One for the AB if anyone else agrees!

Probably elevates cost too, and they don't seem to have a problem shifting shirts of the design is right.

(I do agree though)

Increases cost by less than £2 per shirt.

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We've begun to process limited orders, while we continue to await a further delivery of stock early next week.

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Agree. All my Adidas Swindon shorts from ten years ago the logo has peeled, got a pair of Northern Ireland ones with an embroidered badge and that'll outlast me.

Get a lesser name to give us a better deal and not shitty iron ons.

That's not good enough, I bought 3 for the kids as a surprise on the previso they'd be ready for this weekend.

It's okay, they've only known that the season starts in early August since...forever.

Did they say anything about them being in time for the first game when they put them on sale?

The website has said ‘available on 10/8’ ever since the away kit went on sale.

Sounds like a delay at Puma's end to me. Don't suppose there's a chance this could be breach of contract, freeing us up to get a decent supplier sooner than planned? Imagine that's wishful thinking!

Wasn't it ending this season anyway? Feel like people have been saying one more season forever.

Yeah that was from the outset.
Collect on the 10 or deliveries to start a coupe of days prior so they were ready for the new season.
They sell loads every year, how do we have this issue each time.
Plus (not the clubs fault) puma shirt sizing is atrocious, I am not a 3xl and my 13 Yr old isn't a bloody small adult.

Finger crossed.
Castore are knocking out some decent stuff recently

They have produced some really good ones, but the Mansfield and PNE kits aren't great.

Shush you, read the room!  :D

when are they back on general sale?

Sooner Puma are gone the better. Delayed both kits now

I'll always hark back to my first Mizuno kit from 1997 with a proper embroidered badge. Still looks mustard.

I'm sure they'd happily pass that on. But I guess a change of manufacturer might offset it.

You’re dead right. My lad is 4.5 yrs old and I got him a 5-6 shirt, when it arrived apart from being nearly skin tight, all the front sponsor was peeling off. I took it back and swapped for a size 7-8!

The prices are insane and if Rangers are anything to go by, they have about 6 kits a year.

Mizuno was class outside of the material on the round neck.

If you're shelling out that much money for a shirt, another £2 to ensure the badge doesn't peel off seems like nothing.

But yeah, new kit provider please.

This is very lazy on my brain's part but I wonder if there is an Australian kit manufacturer that Clem might be looking to work with. It would probably go against Michael Doughty's sustainability charter however.

Seems they charge £70 for the big clubs but lower league teams cost less. Mansfield £45, Charlton £55, Franchise £55.

Do any EFL clubs have an embroidered badge?

I'd like to think that no one on this forum is sad enough to know that.

(waits for some cunt to come out with a list for all 92 Clubs)

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Someone will know!

Last seasons kits from the A-League.
Some Australian suppliers there.

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2022/10/a-league-22-23-kit-overview.html

UCAN have done some decent kits for Adelaide since 2020.

https://www.footballkitarchive.com/adelaide-united-kits/

I bet Hummel embroid their badges.

Anyone had an email to collect their away shirt yet?

DHL delivered mine today having so say collected it on Weds last week......didn't actually seem to get collected until the Thursday and then it sat in their delivery depot on Friday/Saturday/Sunday just to piss me off ahead of Saturday's home match.

When I was in the shop earlier in the week, I was told the stock coming in was being allocated out to the timeline of when orders were placed. I think there is another stock drop imminent.

anybody know when general sale stock is coming in?

Yes. 12:42 this afternoon.

Still awaiting a collection email... ffs. It's taking an age.

Popped into club shop. They have had no deliveries at all of Adults Large apparently. None at all.

Potentially arriving today/tomorrow.

Picked mine up today. Think I accidentally got 5% of the club shares with it too…

Got a bit lost in the shuffle of all the Clem Companies House bollocks.....but why the fuck is the club signed up with Puma until 2025? Late kits every year, iron on badges, run out of stock every year.

Shit decision.

Probably signed the contract by accident

I thought they said it was an inherited situation.

I could only find this

https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/2018/may/town-renew-partnership-with-PUMA/

I thought last night i read it was 2026?

Even better.

You'll have to excuse me for not knowing about these kind of things, but what are the benefits to the club/individuals for these seemingly very long contract agreements with PUMA? We've had them a as kit manufacturer since 2015. Do clubs get a better deal for sticking with a manufacturer for an extended period of time?

It'll just be cheaper every year. Problem that we have with Puma is that it wasn't paid for x amount of years properly and when Clem came he had to pay them with his credit card as they wouldn't set up an agreement. Same with Barnes

I may have imaged this, but didn't it get renewed at short notice the summer that the ownership was uncertain with possible admin etc and then ultimately changed, if that's the case I suspect they had little choice bar extend with the existing supplier as I imagine no new supplier would touch them with a barge pole!

That sounds likely. Puma held all the cards in that discussion of course! Our 7 2 offsuit never stood a chance against pocket aces!

Got my email today, shame I live too far to collect in person now. Have to wait till the creepy game. Oh well a surprise for the kids

I read 2026 also, but when I had a convo in the shop last week I asked when are we binning shitty puma shirts off for Adidas......the response was along the lines of watch this space so maybe something is happening behind the scenes?

Adidas would be my wish, but seriously, lotto, castore, hummel, pretty much anyone other than puma with their spray on iron on shite.

Adidas were iron on badges too though.

Yeah think so. The last embroidered one I remember was the Lotto kits. I think some might be crossing over the kit sponsorship with the kit manufacturers mixed up. We had FourFourTwo from memory whilst having Lotto and they were in place as it changed to Adidas....the Kit Sponsor then change to Samsung/FIFA/FourFourTwo...I think.

But yeah I'm sure the change from embroidered was the end of the Lotto one to Adidas

Say what you like about DGI, they embroidered the badge!

A mere twenty years young that kit now. So that would have been the 'New Beginnings' type badge yeah? The 'Diamond' jobbie {oo-er}  :headhurts:

Yeah, the second batch they got for the players that were actually cotton were good, but most of us had already bought the nan knitted version.

I've still got a pair of the shorts and they're in good nick. Can't say the same for my adidas swindon ones with the badges all worn and the DGI ones are a lot older.

My FIFA12 black and red Adidas shirt has an embroidered badge I think. It's very badly faded now however.  

Edit - actually if it's faded I am probably talking bollocks.

Aah trying to think now as I has that FIFA one...was the the one with the white 'S' that framed the edges of the shirt with a 'premium' type of mesh/wicking. Maybe that was the last embroidered jobbie then?  :hmmm:

You could just be thinking about the shirt and/or sponsors logos fading though BO

Yeah the adidas badges will fade first before they peel. they're definitely iron ons.

Fill yer boots  :D The one I was thinking of was the first Adidas one which was the sexy 09/10 one. And the Lotto ones ended the season previous....but as I rightly thought the Four Four Two sponsor continued and the 08/09 Lottos shirt was the last of our embroidered badge ones

https://www.footballkitarchive.com/swindon-town-kits/#2000s

I may (occasionally) post some stupid things, but I know the fucking difference between a club badge and a sponsors logo on a shirt you absolute lamp post.

Kin'ell pal I was only trying to be helpful in jogging your memory you fucking turd. It could have been an easy mistake to have an embroidered badge with a faded sponsor logo shirt of ten years old, that is at the back of a wardrobe and just hazily/lazily thinking...'Yeah I think that one is faded' rather than a shirt with both faded badge an sponsor logos

I prefer being addressed as road sign anyway  :D

'Tis one of my gym shirts, and was utilised earlier this week, so a memory jog was not required :)

Hmm, I guess if you were a road sign, you'd be 'welcome to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogogoch'

On the way to Holyhead (which is indeed a shithole), loving your thread mash ups here!  :D ;)

Looking at that, the iron on nonsense all started with Adidas really.

06/07 Lonsdale a bit of a forgotten gem to my eyes!

From my admittedly incredibly vague recollection the Loki PL one wasn't embroidered, it was a sort of half way house iron on, I don't recall the Xara situation but Mizuno was definitely embroidered.

My Adidas one which has been relegated to turbo trainer duties is still fully intact despite probably 100's of washes.

Do may shirts have embroidered these days, I assumed it would be all iron on for some sort of performance weight/joggers nipple reason or something?

I have a pair of Northern Ireland shorts from adidas around the same time that are embroidered.

I think its simply a case that as far as the big brands like adidas and puma, that the big clubs/international teams deal directly with the company and get theirs made properly in factories and embroidered, whereas for the most part lower league clubs get templated ironons from subsidiary companies. 

:yawns: That was a bit cheap. It would be like me saying yours would be 'Welcome to Orange Land'

You're better than that BO  :D


Is that what we're calling approved TEF thread derailments now  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Weirdly I do own a pair of embroidered puma jogger shorts that I got in the sale. No idea why they can be embroidered but the actual kits can't.

So the club are stocking in the shop, yet when I ordered on the day of release I am still yet to receive a collection email. No communication. Answer the phone to talk to me!

I suspect its something to do with the underlying material, jogger stuff always seems to be embroidered, even if it isn't club specific, I assume the iron on logo's won't stick to it?

On that matter I saw a thing from the kit men getting the shirts ready for Wrexham that they have to put everything on the shirts, i'e' the plethora of sponsors plus the name and number, has it always been like this and on that basis do the shop have to put all the sponsor stuff on every shirt as well?

have you log into your account and checked? Might've mislaid that email.

check spam

Mine's been out for delivery with DPD for a week, I'm not confident I'll ever see it tbh.

That's been par for the course for ages, not sure it's down to dpd or the club.

surely if dpd say they have it, it's DPD!

unless the club have ticked the 'worse than yodel' option

Health and safety,  risk assessment Etc.

It's all odd, last time I ordered something I had a tracking email from DPD literally within a couple of minutes of placing my order saying they had it, when they couldn't possibly have had it, it then took a bloody age to arrive.

They often send an email saying they are expecting a package straight away.

Have you tried tracking it?

I think it was last summer I didn't get an email for my season ticket collection and it was because the auto fill left a space at the end of my email address causing the system to spaz out and not recognise the email address.

The retail operation is shambolic buying stuff online in my experience. If you go into your account you should see an order history which will have the latest status of your order - I only found that out through trial and error and hours spent on the phone after pre-ordering shirts last year

My order history states a database number with the status 'active'. Fuck knows what that that means.

I have a delivery email for tracking which states delivery attempted on 14th August at 07:45. No card so assume this is bollocks because someone was in then.

Standard service offering from the delivery firms to be fair so probably not directly the clubs fault.

DPD normally allows you to rearrange delivery. assume you don't have this option

Has anyone received a large or bought one in store? I think thats the delay.

No option for that unfortunately. Wait and see I suppose but that could leave it too late to get a replacement from the club.

they had large yesterday, definitely medium, xl, 3 xl

no 2 xl
.

We expecting a 3rd kit this year?

Maybe we should contact England women's team to sell their keeper shirt in our club shop with us taking 20% profit - been in the news a lot recently. Nice easy win  :D

that's a bugger. presumably 'getting on to the club to find out what's going on' is a fruitless nay impossible task

this year might be pushing it 😁

I imagine 3rd kits tend to be profitable regardless.

Off the top of my head I can’t think of a league fixture where we’d need one but felt like last season we wore the green one just as much if not more than the white one.

We generally need to release a third kit because the stock always runs out on the home and away and/or Puma are incapable of manufacturing more in a reasonable time. I don't get why we don't overorder and simply shift the rest at cost price at the end of the season to break even on them.

There is no real need for one though. No one in red has a heavy amount of blue or black on their kit.

What tends to happen once a third is released though, is we wear the away one as default away, unless that kit clashes then we wear the third.

I've not tried yet, I'll give it another week before getting the angry customer face on.

Doncaster wear black shorts so it'll be interesting to see what we wear there. Either a third kit released in the next week or a good old 90s style mash up.

Aside from that, no other fixture should be a problem apart from the fact Morecambe wear black socks.

Ah good point. Was just looking at shirts.

At the moment I'm guessing will be the mash up as I doubt the third kit is even ready. The away shirts with either red or maybe even white shorts. I assume they have white shorts as alternate home shorts.

I remember a classic mash up where we played Brentford and wore our black and gold away shirt with our home shorts (white with red trim) and plain white socks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRQVcuttb4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRQVcuttb4)

I'm sure somebody knows what colour the third kit is this year.

Try this link Chalky.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Kits.asp?Season=2003-2004

Finally picked up kit after a long wait on the phone. They forgot to send collection email apparently...

slick

Does anyone know if/when training kit will be available? Some decent gear this year.

Answering my own post here, but Training kit is in the shop on an indeterminable pre-order if anyone is interested:

https://www.stfcdirect.com/training/training-wear/adults/

That black training shirt is very smart.

And 20 notes cheaper than a shirt.....

Indeed. I’ve gone for the red one as my “shirt” this year.

Absolutely. I flat out refuse to pay £50 for a bit of sponsored polyester. I see last seasons green is available for a tenner but only in 5XL. I could use it as a duvet cover I guess!

Did the club mention they had more away shirts for sale in the shop yesterday?

missed it if so, but thankfully a friend bought one and mentioned it -  so I managed to get the one I was after the match (medium for son #1).

No idea if FM has just made this kit up themselves, but on FM24 we have a third kit

Liking that!

There was a mock up away kit on here someone post that was Purple (different design I thought) so maybe they’ve just doodled Swindon kits & found that.

It’s getting talked about on page 10 of this thread but the actual picture doesn’t appear to be there anymore…

Apparently the purple kit on FM is just a placeholder

I did think purple wouldn't make sense with a red home and dark blue away. Some mistake the away one for purple already.

Merchandising is so poor, there's such an appetite -  they'll gripe about losing money but they don't want to make any. All because no one bought Clem t-shirts at £14 a throw two years ago.

I'm almost afraid to ask....but clem t-shirts?

I know, I know.... that would have been ridiculous, right?

(https://i.ibb.co/7NxVTDm/clem.jpg) (https://ibb.co/3Y5W8bZ)

The Trust board are the only people wearing that.

Shudders.

Cringe.

2 for £5 bags of mini-eggs with the STFC logo on you say? Sign me up!

In absolute fairness, the entire CG sang "We are Fitton's Red and White Army" all through Malpas' reign. Not sure anyone bought t-shirts of it though.

in fairness the Clem feel good factor was quite high then, so I can kind of see why they did it .

But they forgot to do a Xav and Hart over shortly after!

It was wrong at the time. Pure Cult of Clem.

A Crimestoppers Wanted poster parody one of Hart and Zav would be class.

Did we ever get our stock of half and half scarves with Karachi FC?

Maybe, but I was optimistic - celebrating clean break from Power back then. I hadn't realised the baggage and BS that was coming.

Same.

Surely they'd be 50/0 scarfs. One half would have Karachi on, the other would be bank because it has nothing to do with the club.

Third Kit is out. Rather nice!

So much time for this tweet from the media dude too: https://twitter.com/Official_STFC/status/1727974082799358082

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_r75PuWEAA5Ot2?format=jpg&name=900x900)

I like that, but is it not very similar to the away kit? I can't see who we'd play where we couldn't wear dark blue but could wear purple.

That's a genuinely lovely kit, but i guess i'm old fashioned in thinking that the second and third kits ought to have a different function than just being an alternate "away kit"

This is word better than me words

Talking of kits, if anyone has a 5/6 year old, last year's away shirt is now two of your English pounds:

https://www.stfcdirect.com/black-friday/sale/kids/2940_2223-kids-away-shirt.html

Few other cheap bits in the sale too

https://www.stfcdirect.com/sale/sale/

Reminds me of the Darby Rimmer kit. Looks good and will sell well I expect. Does this mean that the reported debt we had with Puma is now dealt with? I note they don’t have men’s adult home and away kits in many sizes which isn’t ideal from a business perspective in the run up to Christmas.

Sale items featuring Angus MacDonald  :D

I was thinking the same, looking at the remaining away fixtures I can’t see any where we’d genuinely need this.

Let’s be honest - it hasn’t been made for the team to wear really has it.
Like all 3rd shirts - it’s just a gimmicky ploy to sell merchandise.

Very rarely do teams actually need a 3rd kit and usually if they do it’s because they’ve deliberately made their away kit an extremely popular colour (hello white away kits) so their home & away kits will clash with teams.

I think it looks bloody brilliant and will sell but the team won’t use it much - if ever.

…and that fact it’s been released 3 months into the season which just so happens to be a month away from Christmas is clearly not a footballing based decision either…

Brewitt's dog!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_sRva_WUAACaHi?format=jpg&name=medium)

So the football manager kit wasn't a placeholder at all then haha.

What position can the dog play?

Has a similar hairstyle!

I suspect more likley they will use this and not use the blue one. The whole kits thing is a nonsense anyway insofar as how often do you see teams playing in the 2nd or 3rd kit when there is blatantly no clash with the 1st kit!

I got one of these away shirts a couple of weeks ago for my boy, he's 5 and I don't think it'll fit him now never mind another month of growing ready for xmas they're quite small shirts. It'll probably go to his brother who's 3 and more likely to fit!  :)

Nice kit aside, purple being a cross between red and blue really makes it the most pointless choice for a third kit, doesn't it?

Luckily no cup run as if we'd have placed Crystal Palace it would have highlighted what a farce it is.

Good job we didn't end up in a replay at Aldershot  ::)

My guess is that the contract with Puma requires 3 kits - if my memory is correct they are often launched in November - the black one from a couple of years ago which had its first outing in 1-4 loss Orient away being an example.

I think there is a rule somewhere which stipulates that the main away kit will be used in a minimum number of games, and similarly (with a lower minimum) for the 3rd kit. This explains the apparently unnecessary wearing of away kits when there is no clash of colours.

The main away kit has not done its job in securing away wins so far.
Hopefully the 3rd kit will make its debut on Tuesday & herald a change of fortune on the road.

Gonna pop into my loft later to see if I can find my late 90s black and blue inter Milan style shirt for tomorrow.

Blue kit is cursed so looking forward to the change in our fortunes. I think it is better to have a bright kit, helps to quickly pick players out. I'm at risk of going all Alex Ferguson grey kit but the purple should be more visible than the blue.

Love that kit. Prime Iffy and George Ndah. 81 goals conceded that year though!