New Kit 2014-15

[Spurrific]

So who do we associated this kit with then?

 

[LiamJM10]

Just seen Southamptons new kit and they are made in house. No kit supplier on the shirt and looks really nice. I am sure Tottenham could come up with a classic looking kit with input from the fans.

Would you rather a nice kit, or tens of millions of money given to the club from a shirt supplier?

 

[13VanDerBale13]

So this is probably the third kit seeing as they got the first two right.

http://www.footyheadlines.com/2014/03/tottenham-hotspur-2014-15-away-kit.html

 

[Chris12]

So this is probbaly the third kit seeing as they got the first two right.

http://www.footyheadlines.com/2014/03/tottenham-hotspur-2014-15-away-kit.html

The side stripes also fit in with the training kit recently released so yeah probably is

 

[TwanYid]

Would you rather a nice kit, or tens of millions of money given to the club from a shirt supplier?

Didn't realize the two were mutually exclusive.

 

[degoose]

The Rafa Kit :'(

Yep that's the rafa kit for me as well.I was wearing that on my Thursday night five a side.Such a great footie shirt.

 

[KalSpur]

So the Tottenham fans who post on SC and other forums aren't representative of Spurs fans in general- and what most of us see as absolutely fucking atrocious your average workaday Clive and Philippa Yiddokins will find "quite nice, actually." And I'm guessing they'll absolutely adore the "I just finished a box of Easter Peeps, and now I'm going to poop on a Spurs top and then rake the feces in a vertical stripe up through the center, taking care not to get any on the sponsor"-style shirt.

I don't know for sure. Do Spurs fans in general spend hour after hour pressing F5 button during the transfer window, argue ceaselessly about whether DL is the best or worst chairman in the league, get grumpy and act like spoilt brats when there is no ITK (or worse if there is ITK we don't happen to like), etc, etc?

 

[JerryGarcia]

To those of you who said "everybody has different opinions when it comes to kits- you can't please everyone"- that's not true. The vast majority of people- myself included- liked last year's home and third shirts. Not everyone liked everything about them, but overall the reaction was positive.

This season's effort is fucking reviled by 90% of Tottenham fans- and I'm being conservative. I've read through threads on this subject on five different Spurs forums and the consensus is solidly, unequivocally against the putrid fucking shitjob that is this year's kit.

So in fact sorry but there actually is uniformity to things like this; indeed, most fans find these designs repulsive.

Because they are.

Ugly is ugly.

This whole thing would be funny if it weren't actually true. Our shirts look as if they were designed by a seven-year-old child during a "design a football top"-project at school, with the lone requirement being to "use all available colors."

And the fact that these shirts are supposed to honor the greatest figure in our history?!? My God, seriously, what a joke. Instead of being some kind of understated homage to the legend that is Bill Nicholson- one incorporating, say, elements from our kit circa 1962 (with its bold, clear, classic feel)- a group of Americans concocted a shirt with so many things happening on it simultaneously that it ought be named the "retro schizo."

My guess is that the UA design team was shown a bunch of black-and-white photos of Spurs teams from the early '60s and told to study them carefully, and then come up with a look that says (in full Mugatu style): "Danny-Blanchflower-finds-time-machine-then-drops-acid-and-travels-around-Asia-promoting-Tottenham-Hotspur-Football-Club-while-accompanied-by-a-merry-band-of-talking-Skittles."

To which they definitely succeeded.

Are you the old kit designer from Puma that lost his job? Your other 97 posts are the same as this one and you're starting to sound like a jilted lover. I can't believe anyone is seriously as upset as you seem to have been since the kit first got leaked.

I don't think you realise that every season on this board for the first month or so of the season, the vast majority of posters in the kit thread hate the new kit. Go back and look at the old threads, I'm not making it up. By the time we've played a few games in it, the opinions start to change and by september nobody gives a withered bollock if there's a stripe out of place or if that certain shade of blue is too light for them to handle.

At the end of the day we're here for football not fashion. If we have a good season in this kit it will be remembered fondly and if we have a bad one it will be forgotten.

 

[Marty]

At the end of the day we're here for football not fashion. If we have a good season in this kit it will be remembered fondly and if we have a bad one it will be forgotten.

This, more than anything. The kit we had in 09/10 was awful with those yellow stripes but we beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City to get to the CL in that kit, so I remember it fondly.

 

[Berglad]

This, more than anything. The kit we had in 09/10 was awful with those yellow stripes but we beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City to get to the CL in that kit, so I remember it fondly.

great season that was diminished a little by the horrendous kit

this year's is better than that one but terrible for the same reasons: over-designed, too many colors, yellow and white is bad. Absolutely bizarre how something like the 09/10 gets approved in the first place, then gets a loving homage in 14/15.

 

[thinktank]

I think the way we'll be playing this season will take everyone's minds off the gaudy kits.

 

[Spurrific]

I think the way we'll be playing this season will take everyone's minds off the gaudy kits.

I wish I lived in your world, you constantly optimistic mofo.

 

[thinktank]

I wish I lived in your world, you constantly optimistic mofo.

Tell that to Dawson.

 

[Ian Kane]

great season that was diminished a little by the horrendous kit

Are you serious ? We have a great season and all you're thinking at the end is 'great season but that kit takes the shine off it'. Astounding.

 

[LarryCatt]

Are you serious ? We have a great season and all you're thinking at the end is 'great season but that kit takes the shine off it'. Astounding.

But but but but

Danny Rose's goal against the Goons would've so more memorable without the yellow stripe. To be honest, I couldn't bring myself to even cheer when I saw Almunia flat on his arse, the ball smack against the Park Lane netting and Rose wheeling away chased by Benny. I shook my head solemnly and cursed that awful piss stain.

 

[Marty]

great season that was diminished a little by the horrendous kit

this year's is better than that one but terrible for the same reasons: over-designed, too many colors, yellow and white is bad. Absolutely bizarre how something like the 09/10 gets approved in the first place, then gets a loving homage in 14/15.

Bullshit was it diminished, it was a fantastic season (in the league, pretty awful in cups) and a dodgy kit does in no way diminish that.

 

[coyspurs18]

great season that was diminished a little by the horrendous kit

this year's is better than that one but terrible for the same reasons: over-designed, too many colors, yellow and white is bad. Absolutely bizarre how something like the 09/10 gets approved in the first place, then gets a loving homage in 14/15.

I'm sure Pool fans still aren't over their kits from this past season. CL means nothing because they had an ugly kit.

 

[TwanYid]

I don't think you realise that every season on this board for the first month or so of the season, the vast majority of posters in the kit thread hate the new kit. Go back and look at the old threads, I'm not making it up. By the time we've played a few games in it, the opinions start to change and by september nobody gives a withered bollock if there's a stripe out of place or if that certain shade of blue is too light for them to handle.

At the end of the day we're here for football not fashion. If we have a good season in this kit it will be remembered fondly and if we have a bad one it will be forgotten.

You see, this is the crux of the problem: I feel strongly that this statement just isn't true. Perhaps the reason why I keep repeating myself is because I keep seeing this line over and over and over again and to me it's just not the case.

For example: most people liked last year's kit- including me. Was it perfect? No. But was it, overall, pleasing to the eye? Yes. You think so, I think so, MOST people think so. And they thought so when it first came out. There were NOT a "bunch of varying opinions," there were NOT "a bunch of people who hated it"- on the contrary, pretty much everyone really liked it!

Same with the kit the year before that (UA's first attempt)- you liked it, I liked it, most people liked it. And in fact you know which particular shirt out of the three most people really liked two seasons ago? Why, the away shirt- that navy blue "Aurasma" shirt of course! The one that looked incredible!

Do you know which shirt most people liked the least from that campaign?

Answer: the 3rd shirt (the black and grey one). Most people just didn't like that shirt.

How about last season- which was the shirt most people liked? The answer- of course- is the third shirt, which was clearly the pick of the litter.

The home shirt was the second favorite of most people, and the light blue away top came in a distant third.

Now you're going to say "how do you know this? What proof do you have?" The answer: none. I just know from reading people's opinions and trusting my gut. I mean think about it: could you seriously try and argue with me that that black-and-grey number from two seasons ago wasn't the least-liked shirt of that year?

Look- brother- there's no way to "prove" I'm right; an in fact even if I did a poll I'd have people claiming that "it's only SCers- and SC doesn't represent Spurs fans" (even though I highly disagree). But regardless, I will forever maintain that there IS an overall consensus when it comes to how our kit looks- so that even though someone has a friend who loves that black-and-grey kit, we all know full well that most of us hate it. Just like we all know that everyone and their mother reviles that piss-streak Mansion home shirt from 2009-10 (the fact that we made Champions League in it notwithstanding).

My point is that people aren't stupid- most can see when something looks good, and when something doesn't. So no, people don't "hate the kit every year." People like the kits that look good and don't like the ones that don't. This year is a giant "don't."

To further prove my point: I would bet any amount of money that you couldn't come up with a negative comment regarding our first "Investec" Cup shirt if you tried. There isn't a Spurs fan alive who doesn't like this shirt:

 

[Matthew Gilbert]

At the end of the day we're here for football not fashion. If we have a good season in this kit it will be remembered fondly and if we have a bad one it will be forgotten.

As Ade says in the new training video on OS, it doesn't matter about the how good we look in the kit, all that matters is how good our football looks and we are winning 3 points each game.

 

[wallyjakeman]

To further prove my point: I would bet any amount of money that you couldn't come up with a negative comment regarding our first "Investec" Cup shirt if you tried. There isn't a Spurs fan alive who doesn't like this shirt:

I read plenty of comments from fans who thought it was too plain. "It's just a f'**king white polo shirt with a sponsor on it" and stuff like that.
I like all of our shirts, even the ugly ones. It's Spurs shirts.