New Kit 2014-15

[yankspurs]

The home is putrid. Away is growing on me. Barney is not meant for a GK shirt. He's meant to entertain little kids or scare them into oblivian. Away GK is beautiful. All black with the white logo. Beautiful.

Might cop the away shirt off of a thai/chinese site for $20. No way am i paying full price for that though.

Last years 3rd kit might be the nicest shirt we've had. And it is probably the nicest shirt I own. Absolutely in love with that shirt. One of my favorite shirts to wear.

 

[Ziege]

You mean the 11 stripes for the amount of trophies Sir Bill Nicholson won with us?

Yes. I believe I mentioned the neon tire tread marks on the front. I am pretending that they stand for nothing, because to represent a fine achievement like that, with neon road kill tire marks, is beyond reprehensible. I prefer to pretend this was just a really bad mistake and not mention the name of any legends in correlation with it.

It's how I cope, you see. Well, that and wine.

 

[LiamJM10]

The neon/yellow piss colour piping ruins them both. Take it off the home kit and it would be pretty decent. Take it off the away and it would be a lot better.

I though the whole neon colour thing was a fad in the 90's, what is with clubs bringing it back in the worst ways in recent years?

Meh. Home 6/10 Away 5/10 because of the "road kill" stripes down the front. I don't know who designs this (and even worse, who signs off on it being a good idea) but they should be fired if they thing this at all looks good and is a flowing and natural design for a shirt.

I hate waiting all summer for a new kit and then seeing it with glee and excitement and feeling like I've been punched in the face. /Emo /cuts wrists.

That neon/piss colour you're referring to is yellow. Just yellow. There is no neon to it.

This is neon; http://www.inthestands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ChelseaKit_468x330.jpg.

Ours is yellow.

As for the kits, they're fine. Better on a person. Quite simple kit. Yellow tinges, navy band. We've had a lot worse. Like both. As a kit collector (of many teams) I'll be getting all 3 as usual and there won't be a single one that I would be purchasing and not wanting to.

Amazed people get so pissy about kits. We change them every year, they're making the club a fuck tonne of money (something you can contribute to, whether you're a fan of the kit, or not...), they could be far worse. I can't remember the last kit we had that I thought was truly vulgar. Probably a Pony one, or the light blue Umbro 'spurs' from about 20 years ago.

 

[LiamJM10]

I still don't see why any team needs more than 2 shirts. (Yes, yes, I know merchandising etc. I mean practically speaking.)

Because of colour clashes...

A kit always has the same colour for the home kit. The away kit, is usually a kit which deeply contrasts the home kit. But what happens if you play against some with stripes matches those colours? Third kit is neccessary.

We'd NEVER be able to play Newcastle if we didn't have a 3rd kit. Though our away and 3rd in 2012/13 were navy and black/grey halves which weren't the best of choices.

We should have white, navy/black, then yellow/light blue for me. Every season, with the latter alternating.

Just go down the American sports model and insist that every team must have one white kit. Problem solved.

Can you name a single premier league side who hasn't had a white kit over the past few years?

Arsenal haven't, but then we don't have red kits (they have had white kits in the past though), Palace are the only other one (they had one just before though when Moses was still there, so 2009/2010?).

 

[Zoob32]

Can you name a single premier league side who hasn't had a white kit over the past few years?

Arsenal haven't, but then we don't have red kits (they have had white kits in the past though), Palace are the only other one (they had one just before though when Moses was still there, so 2009/2010?).

They had one in 09/10

 

[Ziege]

That neon/piss colour you're referring to is yellow. Just yellow. There is no neon to it.

This is neon; http://www.inthestands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ChelseaKit_468x330.jpg.

Ours is yellow.

As for the kits, they're fine. Better on a person. Quite simple kit. Yellow tinges, navy band. We've had a lot worse. Like both. As a kit collector (of many teams) I'll be getting all 3 as usual and there won't be a single one that I would be purchasing and not wanting to.

Amazed people get so pissy about kits. We change them every year, they're making the club a fuck tonne of money (something you can contribute to, whether you're a fan of the kit, or not...), they could be far worse. I can't remember the last kit we had that I thought was truly vulgar. Probably a Pony one, or the light blue Umbro 'spurs' from about 20 years ago.

I looked up Yellow on the colour grid, and then I looked at the kit. It doesn't seem yellow to me, more neon coloured, but hey, maybe my sense of colour perception is off. Regardless, the stripes literally look like somebody rode over it 11 times with little bikes.

And for the record, I was not "pissy" at all. I just really think it's a shit design. You want to celebrate Bill Nicholson by throwing 11 "yellow" racing stripes down the front of a shirt? Jesus, it just seems beyond tacky and looks like shit to me. That isn't pissy, that's just honesty coming from somebody who thinks a legend like that deserves far better.

All I was saying is that this was a chance for glory, and on a scale of 1-10, I'm an 8 on the let down scale. But you are right, it's a source of revenue, and many people will buy it. I will not. It looks like shit and is a poor attempt to rake in money. I can just imagine the corporate meeting.

Guy number 1: Hey, let's commemorate Bill Nicholson this season!

Guy number 2: Great idea! How do we do that?

Guy number 3: Let's put together a classic kit, based on the era he was involved with spurs, including bringing back yellow as the third kit as per a special tribute, and on top of that, let's make them retro looking, just like the first yellow spurs kit as a homage to the man and all his achievements!

Guy number1: Fuck that. Let's just let slap some "yellowish colour" on the usual, ill thought templates and let the slobs buy it up! We can throw in 11 stripes on one of the shirts and tell them it stands for glory, or something, let marketing handle it!

Seriously. What a shit effort. I could do a better design, and I know you could to. That isn't pissy, that's just a profound sense of disappointment. I'm not trying to offend, I'm just very let down.

 

[LiamJM10]

I looked up Yellow on the colour grid, and then I looked at the kit. It doesn't seem yellow to me, more neon coloured, but hey, maybe my sense of colour perception is off. Regardless, the stripes literally look like somebody rode over it 11 times with little bikes.

And for the record, I was not "pissy" at all. I just really think it's a shit design. You want to celebrate Bill Nicholson by throwing 11 "yellow" racing stripes down the front of a shirt? Jesus, it just seems beyond tacky and looks like shit to me. That isn't pissy, that's just honesty coming from somebody who thinks a legend like that deserves far better.

All I was saying is that this was a chance for glory, and on a scale of 1-10, I'm an 8 on the let down scale. But you are right, it's a source of revenue, and many people will buy it. I will not. It looks like shit and is a poor attempt to rake in money. I can just imagine the corporate meeting.

Guy number 1: Hey, let's commemorate Bill Nicholson this season!

Guy number 2: Great idea! How do we do that?

Guy number 3: Let's put together a classic kit, based on the era he was involved with spurs, including bringing back yellow as the third kit as per a special tribute, and on top of that, let's make them retro looking, just like the first yellow spurs kit as a homage to the man and all his achievements!

Guy number1: Fuck that. Let's just let slap some "yellowish colour" on the usual, ill thought templates and let the slobs buy it up! We can throw in 11 stripes on one of the shirts and tell them it stands for glory, or something, let marketing handle it!

Seriously. What a shit effort. I could do a better design, and I know you could to. That isn't pissy, that's just a profound sense of disappointment. I'm not trying to offend, I'm just very let down.

Well if you could do a better design, do it...

I wasn't directing the pissyness solely at you either ftr, but it seems as though you fit the bill haha. Grown men getting angry at the kit. Madness.

"It needs to be more simple" *simple kit is made* "IT'S TOO BORING"
"It should be just white and navy" *white and navy kit is made* "IT HAS A SHIT COLLAR"

For example, rinse and repeat. Ftr, my favourite kits are the kappas from 2003-2006. Identical templates for all 3. These kits are fine. The designs are designed on something as well. How would you actually improve them? Whilst making them look somewhat unique? Under Armour are a new brand to this sport, they have to make kits as unique as possible. Nike, Adidas, Puma and Umbro are the other leading brands in football kits right now, unless you're a City or Barca, you're getting generic Nike templates, unless you're a Chelsea or Real you're getting generic Adidas templates. Puma gave Arsenal a unique template I believe. Umbro are very basic, literally accented collars and cuffs. Designing a kit which is unique and ticks all the right boxes is impossible, whilst remaining unique.

They had one in 09/10

Thanks, but I did know that. As I alluded to. They also had one with burgundy tints two years before.

 

[Sweech]

Keeper kits look great. I'm actually hoping it will inspire us to possibly explore violet as a colour for next year's kits. Especially instead of piss yellow.

Away kits looks solid and look better when worn.

Home kits are fucking atrocious. There's so much wrong with them.

White + piss yellow = bad
logo colour does not match any other colour or compliment the other colours = bad
random stripe travelling up sleeve and across chest = wtf?
bad looking collar = 50 points for Slytherin
full navy/black shorts with the awful kit = should have gone with white shorts

So close to having a great ensemble of kits, but when our home is awful it really spoils the rest. Except maybe the keeper kits as Lloris looks sexy as fuck and nothing can spoil that.

 

[parklane1]

Agreed! Calling it "disgusting" or "vile" is hilarious, an example of a disgusting uniform is something from Germany in the 40's with swastikas on the sleeve. This is just a kit that some people don't like very much but hardly any of them will give a damn in a couple of weeks time.

"The worst kit I've ever seen in my life" and "I couldn't make a worse kit that this if I tried" are my two of my other favourite comments, I mean seriously? I take it they didn't see Liverpool last season!?

I'm with you Good Doctor, this time of year is always great fun. These blokes act as if they're 13 year old vegan girls and the club's skinned a litter or puppies and forced them to wear the blood soaked furs on some hellish Trinny and Susanna fashion parade.

<- this is me laughing at anyone who is that upest about our kit for this upcoming 9 month period of football.

Amen brother.

 

[Ziege]

Well if you could do a better design, do it...

Many fans have online. All it takes is an image editing program and the ability to not put 11, piss coloured stripes down the front of a shirt to symbolize some "tribute." But these people don't work for the design team of X Armour, so their points are moot.

And I do agree with you, the Kappa kits were very simple, and stuck to a traditional design. Hell, even they got the yellow third kit correct, this is just a disgrace. I mean, seriously, do you really think 11, "yellow" (I still dispute this is the actual colour in the spectrum) stripes down the front of a default, X Armour template is good? Really? This is a "tribute" to one of Spurs' greatest?

Fuck me. No imagination, no creativity and no delivery. That's just me, though. Maybe I'm not hipster enough and I don't see the "brilliance" in the 11 little noodles of "yellow" down the front of a standard template kit.

Meh.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Think I'll buy the white training shirt. It's £18 less and looks way smarter.

 

[Amo]

Many fans have online. All it takes is an image editing program and the ability to not put 11, piss coloured stripes down the front of a shirt to symbolize some "tribute." But these people don't work for the design team of X Armour, so their points are moot.

And I do agree with you, the Kappa kits were very simple, and stuck to a traditional design. Hell, even they got the yellow third kit correct, this is just a disgrace. I mean, seriously, do you really think 11, "yellow" (I still dispute this is the actual colour in the spectrum) stripes down the front of a default, X Armour template is good? Really? This is a "tribute" to one of Spurs' greatest?

Fuck me. No imagination, no creativity and no delivery. That's just me, though. Maybe I'm not hipster enough and I don't see the "brilliance" in the 11 little noodles of "yellow" down the front of a standard template kit.

Meh.

I agree. I thought by going with UA we would avoid having template kits like all the bigger companies.

 

[Ziege]

I agree. I thought by going with UA we would avoid having template kits like all the bigger companies.

If I were Bill Nicholson and saw this as my "tribute", I would rise from the grave and cock slap the designer. Sorry, but he deserves much better than this as a tribute kit. Again, I'm not trying to be confrontational here, but I'm just really, really let down, and I think a lot of you guys and gals are too.

This is insulting.

"Oh, Bill introduced yellow, so let's put out a standard template, but with 11 "yellow" stripes down the front and charge money for it!!"

Don't bother actually doing a proper, yellow kit, like even Kappa (who many hate) managed to do.

Ugh. Fuck off.

 

[Ziege]

What really boils my piss is that they had every chance in the world to do some really sexy retro designs from his era as a Spur, including re-creating some of the classic kits as an homage to him, but instead, they use a standard XA template, add some "Yellow" (sorry, it looks neon to me) piping, and then say, "hey, this is a super tribute!!!"

No, this is just a shitty marketing failure. I'm bothered by it because the chance for making a classic, sexy, memorable kit was so great, and this is such a failure in my mind. Seriously, it is literally a standard template WITH YELLOW ON IT. 0 effort put into this. That's what gets me.

Maybe I just have really high standards, and by that I mean back when Kappa put out a plain yellow kit... yeah, really high "standards", and all.

Meh. I don't know, I just expected more. I guess that's my fault. No offense intended.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Why is it that when we have yellow on a kit people start going overboard about "piss" if they don't like the kit? Is there a way to search for how many times the word piss has been used in this thread? If next years kit has brown and yellow on it will you call it the poo poo wee wee kit?
It's all a bit odd, we've had yellow on plenty of kits over the years so why not just accept reallity? You Don't like the kit but it's just your own opinion which doesn't count for more than someone's who does like it. There's really no need for such drama over stripes on a shirt, I mean come on think about it.

I can pretty much guarantee you that during the match tonight when people see the kit being played in there will be plenty that say it's not as bad as they originally thought. Just like last season and the one before that etc going back probably to the first ever kit which was also sure to divide opinion because well, people always have different ideas of what makes a good kit.

 

[Spurger King]

I don't mind the home kit...not too enamoured with the away kit...and really like the third kit. I'm not going to lose sleep over any of them though.

 

[parklane1]

I don't mind the home kit...not too enamoured with the away kit...and really like the third kit. I'm not going to lose sleep over any of them though.

Indeed i never can understand those who get bent out of shape over kits.

 

[Spurger King]

Indeed i never can understand those who get bent out of shape over kits.

I could understand it if it was about something more permanent, like a re-designed club badge, or the look of the new stadium, but shirts are just a brief moment in the club's identity.

As others have said, everyone will love it if we end up having a successful season. I can't imagine anyone watching us win the FA cup and thinking "hmm, this is all well and good but that yellow trim really takes the gloss off this moment".

 

[SlickMongoose]

If next years kit has brown and yellow on it will you call it the poo poo wee wee kit?

I will now!

 

[JerryGarcia]

I will now!

Good on you but thinking about it, didn't the gooners have yellow and brown a few years ago? No doubt they had their share of fans talking about faeces being smeared on an otherwise classic piss stained shirt.