I've always preferred City in stripes. If it's just plain we look like Wolves too much. It's nice to look a bit different.
100% correct and spot on. The stripes got us noticed worldwide in the PL days and should be maintained, imo.
And subsequently forgotten immediately after relegation. As much as I like the traditional kit, there's only so many ways of using black and amber stripes, a change every now and then can be nice.
Im no good at drawing up designs but wondered what it would look like if the stripes was just one diagnal across the front (seen it the odd time before but never in Tiger colours)
Never understood this comment - you don't get Liverpool fans complaining they look too much like Man Utd, Leeds fans saying they look like Bolton or Burnley fans saying they look too much like West Ham, or Scunthorpe, or Aston Villa...
Or that we look too much like Cambridge United in stripes. Let's face it there are very few original club colours/shirt designs. The only two I can think of are Bristol Rovers (quartered blue and white) and Blackburn (halved blue and white).
I we must be the only club that regular changes the design of the our shirts. Newcastle, Sunderland, Southampton, ect never change to plain shirts.
Agreed fully. We've had enough plain kits for it to be a traditional part of our kit just like stripes are. There are plenty of pictures of Waggy playing in plain shirts so if plain ambe that we've had at least since the 60s isn't traditional enough, what is? Should we go back to playing in all white like we did for our first 3 seasons back in 1904? The stripey shirts get boring when you've had 4 in a row where 3 are almost identical and that pinstripe one was just weird. Time for a plain shirt this year.
Havent we had non-striped shirts pretty much equal times as we have had stripes? It'd certainly be close... And anyway, if we were actually being like a tiger it would be hooped a la the 64/65 kit.
OK here you go... please log in to view this image We've had more or less the exact same kit 3 of the last 4 years, the onl real difference being the sponsor. Why not have it again? As someone else said, there's only so much you can do with stripes.
I like the variety, Hull FC have done this to perfection in recent years (I know it's rugby but stay with me!) In 2008 they had their traditional black and white irregular hoops, they then went on to have three kits across three years all completely different but all keeping elements of the traditional one and have since returned to their traditional kit this year. The other kits did not compromise their identity, in fact honoured it quite well but it kept things interesting and saved the fans buying the same shirt year on year. I think if clubs (back to football now) insist on releasing a new kit every year they need to make them different enough to justify charging people £40 for it. To an extent we do that (not including the last two seasons).
