I think this one will rumble on and on cos this hits at the heart of Saints tradition and old farts like me will not accept this sh1t shirt and carry on wearing "real" Saints colours Unfortunately Saints shop will miss out on my £45
I'm sure the girl behind the printing counter and the young lad on the till will be crying themselves to sleep with that news. We get it.
The tradition that we have temporarily played with in the past? Not a problem for me. They'll miss out on your £45, but I think I'll get the shorts and socks too this time. Normally only get the shirt, but for this season I'll do the lot. Hey I might even wear the whole kit with my son to the Wigan game - anyone got any tie ups for the socks?
I still maintain my only gripe is the shorts. I see people complaining about socks too but I couldn't care less about that, couldn't tell you what colour our socks were last season.
What's his Twitter? I can't believe all this nonsense I've heard about history and tradition today. Our club's history isn't going to vanish, it's in our embedded in our memories and, most importantly, immortalised by the good old internet. Why do people find it so difficult to embrace change? If it wasn't for all this change over the last few years, we'd be rotting down in League One if we were lucky. Our history and tradition don't exactly involve a great deal of success do they? One major trophy in the club's lifetime.
@MitchLeTiss42 I completely agree on tradition. Traditionally, our most successful period was the 80s. Check out our kits then: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Southampton/Southampton.htm Hmmm... no striped kits from 1980-1989... tradition, woo!
Change for changes sake though? If the new kit was the answer to a branding brief ie: "establish for Saints a kit design which distinguishes them from Stoke and Sunderland," I would have thought the answer of an all red kit with minimal white detail is rather poor. I was looking forward to one of the leagues within the leagues being finishing above our 2 franchises up north. ....eh, the 80's kits are all striped save 85-87
What else could they have done? If they'd not even put pinstripes in then people would've been moaning about them scrapping stripes. (people have said this anyway) It's red, and white, it still incorporates a form of stripes and it isn't nasty in terms of the United home shirt. Good shirt to meet the brief.
What do you mean change for change's sake? What do you expect from them, exactly the same kit year in year out because there's not actually much point changing it every year? It makes perfect sense from a business perspective. Promotion to the Premier League means an expanded fanbase which means more people to buy shirts, however a lot of casual fans would go "Oh I have a striped Friends Provident one, it looks basically the same" so not bother - with a different looking kit, it's more incentive for people to shell out and buy a new one. Makes more sense than going "hmmmm... this year, let's have white bits on the sleeves with the same old stripe design" every season.
God I have never heard so many grown men get there knickers in a twist over a bloody kit!! Take it for what it is....different, noticeable, attention grabbing, I think quite charming! So what if it breaks the general tradition we are used to, if you don't like if don't buy it? It's here now and I'm sure loads will buy it and we will all be here same time next year moaning you don't like that one to! Suck it up ladies!!!!
^^^ Do you think the discussion of those involved during the actual design process of the kit was anodyne, debate free, and without contention. I doubt it, but ironically the result is seemingly oddly bland; it's only radical or 'noticable' or 'attention grabbing' for Saint Fans, and IMO a missed opportunity - or was it a canny move to steal Cardiff's fire/idea with an eye to the east? As well as Saints fan, I'm employed at a branding agency so find these things of interest, and I'm kinda surprised by the reaction it got. As somebody pointed out, how would Liverpool fans (or Atheltic Bilbao fans - who we gave our stripes to; as people like to mention on here) feel about a lurch from tradition into another set of established colours?
Bollocks was it , even I got a call up fro modeling it that day, 15th row, 2nd from the right I prefer the away kit, but they do look interchangeable PS could someone ask the DON wheres our 3rd kit for CL
Think a lot of this is over the top. No one is perfect, but after all that's been done for us to turn on NC because of the width of a stripe is ridiculous. It is still red and white! Judging by the polls on here a lot of people like it and will buy it, so our crowd will be a nice swathe of mainly red, red and white stripes and a few die hard sashes (which I loved but was vilified at the time by many).
Well if youcan call 1980-85 shirts traditionally striped, then I don't see what the problem is. And what about the solid red one from 1984? You are all having a bit of a hissy fit and making a mole onto something bigger.
