Sorry Godders, it's the tyranny of the majority. I will be wearing a protest shirt next season, perhaps you'll join me or just wear last seasons shirt?
Liverpool traditional kit, red shirt, red shorts, red socks with some white detailing on each. Southampton traditional kit, red & white striped bar shirt, black shorts, white socks. Now out of the two, which one would you say looked most like the kit revealed this weekend?
Sure, it's different, I'm not saying anyone has to like it. But I think some of the reaction has been way too far, fortunately more on other sites than here (we are just the nice guys). And I definitely don't understand how a different shirt design means Cortese is throwing away 126 years of history. Unless it was green and pink blobs I can't imagine me saying "I love/hate it" anyway and there's no chance of me buying one, so it's not a big deal to me.
The kits awesome. Some people really seem to take things way too far. Be glad you're not a Cardiff fan and playing in a completely different colour next season. Maybe it's a kit they feel will market us better abroad, I don't know buts it looks great, offers something new in our new era and something different to Sunderland and stoke!!
When I go to the garage to have my car serviced I don't don a boiler suit. When I go to my French night class I don't put on my cap and gown. When I get on the ferry to France I don't don a sailor suit. When I go to watch a game of football I don't where a football shirt. It matters not a jot to me that people are foolish enough to spend good money on a football shirt that is basically a very poor quality clothing item. I have never bought a Saints shirt and never will not because I am stingy but because I always feel that people who dress up and pretend to be their heroes is more than a little sad. I shall go to the games this season and use my imagination to see past the apology of a strip our players are being made to wear.
On an unrelated point, why the hell can you only buy the shirt from an 'official' saints outlet? I'm pretty sure you can go into JJB sports in Hedge End and buy a Wigan shirt but not a Saints shirt.
Years ago I know that you could buy Saints shirts from an independent Newport sports shop. Perhaps they don't want to give a cut to a retailer and with on-lines sales they also consider it unnecessary.
Its a good omen. I remember when we were last promoted to the top flight, we changed from tradition then too - and look how we did - top 6 team. There was outcry then too, but just no Internet forums or Twitter to bitch about it so vocally. If we repeat any of those performances - why worry about the kit. Anyway it will be a vairiation of red and white stripes again in a couple of years - regardless of where we are or which league we are in.
Just made a dreadful mistake and read the Echo thread on sales of shirt at West Quay. Nothing to do with the paper, but the bunch of trolls writing in the thread. That's 5 minutes of my life I will never get back. I expected people writing how they liked/disliked the strip as on here, but there are lots of people writing (without traditional Saints-style monikers) taking the opportunity to knock Saints and Cortese and the Leihberrs. Always have been trolls on the Echo but they have spotted division in the ranks and jumped in. It was nearly enough to make Godders don a new shirt and march round in protest (almost).
I too wasted a little of my time scanning the threads on the Echo page. What a bunch of tossers, It will soon be as bad as the Snooze. Having seen the new kit in the flesh so to speak (on a young lad) I am warming to it just a little bit. I seem to recall that the acceptance of change generally goes through four phases: There are people who grasp change and go with it from the start. (euphemistically called innovators some might say gullible) There are those who take just a little time to think about it and to see what happens and then jump in. (known as early adopters and more thoughtful) Those that come along after a while having seen the change bed in. (known as the late majority and in need of convincing) Then there is that small number of people who have to be forced dragging and screaming into accepting change. (often called old salts and generally as cynical as hell) I would normally put myself in the last category but I have an uneasy feeling that I may just be slipping into the second phase! Or it could be that it too is early in the day and I haven't had a tipple or two of scotch to make me belligerent.
I freely admit that I so want everything at Saints to be wonderful that I am a bit of a yes-woman. If it had been orange checks I would have gulped and said, 'It's different.' I do like the new strip though I would have repeated the collar on the away shirt in the home shirt...a little bit more white at the neck (OMG, I'm criticizing Nicola).
