The sash kit was one of the best football shirts of all time IMO. The red shirt would look fine for a team associated with plain red shirts but certainly not for saints. One of the reasons i hate it is that the sponsor looks rubbish as well but i guess all sponsors do...
I quite like the new kit, but what do I know, I'm probably the only person that didn't like the sash kit, I thought it just looked a bit.......weird? Not remotely a fan of the crap quality of it though, I've probably only worn mine 10 times or so, and it's got loose threads hanging out everywhere. I'm hoping we leave Umbro next year, their sweatshops aren't what they used to be!
As mentioned on another thread if you really want kit sales to go through the roof just sign Beckham!
I like our red & white traditional stripes - last seasons shirt is great + i like our traditional yellow/blue away strip. My son likes this years home & away strips though - i think the younger lads tend to like it more than moaning old buggers like me.
Well you can count me among the young ones, and I'm not a fan of the kit, and I can't think of anyone I know who likes it, and some of my mates absolutely hate it. Unless you're talking about the really young kids of course, who don't know the tradition of the red and white stripes.
Quite a few of us are not keen on it in that case. My youngest is 15 and he likes the new shirts, particularly the away shirt.
I like this seasons home kit and liked the sash as well. If I had my choice the sash would be our home kit from now on. Yes I know we are famous for wearing stripes but so are alot of teams.
This is the thing that I think might somewhat lessen the 'brand' etc. for Cortese and others. As much as the vast majority of Saints fan's love our 'famous' red and white stripes, and are proud of the history and whatnot, I fear if you asked 100 random people on the streets of London a team that plays in red and white stripes, we'd only be the answer 20-30% of the time. To us the kit might be iconic, many others may think of Sunderland, Sheffield United or Stoke before us. This, as well as the basic business decision of changing kits to fuel sales, I think may be what steering the club into making more individual and hopefully in the future, a recognisable and indistinguishable Southampton branded kit. Rather than non-Saints fans seeing a picture of a Saints player in the distance, no badge or sponsor visible, and not knowing whether they are a Southampton, Sunderland or Stoke player and just some team in red and white stripes. But who knows, maybe Cortese doesn't give a toss about that.
Its crap. Anyone who bought one has sold out the history of the club and are mugs. Basically this article is saying the all red is here to stay, justified by those who have bought it. Well done.
You can't expect anyone to understand your viewpoints by being so subtle, expecting us read between the lines etc. Give it a rest with all this mincing of words and get to the point man!
Great keyboard warrior stuff. Tell you what. Why not stand in the car park after the match with some placards to educate the many thousands of men woman and children who have committed this awful betrayal and, er, see if you can persuade them that you are right, as always?
I've told a few people I know to their face the exact same thing about buying the shirt, got no problem with that. I never say anything on the net that I wouldn't say face to face. I know before I say it that it won't change people's minds, because many football fans (great british general public) are sheep, so its a waste of time. For me, its just another nail in the coffin of modern football.
You can't say people are sheep just because they disagree with you. They presumably bought the shirt because they like it and wanted it.
I'm not saying they are sheep for disagreeing with me. But its still fair to say that people in this country, with football fans as a specific grouped example, do act like sheep by "blindly following the crowd without question" I'm sure there are quite a few Saints fans who were going to buy a shirt regardless of what it looked like. I can't get my head around that kind of thinking.
