Nice one. I think we should all go out and buy those. Still wearing the colours but not totally suckered in.
Thats far to cheap, £17.99! That garb is worth at least £50, with a few tweaks mind. Just couldn't resist!
For the home kit, Adidas are charging an extra £32 to iron on some decals to their base design. I hope the 7 year olds doing that work see some of that obscene profiteering.
The long sleeve version is even worse...looks like something you would see in the Tour de France...Hideous please log in to view this image
Who buys a football shirt because of the way it looks? I mean this will look fine watching or playing football and, really, outside of playing or watching football ALL football shirts look ****. You buy a football shirt to support your team not because it looks good.
Why should we accept attempts to rip us off?! We all know football means $$, but this blatant laziness from Adidas is a disgrace. They've made no attempt whatsoever to add even a hint of uniqueness, simply relying on fan loyalty to secure a hideous mark-up. Match tickets we have little choice over, but kit we do. I hope sales fall for this reason. The success of the sash kit (the last i purchased) shows that a little bit of effort to give even a vague semblance of uniqueness and quality goes down well with the fans
How does it support your team? Do players look round the ground and play harder if there are more replica kits? If its simply a monetary donation to the club, where do you draw the line? You've bought your ticket, your programme, your bobble hat, your cuddly toy, your Saints toothbrush, your Saints drain unblocker, your saints inflatable landing craft... and so on. Do you have to buy everything to be a supporter? Isn't it also, a bit stupid to spend money on something you don't necessarily like? (regardless of football alliegences)
For me, the worst thing about it is simply the look of it. Regardless of whether it has stripes or not, regardless of the gold and the cost. Its the sleeves. It just looks awful. Do you think someone at the club actually likes it? Or is it more a case of Adidas is paying so we have to do what we are told?
Don't worry...very few of our fans will look like they are in the Tour de France. I hope the front is in a stretchy fabric.
I'd be shocked if teams have much input into the final product...some limited veto power perhaps, but the company paying calls the shots.
Choices CBK, choices. If supporters want to buy stuff to feel "connected" in some way to their club, then let them. No-one is less of a fan for not buying and no-one is less of a fan for choosing to buy, but you do seem to be making out that those who choose to buy are bad fans. I haven't made up my mind yet on the new kit, but I might just buy one to see if you'll punch me when you see me wearing it, as you so delightfully declared yesterday. What a nice chap. Your last sentence again is his choice. He may want to (if he can afford to) buy one and feel like he is helping the club a little. HIS choice, not yours. You really don't like anyone that attempts to make money. You even threw in the topic of 7 year olds making the kits, but I would bet that would not even have got a mention if a "traditional" striped kit had been launched and you would have got what YOU wanted.
If I couldn't catch you when you were dead I would be getting just a tad concerned about my own well being. Agree that it is terrible though.
I generally don't buy football shirts so I'm certainly not suggesting you must buy one or that you have to buy one to be a "proper" supporter or anything like that. My point is that, judged as an item of clothing, EVERY football shirt looks pretty ****. A "nice-looking" football shirt is still not a nice looking item of clothing. Whatever the Saints shirt looks like and whether the shirt costs £15 or £50 you could easily buy another piece of clothing for that money that looks better. The ONLY reason to buy one is to feel you're supporting the club, either financially or possibly by feeling you belong or are somehow a bigger part of the club. I don't really care whether anyone buys the shirt I just think complaining about the way it looks is pointless. As a separate point, if you're really concerned about children in sweat shops being paid pennies, you'd be better off getting people to boycott adidas rather than advertising their other products on here.
****... are you telling me that they're different colours!! ...off to phone the opticians .....but I think you knew I was talking about the design not being unique
That's fair enough, but if you don't give the club feedback, then there is the possibility of things getting worse & worse (hard to imagine a worse kit, thank god the Asian market isn't obsessed with blue eh?) That was a specific point about the variation in pricing between a "pub" kit and a "replica" kit. As an aside, yes I am concerned about where things are made, I try where ever possible to buy items that don't come from sweatshops. Although that is increasingly hard to do as big companies either hide their tracks or out and out lie about the manufacturing origins.
That had less effort than this one!!! At least this one has slight alterations in the white bits on the chest being removed, the sash kit was just a straight up template with the badge stuck on: please log in to view this image
