Sunderland once messed around with the shirt with a candy stripe design in the early 1980s. I remember the uproar from their fans, Their fans, who take these things seriously, simply didn’t buy it and they reverted to their traditional stripes. They had a couple of seasons in the 1950s with plain shirts. Southampton have altered their kits on a number of occasions. Don’t know how their fans took to them. Completely agree we should have stripes. That is why we have our nickname. A number of teams have played in plain amber shirts but none of them were nicknamed The Tigers and we wouldn’t have been if we had started out with plain shirts.
Yes we have often switched from plain to stripes but it's not a question of trying to be like bigger clubs, I mention them merely as examples of what a coherent identity should be. While our colours are unusual they're far from unique, and to say that our identity is that we don't really have one is, frankly, bizarre and (if true) needs to change.
Totally agree. I spoke to a commercial guy from Celtic at ISPO one year. Their sales rarely dip year on year as the fans want the latest version of pretty much the same design. Only subtle patterns or trims are changed but the fans still want it. And if you do it right your training range and away shirts can be huge sources of income too. Since leaving Umbro this should be easier to do with a Kappa licence. The stuff they've done for 25/26 looks really nice and Kappa Turkey should be able to use those specs. Black and Amber stripes every season and smash the hell out of away designs and training wear
No, we haven’t always switched between stripes and plain. Apart from 1 season when we played in blue we played in stripes from our formation until WW2. After the war Harold Needler wanted to shorten our name to Kingston Upon Hull AFC with a kit of blue and orange shirt with white shorts. The first programmes for Boothferry Park showed a drawing of a player in that kit. There was an uproar about that and he backed down and kept the name. Needler did not like stripes and decreed we would play in plain amber shorts. There was a short of dyes after the war so they played the first season in sky blue. The fact is the stripes are our identity. That is how we got our nickname. Other clubs have played in plain amber shirts but did not get nicknamed the Tigers. It is our identity.
We’ve obviously played in stripes for the majority of seasons, but around a quarter of seasons were in plain shirts, others were pinstriped that looked almost plain, others were tiger print, so there’s been a lot of seasons we haven’t played in stripes. Personally, I quite like switching between plain and stripes, though I’m never going to wear one, so I’l not really the target market for replicas.
I'd like us to try a pink kit with purple spots as our first choice kit. Maybe with the Tiger re-imagined as a rainbow on the badge
I was just pointing out to the poster we haven’t always switched between them. Makes you wonder what would have happened if Harold Needler had got his way and we were known as Kingston Upon Hull AFC playing in blue and orange shirts with a three coronet badge on it?
Kits haven't always had badges neither . We've had various designs once they where introduced so that's less of an identity . As long as we are Amber and Black that's fine with me
I live in an area that’s 90% Celtic, and that’s what these people ALWAYS wear, they never wear normal clothes, it’s Celtic playing tops, training gear, track suits, and they all buy each kit, home away, 3rd, 26th etc. every day all day, honestly, you wouldn’t believe it. Me personally, I would prefer to revert back to a new kit every 2 seasons, it’s a piss take at the prices these days.
I believe it, I live (leave it Rover) in East Hull, it's a sea of red and white wearing never go gits, HKR must be making a fortune on replica tat. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily.
We didn’t have a tiger on our shirt until 1947. They were taken off from 1960 until 1971.Then taken off from 1975 until 1979. The first time the words Hull City appeared on our was 1979. Now some people have a meltdown if it does not also say The Tigers although that has only appeared on our shirts for a small part of our history. As long as we are amber and black stripes that’s fine with me.
