New Kit?

You always know how to make me feel better! Too man.

 

Is that that new tv series set in Bransholme???

 

Well according to Second Tier Podcast we have won the battle of the kits so far this season.
I would admit that his taste gets questionable with the other ones he rates though.
On the bright side at least we’re not Preston, Stoke or Bristol City (away).

 

I like the fact that they swap from one to the other .

 

Im not surprised. In other general football forums etc online I’ve barely seen a bad word said against the kit.

Aesthetically it fits basically every trend going with football kits at the moment (collar, bold patterns) but I understand the concerns some have about build quality.

 

We've had this interminable discussion for years. If you're serious about your identity you don't **** about with it, especially if you intend to be a global brand. Liverpool and Man Utd don't experiment with stripes, Newcastle and Sunderland would never abandon their iconic stripes, Chelsea are always in plain blue. Even QPR don't turn up in August in anything but hoops. You know who do constantly experiment? Lower league clubs who don't know what they're about and so fanny around with shirts trying to look interesting.

I've mentioned before that we're known in Brazil partly because of Giovanni but also because of that iconic 2008-9 PL kit that perfectly encapsulated the underdog Tiger and set us up as a global brand - No one in world football (to my knowledge) had that same black and amber striped kit. It was instantly recognised, marketable, and iconic, yet we chose to **** about with it. Again.

 

Aye and look at the state of them

 

I agree somewhat but clubs do experiment. Southampton, wba, Watford off the top of my head.

 

And where are they exactly in the great pantheon of world football?

 

Kit doesnt matter in success though does it

Success brings fans and views

 

Of course not. Kit matters when you want to develop an identity or - perish the thought - a brand. After 100 years of trying, we suddenly had that in 2008. Typical City, we threw it away.

 

We had it becasue the first few months of the season we beat arsenal and spurs
With geo scoring some incredible goals

Soon as we were relegated no one would give a **** about us

Fact

Blackburn have one of the most iconic kits in the world
And anyone who watched the prem
Knows them by the kit

Doesnt mean much though

 

In my lifetime we’ve been promoted once with a striped kit. Everything else has been majority Amber kits.

We actually won more games over the last 2 years in a majority Amber kit than we have with stripes.

Get what you’re saying about marketability. But the needle won’t move too much over a kit. Most foreign fans will flock to the latest fad (see Wrexham) when they’re winning.

 

Same league as us, so...

 

I also think that in the Championship you are much more likely to flog kits if you change designs - as people like to be up to date. Stick to a similar design and people won’t buy as many kits.

We need that money more in this league than we do global appeal. If we got promoted back to the PL I’d fully expect us to be targeting the stripes image again.

 

Who gives a toss what kit we wore in the promotion seasons or how it affects results (spoiler alert - it doesn't)?
This is about worldwide brand recognition and utilising the uniqueness of the combination of nickname and striped kit that we chose to abandon. Incidentally, the people in Brazil that I know certainly didn't give up on City once we'd been relegated, and to this day still associate 'The Tigers' with a striped kit.

 

Exactly.

 

One was in the pl last season and are generally a pretty well regarded club.