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Ehab's Member said:
Nobody's suggesting we have the same kit every year, that's a straw man argument, and new shirt sales aren't dependent on the club having to change from plain to stripes to quarters - ask the Man Utd marketing department. It's about giving the club an identity and sticking with it.
I too started watching City playing in (more or less) plain amber shirts (65/66) so I'm aware that we haven't always played in stripes, my point is that serious, successful clubs tend not to fanny around too much with the designs of their shirts - invariably sticking to variations of their traditional design. In our case I believe that stripes - especially given our nickname - should be the kit of choice. That first PL season announced the club to the world in glorious amber and black stripes which made us stand out from every other team: there was no chance of us being confused with Watford or Wolves.
I don't remember the Spurs kits you mention which, I suppose, illustrates my point.
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It's hardly a straw man, you're saying that you want us to wear stripes every year, but how many variations of black and amber stripes are there? People aren't daft, if kits look similar, they won't buy them because what's the point? It's not something I necessarily agree with, changing kit all the time, but I understand why it's done.

Our identity isn't stripes, it's the colours we play in that make us unique. I've pointed this out before, but Cambridge, Barnet and Harrogate have all had very similar striped shirt designs to us in the last decade or so, I honestly feel it's about the colours we wear not whether it's stripes or not.
 
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Steven Toast said:
It's hardly a straw man, you're saying that you want us to wear stripes every year, but how many variations of black and amber stripes are there? People aren't daft, if kits look similar, they won't buy them because what's the point? It's not something I necessarily agree with, changing kit all the time, but I understand why it's done.

Our identity isn't stripes, it's the colours we play in that make us unique. I've pointed this out before, but Cambridge, Barnet and Harrogate have all had very similar striped shirt designs to us in the last decade or so, I honestly feel it's about the colours we wear not whether it's stripes or not.
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Wanting stripes every year is not the same as wanting the same kit, there are infinite styles and designs of striped shirts to keep the new shirt brigade happy. Sorry, I disagree that the identity of a club is ONLY down to its colours. Can't imagine Newcastle fans happy to see their team playing in a plain white shirt somehow.
 
Ehab's Member said:
Wanting stripes every year is not the same as wanting the same kit, there are infinite styles and designs of striped shirts to keep the new shirt brigade happy. Sorry, I disagree that the identity of a club is ONLY down to its colours. Can't imagine Newcastle fans happy to see their team playing in a plain white shirt somehow.
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Well, their colours are black and white, so if it was some combination of black and white I don't see why there'd be an issue. They've NEVER changed their pattern since they became a league club, so yes some probably would question it. Which is fine for them, but we have changed our style and our identity isn't locked into striped shirts.

Two of our three promotion shirts were not striped and the Flamingo Land one was pin striped which you could barely make out on TV, I didn't hear anybody pointing this out then.
 
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Ehab's Member said:
No other serious football club fannies around with their kit like City. Do Liverpool, Man Utd, Everton, Man City or Chelsea experiment with anything other than plain shirts? Do Newcastle, Sheffield Utd or West Brom ever not have variations on vertical stripes? You never see QPR or Celtic in anything other than hoops. A club's identity is partly tied up to its colours and style of kit - we've argued for years with the Allams about identity and marketing but we make that job much harder if the world can't hang their hat on how the **** the club wants the world to see it.

Stripes. And stick with it.
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These don't struggle with identity .
 

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The_Filey_Tigers said:
This is doing the rounds on city Facebook groups as a possible for this year's home kit
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I like that (reminds me of the Great Escape shirt) and I do think some variation of stripes are part of our identity, not just the colours. Tigers have stripes.

Our home shirt this season just gone was naff imo. Amber with a black horizontal skidmark just isn’t as classy as solid black and amber stripes.
 
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Kalman said:
I like that (reminds me of the Great Escape shirt) and I do think some variation of stripes are part of our identity, not just the colours. Tigers have stripes.

Our home shirt this season just gone was naff imo. Amber with a black horizontal skidmark just isn’t as classy as solid black and amber stripes.
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True but that won't last very long .
 
Kalman said:
I like that (reminds me of the Great Escape shirt) and I do think some variation of stripes are part of our identity, not just the colours. Tigers have stripes.

Our home shirt this season just gone was naff imo. Amber with a black horizontal skidmark just isn’t as classy as solid black and amber stripes.
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I don't mind this year's kit as it is unique but it's nothing outstanding.

While tigers have stripes they don't have straight vertical ones so I don't think traditional stripes is the best reflection.

There's so much we can do with tiger print and I think it's criminally underused.

I think to be eye catching to a wider audience we need something unique and I don't see how stripes does that. All the striped shirts look pretty similar
 
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Kalman said:
They’re struggling for cash and success both domestically and in Europe though.
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Lots are struggling for cash, non more so than parents with kids who are asked for expensive kits each season. There could be a ground full of amber and black each year and if you didn’t look too closely does it matter to which season they originate?
 
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