New or Old kit ?

[patred44]

Alright we have had a dozen or so games to get used to the diagonal stripe kit...and I like it personally. it seems to represent the new emerging image of the Saints. Back to the future seems an appropriate description.

 

If given the choice at the end of the season would you like to go back to red and white stripes, or would you like to continue with this unique kit.

[The Kraken]

I very much like this kit, but I hope it is just for this season. I'm really glad we have it just for this season, and I think it looks great, but I hope we get back to stripes next season.

[stevegrant]

I'd prefer to go back to stripes.

 

Firstly, this one was to represent a special commemorative occasion, and secondly we'd have to change "Come on you Reds" permanently, which is probably beyond a lot of our fans

[patred44]

could always reverse the colours for them

[Rory]

I still like the stripe and I think people will be more fond of it once we sitting high at the top of the league. It's a shame we had a poor start to the season, which tarnished one of the most special kits in the country at the moment.

[Colinjb]

As a one season kit, fine. But long term no, Saints are Red and White stripes for me. (Although a kit like the early 80's one would still appeal.)

[georgeweahscousin]

I love this season's kit. First one I have been compelled to buy for years.

 

Would like to see a mid-80's style one next year. Red-White-Red. Thirds? I guess it is called!

[Marsdinho]

As a one season kit, fine. But long term no, Saints are Red and White stripes for me. (Although a kit like the early 80's one would still appeal.)

 

+1.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

I really love this kit, as a fat barsteward the stripes don't do me any favours, but this is a one off, a commemoration.

 

Back to stripes next season please.

[jam]

I know I'm in the minority but I really like it too. If/when we go back to stripes then hopefully something like the 70s/80s kits with one colour more prominent.

[Lighthouse]

My favourite Saints kit... ever I think, was the first CCC season kit. The one below. I like everything about it. The stripes are perfectly sized and spaced, the sleaves actually match the torso unlike last season's ghastly attempt. The badge looks good on the shield. Even the sponsor looked good. The Friends Provident logos always looked classier than the kit of plastic stickers Flybe used to give away in packs of Corn Flakes. Nicely embroided and well proportioned. No collar/buttons either. I don't like the polo shirt style collars on this years shirt.

 

[dronskisaint]

I really love this kit, as a fat barsteward the stripes don't do me any favours, but this is a one off, a commemoration.

 

Back to stripes next season please.

 

+1:)

[Red&White]

I like the new shirt ( bought one ) but for me Saints should be in stripes

COYR

[Colinjb]

My favourite Saints kit... ever I think, was the first CCC season kit. The one below. I like everything about it. The stripes are perfectly sized and spaced, the sleaves actually match the torso unlike last season's ghastly attempt. The badge looks good on the shield. Even the sponsor looked good. The Friends Provident logos always looked classier than the kit of plastic stickers Flybe used to give away in packs of Corn Flakes. Nicely embroided and well proportioned. No collar/buttons either. I don't like the polo shirt style collars on this years shirt.

 

 

Have to dissagree. The fabric was dreadful, the collar too small and the white band through the stripes to cater for the stripe an aberation. The best we have had recently in my mind was last years.... despite the large plastic splat on the front.

[Horley CTFC Saint]

Alright we have had a dozen or so games to get used to the diagonal stripe kit...and I like it personally. it seems to represent the new emerging image of the Saints. Back to the future seems an appropriate description.

 

If given the choice at the end of the season would you like to go back to red and white stripes, or would you like to continue with this unique kit.

Not one for buying replica strips but I did buy this one. As a one off it was a great idea and a good way to generate extra money. Particularly liked the fact it didn't have a sponsors name on

 

Hope we go back to stripes next year and generate more cash from the guys and girls that seem to buy the shirts year in year out.

 

Also hope we get rid of the ticket booking fee next year as it very inconvenient having to organise my ticket purchasing for when I am actually at the ground which is 85 miles from home!

[Lighthouse]

Have to dissagree. The fabric was dreadful, the collar too small and the white band through the stripes to cater for the stripe an aberation. The best we have had recently in my mind was last years.... despite the large plastic splat on the front.

 

Wow, we really do disagree.

 

I thought last years was terrible. The mismatched shoulders just looked wrong. If you didn't like the subtle white band on the '05 kit, then surely you must hate the sheet of plastic glued to last seasons kit. I agree the collar was a tad small though.

[MarkSFC]

I like this kit and it is as others have said a celebration kit.

 

My favourite kit was the Rank Zerox/Air Florida/Draper Tools kit of the early eighties. Probably something to do with it being the best period for Saints since 1976 and when I was entering my teens and going with my mates rather than me dad!! We also had some brilliant players and some bloke who was European Player of the Year!!

 

Another reason for a kit like that would be so it stands out a bit from every other red and white striped kit!!

[Legod Third Coming]

My favourite Saints kit... ever I think, was the first CCC season kit. The one below. I like everything about it. The stripes are perfectly sized and spaced, the sleaves actually match the torso unlike last season's ghastly attempt. The badge looks good on the shield. Even the sponsor looked good. The Friends Provident logos always looked classier than the kit of plastic stickers Flybe used to give away in packs of Corn Flakes. Nicely embroided and well proportioned. No collar/buttons either. I don't like the polo shirt style collars on this years shirt.

 

 

Imagine that with no sponsor and you have possibly the utopian Saints kit...

[Legod Third Coming]

Have to dissagree. The fabric was dreadful, the collar too small and the white band through the stripes to cater for the stripe an aberation. The best we have had recently in my mind was last years.... despite the large plastic splat on the front.

 

I think we should be reviewing design not build quality

[Redondo Saint]

Stripes

[The Cat]

Yeah, stripes. Keep it simple, and no embarrassing sponsor either.

[SNSUN]

The best way to describe the new kit is that I'm used to it now, but it would ruin its uniqueness if we were to keep the sash for longer than just this year.

 

Back to the stripes next season please, they make me look thinner. Ahem.

[Toadhall Saint]

Think the "new" kit serves its purpose (something to commemorate 125 years young) but back to stripes next season.

[Dr Who?]

I have got the top, but I do prefer stripes, and I want us to go back to them next season. Just does not seem like a Saints top when wearing it.

 

If we get promoted it will be a kit to remember.

[Whitey]

I love the sash... but I don't think there would be much we could do with the design when the kit changes every other season?

[Stoozer]

I love our current "retro" kit and would be more than happy to see us continue with it. If only our away kit was better!

[gaz]

Stripes next season, diagonal for the away shirt?

[eling-saint]

Stripes for me please

[Legod Third Coming]

I love the sash... but I don't think there would be much we could do with the design when the kit changes every other season?

 

Red right to left on white

Red left to right on white

White right to left on red

White left to right on red...

 

Red and White striped sash?

[adrian lord]

Stripes, but in cotton, not chavvy nylon

[rocknrollman no2]

Definately without a doubt stripes everytime please.

[Dalek2003]

Our current kit is but time kak !

[docker-p]

Where can I start?

It never made sense to me to celebrate 125 years of history by wearing a kit nobody alive saw us play in. For the vast vast majority of our 125 years we have proudly worn Red and White stripes. ALL the greats who have thrilled the Saints faithful over the years wore Red & White stripes. Ted Bates, Mick Channon, Charlie Wayman, Matthew Le Tissier, Ron Davies, Nick Holmes, Terry Paine, Peter Osgood, Derek Reeves, Kevin Keegan all wore Red & White Stripes (Red & White stripe (sic) in KKs case)

Civic and private triumph and disaster have been played out in Southampton over the last century against the backdrop of a community club recognised by the Red & White Stripes.

My parents, your parents, my grandparents, and your grandparents would all have know Southampton play in Red & White Stripes. Why then throw all that heritage away in the name of 'celebrating' our 125 anniversary? A cynic might think it was just about separating Saints fans from their hard earned money.

The quicker we can turn our back on this aesthetically displeasing, tradition busting, peruvian kit the better.

Until then, COYW.

[rocknrollman no2]

Where can I start?

It never made sense to me to celebrate 125 years of history by wearing a kit nobody alive saw us play in. For the vast vast majority of our 125 years we have proudly worn Red and White stripes. ALL the greats who have thrilled the Saints faithful over the years wore Red & White stripes. Ted Bates, Mick Channon, Charlie Wayman, Matthew Le Tissier, Ron Davies, Nick Holmes, Terry Paine, Peter Osgood, Derek Reeves, Kevin Keegan all wore Red & White Stripes (Red & White stripe (sic) in KKs case)

Civic and private triumph and disaster have been played out in Southampton over the last century against the backdrop of a community club recognised by the Red & White Stripes.

My parents, your parents, my grandparents, and your grandparents would all have know Southampton play in Red & White Stripes. Why then throw all that heritage away in the name of 'celebrating' our 125 anniversary? A cynic might think it was just about separating Saints fans from their hard earned money.

The quicker we can turn our back on this aesthetically displeasing, tradition busting, peruvian kit the better.

Until then, COYW.

 

Excellent post.Agree with every word.

Anyway i have it good authority we will revert to stripes next season.

[SNSUN]

Where can I start?

It never made sense to me to celebrate 125 years of history by wearing a kit nobody alive saw us play in. For the vast vast majority of our 125 years we have proudly worn Red and White stripes. ALL the greats who have thrilled the Saints faithful over the years wore Red & White stripes. Ted Bates, Mick Channon, Charlie Wayman, Matthew Le Tissier, Ron Davies, Nick Holmes, Terry Paine, Peter Osgood, Derek Reeves, Kevin Keegan all wore Red & White Stripes (Red & White stripe (sic) in KKs case)

Civic and private triumph and disaster have been played out in Southampton over the last century against the backdrop of a community club recognised by the Red & White Stripes.

My parents, your parents, my grandparents, and your grandparents would all have know Southampton play in Red & White Stripes. Why then throw all that heritage away in the name of 'celebrating' our 125 anniversary? A cynic might think it was just about separating Saints fans from their hard earned money.

The quicker we can turn our back on this aesthetically displeasing, tradition busting, peruvian kit the better.

Until then, COYW.

Whilst I do agree, irrespective that none of us were alive 125 years ago, it was still part of our history. I started supporting Saints in '89, but I still study up on the years before that. It's akin to people 'celebrating' Guy Fawkes night, none of us were alive but we still celebrate it.

 

Ok, I just read that back and it doesn't quitre make sense, but you can see the logic in it... :-)

[dune]

It's probably nice as a leisure shirt for fans to wear, but personally I think it looks crap on the field of play and is not Saints. I will be pleased when we get a proper striped shirt again.

[wild-saint]

I really love this kit, as a fat barsteward the stripes don't do me any favours, but this is a one off, a commemoration.

 

Back to stripes next season please.

To be honest if you are a fat barsteward I doubt many articles of clothing do you many favours other than maybe a girdle.

 

Back on topic id be happy to keep the sash only (and I mean only) if we win the league. dont change a winning formular and all that.

[The9]

I'd prefer to go back to stripes.

 

Firstly, this one was to represent a special commemorative occasion, and secondly we'd have to change "Come on you Reds" permanently, which is probably beyond a lot of our fans

 

I've been singing "whites" all season in all songs that don't already contain it. And stripes for me next season please...

[sebastian firefly]

the sash is gash

it looks utter shyte id rather have that awful pony chevron attrocity the this

 

stripes stripes and more stripes

check out bilbao kit this season now that is what we should be wearing

perhaps they could have done the sash thing just for the one game to mark the125th and sold 125 of them at £125 a piece

[doggface]

I love the sash, IMO it's completely appropriate for this year, but happy to go back to stripes next year as I am sure we will.

 

Oh & we had the sash long before Peru!

[Fan The Flames]

I would be happy to stick with the sash for a few seasons. We broke the stripes run back in the eighties and didn't wear them for many years, also they are hardly unique like the sash is.

[Draino76]

I would like to stay with the sash thankyou and make it our own. New kit, new start, new owners; ONE VISION. Pause for a moment and think of the amount of belends that have been in charge when we have been in red and white stripes. Look how many relegations we have had in red n white stripes.

 

I bought my first home strip since the blue flame effort from admiral this year.

 

KEEP THE SASH, or we are just another Sheff UTD, Sunderland, Stoke or summat.xxx

[Saint Fan CaM]

I would like to stay with the sash thankyou and make it our own. New kit, new start, new owners; ONE VISION. Pause for a moment and think of the amount of belends that have been in charge when we have been in red and white stripes. Look how many relegations we have had in red n white stripes.

 

I bought my first home strip since the blue flame effort from admiral this year.

 

KEEP THE SASH, or we are just another Sheff UTD, Sunderland, Stoke or summat.xxx

 

I kinda agree with this, but I think I will need to change my shirt at the end of the season - it's starting to smell a bit now and we're not half-way through the fixture list.

[Matthew Le God]

Leeds didn't wear white until the 1960's

 

Crystal Palace didn't wear red/blue stripes until the 1970's

 

Southampton didn't have black shorts and white/red socks until the 1950's (they were blue for the first 65 years of the club)

 

Teams can make radical changes to the kit and stick with them. The current style of Saints kit with the red sash would be unique in English football and differentiates us from Stoke/Sunderland/Sheff Utd etc.

[SuperMikey]

I like this kit a lot, I don't feel like a complete chav wearing it out in public unlike past Saints kits. Would like to see a different design next year though, this is a commemorative kit rather than a bold new direction.

[saint_jas]

Definitely back to Stripes next season.

 

Really need to buy new shirt at xmas, I do like it.

[The9]

Leeds didn't wear white until the 1960's

 

Crystal Palace didn't wear red/blue stripes until the 1970's

 

Southampton didn't have black shorts and white/red socks until the 1950's (they were blue for the first 65 years of the club)

 

Teams can make radical changes to the kit and stick with them. The current style of Saints kit with the red sash would be unique in English football and differentiates us from Stoke/Sunderland/Sheff Utd etc.

 

Arguable, Leeds United's first kits in the 1920s were predominantly white with blue stripes, and there's a long history of Palace wearing shades of red (maroon or claret) and light blue (rather than royal) well before the 1970s too - they first wore Claret/light blue stripes in 1937.

 

Keeping a recognisable style or colour is vital to a club's identity, and now branding. Palace's switching between white with red/blue and red/blue stripes is pointless and cynics would say exploitative, just as Walsall's switching between red and white shirts just looks gimmicky. This year's Saints kit is a gimmick, but there's a good enough reason for it. There aren't many who think a wholesale redesign is in order.

 

Saints took half their history to replace the blue shorts with black but wore them non-stop for 60 years until this season (and even this season the away shorts are black, just in case)... I'm pretty sure that's a firm kit colour decision, along with the decision to go with red and white stripes with few exceptions since 1896.

[scott_saints]

Basically, if any team changes their kit then fans wont be happy as it is "not part of their history"..... however, after a couple of years it becomes accepted and 20 years down the line, what was the controversial kit is then seen as the normal kit, and god forbid if there is any other change, despite the fact it will be accepted eventually.

 

All in all, it doesn't really matter.

[dubai_phil]

I like the sash, it represents our history but it is also IMHO a final break with the bad old days.

 

But the celebration & the break will have happened, so next year we should go back to stripes. (Although having an away kit with a sash is not a bad idea - say one in white & a yellow with blue or something not too naff)

 

I like the shirt and will happily still turn up to games in it in when we are playing in the Champions League in five or six years time at our new Stadium, but in reality what I think I like most about the shirt is the lack of sponsor logo on it. Going back to Stripes without a Sponsor would MORE than differntiate us from Stoke, Sunderland et al

 

[eurosaint]

I would like to stay with the sash thankyou and make it our own. New kit, new start, new owners; ONE VISION. Pause for a moment and think of the amount of belends that have been in charge when we have been in red and white stripes. Look how many relegations we have had in red n white stripes.

 

I bought my first home strip since the blue flame effort from admiral this year.

 

KEEP THE SASH, or we are just another Sheff UTD, Sunderland, Stoke or summat.xxx

Brentford, Exeter, etc, etc....

I'll take a slash anytime !

(and yes, I am taking the p#ss!).