Saint_John Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 Do we have a 3rd strip this season ? We are now entering a period where we have 9 away games in the next 13 matches, 4 of them are night matches. I have not been impressed with the "Black Shirts" because I think they are incredibly difficult the see at certain grounds where the lighting is "less than perfect". For info this season we have worn the Black Shirts at B.Rovers (wall to wall sunshine in August), then defeats at MKDons, Huddersfield and Carlisle and a draw a Yeovil. Meanwhile since Nigel has arrived we have won at Sheff Wed and Notts County in "Red and White", so the away record for NA is :- Black Shirts = 0w - 1d - 3l and the Red & White Shirt = 2-0-0 . My concerns are the visibility of the Black Shirts at away grounds. Take at look at the OS pictures taken at Yeovil http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/Gallery/0,,10280~2168783,00.html There is one picture where Guly's shot has gone past the GK(13) who is on the ground and the only Saints player I can see in the gloom is Rickie. The rest of the team are invisible in the darkness. Tomorrow I believe we are wearing Red & White (which is good), however as it stands some of the other away games we will not be allowed to wear the R&W shirt, i.e. Exeter (imo yeovil standard lighting). I don't know about the other grounds, i.e. last season at Walsall we wore the Blue & Yellow away shirt but this season we were due to wear R&W on Dec 18th. With these 9 away games coming up and the fact that Nigel's record with the Black Shirts is so poor (0-1-3) I would hate for us to produce more substandard performances like Huddersfield/Carlisle/Yeovil and find afterwards that the players found it difficult to pass the ball to each other. For a 3rd Strip, I would accept the Cup Final Yellow or Dutch/Blackpool strip even the Original Cheats FC's Salmon Pink but I am concerned that if we don't have a 3rd strip that we will drop too many points in those Black Shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_bert Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 I think your looking into it to deep tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colbury Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 WTF Have people seriously not got more productive ways to utilise their time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 man U did change their kit at HT once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 If the players or management had a problem with the black kit we would wear something else IMO. Plenty of other teams have had black kits in the past so I think they would've been consigned to the flip-chart in the sky if they posed a serious problem. For the record, I once played in a highly succesful hockey team that wore all black. There is also a rugby team that plays in black that isn't bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 I really do not think it has anything to do with the shirts. We have got a run of games that do not look to good though 9 out of 13 games away is never good, and our form on the roa is patchy to say the least, but if we want to go up then we have to start picking up points on the road, starting tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deppo Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 Maybe we could use this to our advantage to break the offside trap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deppo Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 Perhaps we could get a new away shirt in the transfer window? Plymouth's away shirt is pretty striking. I reckon we could get it off them for £1m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 man U did change their kit at HT once Yep - if it is good enough for Ferguson, it should be for us. Manure were in grey that day. We won 6-3 IIRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 Maybe there's something in having Stealth players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 I tend to agree with Saint John. Surely if the rationale behind Clive Woodwards eye gym is sound then the same theory applies to the kit. Bright kits are easier to see than black kits, if you have to look up and pick out a player in a fraction of a second surely the clearer they are the better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 yep - if it is good enough for ferguson, it should be for us. Manure were in grey that day. We won 6-3 iirc ydnrc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 ydnrc. must have been the other thrashing we handed them then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 must have been the other thrashing we handed them then! It was the 3-1 IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2006/apr/15/sport.comment2 yes - see above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr saint Posted 2 January, 2011 Share Posted 2 January, 2011 I was at the yeovil game. I didn't really have much problem seeing the saints players from the other end of the ground. Having said that I'd much rather we had a yellow and blue kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 11 January, 2011 Share Posted 11 January, 2011 Personally, and with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, I think we play ok in the black kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 black is best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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