New home shirt

[chunkygull]

I prefer the stripes too.

the other time we wore stripes was the season we finished rock bottom and were saved by stevenage not having an up to standard ground. those stripes were blue and yellow though.

[SuperNickyWroe]

although i read this site a lot i have'nt posted a message in a very long time but this is a subject that really winds me up. our teams shirt is always a symbol of our identity,a representation of the club and also a big commercial opportunity for our club. I have felt that we have not had a decent home shirt for years,in fact most have been appalling. here is a chance to actually have a say and choose what we want for a change.i cannot believe so many are choosing G. we have had this kit twice already and both times then it wasn't great.i didnt rate it in 91 and even bought the purple and white shirt instead. definitely there is a feeling of rose tinted glasses for some because of the 91" play off final. don't forget though the following year it was our home shirt and we were relegated. the year after that we were poor also. when the kit got ressurected about 12 years ago im sure we had a rubbish time as well.wasn't it the home shirt during the season we had our last day "great escape" at barnet.i am 37 by the way.we need to have something new.something smart like f or different like c. there is definitely a conspiracy having 6 similar designs to split the vote and one completely different.G is even put on its own away from the others in the paper.the club are always likely to have what they want.as for the rest of the kit don't even get me started.absolutely sick of looking at all yellow. with blue shorts it looks smarter and breaks up the yellow just right. and whoever thinks that putting white in there somewhere looks alright they need to have their eyes tested.every time we have added a bit of white in it just does not look right. it likes like a really tacky kit from some of those obscure teams in the europa league. we are yellow/gold and blue and thats it. why are we wearing white socks this season, with the rest of the kit yellow it looks dreadful. it makes our kit look like one of the worst in the league.it looks like no thought has gone into it and the kit has been chucked together. it looks like we have forgotten our correct socks and had to borrow a set last minute . if we insist on white in our kit then at least for maybe commercial, publicity and novelty value we should go for a brazil kit, yellow shirt,blue shorts and white socks. if we did have a brazil i would then suggest shirt A or B.just picture it and you will get what i mean.please everybody vote sensibly.would you actually buy and wear G. I voted F

another one talking wet.

so what if we went down wearing that shirt then. we were a bad team for gods sake!
and if the majority vote for G, and the club are good to their word then we get that shirt - end of.
If A gets voted then we get that - but at least the fans have chosen it.

[Sneapy]

I like c

Tbh let's face facts though g is gonna win, purely because this is Devon, and Devon equals old people, no offence but its gonna be picked by long time supporters purely because it takes them back to their day, with the then great players, but when they see it on today's players and in today's modern game, its gonna look like a simple boring white and yellow shirt, yeah c is unique, but that's what makes it good, there's no point in going with the flow and do what a lot of other teams do, stick with the same type of shirt, striped, plain, etc, our past couple of home and away kits have been unique and interesting, not including our current sh*tty away shirt, but I will be severely disappointed if we end up with g...

That will give us two tragic kits...

[Parry]

Chunkygull it is very simple, the majority of people like G, including me, a 21 year old. There is no conspiracy, you're just not going to get your own way and you don't like it. Just because people think that white and yellow is acceptable, does not mean they "need their eyes tested".

[AustrianAndyGull]

Chunkygull has a point when he says we haven't had a good home kit for years. It is all opinions but i tend to agree with him and apart from the one before the current home shirt ( our play off shirt ) they have generally all been plain, boring and pretty abysmal. Even that play off season shirt was saved by the type of collar it had and i can't help but think there is some sort of 'collar' fetishist in our midst when devising these shirts. The current shirt is absolutely appalling but may have been partly pardoned if it had, yes you guessed it, a decent and modern collar. The v-neck is out dated, makes the shirt look ill-fitting and it looks tacky. At least if the v-collar had of been blue it may have contrasted and looked sort of ok. As it is it's really amateurish and to top it off with the grammatical error on the back ensured it was the first home shirt i haven't purchased. There was just TOO MUCH wrong with it.

This brings me onto the current debate about which shirt to vote for for next season and G appears to be the one most fans are selecting. I have to admit that it is growing on me and i do like the design but it just CANNOT have a 90's collar like it has. It totally ruins the whole shirt and makes it look like some retro kit from yesteryear. In an age where many fans who purchase shirts are of a certain youthfulness and like to wear their club shirt as a leisure accessory and not just at games, i can't help but feel that if the club go with G it will lose sales simply because the design and collar are antiquated.

I can understand the reasons for selecting G and i do like it but purely because the collar is so unbelievably old i just would not buy it. Who knows, if i see it worn on somebody it might not look too bad and i will change my mind but it looks pretty stupid on the photo. We all have our opinions on it and i will be as disappointed as chunkygull if we end up with G as i feel some of the others are really quite cool and modern and we have a lot of young fans now getting into watching the Gulls who would think they are cool and who would buy them.

At the end of the day the club aren't going to please everybody but i just feel that whoever was responsible for our current atrocity needs an appointment with the firing squad as i reckon if we did a similar vote last time round then our current shirt would struggle to get votes. Not only that, the quality of it is shocking and the grammatical error just tops it off. Staggering. Also i also think that, although i commend the club for giving all fans an interactive opportunity to get involved, the total departure in styles from G to all the others sort of subconciously draws people to G and therefore psychology dictates that many people will vote for G because it is so different from the others and thus somehow more attractive to some people. I find it odd that G is so, so different to all the others.

[Gullscorer]

A shirt is supposed to have a collar, and, for that matter, long sleeves, otherwise it's nothing more than some kind of deviant vest... :~D

[chunkygull]

i do feel the club and everyone should be applauded for allowing us the opportunity to choose a shirt design.i remember somebody saying when a shirt is designed these days you just dont picture what the team look like in it but what the supporters would look like wearing it also, for example does it go with jeans.(Answer for G = NO) the club and supporters should really think hard, it might look an ok design but would many buy it. i was not the first on here to say about the conspiracy to split the vote on 6 similar shirts and one different one PICTURED ON ITS OWN by the way,that started earlier in post i was just agreeing.i may be a little bit harsh about shirt G there is no doubt it was very popular in 91. but the fact is we have had it twice now already.this is a chance to try something a bit different. i was never a big fan of G but contrary to some criticism i dont mind a shirt with a collar. i just dont get the whole yellow and white thing. WE ARE YELLOW/GOLD AND BLUE. what irks me most is when we have dolloped white in the kit at random. what the hell is going on with white socks and the rest of the kit yellow.like i said earlier it looks like we have forgotten our socks and borrowed a set.as before if we insist on yellow,blue and white why not a brazil style kit.could be a good commercial move and would look a lot smarter.SO DOES ANYBODY ELSE THINK A BRAZIL KIT WOULD BE GOOD?

[AustrianAndyGull]

A shirt is supposed to have a collar, and, for that matter, long sleeves, otherwise it's nothing more than some kind of deviant vest... :~D

Yeah but not a collar that looks like it's been starched by the Victorians! :~D

Whilst we're on the subject of shirts, does anyone remember those really skin tight PUMA ones from a few years ago? I think Spurs had one and Cameroon and other clubs. If Torquay had released one of those and i bought one and wore it i'd have been escorted from Plainmoor for indecency offences!

[chunkygull]

[quote="Parry"]Chunkygull it is very simple, the majority of people like G, including me, a 21 year old. There is no conspiracy, you're just not going to get your own way and you don't like it. Just because people think that white and yellow is acceptable, does not mean they "need their eyes tested".
yes maybe i was a bit harsh,yellow and white may work but not in the kits so far that we have had with it.if designed in the right way it might look alright.i remember a home yellow and blue kit that randomly had a white collar(looked crap).another home kit was all white(yes all white) with a lot of yellow trim especially around the collar (looked crap). a player at the time after the last game of the season(88-89) offered me that shirt and i turned it down because it was so bad. to be fair the first time we had kit G was 21 years ago so you wouldnt remember it and you would have been very young last time so it probably is a new and fresh design to you. as you get a bit older 21 and 12 years doesnt seem like a long time.my biggest problem is the fact our colours are supposed to be and SHOULD ALWAYS BE YELLOW/GOLD AND BLUE. experiment with away kits all you like but the principle of the home kit should always stay the same.pardon me if i am ranting a bit and seem a bit ott about the matter but i have seen so many bad home kits i am just a bit fed up with it and feel i have seen so many tired similar designs already that to pick a shirt for its third run would be a mistake. i want to see OUR TEAM in a kit we can all be proud of.

[AustrianAndyGull]

There's nowt wrong with a rant mate, i can't live without 'em!

[knh316]

IT DEPENDS ON THE COLOUR OF SHORTS AND SOCKS,SEEING THE FULL KIT MIGHT CHANGE PEOPLES OPINIONS

[chunkygull]

IT DEPENDS ON THE COLOUR OF SHORTS AND SOCKS,SEEING THE FULL KIT MIGHT CHANGE PEOPLES OPINIONS

that is exactly one of the points i was trying to make,when you pick a shirt you have to think of what the whole kit will look like.personally we absolutely need to break up the all yellow and have yellow shirt, blue shorts and yellow socks. if we must have white socks or white in the kit then it must be brazil-yellow shirt, blue shorts and white socks. you have to picture each shirt in the poll and think about the various combos with the rest of the kit. G might look like an ok shirt but it doesnt really go with anything. first time around was ok with blue shorts and yellow socks,second time with blue for both looked boring.G didnt look all that good when suppoters wore it with jeans or tracky bottoms or shorts either.

[chunkygull]

check out the richard hancox thread, click the link and see the footage of the team in the yellow and blue stripes i mentioned earlier. also footage of the yellow shirt with thin blue hoops. both better kits than the yellow and white stripes in my opinion.

[Gourock Gulls]

F gets my vote.

D is awful, C is too (some kind of rugby leage effort), A & B not much better. E is allright, not keen on the shiny pattern. G also acceptable, only problems I have with this are the collar and the fact that Clydebank had a similar kit in the early 90's and pumped by beloved Morton 7-1 whilst wearing it.

Have no problem with allover yellow BTW. Only followed Gulls for a few years so the "retro" appeal of the stripes doesn't apply!

[chunkygull]

[quote="Gourock Gulls"]F gets my vote.

yippee , at ,last somebody else with some taste.