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Nike strip next season?
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Let's go old school, Admiral or Hummell.
Not Andy Naylor
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I'd heard adidas a while ago. May have changed since though.
forrest
New member
Can someone enlighten me please.
Why does Nike = generic kit?
Clearly beyond the Albion kit isn't my thing.
I see the word generic and think if us Sheffield Wed
and Huddersfield were all in a Nike kit, they'd all be identical, that's not right is it?
Shirley within the deal for kit manufacture the club says 'and we decide what the kit will look like, within reason'.
Why does Nike = generic kit?
Clearly beyond the Albion kit isn't my thing.
I see the word generic and think if us Sheffield Wed
and Huddersfield were all in a Nike kit, they'd all be identical, that's not right is it?Shirley within the deal for kit manufacture the club says 'and we decide what the kit will look like, within reason'.
T soprano
New member
Can someone enlighten me please.
Why does Nike = generic kit?
Clearly beyond the Albion kit isn't my thing.
I see the word generic and think if us Sheffield Wed
Shirley within the deal for kit manufacture the club says 'and we decide what the kit will look like, within reason'.
Generic kit is a NSC thing, it's just something else for the goons to moan at - who else would really give a shit
I don't know?
Greg Bobkin
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willyfantastic
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nike kits are a million times more comfortable than adidas - and the adidas templates have been complete shite for the past few years
still rather have under armour
still rather have under armour
Goldstone Rapper
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My dream would be adidas with diagonal stripes.
Hyperion
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- Nov 1, 2010
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Under Armour produce some beautiful kits. Would love it to be them to be honest
seagull_in_malaysia
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At least I'll be able to buy a generic version without the sponsor (for quite a lot less I would have thought!)
Superphil
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Can someone enlighten me please.
Why does Nike = generic kit?
Clearly beyond the Albion kit isn't my thing.
I see the word generic and think if us Sheffield Wed
Shirley within the deal for kit manufacture the club says 'and we decide what the kit will look like, within reason'.
Each year to two The big manufacturers design half a dozen shirt styles, striped, hooped, plain, coloured sleeves, collar, no collar, etc. and make them available to teams. Smaller, and Lower league teams will take them as they come, in the colours made available, they stick on their badge, sponsors etc and away they go, think Scunthorpe, Peterborough etc. Bigger teams might choose customise them to a degree regarding colourways, trim etc, so long as they buy enough of them, think Southampton, Fulham, Stoke and Sunderland (and most of the Premier League teams). Then the big teams, well they go to the manufacturers and have bespoke kits designed and made for them. In some cases, such as the 'V' pattern that Man Utd had a couple of years ago, that went on to become a template shirt that is now used by lower league and pub teams all over.
For some reason the smaller manufacturers are able to offer bespoke kits for smaller requirements, like ours historically, personally that is what I'd prefer.
So I'm taking a guess that if we go down the Nike/Adidas/Puma route we'll end up with a generic/template kit, maybe with a custom colour/trim arrangement, or if we go for a smaller brand, we might get a unique kit.
Superphil
Dismember
As the expert, do you know if any footy teams play in cotton shirts? They go to all this effort to make special new fabrics but they're always sweaty as hell.
Thanks.
Clearly we're not a top 6 side when it comes to replica kits.
But by the same token, were not s'thrope Pboro either.
I'd like to think our brand, attendances, partners (Amex) would make us a big enough catch to gain the club some leverage with a big boy manufacturer.
Even if at the end of the day we are still just a drop in the ocean, to them.
Superphil
Dismember
There have been a number of attempts, United had a really weird fabric 10 years or so ago, sort of fluffy on the inside, like a light fleece, it was ghastly. I think it was Umbro, and there were similar efforts for England and others. Brighton did something similar with Spall, 1987-1989. Recent attempts by Umbro, like the recent England shirts, tried to make the fabric less nylony and they succeeded to a degree, the fabric is soft and slightly more cotton like, but since Nike dumped them, they seem to have disappeared a bit, although Nike have got a quite similar fabric on their new kits.
I think it might come down to the sublimation dye processes, to get the vivid, colourfast colours, durability, lightweightedness, ease of washing etc that makes them use the fabrics they do. I must confess, on the occasions I wear them, I don't think they are that uncomfortable, particularly our shirts since 2008 when Errea started developing and using technical fabrics.