New Kits 2012-13

[saint lard]

Really quite like both.

will prob go for the home one.

simple,classy and just enough to be a different saints shirt.

[manji]

Like them both. Not that I will buying either never wear replica kits. Plus its far from true we have always worn stripes.

[CanadaSaint]

Given the vast array of red and white striped shirts from different eras worn by the fans, it makes big commercial sense because it outdates all of them.

 

However, it's a massive "f*ck you" to the club's tradition.

[Crazy Diamond]

people saying "its not a southampton kit"

 

eeer, it is now

 

The wish is the father of the thought on this occasion...

[saintmatt]

For what it's worth I think its smart. What I don't get is what we'll wear away to Sunderland or Stoke?

 

Third kit maybe?

[Colinjb]

people saying "its not a southampton kit"

 

eeer, it is now

 

Thank f**k it's just for one season.

[niceandfriendly]

blimey they're bloody beautiful. want them both. away kit especially.goo

 

d question about what we'll wear to stoke and sunderland? 3rd kit on the way?

[doubleonothing]

Jordan Sibley ‏@jordansibley

 

You can take a closer behind the scenes look at the new home and away kits on Saints Player now. #saintsfc #redandwhitearmy

[wireframebox]

Pleasantly surprised by how much I like this kit. Has an air of freshness and class about it. It's by no means a traditional Saints kit, but I think that reflects the recent changes (for the better) in the club.

[doubleonothing]

Jordan Sibley ‏@jordansibley

 

You can take a closer behind the scenes look at the new home and away kits on Saints Player now. #saintsfc #redandwhitearmy

[Griffo]

Pleasantly surprised by how much I like this kit. Has an air of freshness and class about it. It's by no means a traditional Saints kit, but I think that reflects the recent changes (for the better) in the club.

 

What do you mean changes for the better? We've changed the colours we play in. That isn't a Southampton kit.

[Saint Billy]

I love both tbh, I have never really liked the stripes and I bet a bit of psychology is involved in the choice.

 

Brave choice by NC and gang as it is bound to upset many traditionalists but it pleases me if knowone else.

[trousers]

No shot of the back of the shirt in the Saints Player video....this is as close as we get to a rear shot....(oo-er missus)

 

[CWD]

What do you mean changes for the better? We've changed the colours we play in. That isn't a Southampton kit.

 

No we haven't, its still red and white. Just has less white on it this season.

[The9]

I've just seen it. And The9 ITKness is completely wrong!

 

Or not. But who looks like a complete bell-end now, all of 20 minutes later ?

[ponto1963]

Well that saves price of 3 kits for this year.

 

HATE the strip we are red AND white not red!!!!!

[doggface]

@the 9 - yes the home strip has one grey and one white pinstripe

[Saint J 77]

Well at least the picture demonstrates that there's nothing wrong with Tadanari Lee's leg!

 

Looks good in this shot for some reason

[The9]

No shot of the back of the shirt in the Saints Player video....this is as close as we get to a rear shot....(oo-er missus)

 

 

The home shirt definitely has pinstripes on the back, dunno about the away.

[doggface]

what colour are the squad numbers on each?

[Matthew Le God]

Have we "done a Cardiff"? Although as we were a red and white team anyway, a change to all red isn't quite as dramatic.

 

Note Japan international Tadanari Lee as the key figure in the home shirt promotional photo...

 

[The9]

@the 9 - yes the home strip has one grey and one white pinstripe

 

Cheers, can't tell from anything posted so far.

[saintmatt]

Awful. Worst home kit since Dimplex?

 

first comment I read on Facebook was "best home kit since Dimplex"! I suppose the world would be a boring place if everyone agreed

[The9]

what colour are the squad numbers on each?

 

Guessing white on the home and... either black or red on the away.

[thefuriousb]

The thing I like least about the home shirt is, once again, the sponsors logo.

 

It looks far better, yet again, on the away kit.

 

I'd like to feel the quality of the shirt first, mind. Without repeating the same point I have already made, last season's away shirt was far and away better all round than the home 'red and white stripes' effort.

[Soggy Bottom]

I like em, might get one now, wasn't before

[The9]

first comment I read on Facebook was "best home kit since Dimplex"! I suppose the world would be a boring place if everyone agreed

That might have been sarcasm, given how hated the Pony tick kit was.

[Avenue Saint]

Looks quality. Away not so much bothered, but the home one looks very nice.

[doubleonothing]

billy sharp ‏@billysharp10

 

Yep I was surprised when I saw the home kit was expecting it to just be the normal red and white stripes,I'm sure we will get used to it.

[solentstars]

like both kits nice modern look

[Bearsy]

I phoned my dad earlier and was telling him and i said yeah the new home kit is red with white stripes and the away kit is white with red stripes. He said shut up James that's about the stupidest thing you ever said!

 

(he calls me James cos dat is my name)

[The9]

Looks like a standard pub team kit you'd get from a catalogue. Why change the shorts and sock colours? Controversial!

I will boycott the Wigan game to show my displeasure.

 

Actually they haven't changed either home or away socks colours from last season.

 

This thread is amusing me now, there's not a single thing been said since the launch that wasn't said before it so far !

[The9]

An extremely good point.

 

That was also made a month ago when we were just guessing the away kit was white !

[Chin Strain]

Bloody horrible, since when do we play in all red. Really not happy about this, what is wrong with RED & WHITE STRIPES FFS... rubbish rubbish rubbish... if i wanted a Liverpool kit i would support them

I hear what you're saying, but you don't really choose the team you support based on the colour of the kit do you. If Saints had been wearing brown when I was growing up, I'd still be a Saints fan.

 

Personally, I like the kits, I'm just not convinced that it's close enough to red and white stripes that we've had for 40 or so years.

[rickylambert]

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2827440,00.html

Plain,Boring,But not too bad.

[lloydie]

I think the kit looks good, a lot of 'bed wetting' reactions on here as expected.

1.We havent always been red and white stripes for starters (imagine what the uproar was like then when we introduced them without the internets?!)

2. Theres still white stripes on the red kits, therefore its still red and white stripes, just smaller for christ sake.(remember guys, size doesnt matter its what you do with it, or what rickie does while playing in it, that matters!)

3.to the reaction 'its not a saints kit' well seeing as its just been announced as sfc's new kit, kinda invalidates that response.

4. to the reaction of, 'we look like liverpool' id rather have just that one club (or forest) than people come up to me in london asking me if im a stoke, sunderland or even more frequently an exeter fan!

 

Oh and 5... If we do well in it, and get a cup run etc, id imagine a lot of people will change their tune.

[Matthew Le God]

There is a 28 page thread about it here...

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37736-New-Kit

[lloydie]

Cheers for the heads up! Was totally oblivious that we had a new kit out!

[Matthew Le God]

I hear what you're saying, but you don't really choose the team you support based on the colour of the kit do you. If Saints had been wearing brown when I was growing up, I'd still be a Saints fan.

 

Personally, I like the kits, I'm just not convinced that it's close enough to red and white stripes that we've had for 40 or so years.

 

We didn't have a standard red and white striped kit for the entire 1980's. Which included the most successful period in the clubs league history.

[Frank's cousin]

I phoned my dad earlier and was telling him and i said yeah the new home kit is red with white stripes and the away kit is white with red stripes. He said shut up James that's about the stupidest thing you ever said!

 

(he calls me James cos dat is my name)

 

As we have a thread of grown men being a bit...lets say 'emotional' about the club's new kit, it is good to see the Bear Wit take centre stage and bring some much needed perspective.... so tell us Bearsy what's the craic from the creatures in the woods on this one?

[wireframebox]

 

Are the people in the back rows just generic faces? If not, who's stood behind Jack Cork and Danny Fox?..

[fish fingers]

I wonder what people will think about it.

[Benali Saint]

Horrible kitsHome is a Forest cast offAway is similar to an old Skate shirt only red pin stripes instead of blue ones

[bowers-sfc]

Anyone else notice our new signing on the left? our pitch announcer matey steve bennett

[The9]

I love how every season there are people saying "I've heard the Rank Xerox kit is coming back" bollix!! It'll be red and white stripes, that's what we wear.

 

I've been waiting since May to quote this...

[Crazy Diamond]

We didn't have a standard red and white striped kit for the entire 1980's. Which included the most successful period in the clubs league history.

 

Difference is, some of them were nice.

[rickylambert]

whoops didn't see that

[The9]

Horrible kitsHome is a Forest cast offAway is similar to an old Skate shirt only red pin stripes instead of blue ones

 

To be fair, that is at least an original criticism. Congrats. I don't think "white with red pinstripes" is that similar to "white with blue pinstripes", though admittedly it would be a colour clash.

[Spudders]

Easy mistake, it's not been there long

[St.Jeweller]

Is Kelvin wearing skins this season for us then?