Saints Adidas Red Track Top with Southampton FC

[Ottawa Saint]

I noticed the Saints were wearing their red Adidas tracksuit tops at Norwich with "Southampton FC" on the back. Does anyone know if the Saints Shop is selling these ? I live in Canada, and three emails to the Saints Megastore have gone unanswered.

[The9]

If it's not here, they're almost certainly not selling it. They seem to have black, and white, but not red in the tracksuit tops, and red in the sweatshirts.

 

http://ssl.saintsfc.co.uk/products/13400

[Golden Balls]

Seems the club in general are ignoring any communication from fans. Disappointing.

[Montreal Saint]

I noticed that too as its very nice. Let me know if you find anything please...down the road in Montreal

[Colinjb]

Quite like the look of that red tracksuit hoodie thing.

[Hatch]

try the club shops of the other identikit adidas teams, like Bristol City or whoever.

[doggface]

Call them. I have called in my orders from over here is T.O and always been well advised and delivery quick. I also want that top so let me know how you get on, I will be calling on saturday if I do not hear before.

 

FWIW I assume they will be selling them but the training stuff seems to be arriving in drips and drabs so probably not avalaible (yet).

[gogo_saint]

Maybe try asking them on twitter? They seem to be all over social media these days.

[Ottawa Saint]

I heard back from Leighton Mitchell, Head of Retail at SFC...here is his response: , I can now confirm that the track jacket which was worn by the players last weekend is now available to purchase via the online store.

This version will not have Southampton FC on the back.

[Ottawa Saint]

I have to say, when you go to a pub here in Ottawa to see a game, you see many jackets with Manchester United, Arsenal, Barcelona, Juventus etc. on the back. There is even a Pompey supporter who proudly wears a jacket with POMPEY across his chest. In my opinion, the Saints are missing the boat here on promoting team identity. Whatever happened to the embroidered "SAINTS" that was on the back of shirts near the neck ? I just may end up buying the red track jacket when I am there in 2 weeks and bringing it home to Canada and get Southampton FC put on it.

[old_southy]

[old_southy]

 

...and thats why you always click, go advanced

[St Chalet]

Online £40

http://www.discountfootballkits.com/adidas-Tiro-13-University-Red-Black-Pes-Suit

 

 

Add a badge and it is £75 from the Saints shop.

 

 

Don't mind spending money on bespoke Saints gear, but this is just taking the ****.

[Cascadia Saint]

Quite like the look of that red tracksuit hoodie thing.

 

Me too, very nice.

[doggface]

I heard back from Leighton Mitchell, Head of Retail at SFC...here is his response: , I can now confirm that the track jacket which was worn by the players last weekend is now available to purchase via the online store.

This version will not have Southampton FC on the back.

 

Hi OS,

 

Did you ask Leighton why there is no Southampton FC on the back? Seems like they missed a trick here.

 

They are even charging us 5 quid more for the privillage : /

 

http://www.wbashop.co.uk/ADIDAS-TRAINING-JACKET-ADULT-1314

[The9]

We're only just noticing that the club shop is more expensive than almost everyone else's then ? I did a breakdown of home shirt costs before the season started, we have the joint most expensive shirts with West Ham, the joint most expensive shorts with a lot of others, and the second most expensive socks. And with the 10% discount for ST holders, the prices are basically the same as everyone else.

 

The discount kits website is great for team unbranded stuff, though it does sometimes take them a while to get delivery from adidas. Unsurprisingly given Saints' recent unexpected use of black Campeon away shorts, they're completely out of black Campeon away shorts at the moment.

[The9]

I have to say, when you go to a pub here in Ottawa to see a game, you see many jackets with Manchester United, Arsenal, Barcelona, Juventus etc. on the back.

 

Nike teams, Nike training kit. There's also an England one and a Man City one the same.

[doggface]

Yeah nike ones are really nice. Here in mls all clubs do a retro adidas trefoil track top. Really nice.

 

I know Chelsea do too but the majority of bpl clubs seem to get the minimum treatment from adidas which ****es me off considering they bend over for mls.

[Ottawa Saint]

I received an email from the Saints Retail Manager today.....he is looking at the possibilities of selling the track top with Southampton FC on the back after hearing my suggestion.

[Reib80]

I received an email from the Saints Retail Manager today.....he is looking at the possibilities of selling the track top with Southampton FC on the back after hearing my suggestion.

 

That's good.

 

This situation reminds me back in the 89 season (I think... I was young so not sure the exact year) where the Kit was sponsored by draper (though obviously this is much less in comparison). The players wore that, but the fans had ones with a massive black draper sponsor. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Saints changed to have the players wear the black draper kit after mass complaints?

[doggface]

I received an email from the Saints Retail Manager today.....he is looking at the possibilities of selling the track top with Southampton FC on the back after hearing my suggestion.

 

Thanks os. Please let me know what the outcome is, I have visitors in a few weeks and looking to pick one up.

[St.Patrik]

I ordered my red track top today. Had some questions about the shipping that is £20 to Sweden...No answer - the used Twitter like someone here suggested and got instant reply......

 

I´m to old for this social media ****e : /

[theyin]

A little frustration on twitter has always garnered results for me from Citizen watches to my telephone provider and gas company. Someone should be over the email, but it's all too often the case that they go ignored.

[theyin]

A little frustration on twitter has always garnered results for me from Citizen watches to my telephone provider and gas company. Someone should be over the email, but it's all too often the case that they go ignored.

[The9]

That's good.

 

This situation reminds me back in the 89 season (I think... I was young so not sure the exact year) where the Kit was sponsored by draper (though obviously this is much less in comparison). The players wore that, but the fans had ones with a massive black draper sponsor. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Saints changed to have the players wear the black draper kit after mass complaints?

 

Before my Saints-supporting time, but there's a different kit for August 1989 on here : http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Southampton/Southampton.htm that ties in with what you're saying, plus the replica I have from that season has this sponsor on it :

 

 

Going to see if I can track down an August '89 kit now...

[The9]

Here we go - the team photo for 1989 has the "DRAPER" without the big black box :

 

[The9]

I've also noticed whilst searching that as well as the (well known) Air Florida / Rank Xerox / Draper Tools sponsors on the Patrick two shades of blue away kit, there were also two different colour sponsors for Draper Tools (dark and white). The white sponsor seems to be smaller so was probably used in televised matches in line with the regulations they had back then.

 

 

Also notable alternate light shorts on Jordan on the links above. I've also seen a few pics of the all red change shirt worn against teams with white stripes which is nearly as weird as this season's red West Brom third kit (to go with their red/black striped away kit).

 

I mean this :

as an alternate of this :

 

Not this :

Edited 9 September, 2013 by The9

[The9]

Something else I've just spotted - the shorts being worn in the advert for the current away kit are NOT the ones the team are actually wearing :

 

Here's the Shaw ad :

 

And the home/away kits :

 

Note there are no seams on the front of the away shorts and a black panel on the back of them ? Those shorts are Tiro 13 style and are the same as the home kit shorts.

 

But the ones they've actually worn in matches are these, the Campeon '13 - a notable seam across the front of the shorts, the 3 stripes reaching all the way down the side of the shorts and no black panel on the back or sides...

 

 

They're also the ones the club are selling in the store : http://ssl.saintsfc.co.uk/product/13100/0000-9538

 

So we can just assume that as WELL as not having sponsors on, the shorts they used for the photoshoot weren't actually the ones Saints were going to wear either.

 

The alternate black away shorts worn at Barnsley are Campeon '13 style too, FWIW, though the socks were just cheapo plain white ones with black adidas logo rather than the more expensive 3-stripe ones.

Edited 9 September, 2013 by The9

[Bearsy]

you are funny 9. If I asked anyone else bout what shorts we was wearing, at best they would say "White".

[The9]

you are funny 9. If I asked anyone else bout what shorts we was wearing, at best they would say "White".

 

I just pay attention to the detail. Seeing as I just bought 3 pairs of adidas shorts in red, white and black all without the Saints badge on I just made sure I got the right ones. In other "you don't want to know" news, the Tiro '13 doesn't have a built in nutsack, whilst the Campeon '13 does. Now if you're a player, you're going to want to know if you need to bring your footy pants, aren't you ?

[Bearsy]

yeah ok sorry 9. I didn't know bout the nutsack angle. Is it maybe the case that Luke Shaw does not require nutsack, whereas Mayuka + Steven Davis does require nutsack?

[The9]

yeah ok sorry 9. I didn't know bout the nutsack angle. Is it maybe the case that Luke Shaw does not require nutsack, whereas Mayuka + Steven Davis does require nutsack?

 

An interesting consideration Bear, but I think it's more down to the club not knowing their arse from their elbow when it came to doing the photoshoot, hence them needing to photoshop the sponsor onto all the kits later and using whatever shorts looked vaguely right and got sent to them at the time. It took about 3 months for that kit to actually pitch up in the shop, so I don't think the players' gonads were even considered, and frankly it's just not good enough.