Got to say I agree with everything said about oxen, but I'll also say I think it's much better than those awful ones with a massive St Georges Cross on them, thatll be my 'woke liberal leanings'.

I hate the Geroge's cross designs (bar the 2013 one) but they have worn them for over 25 years - if they are suddenly going to abandon it then it needs proper thought out process and not doing 3 months before a tournament for which they had already released a kit for.

I didn't like the St George cross either but red and white are the England colours. Surely something could've been done with a bit more imagination? There are lots of traditional designs that stand the test of time and look classy.

Apparently they wanted to get a V on there for whatever reason and they couldn't do that with red for obvious reasons. I don't know, I'm not much of a traditionalist and think it's nicer than some of the other oxen tat. May get one. The big sponsor splashed on it is the main thing putting me off actually.

They could easily have put a fee on it added some blue and kept the red - it seems they wanted to channel some GB vibes into it - which I disagree with.

Something like this 5 minute photoshop mockup would have been a bit better IMO