I just don’t get how they could get something like this so wrong when it is really simple to do.

Forget the bizarre reason (130 years, eh?) the club has fortunately got a very strong recognisable traditional kit design (like saints red V Wigan cherry hoops) so anything heritage should be easy to do Who signed it off and thought, yes that’s representitive of our history?

Bizarre.

I don’t particularly dislike the shirt it’s the fact that it isn’t well designed for what it’s meant to be that is bizarre, just put irregular hoops where the lines are and at least it’s representitive of our actual heritage

It's 150 years since Leeds St Johns was founded, 1870 being the date the club had taken to putting as the establishment year on the vintage range - except for this shirt where they have gone back to the, wholly inaccurate, "est'd 1895" marker.

So there is a totally legitimate, club-supported 150th anniversary this year but they've chosen instead to celebrate the ground's 130th? Headingley is unique and important to both Leeds and the sport but it just seems totally random to choose this when there was an easier thing to select instead.

A genuine heritage design would not have been hard either. The club played in purely white at some stage, which could have produced a nice shirt.

It’s a very good point about the 150th anniversary

If you look at how Leeds United celebrated their anniversary, we could have really gone to town and celebrated this historic moment

Yep the established 1895 frustrated me too. Simply because it’s wrong.

Nothing wrong with celebrating 130 years of Headingley but maybe produce a dvd/downloadable video of a documentary on the ground. I’d buy that.

Or even the shirt done properly. It just seems all so disjointed.

It doesn't even say what it's made of. Could be cotton or not?

Standard sublimated affair I think

a minute in photoshop at least makes it kind of relevant to our actual history

I'm still a bit dumbfounded the stripes design got signed off by someone.

When will the Rob Burrow shirt be sent? Never mind this one.

That's a far better shirt IMO

They did say end of May/Start of June

However Covid has happened....

To be honest, if they had announced this as our shirt for next season I would have been fine with that. It's modern in design and material. Ok you not have had the names and the old badge but it would be a decent 2021 shirt.

It just doesn't do it as a heritage shirt, but each to their own for sure.

I suspect they will be in the sale pretty soon so at least you will grab a bargain

It's not even a good try GH looking around for obscure dates to celebrate it and bring out a shirt to make a bit of slippy cash

Making cash is fine with me but choosing an obscure date instead of the 150th anniversary of the foundation club and the laziness/sloppiness of the design is just poor commercial decision making - and I think that probably ends up ultimately at Rob Oates' door.

I know you can't have blue and amber irregular hoops every shirt, but a club truly in tune with its fanbase and its history would know what works and what doesn't. And wouldn't try and create a heritage event whilst forgetting about a genuine anniversary and simultaneously trying to shift a heritage shirt which has no element of heritage to it. Give half the people on this messageboard ten minutes to sensibly feed back opinion on any of the above and they'd get a better steer of what would work than seems to have been the case here.

Spot on.

I’ve absolutely no issue with not using traditional designs for kits every year, but on a heritage shirt it has to be a must surely?

The irony is it would have probably been a big seller if done properly, im not sure who thought a parramatta shirt was representitive of our history

Spot on.

I’ve absolutely no issue with not using traditional designs for kits every year, but on a heritage shirt it has to be a must surely?

The irony is it would have probably been a big seller if done properly, im not sure who thought a parramatta shirt was representitive of our history

Why cant we have the amber irregular hoops every year? Saints always have a red vee on every kit design and that works well.

Oh I agree there's no reason not to have them every year but I can see why they might want to go away from tradition now and then, didn't wigan have a policy of 2 years traditional with one year non traditional, I don't have a massive issue with that.

On a heritage short however...

Agreed

I have no problem with the club trying to generate some much needed cash at this financially difficult time. But if they want us to part with a substantial lump of cash, when many are already feeling the pinch, the product needs to be very good. To me this offering isn't, simple as.

P.S. I wish they'd give the shirt design job to Christopher

I think it would be great to do a fans competition every so often to design a kit

Awful shirt the only thing slightly heritage is the Club crest other than that another poor effort from GH & ISC.

Next years shirt has bands around the chest.

I'd imagine (hope) that Leeds had already got plans to have a traditional type shirt next year to honour the 60th anniversary of the first Championship win which means they wouldn't want to duplicate it with this heritage shirt, but why not use a quartered design which I believe was the original shirt design and the one we used as the centenary shirt in 1995 IIRC.

Unless the one I have been shown is not what they have gone with, it isn't traditional. Its very nice actually, although see how it looks with the real thing.