Hi all

I do hope the moderators on here will allow this message.

I run a popular website, www.oldfootballshirts.com , which was set up for fun to create the ultimate online history of football (soccer) shirts using photos submitted by fans of their own shirts.

We’ve been asked many times about doing the same sort of thing for Rugby, so here it is,

www.oldrugbyshirts.com

We’re not a commercial site, the site was created for a bit of fun. We are after photos of your favourite teams shirts, your own Club shirts, College team, University team, they all count. (They must be your own photos, no “official” photos, no photos lifted from ebay).

We want to create a great online photographic collection of shirts from Rugby Union teams and Rugby League teams from around the world and you can be a part of it!

All you have to do is take a photo of your shirt, go to the site, click on "Add a shirt" and follow the instructions. It's free to do, and you will be adding to THE online history of Rugby shirts.

The site is very new, so all the teams may not be on there yet, no problem though, just add the shirt, tell us the team name, we’ll add it to the database.

Please do let us know if you have any comments, observations, hey, even criticisms; we can take them (probably!)

Thanks in advance for any new submissions. Hope you like the site.

Hi all

I do hope the moderators on here will allow this message.

I run a popular website, www.oldfootballshirts.com , which was set up for fun to create the ultimate online history of football (soccer) shirts using photos submitted by fans of their own shirts.

We’ve been asked many times about doing the same sort of thing for Rugby, so here it is,

www.oldrugbyshirts.com

We’re not a commercial site, the site was created for a bit of fun. We are after photos of your favourite teams shirts, your own Club shirts, College team, University team, they all count. (They must be your own photos, no “official” photos, no photos lifted from ebay).

We want to create a great online photographic collection of shirts from Rugby Union teams and Rugby League teams from around the world and you can be a part of it!

All you have to do is take a photo of your shirt, go to the site, click on "Add a shirt" and follow the instructions. It's free to do, and you will be adding to THE online history of Rugby shirts.

The site is very new, so all the teams may not be on there yet, no problem though, just add the shirt, tell us the team name, we’ll add it to the database.

Please do let us know if you have any comments, observations, hey, even criticisms; we can take them (probably!)

Thanks in advance for any new submissions. Hope you like the site.

Hi All, thanks for the comments, most appreciated.

In answer to the point about adverts, indeed, the hosting costs do rack up, if you consider our sister site, www.oldfootballshirts.com has nearly 15K shirts, which equates to well of 30K individual pages, and a quarter of a million hits a month. We hope www.oldrugbyshirts.com is as successful too.

Also, we get inundated with messages from people wanting to buy the shirts, as we don't own the shirts this is not possible. By targetting the adverts specifically to the teams, the visitor can view all the historical stuff, and if he or she wants to buy, there are links to to ebay and other sites that sell Rugby Shirts.

The small amount we earn certainly will never allow us to give up our day jobs. If you take a look on the football shirts site, you will see at the bottom of the home page, we reinvest the money we do make into sponsoring football players in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If we "earn" enough from www.oldrugbyshirts.com I dare say we will look into sponsorship in Rugby.

As for the shirts added so far, thank you if it was you, we really appreciate it in these early days. We have allowed a few team shots, but ultimately we want it to be about the fans own shirts, and of course if you are a player, amateur or pro, you are most welcome to add your shirts. We hope to get shirts form the top flight to the local leagues from all over the World.

All the best, and we look forward to seeing a few more submissions.

Hi All, thanks for the comments, most appreciated.

In answer to the point about adverts, indeed, the hosting costs do rack up, if you consider our sister site, www.oldfootballshirts.com has nearly 15K shirts, which equates to well of 30K individual pages, and a quarter of a million hits a month. We hope www.oldrugbyshirts.com is as successful too.

Also, we get inundated with messages from people wanting to buy the shirts, as we don't own the shirts this is not possible. By targetting the adverts specifically to the teams, the visitor can view all the historical stuff, and if he or she wants to buy, there are links to to ebay and other sites that sell Rugby Shirts.

The small amount we earn certainly will never allow us to give up our day jobs. If you take a look on the football shirts site, you will see at the bottom of the home page, we reinvest the money we do make into sponsoring football players in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If we "earn" enough from www.oldrugbyshirts.com I dare say we will look into sponsorship in Rugby.

As for the shirts added so far, thank you if it was you, we really appreciate it in these early days. We have allowed a few team shots, but ultimately we want it to be about the fans own shirts, and of course if you are a player, amateur or pro, you are most welcome to add your shirts. We hope to get shirts form the top flight to the local leagues from all over the World.

All the best, and we look forward to seeing a few more submissions.

Cheers Meast, all added now, take a look here

www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t18.html

BTW, I couldn't find the imagae of the 96-99 shirt, which is why it is not added

Cheers Meast, all added now, take a look here

www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t18.html

BTW, I couldn't find the imagae of the 96-99 shirt, which is why it is not added