I've touched on this before and it may seem rediculus but there is an case here to say that Wire are arguably better when wearing a white strip with a half decent side.

Over the recent generations I can only recall Wire picking up the odd trophy through the barron years of the 80s until present wearing a strip that has a generous percentage of white, with one exception being the (easy winnable) Lancs cup in 89/90.

This rule of thumb has been looked at in footballing circles and red is a dominant colour over blue.

Hull wearing a much white strip are now league leading and already CC champions with a team that I consider not particularly great.

You do realise that sounds utterly insane?

There is also another train of thought that says red is integral to winning performances. Maybe a rainbow effect would cover all bases.

What a strange post. If you consider our team to be not particularly great then by inference your team certainly aren't, whatever colour shirts they're wearing. They were good enough to be 10 points up with very little time left and I for one didn't expect us to come back and get the win.

Is this the reason Leeds never win anything while playing in mainly blue ?

Lol. I realise the bazaarness of the notion.
There are periods where colour of a strip has little effect if any at all, the overwhelming depth of quality in a team as with Leeds in 2015, that would always be king...

However I'm talking about marginals here...Warrington haven't been particulary great since the 50s but those high points during those barren years seem to come when our team has a strip that has a prominent depth of white in it...but as with Leeds in 2015, Warrington did have a team of utter depth in quality in 1973/74. We could have played in majority pink and won....Arh I think leeds did!

So yes, there are many more reasons where a colour change would have no effect, but if the opposition are closely matched a white or red strip could give the edge.

Leicester, Chelsea, Man City. Yeah, I see your point.......

Didn't Man Utd change there strip at Half time in one game because they couldn't see each other.

Maybe we should try yellow hats

I can see you do not.

I can see you do not.

He might have a point, whenever I watch test cricket or Wimbledon the winners always seem to be wearing white



As for us at Leeds Rhinos, during the Sinfield captaincy we only had a white away kit twice, in 2004 and 2009, the same two years we won the LLS before last year's success.

and here was me thinking it was my fault for not wearing my lucky y fronts..

I often believed Liverpool played worse in their gray kit over their red kit so it's not completely bizzar

Somebody better tell New Zealand & Australia that they're doing it all wrong!

The point a couple may miss is that the benifit seems when the opposition dominance is marginal.

Just stop it

Lol. Okay but I wouldn't have raised the point had Wire actually had won the marginal vs Hull.
Unfortunately the history of "coincidence?" continues.

There is (apparently) scientific evidence behind the effect of colours in sport, particularly teams in red winning more.

Well for sure Wire are more successful when a significant area if the kit is white.

I must say, Hull have played in black & white for as long as i can remember ,usually with a 50/50 split between the the colours, & have ,just like Widnes, been a mostly mediocre team.

Is it the "off" season
What's the club shop's number
Whydont you see white dog pooh, anymore

LOL



Add to that the talk of "what will be a good season?" and "TS really needs to win something now as its been 5 years"

How do we explain this one? I suppose Tony was wearing white.

I recall us losing in two major competitions either side of the hubcap where margins would be significant in a win or lose scenario...which incidently were both against teams with a large proportion of the strip in white!

I don't know wether a league structure over the course of a season, has enough marginal games to make a difference what strip a team would wear. Us winning the hubcap could say that there isn't?
Throw into that, that a good run of healthy players and depth would also effect the run of a team over a season where winning at all costs doesn't really factor.

Based on this arguement it should be the most successful colour and be more widespread !