Mr C, Times change and things move on but when I hear talk of "the Brand" I think of "the Wire" and those shirts you accurately described that we wore through most of my childhood and until Alex Murphy's second year in 72 I think. We have changed the shirt designs so many times that other than primrose/blue and white there is no such thing as a classic Wire shirt. Maybe members could be polled? We should settle on a design and stick with it. Saints don't have too much room for change but they sell plenty, in soccer Liverpool are all red, United red, white and black neither shirt changes too much but there are still subtle changes and maybe we should establish what our shirt or brand if you like should be and market it heavily over a period of years

For me the one I hold with fondest memory is the Vladivar chevron. But as a shirt the 1990 Wembley season shirt resplendent with Warrington coat of arms.

Mind you the Blue with Primrose W is not without charm as modelled by the superb Bob Eccles. What a forward he was.

Note we can clearly see we are playing Bradford here, even in B&W you can tell. This is the benefit of consistency.

Quote ="Fantastic Mr Cat"that being said, did anyone purchase these after they went on sale? shop.warringtonwolves.org/390701 ... g-top.aspx'" I've never seen this before, this is awful!

Quote ="Fantastic Mr Cat"that being said, did anyone purchase these after they went on sale? shop.warringtonwolves.org/390701 ... g-top.aspx'" I've never seen this before, this is awful!

When will the kit be made available for non-members to see?

When they switch the chrimbo lights on in town next week.

Excellent point Wires71, I have often bored my lads by saying that even in black and white photos you can virtually always name the team, so many clubs had iconic shirts that have been lost in the annual rush to sell replicas

That, young man (i'm guessing from your comments) is a training top that was done, based on the shirt we produced for the very special occasion of playing the touring australian midweek game in 94, which we were then not allowed to wear during the game. Previously were highly regarded and sought after.


So much so it was surprising that they didn't try and push this for the magic weekend, instead of the god awful one they did.

Leigh and Wigan would be tough to distinguish in B&W from back in the day I guess.

Ha ha not quite so young, but a bit before my time supporting the Wire. I only started watching mid 00's. I tend to go for the jackets or training gear over the kits but I haven't actually seen anyone wearing this at the ground or anywhere else for that matter, I'm guessing despite the idea behind it it never really took off?

not neccesarily, Wigan wore mainly white socks whereas Leigh wore hooped socks

My sister regularly wears her yellow replica shirt to matches. They were produced when we were due to play the Aussies and then the RFL wouldn't sanction it so it was never played in. My sister is quite proud of hers!

My memory is very hazy given how long ago it was and how old I wasn't, but I recall that shirt being connected to when Wire toured in Oz? Was it only as you say: a shirt for a game that never happened in England? I always liked that shirt.

I've never seen that training top before, but I got flashbacks as soon as I clicked the link because I remember that shirt well. I haven't got it, but I have still got the P&B striped home shirt from that era, which is the one we ended up wearing on the night V Australia, and I was at that match.

The last great Kangaroo tour that one in 1994. The 1997 "Super League" tour didn't quite feel the same, and nothing has touched it since. I don't regret the switch to summer rugby because I absolutely believe it was a good move and I'd never advocate a return to winter, but the classic GB/Aus tours are an unfortunate loss.

the game was played, we just couldnt' wear the shirt.


great memories, michael hancock scoring in front of the fletch and us all chanting, "who the flipping hell are you?" at him.

Tricky in this one as it's Wigan in hooped socks and Leigh in white - the exact opposite. Then of course we have Halifax.

Leigh unless Drummond played for Wigan


Goons


Halifax

Well played Wires71, it's a fair cop - but I did say "virtually" so I will from now on never mention this to my lads again - still reckon they were still better shirts than today's, especially the new Wire effort

I'm with you. I'm all for a shirt that remains instantly recognisable across the ages.

So far in my lifetime we have had

chevrons - Vladivar and current
horizonal stripes - many
vertical stripes - Greenhalls
horizonal band (Sparkomatic)
all plain - Bukta
Curvy chevron - dark days 2006?

Very few teams played with a V.
Saints adopted it only in the 60s I think until then it was just a red band like KR.
I think the Cumbrian teams like Barrow and/or Workington had it first and eventually others followed.
Wasn't our first V shirt for the 1974 CC final?

I like how we have an ever changing style to our kits. We've had famous hooped kits:




but recently there's been too many that have been mainly blue with primrose trim or small primrose hoops for my liking though. I'd like a decent hooped kit where the primrose is the dominant colour. In recent times Leeds have had as many as we have:



I've just bought the Boca Juniors away kit because it looked like a Brian Bevan shirt:

we've not had one of these since 2006.

Although there's a good photo of Bevan in a hooped kit scoring against Windes at Wembley:

Nice pics BSW. Are they your own?

Think I've decided to branch out into collecting photos now, as I'm running out of programmes to collect! It's a shame there's less press pics of players than in football.

Just Google images that I've saved from browsing

Programmes were mentioned last night - Roger Draper said that they were losing money on them, as they are producing 1000 per home game and averaging 400 sales. He said they may follow some football club's lead and go digital ie email subscription with video content as well as articles.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I could go on.

Print less, find a printer that will be less, drop the price and sell more, do your online piece of you must, just run a 4 pager off Word, but PLEASE keep a programme going.

Programmes were great in the past when a lot of people didn't have internet, but now online can offer so much more, and the information is going to be up to date rather than a programme printed in advance.

Just looking through some old programmes (1995 - Cost £1.20) to review what the content was, I imagine today's programmes at £3 are very much the same.

Coaches & CEO comments
Club Staff and honours
League Tables
Match photos
Focus on opposition players
Match reports
Supporters club page
Alliance & Academy updates
Fixtures and Stats
Team sheet

And lots of adverts.

We see much more on the club website (especially the up coming new website), Warrington Worldwide, Warrington Guardian, Sky Sports, SL website, Facebook, twitter etc. There's even video and audio interviews.