As an avid reader of this site, thought it was about time to make another contribution particularly as things are now looking a lot brighter for next season! my wish is that the club would revert back to the famous white strip with red and blue band-obviously modernised to make way for todays various badges etc.
I am tired of seeing the succession of poorly designed shirts (there have been a couple of exceptions) some of which are not even the right colours. This seasons home strip is a classic example-it should have been the away strip.(I appreciate why it is the colour/design that it is but it makes the team look yards slower than the opposition-er that might not be the shirt come to think of it!)
I know these shirts generate revenue but this could be raised by changing the away strip every season. I bet not many people buy both home and away shirts.
Just a thought but 60's strip was instantly recognisable as Wakefield Trinity some of the strips of recent years look like Wakefield Girls High School. just a thought......

i am a big fan of this years home shirt! however i get the the general feeling on here that we need/want the wally lewis era adidas shirt for next year - you listening mr glover???

Odd that one of the least memorable seasons has produced IMO the most memorable kit since the Addidas kit.

This seasons home, would make a great away shirt to go along side "that" White adidas number.
Then stick with it and never ever change.

Are you connected to me today, it's almost like we are friends or something... weird

I'd like to see a kit that's red, white, blue.

I wouldn't think so, how ghastly!!

Still not sure why we dont produce 3 home and 3 away designs and let the fans choose, surely from a marketing side this would be the best thing to do? This years kits are nice fititng but very bland designs. Ive always liked our black away kits especially the atlantic soloutions www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t20.html

Still not sure why we dont produce 3 home and 3 away designs and let the fans choose, surely from a marketing side this would be the best thing to do? This years kits are nice fititng but very bland designs. Ive always liked our black away kits especially the atlantic soloutions www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t20.html

Steady on - I appear to have stepped in to some kind of alternate universe.

This year's shirts were for a specific reason, the last season at Belle Vue, and so I can see why it is as it is.

I agree that the shirts should be an instantly recognisable brand, and the 60's shirt would be the brand for me, with this years shirt as the template for the away shirt. All the other clubs manage minor variations but have new designs, but are always distinctly recognisable. Saints is the best example. We, however, go from garish mess to garish mess.

79 wembley shirt for me if not similar but must be red white and blue white home blue away simple

Home shirt : 60's / Wally Lewis design
Away shirt : 79 cup final design
Classic, recognisable and look great.
Ideally with subtle sponsors adverts on them but subtle and sponsorship don't go well together so I won't expect that.

Yes it would be nice to go back to the old Trinity shirt that we had for years, the white with red and blue hoop around the middle and keep the home shirt from this year as the away shirt.

+1

It's alright suggesting to keep the same shirts but as was said on Tuesday night, the club has to generate more retail revenue. Now I know it's tough, on a pension I'm feeling the pinch like everyone else, but the club has to keep the money coming in. For many clubs, not just rugby league, the income from replica kit sales EACH YEAR is vital. Some sort of compromise is needed. If you keep the same shirt year in year out (just like in 50's & 60's when I first started supporting) where is the club going to get the money from? I hate being thought of as just simply someone to extract money from but we have to be realistic - and I much prefer to be exploited by Trin than all the other retail sharks out there, the power companies, the railways ....etc. etc.

Remember the season after Wembley we had 3 shirts all traditional with bands
White with Red/Blue
Blue with Red/White
And red with blue/white and a blue collar only wore 2/3 times but once on Grandstand V Hull at home in the JPS Cup we hammered them and Fletch scored a great try. I had that shirt it was ace

personally i would like to see a shirt something like the addidas shirt for next season with a predominately blue shirt away shirt and maybe a 3rd shirt predominantly red. think the club should also re-release the 92 yorkshire cup shirt[ we are still the holders and re-release the 60s shirt including the 63 shirt with red and blue v,think it would be a good idea to release the grand final shirt of 99[1st winners.

Quote ="forever_trinity"Still not sure why we dont produce 3 home and 3 away designs and let the fans choose, surely from a marketing side this would be the best thing to do? This years kits are nice fititng but very bland designs. Ive always liked our black away kits especially the atlantic soloutions www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t20.html'" A few NRL Teams do this. Cronulla Sharks are letting the fans choose one of their 3 (awful) away strips this year. Gold Coast Titans got the fans to choose their blue,yellow and white team colours when they first formed. I think its a good idea and increases identification with the team - of course there is always the danger that the fans might come up with something really horrible but the designers seem to manage that withour our help....

Quote ="forever_trinity"Still not sure why we dont produce 3 home and 3 away designs and let the fans choose, surely from a marketing side this would be the best thing to do? This years kits are nice fititng but very bland designs. Ive always liked our black away kits especially the atlantic soloutions www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t20.html'" A few NRL Teams do this. Cronulla Sharks are letting the fans choose one of their 3 (awful) away strips this year. Gold Coast Titans got the fans to choose their blue,yellow and white team colours when they first formed. I think its a good idea and increases identification with the team - of course there is always the danger that the fans might come up with something really horrible but the designers seem to manage that withour our help....

Addias white home, 79 Blue away, sorted

The new shirt supplyer must have a strange tape measure. To get a shirt that fits you have to get one 3 sizes larger than normal. Go back to the old supplier KOOGA

They are European sizes so if it says Large on a shirt it is only a medium and so on.

thats the style these days im afraid, good for fit young rugby league players (see hickey) but not so flattering for the middle aged beer guttted fan... im happy with mine, im usually a M/L and the large is a great fit, best one weve had for a while now, the last one i bought was our first year in super league, the rest have all been mediocre designs but i like this years very much.

I could live with that too.

its been mentioned once on this thread and I would also like to back it up,
keeping the the same strip year in year out would be a loser to the club the design has to change to keep interest with all the fans, where some can remember the classic white with red and blue bands other only have seen them in photos.
I liked the white shirt last season but didn't buy it because of the neck line, poorly made it put me off.
this season dark blue, I liked the style and colour but the finish was poor and has proven to be of poor material and hasn't lasted the full season before going bobbley, I did hesitate buying it under the richardson regime and only bought it to help the club tick along with Mr glover at the helm.

so while my preference is to see a full white home kit whether hooped or vee'd red and blue bands, we will have to move with the times and understand that the club has to move forward so anything the club comes out with I will support.

I only ask please don't treat us with the dire quality that we have had to suffer with the last kits

The art is to have fundamentally the same design but just variations of it, so that there is always a new shirt but remains a recognisable brand. Hull FC manage to do it very well. Always instantly recognisable as a Hull shirt.