Next seasons kit choice?

[PATRIQT]

Wonderful season, and the mighty Quinn, and a very young Adie Williams too.

I think EPR have based that home shirt on the 1994/96 Pelada shirt. Still my favourite to this day, but I wouldn't want to wear one again. They were heavy and uncomfortable!

Modern day revamp would be lightweight and comfy though.

Yes obviously. Just reminiscing.

[Tilehurstsouthbank]

Wonderful season, and the mighty Quinn, and a very young Adie Williams too.

I think EPR have based that home shirt on the 1994/96 Pelada shirt. Still my favourite to this day, but I wouldn't want to wear one again. They were heavy and uncomfortable!

Modern day revamp would be lightweight and comfy though.

Yes obviously. Just reminiscing.

Apologies. Didn't mean to come across all Ian Royal and 'Nobsplain'.

[RG30]

Not that I buy them but we have a pre-season home friendly this afternoon with not a new replica home or away shirt to sell. Who is responsible for these decisions? Feels like a wasted opportunity.

[Royal Monkey]

We must be the only club that with 2 weeks till the new season and a home friendly against Premier league opposition that would still be wearing last seasons kit. Why are the club so late every year getting the new kit out ?

[AthleticoSpizz]

Because last seasons kits were so fukkin good, that they’re not upstaging them???

[Hound]

Coz it’s cheaper to wait til later and they reckon the same number of shirts get sold anyway etc etc

[muirinho]

Coz it’s cheaper to wait til later and they reckon the same number of shirts get sold anyway etc etc

This. If I buy the shirt it's because I like it - not because it was available for a pre-season friendly. It's not as if we're expecting Hammers fans to be buying souvenir shirts....

[AthleticoSpizz]

Yeah, but don't dads take lads and lassies to friendlies anymore?

Before the ‘serious’ shizz starts.

That’s where they often get hooked-in? Mine did…shirts and all

[Gandalf Presley]

£29 each or £50 for both.

Great idea, great designs, but I can't imagine the club will be over the moon, as I imagine many will opt for the cheaper unofficial shirts (and they are a stonkingly good design).

Probably right about the club being peeved but should then look introspectively. Certain there would be a market for retro shirts but make no attempt to release anything. EPR deserve a massive pat on the back for adopting such an approach and agree they look great.

[PATRIQT]

Couldn't agree more.

[tmesis]

Coz it’s cheaper to wait til later and they reckon the same number of shirts get sold anyway etc etc

I'd really like someone at the club to come out and say this, actually lay out the business case for doing so, detailing how much they save (even just as a %), while also going into how they know they sell the same amount, given that the club never seems to do any different.

If nothing else, it would kill off the annual round of questions about why we are so late when Accrington Stanley can get their new kit out in June, etc?

[royalp-we]

Coz it’s cheaper to wait til later and they reckon the same number of shirts get sold anyway etc etc

I'd really like someone at the club to come out and say this, actually lay out the business case for doing so, detailing how much they save (even just as a %), while also going into how they know they sell the same amount, given that the club never seems to do any different.

If nothing else, it would kill off the annual round of questions about why we are so late when Accrington Stanley can get their new kit out in June, etc?

I get that some are frustrated, but it will no doubt drop this week or next.

There are a few other clubs that leave it late like Fulham for example; and they’re in the top flight.

[Sutekh]

Coz it’s cheaper to wait til later and they reckon the same number of shirts get sold anyway etc etc

I'd really like someone at the club to come out and say this, actually lay out the business case for doing so, detailing how much they save (even just as a %), while also going into how they know they sell the same amount, given that the club never seems to do any different.

If nothing else, it would kill off the annual round of questions about why we are so late when Accrington Stanley can get their new kit out in June, etc?

I get that some are frustrated, but it will no doubt drop this week or next.

There are a few other clubs that leave it late like Fulham for example; and they’re in the top flight.

Can't help but feel late kit availability hardly maximises the revenue for any club.

[ReadingGlasses]

That blue and yellow away shirt is a thing of beauty. I really liked the red and yellow version as well.

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Coz it’s cheaper to wait til later and they reckon the same number of shirts get sold anyway etc etc

Yeah agree the club will know roughly how many shirts are going to be sold. Let's be fair, the club has had a torrid last couple of seasons (most would argue a decade), we aren't exactly going to go from, let's say, 50k shirt sales a year to 500k. Last year was a landmark year which probably raised the figures though as well.

[RFCMod]

You've also got to look at production space
Some clubs will have a merchandising team who will be on it booking production space as soon as the last shirt is released so that factories can start production in the fallow periods of the year where they have low productivity (sometimes yielding a slightly lower price due to filling a low production month)
That way a club then has the shirt ready to go when they want in close season (earlier releases)
F**k up your order timing wise and soon you're in the shadows of the big clubs churning out day after day of production and you just have to wait your turn no matter how many production facilities a factory owns

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I’m sure the new kit will be out before the first game of the season.

[Elm Park Kid]

https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/statu ... xGW3FENgvg

Saying that a lot of Premier League clubs have missing kit details still.

[Hendo]

https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1550404897232879616?s=20&t=ewMnOeMM61AgxGW3FENgvg

Saying that a lot of Premier League clubs have missing kit details still.

No no, I think you'll find you are mistaken.

We're the only club in the entire English Football pyramid who hasn't launched their kits yet...

[NathStPaul]

Do not and never will understand grown adults obsessing about football kits. Very odd behaviour.