Home Shirt Revealed

Jam_Man · Jul 28, 2014

Kenny said:
I like the homage of sorts to the early 80's shirts, something a bit different from the normal colour scheme.

A reverse of the new away top really would have been a bit too close to the 2002/3 kit!

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It's the colours they wore when I first started being taken to games so still have fond memories.

Uncle Leo · Jul 28, 2014

I like it a lot. I'm probably too old to be wearing a football shirt but sod it, this one looks like a buyer.

Jam_Man · Jul 28, 2014

Uncle Leo said:
I like it a lot. I'm probably too old to be wearing a football shirt but sod it, this one looks like a buyer.

Last shirt I bought was 1990/91.

As a '40 something' I'm not one to wear a football shirt in my civilian life and at games prefer a polo shirt, but that said I am considering this one.

Austin the Shrimper · Jul 28, 2014

I love the new top, gonna buy it. Last one I bought was the one we wore in the championship, time for a new one I guess

Uncle Leo · Jul 28, 2014

Jam_Man said:
Last shirt I bought was 1990/91.

AS a 40 something I'm not one to wear a football shirt in my civilian life and at games prefer a polo shirt, but that said I am considering this one.

I know what you mean (I'm 35). I'm also keeping a close eye on any new ranges that Campo Retro introduce. Tempted by the navy/white Centenario as a way of showing my support for the team this season

http://www.camporetro.com/Shop-By-Collection/Team-Colours

Smudge65 · Jul 28, 2014

shrimpboy said:
Would've preferred the blue and white the other way round but I think it's growing on me. Looks better when it's tucked in on the players.

Agree, but a really smart design...the best for a long time. Still struggling with the sponsor though!

Smudge65 · Jul 28, 2014

mattytheshrimper said:
I think its a really nice looking kit, first kit I have considered buying in years although I do think the £44 price tag is just way too much but that's the way all kits are going now.

Even though I don't actually think that the Martin Dawn logo doesn't look too bad on the shirt itself I just do not like the idea of that company being our sponsor. Plus I may be wrong but I would have thought we have now lost a massive chunk of money as no way can I see the deal being worth anything like the insure and go one.

Agree.....love the kit but it's the sponsor I'm struggling with. We must be losing revenue but it would better than no sponsor at all. Personally I like the idea of a local charity on the shirt. Would shift thousands of replicas and massive good PR too. Aston Villa did it with Acorns Hospice and was really well received.

Mad Cyril · Jul 28, 2014

Looks like that awful Spurs/Matey bubblebath number.

Smiffy · Jul 28, 2014

Smudge65 said:
Agree.....love the kit but it's the sponsor I'm struggling with. We must be losing revenue but it would better than no sponsor at all. Personally I like the idea of a local charity on the shirt. Would shift thousands of replicas and massive good PR too. Aston Villa did it with Acorns Hospice and was really well received.

Exactly.

However, perhaps all this sponsorship "money" Martin Dawn are ploughing in helps the old accounts look a bit healthier. And makes the club look like a "going concern"

Jam_Man · Jul 28, 2014

Smiffy said:
Exactly.

However, perhaps all this sponsorship "money" Martin Dawn are ploughing in helps the old accounts look a bit healthier. And makes the club look like a "going concern"

Why the shirt sponsor though, surely they could sponsor a player or something and achieve the same thing and still accept money.

Whole thing makes no sense.

Azzurri Per Sempre · Jul 28, 2014

This kit is quite alright, perhaps a little too much white but it's growing on me. If the colours had been inverted then I would have said that this was the best kit we had ever had.

MR G · Jul 28, 2014

......but we are called "the blues" not "the whites ....oh and a bit of blue"

Shrimpers are Magic · Jul 28, 2014

Prefer the away kit but this one definitely growing on me.

5scoops · Jul 28, 2014

Don't like it too much white .like away kit thou

Suffolk Blue · Jul 28, 2014

MR G said:
......but we are called "the blues" not "the whites ....oh and a bit of blue"

Actually we're not called the Blues; we're the Shrimpers (I've never quite figured out why Ron Martin has tried to push the Blues as our nickname).

Anyway I think it's a nice looking kit and with the dark blue shorts and socks it'll look the business.

Rusty Shackleford · Jul 28, 2014

GrumpyBlue said:
Too much white for me

You can never have too much white.

Yorkshire Blue · Jul 28, 2014

Rusty Shackleford said:
You can never have too much white.

leeblue · Jul 28, 2014

Love it........

Paul Byrne's Beer Gut · Jul 28, 2014

It's a smart shirt in design - but I'm not happy with it as a southend home shirt. Far too much white (and I'm not against white - loved our white away shirt in late 90's/early 00's. Should be more blue - would be more palatable if back wasn't white as well. In my opinion we should wear blue at home, no issue with white trim, even white shorts - but there is no continuity if we change our kit so much I mean we have a white home kit and an orange (albeit slightly less orange) and black away kit - not exactly the main colours that springs to mind as SUFC kits.

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