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Royal Lilac Away Kit Now On Sale
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Blooming heck X Isle my clan think I'm a grumpy old git but I bow to the master 
Totally agree though and don't think they will ever listen. IJN gave it his best efforts and even with his input and influence it came to nowt.
Totally agree though and don't think they will ever listen. IJN gave it his best efforts and even with his input and influence it came to nowt.
One Idea is We could vote for Next Seasons Away Shirt 2016-17
Maybe everyone will be Happy :thumbs:
Who Remembers the GREEN Away Kit 1997-98 ?
Maybe everyone will be Happy :thumbs:
Who Remembers the GREEN Away Kit 1997-98 ?
Won't work. Puma want a different garish colour/design each year so that it's distinct and fans won't just stick with a similar shirt from years gone by.
If a green/white/black shirt was offered that contrasted with the hone kit it'd win hands down every year thus effecting their sales. What they don't get is that whilst some will pass on buying a shirt because it's similar to years gone by many more would buy it because it actually has some relevance to Argyle. Lilac, yellow, blue or whatever weird and wacky non Argyle colour they pick does not and it puts folk off buying one when they otherwise would.
So no, if we had a vote they'd just give us a choice between three new vivid and alien colours. A bit like the choice of being killed by a knife, a gun or a rope - no choice at all.
If a green/white/black shirt was offered that contrasted with the hone kit it'd win hands down every year thus effecting their sales. What they don't get is that whilst some will pass on buying a shirt because it's similar to years gone by many more would buy it because it actually has some relevance to Argyle. Lilac, yellow, blue or whatever weird and wacky non Argyle colour they pick does not and it puts folk off buying one when they otherwise would.
So no, if we had a vote they'd just give us a choice between three new vivid and alien colours. A bit like the choice of being killed by a knife, a gun or a rope - no choice at all.
I don't agree with all X'y says, and I do wish he'd calm down because he'll do himself a mischief.
What I don't quite get is why didn't we go for something like this?
Presumably it's off the peg, and presumably it's still current.
If we had picked this, I'm sure there would have been a few grumbles but nothing like there is now.
I'm very often at pains to distinguish between 'normal' fans and internet fans, on this one, there is no gap. It has been widely laughed at.
As it happens, I don't mind it at all, but has a devotee of our history, I do see it as a slap in our collective faces.
What I don't quite get is why didn't we go for something like this?
Presumably it's off the peg, and presumably it's still current.
If we had picked this, I'm sure there would have been a few grumbles but nothing like there is now.
I'm very often at pains to distinguish between 'normal' fans and internet fans, on this one, there is no gap. It has been widely laughed at.
As it happens, I don't mind it at all, but has a devotee of our history, I do see it as a slap in our collective faces.
I was considering completing the Great South Run in Portsmouth in a full strip to raise funds for Youth setup...stuff that with those kits as won't give puma my money. Although the race is entered ....
The slap in the face to our history and tradition is what prevents me from calming down Ian.
It's what a football club is. Players, managers and chairmen come and go, games you win and games you lose but identity should be constant, it's everything.
If I do myself a mischief over the thing that I'm most passionate about around Argyle then so be it. It's nothing to the mischief Argyle and Puma are doing to the most visible representation of our identity.
Oh, and that Hibs kit? Perfect, you know what their home kit will be too, no dilution of identity in Edinburgh, so why must we do so in Plymouth?
It's what a football club is. Players, managers and chairmen come and go, games you win and games you lose but identity should be constant, it's everything.
If I do myself a mischief over the thing that I'm most passionate about around Argyle then so be it. It's nothing to the mischief Argyle and Puma are doing to the most visible representation of our identity.
Oh, and that Hibs kit? Perfect, you know what their home kit will be too, no dilution of identity in Edinburgh, so why must we do so in Plymouth?
Me and the Junior DRF love our Saltrock clothing.
A Saltrock/Argyle tie in would be :thumbs: as far as we're concerned.
And I'm a real fan
A Saltrock/Argyle tie in would be :thumbs: as far as we're concerned.
And I'm a real fan
I dont like the home kit either. If I am honest I cant remember liking many of the home kits from the past 10 seasons. Each year we seem to get crap home kits usually the away kits were better than the home kits I felt but honestly even the away kits are getting crap. How I would love argyle to have decent football kits for once. It cant be just me who has found most of the kits both home and away in the last 10 years to be terrible.MannameadGreen":f0ybq8he said:
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up_the_line":3v70859i said:Sadly out of the Europa tonight but leading the way in classy kits I give you
Ferencvaros home:
Club shop... https://shop.fradi.hu/hu/nike/karacsony ... 4/15/c/365
Stephen101":1ascbbqi said:up_the_line":1ascbbqi said:Sadly out of the Europa tonight but leading the way in classy kits I give you
Ferencvaros home:
Club shop... https://shop.fradi.hu/hu/nike/karacsony ... 4/15/c/365
Sont worry pal - already got mine - from the actual club shop. FRADI 2 - Ujpest 0!
I'm with X-Isle on this. It's not about voting or who like what.... although that does make for some fun and heated debates on here! It's about Brand and Heritage. Plymouth Argyle only has one bit of national recognition and that is that we play in GREEN. And most non-Argyle fans see us when we play away. So it is even more important that we have GREEN in our away kit to re-enforce that message! Also we should train in GREEN for the same reasons!
Saltrock don't manufacture their own gear, so it would be fairly easy for them to find a manufacturer who could run up some quality playing, training and fashion kit with their and our logo on it. Your average consumer does not buy an Argyle branded item because it's made by Puma or even Adidas. They buy it because they (or some idiot they know) loves Argyle! So we would buy it made by my missus as long as it was good value/quality and bloody GREEN!
Oh my word now I need to see X's doctor too.....
Saltrock don't manufacture their own gear, so it would be fairly easy for them to find a manufacturer who could run up some quality playing, training and fashion kit with their and our logo on it. Your average consumer does not buy an Argyle branded item because it's made by Puma or even Adidas. They buy it because they (or some idiot they know) loves Argyle! So we would buy it made by my missus as long as it was good value/quality and bloody GREEN!
Oh my word now I need to see X's doctor too.....
I agree in theory Greenford but I believe it's a League requirement now. It's not just colour clashes, it's clashes of stripes too, if we played Newcastle for example now, we'd need a contrast.
At the end of the day we do want Argyle to make money too, so whilst I agree that commercialism has got it's grubby fingers into the away shirt world, it's not a wholly bad thing.
Where it does go too far though, and where it shoots itself in the foot profit wise, is when it plays fast and loose with tradition, when it tries to put shirt sales over identity.
At Argyle therefore we do 'need' to produce an away kit. What we don't need to do is introduce alien colours. We are blessed with the lightest of light colours, the darkest of dark colours with our main colour sitting in between (varying shade to individual taste).
It's kindergarten levels of simplicity therefore that we can produce a dark home kit and light away kit (or vicky-versa) exclusively using the colours in the Argyle swatch.
Why we don't is some way short of common sense. And it IS self defeating because more people would buy an Argyle coloured kit than would buy a non Argyle coloured kit, it's bleedin' obvious.
At the end of the day we do want Argyle to make money too, so whilst I agree that commercialism has got it's grubby fingers into the away shirt world, it's not a wholly bad thing.
Where it does go too far though, and where it shoots itself in the foot profit wise, is when it plays fast and loose with tradition, when it tries to put shirt sales over identity.
At Argyle therefore we do 'need' to produce an away kit. What we don't need to do is introduce alien colours. We are blessed with the lightest of light colours, the darkest of dark colours with our main colour sitting in between (varying shade to individual taste).
It's kindergarten levels of simplicity therefore that we can produce a dark home kit and light away kit (or vicky-versa) exclusively using the colours in the Argyle swatch.
Why we don't is some way short of common sense. And it IS self defeating because more people would buy an Argyle coloured kit than would buy a non Argyle coloured kit, it's bleedin' obvious.