Third Kit

Quoted from GollyGTFC

The competition instructions pretty much gave it away that this season’s away kit was going to be red.

I will post the final design Archie entered once the club have launched the shorts and socks.

Other than toning down the dock tower pattern it’s pretty much identical to Archie’s design.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the strip Golly. Personally I’d like the shorts to be blue and the socks grey/blue hoops.
I think it’s a great idea for the club to let the 3rd strip be designed by junior fans.
Why not go the whole hog and let all of the strips be designed by the fans ?
Poojah came up with a good design for the home kit in a previous thread .  Why not invite all the fans to submit entries for the first 2 strips and have a vote on the final few chosen by the club , maybe offering a season ticket to the winner.
I’m sure our more creative fans could produce better designs than some of the professionals and it would stop some of the moaning old gits on here complaining if it was designed and chosen by our own fans!

Really like it, well done Archie!

Quoted from Hagrid

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Personally think its awful, but taken into account its been designed by a young lad so its unfair of me to critique that when he's done his best!

Absolutely brilliant: "it's unfair of me to critique..." -- then he goes ahead and does >>precisely<< that anyway.

Could I just ask, is the third kit for when we play away, and the home team play in red, we then have to play in our 3rd strip to avoid a colour clash with our away kit?

if this is the case, then why can't we play in our "normal" kit?

Call me old fashioned, but to me we should always play in black and white stripes and only change when there is a colour clash with it.

I'm a traditionist, always black and white stripes!

For what it’s worth, I like the design, so well done to the young fan. I think it’s really smart.

My one gripe would be the general understanding of what a 3rd kit is for. I think black and white should be the default kit away from home unless the home team a) wears stripes, b) has a predominantly black shirt, or c) has a predominantly white shirt. So basically the only time a 3rd kit is necessary is when the home team has any of those features and one of the colours is red, ruling out the 2nd kit.  But hear lies the problem - the 3rd kit is nearly all white (as in ‘c’ above), so how does that work?!

I think what I’m saying is, because we play in stripes, our away kits should really be a single solid colour. If an away team came to BP wearing a shirt similar to our new 3rd kit, wouldn’t they have to change it because it’s white?

It’s a minefield! And clearly the decision isn’t always about colour - why on earth did england’s women’s team have to wear blue against Spain recently? That was totally unnecessary.

Quoted from nickmariners

Absolutely brilliant: "it's unfair of me to critique..." -- then he goes ahead and does >>precisely<< that anyway.

Its an opinion.

Pinched this off Facebook. Somebody managed to take a photo that shows off the Dock Tower pattern.

Quoted from Hagrid

Its an opinion.

Whoooossshhhh!

I'd be interested to see what the kid's original design looked like. Getting the dock tower in there is a really good idea but sounds like it was watered down by the efl to the point of being meaningless.

I like it, impressed with it considering its been designed by a youngster