Next season's away shirt

Quoted from Heisenberg

Struggling to remember that, but didn’t we have an Inter Milan style Blue and Black stripe one once? I’m thinking the late Steve Robinson, for some reason…..

Brown and purple hoops with pink sleeves, orange shorts, pink and purple hooped socks.

Then we wouldn't need a 3rd kit, and save ourselves some money (unless the above clashes with anybody).

we should play in it at home

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I'm going to add to this, our owners talk about being sustainable and one way of achieving that is by renewing our shirts less frequently. I appreciate that shirt sales provide commercial income but you could still achieve a good proportion of that by releasing an away kit this summer and the home kit next summer for example.

I think what we do with kids designing the third kit is great, but could they not design the away kit instead, with the previous seasons away kit then becoming the third kit?

Whatever happens, this summer the existing home shirt needs binning and made miles better (no stupid, cheap dog collar). But keeping the blue kit for another season would be a step in the right direction.

1 or 2 new kits per season, but not all 3, would be a decent gesture.

The original point in this thread was that an away kit that's blue doesn't get much of an airing because of the many teams in this division that have a blue home kit (hence why we've worn pink a lot).

Orient, Salford, Swindon, Walsall, Crewe, Crawley and (maybe) Donny's home kits have meant red couldn't be worn.

Stockport, Carlisle, Gillingham, Wimbledon, Colchester, Hartlepool, Rochdale and (maybe) Barrow & Tranmere have meant blue couldn't be worn.

The anomalies are Northampton (possibly red would clash), Sutton, Newport, Harrogate and Mansfield (yellow/orange would clash).

So, if you were starting from scratch and wanted the maximum opportunity to wear your away kit, what colour/style should it be?

A few clashes will be unavoidable. But a hi-viz style fuscia pink/purple with black shorts wouldn't clash with much    

Quoted from RichMariner

The original point in this thread was that an away kit that's blue doesn't get much of an airing because of the many teams in this division that have a blue home kit (hence why we've worn pink a lot).

Orient, Salford, Swindon, Walsall, Crewe, Crawley and (maybe) Donny's home kits have meant red couldn't be worn.

Stockport, Carlisle, Gillingham, Wimbledon, Colchester, Hartlepool, Rochdale and (maybe) Barrow & Tranmere have meant blue couldn't be worn.

The anomalies are Northampton (possibly red would clash), Sutton, Newport, Harrogate and Mansfield (yellow/orange would clash).

So, if you were starting from scratch and wanted the maximum opportunity to wear your away kit, what colour/style should it be?

A few clashes will be unavoidable. But a hi-viz style fuscia pink/purple with black shorts wouldn't clash with much    

Just play in black-and-white stripes unless there really is a clash.

The away shirts are a fashion thing but I don't see why we wear them so often.

Could have a retro black and white away kit since we have a third kit anyway

Quoted from diehardmariner

I think the blue one became the third shirt in 97/98 too, with the red kit then only actual new kit as the club retained the home shirt from 96/97 too.

Can't imagine any club doing that now.

Not sure if it was officially the 3rd shirt, but we wore that white with a bit of red number at Bournemouth in 97/98.

https://twitter.com/onthisGTFCday/status/1574655919228702720?t=aQQgvOSKf4bTOg66YaLSeA&s=19

Wasn’t that white shirt like a limited edition thing? Was never officially part of the original kits I think. Didn’t we wear at Bradford or have it made because all of our kits clashed at some sort of game?

It’s extremely sought after among shirt collectors, I definitely know there wasn’t many in the shop to buy…

Quoted from RichMariner

The original point in this thread was that an away kit that's blue doesn't get much of an airing because of the many teams in this division that have a blue home kit (hence why we've worn pink a lot).

Orient, Salford, Swindon, Walsall, Crewe, Crawley and (maybe) Donny's home kits have meant red couldn't be worn.

Stockport, Carlisle, Gillingham, Wimbledon, Colchester, Hartlepool, Rochdale and (maybe) Barrow & Tranmere have meant blue couldn't be worn.

The anomalies are Northampton (possibly red would clash), Sutton, Newport, Harrogate and Mansfield (yellow/orange would clash).

So, if you were starting from scratch and wanted the maximum opportunity to wear your away kit, what colour/style should it be?

A few clashes will be unavoidable. But a hi-viz style fuscia pink/purple with black shorts wouldn't clash with much    

I’m telling you, a green away shirt is the answer!

Forget superstition, with our current sponsor and the future direction of industry in the region, green would be a symbol.