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Post by jaytee on Jul 18, 2010 18:37:46 GMT 1
I won't. First year for yonks I won't be buying a shirt. In fact, because I'm an awkward sod, I will be wearing as much amber as possible. Any Chesterfield or Macclesfield look-a-likes out there?
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Post by shrewd67 on Jul 18, 2010 18:42:52 GMT 1
Yes I probably will, don't mind as it's just for a season and there's a good reason for it. I respect those who decide not to buy the shirt but hope it's kept to personal preferences and there's not too much negativity surrounding it. After all it's money for the club.
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Post by monkee on Jul 18, 2010 18:45:57 GMT 1
i have too many shirts already but if somebody buys me one, i would wear it with pride as it is to commemerate our first season and first kit. the club cant seem to win on this one, criticized for not recognising our history and criticized when they do.
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Post by constantinople on Jul 18, 2010 18:50:14 GMT 1
I think it's a great idea and will be buying one.
Hopefully get the amber back for 2011 though
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 19:15:03 GMT 1
Depends on the quality of the material/ finish - if it's decent, I'll buy a shirt.
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Post by captainpike on Jul 18, 2010 19:20:34 GMT 1
The club cant seem to win on this one, criticized for not recognising our history and criticized when they do. Innit.
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Post by jaytee on Jul 18, 2010 19:24:20 GMT 1
the club cant seem to win on this one, criticized for not recognising our history and criticized when they do. I've seen the original shirt. I can't see anywhere where anyone is quoted as saying, " Mmm, nice ye olde lion".
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Post by jimmygrimble on Jul 18, 2010 19:29:04 GMT 1
I will be .. blue and white is part of our history.
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Post by neilsalop on Jul 18, 2010 19:35:03 GMT 1
I won't bother with any Town merchandise until they get shot of Lenny the feckin' Logo and give us a REAL badge. How a shirt can be described as historic when it sports that clipart garbage is beyond me.
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Post by Ned on Jul 18, 2010 19:41:35 GMT 1
I think I will, yes. As long as it's not ridiculously overpriced.
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Post by shrewd67 on Jul 18, 2010 19:46:15 GMT 1
I won't bother with any Town merchandise until they get shot of Lenny the feckin' Logo and give us a REAL badge. How a shirt can be described as historic when it sports that clipart garbage is beyond me. Though I prefer the loggerheads I don't think it's such a big deal. To say you won't buy any merchandise until the lion goes seems a bit extreme to be honest.
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Post by SouthStandShrew on Jul 18, 2010 19:49:17 GMT 1
Depends on cost.
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Post by DiglisShrew on Jul 18, 2010 20:02:06 GMT 1
I won't bother with any Town merchandise until they get shot of Lenny the feckin' Logo and give us a REAL badge. How a shirt can be described as historic when it sports that clipart garbage is beyond me. Though I prefer the loggerheads I don't think it's such a big deal. To say you won't buy any merchandise until the lion goes seems a bit extreme to be honest. Then there are a fair few of us "extremists" about !!
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Post by BlueTone on Jul 18, 2010 20:12:29 GMT 1
you may think me a heretic but blue and white for me. The frst 10 years i supported the Town were blue and white, not yet got used to this blue and amber kit
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Post by BlueTone on Jul 18, 2010 20:23:37 GMT 1
you may think me a heretic but blue and white for me. The frst 10 years i supported the Town were blue and white, not yet got used to this blue and amber kit
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Post by markglasgow on Jul 18, 2010 20:26:49 GMT 1
I remember Ratcliffe supposedly having a say in the kit when he was here. He wanted a blue shirt with minimal amber trim. We previously had reverted to the blue and amber strips. Just wonder if GT may feel that the club should return to it's (fairly recent) past and reinstall the B&A stripes next season.
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Post by jaytee on Jul 18, 2010 21:03:18 GMT 1
you may think me a heretic but blue and white for me. The frst 10 years i supported the Town were blue and white, not yet got used to this blue and amber kit You can say that again. Oh, you already have. If we're talking history here, my biggest mistake was not buying the coracle when it came up for auction. Having sold the crown jewels once, someone bought it and presenting back to the club, only for it to be off-loaded again. I would have made sure it was displayed in Shropshire, where it belongs. www.coracle-fishing.net/society/fred-davies-coracle.htm
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Jul 18, 2010 21:31:26 GMT 1
From time to time I'll be wearing my blue and white Arthur Rowley replica shirt.
It's got that dreadful 'football' badge on too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 21:39:28 GMT 1
Big fuss about nothing
The prominent first team colour has always been blue and makes no difference to me if it is blue and white or blue and amber.
My first season watching, the Town played in blue and white.
I also have a program from the 1988 season where Chic Bates is quoted stating he preferred the blue and white, which they wore that season and for the next.
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Post by Exkeeper on Jul 18, 2010 21:42:11 GMT 1
I have watched Town since the mid 50s. We were blue and white, and were to remain so for probably 20 years or so. Changing to blue and amber though gave as an individual identity, much like Blackpool, Norwich, Plymouth, Bradford City and Crystal Palace. I remember sitting in the old Wembley, at an England game, wearing a blue and amber Town shirt, and fans from Derby, Southampton and Ipswich, asking how the Town were doing. They had recognised the colours, rather than a badge or logo. Even now, travelling all over England, every other Saturday, people from other clubs see the blue and amber and think "Shrewsbury", not "is that Everton, Birmingham, Leicester, Millwall, Chesterfield ?" etc. Yes, blue and white is part of our history, but so is Conference football, losing to non-league sides on a regular basis and losing at Wembley on every visit we make to the place. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice, and having experienced both, as well as McNeil's awful all white effort, my preferrence will always be blue and amber. I guess that I will probably support the club financially, by grudgingly forking out for the current "one off, one season" model.
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Post by jaytee on Jul 18, 2010 22:00:01 GMT 1
I have watched Town since the mid 50s. We were blue and white, and were to remain so for probably 20 years or so. Changing to blue and amber though gave as an individual identity, much like Blackpool, Norwich, Plymouth, Bradford City and Crystal Palace. I remember sitting in the old Wembley, at an England game, wearing a blue and amber Town shirt, and fans from Derby, Southampton and Ipswich, asking how the Town were doing. They had recognised the colours, rather than a badge or logo. Even now, travelling all over England, every other Saturday, people from other clubs see the blue and amber and think "Shrewsbury", not "is that Everton, Birmingham, Leicester, Millwall, Chesterfield ?" etc. Yes, blue and white is part of our history, but so is Conference football, losing to non-league sides on a regular basis and losing at Wembley on every visit we make to the place. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice, and having experienced both, as well as McNeil's awful all white effort, my preferrence will always be blue and amber. I guess that I will probably support the club financially, by grudgingly forking out for the current "one off, one season" model. Good post, Ex. I wish I'd thought of it. I'll continue to support the club, but in different ways.
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Post by SY3 on Jul 18, 2010 22:01:56 GMT 1
I have watched Town since the mid 50s. We were blue and white, and were to remain so for probably 20 years or so. Changing to blue and amber though gave as an individual identity, much like Blackpool, Norwich, Plymouth, Bradford City and Crystal Palace. I remember sitting in the old Wembley, at an England game, wearing a blue and amber Town shirt, and fans from Derby, Southampton and Ipswich, asking how the Town were doing. They had recognised the colours, rather than a badge or logo. Even now, travelling all over England, every other Saturday, people from other clubs see the blue and amber and think "Shrewsbury", not "is that Everton, Birmingham, Leicester, Millwall, Chesterfield ?" etc. Yes, blue and white is part of our history, but so is Conference football, losing to non-league sides on a regular basis and losing at Wembley on every visit we make to the place. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice, and having experienced both, as well as McNeil's awful all white effort, my preferrence will always be blue and amber. I guess that I will probably support the club financially, by grudgingly forking out for the current "one off, one season" model. Good post. The nail has been hit squarely on the head.
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Post by creature on Jul 18, 2010 22:22:33 GMT 1
I have watched Town since the mid 50s. We were blue and white, and were to remain so for probably 20 years or so. Changing to blue and amber though gave as an individual identity, much like Blackpool, Norwich, Plymouth, Bradford City and Crystal Palace. I remember sitting in the old Wembley, at an England game, wearing a blue and amber Town shirt, and fans from Derby, Southampton and Ipswich, asking how the Town were doing. They had recognised the colours, rather than a badge or logo. Even now, travelling all over England, every other Saturday, people from other clubs see the blue and amber and think "Shrewsbury", not "is that Everton, Birmingham, Leicester, Millwall, Chesterfield ?" etc. Yes, blue and white is part of our history, but so is Conference football, losing to non-league sides on a regular basis and losing at Wembley on every visit we make to the place. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice, and having experienced both, as well as McNeil's awful all white effort, my preferrence will always be blue and amber. I guess that I will probably support the club financially, by grudgingly forking out for the current "one off, one season" model. Fantastic post. That said I might have been tempted by a one off blue and white kit to reflect our origins if it wasn't defaced by a comedy lion
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Post by samtheshrew on Jul 18, 2010 23:55:33 GMT 1
Not a chance.
And if amber doesn't return the season after, I won't be buying shirts again.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2010 0:14:53 GMT 1
[quote author=neilsalop board=general thread=67620 post=836231 time=1279478103How a shirt can be described as historic when it sports that clipart garbage is beyond me.[/quote] Exactly Although 95% sure i will buy the new shirt.
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Post by monkee on Jul 19, 2010 0:40:28 GMT 1
the club cant seem to win on this one, criticized for not recognising our history and criticized when they do. I've seen the original shirt. I can't see anywhere where anyone is quoted as saying, " Mmm, nice ye olde lion". Arsenal had a comemorative kit for the move from highbury, it was modelled on the 1913 kit but had a modern badge. Last season Manchester united celebrated a century at old trafford but had the modern badge. barcelona's centenery shirt in 1999 had the most recent badge.
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Post by blum on Jul 19, 2010 9:28:28 GMT 1
I have watched Town since the mid 50s. We were blue and white, and were to remain so for probably 20 years or so. Changing to blue and amber though gave as an individual identity, much like Blackpool, Norwich, Plymouth, Bradford City and Crystal Palace. I remember sitting in the old Wembley, at an England game, wearing a blue and amber Town shirt, and fans from Derby, Southampton and Ipswich, asking how the Town were doing. They had recognised the colours, rather than a badge or logo. Even now, travelling all over England, every other Saturday, people from other clubs see the blue and amber and think "Shrewsbury", not "is that Everton, Birmingham, Leicester, Millwall, Chesterfield ?" etc. Yes, blue and white is part of our history, but so is Conference football, losing to non-league sides on a regular basis and losing at Wembley on every visit we make to the place. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice, and having experienced both, as well as McNeil's awful all white effort, my preferrence will always be blue and amber. I guess that I will probably support the club financially, by grudgingly forking out for the current "one off, one season" model. Absolutely cracking post Ex... I may buy the anniversay shirt but not sure yet, however, when the next blue & amber one comes out then i'll definitely get one. Personally I wouldnt like it if the club decided to keep blue & white after this season. As for the clipart!!!! I despise it, surely if STFC wanted to promote our history then the loggerheads should have been put on the shirt, I think (IMO) that they would have sold far more regardless of the white being on the shirt.
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Post by mattmw on Jul 19, 2010 9:53:57 GMT 1
I won't bother with any Town merchandise until they get shot of Lenny the feckin' Logo and give us a REAL badge. How a shirt can be described as historic when it sports that clipart garbage is beyond me. Me too - not brought a jot from the club shop since the introduction of the clip art logo. Refuse to advertise the fact our club is the only one in the country stupid enough to use clip art for its logo. We are the Daniella Westbrook of the football world. On the wider issue of the blue and white v Blue and Amber, I started watching in the early 80s when Blue and Amber was our colours so thats always been my prefered option. From a marketing point of view the Blue and Amber gives us more of an identity, but seeing as the club thinks using clip art as a logo is good idea I'm hardly surprised the new kit is blue and white, rather than the more popular blue and amber, is being used
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jul 19, 2010 11:52:54 GMT 1
No I won't be buying the new kit. I have only bought the one kit since we moved grounds, having had all of them for years beforehand. The issue with the new kit for me is that people simply do not believe it when we are told we will go back to Blue and Amber. This "commemorative" shirt will undoubtedly be a commercial success, and that will be the reason for keeping with a similar design in the future. If this is the case, then it shows just how stupid the club think its core support it. If this is not the case, then it shows just how little quite a large percentage of the core support actually trust both what the club tell them and their motivation for making decisions. I don't think people are lying as such, I just don't think the decision will be up to people who say we will go back to using amber. Either way it is a lose/lose situation. If I see a Watford shirt I recognise it, yet they played in Blue and White from 1927-1959, then they took up their current colours. Who are the age profile who actually buy replica shirts? Who wears them? Do they see our club colours as Blue and White? Maybe they will after this year? It is just all so self defeating. There is one image that defines the club identity of Shrewsbury Town FC, a totally random freak of nature, but it happened to us. A marketing man's dream. What is funny about it is that a Major League Soccer Franchise saw the potential and modelled their kit on Shrewsbury Town 1978-79, while Shrewsbury Town seem to treat that shirt and that era with utter contempt. It is almost a form of anti-marketing, in a most bizarre way. "Stuff you, you will buy what we sell you" The bad news is that we won't. And even if this kit is a commercial success, which it undoubtedly will be, they could have sold a lot more, and used this event to unite not continue to lay down this dividing line. Meanwhile I, and many hundreds of others, will continue to wear my Toffs shirt to games, a shirt which I believe the football club has never received any royalties / income from. What a waste.
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Post by roberto02afcct on Jul 19, 2010 12:10:02 GMT 1
I can't wait to get the new shirt as it is a one off and even though money will be tight as hell for me i think i will be getting the away one too
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