Foot.ie decides - Ireland's best home kit

[backstothewall]

I vote our current kit, and 2010/12.

[jbyrne]

euro 2016 kit for me.
thought the 2016 away kit was very good also

[pineapple stu]

Very quiet round there! 4-2 the final score in favour of the 1978-83 kit.

The final two round-of-16 ties will be going live today, with a finals kit in each match. First up is the Euro 88 kit (used in qualifying for Italia 90 as well), and it takes on the oldest kit in the tournament from 76-78.

https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/NINTCHDBPICT000417023057-e1530302120716.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cf/01/fa/cf01faa4a33d676b43a4a6c13868bee1.png

[the 12 th man]

Euro 88.

[Eminence Grise]

Euro 88 for me as well.

[jbyrne]

euro 88

[John83]

88

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[passinginterest]

Has to be 88, looks like this one will be a whitewash.

[EAFC_rdfl]

88 too

[pineapple stu]

6-3 there in favour of the Euro 2016 kit, and it's safely through to the last 8.

Euro 88 is all but through too, but sure we'll leave it open for the chance of a late rally, a bit like playing out the last 15 minutes of the recent Ireland-England game.

The final tie of this round is another finals kit against the second of our reprieved kits. It's the 1994 jersey against the kit which got us to the 2002 World Cup.

https://m0.sportsjoe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/20170527/1994.jpg

https://m0.sportsjoe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/20171941/2000.jpg

[jbyrne]

WC 2002 qualification shirt

[John83]

Two nice kits. I'd go for 02 largely on the shade of green.

[passinginterest]

94 for me. 2002 looks too much like a towel.

[the 12 th man]

1994 Rayzor

[pineapple stu]

Actually, I'll throw in a vote too.

Euro 88 in the first one - though I'm not sure if it'll last at the business end cos it does look a bit like a cheap Dunnes jersey.

And 94 for the second one - one of my favourite jerseys. Still have it upstairs somewhere, but love the background pattern, the shade of green, and the little touch of the tricolour on the sleeve.

[backstothewall]

I'll go 76-78, and 1994.

[BonnieShels]

Euro 88 hands down. I've started to warm to it over the years.

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I think the 2000/02 shirt is probably the nicer shirt of the pair, but the memories of that 1994 shirt are too big to dismiss and just about shades it for me.

[pineapple stu]

First whitewash of the last 16 sees Euro 88 through on a score of 8-0.

Will leave 94 v 00-02 open till this evening for more votes, and then we'll have our last. Then we'll get into some trickier decisions on Monday

[Fixer82]

2000-2002 for me. The other one has dated a bit too much for me

[pineapple stu]

Ah - it's our first draw of the tournament so. 4-4 the result.

The tie-break I noted at the start was that my vote would be discounted as, effectively, a casting vote where none was needed. That means then that Fixer's vote is the one that swung it, and it's the 2000/01 kit which goes through.

That gives us our final 8 kits. A lot of retro love in the final 8 - there's one kit from the 2010s, one from the 2000s, two from the 90s, three from the 80s and one from the 70s. I don't know are we all curmudgeonly old veterans at this stage, or should kit designers be sitting up and paying attention to this thread, or is it a mix of both. Either way, the quarters will kick off on Monday morning.

[Fixer82]

Ah - it's our first draw of the tournament so. 4-4 the result.

The tie-break I noted at the start was that my vote would be discounted as, effectively, a casting vote where none was needed. That means then that Fixer's vote is the one that swung it, and it's the 2000/01 kit which goes through.

That gives us our final 8 kits. A lot of retro love in the final 8 - there's one kit from the 2010s, one from the 2000s, two from the 90s, three from the 80s and one from the 70s. I don't know are we all curmudgeonly old veterans at this stage, or should kit designers be sitting up and paying attention to this thread, or is it a mix of both. Either way, the quarters will kick off on Monday morning.

It’s a bit of both I think

[John83]

Whatever about curmudgeonliness, the kits from the Charlton era have strong sentimental attachments. I think the spread over the years is pretty good, actually. Every decade from the last 5 represented, only one twice, and only one three times. If one of the 80s kits had lost to any 70s, 00s, or 10s kit, it'd be as evenly spread as possible.

[pineapple stu]

I guess in my mind, as jerseys have gotten more commercialised - and up to the mid 80s, jerseys weren't commercialised at all - they should have gotten nicer to sell more.

Yet we seem to have a lot of bland offerings lately, many with a less nice shade of green.

It could of course be that what the market in general finds "nice" is different to my view, but I'm happy to discount that possibility tbh :)

[Fixer82]

I guess in my mind, as jerseys have gotten more commercialised - and up to the mid 80s, jerseys weren't commercialised at all - they should have gotten nicer to sell more.

Yet we seem to have a lot of bland offerings lately, many with a less nice shade of green.

It could of course be that what the market in general finds "nice" is different to my view, but I'm happy to discount that possibility tbh :)

I agree. There have been strange trends over the last few years. The bland/unimaginative has been in for a while. The luminous trend was god awful. Wales and Belgium I think had luminous jerseys for a while and we had a third kit that was luminous that thankfully was never worn

[John83]

I agree. There have been strange trends over the last few years. The bland/unimaginative has been in for a while. The luminous trend was god awful. Wales and Belgium I think had luminous jerseys for a while and we had a third kit that was luminous that thankfully was never worn
I'd guess that was driven by some theory about visibility. Like the opposite of the famous Man United grey kit debacle (https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10775341/the-story-of-man-utds-half-time-kit-change-against-southampton).

[Fixer82]

I'd guess that was driven by some theory about visibility. Like the opposite of the famous Man United grey kit debacle (https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10775341/the-story-of-man-utds-half-time-kit-change-against-southampton).

That would be a very poor argument

This had potential to be a really nice jersey with the Celtic knot work and then they threw a big luminous stripe across it in case anyone decides to go out jogging at night

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2015/09/ireland-2016-away-kit.html

[John83]

Oh, I see. I thought there was a bigger fluorescent panel on it. Yeah, that's ugly as sin.

[Razors left peg]

That would be a very poor argument

This had potential to be a really nice jersey with the Celtic knot work and then they threw a big luminous stripe across it in case anyone decides to go out jogging at night

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2015/09/ireland-2016-away-kit.html

I actually love that shirt, still wear it a fair bit

[pineapple stu]

Did we ever play in that? I don't remember it at all.

I might do a "Best away kit" thread maybe in March when the World Cup qualifiers get underway. I think there's more variety there

[pineapple stu]

Right - quarter-final day. Things getting serious.

First to take the stage is the WC94 qualifying kit. Got here by beating the 98-00 kit 10-4 and also the 2004-06 kit 6-2.

https://i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article21796312.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_inpho_00025680.jpg

And opposite it is the Euro 88/Italia 90 qualifying kit, which beat the (ultimately reprieved) 2002 qualifying kit 10-3 and the 76-78 kit 8-0.

https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/NINTCHDBPICT000417023057-e1530302120716.jpg

One has to go back into the wardrobe - but which one?

[jbyrne]

euro 88. and not just because of the memories it brings. still have an original at home

[Fixer82]

Euro 88. just!

[passinginterest]

Euro 88 all the way

[the 12 th man]

WC 94 for me.

[John83]

I prefer the 88 kit.

[pineapple stu]

Big lead early doors for Euro 88. Votes still accepted, but it's an 80s derby now (which I think might also be a bit of a mismatch tbh). It's the 85/86 kit, which beat 2012/13 5-3 and then squeaked past the 2006-08 kit 5-4 in what felt an upset to me -

https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/1488867/original/?width=630&version=1488867

And it's up against the 86/87 kit, which has had a much more commanding time of it, beating 83-85 9-1 and then the reprieved Father Dougal kit 7-2.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmiUmLpU8AUBLHS.jpg

[pineapple stu]

Actually, I'll chuck in a vote for Euro 88 too, though I would have voted 94 ahead of it had ye heathens not dumped it out! It still seems a bit plain and Penneysey to me; a t-shirt rather than a proper kit.

I don't like the rugby kit at all, but the all green one is surprisingly nice even though as a rule I don't like the all-green kits. The flash of orange from the crest works well. So Brady for me here.

[passinginterest]

86-87 but a bit torn. There's something nice about the other shirt, I like the big Shamrock.

[BonnieShels]

Despite coming around to the Euro 88 kit over the years, the WCQ94 kit wins out for me. Simply because it's the one with the most abiding memories.

In the next one, I absolutely hate monochrome kits, so I'll have to go with the 85-86 kit.

[Razors left peg]

88 and 86-87

[jbyrne]

a draw for me really but will go with 86/87 as the jersey colour is more what it should be. its a much better kit with the white shorts rather than green. i think it generally did have white rather than the green shorts in the photo used

[the 12 th man]

I actually prefer the 85/86,it's classically simple.I like that shade of green over the other one.

[backstothewall]

94 qualifying and 86/87.

I do like an adidas kit

[Snoop Drog]

+1 for the big shamrock kit

[Fixer82]

I love them both but I'll go for 85-86 as it's simple yet classy and the Liam Brady one there is very similar to Italia 90

[Eminence Grise]

WC 94 by a whisker.

85-86 - lovely shade of green and surprisingly pleasing clean lines the more I look at it.

[John83]

86/87, for me. I agree that the green shorts do it no favours.

[Fixer82]

86/87, for me. I agree that the green shorts do it no favours.


Yeah but Liam's big gold gangsta chain claws back whatever street cred was lost with the shorts

[pineapple stu]

Tight result in the first quarter, but the Euro 88 kit manages what its players couldn't do and holds on to progress to the semis.

Votes still taken in the 80s derby, but a clash of styles next. First, it's the Euro 2016 kit, which has beaten the 2014-15 kit 6-2 and the 2010-12 kit 6-3 to get here.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160613140623-07-ireland-sweden-euro-2016-super-169.jpg

And it's taking on the 78-83 kit, which has beaten the 2008-09 kit 6-2 and the 2021 kit 4-2 to reach this stage.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BnyDFSWfePQ/VWtCiPK0MNI/AAAAAAAAUpk/BYibPuw63ZE/s1600/holland%2Bireland.jpg

[the 12 th man]

78-83 for me,not a fan of the collar on the Euro 16 one.