Foot.ie decides - Ireland's best away kit

[ColourfulPeanut]

2004 - Wasn't alive for Italia 90 so it doesn't have much of a connection to me. 2004 is a lovely design and Clinton wearing it seals it! The subtle flag on the sleeve is great too
2018 - Lovely design and definitely the best away effort from the NB era. The 2002 one is not a good design.

[Kingdom]

94-95 jersey clear winner- peach of a jersey, and that glorious night in Windsor.

[Kingdom]

The Wales Charcoal kit is a beaut. The **** collar on the Brady Bosnia kit is off-putting.
2007.

[Kingdom]

onwards with bout 6, and a possible heavy-hitter. We've the away version of foot.ie's best home kit - the Italia 90 kit - up against the 2004 jersey (odd angle to show off the flashes a bit better)
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You should have given Italia 90 a bye to the next stage.
90.

[Kingdom]

I like both of these. Almost equally. But looking at the whole kit not just the jersey, the 1990 shorts were too shiny and cheap for an otherwise classic jersey, and look like a mismatch. The 2004 kit looks like both were designed to go together. So, by a whisker (and VAR could change this in the next round!) 2004.

Them's fighting words fella....

[Kingdom]

And your Thursday morning battle is between two of the ****er kits in the list; the 2002 WCQ kit and the 2018 WCQ kit.


abstain, or fack them both out. either is fine by me.

[pineapple stu]

2004 - Wasn't alive for Italia 90

:eek:

I didn't realise we had any of your type on here!!

[DeLorean]

I think the 1990 one is a beaut regardless of nostalgia, though that certainly throws bonus points its way.

[sadloserkid]

2018 comfortably (and it's not amazing) for me. 2002 one is just dull.

[SkStu]

2018.

[CraftyToePoke]

2002. I like an all white or all green, shirt n shorts combo. Particularly green.

[jbyrne]

2018 for me

[Eminence Grise]

2018 as a full kit. Not much difference for me betwen the two jerseys, but the all white look of the earlier one is a bit bland.

[backstothewall]

Ahh. You don't log on for a couple of weeks and this starts! :mad:

I'm sure some of these votes are out of time, but here they are.

Match 3: 95/95
Match 4: 2016
Match 5: 2007
Match 6: 2004
Match 7: 2002Q

[Razors left peg]

1990 and 2018 for me too. To be fair the 2004 kit is nice but the sleeves are a weird length.
A lot of the older kits had longer sleeves and were a lot baggier.

2002 on the next one for me

[ColourfulPeanut]

:eek:

I didn't realise we had any of your type on here!!
I was alive but very young for USA 94 at least, so not exactly a baby nowadays! :laugh:

[elatedscum]

I’ll go Italian 90 but very close. 2004 is my favourite one I didn’t choose so far

2002 WCQ jersey the other

[pineapple stu]

Italia 90 safely through there, 11-6. Not sensing that it's the overwhelming favourite its home kit was though. I think this comp is quite open so far.

While the 2002 and 2018 WCQ kits continue to battle it out, two more for your consideration. The 2005 kit up against 2010/11, which is iconic, but is it any good?

https://img.rasset.ie/00005ff0-1600.jpg

https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/2966612/original/?width=580&version=2966612

[Razors left peg]

2005 for me. The Richard Dunne performance make that other kit iconic but even though he was great all I remember from that game was how crap we were as a team and wanting to tear my hair out

[passinginterest]

2005 no question. The round neck on the 10/11 shirt is woeful and the green cuffs don't improve it any.

[sadloserkid]

2005. 10/11 is, at best, tepid.

[elatedscum]

I’ll go for the Dunne kit

[the 12 th man]

2004 for mise.

[Eminence Grise]

2005 by a country mile.

[Tipp Townie]

2018 WCQ for me. I remember really, really disliking the 2002 away kit. Yes, i get agg about really bland and pointless things.

And it seems i'm in then minority but i vote for Dunne 2011.

[CraftyToePoke]

Dunne kit 2011. Love it.

[geysir]

its the full kit, not just the shirt?

Good spot. most all the chat had been about the shirt, I hadn't bothered to take note of the actual question being asked of us.

[geysir]

WCQ kits 2002 v 2018

I don't like the green colour in the 2018, way too dark for my tastes. There is only one true green colour and 39 others which deviate to different degrees.
Therefore the vote goes to 2002

[geysir]

It's not fair to pit Moscow Dunne's iconic shirt against A N Other, no one even notices that the drawers are droopy

I abstain on grounds of conscience.

[jbyrne]

2005 for me

[SkStu]

2005.

[pineapple stu]

2017/18 wins through 8-5. Still no real hammerings, and no real favourite emerging either.

Currently 7-3 to the 2005 kit, but all day for that. And the last bout of the week is up now, a battle of retro against weird. We've the 1983-85 away kit up against a kit I think only worn in the 2011 Carling Cup.

https://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/252/republic-of-ireland-away-football-shirt-1985-s_53785_1.jpg

https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2017/11/17201313/520888.jpg

[pineapple stu]

I should add there's 6 more ties to go, so we'll get through them on Monday to Thursday. Then on Friday, the 15 losers will go into the repechage where one will be given a reprieve and reinstated, while one (which could in theory be the same one) gets voted our worst ever away kit. And on Monday week, we'll start into the last 16.

[elatedscum]

83-85

[jbyrne]

think we also wore the black kit in the 2-0 win against italy in liege 2011.
2011 gets my vote

[the 12 th man]

Honey monster shirt for me.

[passinginterest]

1983-85 versus 2011 might be the toughest so far. I like the simple retro O'Neill's but the black and green is a bit different and works pretty well. I think I'm leaning towards 83-85 so that's my vote.

[Fixer82]

Round 5 - 1990
Round 6 - 2004
Round 7 - 2018
Round 8 - 2005
Round 9 - 1983

[sadloserkid]

2011 for me. Arguably the key learning for me from this whole exercise so far is that I don't particularly like white football shirts.

[Eminence Grise]

2011 for me. It's not a classic, but it stands out. So far I've leaned towards white kits, but the 83-85 one needs a splash of orange on it.

[DeLorean]

RD 8: I'll go Dunne Moscow kit, though the other one isn't bad. The home version of the Dunne kit was one of our much better attempts in recent years, nice material.
RD 9: The Keano Carling Cup Conquering Kit, lovely.

[Kingdom]

83-85.
Nice v-neck, nice colour scheme. great badge,

the other piece of **** reminds me of both nemo rangers and erins isle. and I bleedin' hate Nemo, the scuts.

[SkStu]

83-85

[pineapple stu]

83-85.
Nice v-neck, nice colour scheme. great badge,

the other piece of **** reminds me of both nemo rangers and erins isle. and I bleedin' hate Nemo, the scuts.

Exactly the sort of balanced contribution this competition has been crying out for :D

[CraftyToePoke]

83 / 85

[Fixer82]

83-85.
Nice v-neck, nice colour scheme. great badge,

the other piece of **** reminds me of both nemo rangers and erins isle. and I bleedin' hate Nemo, the scuts.

Ha ha great observation 😂

Though I do like that cheeky little black number myself

[the 12 th man]

Robbie Keane 2011 as it's an away kit.

[pineapple stu]

I mean, so is the other one?

But votes don't have to be reasoned to count, so in it goes!

The 2005 kit beats the marker effort 8-5 and we'll see it in the last 16. I'll vote for the 2011 kit cos it is a bit striking and the 83-85 kit does need some orange as someone pointed out (the Italia 90 kit was the first time we ever put orange on an away kit I think), and that makes it 6-6, with votes taken until the morning. Then the rest of the weekend off before we resume on Monday morning with two of the oldest kits in the competition.

[Razors left peg]

2011, I usually like retro but the 83 is like a crap GAA jersey

[pineapple stu]

A crucial vote, and it takes 2011 through. Sorry Kingdom. :p

Six more first-round matches starting from Monday, including every decade from the 60s to the 20s, two kits we never worn, and lots of stripes!