Foot.ie decides - Ireland's best keeper's jersey

[the 12 th man]

Given in black.

[sadloserkid]

Westwood by default. I loathe pinstripes on football shirts.

[elatedscum]

Shay Given

[jbyrne]

given black

[SkStu]

Westwood

[pineapple stu]

A 9-0 whitewash sees orange Bonner through. The other tie is level at 3-3, with all day for more votes. And in the meantime, we have the last of our first round ties, an interesting clash between the Euro 2016 home and away kits, both sported by Darren Randolph. Tomorrow will be the repechage to reprieve four defeated kits, and then Friday will see the second round get underway, with another 18 kits yet to enter the fray.

https://www.sporting-heroes.net/content/thumbnails/00356/35513-product.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/darren-randolph-of-republic-of-ireland-attempts-to-save-belgium-picture-id541037220

[jbyrne]

blue randolph

[passinginterest]

Westwood - the pinstripe is awful

Blue Randolph, although the purple is not bad.

[EAFC_rdfl]

Given in black.
Randolph in purple

[Fixer82]

Yellow Westwood and Blue Randolph

[John83]

Purple Randolph.

[pineapple stu]

This is starting to sound like a competition to decide the best Snack bar.

[sadloserkid]

I'll go Purple Randolph. It's just about good garish.

[the 12 th man]

Blue Randolph.

[pineapple stu]

Another very narrow tie but Westwood's yellow pips Given's black by 5-4.

The Randolph derby is also tight - I think the blue has it 4-3 at the moment, but votes taken till morning, when we'll have the ten eliminated kits up, with four to be reprieved.

[Eminence Grise]

Randolph in blue.

[SkStu]

Randolph in blue.

[Fixer82]

Randolph in blue.

Isn’t that a Gershwin number?

[pineapple stu]

6-3 to the blue in the end, so Blue Randolph becomes the last of the ten jerseys to emerge from this stage.

For today then, it's four kits to get put back into the competition from the ten which have been eliminated. You can vote for as many kits as you want - 1 point per vote, most votes go through, and in the event of a tie-break (quite likely here actually) I'll get casting vote.

Limited to three images per post, so these will be over four posts.

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[pineapple stu]

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https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/676126/original/?height=528

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[pineapple stu]

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/JE3DA5/nicky-colgan-republic-of-ireland-lansdowne-road-dublin-ireland-30-JE3DA5.jpg

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[pineapple stu]

https://www.sporting-heroes.net/content/thumbnails/00356/35513-product.jpg

[EAFC_rdfl]

Can every poster vote for all 10, and make a balls of the competition 🤣

I vote to bring Westwood's yellow and alan Kelly's multi colour back in

[pineapple stu]

All you'll have achieved then is let me have my pick of the jerseys - and I like my random garish 90s tops more than many here :)

[jbyrne]

bazunu black and bonner yellow and black

[Fixer82]

I'll vote for Henderson and Westwood

[pineapple stu]

So at the moment we have two votes for Westwood's yellow, one vote each for Henderson, Bonner 93, Bazunu, and Alan Kelly's winking eye.

[pineapple stu]

Oops! As I was typing that, I was thinking that Henderson had surely gone through, and he had. I had the winner in the repechage instead of the loser - it should be Dean Kiely aka the 2002 World Cup kit. I've updated the pics!

[SkStu]

Bazunu, Kiely and McDonagh!

[backstothewall]

I vote for Packie in the Upper Deck card

[Kingdom]

Wayne Henderson through on a 6-2 scoreline. Looking comfortable for Bonner against Colgan too, but still until 6pm or so to vote on that one.

Two very different kits going head to head now. Bonner with what I always thought was an underrated classic, against Given in a kit I had completely forgotten about and still can't make up my mind about as to whether I even like it or not.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/republic-of-ireland-goalkeeper-pat-bonner-during-the-european-match-picture-id89113723

https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/676177/original/?height=528

Btw PSTU, that Given kit was the Kelly kit I referenced in my last post on this thread. The Bonner kit is streets ahead (albeit my vote wont count).

[Kingdom]

Colgan and Kiely I'll save.

[passinginterest]

McDonagh, Colgan, purple Randolph and garish Given.

[sadloserkid]

I'll throw a vote for one on each post. So Garish Kelly, the McDonagh GAA kit, Colgan's and Purple Randolph.

[the 12 th man]

Bazunu black,Dean Kiely black with green stripe.

[pineapple stu]

OK - this is tighter than I'd thought it was going to be!

Currently have three votes for Bazunu in black, McDonagh, Kiely (WC 2002) and Colgan. But right behind them with two votes apiece is Bonner 93, Kelly winking, purple Randolph and Westwood. Forgotten Given has one vote, and poor Paddy Kenny, whitewashed 11-0 in the heat, has no votes.

I might leave this run until Monday morning - seems a better time to start into a new round, rather than starting tomorrow and then abandoning for the weekend again.

[elatedscum]

Bazunu black!

[ontheotherhand]

This is confusing me as much as the Nations League (my fault not your stu) but I'll throw a vote each on Bazunu black and Randolph purple if that's what we are doing?

[John83]

Colgan and Westwood's yellows, and Randolph's purple get my votes.

[pineapple stu]

OK - back for another week.

At the end of the repechage, the Bazunu black kit tops the poll with 6 votes. Also through are Randolph purple and Colgan yellow, with four votes each. We then have a three-way tie between McDonagh (1984), Kenny (2002 WC) and Westwood yellow. I get casting vote in this case, and I think I'm going to slightly surprise myself and vote for the 2002 kit. Westwood yellow is ok but I don't really like the modern trend of all one bright colour and nothing else. McDonagh's is a bit too retro, but the green stripe on Kenny's black kit stands out a bit. It'll probably get knocked out straight away again, but that's our 32nd kit for the second round.

[pineapple stu]

To the last 32 so. 18 new kits to introduce in this round, and a repechage kit can't be paired with the kit that knocked it out in the first round. Other than that, the rules are as before, and I'll run this one through the weekend as it's an international weekend.

First up is Westwood yellow up against the mentalist of the mental 90s kits.

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https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/08/1291949.jpg

[jbyrne]

given purple

[passinginterest]

Given, that's a proper 90's keeper jersey. Campos would be proud.

[John83]

Given should have been dropped for painting in his official kit. Westwood for me, but it's less clear than I expected.

[Kingdom]

I dislike both, but I prefer Westwood's

[backstothewall]

Shay in the 90s purple number

[sadloserkid]

That purple thing is an awful, garish mess. I like it. It has my vote.

[Fixer82]

Westwood for me

[SkStu]

Westwood

[EAFC_rdfl]

Going for the crazy purple one. Baby faced Given had some OAP knees in that photo