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brendy_éire
04/12/2025, 8:52 PM
New Derry City top is pretty nice. Has a black collar, Free Derry Corner nod on the chevrons, and no big white square on the back.
https://www.derrycityfc.net/2025/12/2026-home-kits-launched/
The keeper top is class, IMO.
https://derrycityfc.myshopify.com/products/2026-2027-keeper-shirt-adults
Buckett
04/12/2025, 8:52 PM
New Galway Utd home jersey
https://shop.galwayunitedfc.ie/products/galway-united-fc-home-jersey-2026
Were they particularly baggy ?
Didn't Newcastle West, later named Newcastle Utd (short life) wear Newcastle (Eng) tops at one stage, or at least did they contact them about it, vague memories of this in the early years of the newly created LOI FD that started in 1985/86, the Irish club didn't last too long in any case, max 3 of 4 seasons from memory.
HF Everton also had EFC top in that also short set up.
CorribsideSteve
04/12/2025, 10:02 PM
Didn't Newcastle West, later named Newcastle Utd (short life) wear Newcastle (Eng) tops at one stage, or at least did they contact them about it, vague memories of this in the early years of the newly created LOI FD that started in 1985/86, the Irish club didn't last too long in any case, max 3 of 4 seasons from memory.
HF Everton also had EFC top in that also short set up.
Tangent to the topic at hand, but as someone from Co.Limerick, it's like some sort of fever dream to realise NCW were EVER a LOI team. Nothing about the town gives 'soccer stronghold vibes', and their short lived lifespan proved that to be true.
We had a great quiz on the way down to Cobh on the train, last game of the 2025 season.
Name the 10 clubs who participated in the inaugural season of the FD in 1985/86, only 1 or 2 got it.
Drogs / Sligo / Shels / FH were relegated and joined by 6 others...................
EatYerGreens
05/12/2025, 9:17 PM
We had a great quiz on the way down to Cobh on the train, last game of the 2025 season.
Name the 10 clubs who participated in the inaugural season of the FD in 1985/86, only 1 or 2 got it.
Drogs / Sligo / Shels / FH were relegated and joined by 6 others...................
Easy :
- Bray
- EMFA
- Newcastle West
- Derry
- Monaghan United.
- Cobh.
The classic error is people thinking Longford also joined that year. But they were actually the year before, alongside Cork City :cool:
oriel
05/12/2025, 10:04 PM
Fair shout, I got that wrong, Longford then not Shels were relegated for the first season, I think Shels went down for the second season of the FD.
The crowds were fairly decent too if i recall those first few seasons, obviously boosted by 1000's of Derry away, but other clubs had a surge too from memory.
Shearer
05/12/2025, 10:14 PM
Tangent to the topic at hand, but as someone from Co.Limerick, it's like some sort of fever dream to realise NCW were EVER a LOI team. Nothing about the town gives 'soccer stronghold vibes', and their short lived lifespan proved that to be true.
The biggest club in West Limerick though. There are plenty of clubs around the country that are big fish in a small pond that never go any further than that.
EatYerGreens
05/12/2025, 11:12 PM
Fair shout, I got that wrong, Longford then not Shels were relegated for the first season, I think Shels went down for the second season of the FD.
The crowds were fairly decent too if i recall those first few seasons, obviously boosted by 1000's of Derry away, but other clubs had a surge too from memory.
Yeah - 1986/7 was a tussle between Shels and Derry for promotion (though it was always going to be Derry tbh).
If my memory serves me coreect - apart from Rovers and Dundalk, and possibly Cork, the crowds in those days really weren't great across the 2 leagues. Pats and Bohs didn't draw big crowds at all as I recall. And then Rovers' support got decimated by the Glenmalure sale/KRAM.
CorribsideSteve
06/12/2025, 9:45 AM
The biggest club in West Limerick though. There are plenty of clubs around the country that are big fish in a small pond that never go any further than that.
Thats a fair point. The 80s saw a third-world-feeling, embryonic LOI, compared to what we have today. Some of the old YT videos of dugouts that look like plastic barrels cut in half for example. So I can imagine NCW slotting into that mad world for a while, alongside Thurles Town who were thereabouts for a short while also in the early 80s IIRC.
sessylU
07/12/2025, 10:17 AM
New Derry City top is pretty nice. Has a black collar, Free Derry Corner nod on the chevrons, and no big white square on the back.
https://www.derrycityfc.net/2025/12/2026-home-kits-launched/
I don't really see the chevrons as looking like Free Derry Corner, looks more like a sharktooth pattern.
I always thought that would have been a neat solution to needing to have the white square on the back, though, to have it shaped like a gable wall in a nod to Free Derry Corner.
Shinkicker
07/12/2025, 10:37 AM
Looks like the new Bohs kit will be released tomorrow and from the small snippet released possibly going back to the triangular crest?
Martinho II
07/12/2025, 3:06 PM
seen new st pats new home jersey on fri last. Love the new design!
https://www.elverys.ie/products/umbro-st-patricks-ath-26-home-jersey-red-1172580
Dermobohs
08/12/2025, 7:08 PM
New home shirt out now, 1970 retro, tribute to the great billy young, didn’t realise we were the first club in Ireland and the uk to have a shirt sponsor.
Anyhow I didn’t like it at first but on second look, not a bad one.
Martinho II
08/12/2025, 7:17 PM
New home shirt out now, 1970 retro, tribute to the great billy young, didn’t realise we were the first club in Ireland and the uk to have a shirt sponsor.
Anyhow I didn’t like it at first but on second look, not a bad one.
Quite impressed with new Bohs jersey. Think my club had a jersey similar to this in mid 1980s .
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=bohemians%202026%20home%20jersey&mid=1F753B54E2FD4A2FA0A11F753B54E2FD4A2FA0A1&ajaxhist=0
EatYerGreens
08/12/2025, 7:22 PM
Quite impressed with new Bohs jersey. Think my club had a jersey similar to this in mid 1980s .
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=bohemians%202026%20home%20jersey&mid=1F753B54E2FD4A2FA0A11F753B54E2FD4A2FA0A1&ajaxhist=0
Is that not a World Cup kit video ?
2 Year Contract
08/12/2025, 9:05 PM
https://x.com/bfcdublin/status/1998093224733512007?s=20
That’s the Bohs one there. It’s utterly horrendous as a football jersey, looks like a training jumper to the point that I was genuinely shocked when I read the word jersey above it. I don’t think it’s bias talking either as the reaction of a lot of bohs fans seems to be the same. Nice idea behind it but awful execution
I think its an abomination.
Dermobohs
08/12/2025, 9:37 PM
It’s a replica of the 1970 shirt, except Jodi and not Des Kelly was on the right breast of that one. Real throwback, but I’d have to agree the crest looks awful .
I’m not a fan of the modern fashion of changing the crest to mirror the colour of the shirt, bad move.
Other than that it’s nice, but I’d always prefer our iconic striped shirt, and we also had a lovely hooped one back in the early eighties.
EatYerGreens
09/12/2025, 1:46 AM
https://x.com/bfcdublin/status/1998093224733512007?s=20
That’s the Bohs one there. It’s utterly horrendous as a football jersey, looks like a training jumper to the point that I was genuinely shocked when I read the word jersey above it. I don’t think it’s bias talking either as the reaction of a lot of bohs fans seems to be the same. Nice idea behind it but awful execution
Agree, It looks like they've tried too hard to come up with a top that people will be interested to wear casually in a way that many wouldn't a football top. Looks more like general leisurewear.
Shinkicker
09/12/2025, 7:08 AM
New home shirt out now, 1970 retro, tribute to the great billy young, didn’t realise we were the first club in Ireland and the uk to have a shirt sponsor.
Anyhow I didn’t like it at first but on second look, not a bad one.
I remember going to Dalymount in the 70's and Jodi on the shirts. If I'm correct it was a company owned by former player and Bohs first professional Tony O Connell. The tribute to Billy Young is a lovely sentiment but I'm not keen on the new shirt. I'm sure there will be a short sleeve version which may look better.
culloty82
09/12/2025, 8:55 AM
https://i.redd.it/h6wskornn16g1.jpeg
Jolly Red Giant
09/12/2025, 12:50 PM
I come from an era when football jerseys did not have a sponsor blazoned across the front of the shirt (and the back, and the arms and the shorts and the socks) - I am delighted to see Bohs produce a retro jersey that somehow replicates that.
Even though I wear modern jerseys it always bugs me that I am paying €75 to effectively carry around an advertising hoarding for a company everytime I wear it - they should be paying me to do it.
ontheotherhand
09/12/2025, 1:36 PM
Can't fault bohs for trying. It's not the worse jersey this season but I don't think it quite came off. Might look better in person? Pats home, our away and that Waterford home are joint top of the pile for awful efforts imop.
Galway's is the nicest so far.
brendy_éire
09/12/2025, 2:06 PM
Even though I wear modern jerseys it always bugs me that I am paying €75 to effectively carry around an advertising hoarding for a company everytime I wear it - they should be paying me to do it.
I take that point. Even more annoying when it's the Ireland ones, since we seem to be the only country to do it.
Are most clubs charging €75 now? That's steep. Derry are £50/€57 and Galway are €50. Seems much more reasonable.
Buckett
09/12/2025, 2:18 PM
I take that point. Even more annoying when it's the Ireland ones, since we seem to be the only country to do it.
Are most clubs charging €75 now? That's steep. Derry are £50/€57 and Galway are €50. Seems much more reasonable.
Galway Utd jerseys start at €50 for kids and go up to €75 for adult. It's nice but the leisure wear range has some lovely pieces
Elfman
09/12/2025, 4:10 PM
I remember going to Dalymount in the 70's and Jodi on the shirts. If I'm correct it was a company owned by former player and Bohs first professional Tony O Connell. The tribute to Billy Young is a lovely sentiment but I'm not keen on the new shirt. I'm sure there will be a short sleeve version which may look better.
I believe you're right there Shinkicker and he is also the reason the Jodi stand got it's name. I agree with you on the tribute but I don't feel short sleeves will improve this - it's just too far removed from the black and red stripes. I also wasn't a fan of the 2022 home kit for the same reason; would have preferred them as third kits.
I do really like the new Derry kit, probably for the traditional nature of it!! Really like the collar in particular.
sbgawa
09/12/2025, 4:41 PM
It’s a replica of the 1970 shirt, except Jodi and not Des Kelly was on the right breast of that one. Real throwback, but I’d have to agree the crest looks awful .
I’m not a fan of the modern fashion of changing the crest to mirror the colour of the shirt, bad move.
Other than that it’s nice, but I’d always prefer our iconic striped shirt, and we also had a lovely hooped one back in the early eighties.
Careful now !
Martinho II
09/12/2025, 6:22 PM
Is that not a World Cup kit video ?
sorry copied over wrong link
Dermobohs
09/12/2025, 6:48 PM
Careful now !
Ha!
‘‘Twas a beaut actually, lovely strip.
nigel-harps1954
09/12/2025, 7:15 PM
I take that point. Even more annoying when it's the Ireland ones, since we seem to be the only country to do it.
Are most clubs charging €75 now? That's steep. Derry are £50/€57 and Galway are €50. Seems much more reasonable.
Profit margins on kits are getting lower and lower, unfortunately.
outspoken
09/12/2025, 11:22 PM
Noticed in last few years, like everything else price of merchandise climbing significantly. The same polo top that was maybe 30-35 quid 3 years ago is now 50 quid and the likes of quarter zips that were 50 quid are now 70.
Shinkicker
10/12/2025, 7:07 AM
Noticed in last few years, like everything else price of merchandise climbing significantly. The same polo top that was maybe 30-35 quid 3 years ago is now 50 quid and the likes of quarter zips that were 50 quid are now 70.
Re club merchandise, there is not one tee shirt on the Bohemian web site. I have 6 or 7 that I regularly wear but there has been nothing new for about a year. Are your clubs the same?
brendy_éire
10/12/2025, 9:26 AM
Re club merchandise, there is not one tee shirt on the Bohemian web site. I have 6 or 7 that I regularly wear but there has been nothing new for about a year. Are your clubs the same?
Derry have plenty. Presume the margin is decent on them.
2 Year Contract
10/12/2025, 9:49 AM
Yeah Pats have loads of different T-shirts available, some are really nice and others are truly awful looking to me but are aimed at and popular with kids (old man shouts at cloud etc!)
Shinkicker
10/12/2025, 10:12 AM
Yeah Pats have loads of different T-shirts available, some are really nice and others are truly awful looking to me but are aimed at and popular with kids (old man shouts at cloud etc!)
Im an old man but I like a nice tee shirt
2 Year Contract
10/12/2025, 10:22 AM
Im an old man but I like a nice tee shirt
I do to, as I said plenty of them are nice and I have some myself, but the ones aimed at kids are muck
I do to, as I said plenty of them are nice and I have some myself, but the ones aimed at kids are muck
And usually far too wee
Nesta99
10/12/2025, 10:51 AM
Theres been a good bit about small fitting merch, especially with Macron being Dundalk's new kit benefactor. Maybe we should do a fit LoI fans in to merch for discounts rather than needing bigger sizes for big prices! Unless of course a person is 'big boned' (no laughing at the back), or have a hormonal issue so why they might be on the lager side.
D24Saint
10/12/2025, 11:05 AM
The new Pats shirt arrived in the post this morning. Id be a lot happier with it than on my first glance online. Its nothing spectacular but its much better than last years effort.
ontheotherhand
10/12/2025, 11:05 AM
Yeah Pats have loads of different T-shirts available, some are really nice and others are truly awful looking to me but are aimed at and popular with kids (old man shouts at cloud etc!)
Did notice that when I was in your shop a while back for reasons I won't discuss. A lot of nice stuff. Better than ours. Nice plain t-shirts with simple logos or text. None of this mad **** we tend to come out with. Our best stuff tends to be done by fan groups rather than the club. Not sure why it's so difficult tbh. Clubs tend to overcomplicate designs in order to make them stand out from the last ones I suppose.
EatYerGreens
10/12/2025, 1:10 PM
Theres been a good bit about small fitting merch, especially with Macron being Dundalk's new kit benefactor. Maybe we should do a fit LoI fans in to merch for discounts rather than needing bigger sizes for big prices! Unless of course a person is 'big boned' (no laughing at the back), or have a hormonal issue so why they might be on the lager side.
Dundalk haven't produced merchandise that was on the lager side since their days being sponsored by Harp.
MoydowMonty
10/12/2025, 1:38 PM
While they're getting more expensive, I'd still rather pay 60-70 for my LOI club merch than the 3 digit numbers some premier League stuff is being sold for. Came across a Man United jersey in sports direct last year for €150. Nearly blew my lid off
sbgawa
10/12/2025, 7:14 PM
Yeah Pats have loads of different T-shirts available, some are really nice and others are truly awful looking to me but are aimed at and popular with kids (old man shouts at cloud etc!)
Same old man shouting at clouds here re Rovers gear. Some of the members club merxh can be bettwr but they are more so thinking of the aul lads
outspoken
11/12/2025, 10:55 AM
Re club merchandise, there is not one tee shirt on the Bohemian web site. I have 6 or 7 that I regularly wear but there has been nothing new for about a year. Are your clubs the same?
Some clubs definitely doing less leisure wear
culloty82
11/12/2025, 12:01 PM
Cork City away:
https://i.imgur.com/rwvkmSL.jpeg
joey B
11/12/2025, 12:34 PM
Cork City away:
https://i.imgur.com/rwvkmSL.jpeg
Jaysis that’s rotten…
ontheotherhand
11/12/2025, 3:22 PM
Actually don't mind that from Cork. If you're gonna go mad, go proper mad.
thebronze14
11/12/2025, 3:33 PM
Actually don't mind that from Cork. If you're gonna go mad, go proper mad.
Yeah I think the same...Reckon it will be one that young people will be tracking down online to wear in 20 years time!
nigel-harps1954
11/12/2025, 4:32 PM
Yeah, could be on my own here, but thats a cracking effort from Cork
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