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Its a bit Trump, slogan and design.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
We've varied quite a lot down the years- originally all white, went towards more blue but still with occasional throwbacks that are more white. The year I started going we wore white at home and blue away- but even at that sometimes swapped those around.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
It the 70s we wore cast off West Brom shirts for 2 full seasons!
Were they particularly baggy ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
We have the interesting tradition of having various patterns on our home jersey. Our first jersey was stripes but solid red used at the beginning too.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
So we have had it all ... solid, stripes, pin stripes, broad stripes, hoops, quarters, raglan style, etc.
For that reason we've had some absolute beauties and gives us licence to throw in a more 'out there' design from time to time. Something I think the club should do more off.
Yee's must be due chequers soon enough - like Croatia or Drogheda.Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
no but the trousers were, it was MadnessQuote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Drogheda new kits: https://x.com/loipdnews/status/1993655797142917152?s=46
All really nice, particularly the home one
The blue one looks like a Rangers-Portsmouth mash up.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
A dreadful effort from Pats for this season. Somehow don't have a sponsor and it looks like a (bad) training top.
Continuing the Macron trend, Dundalk released H & A yesterday, no surprise to see a move from Playr-Fit, and also positive to hear payments are now been made, shocking really by the previous regime, a local company too, anyway hopefully they will be fully sorted.
I particularly like the away version.
https://shop.dundalkfc.com/
+ even a video with the famous John Murphy 80 + and still doing live games on Dundalk FM, a league winner in 1963.
https://x.com/DundalkFC/status/1996285295319286139?s=20
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/...kits-launched/
The keeper top is class, IMO.
https://derrycityfc.myshopify.com/pr...r-shirt-adults
New Galway Utd home jersey
https://shop.galwayunitedfc.ie/produ...me-jersey-2026
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
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 :Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
- 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:
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
Yeah - 1986/7 was a tussle between Shels and Derry for promotion (though it was always going to be Derry tbh).Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
I don't really see the chevrons as looking like Free Derry Corner, looks more like a sharktooth pattern.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_�ire
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.
Looks like the new Bohs kit will be released tomorrow and from the small snippet released possibly going back to the triangular crest?
seen new st pats new home jersey on fri last. Love the new design!
https://www.elverys.ie/products/umbr...ey-red-1172580
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 .Quote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervie...0A1&ajaxhist=0
Is that not a World Cup kit video ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
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.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
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.
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.
I take that point. Even more annoying when it's the Ireland ones, since we seem to be the only country to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jolly Red Giant
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 piecesQuote:
Originally Posted by brendy_�ire
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinkicker
I do really like the new Derry kit, probably for the traditional nature of it!! Really like the collar in particular.
Careful now !Quote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
sorry copied over wrong linkQuote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Ha!Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
‘‘Twas a beaut actually, lovely strip.