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I'd be a similar vintage (shall we say!) - Euro 88 is the earliest games I remember. But even still, that kit never did it for me. I think it's because the Italia 90 kit was so unique (and Euro 88 was very similar), and then we came along just copying Liverpool's effort (and, as tets noted, a few others too)Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
But everyone to their own in this thread of course!
You're right actually - I used the promo shot the first time, and this is the Elvery's shop listing. Will leave it be sure; might look at it in the next round if it gets through.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
So the 94-95 kit is dumped out (again). 7-2 the score in favour of 86-87.
While the old v new battle continues, two more to add to the mix. Is it to be the Euro 2016 kit or the 2010-12 kit to reach the quarters?
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I'll start the bidding by pointing to the hoops and lack of orange trim on the 2010-12 kit. So 2016 an easy winner for me here.
10-12 for me.
I'll go 2016 too, not mad about it but there's something about the 10-12 kit that just doesn't sit right with me.
2010-2012 has to go thought for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Best kit we had since 1990.
2016 for me. I like the jersey a lot, but those socks have finally cost it my vote!
2016, lovely kit
2016. Great kit.
Followed closely by the 2010 kit.
Love them both!
I don't get the ire for hooped socks.
I'm judging all of these on the shirt first and foremost.
I vote our current kit, and 2010/12.
euro 2016 kit for me.
thought the 2016 away kit was very good also
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.
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Euro 88.
Euro 88 for me as well.
euro 88
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Has to be 88, looks like this one will be a whitewash.
88 too
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/u...70527/1994.jpg
https://m0.sportsjoe.ie/wp-content/u...71941/2000.jpg
WC 2002 qualification shirt
Two nice kits. I'd go for 02 largely on the shade of green.
94 for me. 2002 looks too much like a towel.
1994 Rayzor
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.
I'll go 76-78, and 1994.
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.
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
2000-2002 for me. The other one has dated a bit too much for me
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 thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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.
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 wornQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I'd guess that was driven by some theory about visibility. Like the opposite of the famous Man United grey kit debacle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
That would be a very poor argumentQuote:
Originally Posted by John83
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/...-away-kit.html
Oh, I see. I thought there was a bigger fluorescent panel on it. Yeah, that's ugly as sin.
I actually love that shirt, still wear it a fair bitQuote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
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
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.
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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/upl...0302120716.jpg
One has to go back into the wardrobe - but which one?