New jerseys unveiled today. Have to say I actually quite like the green one.
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New jerseys unveiled today. Have to say I actually quite like the green one.
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Meant to put this in the Limerick section apologies. Please feel free to move or delete it.
Just make this the league one...
If this is the legit one as I'm led to believe, the others will have to go some to beat it:
http://www.braywanderers.ie/wp-conte...-1-300x283.jpg
Already a thread on here for new kits. All the Nike and Macron jerseys are just stock gear with a crest and sponsor. The umbro gear the same. Did umbro not make unique kits for teams before like Pats and Shamrock Rovers?
The new Bray....I mean, Cork City home jersey:
http://www.corkcityfc.ie/home/2015/0...rsey-launched/
This is the first time in a long time that two clubs have the same shirt; design and colours.
I would have thought Nike would have provided something unique to Cork.
It's not Nike. Cork's deal is with Teamwear Ireland. Bray's is with Nitro Sports. They have nothing to do with each other. Cork and Bray shopping out of a catalogue like this http://www.teamwearireland.com/nike-...rsey-859-c.asp
Not to mention the fact every team wearing Macron had the same goalkeeper jersey for the past two or three seasons.
Shels and Sligo had almost replica tops last season, as a standard all red shirt. Possibly Sligo and Derry this season with red and white stripes will be similar, however all these types of jerseys have been around for decades.
In my time watching the lge (from late 70's) I've never seen anything as unique and maybe as stylish as the one that Bray unveiled over a month ago. The version that Cork unveiled is a complete replica, and White Horse is making a fair point, even though they may have been sourced from different suppliers, the end product is the exact same, and uniquely the same.
Ya it's the same Jersey. A lot of people are under the impression clubs have struck deals with Nike, which isn't true.
My junior soccer club have Nike jerseys and the same training tops that Bray have unveiled. Anyone can get the gear and it's actually very reasonable to order. Especially from the UK.
It's back to the good old days of O'Neills templates. I had thought that Bray's effort wasa bit different and exciting and unique... how wrong I was!
I like the cork city Jersey 🙈. We have the same away kit as shels, LOI kits are getting more and more unoriginal every season
After years of teams being forced to change or wear home team's away kits due to pretty tenuous clashes, what are the odds Cork and Bray end up both being allowed to wear their home kits when they meet this year?
Our current home and new away are most boring shirts ever created, Umbro don't really give a toss.Quote:
LOI kits are getting more and more unoriginal every season
Do any club's shirts actually sell well enough for the manufacturer to invest any time in the design? It's a pretty small market.
The Bray shirt has already been in action, in case anyone thinks it's a wind-up. Ian Clancy had a pic from the Bray v Waterford friendly on 6 Feb:
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But there shouldn't be a case for Bray wearing a Cork 3rd strip at the Cross this season:
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You can get a 'bespoke' design, but you have to guarantee a minimum order, and most clubs simply don't have the cash flow, or back up funds, to guarantee selling that amount of shirts. We're small fish unfortunately.
I love the jersey. It's a shame both clubs boards looked at the options and picked the same one, but I guess both thought it was the nicest! Slightly different shades of green but not really noticeable.
Don't see it mattering a huge amount, but odd nonetheless.
Bray Wonderers' mind games, phzzew, phzzew, they loco, they mess with your head, esse.
Cork and Bray - same Nike knock-off jerseys. Derry City and Sligo - nearly identical kits. Shels, Limerick and Longford Town away - same Macron template. I know most kits are templated these days, but sometimes having a completely different supplier, freshens up things. Bohs for example, their Hummel kits are amongst the best I've seen in years.
Kit would have been chosen a good while ago I'd imagine, before Bray revealed theirs. Even at that, the catalogue you chose from is limited so this sort of thing will become more common if clubs start buying from retailers. I prefer the idea of an original non-catalogue design. But it was obviously the best financial option for the club and the jersey will sell for sure. The away jersey was sold out at Xmas despite the poor reception.
On the whole template/catalogue thing.
It's not a league of Ireland thing only.
QPR wear kits that are from the same catalogue as bray/cork/drogheda/athlone/cobh
So do most clubs that wear Nike. It's only the really big Nike clubs who get completely bespoke kits.
Err clubs don't generally design their own kits!
Most companies have 3 layers of kit supply:
Top: whatever design and colour scheme you want (Barcelona, bayern, arsenal etc)
Middle: here's our templates take your pick and we will do your colours or add trim or whatever (most top league european clubs)
Bottom: here's the catalogue. Knock yourself out. (Everyone else)
They're hardly bespoke then, are they?
Do any cork fans wish they would return to red and white or have they warmed to the green?
Doesn't feel like the real cork in green. I also noticed a trend of supporters who had an interest in gaa and soccer in cork would buy the red city jersey and wear it in pairc ui caoimh or thurles as it was a bit " cool " and recognisable as cork straight away. Don't think it was a huge floating market or anything but you don't see that customer buying the green kits.