New Shirts / Kit 2016

Originally Posted by vinnie

I'd keep the Macron one if it were me, it'll be a collectors item

Yeah, one day you might get back what you paid for it.

I thought it was a Pats shirt for a moment.

It's a little plain but not too bad.

Not sure what to make of that. The pointy shoulders aren't overly impressive, but it's certainly not the worse jersey out there. Very plain though as you say White Horse.

Probably would have been helped with a white collar.

EDIT: Better pictures of the kits:

Best of luck away to Pats with those kits!

I see Sligo are still persisting with the fake star.

Originally Posted by White Horse

I see Sligo are still persisting with the fake star.

Quick straw poll for the Sligo fans... are you morto about Sligo putting a pretend star above their crest? Personally I thought Dundalk shouldn't have bothered, but at least we have 10+ league titles.

I could be wrong, but I don't think Sligos star above the crest is anything to do with a league win at all. It's for a former player or manager or chairman or something along those lines?

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

I could be wrong, but I don't think Sligos star above the crest is anything to do with a league win at all. It's for a former player or manager or chairman or something along those lines?

You are right. It is to commemorate a club man whose man I don't recall.

Why they chose to use the exact same symbol that clubs use to signify 10 league wins is the strange bit.

It used to be over on the right hand side of the shirt though making it obviously not a title star.

Originally Posted by White Horse

You are right. It is to commemorate a club man whose man I don't recall.

Why they chose to use the exact same symbol that clubs use to signify 10 league wins is the strange bit.

Irish clubs using it because Italian clubs do it is more mortifying than using a star to commemorate an ex player IMO

Yes I know others now use stars too but it's still quite a new phenomenon outside of Italy and it's a pretty ****e one too

(Although I did use to laugh at Celtic having a 'platinum' star for their European Cup to answe Rangers 5 for 50 titles)

Originally Posted by White Horse

You are right. It is to commemorate a club man whose man I don't recall.

Johnny Chada.

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

I could be wrong, but I don't think Sligos star above the crest is anything to do with a league win at all. It's for a former player or manager or chairman or something along those lines?

its for Johnny Chadda ex Sligo Committee member who was there over fifty years. last time I saw Sligo Rovers with a kit like that was the 95-96 season under Steve Cotterill. Anyone remember that kit?

Awful looking kits. Here's hoping we produce something a bit better

A lot of plain kits around at the moment the only outlandish one I've seen is the Bohs away so there could be merit in keeping it simple.

Originally Posted by Dodge

Irish clubs using it because Italian clubs do it is more mortifying than using a star to commemorate an ex player IMO

Yes I know others now use stars too but it's still quite a new phenomenon outside of Italy and it's a pretty ****e one too

(Although I did use to laugh at Celtic having a 'platinum' star for their European Cup to answe Rangers 5 for 50 titles)

That's a ridiculous thing to suggest, there is nothing wrong and its commonly accepted that 1 star represents 10 titles, in fact if and when Pats move to double figures they will also follow suit.

Any club having it on for any other reason is cringe stuff, and in Sligo's case, open to correction, I think this is to commemorate a poet?

On the Sligo kit, I always preferred them in Red and White Stripes, Red Shorts, Red Socks, but I think they want to move away from clashing with Derry. This new top does look 'Very Pats' though.

Originally Posted by oriel

Any club having it on for any other reason is cringe stuff.

To be honest, I think the only "cringe stuff" I see here is fans, particularly some from my own club, getting their knickers in a twist over an irrelevant addition to a clubs crest. The records show who has won what amount of trophies and that's enough for me. I'm not really bothered what amount of stars clubs decide to put on their crests.

Originally Posted by oriel

That's a ridiculous thing to suggest, there is nothing wrong and its commonly accepted that 1 star represents 10 titles, in fact if and when Pats move to double figures they will also follow suit.

Commonly accepted by who? It's very much a recent move and in fact it only came to be in Ireland because Umbro wanted to at it to kits in the mid 2000s

Aberdeen have 2 stars for the 2 European trophies (one of them is the UEFA super cup) and Man City have stars "to look more European".

Most clubs all over the world with 10 titles don't have a star. Rightly so

Originally Posted by Yossarian

To be honest, I think the only "cringe stuff" I see here is fans, particularly some from my own club, getting their knickers in a twist over an irrelevant addition to a clubs crest. The records show who has won what amount of trophies and that's enough for me. I'm not really bothered what amount of stars clubs decide to put on their crests.

The point being that Sligo have as much right to have it for an ex-player as any club have to commemorate 10 titles, or 10 trophies, or whatever they want

People upset about fake stars.

People upset about people being upset about fake stars.

The season can't start soon enough.

and on the 5th of March reason and not taking a chance to grumble will prevail on foot.ie...wouldnt have it any other way!

Strong hint on the Twitter account of Bodibro, a local company, that they'll be doing the Youths' gear this year. Based in Gorey, the company is headed up by Wexford GAA player, Ben Brosnan, and the former Wexford Youth, Joey Wadding.