New City Adidas kit on presale from this morning
https://www.corkcityfc.ie/home/2019/...0-home-jersey/
I didn't like the mockups over the last few weeks but I think I like the actual jersey. Not 100% sure, think I need to see it in the flesh to make up my mind.
Rovers new home kit.
Rovers, Shels, Drogs have all got it right it seems from the general reaction of fans. Plain, no fuss, no motifs, just a simple jersey with club colours. If Dundalk had just gone with a plain white with black trim shirt the vast majority would have been happy. The more popular of the retro shirts either would have been acceptible. Cork's shirt is fine but for the unnecessary addition to the sleeve. The late 80s early 90s were the worst for messing with shirt designs but to some extent this his happened again in recent seasons. It's no coincidence that former jerseys that remained popular were the ones that werent jazzed up in some way!
Dundalk sold just over 1000 new tops in the xmas period of 2015, when CX launched the 3 stripe version.
Unless the current one is a hit with the younger market, I can see this being the worst sales figures since the club starting selling replica tops.
Its nothing less than a T-Shirt, and I’ve hardly heard anyone say they like it, almost unbelievable by the club just going ahead with this, of course no time now to change, but they should have taken note of the reaction and maybe tried another one, kept this for Europe or so.
Hopefully it will not last beyond 2020.
Rovers one much better effort by Umbro, (as most other LOI ones are) but I don’t like the all green sleeve.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
The Dundalk jersey is literally the current Nurnberg away kit!
https://cdn1.uksoccershop.com/images...-20-475x0.webp
Thats a fair point as in the past there were a number of templates were available and a small survery of fans opinion was taken before a final decision. When CX+ became kit supplier it stopped as basically their gear was at minimum not a disaster. Prior there wasnt much of a choice but at least opinions were sought. The figures will speak for themselves in due course and maybe next year fans might get a say - wouldnt make difference to cost!
There is so much wrong with the new kit, looks far too small in size terms for a start, heard there is no tricolour either on the back of it, have yet to see it in the flesh but hopefully this is a one season effort.
The Umbro training / polo tops look ok though, price dependent, hopefully sales of the replica top will dictate it will be pulled after one season.
An easy solution would be to introduce a better euro top version, then keep it !
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
The warrior kit was simmilar but a lighter shade of green. Not much you can do with green and white hoops though.
New kit has a pattern on it you can't see in the other photo I posted
Te pattern is subtle but I still wonder why kit suppliers bother with the extra 'fuss'. The vast majority of fans just want pretty much plain club colours. Certainly going on comments here the likes of Shels straight forward kit is favoured and Dundalk's effort is awful and few Dundalk fans would disagree - I have yet to speak to anyone who likes the Dundalk effort.
I get LOI clubs getting the short straw on templates but Nurnberg, who'd have a much bigger fanbase than any LOI team, should really feel shortchanged by that.
The Rovers kit is OK. Not particularly good but probably not awful. Maybe it looks better up close.
CX+(Horseware) never produced a decent shirt for DFC and i was lonely on Twitter calling them out for that for years.(poor me,anyone who disagrees - show me a good one they done?)
UMBRO enter and near every DFC fan has an epileptic fit about the new one lol.
Typical fcuking dundalk
AS for The egit that started the petition to change the shirt - %&$£") off!
Last edited by ToberonaTornado; 02/12/2019 at 4:19 AM.
Wasn't 100% sure myself but having seen it up close it's an absolute cracker.The Rovers kit is OK. Not particularly good but probably not awful. Maybe it looks better up close.
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