Ireland jerseys

**Colbert Report** · 02/03/2005, 3:51 AM

anyone know how long the team will be wearing the new home shirts?

**Kingdom** · 02/03/2005, 8:15 AM

I had heard (can't remember from whom) that there would be new jerseys in the Summer due to a change in the Kit Supplier. If we qualify for the World Cup .... sorry WHEN we qualify for the WC you can be guarenteed there will be a new jersey.

Oops! Just found this

which would suggest the supplier remains UMbro.

If it helps the FAI aren't selling much kit on their online store if thats any indicator.

**Colbert Report** · 02/03/2005, 1:30 PM

thanks

**4tothefloor** · 02/03/2005, 2:30 PM

The current kit will take us through the two years of World Cup qualification, which is 2004\2005. This is pretty standard and is the way it has always been. There would be a new kit to cash in on the world cup, this kit will either be released towards the end of the current qualifying campaign, or just before the World Cup. It's up to the FAI then to decide if that kit should remain for the next Euro qualifiers as well, or if it's just a once off World Cup finals kit.

**brine3** · 02/03/2005, 10:21 PM

I'd love to buy the kit without the Eircom logo and without the new FAI logo.

**glasgabhainn** · 03/03/2005, 10:32 AM

Yeah, why is it that the Irish jersey is not available without the Eircom logo? How many other national side's replica jerseys are bedecked with sponsorship?
Open to correction, but none that I can think of.

Eircom have invested a lot in the game here as did Opel before them, but I have always thought a replica jersey ought to mirror that worn by the players, ergo, no logos.

**blobbyblob** · 03/03/2005, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by vega007

anyone know how long the team will be wearing the new home shirts?

About 90 minutes

**tetsujin1979** · 03/03/2005, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by glasgabhainn

Yeah, why is it that the Irish jersey is not available without the Eircom logo? How many other national side's replica jerseys are bedecked with sponsorship?
Open to correction, but none that I can think of.

Eircom have invested a lot in the game here as did Opel before them, but I have always thought a replica jersey ought to mirror that worn by the players, ergo, no logos.

AFAIK Ireland the ONLY international team to have the sponsor on the replica jersey.

**Kingdom** · 03/03/2005, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by blobbyblob

About 90 minutes

Nice

**Karlos** · 03/03/2005, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

AFAIK Ireland the ONLY international team to have the sponsor on the replica jersey.

think your right! what's wrong with splashing eircom all over the tracksuits and rain jackets but leave the kit alone?

As a result you can't buy an Ireland replica shirt, just a 'kinda-like' one! Glad to see this mentioned at last, it's been one of my pet hates for years. Considering that the likes of England and Brazil who have major deals with nationwide and coca-cola don't need to do it, why the hell do we? The eircom logo even appears on our kit in some of the video games on the PS2!

rant over!

**Closed Account 2** · 03/03/2005, 12:55 PM

I think the away kit is being replaced soon, its been on the go for about 1.5-2 years and is being sold in sports soccer for around £15 (which is usually a sign that a shirt is up for replacement).

**Peadar** · 03/03/2005, 1:08 PM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

I think the away kit is being replaced soon, its been on the go for about 1.5-2 years

The team have a new away kit.
They wore it in Switzerland and France, did they not!?

**Stuttgart88** · 03/03/2005, 1:12 PM

I think you're right about there being a new away kit which we wore in Basle, but you're only half-right about it being worn in France. We wore green shirts, but green shorts too.

Yours pedantically...

**Karlos** · 03/03/2005, 1:17 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

I think you're right about there being a new away kit which we wore in Basle, but you're only half-right about it being worn in France. We wore green shirts, but green shorts too.

Yours pedantically...

I don't believe you can purchase the said 'new' away srtip that we first wore in Basle in 2003 with the 'new' FAI crest. Feel free to contradict. I imagine their will be a new away shirt with the new FAI branding shortly

**Peadar** · 03/03/2005, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by KarlosIRL

I don't believe you can purchase the said 'new' away srtip that we first wore in Basle in 2003 with the 'new' FAI crest. Feel free to contradict.

The shirt was not worn in 2003 because the crest was only launched in 2004.
You're correct though, it's not available in shops.

Stuttgart88, you're correct about the strip in Paris.
When you mentioned it, I remembered thinking that we should have been wearing white.

**Karlos** · 03/03/2005, 1:27 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

The shirt was not worn in 2003 because the crest was only launched in 2004.
You're correct though, it's not available in shops.

I think it's the same shirt as the one worn in Basle with just a crest change? Will trawl the net to see if I can get two pictures

**Closed Account 2** · 03/03/2005, 1:32 PM

we wore this kit in Basle a few months ago
(Sept '04), but we also wore that kit (for the 1st time) again against the Swiss in Basle, but this time in Sept '03 (for Euro 04 qualifiers)
Pic 1 Pic 2

Notice the difference in FAI badges and Number Font and that the Swiss are in different kits.

Also that kit was worn vs Nigeria at the match in the Unity Cup (Summer '04).

**Peadar** · 03/03/2005, 2:15 PM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

we wore this kit in Basle a few months ago but we also wore that kit (for the 1st time) again against the Swiss in Basle, but this time in Sept '03 (for Euro 04 qualifiers)

I though the material was different?
The shorts are definitely different.