#greenshortsareback

Viva Aviva

That'll be fantastic when we play a team who have a dark away kit in an evening game.

Captain wankspasm will be combusting with excitement at that one.

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A green away kit would be nice. The anything but green kit is not a good idea for those of us who attend away games only at present. I find myself wondering which brand is which on the pitch. With so many loan players, one has to identify with something.

LOOKS SHITE

Why we have to have stripes now days is a joke.

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which group of fans did they speak to? if thats the best they can come up with they are clearly avivas belonging to a certain marketing site.

That looks OK to me.....green ,green, green.......better than Lilac or pale Blue for sure.

zyph wrote:

That looks OK to me.....green ,green, green.......better than Lilac or pale Blue for sure.

Wait till the first defeat on a dark tuesday evening at home when the fist excuse used by club and fans alike will be we are too dark and we cant see each other on the pitch....

this years kit isnt amazing but its certainly better than this offering i find.

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Yup, all dark green stopped these bheys in their tracks.

Posted this ages ago:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Tradition is pretty important to us football fans, isn't it?

From our little corner of Footballworld we passionately support our team but what is it that we are actually supporting?

Argyle, like most of the other clubs, was formed a long time ago to provide an outlet for our talented performers to display and test that talent against others. Along the way it also provided an entertainment spectacle for the locals to watch that talent get tested.

To that end various norms were adopted: team name; colours, location and so on. It is those that we have come to support.

But where are we now? The team is mainly composed of imports from elsewhere with a scant smattering of local talent. The backbone of the team is now provided by old sweats from anywhere we can get them who, on arrival at least, have the barest inkling of club history and no affinity for the city beyond it. Argyle, to them, is just a career move, another step on the ladder whereas to us it is far, far more than that.

For our part Argyle has gone through many evolutions. Owners, managers, players all come and go with few of them leaving any lasting impression. The club itself has changed the kit we wear many, many times: we've had predominantly green, predominantly white, stripes (both green & white and green & black), we've had green with whites sleeves and green with a band across the chest and that's just in my memory. Before that we had halved shirts, black with green trim, green with black trim.

Even the shade of green has shifted as we have gone along. There's what I used to refer to as Argyle green, a much brighter version hidden between black stripes, a very dark green, a lighter very dark green and various other shades too.

We've had white shorts, black shorts and green shorts; green or white socks (I don't recall any black ones but I wouldn't be surprised...). The club badge on the shirt has even been changed with incredible regularity and I've not even considered the myriad of away kit options: white, yellow, champagne (!), light blue, dark blue, orange, black... There's probably others.

If there is one thing, easily achievable, that I would like to see the club do it is settle upon the very basic things that label us as Argyle: shade of green, kit design, change colours and badge design.

There's been so much change over the years that there is no tradition in any meaningful sense to go back to so why not start again?

Argyle could easily petition its season ticket holders and the affiliated supporter groups could easily petition their members so let's settle on a shade of green - and stick to it. Let's set up a competition to design a new badge - and then stick to it. Let us settle on a kit template for both home and away kits and stick to it. Let's settle on change colours and stick with them.

It wouldn't be hard to achieve. It wouldn't cost much to find out. It would engage supporters and help us to feel that it is our club still/again*.

It would not win us a single point or score us a single goal. It would have as much effect on our future results as last month's horoscopes did but for all of that it is important because it goes to the heart of what it means to be a football club.

And after that we could set about using Argyle as a platform for more local talented players to perform on but that is much harder, but no less desirable, to achieve.

We should not ever lose sight of why Argyle was formed to start with or why we all decided to pin our colours to the club's mast. Settling once and for all on some core identifiers would be a reminder to us all of what it is all, really, about.




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Sorry for the c&p but this comes round as regular as clockwork and it is hardly worth re-typing it.

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like clockwok that guy who always seems to design alternatives pops up with an alternative to this kit lol

Angry wrote:

like clockwok that guy who always seems to design alternatives pops up with an alternative to this kit lol

He's ever so clever you know. He'll be the twerp who designed the spoof ATD website template that insulted us dear souls. How clever is that ? Must have taken all of a couple of hours. Had to be paid to do it, as well. Obviously a nice mercenary sort. Any old work to turn a penny.

I'm sure we never even had an away strip, load of consumerist crap.

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Why didnt just say some overly excited man and his friends on passoti instead of Argye groups because its bullshit to say they consulted anyone bar pasoti

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i wonder who the sponsor will be

All green strips always look crap. This is no exception.

The shirt is tasteless too. Looks like some old golfers throwaway.

Rickler wrote:

All green strips always look crap.  This is no exception.

The shirt is tasteless too.   Looks like some old golfers throwaway.

Plympton will be buying it then

I guess it's the holy grail. A strip that people will buy to wear casual like.
I've never worn a football shirt unless playing the game. I think Sir Francis lives in his.

That looks feckin awful now it's there for real and not a computer gen image.

feckin stripes can piss off

The shirt, chosen in consultation with supporters
no cnut asked my opinion

wtfs that away shirt about too whats the rainbow patch on the arms

I guess by fan groups they mean one fat controller and his followers.

No just the controller.

That kit is fookin horrendous, even the Nerds on Nooloti are very very upset!

The green shade is pretty non descript. It doesn't look as crisp as the original changed branding as seen in the photo from the promotion season.

Lord Biro wrote:

Rickler wrote:

All green strips always look crap.  This is no exception.

The shirt is tasteless too.   Looks like some old golfers throwaway.

Plympton will be buying it then

I guess it's the holy grail. A strip that people will buy to wear casual like.
I've never worn a football shirt unless playing the game. I think Sir Francis lives in his.

Enough of that, I do have some taste - I don't do football shirts. I'm not a proper fan dontchaknow.

It's all a conspiracy anyway.