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2 hours ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

It's not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Motherwell strip.

It's like we are going to have to watch a different team for all of next season - but not in a good way.

Honestly it's terrible and it gets even worse when you see the shorts and socks.

1913 - 24 comes close

https://web.archive.org/web/20230110211838im_/http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Motherwell/images/motherwell_1913-1924-a.gif

Not my favourite, but doesn't even enter my top 5 of worst kits (or top 10 if we include away kits).

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1 hour ago, weeyin said:

1913 - 24 comes close

https://web.archive.org/web/20230110211838im_/http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Motherwell/images/motherwell_1913-1924-a.gif

Not my favourite, but doesn't even enter my top 5 of worst kits (or top 10 if we include away kits).

It’s been a grim football week so to lighten things, G’on then Wee Yin (and anyone else for that matter), which ones are in your top 5 or 10 all time worst?

I love how football shirts and opinions around them can be so polarised and emotive. For example, I could never understand all the hate for the 22/23 hatred, I loved it.

This new one is going to have to do a lot of growing before I can be tempted to say it’s anything other than god awful.

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29 minutes ago, Gadgey said:

It’s been a grim football week so to lighten things, G’on then Wee Yin (and anyone else for that matter), which ones are in your top 5 or 10 all time worst?

Although some of my favourite players wore the jersey, the yellow Admiral effort with yellow shorts is in there. It was a lot more yellow than the picture suggests and barely a nod to our traditional colours.

motherwell 1976

Never liked the JAAX Bukta version

motherwell_2008-2010-b.gif

Maybe more controversial, I wasn't a fan of our Unotuchables

motherwell_2002-2004-fghk.gif

 

And our esteemed leader's Zoom dragged this one into the gutter.

motherwell 2004

But Number One in my list is the jester effort

motherwell 1996

I'm not a fan of fluorescent colours or black on away shirts, so without further comment

motherwell fc change kit

motherwell 1999-2000 change kit

motherwell fc 2992-94 change kit

motherwell fc change kit 2017-18

 

and, my least favourite of all shirts:

motherwell change kit 1997-98

 

As much as I disliked the yellow Admiral one at the top of the post, they also made one of my favourite away kits - so swings and roundabouts.

motherwell fc change kit 1976-77

 

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18 hours ago, Pettywulliegrew-2 said:

anybody bursting to be in the “focus groups??

 

 

Can bet I’ll be attending everything next season and I’ll have some comments regards to our kits and how we need to stop fanning about every other year. Just do one home kit lasts two seasons in our traditional colours and change the collar/trim or whatever every couple years.

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7 minutes ago, Throughthelaces said:

Can bet I’ll be attending everything next season and I’ll have some comments regards to our kits and how we need to stop fanning about every other year. Just do one home kit lasts two seasons in our traditional colours and change the collar/trim or whatever every couple years.

It's not an unreasonable point and one I'd be on board with. What if, however, the Well Society tells you that changing the design every year generates enough income to pay the salary of one player that season? Would it still be worth it?

 

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28 minutes ago, weeyin said:

It's not an unreasonable point and one I'd be on board with. What if, however, the Well Society tells you that changing the design every year generates enough income to pay the salary of one player that season? Would it still be worth it?

 

As long as that player is not Ollie shaw.🤣

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59 minutes ago, weeyin said:

 What if, however, the Well Society tells you that changing the design every year generates enough income to pay the salary of one player that season? Would it still be worth it?

The Society shouldn't be involved in such decisions. Leave that to the club.🤣

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Perhaps the Club and the Society forming a joint project team to look at future strip design could help build a better relationship between the two. Having discussed possibilities with manufacturers, present the final three options and let the folk who will be paying for the new shirt have the final say. Club, WS and fanbase uniting! Now, there's a novelty. 

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1 hour ago, dennyc said:

Perhaps the Club and the Society forming a joint project team to look at future strip design could help build a better relationship between the two. Having discussed possibilities with manufacturers, present the final three options and let the folk who will be paying for the new shirt have the final say. Club, WS and fanbase uniting! Now, there's a novelty. 

Great idea. One thing that does concern me more than anything just now is a split in our support due to the current investment situation. Most online posts are reasonable, but there are few which are adversarial in tone. Above all else we need to show a united front on the footballing side and get right behind the team, from the off, as in Saturday 6th.   

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6 hours ago, Throughthelaces said:

Can bet I’ll be attending everything next season and I’ll have some comments regards to our kits and how we need to stop fanning about every other year. Just do one home kit lasts two seasons in our traditional colours and change the collar/trim or whatever every couple years.

I’m sure I made that very point on this thread last year about us keeping the same kit for two seasons, something that hasn’t happened for us since we had the Puma kit of 2011 to 2013 (Michael Higdon’s time to be precise).

I know that it’s not just us that change every year nowadays, indeed I think every club does it but do we really need to? Perhaps we do because of the revenue it generates for the club that we couldn’t afford to miss out on and if so, fair enough, I accept that. Maybe it’s a contractual agreement between the club and the manufacturer and again if that’s the case, fair enough. It’s certainly worth asking the question though. 

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Given the wide ranging opinions on every design, every season, I don't think fan input or votes will have much impact on the wider set of supporters.

I'd expect similar proportion of love/hate/ok for one that was voted-in.

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1 minute ago, weeyin said:

Given the wide ranging opinions on every design, every season, I don't think fan input or votes will have much impact on the wider set of supporters.

You may well be right about that but it’s clearly something that divides the support every year, be that traditional/a wee bit different/completely out the box or the old white shorts/claret shorts/amber shorts debate. It would be interesting though to get a better idea of the general view of the fanbase as to what our kit should be like. 

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4 minutes ago, MJC said:

I’m sure I made that very point on this thread last year about us keeping the same kit for two seasons, something that hasn’t happened for us since we had the Puma kit of 2011 to 2013 (Michael Higdon’s time to be precise).

I know that it’s not just us that change every year nowadays, indeed I think every club does it but do we really need to? Perhaps we do because of the revenue it generates for the club that we couldn’t afford to miss out on and if so, fair enough, I accept that. Maybe it’s a contractual agreement between the club and the manufacturer and again if that’s the case, fair enough. It’s certainly worth asking the question though. 

I can't remember which club hasn't changed their kit - maybe not a Scottish one but I saw something on twitter not that long ago about a club, definitely UK based keeping their strip for two seasons because they were concerned fans might not be able to afford to buy 

My brother buys me Motherwell merch at Christmas or I get it on sale. Otherwise I'd be struggling to buy it. I'm personally also happy to wear tops from years gone by as I bet loads of people are.. 

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3 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

I can't remember which club hasn't changed their kit - maybe not a Scottish one but I saw something on twitter not that long ago about a club, definitely UK based keeping their strip for two seasons because they were concerned fans might not be able to afford to buy 

My brother buys me Motherwell merch at Christmas or I get it on sale. Otherwise I'd be struggling to buy it. I'm personally also happy to wear tops from years gone by as I bet loads of people are.. 

Queen's Park are keeping the same home kit as what they used last season.

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18 hours ago, weeyin said:

Although some of my favourite players wore the jersey, the yellow Admiral effort with yellow shorts is in there. It was a lot more yellow than the picture suggests and barely a nod to our traditional colours.

motherwell 1976

Never liked the JAAX Bukta version

motherwell_2008-2010-b.gif

Maybe more controversial, I wasn't a fan of our Unotuchables

motherwell_2002-2004-fghk.gif

 

And our esteemed leader's Zoom dragged this one into the gutter.

motherwell 2004

But Number One in my list is the jester effort

motherwell 1996

I'm not a fan of fluorescent colours or black on away shirts, so without further comment

motherwell fc change kit

motherwell 1999-2000 change kit

motherwell fc 2992-94 change kit

motherwell fc change kit 2017-18

 

and, my least favourite of all shirts:

motherwell change kit 1997-98

 

As much as I disliked the yellow Admiral one at the top of the post, they also made one of my favourite away kits - so swings and roundabouts.

motherwell fc change kit 1976-77

 

I also think the admiral away kit with or without claret shorts is a classic kit 

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58 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

I saw something on twitter not that long ago about a club, definitely UK based keeping their strip for two seasons because they were concerned fans might not be able to afford to buy

That’s something that you’d maybe expect us to do in today’s climate with the cost of living and us making a bigger effort to engage with the support and the town in general. It might not be financially viable for us as I said but asking people to fork out £45/£50 and upwards every season for a new kit is a big ask. 

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