NUFC kits & merchandise

[Kid Icarus]

20 minutes ago, wormy said:

What was the general consensus on that '97 home shirt at the time? All these comments have me wondering if I just made up the reaction I thought it got. I liked it but had it in my head that it got consistently shit on for the centralising of the crest and Adidas logo and the shield being a bit OTT. I was like 8 years old and the other end of the country though.

 

I remember a lot of people thinking that the shield looked shit and was an obvious trick to get people to spend more on a name and number. 

[midds]

Plus the itchy collar issue

[TBG]

Adidas were called lazy for using black and white iirc. 

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

17 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

I remember a lot of people thinking that the shield looked shit and was an obvious trick to get people to spend more on a name and number. 

 

Definitely my recollection of the chat at the time too as it did look shit without at least a number

[HaydnNUFC]

It's an iconic kit but I've never liked central crests for some reason.

[gdm]

1 hour ago, wormy said:

What was the general consensus on that '97 home shirt at the time? All these comments have me wondering if I just made up the reaction I thought it got. I liked it but had it in my head that it got consistently shit on for the centralising of the crest and Adidas logo and the shield being a bit OTT. I was like 8 years old and the other end of the country though.

yeah don’t think it got a great reaction especially as it was following on from the 95 shirt 

[Lush Vlad]

Itchy collar. Shield on the back meaning you kind of needed a name and number or it looked odd. I had it. But was never a big fan. 
 

I liked the away kit that got panned that year. Was that the one we never won in? Blue, green and orange. 

[midds]

And it clicked if you as much as looked at it the wrong way

[Fak]

3 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

Itchy collar. Shield on the back meaning you kind of needed a name and number or it looked odd. I had it. But was never a big fan. 
 

I liked the away kit that got panned that year. Was that the one we never won in? Blue, green and orange. 

 

The away goalkeeper top was my favourite GK shirt we've had too.

 

[ramirez]

6 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

Itchy collar. Shield on the back meaning you kind of needed a name and number or it looked odd. I had it. But was never a big fan. 
 

I liked the away kit that got panned that year. Was that the one we never won in? Blue, green and orange. 

Yeah never won in the away, I think it looks better when seen now, probably helped as not paired with green shorts.  

[Kanji]

2 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

The collar is almost identical to the 95-96 shirt.

 

 

And it did have a variant with black shorts and black socks.

 

this is the perfect kit from adidas in modern times. There’s no random paneling template nonsense either. Properly great shirt. 

[ramirez]

15 minutes ago, Kanji said:

this is the perfect kit from adidas in modern times. There’s no random paneling template nonsense either. Properly great shirt. 

annoyingly on the juve shirts now the copa patch doesn't seem to come with it, as I was after the third.

[Yorkie]

I got the full 97-99 kit for Christmas. Shorts were shiny and like a two-tone stripe iirc. It was an epic kit tbf, not among the very best, but still special. 

[HaydnNUFC]

38 minutes ago, Kanji said:

this is the perfect kit from adidas in modern times. There’s no random paneling template nonsense either. Properly great shirt. 

 

Adidas just need to remake that for us. Its perfect.