Each year the release of the new kit attracts comments both for and against. The 'lemon peel' shirt of two years ago came in for a lot of criticism from some quarters, yet ended up as our biggest selling away shirt ever. Last years 'star trek' shirt was also not universally liked, yet sold very well, particularly taking into account what a poor season we had and the difficult financial times we all had to face.
As part of our kit deal with Adidas our choices are restricted to the available templates. We also have to order up to a year in advance, to make sure kit is available in the right quantities. So this year's kit was indeed chosen quite some time ago.
Since then, we have set up the Fans Parliament, and embarked on a policy of wider fan engagement and consultation. This means that in future, decisions on kit will be taken in a much more inclusive way.
This is the last year of our current deal with Adidas, which gives us an ideal opportunity to make sure that in the future we get as many supporters as possible involved in how a new kit might look.
We've already started having internal conversations about this. We'll be coming back to fans in the autumn with some proposals for discussion which we hope will address a lot of the issues raised in this and other threads.
In the meantime, if you like the new kit, we very much hope you buy it. If you don't, then of course you have the choice not to.
Anything from adidas would sell. Kevin Smith a few others have templates not a template each season. You choose to not allow fans to see those designs. You choose not to a year In advance. How do yo choose them? Given poll here what feedback is if you took from fans? What's fans did you consult? exactly the same things were said a year ago and you chose adopt the same if don't like it tough shit attitude.
You started a thread on the gulf between fans a and club. loads of responses Your shirt is that gap. On another site the mods and admin and posters are noting city are still not answering emails.some fans clearly have no faith in this vision off the park.
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Anything from adidas would sell. Kevin Smith a few others have templates not a template each season. You choose to not allow fans to see those designs. You choose not to a year In advance. How do yo choose them? Given poll here what feedback is if you took from fans? What's fans did you consult? exactly the same things were said a year ago and you chose adopt the same if don't like it tough shit attitude.
You started a thread on the gulf between fans a and club. loads of responses Your shirt is that gap. On another site the mods and admin and posters are noting city are still not answering emails.some fans clearly have no faith in this vision off the park.