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Also, hate to be the bearer of bad news but this awful conflict is going to go on for a long long time… having a minute’s silence as a one off or or we going to do this for every week of the conflict?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/21/andy-king-leicester-return-bristol-city-strange-emotional
 

Good read this…

That’s one of the biggest piss takes I have witnessed at the city store….

You’d get a lovely Sergio tachini/ Lacoste for less…

10 hours ago, Evs said:

I have bought every shirt (home, away and third) no matter how amazing, good, bad or truly shocking for as long as I can remember but this year will not buy any of them this season out of protest not that the club will care. My gripe is several fold but mainly factors around the feeling of being had over. Last season year I bought all 3 shirts at total cost of over £250 (adult, fully printed with badges) with removal of 10% season ticket discount for some crappy points scheme. Kits then only worn for matches for around half a season before new kit introduced (of questionable quality) due to poor mismanagement of player and fan stock in turn making purchased shirts redundant. Then new season starts still no season ticket discount (same crappy points scheme) and clearly buying buying poor quality gear from a cheap manufacturer no doubt with bigger margins for club. So for first time in 40 years of going to games (30 years as a season ticket holder) I will not wear an shirt. This may seam nothing to most but if club manage to f#ck someone like me off they are doing a really bad job!!!

Utterly agree with this. Massively important to some fans and the club (JL) had got it so wrong… interesting that he’s gone totally AWOL

On 09/08/2023 at 11:38, SydneyCity said:

We’ve won a title early doors!

 

Take a bow @JonLansdown ! 
At last something you’ve won!

In Montenegro… any ideas how I connect - is it on robins tv?

6 hours ago, SydneyCity said:

We’ve won a title early doors!

 

Take a bow @JonLansdown ! 
At last something you’ve won!

So we get 2 stripes- adidas light. Naff or what?

Nice. It’s between the Umbro and new balance for me. Great work. Begs the question how talentless is JL and his design goons in coming up with this seasons clusterfk of O’Neill monstrosities…

2 hours ago, Spike said:

Completely off subject but I was interested to see what our kits could look like if supplied by another company so I made some:

Adidas:
 

Errea:

 

Macron:

 

 

New Balance: 

 

 

Nike:

 

 

Puma:

 

 

Umbro:

 

9 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

 

 

Now that is a thing of beauty….

We should do something like that to represent the art of Bristol… what better representation than to design kits / training tops with graffiti on as a homage to Bristols street art scene…. Oh wait… juniors already butchered that…

11 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

Bloody genius if that works! And so much easier if it does. 

Great idea… but it doesnt permit you to do it… you have to delete the ticket from your wallet… then they put it in their wallet… seems a hassle….

Yes, I’m in the same boat. Can’t make this Saturdays game so would like to know how I forward on my season ticket for a mate…any ideas please?

5 hours ago, Bris Red said:

Just when you thought things couldn’t get anymore embarrassing 

Nope, it shows it also on the hated 3rd kit … splat robin is also disproportionate on the kids shirt…. 

what a shit show, I mean shirt show…
 

1 hour ago, BCFCGav said:

Tin hat on, how many of the people complaining about the shirt quality have actually held/worn one? I share the frustrations about the splat robin and poor communication from the club, but I won't speak on the shirt quality until I've bought one and seen for myself. I remain mildly optimistic. 

Hi pal, you’ve just got trawl through previous pages on this topic to find out about the fit and quality… 

18 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

The majority of our fans probably care. Of course, you're entitled to your opinion, but I think a stance of "who cares?" would put you in the minority. Badges and kits are important to fans of almost every club. 

This isn't purely an issue of fashion as you seem to reduce it to. To think of it this way is, IMHO, rather naive.

The badge and kit of the club is arguably the most fundamental element of the club's identity. The badge is an emblem that, for many, represents one of their greatest passions in their life - their football club. Fans get tattoos of their football team's badge. Fans buy memorabilia featuring their football team's badge.

To remove the club's badge from the front of the kit is sacrilegious. It's like removing the crucifix from a church's alter. The badge represents the city, the club, the fanbase......fans want to see it on the front of their team's football kit. The best illustration of the importance this has to football fans? Go to most clubs in the country and ask fans what their main expectation of their players is. One of the most common answers you'll get is "I want to see players playing for the badge".

It's understandably a frustration for many fans that the main visual element of the club's identity is being tampered with (without consultation), and for no other reason than the fact that the owner's son likes designing things as a hobby. The associated drop in quality and professionalism that seems to have come with Jon Lansdown's tinkering adds further insult to injury.

Yes, apart from O’Neills and their shoddy gear.. the changing of the badge without consultation is also sacrilegious … spot on post again. 
 

Junior - are you listening?

need to create  a poll on this to get a real feel of fans views…

17 minutes ago, BasSavage88 said:

Clubs especially bristol city want their brand/kits to be seen as iconic and fashionable and have worked hard the last few years with hummel to ensure the kits and brand were just that. 

The reason people are rightly pissed off is they have thrown that out of the window by picking an uncool brand who have uncool designs and then on top of that the quality is shoddy and poor with new random logos all over the place.

Spot. On.

Just to think someone earlier on in this thread thought that O’Neills were the surfing manufacturer.. if only that were the case… what we have is an uncool brand, as the poster says, worn by a niche  sports league (the GAA) a few random lower league scots team, non-league outfits also Wycombe who were only too pleased to get rid of them … chosen by that leading fashionista, junior lansdown (see Bristol sport leisure wear for further evidence of his crimes)

TINPOT …. Remove him from any future design input.

12 minutes ago, handsofclay said:

I think you'll find that football in 1970 has changed little compared to football today. Still 22 players on the pitch kicking the same size football towards the same size goal with both teams wearing different colours to differentiate themselves officiated by a person in the middle assisted by two running either line. 

I fail to perceive what's rose tinted about my experience of watching football back then to watching football today. Basically, the colour and style of kit Bristol City wear to differentiate themselves from their opponents I got 100% behind back then as I do today. I had the Bristol City 1970 kit back then as I have the Bristol City shirt of 2023 today and was/am equally proud to wear both. So where the heck does having a rose tinted experience come into this? I experienced and experience the same thing now as I did then and find it condescending that you should belittle my experience.

 

Erm, football hasn’t changed much since the 70’s??…. Well, brand, material, fit that’s changed? I’d love to buy the heavy cotton shirts and sew my own badge on… but like i say, the worlds moved on. Oh, and football in the 70’s no thanks. Don’t want to go back to those days, rose tinted or not.

10 hours ago, handsofclay said:

Sorry but I have to say this:

Who cares what the #### we wear. I couldn't give a toss if we are sporting red g strings with a badge featuring a constipated robin trying and failing to have a bowel movement as long as we win 4-0 at Leicester.

I couldn't give a toss if we are wearing a washed out yellow shirt with a splat robin with vibrant yellow socks that don't match as long as we beat Southampton at St Mary's six bloody nil. 

Christ, I cannot imagine if social media existed in 1909 and Bristol City displayed their choice of BLUE change kit for the FA CUP FINAL that Edwardian City fans (several just a handful of years from meeting their deaths in the trenches) would've been up in arms about this choice of colour and threatening not to attend at the Crystal Palace to cheer on the lads and casting aspersions at the director they considered responsible.

Jeez, get a life. We are Bristol City. We are a football club. We are not a bunch of Mary Quants. 

Erm… the world has moved on pal since your rose tinted experience… Jesus. 

5 hours ago, BasSavage88 said:

The imbecile is Jon Lansdown a man should be nowhere near anything let alone anything commercial.

Even that shitty production company Fever Pitch seems to be putting out the same shite every new video/photo session. 

 

Beautifully put.

Where is the self appointed creative genius? …. hoping hes back home in Bermuda… and where’s that triangle so he can dissapear into it….

3 minutes ago, Street red said:

Yep it's awful compared to what's hes used to wearing Derby county's umbro shirts and training wear is far in front of this. Oh What a signing! 

Get rid of that shitty shirt please!!!!

Just to remind everyone….

jon lansdown is a creative genius.

I think it’s around this time of year where fourfourtwo magazine publish best and worst kits in the league… we’ve got to be in with a shout for the worst for our 3rd kit?

The training top is truly dogshite. You see in the 1st day back videos, the neck on them is gone already.. which equates to them being poorly made. Also, is it me or are the badges of different sizes on the adult / youth home shirts?