Wedontplayinblue

The china kits don’t have proper badges unfortunately, not for the city kits. They are basically printed onto fabric and sewed onto the kit. Other than that they would easily be on par.

Can 100% tell you I’m not gas, and it’s pretty daft to say that. My signals a bit bad so I can’t upload a snippet of my digital season ticket but when I have better signal I’ll upload it. We played in blue in 1909, as a one off kit, the same as Wembley in 2000 and the odd blue in other kits but not historically a colour of ours. People seem to be blind to what is going on.

Of course it is, there’s literally been a handful of times we have played in blue. The change of badge a few years back, now the use of a generic image from a Robin, then moving to a blue away kit where absolutely no one would associate blue with city. If you asked people who were interested in football, what team in Bristol wears blue, how many are going to say city? It happened with rugby years ago with the introduction of the red away kit, now it’s the opposite for the football club. If we have a blue away kit now, it won’t be a one off. Look at the rugby club with red on their shirts, something that historically isn’t their colours. In short, why are we using colours that have nothing to do with us, the colours of our rivals (regardless if people think they are pointless now) and using a badge/emblem that no one at all likes when we only changed a few years back.

Which is what my point was regarding the supporters trust, surely this is getting beyond an image just being used now and then, visually it’s everywhere compared to our actual badge. Along with the upcoming blue away kit, it really does show the lack of understanding with the majority of fans. Even take for example, the clubs post over yesterdays event, ended in “youuuu reds” yet all the players were plastered in blue, no red on any players at all.

I thought they had to do a programme, it just didn’t have to be printed anymore?

Well that’s 10 just signed up…..

Find it amusing if you want phantom but it’s obvious what will happen.

That is the problem, the position of the club quite frankly not caring as it’s within the rules and the MOU signed. It doesn’t mean it’s right.

The splat robins is the third kit, it’s been released for months now. Im talking about the blue away kit that will be released.

Can we still win 4-0 though? That then means splat Robin everyone will be happy with.

You really haven’t proved much with that though Rob, you don’t associate white with being the colours of our rivals do you? Sorry, it looks like I missed the 99-00 third kit being blue. So in our long history, we have had two kits for a season which had blue, plus 2 one off kits. Again, it’s not our history .

The amount of blue that has been pushed in the training gear, quite openly, how late the away kit is being released. They are doing it so people get used to seeing blue, then release it late enough so it’s a “oh, what you mean you don’t like it, we thought it was nice, we know for next year” plus the hope that we win the first away game 4-0 and no one cares. give or take a few days with the date 18/19 released jun 25th 19/20 released July 2nd 20/21 away kit released 20th august 22/23 released July 14th

Rob, let’s not be silly here, We played one game 114 years ago, plus a Wembley one off kit and then the champagne gold with light blue piping, have I missed any others? I’ve already stated that, but you cannot use that as an excuse to have a blue away kit, something that has never been done before (bar a one off kit). Our main rivals play in blue, Bristol City do not play in blue.

Indeed it is, The third image if you search “Robin in flight”

History in more details? FA Cup Final in 1909 which was really before rovers adopted blue, they had a light blue and white hoop for a few years in the 1900. Other than that, Wembley , the champagne gold with blue piping? The only really blue kit is the FA Cup final one. 114 year anniversary blue away kit to celebrate our FA Cup Final. Blue is not ingrained in our history, it never has been. The supporters trust website states “find out more about our work representing fans” It’s pretty clear that the vast majority of fans wouldn’t want a splat Robin, nor a blue kit, the pressure has to come from somewhere.

We don’t play in blue though, it’s not part of our history, our rivals play in blue, if we sport a blue away kit it just proves more to the point that we are a very rich persons play thing. The view of the trust was stated before in this thread that it has already been done so there isn’t anything that can be done, there is, there could be pressure put on the club, statements etc. I don’t mean this in an at all nasty way, but reading the minutes of the trust, what are they actively doing for fans? If you take man united supporters trust for example, they still actively put a lot of statements out. Reading the minutes and there just isn’t anything of real impact there.

As there hasn’t been any public reaction from the Supporters Trust regarding the new Robin on the third kit, bar as I said “it’s already done” If/When the away kit is blue, is there going to be a public statement from the supporters trust? Regardless if the club is consulting anyone, as in my eyes that’s treating the fans with even more contempt. If that is the POV of the trust, that their hands are tied and there is no point is engaging/releasing statements, then what is the point of the supporters trust or any fans movement? There should of been backlash regarding the Robin, there HAS to be backlash if the away kit is blue. Or do we just sit here going “well we have a nice stadium, arnt we lucky”

From reading the above and the Supporters Trust view of “it’s been done, we can’t do much” What is the reaction going to be from the supporters trust when the away kit is released, which I fully believe is going to be blue? As per my name, we simply do not play in blue, the last few years we would have had a new badge (which I actually like), to the tracing of a free image on Google (search Robin in flight), to now I fully believe playing in blue? This isn’t knocking the supporters trust at all as I fully understand how closed the club is, but surely there should be something ready to go the instant a blue away kit is released.