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Mild Rover wrote: Away kit - something like this is one rumour...
Pale blue doesn't do it for me. We had a very pale blue hooped one a couple of years ago, which I really like (looks great on me, obviously), but was a bit incongruous on the likes of Sam Moa and made the players look a bit, well, fairy-like and unthreatening. Look at Mason in this picture. He looks like his bunions are hurting he wants a sit down with a cup of Yorkshire Gold and slice of parkin to watch a repeat of A Place in the Sun : Home or Away? Not "grrrr" enough for me, I'm afraid.
Why have Rovers not done a proper retro shirt since their return to SL, a proper broad red band on a white background? Madness.
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12664 Location: Leicestershire.
Mrs Barista wrote:I got there first.
Yes you did - good choice btw.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12664 Location: Leicestershire.
Mrs Barista wrote:Pale blue doesn't do it for me. We had a very pale blue hooped one a couple of years ago, which I really like (looks great on me, obviously), but was a bit incongruous on the likes of Sam Moa and made the players look a bit, well, fairy-like and unthreatening. Look at Mason in this picture. He looks like his bunions are hurting he wants a sit down with a cup of Yorkshire Gold and slice of parkin to watch a repeat of A Place in the Sun : Home or Away? Not "grrrr" enough for me, I'm afraid.
Mrs Barista wrote:Why have Rovers not done a proper retro shirt since their return to SL, a proper broad red band on a white background? Madness.
2008 was pretty traditional. 2006-2008 were all (attempts at) a traditional / classic look. 2009 was a variation that grew on me. 2010 was new and never quite did it for me - a white hoop or vee would have been good, but what was it - a voop?
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29811 Location: West Yorkshire
Mild Rover wrote::lol:
2008 was pretty traditional. 2006-2008 were all (attempts at) a traditional / classic look. 2009 was a variation that grew on me. 2010 was new and never quite did it for me - a white hoop or vee would have been good, but what was it - a voop?
2010 was hideous. I cannot think of a single redeeming feature of it. I mean just a plain, broad red band. No swooshy red shoulder/side things so it looks like H. Not a thin band, a broad one. Just one, broad, red band, on a plain white background. Nowt else. How difficult can that brief to a supplier be?
Would have said more Wilson than Godfrey. Mild, not bland.
Joined: Sep 23 2003 Posts: 14306 Location: East Hull
Mrs Barista wrote:2010 was hideous. I cannot think of a single redeeming feature of it. I mean just a plain, broad red band. No swooshy red shoulder/side things so it looks like H. Not a thin band, a broad one. Just one, broad, red band, on a plain white background. Nowt else. How difficult can that brief to a supplier be?
Would have said more Wilson than Godfrey. Mild, not bland.
Sure you've got the correct shirt. I liked our 2010 home shirt but the away shirt for me was the highlight simply the best Rovers shirt for many many years.
"They supercede individuals, they supercede the team and they supercede the club. Our club is a traditional, working class club and the supporters are loyal and passionate and to see them go away happy really makes my day." Craig Sandercock.
Joined: Sep 23 2003 Posts: 14306 Location: East Hull
Found a half decent snap of the away shirt
"They supercede individuals, they supercede the team and they supercede the club. Our club is a traditional, working class club and the supporters are loyal and passionate and to see them go away happy really makes my day." Craig Sandercock.
Joined: Mar 11 2007 Posts: 5659 Location: Next to Ramsgate Sands c.1850 in West Hull
Mrs Barista wrote:2010 was hideous. I cannot think of a single redeeming feature of it. I mean just a plain, broad red band. No swooshy red shoulder/side things so it looks like H. Not a thin band, a broad one. Just one, broad, red band, on a plain white background. Nowt else. How difficult can that brief to a supplier be?
It's a bit like getting Hull to submit 4 or 5 bands of black irregular hoops ( ie all the way round - not bars with an irritatingly disruptive stripe down the side) on a white background, similar on the arms, with no purple, grey or gold "Eternal Beau"-y type bits stuck on, to ISC.
Seemingly impossible. (Or at least, once in a pale blue moon.)
Of course, the year both teams get their traditional heads to coincide should be the year we meet in the Grand Final.
Philip Larkin wrote:
There ain’t no music East side of this city That’s mellow like mine is, That’s mellow like mine.
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