It's 150 years since Leeds St Johns was founded, 1870 being the date the club had taken to putting as the establishment year on the vintage range - except for this shirt where they have gone back to the, wholly inaccurate, "est'd 1895" marker.

So there is a totally legitimate, club-supported 150th anniversary this year but they've chosen instead to celebrate the ground's 130th? Headingley is unique and important to both Leeds and the sport but it just seems totally random to choose this when there was an easier thing to select instead.

A genuine heritage design would not have been hard either. The club played in purely white at some stage, which could have produced a nice shirt.

It’s a very good point about the 150th anniversary

If you look at how Leeds United celebrated their anniversary, we could have really gone to town and celebrated this historic moment

Yep the established 1895 frustrated me too. Simply because it’s wrong.

Nothing wrong with celebrating 130 years of Headingley but maybe produce a dvd/downloadable video of a documentary on the ground. I’d buy that.

Or even the shirt done properly. It just seems all so disjointed.

It doesn't even say what it's made of. Could be cotton or not?

Standard sublimated affair I think

a minute in photoshop at least makes it kind of relevant to our actual history

I'm still a bit dumbfounded the stripes design got signed off by someone.

When will the Rob Burrow shirt be sent? Never mind this one.

That's a far better shirt IMO

They did say end of May/Start of June

However Covid has happened....

It's not even a good try GH looking around for obscure dates to celebrate it and bring out a shirt to make a bit of slippy cash

Making cash is fine with me but choosing an obscure date instead of the 150th anniversary of the foundation club and the laziness/sloppiness of the design is just poor commercial decision making - and I think that probably ends up ultimately at Rob Oates' door.

I know you can't have blue and amber irregular hoops every shirt, but a club truly in tune with its fanbase and its history would know what works and what doesn't. And wouldn't try and create a heritage event whilst forgetting about a genuine anniversary and simultaneously trying to shift a heritage shirt which has no element of heritage to it. Give half the people on this messageboard ten minutes to sensibly feed back opinion on any of the above and they'd get a better steer of what would work than seems to have been the case here.

Spot on.

I’ve absolutely no issue with not using traditional designs for kits every year, but on a heritage shirt it has to be a must surely?

The irony is it would have probably been a big seller if done properly, im not sure who thought a parramatta shirt was representitive of our history

Spot on.

I’ve absolutely no issue with not using traditional designs for kits every year, but on a heritage shirt it has to be a must surely?

The irony is it would have probably been a big seller if done properly, im not sure who thought a parramatta shirt was representitive of our history