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Is it OK that I actually quite like that? Bit 70s like, but retro is cool now, apparently.

Vienetta anyone?

The orange and brown rumour should never be believed



Club already gave a sneak peek of some new leisurewear items for 2015. Same colour scheme of navy, ocean blue and white is in use. Expect it to be like the use of pink, 3 seasons of it until a new colour scheme arrives.

Is it?

I've never seen anything in the shop other than Rhinos or Carnegie stuff plus the odd NRL shirt.

They had the NRL Marvel shirts as well, which I think were ISC?

There were some horrid superhero kukri ones on a certain rugby suppliers website. Anyone seen them bad boys. Eyewateringly bad.

I wonder how that will suit JJB during the modelling shoot if it does end up being the kit? Moreover, I wonder what the reaction will be on here?

I'm assuming we are sticking with the white and turquoise style for the away shirt then this year going by the training kit that's been released

The whole kit thing is getting silly these days.

Teams are producing three shirts in most cases (home, away and testimonial/charity), which change every year. I can understand why annual change might be needed if you're changing title sponsor or kit manufacturer, but otherwise it's just an exercise in milking those who think they "have" to have the latest kit to stand on the terraces in.

If clubs made kits last two years for example, might more fans be tempted to actually buy the new shirts when they come out knowing they won't be out of date 12 months later?

I sense your just a tight wad who's stuck in the 80's.

New season new kit, everyone looks forward to that?

I reckon they should have it so both home and away shirts last two years but stagger the change so one year its a new home shirt the following year new away shirt.

I buy a replica shirt or polo shirt if I like the design & the colour(s).
In some years I've bought the home shirt, in others I've bought the away shirt & occasionally bought both with the odd testimonial shirt thrown in if I like the player & the shirt.
In other years I've not bought any.
It's a (relatively) free world & I exercise choice.
But I do look forward to the kit launches just to see what they look like.
I don't care what anybody else does, that's up to them.

I like annual kit launches. I might buy a shirt, I might not (and I probably wear them more now I'm pretty much guaranteed to be the only person in town who has one so I don't feel like such a sheep!). But either way, it gives us something to talk about.

A lot of objections flow from people being unable to say no to their kids. Which would only manifest itself somewhere else if it wasn't over rugby shirts. It's relatively easy not to buy one if you don't want to.