I've designed a few kits over the years and cycling through kits on a template is never a good idea. You easily end up with too many without much thought about what you're actually designing.

The online templates/kit makers don't look the best either. The first ever kit I designed was for a football team - coincidently were also playing in yellow blue - and they asked for a few ideas. I came back to them a week later with around 100 different sketches. It was just too much and although we did whittle it down to a decent kit in the end, I learnt a valuable lesson in design.

The thing that ends up spoiling kits more than anything though is the number of sponsors we have on our shirts. You're never going to get that 'classic kit' feel with them.

If anyone on here has ever worn a predominantly yellow top they will probably be aware of the downside. They attract all manner of flying insects. That's why fly paper is yellow, it's not a good colour for a rugby top.

i thought fly paper was brown? admittedly i've never bought it so going off memories from the 80s

Must say that the quality and feel of a recent shirts are inferior to the "Omega" sponsored ones made Puma and Canterbury. Don't like the ISC manufactured ones and have never bought one.
I'm also unimpressed with the current badge, as the inspiration for it seems to come from the 1980's Thundercats cartoon characters.

Does anyone know how much they paid for the new badge and rebrand?

I think I'd rather not know in the interest of my BP!