Cant belive that the rep kit ISNT the same as the 1st team kit (unless ur 18 months or younger!!) what is goin on at the club!! Went 2 the club shop on Saturday 2 find that the rep top is made from this years away kit material has a yellow collar & a button v neck!! NOTHIN like the hype & build up 2 the 2011 seasons top + the increase in season tickets when most other super league clubs have offers PLEASE wire DONT jump on the wembley train & rip ur loyal & BEST fans in super league off!!!

This is my point entirely - went to get a mate one for his birthday but decided against it. And today in town so a young lad wearing one and it looked like a rag

Really furious - why can't the club get this right?????

So furious in fact that I have just sent Andy Gatcliffe an email

you can buy the ones the players wear, but they are more expensive, the ones that are designed for the fans are exactly that, cheaper than the players edition, and a better fit for the larger gentleman(and woman)! the reason the club do it is because the best thing for the players is to wear a skin tight shirt, where as most fans dont want that.

stop complaining, your able to buy the shirt the players wear should you want to, its not like theyre not available.

also, there are many other topics on this so far, with the same complaints as yours, and if you had read them you would have seen the answers ive given before!

what crap are you spouting? Is it impossible to design a shirt that looks like the players shirt but isnt skin tight - Use your loaf

wow, such a dignified response!

take two of these

the shirt does look like the players version, just has a thicker collar, just like all of isc's shirts this year. check the hull forums, they dont mind!

there there -

nothing like it - colours are paler, collar back is different - poorer quality and all for £45 of your British pounds

Do me a favour
Look forward to seeing you in your rag

Don't buy one, simple, i'm not.
Get something from the training range.

dont you sare spout such sense yed!

I have always said this I will buy anything as long as it has the badge on it.
Probably why I have wasted too much money in the club shop

I accept that the replica shirt the club are selling looks different to the ones the players wear. That's obvious. However the one on sale is hardly a 'rag'. If you can hold back the vomit inducing dissappointment of it not looking exactly the same as the players' version, you'll see the quality really is rather good. They've got the away one in the shop as well, assuming that is a replica, then that certainly copies the players' version more closely.

I don't understand how fans are being 'ripped off'. Again, I think it is ever so slightly misleading to have a picture of Clarke in the players' version in the pre-order section. However, you would be able to return it on receipt if you didn't like it. Also, as we live in the United Kingdom, you do also have the ability to rely on something I like to call 'choice'. I was watching Gok Wan's fashion fix yesterday. This bird on there picked up a bright blue Alexander McQueen shirt. £450 apparently. Madness. I have come up with a very clever way to avoid feeling 'ripped off'. I'm not going to buy one.

Oh, and if anyone wants a sneak preview of the training gear, check out the Saints website, it's all on there. Just imagine the crap colours replaced with glorious Primrose and Blue and the Saints GCSE Homework Club Crest replaced with our magnificent wolf emblem.

I have bought the home shirt and was happy with it, would have preferred the same style as players but as mentioned I wil buy anything with the wire badge on and wear it proudly

BUT after the first wash the blue has made the yellow go almost a lime greeny colour, and it was washed correctly! Has anyone else had this problem? I am going to take it back but was wondering if it wa common...

The common denominator with this and last years problems with the kits is ISC isn't it? Last years quality was garbage compared to Canterbury of previous years. The club did the right thing and exchanged any that were returned but it's pretty obvious to me that ISC can't produce a decent shirt at a cost that would allow them and the club to make a reasonable profit. The club have to take some of the blame again but the answer is ditch this manufacturer when their contract comes up. The fans aren't happy with what they're being offered and that should be taken seriously by Mr Gatcliffe and co.
It'll be interesting to see what Saints fans think of their gear for next year seeing they too will be clad in ISC outfits.