I say this nearly every year. The club has, as a result of decisions taken a century or more ago, a genuine design classic in it's possession. Claret and gold hoops. It's a superb shirt, completely unlike every other shirt, not just in the game but in pretty much all sport.

There's no reason whatsoever to significantly change the home shirt. Play around with the away strip as much as you want, but the home shirt should be sacrosanct.

Worth looking at this link

www.historicalkits.co.uk/Hudders ... d_Town.htm

You'll see that, since the First World War Town have varied from blue and white vertical stripes in only four seasons. They've still varied the design - sometimes it's awful (1987 Greenalls) and sometimes it's been so good I've been tempted to buy one myself (1995 Panasonic) but it's always blue and white vertical stripes.

Football gets this right. Every single Liverpool strip since the mid-60s has been red shirts, red shorts, red socks. Every single Arsenal shirt in 80 years, bar the last season at Highbury, has been a variant of red with white sleeves. Newcastle Utd have played in black and white vertical stripes every season since 1894.

The shirt is the single most important visual signature that the club has, the thing that gets shown on live TV for hours every year, the thing that gets on clips on the news. It ought to be the case that everyone interested in sport in this country sees a claret and gold hooped shirt and instantly thinks "aha - Huddersfield Giants rugby league". But every year we get this mess and people who see the shirt will probably think "non-league football club, like Bicester Town or something"

It's a design classic. For God's sake treat it with the respect it deserves.


If it was up to me I'd tell the RFL that we wear claret and gold hoops home and away and they can like it or lump it. The only exception would be the day that Brisbane come to town, when as a courtesy to our visitors we'd wear white.



And just for fun, the only really comparable shirts I'm aware of in the UK are Underbank and, a bit obscurely, St Edmund's Hall RUFC in Oxford.

I say this nearly every year. The club has, as a result of decisions taken a century or more ago, a genuine design classic in it's possession. Claret and gold hoops. It's a superb shirt, completely unlike every other shirt, not just in the game but in pretty much all sport.

There's no reason whatsoever to significantly change the home shirt. Play around with the away strip as much as you want, but the home shirt should be sacrosanct.

Worth looking at this link

www.historicalkits.co.uk/Hudders ... d_Town.htm

You'll see that, since the First World War Town have varied from blue and white vertical stripes in only four seasons. They've still varied the design - sometimes it's awful (1987 Greenalls) and sometimes it's been so good I've been tempted to buy one myself (1995 Panasonic) but it's always blue and white vertical stripes.

Football gets this right. Every single Liverpool strip since the mid-60s has been red shirts, red shorts, red socks. Every single Arsenal shirt in 80 years, bar the last season at Highbury, has been a variant of red with white sleeves. Newcastle Utd have played in black and white vertical stripes every season since 1894.

The shirt is the single most important visual signature that the club has, the thing that gets shown on live TV for hours every year, the thing that gets on clips on the news. It ought to be the case that everyone interested in sport in this country sees a claret and gold hooped shirt and instantly thinks "aha - Huddersfield Giants rugby league". But every year we get this mess and people who see the shirt will probably think "non-league football club, like Bicester Town or something"

It's a design classic. For God's sake treat it with the respect it deserves.


If it was up to me I'd tell the RFL that we wear claret and gold hoops home and away and they can like it or lump it. The only exception would be the day that Brisbane come to town, when as a courtesy to our visitors we'd wear white.



And just for fun, the only really comparable shirts I'm aware of in the UK are Underbank and, a bit obscurely, St Edmund's Hall RUFC in Oxford.