It's only the 4th (5th if you count this year) one they've done

New shirt? I think it's a cracker.

I like it

No doubt the usual minority who never see the club doing anything wrong as long as it winning games will of course like both the badge and shirt.

Thankfully, judging by the many comments on the local social media over the last few days, the majority of supporters and people of Wigan think different!

Me too.

It’s fine for a Man Utd 2nd strip but not as a Wigan rugby shirt.

I have hated all of the experimental kits;

2011 - 85 kit that someone boil washed
2014 - terrible HULL KR shirt
2017 - says a lot that that was the best of the bunch they had us vote on

This one looks miles better though and while i'd rather it was white than black, it's a nice shirt. If I had one complaint (aside from the badge) it's a miniscule one and a pretty sad one really i'll be honest...there is a red vee on the socks again.

2011 shirt, everyone goes in meltdown
One of if not the best selling shirt ever

Wigan dont try things and they get criticised for poor marketting
They try things and get criticised

Let's put it to a vote, put 4 shirts up and let fans decide
Vote picks option B at 50% and the other 50% who voted for the other 3 options complain.

I don’t like the badge (although it’s growing on my a little) but I really like the shirt but it needed white in it. We are losing identity with that really. Just have the stripes white with black lining and it wouldn’t have been so bad.

Just Rads for me, the guy means well but just because he was a good player doesn't mean he's any good at running a club. Most of his ideas are terrible.

How do you know which ideas were his and which ideas were IL/others?

Was there any white in the 2011 shirt?

You don't see Australia RL, or NZ All Blacks, or Brazil football team changing their shirt design every season to sell more shirts. In keeping the shirt the same you have an instantly recognisable brand and a shirt that players covet.

In my opinion we should have cherry and white hoops of a certain diameter, plain white shorts and hooped socks every year without fail with the only change being the sponsor or manufacturer. I'd go as far as scrapping squad numbers aswell. Let the away kit be the one they mess about with.

Irrespective of opinions on badge/kit design, its incredibly impressive in my view that the club have been able to do all of this work behind the scenes despite all of the COVID disruption - new kit and clothing range released early, new partners, all of the promotional material for the badge, retaining and signing players. I think its amazing.

Using COVID and social distancing as a clever way to not involve supporters is also very smart.