The blue shirt is starting grow on me a little bit, might just tempt me to buy it. Why does the shirt have stitching right across the chest? No need for it and it looks so uncomfortable

We only ever had two stripes at Normy grammer, proper down with the kidz!

Are you referring to me here? if you are, I haven't said anything against the club have I, just whoever designed it, which is Macron, who can't have seen the original. Personally speaking I'm just disappointed that it's not more like the original because like I said I'd have bought one, since it was the first shirt I remember as a kid. I was also interested in the picture that got posted and where that replica came from. Hardly giving it the 'big licks' is it and I'm not sure there's any need for that comment tbh.

No, not specifically - just a general comment that those people who feel personally offended by the lack of verisimilitude of this offering in comparison with the original, might want to consider the bigger picture; I'm sure MC made clear late last year that his hands are tied for another season by a restrictive deal with Macron, as that was the only way he could wriggle out of the mess he was left with by the Elston/Glover administration.

I love the idea of a faithful (cotton) reproduction of that shirt - it was the first one I wore too and I'd buy it in a heartbeat; for now though, it's this one or the nylon jobbie, so I'll go for this one as a stopgap.

The people who will buy the shirt would be those who remember the Wally Lewis era. It is not difficult to produce a shirt that at least resembles one we have worn in the past. I read it described as a retro shirt which it is with the use of cotton but a replica no.
I ask the question again why can't they at least produce something that those of us who watched Wally Lewis play resemble and yes I am having a go at the club because this is not difficult.

It's hard to disagree with this.
Although the new "retro" shirt is ok and ticks most of the boxes, it doesn't actually look like a Wakefield shirt.
It's as though someone pressed the wrong button when the design was put through.

Bren is right about nobody being forced to buy it BUT, if they had got the thing something close to the shirt from the "Lewis era", many of the older fans (and probably some young 'uns) would have been queuing up to buy them.

Maybe next season ??