it is the real deal!! sorry for breaking the news to you lot!

Well, I'm very much in favour of clubs keeping their strip traditional, but given that's not always going to happen I do prefer this one to the horror show which was our 2010 home strip.

New shirt looks great IMO, 1st time ill be getting the home shirt rather then the away one for at least3/4 years.

Ditto. I'll probably buy this one.

New shirt looks well smart i only bought the away one last season defo gonna buy this one and if the away one nice too will be buying that one to.

I'll reserve full judgement until I see it in the flesh, but based on that one picutre that's doing the rounds it looks bloody awful.

Looking back over recent seasons there is something resembling a pattern, IMO. Every 3rd year the kit is mostly red (2004, 2007, 2010), with a very traditional mostly white shirt (2006, 2008, 2012?) and a mostly white one slightly out of left-field (2005 v-band, 2009 high-band, 2011 sash-band), completing the cycle.

I looked (as always ) at Hull FC for comparison and it has to be admitted they have knocked out some very nice shirts in that period, especially if your tastes lean toward the conservative. Even that 'virtue' can be taken too far though - 2006 to 2009, they essentially had the same shirt 3 years out of 4. 2006 and 2007 were very similar and 2009 they basically just reversed the black and white. In fairness they don't have a stock variant like we do with mostly-red, 2008 was an excellent tradional effort and in 2010 they showed that change doesn't have to look gimmicky.

They make you stink these polyester things.

Like wet dog if it rains and like Dot Cotton's grundies if it's sunny.

I'm off in't buff from now on and I'll just paint a shirt, shorts and socks on like they did with those richards from Donny t'other year.

Im still hoping this is some kind of joke! Awful looking shirt.

Fashion certainly seems to polarise opinions, doesn't it?

Thanks, I've just p[ii[/issed my feathers.