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Post by Gods on Jun 12, 2015 14:15:40 GMT
Right I know it's all about taste and everything, but seriously, anyone who thinks that mess - with it's slapped-on front panel, incongruous Adidas shoulder stripes and clumpy white sleeves and sides - is better than our simple, uniform design is fucking nuts. Ours is far superior! Theirs is bringing back chilling memories from our own disastrous first year with Adidas. *shudder* It is a problem for Adidas that whenever they do the shirts of a club which has vertical stripes they still have to weave in their own iconic trademark 3 stripes, it does often end up as a bit of a dogs dinner. Overall and on balance though I thought our Adidas shirts were of an entirely different pedigree to the festering old tat Warrior/New Balance are hawking around. Perhaps Nike would be the answer for us? Some level of quality and no issue with any stripes of their own
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 12, 2015 14:21:21 GMT
I'd go as far as to say that the new NB home kit is my favourite Prem home kit we've had. I just really like it. I agree. All I ever ask for in a Stoke shirt is a simple, clean design with red and white stripes of an equal, sensible width all over it. Next season's fits the bill perfectly - if it just had a white lapel collar rather than round-neck it would be one of the best we've ever had.
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 12, 2015 14:38:53 GMT
Right I know it's all about taste and everything, but seriously, anyone who thinks that mess - with it's slapped-on front panel, incongruous Adidas shoulder stripes and clumpy white sleeves and sides - is better than our simple, uniform design is fucking nuts. Ours is far superior! Theirs is bringing back chilling memories from our own disastrous first year with Adidas. *shudder* It is a problem for Adidas that whenever they do the shirts of a club which has vertical stripes they still have to weave in their own iconic trademark 3 stripes, it does often end up as a bit of a dogs dinner. Overall and on balance though I thought our Adidas shirts were of an entirely different pedigree to the festering old tat Warrior/New Balance are hawing around. Perhaps Nike would be the answer for us? Some level of quality and no issue with any stripes of their own It's not a problem for Adidas, they don't give a shit what the shirt looks like - as they ably demonstrated when they were "designing" our shirts! Perfectly happy with NB so far. Long may it continue.
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Post by Gods on Jun 12, 2015 15:51:52 GMT
It is a problem for Adidas that whenever they do the shirts of a club which has vertical stripes they still have to weave in their own iconic trademark 3 stripes, it does often end up as a bit of a dogs dinner. Overall and on balance though I thought our Adidas shirts were of an entirely different pedigree to the festering old tat Warrior/New Balance are hawing around. Perhaps Nike would be the answer for us? Some level of quality and no issue with any stripes of their own It's not a problem for Adidas, they don't give a shit what the shirt looks like - as they ably demonstrated when they were "designing" our shirts! Perfectly happy with NB so far. Long may it continue. Well the problem NB have is they don't give a shit how it's made. It just looks and feels unfinished to me, flimsy material, no working ties, zero tailoring, no finish to anything, no proper seams. All the quality of a pair of ladies panties bought from the pound shop. I am sure it is cheap to get it made in a Bengali sweat shop where they pay the staff a few rupees each week and a bonus bag of Bombay Mix but it is utter, utter tat. Not saying Adidas is much better, but very slightly!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 19:54:51 GMT
Right I know it's all about taste and everything, but seriously, anyone who thinks that mess - with it's slapped-on front panel, incongruous Adidas shoulder stripes and clumpy white sleeves and sides - is better than our simple, uniform design is fucking nuts. Ours is far superior! Theirs is bringing back chilling memories from our own disastrous first year with Adidas. *shudder* You're correct,it is about taste. And you obviously have good taste when it comes to football kits,as ours is in a different league to that abortion of a kit from Sunderland. The best Stoke kit in years.
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 12, 2015 20:47:53 GMT
It's not a problem for Adidas, they don't give a shit what the shirt looks like - as they ably demonstrated when they were "designing" our shirts! Perfectly happy with NB so far. Long may it continue. Well the problem NB have is they don't give a shit how it's made. It just looks and feels unfinished to me, flimsy material, no working ties, zero tailoring, no finish to anything, no proper seams. I honestly don't have a clue what any of that means. They seem like perfectly normal football tops like any other to me.
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Post by stokemanusa on Jun 12, 2015 22:18:37 GMT
Too white in the sleeves and the logo for Dafabet looks like an Amateur designer threw that shit on last minute... I much prefer ours. I wish we had a little more white in ours but that's too much in my opinion.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Jun 12, 2015 22:23:10 GMT
Ours is a lot nicer and far superior to that woeful Adidas effort. Only critisicism is I prefer thicker stripes.
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Post by partickpotter on Jun 13, 2015 7:14:40 GMT
That Sunderland top is a shocker.
Amazed anyone would prefer it to ours for next season.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jun 13, 2015 8:45:58 GMT
Ours looks much better.
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Post by heavysoul on Jun 13, 2015 9:46:57 GMT
After seeing the strip against Liverpool I agree it is the best strip in years. Like the red and the detail. The strip is unique to us as Liverpool the only other NB user in the league. Haven't had a top since the anniversary so going get this one.
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Post by Mint Berry Barks on Jun 13, 2015 10:13:25 GMT
It's also worth noting that we have a 100% win record by at least 5 goals with our new kit, whereas Sunderland are shit.
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