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According to our official Twitter page the new kit will be released today!

Does this mean we've found a sponsor?

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I understood that it was still going to be StoreFirst until the new year, due to the fact that they had already paid up until then - I was told that in April, so could have changed.

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Correct unfortunatley

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Although it's abit Stevenage'esque, I quite like it!

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Is it not more Atletico Madrid 'esque ? :D

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Is it just a change in home kit or is there more to come ps quite like it dare I buy another before the wife notices.

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Because of the issues with the sponsorship, we have delayed the change of away & 3rd kit. Home kit was unavoidable.

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Looks as though stripes are in fashion this coming season

2015-16 Kit Revealed

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Like it myself, and wouldn't mind one. A bit doubtful about buying a shirt that's going to be out of date in 6 months' time, but, being a classic mug punter, might get one anyway!

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I like it, shame about the old sponsor for now, only ever looked good on the blue & yellow kit, but come the new year, with a new sponsor, I'll get one.

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We are putting plans in place to upgrade the early season buyers for a reduced price shirt after Christmas, if they want it. Not the ideal solution but about the fairest we can offer under the circumstances.

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Sounds fair enough, Dave, do you know when you'll be getting stock in the shop?

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You can get them from the Blackburn game onwards. Will be in mine after that.

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Cheers, Dave.

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Do not forget that makes them a little bit more of a collectors item ;)

Like Dave has said, we have our hands tied and will try our utmost to not let people down :)

:) :) :)

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Why "unavoidable" Dave? Could we not get enough of the old design to put the new players' names on, or something? Just asking :)

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Unavoidable may have been the wrong word. There was no easy solution is probably a better answer ;) New home kit was required :)

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Besides I didn't even get my choice, apparently Claret & Blue wasn't deemed appropriate :D

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It would be very appropriate as toilet paper.

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If you are the Reds you don't wear stripes! Ask Liverpool. And why Red stripes? If you need a change for the sake of change, why not something more dramatic, like Maroon and Gold hoops, or something else that has nothing to do with Stanley?

Accrington Stanley have worn Red shirts for 115 years with one exception, 1961-62. Omen?:(

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Anyone know if the back of the shirt mirrors the front, or solid red - Dave ?

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I think it looks very professional! Nice to see a break from the same old solid red or red with white flashes shirts we usually wear.:alright:

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Back of the shirt is solid red.

Shirt will be same all season, only the sponsor will change in the New Year

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I agree Greger.
Stanley in stripes just isn't right!
I suppose I am just a boring old .... and yes I am a believer in tradition so in my view STANLEY should be in FULL RED SHIRTS and, dare I say it, in white shorts too!:jimbo:
I believe that you can still apply the long standing red and white colour scheme but with an ultra modern design incorporated and Stanley players will look superb!:alright:
Stripes just remind me of Pyjamas!!!:eek::bingobang:help:
If we played in blue and white we would look like BANANAS IN PYJAMAS!!!!:Banane48::Banane40::banane58:

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You can guarantee if you designed the shirt there will be others who dislike it, it's how football fans roll :)

Have to say I expected the shirt to get a lot more flak from the traditionalists than has happened, maybe they are still speech less :D

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I would have given flak, but was too disgusted, seems to me those making decisions, have no concept at all of tradition. or they just dont give a toss, nowt shocks me any more.:rolleyes:

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Tradition went out of football years ago, no matter how much we dont like it.

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Oh do united or liverpool now play in stripes?:rolleyes:must have missed that.

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I'm slowly getting used to the idea of stripes & it could have been worse, we could've had hoops & horizontal stripes don't do me any favours :rolleyes:

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Is this the Stevenage home shirt?

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Thank goodness not!!

It's ASFC's home shirt, and as we're the only pro club supplied by Mitre (which is rather strange) it is unique to ASFC:)

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Obviously the stripes are in anticipation of the new sponsors:- The Guild of British Barbers:rolleyes:
I too remember a big change to Stanley's traditional red shirt to a white shirt with a single, central red hoop. As Greger said, let's hope the Voodoo Gods of Football are not involved.

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Not really!

Cardiff had their colours and tradition trampled on by a rich Malaysian before they won their colours back. But at least he was Rich!

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Unlike Cardiff we are at least still in our own colours - they've just been changed around a bit

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Didn't they get promoted to the Premier League in that changed kit for the first time in their history ?

First time since, oh lets see........

1962 Season.................... SPOOKY

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Yes, promotion and cash still didn't bribe the Cardiff fans. Where is the Stanley equivalent cash one might wonder.

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Certainly doesn't look "STANLEY" who did come up with the stripes? Tradition through the window, pity.

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Maybe the Accrington can be dropped and juts use Stanley?

Team in red and white stripes normally start with S.

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Correct. Perhaps the coalman's got them on the cheap from Sligo.

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unless you are Exeter City or Lincoln City ;)

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New accrington stanley shirt

https://www.venuetoolbox.com/stevena...home_shirt.jpg

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Different sleeves, different back, different kit manuacturer and different club badge, not quite the same is it ? ;)

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Yes, but from a spectators distance its as near as dammit the same from the front. A terrible decision by whoever to make it a change of identity without consulting the fans, not just a design detail. Can't think of any other club other than Cardiff with their loony owner which has done this before.

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Give it a few games into the season and we're winning games people will get used to it!

Although it's not the all red shirt were used to, at least it's the red and white were used to...I've seen the club make bigger mistakes over the years!

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Some people hate it, some people love it. It's a temporary design change, not a permanent change

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I don't like the change from mainly plain red, but not as much as I dislike the entire concept of having a different away strip - obviously a change strip is necessary but whenever I have to watch us playing in gopping yellow or referees' black or even pristine white against a team playing in blue, I wonder why not red as God intended .......

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How funny that fact aint been announced, or is that summat else ive missed.?

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Every new shirt is a design change

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This is not a design change. It's a change of identity. Tell me one person who "Loves it", please Dave, apart from yourself.

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When the club announced it on Facebook there were a few, there are also some earlier comments on here of people who like it ( I'll not use the word love :) )

I think it looks smart, wouldn't go as far as to say I love it. There will never be a shirt that everybody likes

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Thats it in a nutshell, "Change Of Identity" Stanley are one of founder members of the Football League, that fact has been completely disregarded by the knobs that made this decision. imho.

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Kit looks alright To me,but it's what's under it that counts !!!,the Accrington spirit,never say die,fighting against the odds mentality

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Hear Hear

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Agree with F19, if players are giving 100% in the shirt, Does it really matter if we play in all red or red and white stripes?

Some people just love a moan!

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hate the new shirt and agree with everyone else who feel the same. remember to support you,re team all you need is the admission price. you do not need replica shirts, a programme or should I call it a matchday magazine, food inside the ground and any other football related products.

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Yeh well its not moaning its telling the truth, the club has a great tradition, Stanley has always been the reds, pity the knobheads cant see that fact.:rolleyes:

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For what it's worth..... I actually quite like it.

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I think it aint a bad strip. but thats not the issue it aint the Stanley imho.

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And some other people just love to diss anyone who doesn't meekly follow the official line. Jeez, it's like offending the pinko liberal metropolitan elite on here sometimes.

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Already been updated on here - Forgotten how many times we've gone from White to Red Shorts and back again.

Accrington Stanley (2) - Historical Football Kits

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Now there's an idea ;)

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That would hardly be a shock wi whats making decisions at the club.:rolleyes:

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well the new strip could be a money spinner for the club, for years now fans could wear a strip from previous seasons and blend in but fans may be encouraged to purchase the new strip

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It could, it could also be a loser, its a big gamble i reckon.

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Jheez anything that Smudgie likes can only be a good thing surely?! :rolleyes::p

Get him to part with his money Dave before he changes his mind!!

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I'll be proudly wearing my "Brand New" 1997 Home and Away Shirts this coming season (courtesy of stanleynick) :D

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Quite like it meself and will probably buy one and I certainly don't"meekly follow the official line". As has been said, what really counts is the performances of the players who are wearing it!

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When wearing vertical stripes,isn't it supposed to make you look taller?,bet pieros buzzing 😂😂😂

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Fully agree with the comments about us not wearing Red when playing away when we don't need to change from Red!:alright:

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Regarding the "Stripes".
I don't dislike the new striped kit and if I were a Stoke, Sheff Utd or Sunderland fan I might even fall in love with it!!!
However, Stripes are just not right for The STANLEY!!!!!
But.....ON STANLEY ON........:theband:
.......even if we were to play in PINK and TURQUOISE HOOPS with BROWN and GREEN STRIPED shorts !!!!!:bootyshak:yelrotflm......oops!!!

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That goes without saying, but it also suggests you think the kit is unimportant. I can't agree with that

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I can understand that cos football19 aint grown up wi Stanley.

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The kit probably is unimportant to the players who are wearing it (as long as they're not asked to wear anything too ridiculous!), so it's not going to make any difference to their performance and that's what counts.

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Main thing for me is that it has these on the sleeves ......

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The Sligo Stanley shirt.


http://www.sligorovers.com/files/ima..._2015_home.jpg

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That's a fair point Cashy,but surely it didn't matter when you and redraine were playing as after five minutes you were covered from head to toe in mud !!, chasing a cannonball with leather nail stud boots on !!! 😀😀😀

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True, but Stanley were always "The Reds";)

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Knobhead Liberals v Traditionalist Moaners... I'd pay £15 to watch that friendly!

Personally I agree that the design is not Stanley and was disappointed in the club for choosing this kit. I gather it was slim pickings from stock designs but going into a different club design altogether was always going to be divisive.

That said, the kit has grown on me the more I've seen it. I think it looks better than any of the kits we've had in recent years and it may well be the first replica I've bought in a few seasons.

Go figure!

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Strangely enough the same process went on in our house with her who must be obeyed. The initial 'stripe' shock has gone to liking it a lot.

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Southampton broke with tradition two years ago and played in a nearly(white pin stripes)full red shirt and West Brom last season ditched their navy blue stripes for hard to notice pinstripes so other clubs experiment. Scunthorpe used to play in red shirts but changed their club colours to claret and blue. Arsenal played in burgundy shirts the other year,Bury played in sky blue and brown shirts the other year. Accept it folks,it's not permanent,though i do prefer it when we play in white shorts rather than red!:wub8:

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Is that the right conclusion? All the examples you mention were changed back because the fans did NOT accept it!

But to be absolutely correct Bury and Arsenal didn't ignore their history, but rather tried to celebrate it. Bury had played in those colours 125 years earlier, and Arsenal (probably mistakenly) thought that their colours had been burgundy a 100 years earlier.

A club like Accrington Stanley should celebrate its history, not ignore it. Because it is what sets it apart. Without the history ASFC is just another Forest Green, or Stevenage!

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I'm sure most of us over the age of 30 would love the game to go back to what it was, our national working class game. Sadly those days have long gone, the greed of tv and corporate business saw to that. The history doesn't go, however you have to find any means possible to keep a club like Stanley afloat and competing in the top 92 clubs in England. If that means a diversion from tradition now and again, the club have to go with it, it's not an option unless somebody throws a lot of money in to the club. The shirt choice this season was driven by commercial reasons, there is no buying power to 'design' a shirt like the big clubs. It is temporary and a home shirt with stripes may never be seen again :)

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Oh so the fans who were not even consulted or opinions asked, do not want the club to stay afloat? Or perhaps they are of the opinion this will not help one iota.? I didn't expect to hear arse kissing crap from you dave, but lifes full of surprises.

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I was simply stating facts. :confused:

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That right there is good enough for me.

If someone is putting their hand in their pocket to have the shirt like it is then jobs a good 'un and well done to whoever got money from nothing.

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Its a fact, they have changed from Stanley Red, without even considering History, Tradition, and Fans. A cast iron FACT.

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Get real! Nobody has put their hand in their pocket. As Dave points out there is no money in designing a Stanley shirt. But that also means that nobody is paying for the stripes, not even the Barbers Guild.

More likely Mitre offered a set of shirts intended for Stevenage on the cheap!

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Stevenage play in kits made by Carbrini so try again.

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Which team would you be cheering for? :)

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The one in Stripes :D

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What about the reason our away kit last year was yellow and blue, was it anything to do with Store First, our kit sponsors colours being yellow and blue?

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The examples i've mentioned were or will be changed back not due to fans pressure but for commercial reasons. Most clubs change their strips every season so the fans needn't worry about their clubs traditional shirts being changed for more than a season. The only case i can think of where fans have influenced a club to change it's strip colours or design is the Cardiff City farce where they changed from blue to red, then back to blue.

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Maybe next season we could have red and white halved shirts like Feyenoord?:cool: Seriously though i don't know why some are getting worked up over a few stripes. The strip will still be predominantly red! A few white stripes on the front of the shirt is all we're on about!:rolleyes: Anyway,to those who say we are the Reds and now we wont be. I say we are known throughout the football world as Stanley(the only Stanley in Britain and probably the world),not the Reds, as there must be hundreds if not thousands of "Reds" out there!

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http://accringtonstanley.co.uk/newsi...re-640x360.jpg

http://www.prokituk.com/media_content/large/21125.jpg

Accy Combination springs to mind; the commercial side of the club is almost upsetting. Stick a badge on a generic multibuy kit... Who would have sanctioned this?

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Not all 'commercial' decisions are made by the commercial department, in actual fact they had no input as there was nobody to have any input.

One of the key issues was retail, as most people know I look after that side of things, so I had input, hence why I have defended the decision in this thread.

I've explained some of the decision making earlier,transparency which people ask for then find fault with. I don't feel guilty about helping to make a 'commercial' decision under the circumstances they have to be made. If anybody wishes to step in the club would welcome you with open arms, I don't mind retiring and spending the millions I've made in my time there :D

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Are yeh by any chance related to Bob Lord Dave?:D

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I have to say the new shirts have a certain appeal and i am all in favour of the new look
Dave at Giftprint is doing a fine job and certainly got the full support of myself
Not an easy job to keep everybody happy but carry on Dave, lets be POSITIVE

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Shame yer support vanishes when it suits yer purpose Nick.:rolleyes:

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Just building an extension to the Bob lord stand !!,the place has no character 😀😀😀