Half price shirts?
 

Are we gonna be changing shirts again? On twitter that home & away shirts are all half price, the away one was brand new in at the start of this season wasn't it?

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They must be following the Premiership and Championship clubs . They change home and away strips every year.

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We've changed at least 2 shirts every season for about 10 years

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I'd be interested to know what our fans think of our reverting to our traditional red shirts,
rather than the kit suppliers 'generic' stripe shirts, worn by so many other league teams?
To the best of my knowledge, Stanley have never worn 'stripes' before?????

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We probably have but I don't remember them going down to half price as early as January? That doesn't usually happen till the new shirt appears

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Don't think anybody would oppose a good-bye to the stripes. At least if it is not mid-season. Personally I would love something like the present Barnsley outfit.

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can,t fans decide on what colour or kit design they want. not difficult to do. just print out a few designs, hand them out to fans and they tick what they want.

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Personally I don’t like the stripes or the stick-on plastic emblem, I would love to see a predominantly
red shirt with an embroided emblem

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Any of the Hollands Pies one will do for me, although I do think the Cleverboxes one was the best for a long time.

Accrington Stanley (2) - Historical Football Kits

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Clever box ones were great, although the £90 version was ridiculous.

Hollands are the iconic shirts that may never be surpassed.

For me the Surridge ones are the best looking, although the build quality was shocking.

Overall best shirt in my opinion? The half'n'half blue yellow Samurai with the badge subliminally printed throughout

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Interesting link smobile.
Much prefer the more traditional kits to the modern striped interloper.
By the way, the 98-99 Asda sponsored shirts were supplied by Crown Sports, not Admiral & was the only season Stanley played with a 'phoenix' badge, as opposed to the town coat-of-arms.

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1972-73 for me.

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Would be pleased to see a return to 'full' red home shirt but, seeing mainly away games against clubs who mostly play in red, I've got to like the blue and yellow stripes. Pretty smart away kit, IMHO.

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I always liked the Nike, Blue away shirt, season we won the conference i think?

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sure I read somewhere that we have the striped kits because Coleman and Bell liked the kit at Sligo

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I think it's more likely that Mitre only had two bog standard red strips which were the one we had previously and the stripes so there was no other option.

I'm sure that when I checked their website at the time that that was correct.

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Crown Sports was founded and funded by a Stanley fan, David Something or other (possibly Nutter) who lived up Burnley Road way. He designed the strips and the deal was that Asda would sell them, I believe the deal fell through last minute over a few quid when David had hundreds of shirts ready to sell (2nd season). He also produced a magazine on behalf of the club

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Dark blue or lighter blue?

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I don't believe the reason the deal fell through had anything to with either David 'Something' or Asda.

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Lancs Dave said the above and it looked correct. I was one who thought the new park football shirt was poor, but after he explained I understood he did not have much to work with. It is a shame what happened more recently, Dave was helping out the club like many people I know have done over the last 40 years, some get no appreciation.

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Light blue, Although the dark blue wasn't too bad!

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any colour away shirt apart from black and white stripes or blue and white halves.

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Me too. That's why I suggested Barnsley's. That shirt is like a modern version of Stanley 72-73. As much red as possible on the shirt. And White shorts! Of course!

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Me neither, but I dont like to cast aspersions :rolleyes:

I spoke to David around 10 years ago and got the whole story but I'm beggared if I can remember it properly. I started typing my original message thinking I could share some information at a relevant moment ... the couldnt remember David's name, or this, or that ... age catching up now

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The Mitre contract was 2 years starting at the beginning of last season