Choose next seasons kit!

Open now for discussion of all things Darlo!

Moderators: mikkyx, uncovered

al_quaker
Posts: 5942
Joined: Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:51 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by al_quaker » Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:13 am

https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/new-hom ... ign-chosen

Kit 3. I for one am shocked...

Looks a nice kit though

Now give me an orange away kit and you'll have 2 kit sales next season :thumbup:

H1987
Posts: 2073
Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:14 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by H1987 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:57 am

Trust Darlo fans to choose the plainest, black and white hoops possible :lol:

To be fair, i don't dislike it. My preference was 4 with the red flash on the arms, but i'm happy we have a settled identity. Darlington FC = Black and White hoops. Lets keep it that way, albeit with minor variation year on year.

QUAKERMAN2
Posts: 2826
Joined: Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:43 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by QUAKERMAN2 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:06 pm

Nice strip but not keen on hooped socks at all.All white socks would have looked great ,similar to the Spenny design.

Sent from my moto g(6) play using Tapatalk

lo36789
Posts: 10927
Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:58 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by lo36789 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:11 pm

QUAKERMAN2 wrote:Nice strip but not keen on hooped socks at all.All white socks would have looked great ,similar to the Spenny design.

Sent from my moto g(6) play using Tapatalk
Funny I love the socks! First time I’ll be delighted with socks for Christmas!

al_quaker
Posts: 5942
Joined: Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:51 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by al_quaker » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:16 pm

Hooped socks are the best bit about the kit! Feels ages since we've had them

Darlo_Pete
Posts: 14080
Joined: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:13 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by Darlo_Pete » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:19 pm

Boring option, just a re-hash of previous shirts. I won't be buying one.

lo36789
Posts: 10927
Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:58 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by lo36789 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:55 pm

Darlo_Pete wrote:Boring option, just a re-hash of previous shirts. I won't be buying one.
But then you did say you don’t usually

footifan
Posts: 792
Joined: Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:34 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by footifan » Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:19 pm

Darlo_Pete wrote:Boring option, just a re-hash of previous shirts. I won't be buying one.

OH the irony.... Now that is funny... Can't stop laughing. A very good reason to buy one.

H1987
Posts: 2073
Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:14 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by H1987 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:03 pm

Well.. its not the same, is it? It's full hoops, and it has supporters names woven into the white.

I voted for 4, but I like this one too. I hope the numbers are red at least :thumbup:

User avatar
HarrytheQuaker
Posts: 3148
Joined: Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:57 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by HarrytheQuaker » Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:09 pm

H1987 wrote:Well.. its not the same, is it? It's full hoops, and it has supporters names woven into the white.

I voted for 4, but I like this one too. I hope the numbers are red at least Image
Did they look like they were in red???

Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Darlo Dodger
Posts: 284
Joined: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:50 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by Darlo Dodger » Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:17 pm

I think that, as a group, the voting supporters are a conservative, with a small “c” group when it comes to kit selection so any radical kit design is not going to be selected unless they are all radical.
I’d still really like us to have something similar to this Puma Dortmund shirt as the top for our away kit:-
https://www.google.co.uk/search?source= ... S2fUB5Hn8M:

Darlo_Pete
Posts: 14080
Joined: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:13 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by Darlo_Pete » Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:17 am

lo36789 wrote:
Darlo_Pete wrote:Boring option, just a re-hash of previous shirts. I won't be buying one.
But then you did say you don’t usually
Because of the crew top and no collar.

Darlo Dodger
Posts: 284
Joined: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:50 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by Darlo Dodger » Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:46 am

And if we do want something radical we should ask Puma to let us see the designs for Dortmund which didn’t make the final cut, or just borrow their design and replace yellow with white:

https://www.prodirectsoccer.com/product ... gLfQfD_BwE

lo36789
Posts: 10927
Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:58 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by lo36789 » Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:22 am

That’s interesting you have actually proven me wrong about the whole kit design is fundamental to identity idea.

Those are all clearly ‘Dortmund’ kits maybe it’s because their colours are so vivid but actually on reflection my theory that you could generally guess the pattern of a kit as well as the colours doesn’t work anywhere near as well in Germany as it does in England or Italy.

jjljks
Posts: 3014
Joined: Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:25 am
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by jjljks » Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:26 am

Great thing about the hooped socks is that after washing, you can tie them together and use them as a Darlo scarf!

User avatar
don'tbuythesun
Posts: 2397
Joined: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:24 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by don'tbuythesun » Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:33 am

I remember when my lads were mascots at Feethams and I ended up buying Widnes RLFC hooped socks to complete their kit. Couldn't find them anywhere else.

Darlo Dodger
Posts: 284
Joined: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:50 pm
Team Supported: Darlington

Re: Choose next seasons kit!

Post by Darlo Dodger » Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:49 am

lo36789 wrote:That’s interesting you have actually proven me wrong about the whole kit design is fundamental to identity idea.

Those are all clearly ‘Dortmund’ kits maybe it’s because their colours are so vivid but actually on reflection my theory that you could generally guess the pattern of a kit as well as the colours doesn’t work anywhere near as well in Germany as it does in England or Italy.
Perception also changes over time.
Dortmund are pretty radical in their kit design but when I was a youngster Darlington played in white shirts and black shorts.

Nobody associated them with hoops (even though it was clearly part of what I then saw as some long forgotten history) until the post promotion addition of 3 narrow bands.

Even that was barely a hooped shirt. I think at most it was regarded as sticking with the white shirt but giving a nod to the club’s history.

We don’t have to go too far back in the clubs history to find Darlington shirts which no relation to any history other than that they have black and white in them (the 1990’s striped one and the “brass tin” design of the same period spring to mind.

For me revisiting the all white shirt is almost as much a part of the club’s history as the hoops.

I do think that going for something radically different wouldn’t do us any harm (and the first Dortmund design is based on a variation of the hooped theme)

Post Reply