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Home kit 2023/24 - New Shirts Revealed

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THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK said:
I admire you for getting involved in the kits. Top marks for your time, effort and money. But surely you could have done a poll to see what kit and colours we prefer. A lot of us like yellow being involved, and a lot of us hate it. Everyone I've asked hates it, including me. I never wanted to see yellow back in any form on home kits. Now if you wanted to re- introduce the Blue, white and red home kits, I would have been overjoyed. That colour mix was fantastic.
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I hate blue, white and red. We're not England.
 
THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK said:
I admire you for getting involved in the kits. Top marks for your time, effort and money. But surely you could have done a poll to see what kit and colours we prefer. A lot of us like yellow being involved, and a lot of us hate it. Everyone I've asked hates it, including me. I never wanted to see yellow back in any form on home kits. Now if you wanted to re- introduce the Blue, white and red home kits, I would have been overjoyed. That colour mix was fantastic.
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We did though, ok didn't ask you lot. We had templates and with different colour schemes that we used as home colours thorughout the years. Including blue, white and red. As previously mentioned in my prevoius post.


We even had colour scheme of our first team colours at Roots Hall in 1906.

We presented the templates to Macron and the club and they picked. You never going to please the whole fan base.

I do agree with you. Going forward, the fans should pick a design and run with it.
 
THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK said:
I admire you for getting involved in the kits. Top marks for your time, effort and money. But surely you could have done a poll to see what kit and colours we prefer. A lot of us like yellow being involved, and a lot of us hate it. Everyone I've asked hates it, including me. I never wanted to see yellow back in any form on home kits. Now if you wanted to re- introduce the Blue, white and red home kits, I would have been overjoyed. That colour mix was fantastic.
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But a poll on SZ is not an indication of what the whole fanbase thinks, unless it's really, really overwhelming one way or the other (and I would bet it wouldn't be). We can't agree on tone of blue, let alone yellow etc. Heck, some people even like the custard splat.
 
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THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK said:
I admire you for getting involved in the kits. Top marks for your time, effort and money. But surely you could have done a poll to see what kit and colours we prefer. A lot of us like yellow being involved, and a lot of us hate it. Everyone I've asked hates it, including me. I never wanted to see yellow back in any form on home kits. Now if you wanted to re- introduce the Blue, white and red home kits, I would have been overjoyed. That colour mix was fantastic.
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Stick me down as a big fan of yellow in the kits 😍
 
Arent we called the SHRIMPERS , A mixture of a sea water colour and that of shrimps would suit our nickname. thats before the shrimps are put on the barbie .
 
stewart said:
Arent we called the SHRIMPERS , A mixture of a sea water colour and that of shrimps would suit our nickname. thats before the shrimps are put on the barbie .
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Our nickname, or at least one of them is The Shrimpers. Isn't there some kind of issue with using that that dates back to Jobson's sale of the club? I may have this wrong.
 
GIBBO said:
Long story short. I paid a fella to design our kits. I've winged for the last 20 years to the club about out kits. Especially, during the teamwear years.

They got the ump with me. OK, smart *** come in and help us. This was last season. Because, of going from the awesome hummel ( didn't moan that year ) teamwear Macron was like a disaster.

Last season was called in by the club 24 hours notice of being asked. So no time to prepare.

I suggest, let's rip off the 88 kits. That was the plan. The blue and yellow the look. However, Ron debunked this too much of a pchange. I get it.

When last seasons come out. I thought, well that's not what I asked. However, this when I found out we as a bespoke service we are quite limited in what we can do. Design wise etc. I.e different textures on kit. We can't have embroidered etc. Fine. If u have the 88 kit. Different textures etc. Which is nuts! we can't have considering we had this on most of our 90s kits.

I'm learning each season. I thought, this season I emailed the club and said look I'm willing to pay a professional who does this for a living to work alongside Macron to design the best possible kits.

The way it usually happens. Macron design 3 templates and the club pick one and work with them. Last seasons designs was a joke. I rem, one being a blue camouflage like the col u away!

This season - my guy designed a load of templates for the club and Macron to pick. They did - he worked alongside Macron. Some of the designs absolutely beautiful. Once again. Limited in what we can do.

Brand new fresh designs - homage to former kits throughout the years. Colour schemes all through out the years too. They had the whole thing that represented Southend from our humble beginnings.

No. I don't work for them. I'm just passionate about kits. I think it's important that we look the best representing the club. I've only briefly seen next seasons. I'm a fan.

In other words on my head be it. I've dropped enough hints of the colour scheme on each kit. The Macron app is a good idea of what we get to work with Macron.

Going forward - I won't be paying or doing this anymore. I got yellow bk in some form on the home kit. I can die a happy man. Yes, I know not yellow is everyone cup of tea. We did do colour schemes we had throughout the years. The club n Macron picked the final designs not me!!! Just wanted to make this crystal clear!

Lastly, I've asked my guy if I can share the templates. He said, hold fire untill the kits are out etc. When I do get the nod. I will share with you lot.
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If that’s the short story I don’t want to see the long one!
 
A slight tangent, I know but it is kit related. Saw this on Twitter and ebay today but can never remember us having a kit like this before. I'm happy to be corrected though if others do recognise it and can roughly date it? Screenshot_20230623_192614_Twitter.jpg
 
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