Re: Away kit 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:32 am  

I like it. wont buy it but it's ok. I like plain kits. hate the over fussy ones

Re: 2023 | New Season Kits : Sat Oct 29, 2022 11:41 am  

Looks like it has a few zebra type stripes in a turquoise mish mash. Beautiful.

Are we stealing ideas from fun time Deggsy?

Re: Away kit 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 12:28 pm  

Hopie wrote:

Blue home, blue away, there'll be another one along before we have to play someone else who wears blue. The Boxing Day kit too, could make it to 4 in record time.

Wakefield are in blue, possibly Wire as well. A 3rd kit is definitely going to happen.

Re: 2023 | New Season Kits : Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:49 am  

Like the home kit, dont like the away.

Re: 2023 | New Season Kits : Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:44 pm  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

Like the home kit, dont like the away.

Same. Really like home top.

Re: Away kit 2023 : Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:27 am  

CM Punk wrote:

Wakefield are in blue, possibly Wire as well. A 3rd kit is definitely going to happen.

I appreciate there's a commercial angle and that the figures clearly show that certain colours sell better than others. In a sport with little money those things are important, however when the stats show blue is a popular colour and then everyone ends up playing in blue there's clearly an issue. There are only 12 teams in SL - if you can't design two shirts that are different enough to avoid a clash in every fixture something's gone wrong somewhere. No reason a Super League team should ever need three shirts. Oxen obviously have a reputation for churning out shirts for fun. I thought it bizarre we'd launch an entire training range for a one-off friendly against NZ but the 'coaches range' really made me laugh. Each to their own but I think the desperate need to get their logo on every player, coach, umpire etc might well be raising the awareness of the brand name but it's hardly positioning them as a high end quality manufacturer. For me all that does is highlight how cheap the manufacturing process must be (pop a blank shirt in, hit print).

Re: Away kit 2023 : Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:43 am  

simonw wrote:

I appreciate there's a commercial angle and that the figures clearly show that certain colours sell better than others. In a sport with little money those things are important, however when the stats show blue is a popular colour and then everyone ends up playing in blue there's clearly an issue. There are only 12 teams in SL - if you can't design two shirts that are different enough to avoid a clash in every fixture something's gone wrong somewhere. No reason a Super League team should ever need three shirts. Oxen obviously have a reputation for churning out shirts for fun. I thought it bizarre we'd launch an entire training range for a one-off friendly against NZ but the 'coaches range' really made me laugh. Each to their own but I think the desperate need to get their logo on every player, coach, umpire etc might well be raising the awareness of the brand name but it's hardly positioning them as a high end quality manufacturer. For me all that does is highlight how cheap the manufacturing process must be (pop a blank shirt in, hit print).

We have had 12 kits since Oxen took over just over 2 years ago

They're definitely are going for the quantity over quality business model.

I think 3 per year is probably OK, home, away and special charity kit for Magic.

There is absolutely no need for any club to have a 3rd kit.

As people probably know I'm not a massive fan of Oxen I think we as a club should be aiming higher, but it's obviously commercially the best way to go otherwise they wouldn't be doing it - I think outsourcing everything to Oxen including the retail aspect must be appealing to the club.

Out of all the manufacturers in SL personally I like the stuff Hummel produce, it seems of a higher class to me and they don't seem to have the endless releases and sales that we have.

Id really like to see Castore and Umbro get into the RL market they both produce some great stuff for other sports, the Umbro football stuff looks great to me.

What I will say is that because of the amount of sponsors we seem to have any shirt will look a bit of a mess unless the are implemented properly onto the shirt

For example hull and Wakefield have managed it well this season

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: Away kit 2023 : Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:30 pm  

christopher wrote:

We have had 12 kits since Oxen took over just over 2 years ago

They're definitely are going for the quantity over quality business model.

I think 3 per year is probably OK, home, away and special charity kit for Magic.

There is absolutely no need for any club to have a 3rd kit.

As people probably know I'm not a massive fan of Oxen I think we as a club should be aiming higher, but it's obviously commercially the best way to go otherwise they wouldn't be doing it - I think outsourcing everything to Oxen including the retail aspect must be appealing to the club.

Out of all the manufacturers in SL personally I like the stuff Hummel produce, it seems of a higher class to me and they don't seem to have the endless releases and sales that we have.

Id really like to see Castore and Umbro get into the RL market they both produce some great stuff for other sports, the Umbro football stuff looks great to me.

What I will say is that because of the amount of sponsors we seem to have any shirt will look a bit of a mess unless the are implemented properly onto the shirt
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Great post.

My feelings exactly.

I just dont get on with Oxens lacklustre quality spikes and daft sizing.

Re: 2023 | New Season Kits : Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:16 pm  

Don't know anything about Ellgren's quality but they've nailed both Wakefields kits this season, although id say the Away shirt should be the home shirt.

Re: Away kit 2023 : Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:25 pm  

D4mo78 wrote:

Looks alright, there's been worse. Isn't the blue a colour we've used in a training range before?

On a side note, have people seen the Wakey home shirt? I understand it's for their 150 year anniversary but not a kit you'd associate with them

The association is it`s more or less the first kit we ever had back in 1873, although I`m sure it was black and blue instead of dark blue and blue. I like it, it`s something different but a lot of people are saying it could quite easily be a Leeds kit!