: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:53 pm
Tre Cool wrote:
Im not buying it. Looks ok on the players, looks daft on fans imo.
My sentiments exactly. Having seen the team play in it three times it looks a lot better than I'd expected. I prefer the kit with no white in it, which the union team had a couple of years back although they seem to have reverted to white shorts. The plain black back makes it easier to identify the numbers and the tight fit of the collarless shirt on proper athletes with big shoulders looks fine, but seeing supporters wearing the looser fitting replicas doesn't make me want to get one. The cape effect is more noticeable on the replicas and looks silly. I still don't understand the pointless reversing of the four coloured quarters compared to the "traditional" Quins design, and I don't like the new badge which is too fussy and doesn't stand out. The red lines on the back of the socks just look stupid and doesn't match the green piping on the mostly black shirt and black shorts.
The away shirt is dreadful. I saw it in the flesh at Cas - the pale blue panel is so pale it's barely distinguishable from the white quarters alongside it, making it look like a plain white shirt with blue sleeves and an odd blue square at the bottom of the front.
To be honest though, the team would look good in anything playing like they did on Saturday. Going off at a bit of a tangent, the April edition of Rugby league World (with Will Sharp modelling the current home shirt in front of Tower Bridge on the cover) has a ten best and ten worst rugby kits feature. Our 1999 Cup Final shirt slightly bizarrely makes the Top 10 at No.6. (We don't feature in the Worst 10, but the current away shirt gets a (dis)honorable mention!)
