Colour clash yesterday. : Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:02 am  

Admittedly my eyesight isn't the best but was I the only one confused by the similarities of the two kits yesterday? As it happened most of the game took place at the north end of the pitch and I sit at the south end so a lot of it was (maybe thankfully) pretty distant.

If it's only me I'll shut up about it but I can't understand why either Saints didn't wear their home kit or us our away one. Even having one of the teams in white shorts would have helped.

Opinions?

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:05 am  

I think its pretty much a given that a team will wear their "change kit" in any away match where the change kit doesn't interfere with the home team's kit. Yes, I know that sounds a rather bizarre point, but think about it a bit and I think you'll think it true.

Hull KR wore an away kit at the Stoop, and any time our white backed away shirt clashed with a home teams kit, we wore our first choice colours. When we played at Hull KR - we wore our home kit because our away colours are predominently white, which matches HKR's colours.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:12 am  

Surreyben wrote:

I think its pretty much a given that a team will wear their "change kit" in any away match where the change kit doesn't interfere with the home team's kit. Yes, I know that sounds a rather bizarre point, but think about it a bit and I think you'll think it true.

Yes, I know it's true. My point is that, to me, the two kits did clash.

Hull KR wore an away kit at the Stoop, and any time our white backed away shirt clashed with a home teams kit, we wore our first choice colours. When we played at Hull KR - we wore our home kit because our away colours are predominently white, which matches HKR's colours.

Right, so why didn't Saints wear their home kit yesterday?

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:24 am  

Erm...I dunno.

Perhaps their red V might have clashed with our magenta coloured quarter...

Re: Colour clash yesterday. : Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:44 am  

BroncOnIon wrote:

Admittedly my eyesight isn't the best but was I the only one confused by the similarities of the two kits yesterday? As it happened most of the game took place at the north end of the pitch and I sit at the south end so a lot of it was (maybe thankfully) pretty distant.

If it's only me I'll shut up about it but I can't understand why either Saints didn't wear their home kit or us our away one. Even having one of the teams in white shorts would have helped.

Opinions?

You must have wasted a large amount of money going to games with eyesight that poor.
Mine is not perfect but sat in back of the North stand I saw the teams pefectly.
Perhaps you were confusing the Quins team with the workmen drinking tea on the side!!!

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:57 am  

BroncOnIon wrote:

Yes, I know it's true. My point is that, to me, the two kits did clash.
Right, so why didn't Saints wear their home kit yesterday?

I don't think I was ever unable to distinguish between the two kits, but it was completely pointless Saints wearing their change kit and it certainly created a near clash.

Our home kit is predominantly black, theirs is predominantly white - so they change to dark green shirts with black shorts & socks. Stupid and completely pointless. Like most change kits, including ours, it's a horrible looking kit too. I can't understand why people buy these away replica shirts that change every season.

It was the same when we played Hull KR - a team with a predominantly white home kit turns up wearing a dark grey & orange monstrosity that looks like its been cobbled together from offcuts of hi-viz jackets and German Army uniforms. Perhaps this passes for cutting-edge fashion in East Hull?

I'd like to see all clubs sticking to their normal colours unless absolutely necessary, and it would be prefereable if change kits also incorporated the traditional club colours as seems to be the case in the NRL. Those big square numbers on NRL kits that are clearly legible (instead of italic numbers in a silly font with the SL logo superimposed on them to make them even more difficult to distinguish) wouldn't go amiss either.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:10 am  

Add that to the list of why people dont go to the Stoop- kits not fashionable enough, numbers in the wrong font and green and black colour clashes- Action please CEO-We will get the perfect day- I can see it coming

Re: Colour clash yesterday. : Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:59 am  

BroncOnIon wrote:

but I can't understand why Saints didn't wear their home kit

Opinions?

because they were away..

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:18 pm  

Thought the Saints players blended in very nicely with the grass.

Re: Colour clash yesterday. : Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:37 pm  

BroncOnIon wrote:

Admittedly my eyesight isn't the best but was I the only one confused by the similarities of the two kits yesterday? As it happened most of the game took place at the north end of the pitch and I sit at the south end so a lot of it was (maybe thankfully) pretty distant.

If it's only me I'll shut up about it but I can't understand why either Saints didn't wear their home kit or us our away one. Even having one of the teams in white shorts would have helped.

Opinions?

And there was me thinking that the South End was now a building site and not being used for spectators. Easy to be confused at Quins