Everton unveil new Nike home kit

At least it's Nike and not Worrier sorry, Warrior .

Truly awful kit.

Too much white on the shirt. Too much blue on the shorts.

I like my home kits to be as old school and royal blue as possible.

I like my away kits to be designed by a 3 year old with highlighter pens.

Very disappointed with both efforts.

As for the goalkeepers shirt? WTF are those circles about?

Mutter mutter grumble pah!

Look at the positives;

It's the right colour blue for a start.. the training gear was all in this weird sky blue or navy, swerved that,

There's no grey in it like the old Puma kits,

It's got a Nike badge on it instead of some crazy brand from yesteryear that no other team in the league has for a sponsor,

It doesn't have any chinese writing on it,

And it's fitted but not like the Chelsea kit or the French kit with the rubber underwire straps which frankly aren't suitable for men or women.

I felt the away strip looked promising in its simplicity as well. All in all I think I agree with Mike (394). Home kits should be totally traditional and boring, whilst away kits can try something a bit different.

A poor start from Nike, and it follows some excellent strips from LCS in recent years.

I can see the moaners at the end of the season. "Great! We're in the Champions League and we won the FA Cup."

"Yeah but I didn't like the kit."

Zero imagination and basically reaffirming to Evertonians that their club is cheap and does not justify the effort and resources of developing a somewhat original kit or at least with a defining touch. You'd think that in their first year courting the club they'd at least have made an effort to show some respect. How do these 'design' muppets get this shit past the club as acceptable. Must be hilarious in the marketing department trying to conjure up taglines to get a twitch of excitment out of the dimmest of 'consumers' about tripe like this. Love the 'we're already one-nil up' by Jonny.....keep it for the pitch lad, it's a rare sight.

Despite all that, it really doesn't matter a damn what the hell is on their backs. Here's to keeping hold of Baines and having a crack at a decent start for once.....dunno if I can deal appropriately with a steady deflation 'til January again this year.

Why should I spend 100 quid on two kits when the club get no money? Regardless whether I buy it or not, Everton still get the same wedge per annum from Kitbag.

Whilst we get £650k per year from global giants Nike, Liverpool get £25M from Warrior!!!!

Fucking circus, our club.

Might be the light in the Phil Neville photo but he looks plastic in it. As Graham said... Smurfs!

And don't get me started on the blue socks...

Don't blame you for not buying it like, I haven't bought a kit since I was about 14.

Looks like the black one for me.

Black one arm out and write "Gordon West" on the arm for the first game would also be a nice touch.

Perhaps those horrible white armbands may actually increase visibility in peripheral vision? This will be a key factor in the coming season, when we attempt to pass like Spain in an effort to bamboozle the opposition as we stride up the table...

Oh the Power of Positive Thinking!!!

The worst kit we've had in recent times was the first LCS one which was a take on the '85 shirt (except it was awful). The white V was far too big. I think LCS missed a trick. They should have made a home kit just like the '85 one with matching silver away kit. I'd have bought one.

The worst kit ever was the One to One Umbro version from '97 to '99.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Everton/Everton.htm

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Everton/Everton-change-kits.html

Blue socks - are we now the Tractor Boys? Or maybe we had these off Cardiff now they have turned red and have spent all Summer putting a badge on them?

Not one single defining Everton detail I can see like a small crest on the collar, anything just to make it a bit special. ( Umbro got good at that eventually.) Identikit.

The sleeves are different but need something on the white bands - a badge, a stripe.

Only plus is that the shorts look good.

When you factor in the crap deal we are getting for wearing this kit compared to most other Premiership teams, you just shake your head. All the hype for a bloody white swoosh on the chest?

Back to the Tour de France for me. I should have known better.

Well, at least it isn't all blue ! I have heard that FIFA are trying to push for kits to be all one colour...cast your mind back to the European Championships...stupid idea.

I'm still nostalgic for the Catterick era classic kit. Yellow socks when there was a clash...distinctive and characterful.

Nowadays kits are cash cows.

"Sorry, we found no matches for your search term"

(Although it looks suspiciously lighter than genuine Royal Blue).

Kitbag can make as much as they want but for the next 6/7 years we are stuck with a deal that not only prevents us from reaching our marketing potential but stops any perspective buyers looking at Everton (along with various other reasons).

Like I said... circus.

The RS £25m kit deal is a con. Warrior sports is part of the FSG and that 'deal' looks like a way to get round the uefa financial fair play rules. A bit like the renaming of eastlands as the 'Etihad stadium'

As for our new kits the black away one looks menacing whilst the blue one looks a bit like a one design fits all job!!

This Kitbag deal is a joke, nobody will ever buy us as long as this is in place. How can any serious businessman make a profit when it has no potential to fleece mugs like me.

Phew!

By the way Geoff (593), Neil Johnno is in the UK in Aug, he was looking to get in touch with you. Do you have an email?

And Lyndon et al are right - white socks please FFS, how come we can all see it and a 'professional' kit designer can't? Shite.

As for the kit...... It'll look absolutely fine when we're sat in Chs League spots.

The sartorial snobbery on this thread amuses me.

I think it's important that the club know that supporters (generally) don't like if when the club's traditions are fucked with.

Remember when Z-Cars was dropped?

It was the resulting outcry that brought it back.

Had apathy prevailed, we'd no doubt now be running out to the Hokey Cokey or some X-factor sponsored shite.

Individually none of these things are that important, but if not checked or at least commented on, you look back in 20 years and see us running out to bag-pipe music, in pink and black shirts with blue socks and wonder 'how the fuck did THAT happen?"

So..

The arm bands look daft, we should be in white socks and that's not Royal blue....imo.

Top half Blue, bottom half White. It just works! Best kit in the world.

Oh, those Brazilians, you know? Circa 1970? Broke the mould. Theory out the window. Free expression of football. Uncategorisable. Is that a word? It is now! You know? Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts, big white cuffs, blue socks. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.

I'm more worried about who is and isn't going to be wearing it

If Everton bring out a red shirt next year, you will be a 'bunch of bitches' (NOT men!) if you say you don't like it.

Oh and you will be talking about 'fashion' rather than commenting on completely pointless changes to the traditional EVERTON shirt.

Sorry but simplistic, shouty 'arguments R-US' from some who (apparently) listens to far too much 'Fiddy'.

(crosses arm across chest and looks 'gangsta' hard)

It's not red, it is Blue. It has the Everton crest. Stop making up things to be upset about. I would be upset if my neighbor broke into my house and stole my TV next year, so should I start being mad at him now? The thing changes every single year, without fail. What traditional one do you want, 1981, 82, 65, 49, 77, 95???

And sorry, no 'Fiddy' for me. Much more of a Tool, Social Distortion, Queens of the Stone Age, fan, Pink Floyd if I want to mellow it up a bit. No 'gangsta' here, just find it pathetic that a bunch of grown men go on and on about a couple of white sleeves and socks in a store being blue and not white.

Any discussion on the colour / design of a football kit is pretty childish when you look at it isn't it, but within its own context it's worthy of discussion. I'm not going to walk out of the house and burst into tears because we've got blue socks, I'd just prefer white ones because I - in a very small way - identify them as our team colours, more than blue.

I know it's trivial but you can have an opinion on it, just as almost everyone here would if we ran out in all red.

This is an Everton website..right?

There are no games to discuss..right?

That leaves us with none-game stuff to address should we choose to.

Transfers, transfer rumours, new kits..basically anything Everton-related that is not about games.

You try and make out you're above it all and can't understand the importance people are giving it, yet you're VERY vocal about how you're NOT arsed (see the irony? Doubt it).

And by the way, point out what I 'made up'.

For the record I said..

"If Everton bring out a red shirt next year, you will be a 'bunch of bitches' (NOT men!) if you say you don't like it".

See the word 'if'?

An exaggeration to make a point but valid within the debate.

So the only person 'making things up' is you, by deliberately ignoring the word 'IF' in my post and suggesting I said 'we'd be playing in red'.

(that tactic is obvious to a blind man and only makes you look desperate to 'win the point')

Seriously, if (as seems the case) you want to look like Mr Cool, why not simply IGNORE the post and go listen to one of the popular beat groups you mention (not Pink Floyd though - your angry three consecutive question marks suggest they're not making you as 'mellow' as you'd have us to believe).

Oh and Everton play in ROYAL blue, not blue (or...they're fucking well supposed to)

Yes, David, it is only a cuff, a pair of socks etc. Totally irrational; in most cases, I would agree.

But then again, you live in the land of Uncle Sam, have to watch live Everton games at all sorts of inconvenient times on a far-flung continent, spend hours on a website arguing about fabric colours of sportswear in another country and have your mood every week from August to May either depressed or heightened by eleven men kicking a ball around on some grass and trying to get it between some posts.

That is totally irrational. Bordering on insanity to some. You do it and like most of us you can't really explain why. So please stop the condescending moaning and when next season you are complaining about Moyes's negative tactics on here to people you don't know and will probably never meet, don't be surprised if someone tells YOU to stop bitching!

He's looking for your contact details.

Just because our kit is now made by Nke doesn’t mean it is automatically going to any good. Nike has also come up with 2 terrible kits for Man Utd and Arsenal for next season and reading that people think its good just because it’s made by Nike made me think of the Emperor’s New Clothes.

Although LCS we not deemed a “cool” brand, the last 2 home kits we’ve had have been amongst our best, and the cream 3rd one from 10/11 was probably our best ever away kit

I also think the lack of women’s fit shirts across the Nike range is a major mistake as we have a lot of female fans.

try eugeneruane@hotmail.com

Check out:

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Everton/Everton.htm

To confirm that our socks are historically blue.

Check out 1891 to 1895 too.

That should end the nonsensical White/ Blue sock debate..

Don't buy them at those prices.

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask!

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