Everton launch 2021-22 home kit

Great, shite, love it, hate it. Any more?

I hope the idea from WWI works against opposition defenders.

Hmmm...

The team can smear themselves in dog turds for all I care, as long as they compete for every ball and get the results.

Tony #3 – I think they have!

It's okay I guess.

I like it!

Uggh...yeah. Pretty gash.

The yellow and white sleeve detail, oh dear. Seems nineties inspired? Are any younger ToffeeWebbers able to confirm whether party drugs and house music are also back in a big way as well?

Because I'd be happy if they were.

Lighter shades of blue and hint of yellow.

1998, Howard Kendall Mark 3, Mick Madar and Gareth Farrelly. Dark times.

“The use of contrasting shapes, tones and colours proved highly effective at disguising a vessel's size, speed, distance and direction, confusing the enemy at sea.”

Perfect… because, for the past five seasons, we've been all at sea.

Some of our lads don't need camouflage kits to disappear from view, as a few of them manage to hide in plain sight most of the time.

I prefer the Pre-Raphaelite design.

Frankly, royal blue shirt and white shorts is all I want to see. I stopped buying replica kits when the prices got so daft and the club started to turn out 3 (one of which is always completely unnecessary) every year.

The whole point of a kit is to discern between the playing teams. The fashion and money-making side of the game (ie, the fleecing of fans) sickens me.

Any real news to report, guys? Signings?? Departures??? Didn't think so.

After looking at the Red Echo and seeing it in all it's glory, it's worse than I thought.

Anyone who has watched the video at the Echo, can they tell me what the stripey Everton shirt is around the 55-second mark? Looked rather like a blind person's pyjamas or similar?

They're not going to attempt to sell those, are they?

Stretches arms out wide and ..... yawwwwwwnnnnn.

- Dazzle shirts?
- Is it going to make it even harder for our guys to pick out their team mates?
- Looks okay but nothing special.
- It's Everton so I will like it. Of course.
- I don't buy shirts so you won't see me in one.
- Nice to see James fairly prominent tho'. Hope the match goers get to see him for real.
- Nothing more to add really.

Edit: PS The goalie kit is abominable. Poor Jordan.

After watching the launch video, I couldn't help but wonder whether any of the players that were featured would still be at the club next season.

Better effort, looks okay to me. But, as Tony @3 says, who gives a flying shite what they're wearing as long as it's blueish and they play good football?

I ordered last year's kits for a special family occasion last year. Ordered the stuff in early October with a delivery date given as November 16. Received nothing by Christmas and, when I asked them to send what they had,, the whole order got cancelled.

Ended up getting half of the stuff in late January – missed the occasion and disappointed some young would-be Evertonians.

Meanwhile, my Red in-laws can get their kits off the rack here in the States within a bloody week.

Everton Store service could not be worse. I'm trying to add to the club's fanbase and, bottom line, they make it difficult. Buyer beware.

Frankly, I don't like it but I don't hate it either. I think the away black shirt is super and I also like the goalkeeper's one.

Just a question though... in the 3rd second of the promo video for a moment it shows the Kallimarmaro Stadium in Athens. I used to live in the area behind it for many years in the past, is there a secret meaning that I miss?

Iakovos (19) - Yes, the hidden message is that, like the Ancient Greek Empire, the all-conquering Everton are something you can only read about in history books.

Maybe the Club think Richarlison is going to Mount Olympus rather than the Olympics

Denmark's revenge.

So true, Tony (20), unfortunately...

It makes Richarlison and Allan look like they put on a few extra pounds, so what hope do I have?

The blue one makes them look podgy.

Pickford will look a right twat, miskicking the ball whilst wearing that monstrosity!

Those shirts are pants!

Good thing that's happening as a visual marker to this whole episode.

And nice work Steve and Pat, well played.

That's what I like to say, Barry. It's not my body shape, it's just the colour doesn't do me any favours.

I hope making them look nice makes them play better, but it will take more than a new shirt to liven some of them up.

I must say, the video to promote it was crap, supposed to be advertising a new kit – not a history lesson that a lot of supporters don't understand.

Have to agree with Pete #18, he may find it hard in the States but you have a better chance of winning the lotto than get one in Canada. I have lived in New Brunswick, Canada, since 1985 and the only time I have seen an Everton shirt is when I look in the mirror to see mine.

Wearing replica shirts doesn't seem very popular at football, unlike rugby where every other spectator has one. Most fans don't even wear a blue and white scarf.

They are usually a nasty synthetic material so I won't be wearing one. Anything cotton would be okay.

It might be be James front and centre, and Richarlison and Allan looking more weighty but Richarlison is in the photos and I think he is in Brazil so I am guessing a photo shoot at the end of last season?

The double yellow lines on Pickford's shirt. Are they meant to stop Van Dijk from parking on him at the next derby?

Congratulations, Don (#31), on being the first to state the obvious.

How many of those three will still be with us when the season starts?

Worst looking keeper's shirt I have seen, the end of the double yellow lines look like they are holding his shorts up.

Would any other professional football club accept as we do big, full-length, yellow-stripes regardless of the cost?

But as for now putting them on our actual kit as well - Jeez!!

What a mess.

Guessing the ref will have to wear green.

Just happy to see James, Allan and Richarlison wearing them. All the best to all of them and especially James to get a lot more games than last season, and more goals and assists from Richarlison! COYB.

As much as it pisses me off to see the strip changed every year, and usually in three versions (money-making racket), I feel sorry for the Dads with a few kids who want at least two kits. I do like this one better than last year's one.

Like some have already mentioned, I would rather see them fully committed, from start to finish of the season, more than what they are wearing!

Lakovos, @19, hope eternal! But a good call out.

“Whats Our Name?”

Yep we can't live in the past and the future for Everton is now.

One truly awful shirt. How many shades of blue do you want when we play in royal blue? Who approved this? And the keepers' shirt is horrendous.

Who signs off on this shite? Blind Pugh?
Two colours; Blue, White, how hard can it be?

KISS.

Derek T, creased me there mate, that's commercialism for you, too much money in the game and treated as business first, football comes way down the list!

In the photo above, Allan looks very much like the keyboard player in Sparks.

This town ain't big enough for both of them, Eddie!

The Danes are getting revenge with another couple of awful kits.

The busy bee keeper kit dreadful, end of.

The blue home kit, oh no, more silly diagonal strips. Why do they insist on messing with it. I don't mind a subtle pattern, see the Danish red kit subtle stripes, but generally don't mess with our beautiful blue kit. Pesky Danes!

If you're pissed off about the kit, watch this it'll cheer you up no end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTnBwmANTS8&t=594s

The home kit fits in the category of okay. The functionality of the shirt is what matters: can your teammates see you well enough is the most important.
Did someone mention a black away strip? If that's true, I don't think that ticks many boxes.

Minik @38 & Derek Knox @39.

Looking at the players involved, including Pickford, this photo shoot was clearly taken prior to the Euros & Copa America and possibly even before Ancelotti's departure.

I agree on not changing the kit every year. Personally, I think every 2 years is sufficient. Always good to freshen up the look. If they want to introduce a new strip each summer, then keep the home and away for 2 seasons, but just stagger them in terms of release. That way, there is a new kit every year, but not two every year. And these days. they always have the irrelevant 3rd strip.

But then I'm no marketer or salesperson, so don't take my advice on how to make money out of a brand!!

It's not so bad but the goalkeeper's version is horrendous. Has anyone in authority informed the designer that his services won't be required next season?

A tsunami of complaining comments about everything from the shirt to our keeper's kicking ability. I absolutely love the black away shirt. These are ok but nothing special. I like Hummel generally though. Classy and retro. Far too many released but Everton no different from any other club there. I'm familiar with the term ‘Dazzle Ships' for that design though. I love it when Liverpool city history is included. I'll bet that's where local band OMD got the title for one of their albums ‘Dazzle Ships' as well.

I like Hummel to Paul. The black away kit is nice if I pretend that's not a red sash. I was a big fan of last season's Amber one.

Not too bad,but not a patch on our '78 shirt...never bettered imho.

With the way sadly our club is heading,am just surprised it isn't red!.

Everton FC play in Royal Blue and White end of. So what's with the varying shades of blue and the yellow bits. So now Hummel don't get the fan base either.

I forgot to say that the goalies shirt looks like something they wear in Australian Rules Football - not a good look.

Below is a short video of Everton's first outing under Benitez, not an official game though so it won't count in the record books.

Unofficial Friendly

Barry, it would be great if the sight of Jean-Philippe putting someone through on goal with a nice inside pass became a common thing!

Even now,I still think we should wear amber socks instead of white.

Maybe we should just change the shirts every decade...£65 notes for a long sleeved one...

Behave.

Compared to the 2020-21 season, I still prefer the season that had just passed.

My first reaction was probably a little underwhelming; though I suspect it could be one of those kits that grow on you...

I think little bits of yellow trimming can work out well, eg, the 2015-16 season, and the last season of Le Coq Sportif 2011-12, come to mind.

Ye Gods, these are truly horrible - an aesthetic nightmare dreamed up on a CSE art course by the severely untalented gigglers at the back of the classroom.