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Quote from: DonnyBazR0ver on July 01, 2021, 04:43:51 pmDepends what generation you started to watch Rovers. 60s, going into 70s etc, I just recall us being predominantly white with red trim. Then, going to all red shirts and white shorts. I wasn't aware really of any tradition or identity relating to hoops. With various stabs at it along the way, it was JR I think who really championed the hoops. However, I think we all know the identity GB wad referring to, and that's the brand of football rather than the kit. I would imagine the average football fan who pays an interest to this sort of thing would associate us with good football, eventhough sometimes it's just been an aspirational thing. I can't imagine many seeing us as a hoofball club. The owners have generally seen it through and try to appoint managers who want to play good football and I'm glad we have. Some owners don't seem to give a monkeys what kind of football is played, as long as they think it's winning football. Yes I suppose if your team plays in a strip that looks a kin to pyjamas and win that’s fine .., BUT if you loose .
Depends what generation you started to watch Rovers. 60s, going into 70s etc, I just recall us being predominantly white with red trim. Then, going to all red shirts and white shorts. I wasn't aware really of any tradition or identity relating to hoops. With various stabs at it along the way, it was JR I think who really championed the hoops. However, I think we all know the identity GB wad referring to, and that's the brand of football rather than the kit. I would imagine the average football fan who pays an interest to this sort of thing would associate us with good football, eventhough sometimes it's just been an aspirational thing. I can't imagine many seeing us as a hoofball club. The owners have generally seen it through and try to appoint managers who want to play good football and I'm glad we have. Some owners don't seem to give a monkeys what kind of football is played, as long as they think it's winning football.
The first Rovers kit I ever saw was a plain white one with Beazer Homes pasted on the front, so I had no concept of that tradition until we reverted to hoops in 2001/2.
The problem was back then Rovers had no traditional kit beyond the colours red and white. The season after plain white they moved to red and navy. There was a confusion there.
Quote from: River Don on July 01, 2021, 11:35:36 pmThe problem was back then Rovers had no traditional kit beyond the colours red and white. The season after plain white they moved to red and navy. There was a confusion there.There was a real identity crisis around that time. That red and navy was a total rebrand, and they even got rid of the Viking after a little to-do with the Supporters Club (they stopped them using it, so the Club took the astute, and fairly inflammatory move to copyright the logo as the club had failed to ever do so) and we ended up with a shield on one side and a weird Thundercats logo on the other side - i was never sure which one was the official club logo.Not long after that (maybe the next season) all was forgiven and it was back to the Viking and hoops, and it has stayed that way since. JR tried to introduce the black to make up look a bit more like Man Utd I believe - and I must admit i've always preferred the kits with a bit of black to compliment the hoops.
Can the club produce the "fake kits" for sale? They would all sell well in the shop.
Quote from: Barmby Rover on July 02, 2021, 10:36:45 amCan the club produce the "fake kits" for sale? They would all sell well in the shop.I'll admit it. When I read that initially I thought it didn't say "kits" and I wondered if we'd gone back to the days of JR.
Can the club produce the "fake kits" for sale? They would all sell well in the shop.
Call me a cynic but right now this looks like it could be pretty commercially astute. Seems to be plenty of people who like it and will buy it, but also plenty of dissenters so when the club turns around in a year’s time and say they want to revert back to a more traditional hooped design closer to our identity they’ll sell plenty of those as a result.
Sorry to harp on guys - do we still get discount on shirts with a season ticket ??
I like it, for a season or so. then back to our standard. I don't buy shirts tbh, so its not me they are trying to entice. My son will get one for his birthday though.
I seem to remember the club stopping the supporters clubs using the logo on their merchandise - and yes i think it was the Retford branch rather astutely found out the copyright had not been maintained/applied for and as a reaction copyrighted it (there was not suggestion the club were not allowed to use it). Club didn't like it and changed the logo for a season