Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

[Ray de Galles]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

Eggchaser wrote:

Also, epic levels of preciousness are being reached by Kiwis over the fact that England's away kit will be BLACK!

Are they though? All I've read is the ERFU bods making it clear how much they've checked with their NZ counterparts and they are fine with it.

Unlike France, it's not as if they can wear their black/almost black kit against NZ.

[Flynnie]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

Reed John wrote:

The cotton ones are better looking, but so were gridiron jerseys (I have a Jim Thorpe Rock Island Independents black one) as were flannel
Baseball jerseys and wool hockey sweaters, but they arent as practical for the actual game.

I've come to accept that it's ok for me to wear something in the team colors, etc, that is more suitable for sitting and watching as the players wear something suitable for what they are doing.

They wore cotton jerseys up until a couple years ago, so it's hardly comparable to flannel in that sense.

Anyway, most of the "performance" enhancement of these new bicycle shirts is overstated bollocks, in the same way scrum-halves all wore mitts about five years ago because it was claimed they made your pass better. People noticed that was a load of crap and nobody wears them anymore.

Anyway, half my objection is not only the fact I hate the aesthetics of the modern collarless bicycle top, it's also because the vast majority of the teams decided they were best adorned with designs that would be thrown out by the most low-budget Conference-level kit designer. Rugby tops have become a metaphor for the ultra-superficial bosh ball that has infested rugby in the last five years or so.

Canterbury made a lovely rugby shirt that was lighter, made from Temex and more form fitting so the gym bunnies could show off their muscles, but still looked like a rugby top. But that was when they were owned by New Zealanders instead of leveraged buyout artists from the UAE or worse, JD Sports (though they've actually come out with some OK-ish stuff).

[Eggchaser]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

Harry Truscott wrote:

Eggchaser wrote:

Also, epic levels of preciousness are being reached by Kiwis over the fact that England's away kit will be BLACK!

Are they though? All I've read is the ERFU bods making it clear how much they've checked with their NZ counterparts and they are fine with it.

I was more thinking about the fans and their PM who have looked very silly and shrill.

Anyway, those Fijian bastards stole our shirt colours! And New Zealand away! RRAAAAAGGGHH!

[Flynnie]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

Eggchaser wrote:

Harry Truscott wrote:

Eggchaser wrote:

Also, epic levels of preciousness are being reached by Kiwis over the fact that England's away kit will be BLACK!

Are they though? All I've read is the ERFU bods making it clear how much they've checked with their NZ counterparts and they are fine with it.

I was more thinking about the fans and their PM who have looked very silly and shrill.

Anyway, those Fijian bastards stole our shirt colours! And New Zealand away! RRAAAAAGGGHH!

To be fair, what France pulled was bullshit. If Wales wore a white top to fuck over England, there would be no end to the moaning. It's Nike marketing bollocks.

This is a bit different since it's an away top.

[Eggchaser]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

Well, Frenchmen everywhere can relax a bit, they're reverting to adidas after the World Cup, so hopefully some half decent shirts will be prepared for them.

[linus]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

Maybe Adidas anted back into the Hexagone after getting booted out of the FFF business.

Flynnie's rugby shirt would also be a great pattern for a Hawaiian team, given the 50th state's flag:

[Eggchaser]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

New England kit proves to be surprisingly decent, barring fucking white fucking socks and mandatory away strip to be worn against such easily confusable opponents as Wales.



Maybe France's kit was Nike's farewell "Fuck you" to the team for having the audacity to look elsewhere.

[Reed John]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

The black is a bit BFBS. Shouldn't England be red? Red and white reflect the Tudor Rose, or the Templar cross, or the cross of St George, right?

[Eggchaser]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

England have no "traditional" away kit because untl we started playing Fiji, no other team with a white shirt was out there. We've had black before, red, navy blue, purple and "anthracite". I think the reason it's black is for Nike to poke adidas in the eye, given the host nation's colours.

The thread about this on planet-rugby has reached 12 pages and shows no signs of stopping, as a load of new trolls have signed up to flood the board with their precious gibberish. The old NZ lags find the reaction embarrassing and amusing judging from what I've read.

By the way, terrible photoshopping on the press release. And Ashton appears to be wearing a wig.

[ursus arctos]

Dressed like a Frenchman's nightmare

It looks like the cover for a low budget gay porno.