17/18 Kit

[DannyRovers]

http://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/celebratory-10-year-anniversary-shirt-3505957.aspx

What's everyone's thoughts on this?

Like the idea but got an awful feeling it will look horrible.

 

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Think it's a great idea.

I think Copps/5-1 will take some beating. Copps represents all that's been good about DRFC over the last 10 years. That night was unforgettable and inspirational. Even ended with Rovers fans clapping the Southend fans.

How that's represented on the shirt, I don't know.

[IDM]

Terrible idea.. just make a football kit and have done with it!!

[Copps is Magic]

It really depends on a lot of things how good it could look in the end. Placement, how big it is etc. If they're imaging it badge sized it could be doable.

As this years winner, I generally think we get the kit design process the wrong way round. FBT should produce real life mock-ups (i.e physical shirts) that then get chosen/voted upon. Someone with an eye for this kind of thing should oversee the whole process (probably someone independent of the club).

You'll never please everybody with shirt design though. A success would be pleasing 50% of the people. My design got slated at first, and I myself didn't think it turned out quite how I envisaged it but it looks good on Marquis.

[Copps is Magic]

I mean, this is how I always envisaged my kit being modeled.

[dknward2]

I think it could look great if each red hoop had a faded scene.

I.e playoff win vs Leeds on one
Jtp win cup being lifted
Copps hatrick vs Southend
Bellevue stadium from sky

[Copps is Magic]

I think it could look great if each red hoop had a faded scene.

I.e playoff win vs Leeds on one
Jtp win cup being lifted
Copps hatrick vs Southend
Bellevue stadium from sky

That could work, although I get the impression they're looking for games/moments exclusively at the Keepmoat.

[CrippyCooke]

I must admit that this sounds incredibly tacky.

[RedJ]

I think it could look great if each red hoop had a faded scene.

I.e playoff win vs Leeds on one
Jtp win cup being lifted
Copps hatrick vs Southend
Bellevue stadium from sky

That could work, although I get the impression they're looking for games/moments exclusively at the Keepmoat.

It said League One championship May 2013 so perhaps not - though we won it in April on the 27th, so someone hasn't done their homework...

[Copps is Magic]

Do they mean the trophy parade?

[Muttley]

Sounds horrendous, but then I've never bought or worn a Rovers shirt so I guess my view is fairly irrelevant.

[RedJ]

Do they mean the trophy parade?

I hope not cos that couldn't be a more pointless thing to depict.



I think these were just examples of things to suggest, anyway.

[drfchound]

Why not just save time and ask Louis Tomlinson what he thinks?

[Harrogate Rover]

.... or Granddad Len 

[PDX_Rover]

Why do we have to have a new kit every season? I know it's a money maker and of course you don't have to buy one but it's a bit daft IMO.

[knockers]

Does anyone really give a toss it's been ten years or ten and 2/3rds by the time the kit comes out. Let's look forwards and not back because having that we once beat sheff Utd 2-0 on a shirt is pretty lame

[MachoMadness]

Bit of a cheap marketing ploy and it will result in a terrible, terrible kit unless you go really abstract with it, and have something like each hoop representing a season and the promotion seasons can have gold borders around them or something. From reading that it doesn't sound like they're going to be that subtle with it.

I'll never forget Mark McCammon's first goal at the Keepmoat but I'd draw the line some way before buying a shirt with his face on or something.

If you want to turn it into an art project then make a shirt collage out of all those moments, frame it and put it in the Staff of Life or something.

[MrFrost]

Not holding my breath with anything FBT get their hands on.

[Bristol Red Rover]

Shite idea and so far, even worse planning. I'd feel so embarressed following a club with that b*llocks on its kit.

Are they suggesting it's just written somewhere? If so, that's such a neanderthal idea.

As said above, getting the dates wrong, even at this stage, is woeful. And the Sheffield game... wtf??! Does it come with a red nose and a balloon Donny Dog?

I think someone is getting above their abilities spurred on by a bunch of other clueless staff around the whole 10 years in the Keepmoat thing. The wall for 10 years of season tickets is a great idea, no doubt there's many other good ideas, but this bounced back out of the wastebin. PUT IT BACK!

This is a football club ffs, have some class. Please someone catch the culprit and put him/her right on the complex subject of "taste".

 

[PDX_Rover]

I've thought about this. It's not the best idea is it? Also, anyone know if they still sell Old Jamaica chocolate?

[IDM]

I just don't see how these events could be designed into a football shirt without it looking very odd..???

[German Rover]

If they want to do something why not something tasteful like keepmoat stadium 2007-2017 embroidered on the back of the shoulders?

[Lincoln Rover]

Why don't we wait and see what it looks like before we pre judge it?

[Metalmicky]

Why don't we wait and see what it looks like before we pre judge it?

Nope... shocking gimmick idea that won't work.

[silent majority]

I can see a lot of humble pie being eaten later this season.

[Mild Rover]

Terrible, TERRIBLE idea... We should be looking forward, not back. If Rovers win the league then perhaps acknowledge that but anything else would be far too cheesy.

[MachoMadness]

Why don't we wait and see what it looks like before we pre judge it?

You don't always need to see something to know it's a very bad idea. If you hired someone to build a house and they said they were going to build it with Jacob's Cream Crackers you wouldn't be happy, even if their response was "wait and see how it turns out".

Putting all this unnecessary shite on a shirt will only result in us being a laughing stock, potentially for years a la Arsenal's oil slick kit, or that rank Norwich one. As we already had the radio wave kit, I don't like the idea of us having TWO really rubbish kits in my lifetime.

No problem with this being commemorated, not even on some special jersey or shirt in the club shop really, but having it on the official kit smacks of a desperate PR stunt that will lumber us with a guff kit for a year, potentially with Lewis Guy's gurning smile peering out at you from behind the hoops just after scoring the equaliser against Coventry in our first Championship home game. Think about that.

[mushRTID]

It's not something I'd normally be excited about but il wait and see the result before moaning.

[Bristol Red Rover]

I can see a lot of humble pie being eaten later this season.

Why?

[CrippyCooke]

I can see a lot of humble pie being eaten later this season.

Couldn't you just elaborate on what the plans for the shirt are instead of alluding to something while adding nothing more?