WTF: new Ireland Away shirt- blue caracao?!?

Wheeker

(apologies if someone has already posted this).

God I hate it when they start messing with the tradtional colours:
http://www.elverys.ie/Product/INF%20Pum%20IR10R%20Aw%20Kit%20BlueCaracNv%20Turq/209163/0000000038 It looks more like an Italy shirt! :eek:

I'm trying to remember, when do we play in the "away" shirt- only when we have South Africa at home?

Random

it's ****ing awful. it used to be labeled as the third strip. looks like they changed it. what was wrong with the ****ing white!

samhail

i dont really like it either. say it in elverys over the weekend.
its too girly i think

subfreq

It looks like a training top.

cson

What is with the ever so gay promo pics as well? I'm embarrassed for them!

eeyore2502

Seen it for the first time today in real life and oh my god is all I can say!!

chris85

seen it at the weekend. Its terrible. They finally got a good colour for the home jersey and now they mess with the alternative one.

Diabhal Beag

It isn't the same blue as the training top. It's so gay looking.

FridaysWell

From the start we should have kept the old Canterbury sponsorship.
I'd say by now we would have a verrrryy nice jersey, some proper kit and a decent brand too...

buck65

Who are those hot male models? And why are they so happy? That photo needs Mick Galwey.

ki

The last away shirt with O2 as sponsors looked very like the English shirt.

And I don't think white has being very lucky for any of our international teams, soccer included.

It still is NOT a great shirt.

davidpfitz

I think we should wear orange as our alternative strip. It doesn't clash with any other major teams, and in all fairness the Ulster boys from the 6 counties should have a bit of representation. If we're going to view Irish rugby as an 32 county sport, then I think it would be good to give a nod to the fact that not everyone on the team is 'green' and playing in orange the odd time would be a good thing.

Riskymove

davidpfitz wrote: »

I think we should wear orange as our alternative strip. It doesn't clash with any other major teams, and in all fairness the Ulster boys from the 6 counties should have a bit of representation. If we're going to view Irish rugby as an 32 county sport, then I think it would be good to give a nod to the fact that not everyone on the team is 'green' and playing in orange the odd time would be a good thing.

just a point....what colour do Northern Ireland play in?.......what colour do Ulster play in?

Riskymove

ki wrote: »

The last away shirt with O2 as sponsors looked very like the English shirt.

And I don't think white has being very lucky for any of our international teams, soccer included.

It still is NOT a great shirt.

the white strip is still the away strip


this new one in the thrid strip and will rarely feature

ireland will play in Green against SA in November as they agreed to this when the fixture was arranged....i.e. to mark first game at new stadium


I have seen it in the flesh and I think its alright as a bit of Rugby fashion a la some of the french stuff

i certainly wouldnt want them playing in it every week though

youcancallmeal

I like it :P

JonnyF

i like it too

Wheeker

Riskymove wrote: »

the white strip is still the away strip


this new one in the thrid strip and will rarely feature

ireland will play in Green against SA in November as they agreed to this when the fixture was arranged....i.e. to mark first game at new stadium


I have seen it in the flesh and I think its alright as a bit of Rugby fashion a la some of the french stuff

i certainly wouldnt want them playing in it every week though

Oh right- I didn't grasp this. The website lists the white strip as "09" & the blue strip as "10" so I presumed the blue strip was the new 2010/11 away strip.

Not so bad if it's just leisure wear, but I would hate if the team actually played in it.

davidpfitz

Riskymove wrote: »

just a point....what colour do Northern Ireland play in?

In rugby? Green.

.......what colour do Ulster play in?

White, mainly. But that doesn't mean a whole lot. Munster play in red, and we don't have that in the national flag.

I just don't think that people should be afraid of the national team playing in Orange. It's a part of the fabric of the whole island, part of the tricolour flag too. So, it ought to suit everyone.

White is just pretty awful - boring (like England).

Riskymove

davidpfitz wrote: »

In rugby? Green.

and in soccer

I just don't think that people should be afraid of the national team playing in Orange. It's a part of the fabric of the whole island, part of the tricolour flag too. So, it ought to suit everyone.

I dont have a problem with an orange jersey

my point is that green and white strips represent the whole island and Northern players should be just as comfortable in green or white as those from the South

orange is not part of Ulster/NI team colours AFAIK

davidpfitz

Riskymove wrote: »

and in soccer

Who cares? Different sport, different ethos in terms of how we play it as a country / island etc.

orange is not part of Ulster/NI team colours AFAIK

And nor is the green that we wear as a national team represented in the provincial colours (the Connaught one is quite a different shade) ... I don't think the provincial colours need to be represented as part of the national team - the national team should represent the whole of the island, and I just think that wearing orange would be a nice way to do that!

In the same way that I am not mad on the national anthem being sung before home games (if the team played in Ravenhill, do you think everyone would be happy with God Save the Queen being played?), I just think that the players and supporters from the North get a bit of a raw deal and would like to see things evened out a bit. Perhaps a dash of orange on the main strip!

twinytwo

davidpfitz wrote: »

Who cares? Different sport, different ethos in terms of how we play it as a country / island etc.



And nor is the green that we wear as a national team represented in the provincial colours (the Connaught one is quite a different shade) ... I don't think the provincial colours need to be represented as part of the national team - the national team should represent the whole of the island, and I just think that wearing orange would be a nice way to do that!

In the same way that I am not mad on the national anthem being sung before home games (if the team played in Ravenhill, do you think everyone would be happy with God Save the Queen being played?), I just think that the players and supporters from the North get a bit of a raw deal and would like to see things evened out a bit. Perhaps a dash of orange on the main strip!

its a joke we can only sing it at home games.. but thats for a different day. That jersey is mank.. simple as

enda1

Green and White are the colours of the IRFU.

The whole point of the thing is not to make it political, so where does orange come into things!?

toomevara

Folks,If you want to continue this debate, take it to the politics/soc/culture forums. This is not the place.

RepublicanEagle

What?Northern Ireland don't have a rugby team,if they have any at all it would just be for the Commonwealth games.

[Jackass]

Very homo-erotic.

LETS BE AVN IT

Anyone clear this up , is this our new away shirt and the white one is not anymore? Are we ever going to wear it? why would they get rid of white ?

Cool_CM

Saw it in shops yesterday, a disgusting jersey.They used another blue jersey for the Bayonne match before the last world cup too, was a bit nicer, but not by much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLoExeByUiE

BTW: Apologies for the choice of clip, it's the only one I could find where you can see the jersey properly.

Sprocket77

I think the shirt designers in Puma must be colour blind, was gutted when I saw it in Elvery's.

Diom

It's just NOT a national color, regardless of political divides and imaginary lines in the ground.

Green, white, orange should really be the only colors even considered. The orange representing the protestant traditions is absolutely fine by me. But turquoise? What does that represent?
I know that there is blue in the provincial flags of Connacht and Leinster, but both of those are royal blues.

Sprocket77

Diom wrote: »

It's just NOT a national color, regardless of political divides and imaginary lines in the ground.

Green, white, orange should really be the only colors even considered. The orange representing the protestant traditions is absolutely fine by me. But turquoise? What does that represent?
I know that there is blue in the provincial flags of Connacht and Leinster, but both of those are royal blues.

Who really cares what it represents, it's just plain and simple a hideous jersey and I wouldn't wear it if you paid me, not the exact thinking you want fans to have if you're marketing a new jersey.

oniondublin

My understanding was that international rugby teams don't have "home" and "away" jerseys. All teams have their primary jersey and an alternative one.

The alternative is always white (unless the primary jersey is also white, of course) and is only worn in games where the two teams' jerseys clash. In this case, the home team wears their alternative one, as a show of respect to the visitors. You get the odd exception, like the forthcoming match with SA in the new Lansdowne Rd.

This new effort wouldn't work very well as an alternative jersey, as it is quite close to green and could potentially still clash with a green opposition.

Cool Mo D

Diom wrote: »

It's just NOT a national color, regardless of political divides and imaginary lines in the ground.

Blue very much IS a national colour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick's_Blue

Diom

Cool Mo D wrote: »

Blue very much IS a national colour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick's_Blue

The turquoise is not a national color. You have a light blue in Connacht (sometimes a royal blue), a royal blue in Leinster, a royal blue on the presidential flag.

Either way, as someone replied earlier, it's a horrible color and not a nice jersey regardless.

funky penguin

Whats scaring me is the amount of people I've seen wearing it.