New GAA Jerseys 2020

20-02-2020 8:25pm

mitchelsontour wrote: »

That looks like an older version before the black and tan monstrosity. The new away one is a lighter shade of blue than that and has lime green accents

Yeah I think the new one was only launched this week.

KrustyUCC · 20-02-2020 8:44pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficialCorkGAA/status/1230573060404760588

New Cork Jersey for next two weekends

20-02-2020 8:46pm

That looks as class as I hoped.

Mushy · 20-02-2020 8:47pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

That looks as class as I hoped.

Pity bout the sponsor still being on it.

Concept is class, very hard to do black and red badly though

Pablo Escobar · 20-02-2020 8:57pm

A better view of it here:

https://twitter.com/setanta_beag/status/1230580498176577541?s=21

BonnieSituation · 21-02-2020 2:15am

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Really?

I was probably at that game. Fecked if I can remember who was wearing what.

But, since 1992, Donegal have been in gold with green whereas Leitrim have been primarily green. I can't recall any change being required, certainly can't recall Donegal wearing gold and black (like they would have in 1990/1991 vs Meath and like Down wore against Cork in 2010.

That Down shirt is one of my all-time favourites. Class combination and design

Loved their normal shirt as well.

Say Your Number · 22-02-2020 7:15pm

Was at the Sligo Waterford game today, clash of jersies, Waterford in blue and Sligo were wearing their 17/18 black jersey, don't think I've seen an team go back to a old jersey like that.

KildareBlue · 22-02-2020 7:19pm

Gaelic Armour and McKeever are now officially licensed suppliers by the GAA, meaning they can supply jerseys and leisurewear for county and club teams.

McKeever have had a few county teams on board over the years in Ladies' Football, such as Cork and Armagh. I'm not aware of Gaelic Armour being official suppliers for the LGFA or Camogie Association, but I think some GAA clubs and colleges have used them for leisurewear, and the gear looks okay.

It'll be interesting to see how they get on. With O'Neills' almost complete domination of the county scene, it'd be nice to see someone else break in, but then, Kukri's venture into GAA gear was very short-lived, so it's hard to say.

CrabRevolution · 22-02-2020 8:05pm

Seems Meath now have green shorts for the white keeper jersey.

I like this development, as we usually seem to be one of the most conservative counties in Ireland with our colours. Surprised we even have a white goalie jersey considering that for the last few years we've had a green "alternative" jersey for use when our outfield players wear yellow. Precious little imagination....

mountgomery burns · 22-02-2020 9:06pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

Was at the Sligo Waterford game today, clash of jersies, Waterford in blue and Sligo were wearing their 17/18 black jersey, don't think I've seen an team go back to a old jersey like that.

Why was there a clash? Have Sligo changed to a white home Jersey?

Say Your Number · 22-02-2020 9:16pm

mountgomery burns wrote: »

Why was there a clash? Have Sligo changed to a white home Jersey?

Yeah since last year, you won't see much of it this year either.

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mountgomery burns · 22-02-2020 9:44pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

Yeah since last year, you won't see much of it this year either.

What was the thinking behind that? Strange to change dominant colour

Say Your Number · 22-02-2020 9:50pm

Don't know what prompted the change, I prefered the black, hope they change back next year.

theoneeyedman · 22-02-2020 10:05pm

mountgomery burns wrote: »

What was the thinking behind that? Strange to change dominant colour

Always (?) were black - xhwnged for a qualifier game that they won in the late 90's (Kildare?) and for superstition and marketing reason held on to the black.

After losing at home to Waterford, they should probably change again.

mountgomery burns · 22-02-2020 11:28pm

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Always (?) were black - xhwnged for a qualifier game that they won in the late 90's (Kildare?) and for superstition and marketing reason held on to the black.

After losing at home to Waterford, they should probably change again.

Except they wore black today according to the poster above

KildareBlue · 17-10-2020 1:39am

A few new jerseys have come out over the last couple of days.

Dublin Home

Dublin Goalkeeper
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Down Home

Down Goalkeeper

Not a big fan of any of these. The goalkeeper jerseys look slightly better than the home versions in my opinion, even though the designs are largely the same. There's a white/grey version of the Dublin jersey as well, which I think may have been the away goalkeeper jersey, but I can't find a picture of it at the moment.

Armagh's new jersey will be unveiled on 1st November, and that will be the first men's intercounty jersey produced by McKeever.

BonnieSituation · 17-10-2020 1:43am

I like that Down shirt. Why O'Neill's have to add "just one more thing" is beyond me.

The Dublin shirt would be grand without the "flourish".

looking forward to seeing the Armagh shirt now. Some of McKeevers retro shirts have been decent tbh.

And their Cork LGFA shirts aren't bad.

Say Your Number · 17-10-2020 1:48am

That Down jersey isn't far off Sligo/Kilcoo template from 2 years ago.

Realt Dearg Sec · 17-10-2020 8:56am

Dublin jersey looks like it got caught next to the element in the dryer.

BloodyBill · 17-10-2020 11:03am

BonnieSituation wrote: »

That Down shirt is one of my all-time favourites. Class combination and design

Loved their normal shirt as well.

That Down Jersey was a crime against humanity.

17-10-2020 11:44am

Was that not just incorporating the Ulster jersey colour into it? I think I remember teams doing that before, or even just wearing the provincial one.

KrustyUCC · 17-10-2020 12:01pm

Yeah Down used to wear Ulster colours when clashes occurred

They just reversed the red to the yellow of Ulster

https://inpho.ie/assignment/All-Ireland-Football-Semi-Final-Cork-vs-Down-1994/JVBztpHnkM68JBNTPhG9tg..a

BonnieSituation · 17-10-2020 12:09pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Was that not just incorporating the Ulster jersey colour into it? I think I remember teams doing that before, or even just wearing the provincial one.

Yup. Sure, even Donegal do it by changing the green trim on their jerseys to black.

It's one of my favourite inter county traditions. Though, it only seems to happen with Ulster and Munster counties. And sure, maybe I wouldn't fancy Dublin wearing green truth be told.

KildareBlue · 21-10-2020 12:36am

Armagh's new home and goalkeeper jerseys

The design is simple enough, but that's not too surprising based on any of McKeever's club jerseys that I've seen to date. The monochrome crest looks unusual to me, though.

BonnieSituation · 21-10-2020 2:12am

Had a poke around and I can't see if it's a new badge for Armagh GAA or just the current one recoloured.

The video on the Twitter account shows the badge in orange on all the gear the players wear including bags and tracksuits.

We'll see closer images over the coming days I guess.

KildareBlue · 21-10-2020 7:18am

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Had a poke around and I can't see if it's a new badge for Armagh GAA or just the current one recoloured.

The video on the Twitter account shows the badge in orange on all the gear the players wear including bags and tracksuits.

We'll see closer images over the coming days I guess.

It's the current one recoloured, judging by the video. There were a couple of close-up shots of the crest on that, and bar the colour, there doesn't seem to be any other differences to the design.

There was also a black monochrome version of the crest on one of the tracksuit tops in that video.

It looks like it's due to go on sale on 1st November, so if there was any reasoning behind the recolour, we may find out then.

It doesn't seem to be going down too well with some supporters online anyway!

statto25 · 21-10-2020 7:52am

For all the fanfare that jersey is hugely uninspiring. I wonder has the changed colours on the crest anything to do with O'Neills licensing of county crests?

henke · 21-10-2020 8:05am

Dublin seem to get exclusivity on jersey designs from O'Neills and they always get to keep the collar nowadays on every jersey. I don't know why no other of the top teams get collars it tends to be the standard round neck. Just something unusual I have noticed every time they launch a jersey.

BonnieSituation · 21-10-2020 10:54am

statto25 wrote: »

For all the fanfare that jersey is hugely uninspiring. I wonder has the changed colours on the crest anything to do with O'Neills licensing of county crests?

I would have assumed after the last round of rationalisation that the County Board would have had the rights to their own logo.

If not, you would have thought that when changing to McKeever, that this would have been factored into it and that Armagh CB would have investigated getting a new badge/logo designed. It would be a very appropriate time to do so tbf.

henke wrote: »

Dublin seem to get exclusivity on jersey designs from O'Neills and they always get to keep the collar nowadays on every jersey. I don't know why no other of the top teams get collars it tends to be the standard round neck. Just something unusual I have noticed every time they launch a jersey.

Do you mean unique designs? I would hope so given we are O'Neill's cash cow.

The 2009 shirt was our only shirt that was sans collar and it was an abomination.

Nothing stopping other counties requesting it I guess. I'm very glad that we do. Nice we keep some sort of tradition with the jersey and it looks much better.

henke · 21-10-2020 1:29pm

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Do you mean unique designs? I would hope so given we are O'Neill's cash cow.

The 2009 shirt was our only shirt that was sans collar and it was an abomination.

Nothing stopping other counties requesting it I guess. I'm very glad that we do. Nice we keep some sort of tradition with the jersey and it looks much better.

Yeah that makes sense I would imagine they sell multiples of any other county. I just find it interesting no other county gets collars you could nearly predict roughly what most counties new jersey will look like if another one has already launched one. I wish O'Neills would give a few more counties collars and unique designs. Tyrone and Monaghan are two Div 1 sides with essentially the same jersey with only the trim colour changed although I wouldn't imagine either are massive sellers.

BonnieSituation · 21-10-2020 3:27pm

henke wrote: »

Yeah that makes sense I would imagine they sell multiples of any other county. I just find it interesting no other county gets collars you could nearly predict roughly what most counties new jersey will look like if another one has already launched one. I wish O'Neills would give a few more counties collars and unique designs. Tyrone and Monaghan are two Div 1 sides with essentially the same jersey with only the trim colour changed although I wouldn't imagine either are massive sellers.

The funny thing is there was a "short collar" on a lot of templates a while back, so it wasn't a case of cheapening it up.

I'm sure each CB has some sort of consultation to find out the preferred designs for new gear. Though with the age-range of CB membership being what it was, I can see how certain monstrosities have been let through!

That Cork, Kerry and Galway haven't had collars in a long long time, it says to me that it's a deliberate ploy from O'Neill's to cut costs somewhat.

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O'Neill's new retro-gear with collars are class though tbf. It's just a shame that our shirt is that bloody pinstriped one from 1983. The wexford one is a thing of beauty.

henke · 21-10-2020 5:19pm

BonnieSituation wrote: »

The funny thing is there was a "short collar" on a lot of templates a while back, so it wasn't a case of cheapening it up.

I'm sure each CB has some sort of consultation to find out the preferred designs for new gear. Though with the age-range of CB membership being what it was, I can see how certain monstrosities have been let through!

That Cork, Kerry and Galway haven't had collars in a long long time, it says to me that it's a deliberate ploy from O'Neill's to cut costs somewhat.

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O'Neill's new retro-gear with collars are class though tbf. It's just a shame that our shirt is that bloody pinstriped one from 1983. The wexford one is a thing of beauty.

Yeah your point on costs is probably what I think is the case and Dublin CB probably have more bargaining power for input on getting a unique design as they sell the most. I would say some lesser counties are told to choose from select templates. Kerry too being a top county probably are allowed input their 2018 was designed by Paul Galvin and although has no collar it is a classic and and one of the nicest from the last few years. Don't know what went wrong with their latest effort. They also have the old school numbers on the back which is nice.

I agree some of that retro gear is lovely. I would imagine O'Neills will sell well with those.

Realt Dearg Sec · 21-10-2020 5:31pm

henke wrote: »

I would say some lesser counties are told to choose from select templates.

If that was the case couldn't they just threaten to go with a different producer? Waterford went with someone else for years and had perfectly nice jerseys every year. I know O'Neill's at one stage wanted to get rid of the stripes in the KK jersey and were promptly told to go and ****e, so it's not like they don't have some bargaining power.

As for the collars specifically, my assumption was it was just a case of following a trend, rugby jerseys for years doubled as casual wear, with the collar etc, all of which was replaced with collarless, and the GAA kind of followed suit.

henke · 21-10-2020 7:31pm

Yeah perhaps the collarless is a trend it occurs in soccer a lot now also. It was just an observation that Dublin have kept it on jersey after jersey. I think azzurri who are Waterford based do their jersey they had a few other counties in the past but I'd think off all the Irish suppliers O'Neills would have better financial offerings to county boards. Kilkenny without stripes wouldn't be right.

KildareBlue · 23-10-2020 9:59am

Monaghan's new jerseys were revealed this morning, making it four counties that have unveiled new jerseys in the last week or so.

Home

Goalkeeper

Both of these jerseys feature the crest of Monaghan GFC New York on the back.

elefant · 23-10-2020 10:03am

KildareBlue wrote: »

Both of these jerseys feature the crest of Monaghan GFC New York on the back.

They have a club crest on their county jersey? Very odd.

KildareBlue · 23-10-2020 10:42am

elefant wrote: »

They have a club crest on their county jersey? Very odd.

Oddly enough, the club in New York are the Monaghan county team's second-tier sponsor: https://www.monaghangaa.ie/2019/12/monaghan-gaa-announce-new-2nd-tier-sponsor-club-monaghan-nyc/

23-10-2020 11:52am

Shows how bad things are that the main jersey sponsor isn't even in the country.

BonnieSituation · 23-10-2020 12:27pm

Sure, Roscommon had amain sponsor based in the States who allow them to stick Club Rossie on the front.

Investec obviously deciding that the local link to MD/Marketing guy not enough to justify anymore. Is he still there?

Blue collar and cuffs would have made the home shirt "pop" as they say.

All-Boro's logo is a travesty.

fullstop · 25-10-2020 1:36am

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Shows how bad things are that the main jersey sponsor isn't even in the country.

Yeah like Monaghan is such a hub of massive businesses, massive shock it is.

Realt Dearg Sec · 25-10-2020 4:55am

fullstop wrote: »

Yeah like Monaghan is such a hub of massive businesses, massive shock it is.

I didn't get the sense he was making fun of Monaghan, he was decrying the general problem in the country, especially in more rural counties, in terms of securing sponsorship. The gap between what big counties get from sponsors and the scrabble the small ones go through just to get a sponsor at all is incredible. No need to be defensive.

25-10-2020 11:58am

Is our next Gaa president not based in America.

statto25 · 25-10-2020 12:47pm

fullstop wrote: »

Yeah like Monaghan is such a hub of massive businesses, massive shock it is.

He said country, not county

25-10-2020 12:53pm

I have no issues with Monaghan as a county or football team. I just think it’s a bad situation that there’s no sponsorship available here for a county that would have to be regarded as one of the higher profile ones (regular quarter finalists, ulster finals, etc). You could understand if it was a division 4 team or a Meagher/Rackard/Ring hurling team or something.

Hawkeye9212 · 25-10-2020 1:52pm

Fred Daly wrote: »

Is our next Gaa president not based in America.

He's moving back to Ireland to take up the role.

Hawkeye9212 · 25-10-2020 1:56pm

Not a fan of the new Monaghan jersey. It would be nice if O'Neills had more competition but the Irish made rule makes it difficult.

physioman · 25-10-2020 1:59pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I have no issues with Monaghan as a county or football team. I just think it’s a bad situation that there’s no sponsorship available here for a county that would have to be regarded as one of the higher profile ones (regular quarter finalists, ulster finals, etc). You could understand if it was a division 4 team or a Meagher/Rackard/Ring hurling team or something.

The sponsor is a friend of bantys. I dont think the monaghan co board could afford to turn down a lucrative sponsorship deal.

physioman · 25-10-2020 2:00pm

Hawkeye9212 wrote: »

Not a fan of the new Monaghan jersey. It would be nice if O'Neills had more competition but the Irish made rule makes it difficult.

Agree. Their last Jersey was the best design. The squares on the new Jersey just look ridiculous

DuffleBag · 28-10-2020 11:54pm

New Kilkenny jersey?

theoneeyedman · 29-10-2020 12:01am

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I have no issues with Monaghan as a county or football team. I just think it’s a bad situation that there’s no sponsorship available here for a county that would have to be regarded as one of the higher profile ones (regular quarter finalists, ulster finals, etc). You could understand if it was a division 4 team or a Meagher/Rackard/Ring hurling team or something.

Kind of a ridiculous argument really..... where are their previous sponsor, Investec based? Or indeed AIG? Would you say the same about Manchester United? Barcelona?

New GAA Jerseys 2020

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