Torquay United Fans Forum

sam wrote:I know I am old school but still think away kits should only be used when the colours clash. As we are distinctive,not a ubiquitous blue or red shirt, it would not be that often. I don't know how much we make on the sale of away shirts but the shirt with our proper colours may sell more if it can represent the Torquay team thats playing in the same design in 45 games out of 46. We should be standing on the terraces at Accrington et al resplendent in our lovely blue and yellow colours, wearing our blue and yellow scarves and bobble hats the same colour of the team we are actually supporting out there on the pitch. These are our tribal colours and when we go away, we should unite as one yellow and blue army and that includes the players.

I agree with that. Last season Exeter wore pale blue against us, whereas their red and white would probably have contrasted more. It used to be that the 'away' kit was simply a 'change' kit but it does almost seem that they are now worn away even where no clash occurs.

The worst I ever saw, was many years ago when Middlesbrough didn't wear their red kit in an away match at Man City and instead wore dark blue.

I dont mind the new logo. Looks much better than the "world" on the Sparkworld ones. Big, blue plastic "blob" was never very attractive.

Having said that, would like to thank Sparkworld for their support over the years.

My thinking is, if you have a light colour home shirt, then you need a dark colour away strip. If the colours dont clash then I see no reason to change. I would much prefer, if possible, to see TUFC play in yellow, yellow/white. The strips should not be classed as "Home or "Away" but a 1st and 2nd kit. 2nd kit only to be used away if there is a clash. To be honest, what you DON'T need is stripped/quartered/halved shirts. That makes is difficult for the away team.

Who remembers the Burton away game last season? We played in our "away" strip of navy blue.Completley clashed with Burtons home kit.

I know I am old school but still think away kits should only be used when the colours clash. As we are distinctive,not a ubiquitous blue or red shirt, it would not be that often. I don't know how much we make on the sale of away shirts but the shirt with our proper colours may sell more if it can represent the Torquay team thats playing in the same design in 45 games out of 46. We should be standing on the terraces at Accrington et al resplendent in our lovely blue and yellow colours, wearing our blue and yellow scarves and bobble hats the same colour of the team we are actually supporting out there on the pitch. These are our tribal colours and when we go away, we should unite as one yellow and blue army and that includes the players.

Personally, I think that there should be TWO kits per club, and regulations dictating a range of colours that your away shirt must be chosen from depending on the primary colour(s) of your home shirt. I remember a couple of seasons a go, Barcelona had an away shirt that was basically their home colours with the blue a little more prevalent. Absolute joke, all just an attempt to gain a slight advantage.

Yellow4life wrote:It's up to the away club to change shirts, it shouldn't of been us

That's why the bloke responsible is such a c*ck. Not only did they turn up with a kit that would obviously clash but they didn't have their home kit with them to change into either so it had to be us who switched shirts or play in skins.

It's up to the away club to change shirts, it shouldn't of been us

I would love a sky blue 3rd strip! If it potentially means more money for the club then why not. I would go as far to say I'd prefer a sky blue colour more so for our 2nd strip than the existing dark colour we have. Lets wait and see!

Away kits are fine but 3rd ones are taking the p*ss. Should a side coming to Plainmoor have colours that clash with ours then we should switch to our away shirt as happened in the ridiculous game that was Northampton at home last season where they wore their illuminous yellowy/greeny shirt and eventually we had to change into our dark away shirts. Quite who made the decision to let Northampton travel down to Torquay with a kit that obviously would have clashed with ours needs to be fired and dumped into a deep disused canal with a lifejacket and a big sign around his neck saying, "don't rescue me". Most kit men who work for clubs who play in yellow, faded green or similar would take their away kits and if their away kits were these colours then they should take their home kits.

In actual fact, I don't know why i'm writing this because so long as clubs have 2 kits of different colour then there should never be an issue with colour clashes and nor is there any need whatsoever for a 3rd kit unless it's a commemorative special release or something like that. I want the club to make money Steve but I 99 times out of a 100 buy a home shirt out of routine the only exception being our last one as I just thought it was absolutely horrendous in every department and I don't even think the club deserved my money for letting something as horrendous as that hit the shelves. I rarely buy away shirts unless they are reduced or just so likeable that I can't resist (none have fitted into this category in the last several years though ) so a 3rd kit would have to be the absolute dogs to make me buy it and given our track record for appalling kits and ballsing up with the designs etc then that is unlikely so it's debatable how much the club would actually make if the 3rd shirt was plain and boring like the current away shirt.

New shirts = money into the club.

Are you really suggesting we don't need the money?

Am I the only one who thinks away kits are complete tosh. I know its the trend but is it an actual requirement from the Football League that teams have to have two kits. We play in yellow and blue and out of the remaining 23 teams in the league, on how many occasions does our kit clash with the home team, not many. It's OK for Man U etc to make more money at the expense of their prawn sandwich eating fans but can't we just play in our colours.

Suggest we ask Andy Candy.

Behind-the-Gulls wrote:We are also going to have a third choice strip next year-Sky Blue(as per Coventry),in case away kit causes colour clash problems.

Interesting! Will this one by available to purchase or will it just be an emergency one??

We are also going to have a third choice strip next year-Sky Blue(as per Coventry),in case away kit causes colour clash problems.

OK thanks buddy, silly me eh.....