Torquay United Fans Forum

[quote="chunkygull"]Whoa there, I didnt actually say I like them, I just dont hate them as much as I first did. The shirt actually doesnt look too bad up close, but on the pitch and on tv it looks awful. It doesnt work. There is obviously good reason why no other teams wear a shirt like it!

I mainly hate it because to me it is not a Torquay United kit. We must go back to yellow shirts, blue shorts and yellow socks next time surely.Thats a Torquay United kit!

Some rough ideas of what I would like to see and how a Torquay United kit should be -

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and at the very worst, if we must have some white, if they insist on it again, this -

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Just swap the green bits for blue.[/quote]

love the brazil kit, think itd look really good with our badge and the green bits blue as you said. I do a bit of design and wanted to submit some ideas but they already get them set by the manufacturer :(

[quote="hector"]I think it depends when you started watching Torquay. For me, the first game I saw was in the 70s with the Scalectrix kit and the 80s with Steve Cooper and Bukta. White kits with yellow and blue as accent colours, so I have always liked it when we have white in our kit.

The stripes are unique. That's the thing I like about them. [b]I don't know another team that wears yellow and white stripes.[/b] I expect there is an obvious team, somewhere who do, but I have always thought it looked smart - just the fact its unlucky that I have against it.[/quote]

Like I said, this is probably true, and for good reason! :whistle:

If they're Navy shorts will they have bell-bottoms? Or did they go out with the Ark..??

I think it depends when you started watching Torquay. For me, the first game I saw was in the 70s with the Scalectrix kit and the 80s with Steve Cooper and Bukta. White kits with yellow and blue as accent colours, so I have always liked it when we have white in our kit.

The stripes are unique. That's the thing I like about them. I don't know another team that wears yellow and white stripes. I expect there is an obvious team, somewhere who do, but I have always thought it looked smart - just the fact its unlucky that I have against it.

Whoa there, I didnt actually say I like them, I just dont hate them as much as I first did. The shirt actually doesnt look too bad up close, but on the pitch and on tv it looks awful. It doesnt work. There is obviously good reason why no other teams wear a shirt like it!

I mainly hate it because to me it is not a Torquay United kit. We must go back to yellow shirts, blue shorts and yellow socks next time surely.Thats a Torquay United kit!

Some rough ideas of what I would like to see and how a Torquay United kit should be -

[attachment=2]arse.png[/attachment]

[attachment=1]everton.jpg[/attachment]

and at the very worst, if we must have some white, if they insist on it again, this -

[attachment=0]brazil.jpg[/attachment]
Just swap the green bits for blue.

Stripes have never been good for Torquay.

Back in the magpie days, with black and white stripes, it was only when we changed to the gold and blue satin horse jockey shirts that we stopped being crap.

Our first incarnation of yellow and white stripes ended in relegation followed by just surviving a second successive one. (91-93) The following year when we discarded the stripes we made the play-offs.
When we wore yellow and blue stripes under Don O/Hodges (95-97) we finished rock bottom followed by a season of relegation fighting before discarding the stripes saw us reach the play-offs the following year.
Our 2nd incarnation of yellow and white stripes saw us survive relegation v Barnet on the last day. A year after getting rid of them, Leroy joined us.
Our 3rd incarnation of stripes see us get relegated. Expect more strife next season.

Like chunky, however, I do really like the yellow and white stripes. It is unique. I don't know of any other teams who wear them, so perhaps we should give them the opportunity to redeem themselves.

Well, its no secret how I feel about the yellow and white stripes in general. However, begrudgingly I did admit a while ago it is actually a smart top and it did grow on me a bit. This shirt is definitely the best of the 3 that we have had of that design. It does not really work as a football shirt and part of a kit though. With the white shorts and socks the whole kit just looks ridiculous, it is the last possible combo I would have put with that shirt. The whole thing just looks wrong. The best combo of those colours we had was back in 91 with blue shorts and yellow socks. My main problem is I just dont want any white in the kit, I much prefer just the yellow and blue, that is what I feel is our identity.

Every time we have tried to accomodate yellow, blue and white as a kit all together it has never worked or looked right.

The worst ever attempt was a few seasons ago when we had yellow shirts and shorts with white socks. That looked badly designed, awful, very amateurish and really didnt work. It just didnt look right at all. It looked like we had turned up, forgotten our proper socks and had to borrow some, not right at all, dreadful, truly, truly dreadful.

As for navy shorts in our current combo, the occasions we wore them last season the kit looked a million times better as a whole and if it wasnt Torquay United wearing it I would have said it was a decent, smart kit. If the shirts are staying then surely the shorts must change to navy.

In the future if the club insist on having white in the kit, especially the socks, it must be a Brazil style combo, yellow shirts, blue shorts and white socks. It is the only way those the colours work together as a kit, it looks bright and smart and it is an iconic image.

Which looks best, you decide -

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just let chunkgull decide.

the miserable s*d =D

Hopefully we keep it and have a good season. When I look back at my purchase of this kit, I don't want to associate it entirely with the worst team we've ever had.

Controversial, but I love the white shorts, looks great. Love the current kit.

Somewhere, on a thread on TFF, Andrew Candy said that there would be blue shorts next year. I will be annoyed if we changed our kits. Having bought the stripes, the sky blue one and the same for my children, I don't want to have to shell out again.

(D) [quote="Richinns"]

Interesting - who provided the information which has made you form the impression Matthew?[/quote]

Alex Rowe.

It's far from a cert, Kit, so don't be too disheartened.

Matt.

I miss the true yellow if I'm honest. I'd like to see a kit similar to the classic brazil kit, yellow shirt, blue shorts, white socks. Wouldn't be surprised to see a new kit coming in either, spoke to the op manager about submitting a design and he mentioned they already had ones set by their manufacturer, Sondico, and so wouldn't accept any possible designs.

I like the stripes and I like the navy shorts way better than the white ones. Can't see the kit changing just because the sponsor has? Unless something ELSE is going on (have we lost Sondico?)

[quote="ferrarilover"]I'm rather under the impression that the stripes won't be back.

Matt.[/quote]

Really? One of the things about our club I've been very proud of over the last twenty years was the fact we keep our kits for two years, meaning fans get some decent use out of their expensive shirt. Not all lower league clubs are as generous.

Love it or hate it, it would be disappointing to abandon the 2-year cycle.