New Kit 2020/2021

[Kingswood Wolf]

A bit like as soon as we stopped having Le Coq Sportif make our kits they suddenly started producing some phenomenal ones for Fiorentina and St. Etienne.

I think most we're excited by Adidas doing the kits and leisurewear. Last season's home and away were pretty much universally popular, as is this year's away kit (despite the stupid Manbet sponsor).

The leisurewear side of it though has been tremendously disappointing in terms of quality and design, as is this year's home kit.

I'd be quite happy for us to go elsewhere and have the kit and leisurewear produced by a smaller company who put more emphasis on quality and less on template stuff.

Spot on.

 

[Tonesterwolf]

Just some thoughts. Last year's adidas kit was epic. The colour matched our corporate colour and was simple and well defined. The training and leisurewear was obviously rushed though. This year the first strip suffered because the colour became confused in the multi-tone template, unlike Liecester's where it works with blue, it didn't with ours. The second and this kits are okay. The Training and leisurewear improved as it was done around our colours this time.

All I would like is that we go with a simple design and get the colour right and stick to it. Last season's took a bit of getting used to but it was unique.

The problem with a bespoke kit is sometimes it can go horribly wrong, as much as I'm no big fan of this years "fussy" home shirt it's nothing compared to the Puma Wolf's Head abomination.

Oh and can we ditch the black socks?

Too right that the black socks have to go, I have a theory that the home and away socks were swopped because the gold ones dont match the dark gold shirt. Why else would the away kit have gold socks as its "first" choice?

 

[ZoeWolf]

Don't like the black socks at all.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Don't like the black socks at all.

Could be worse, could be bloody hooped...

 

[Tonesterwolf]

As I understood it, miadidas were a division of adidas which allowed personalisation of their products. That was certainly true as far as running shoes was concerned. Not sure that they bulk manufactured kit. I may be wrong.

Not sure myself but all I know is in our house we have last years home and away shirts and this years away and third in various sizes and they all have miadidas trim inside the shirt by the collar apart from last years white kit.

 

[Macman]

Could be worse, could be bloody hooped...

Rickie Herbert's Moustache will say otherwise!

 

[ombyman]

It’s definitely Christopher.

It was a bad joke, along the lines of gym

 

[WickedWolfie]

Rickie Herbert's Moustache will say otherwise!

I know, lol

 

[Bill McCai]

Simple always looks the best.

Last seasons home/away kits were the best since Goodyear 94/95.

 

[The Runner]

Simple always looks the best.

Last seasons home/away kits were the best since Goodyear 94/95.

Agreed. I'd forgotten how good the away strip was even though we didn't have much luck in it.

 

[GY Wolf]

The sooner we get away from Adidas the better

 

[Jonzy54]

Too right that the black socks have to go, I have a theory that the home and away socks were swopped because the gold ones dont match the dark gold shirt. Why else would the away kit have gold socks as its "first" choice?

The socks have often not matched over the years .Same has applied to matching the shorts when we have had gold ones too

 

[Jonzy54]

The sooner we get away from Adidas the better

I don’t mind them but I don’t like it when our strip looks like it has come out of the remnants box

 

[Dan G WWFC]

The sooner we get away from Adidas the better

We've been moaning about kit suppliers for how long now, since le coq sportif and we probably moaned about them too

 

[Jonzy54]

Who actually chooses what strips we end up with ?Is there any club input least of all any fan involvement?Most likely it is here you go like it or lump it

 

[JadeWolf]

I loved last year's shirt, this year's not so much. I prefer this year's away kit though over last year's.

 

[Tonesterwolf]

The socks have often not matched over the years .Same has applied to matching the shorts when we have had gold ones too

Yeah obviously we haven't worn the gold shorts this season in a prem game with the dark gold shirt but we did wear them with the gold shirts in a PL2 game v Derby and it looked bloody awful!

 

[Tonesterwolf]

We've been moaning about kit suppliers for how long now, since le coq sportif and we probably moaned about them too

To be fair looking at all the LCS kits now the only home kit I like was the last Chaucer one we won the championship in. They faired better in my eyes with the away kits - all white, all blue with gold piping and the black and neon one although it looked ridiculous at Watford with gold shorts.

 

[Lupo Italiano]

To be fair looking at all the LCS kits now the only home kit I like was the last Chaucer one we won the championship in. They faired better in my eyes with the away kits - all white, all blue with gold piping and the black and neon one although it looked ridiculous at Watford with gold shorts.

The final LCS shirt with very little black (apart from collar and cuffs) worn in the Premier League in 2009-10 was one of my favourite ever Wolves shirts

 

[Tonesterwolf]

The final LCS shirt with very little black (apart from collar and cuffs) worn in the Premier League in 2009-10 was one of my favourite ever Wolves shirts

To be fair it was tidy and clean, I personally didn't like the collar on that one, and that fact it had a red and blue sponsor instead of black yet both goalie kits got away with having Sportingbet in plain white.

 

[Tring Wolf]

Mate of mine wore this to training last season and it looked incredible.

If they could replicate this in last season’s colour and a slightly darker gold for the stripes, it would be stunning.

 

[Bill S Preston Esq.]

Mate of mine wore this to training last season and it looked incredible.

If they could replicate this in last season’s colour and a slightly darker gold for the stripes, it would be stunning.

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A little more black on the collar and cuffs and it's banging.

Also Wolves will sign Nathan Collins from Burnley (he's not there yet, I know. But that will happen too) in July 2022. You heard it here first. ITK innit.

 

[Deak77]

I'll be sad to see this seasons away kit go,its probably one of my favourite ever Wolves shirts,proper smart,can't help but think of Besiktas and Man.City away.

 

[Jonzy54]

Mate of mine wore this to training last season and it looked incredible.

If they could replicate this in last season’s colour and a slightly darker gold for the stripes, it would be stunning.

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I don’t think having Juventus on our shirts would work though

 

[Lupo Italiano]

I'll be sad to see this seasons away kit go,its probably one of my favourite ever Wolves shirts,proper smart,can't help but think of Besiktas and Man.City away.

Totally agree, this season's away shirt is in my top 2 favourite aways ever, the other being the one from 2017 with the horizontal gold band

 

[Hot Fuss]

I’ll never get my head around why do many people liked the colour of last seasons shirt.

In 32 years of going it’s the only season Iv seen wolves in yellow. Not a Wolves colour in a million years.

 

[Andy]

I’ll never get my head around why do many people liked the colour of last seasons shirt.

In 32 years of going it’s the only season Iv seen wolves in yellow. Not a Wolves colour in a million years.

It wasn't yellow. Lighter gold looks so much better than the crappy cheap orange we usually have to suffer.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I’ll never get my head around why do many people liked the colour of last seasons shirt.

In 32 years of going it’s the only season Iv seen wolves in yellow. Not a Wolves colour in a million years.

Agreed. We’ll be in the minority though. I actually quite like this years kit. Wasn’t too keen at first, but liked it once I saw it in person.

 

[Adrian_Monk]

I don’t think having Juventus on our shirts would work though

Juventus was Luciano Pavarotti's team. A hybrid Wolves/Juve shirt would therefore be fine for me.

 

[The Professional]

I’ll never get my head around why do many people liked the colour of last seasons shirt.

In 32 years of going it’s the only season Iv seen wolves in yellow. Not a Wolves colour in a million years.

I know it was yellowish, but last years home kit was possibly my favourite kit ever. It just looked utter class. To see Wolves finally play in a classy Adidas kit playing amazing football in the Premier League was a Teenage jizzfest dream for me finally in my mid-40s. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Then the FA Cup Semifinal happened, and I realised I hadn’t.

 

[Tonesterwolf]

Agreed. We’ll be in the minority though. I actually quite like this years kit. Wasn’t too keen at first, but liked it once I saw it in person.

I'm the other way round- think it looks ok on tv and in pictures the majority of the time but close up the fact that the collar is yellow against the dark gold base colour of the shirt makes it look cheap and tacky, like a fake knock off you'd buy on a market abroad.

 

[Hot Fuss]

I know it was yellowish, but last years home kit was possibly my favourite kit ever. It just looked utter class. To see Wolves finally play in a classy Adidas kit playing amazing football in the Premier League was a Teenage jizzfest dream for me finally in my mid-40s. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Then the FA Cup Semifinal happened, and I realised I hadn’t.

The design was great, the colour was not Wolves thought.

 

[Hot Fuss]

It wasn't yellow. Lighter gold looks so much better than the crappy cheap orange we usually have to suffer.

It wasn’t Norwich yellow but it was still yellow. Compare it to the 87/88 shirt or the 94/95 shirt, completely different. No one would honestly call that colour gold.

I remember all the guff on here and twitter about it being a colour Adidas had specially put together for us. It was just the nearest thing they had at the time.

It was a brilliant design, just would have wanted it in a colour I’d recognise Wolves in at any point over the last 40 years.

The away kit was the best we’ve ever had.

 

[Hot Fuss]

Agreed. We’ll be in the minority though. I actually quite like this years kit. Wasn’t too keen at first, but liked it once I saw it in person.

Looks much better from the stands than it does close up.
Hate the black socks though.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I'm the other way round- think it looks ok on tv and in pictures the majority of the time but close up the fact that the collar is yellow against the dark gold base colour of the shirt makes it look cheap and tacky, like a fake knock off you'd buy on a market abroad.

Each to their own, it works for me.

 

[AndyY]

I’ll never get my head around why do many people liked the colour of last seasons shirt.

In 32 years of going it’s the only season Iv seen wolves in yellow. Not a Wolves colour in a million years.

So you started going about 1988. That explains it. Last years colour was the closest to the kit colour from the 50s through to the 70s.

 

[Andy]

It wasn’t Norwich yellow but it was still yellow. Compare it to the 87/88 shirt or the 94/95 shirt, completely different. No one would honestly call that colour gold.

I remember all the guff on here and twitter about it being a colour Adidas had specially put together for us. It was just the nearest thing they had at the time.

It was a brilliant design, just would have wanted it in a colour I’d recognise Wolves in at any point over the last 40 years.

The away kit was the best we’ve ever had.

I agree it was lighter than we're used to, but it just looked so good on the pitch.

I remember Palace away when it was pouring it down and dark, the way it looked under the lights, it just shone.

The kinda colour you're referencing looks great too, I'm just sick to death of orange, that's definitely not us.

 

[Hot Fuss]

I agree it was lighter than we're used to, but it just looked so good on the pitch.

I remember Palace away when it was pouring it down and dark, the way it looked under the lights, it just shone.

The kinda colour you're referencing looks great too, I'm just sick to death of orange, that's definitely not us.

It was very wet at Palace! See, I agree with you, it was an excellent football kit, just not for me a Wolves kit.
Agree that the kits had gone too far the other way previously, the shirt we won the championship in was practically tangerine.

 

[Hot Fuss]

So you started going about 1988. That explains it. Last years colour was the closest to the kit colour from the 50s through to the 70s.

The early 50s were the old gold which was dark and certainly from what Iv seen the 74 shirt was more orangey than yellow.
Can’t comment with any certainty on the 60s but Iv seen some pictures of a round neck kit (67/68?) that do look very yellowish.
You’re right about age making a difference, I just didn’t associate last season’s colour with anything I’d personally seen Wolves in before.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

So you started going about 1988. That explains it. Last years colour was the closest to the kit colour from the 50s through to the 70s.

The museum used to have all of our shirts through the ages hanging up on a wall (might still do, not been for ages), but the colour variation was just as bad through the 30s/40s/50s and 60s. The strip Stan Cullis played in was practically brown, the same as the 01/02 shirt which everyone hated (another one I didn’t mind too much).

Last year was too yellow for me, although again, I grew up through the late 80s/90s.