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Saints Should Have Brought Back The Sash For Wembley
Tuesday, 21st Feb 2017 09:38

Although Saints supporters were not too disappointed that the drab grey away kit will not be used at Wembley on Sunday many were left feeling that the club have missed a chance here !

Although most Saints fans would concur that the white 3rd strip as worn at Bournemouth is a better option for our change kit at Wembley than the grey second strip, it still leaves the feeling that the club has missed a trick here.

Firstly although the club has insisted that by staying with the club's traditional colours it allows the fans to identify themselves with the team, it has missed the point that Manchester United also wear red and white and given that there will probably be more of them at Wembley we really needed something to make us stand out in the crowd.

That was what happened at our last three major cup final appearances, the yellow colour was taken up not only in 1976 and 1979 at the old Wembley but in 2003 at Cardiff, given that our opponents on all three of those occasions also had red & white as their primary club colour, it gave our fans the chance to create that block of colour in the ground that stood out and meant our support was not just vocal but visual.

This has differentiated different generations of Saints supporters in major finals three generations apart, each took it and made it stand out.

Given that Spurs third kit is Old Gold, actually our traditional away colour, it is not like Under Armour don't have it in stock so to speak.

But if yellow was not to be an option then why did we not produce a white 3rd kit with the sash on it, a re issue of our 125th anniversary kit would have gone down very well with the supporters, not only would it tick all the boxes in terms of keeping our traditional colour scheme, not to mention our original strip thus giving it true historical significance but it would also have allowed the supporters to dig out their shirts from 6/7 years ago to once again wear with pride, this time at Wembley.

Indeed that would have been a major plus point, I really can't think of a final in recent years where the fans of a team have not actually have been able to purchase and wear the cup final shirts on the day itself, a sash kit would have sold like hot cakes.

Of course some would say that the design of the kit is inconsequential, that it is about the team playing in it's traditional colours, I am not one of them, if we want to create ourselves as a major football club then it is more than just about colour, it is about iconic kits, think any big club and you will bring to mind an iconic kit, would Liverpool or Manchester United play in a striped design would Celtic contemplate playing in a plain green first kit, I could go on but the answer is no !

I would have liked Saints to have run out at Wembley in a kit that stood out, made the watching millions on TV take notice either of the colour when it would have reminded them of our other finals or by the fact that the sash would have reminded the World what our roots and traditions are, as good as it was in 2010/11, as we were in League One our kit passed by without too much notice to the armchair TV millions, now we had the chance to show them !

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SanMarco added 09:58 - Feb 21
I know there will be some/many who will care about this - I am not one of them so will comment no further!!
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Number_58 added 10:31 - Feb 21
Hardly a glowing endorsement for Under Armour when the players don't want to wear their away kit design at Wembley. Grey kits are generally rubbish and unpopular... now which club's manager first brought that to our attention?
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REEDYREEDOREEDZ added 10:39 - Feb 21
Maybe a yellow kit with a blue sash would've been ideal. The 2003 final at Cardiff was something special with all Saints fans in yellow and blue.
But hey ho, we'll go in red and white. At least this time round we stand a better chance than against the 'invincibles'. How we could do with Michael Svensson at the back though!
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ChannonFodder added 13:00 - Feb 21
It is really odd that no supporter will be able to buy a replica kit in the colours the team wears on the pitch at a cup final. Demand would be (relatively) massive now; what happens if we win? Will the club start selling it then? As a gesture, would they give a free shirt to every Saints supporter upon presentation of their Wembley ticket?

As someone who can't be there, I've already decided to pull on my sash kit to watch the game. It'll be right beside the bed, though, I'm b*ggered if I'm "digging it out" at 4.30 in the morning.
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ItchenNorth added 13:07 - Feb 21
Its hardly summer, so its a moot point really: most of us will have coats on ! Its not about what we look like anyway, its about how we sound !
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LftC added 15:40 - Feb 21
Let's smash it.
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aceofthebase added 13:57 - Feb 22
I will be wearing a thick very warm dark coat with a Saints red hat and Maybe a Saints scarf. I hope the coach will have lots of Loo stops (or its own loo) for this OAP. I am so looking forward to the day out and a victory will be a bonus.
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IWOZTHERE added 13:59 - Feb 22
Should have been yellow again for me. The old 'come on you ye-llows' chant was quite distinctive and loud, cos everyone bought into it.
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IWOZTHERE added 19:47 - Feb 22
I'm happy to go on record as saying that the design of the kit this season is crap. I wish the away strip was still yellow and blue based, but the prominent display of the 'under armour' bra logo on the home strip is not only awful, but embarrassing.
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felly1 added 11:32 - Apr 18
Starting to feel excited about the chance of some glory today! I really hope the players are bang up for this. I have to say are awful defence as you described them Nick ..is in my opinion left very exposed by our swashbuckling surges upfield where we are effectively playing 4 2 4 and the moment we lose the ball we are outnumbered and the poor old defenders are left exposed and all at sea. The opposition often seem to have 7 or 8 players behind the ball when we attack, whilst we have 5.
I would say our average standard defence lacks protection. Would you rather as a defender know you have Shneiderlin, Davis, Wanyama/Romeu in front of you or Jpw and Diallo?
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