Tekel Towers » The strip we wore yesterday

Tek · 29/6/2019 11:11 pm

😍😍😍😍😍😍

If this is gonna be the standard of strips Macron are gonna supply for us then they're well worth the wait.

p.s. those strips will be worth a bob or two in future.

bowers · 30/6/2019 12:22 am

I think the shirt's worn yesterday are quite nice myself.

Would have liked that as the away one for this season.

Tek · 30/6/2019 12:36 am

I'm hoping the fact they had black Utd shorts to hand means the home strip has black shorts.

Tek · 30/6/2019 12:38 am

If anything i'd like that slight grey even darker.

Grey, black and tangerine is a good combo.

blackandtangerine · 30/6/2019 6:13 am

Quite like that.

Rocky Raccoon · 30/6/2019 7:31 am

That's got me thinking the away will not be white this year.

blackandtangerine · 30/6/2019 1:20 pm

Rocky Raccoon wrote:
That's got me thinking the away will not be white this year.

Have heard it's all black and home all tangerine

kingdomarab · 30/6/2019 3:07 pm

This will end up being really really rare won’t it?

Rocky Raccoon · 30/6/2019 3:36 pm

blackandtangerine wrote:
Rocky Raccoon wrote:
That's got me thinking the away will not be white this year.

Have heard it's all black and home all tangerine

That will be a massive anticlimax IMO, we've had years of boring catalogue templates and now we finally have a supplier who is happy to create a kit from scratch and we get something along the lines of what we've recently had.

PatReilly · 30/6/2019 7:37 pm

The OP title brings uncomfortably to mind the influence that Lee McCulloch, Tony Asghar and Derek Bond appear to have brought to the club.............

"And it's on the 29th we love to wear
The Strip We Wore Yesterday"

FTD

BennyBoy · 01/7/2019 9:20 am

Rocky Raccoon wrote:
blackandtangerine wrote:
Rocky Raccoon wrote:
That's got me thinking the away will not be white this year.

Have heard it's all black and home all tangerine

That will be a massive anticlimax IMO, we've had years of boring catalogue templates and now we finally have a supplier who is happy to create a kit from scratch and we get something along the lines of what we've recently had.

Our centenary celebrations were PATHETIC, so I'm hoping for 50 years of tangerine that the strip is something special.

It'd also be nice to see a bit of pomp and spectacle to mark the 50th anniversary, it's a good opportunity to reaffirm our identity. United are obviously a football club first and foremost, but we're an entertainment company a close second. 50 years of tangerine is a great opportunity to celebrate what we're all about.

LarsErikKjell · 01/7/2019 9:32 am

BennyBoy wrote:
Rocky Raccoon wrote:
blackandtangerine wrote:

Have heard it's all black and home all tangerine

That will be a massive anticlimax IMO, we've had years of boring catalogue templates and now we finally have a supplier who is happy to create a kit from scratch and we get something along the lines of what we've recently had.
Our centenary celebrations were PATHETIC, so I'm hoping for 50 years of tangerine that the strip is something special.

It'd also be nice to see a bit of pomp and spectacle to mark the 50th anniversary, it's a good opportunity to reaffirm our identity. United are obviously a football club first and foremost, but we're an entertainment company a close second. 50 years of tangerine is a great opportunity to celebrate what we're all about.

We won the cup so no one noticed. Ill take something similar this year tbh.

kiwiarab · 01/7/2019 9:51 am

I was just about to post the same thing. It seems extraordinarily blinded to say that our centenary celebrations were "PATHETIC" when we won the cup, with 28,000 arabs celebrating at hampden, and then all of the celebrations that followed.

BennyBoy · 01/7/2019 10:18 am

kiwiarab wrote:
I was just about to post the same thing. It seems extraordinarily blinded to say that our centenary celebrations were "PATHETIC" when we won the cup, with 28,000 arabs celebrating at hampden, and then all of the celebrations that followed.

The Scottish Cup celebrations were separate from the centenary celebrations, they just so happened to fall in the same season.

If my memory serves me correctly, the centenary celebrations were:

- Special club badge (which I quite liked, to be fair)
- A friendly against Newcastle
- A book
- A small exhibition for a few weeks at the Wellgate library
- A dinner at the Caird Hall
- A 3rd kit
- A DVD

I think that was pretty much it.

Last edited by BennyBoy (01/7/2019 10:25 am)

Rocky Raccoon · 01/7/2019 10:20 am

kiwiarab wrote:
I was just about to post the same thing. It seems extraordinarily blinded to say that our centenary celebrations were "PATHETIC" when we won the cup, with 28,000 arabs celebrating at hampden, and then all of the celebrations that followed.

I don't think that is what Bennyboy is getting at, a centenary ) anniversary shirt should be something a bit different to mark the occasion, the shirt was pathetic, the season certainly wasn't.

LarsErikKjell · 01/7/2019 10:32 am

I thought the shirt was great.

Rocky Raccoon · 01/7/2019 10:36 am

Glorified plain t-shirt, at least the badge was different.

LarsErikKjell · 01/7/2019 11:02 am

Ah well, I liked it. Plain works sometimes.

BennyBoy · 01/7/2019 11:04 am

Rocky Raccoon wrote:
Glorified plain t-shirt, at least the badge was different.

I liked the 2009/10 home strip in of itself, but I think that there was an opportunity lost with the 3rd kit.

As a rule of thumb, things have only been celebrated in recent decades at United if money can be made from it. If you can't hold a dinner for it, it doesn't happen. So it was disappointing to see Carbrini on the 3rd strip together with 100 odd other sponsor names. It was never going to be used in competitive games, so I don't see why we had to have any sponsors on it at all, plus, it wasn't by Nike (it was by '=14pxPro Club'), it was really cheaply made (one or two times in the washing machine and the sponsors started to peal off). The thinking behind the design itself was good, but it was spoiled by being cheaply made and all of the sponsors.

I get why it was black, another tangerine or white strip that season wouldn't have made commercial sense. But there you go, the 3rd centenary strip was seen by the club as a commercial opportunity, not something special to mark 100 years.

PatReilly · 01/7/2019 11:25 am

Regarding the centenary, did United not produce wee flags which were put on seats prior to the end of season match v DeadGers? We lost out on a European place, as a team of unregistered players spoiled the mini flag day.

01/7/2019 5:24 pm

PatReilly wrote:
Regarding the centenary, did United not produce wee flags which were put on seats prior to the end of season match v DeadGers? We lost out on a European place, as a team of unregistered players spoiled the mini flag day.

They did indeed Pat.

I recall cos that's the day I met my wife - she was in the Phoenix carrying the wee flag and, iirc, some Centenary cake 😁

PatReilly · 01/7/2019 10:30 pm

scarpia wrote:

I recall cos that's the day I met my wife - she was in the Phoenix carrying the wee flag and, iirc, some Centenary cake 😁

Hoping that is a good memory, scarpia. Didn't know about the cake.

02/7/2019 7:12 pm

PatReilly wrote:
scarpia wrote:

I recall cos that's the day I met my wife - she was in the Phoenix carrying the wee flag and, iirc, some Centenary cake 😁
Hoping that is a good memory, scarpia. Didn't know about the cake.

Ha,ha yes Pat, still together - the cake was a vague memory but herself has confirmed - I think they had them in the concourse of the George Fox - probably just as well they didn't put them on the seats right enough