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Post by davethegrave on Dec 17, 2021 23:03:10 GMT
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Post by bucks on Dec 18, 2021 1:35:31 GMT
What is everyone's favourite Sutton kit? I've always liked the Quarters.
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pauld
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Post by pauld on Dec 18, 2021 9:10:55 GMT
I've spend way to much of my life on this historical kits website. Can lose yourself in it very easily!
Yep, like the Quarters kit. And actually really liked the 2018-20 number. We've a 125 year anniversary looming - would be great to do a 3rd kit all retro - the 1898 striped number?
As an aside Chocolate and Amber were common colours during the same period for cycling clubs. I think its because they were easy materials / dyes to get hold of (I see the narrative on the site suggest these are our colours because we could get cheap caps!)
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Post by bucks on Dec 18, 2021 9:16:05 GMT
I've spend way to much of my life on this historical kits website. Can lose yourself in it very easily! Yep, like the Quarters kit. And actually really liked the 2018-20 number. We've a 125 year anniversary looming - would be great to do a 3rd kit all retro - the 1898 striped number? As an aside Chocolate and Amber were common colours during the same period for cycling clubs. I think its because they were easy materials / dyes to get hold of (I see the narrative on the site suggest these are our colours because we could get cheap caps!) Certainly in football the Chocolate (or any shade of Brown for that matter) is quite rare so it stands out. Also love Amber kits... The team I play for had Amber kits a couple of years ago and they are the best ones we've had in my opinion. 😅 Be interesting to see what happens with an anniversary kit. From experience I've often found a lot of teams go too gimmicky with it. |
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Post by bucks on Dec 18, 2021 9:18:06 GMT
Also is there a specific reason why the club ends to go towards a Green and White number for the Away kit quite a lot?
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Post by davef on Dec 18, 2021 9:29:34 GMT
For our centenary we went for green and white change kit as a nod to the 1920s. It was very popular so we have tended to go with it
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Post by tonyd on Dec 18, 2021 9:32:38 GMT
Also is there a specific reason why the club ends to go towards a Green and White number for the Away kit quite a lot? As I recall from the history books, for a period the clubs colours were green and white. The change strip became green/white quarters in homage to that when the choc/amber quarters were introduced. Until then, from when I started watching in 1967 the change strip was all white. Note that I say change, not away strip. In the league (Isthmian) I think the only time we used to change was when we played Hitchin and Maidstone. In a cup game away to Wokingham, instead of playing in white we borrowed a blue Chelsea strip. No idea why! |
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Post by bucks on Dec 18, 2021 9:32:39 GMT
I do like the shade of Green used... It is basically the exact same colour my MLB team the Seattle Mariners use which is called Northwest Green.
Although most just say the Teal jerseys. 🤣
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Post by tonyd on Dec 18, 2021 9:33:24 GMT
Ooh, DaveF types quicker than me!
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Post by bucks on Dec 18, 2021 9:34:50 GMT
Also is there a specific reason why the club ends to go towards a Green and White number for the Away kit quite a lot? As I recall from the history books, for a period the clubs colours were green and white. The change strip became green/white quarters in homage to that when the choc/amber quarters were introduced. Until then, from when I started watching in 1967 the change strip was all white. Note that I say change, not away strip. In the league (Isthmian) I think the only time we used to change was when we played Hitchin and Maidstone. In a cup game away to Wokingham, instead of playing in white we borrowed a blue Chelsea strip. No idea why! Yup I get what you mean. I've tried to explain to many people in recent years that some teams have "Away" kits, I guess you could say like Sutton now, where they wear the Away kit for most Away games, and a "Change" strip, when a team changes due to a clash otherwise they will often always wear their Home kit. Some people don't seem to be able to get their head around it mind you. 😅 |
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Post by tonyd on Dec 18, 2021 10:25:01 GMT
And let’s not forget when we played Purfrock away we had to play in Thurfleet’s change strip as both our strips were deemed to be a colour clash with their yellow/green kit!
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Post by Del on Dec 18, 2021 10:44:09 GMT
My favourites were in the centenary season when both kits were in quarters.
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Post by amberchoc on Dec 18, 2021 11:39:29 GMT
I've spend way to much of my life on this historical kits website. Can lose yourself in it very easily! Yep, like the Quarters kit. And actually really liked the 2018-20 number. We've a 125 year anniversary looming - would be great to do a 3rd kit all retro - the 1898 striped number?As an aside Chocolate and Amber were common colours during the same period for cycling clubs. I think its because they were easy materials / dyes to get hold of (I see the narrative on the site suggest these are our colours because we could get cheap caps!) With exceptionally long baggy shorts perhaps! (or ‘knickers’ as they used to be called). |
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Post by amberambler on Dec 18, 2021 11:41:31 GMT
In the sixty's I liked the very bright amber shirts and white shorts
The football programmes would list Sutton's colours as chocolate & amber but the only chocolate was the number on the back
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Post by sallycat on Dec 18, 2021 13:12:43 GMT
The quarters definitely seem to be the most popular. Funnily enough although I like that kit it was always my least favourite. I really liked the kit we wore when I started going in 1995-96; basically plain amber (well, yellow) shirts with that classic '90s big collar in chocolate brown and the brown shorts with yellow trim. I used to get a chuckle out of seeing on the back of programmes that Sutton were wearing chocolate shorts.
Perhaps my favourite was the one with wide stripes we were using maybe 15 years ago or so, although unfortunately we weren't very good in it. I do actually like the current one a lot though.
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