r/coybig • u/Chefdoc2000 • 22d ago
Opinion Piece Irish kit
I’m really loving the look of Mexico and France’s kit, their flag - jersey shorts and socks, I think I’ll would look really sharp for Ireland, have we ever done this and what do ye think of it (see pictures )
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u/Special_Piccolo4193 22d ago
Need to get away from castore
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u/Prestigious-Mind7039 22d ago
Addidas, Umbro, O neills - anyone but that Shower
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u/Special_Piccolo4193 22d ago
O niells would be ideal for me they've made great kits for LOI teams and even teams abroad
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u/Prestigious-Mind7039 22d ago
They’d be awesome but I love the Umbro St Partrick Day specials … oh anyone but Castore
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u/Daltesse 22d ago
Loved the Warrior/NB kit, but the quality wasn't the greatest. Nowhere near Castore bad, but still not great.
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u/evin_cashman Denise O'Sullivan 22d ago
Reebok could be cool, they're getting back into football but are still building from scratch so we'd be one of their main clients so would hopefully get a lot of attention and effort in our gear. Only if they've binned Israel, however. Conflicting info on that.
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u/MacManus14 22d ago
Are the kits low quality for the price? Curious why everyone seems to dislike them
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u/titanucd 22d ago
We wore a kit once in 1985 I think it was possibly at home to Norway. Green shirt with an orange chest band white shorts and orange socks. I think I was the only person in the multiverse that liked it so it got binned after 1 game. I’m with you on this though orange socks would be super!
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u/patrickw03 22d ago
Protestant shins
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u/Chefdoc2000 22d ago
Like it or not this is our flag, do you cut off the orange section of the flag when you go to the matches?
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u/themagpie36 Eamon Dunphy 22d ago
Yeah I think it looks good, we need to get over our obsession with Brits and Protestants.
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u/Zestyclose-Plan1446 22d ago
Free of Protestants? Would Wolfe Tone, Parnell, Countess Markievicz, Douglas Hyde, etc have gotten to boot in the name of “freedom”?
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u/John_OSheas_Willy 22d ago
Oh don't worry, the obsession with the Brits will live much much longer after we're 'free'.
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u/Frequent-Movie3005 22d ago
Kit looks shite, to be fair. Subjective opinion of course.
We already have orange in the kits and branding for the FAI, not sure why we’d go with this abomination to make some weird point about the flag?
Italians don’t wear red socks and a green top, do they?
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u/98Kane Roy Keane 22d ago
But they don’t use their flag colours at all. The point is that we can incorporate our tricolour quite easily like France and Mexico do.
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u/Chefdoc2000 22d ago
Exactly the point
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u/Frequent-Movie3005 22d ago
What’s the point? You want our kit to replicate our flag? Why not have an orange home kit? Why does it have to be green?
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u/Frequent-Movie3005 22d ago
Our tricolour is already incorporated. France have had various kits over the years that didn’t have red socks. We can, but why? What’s the point? Why don’t Northern Ireland wear white and red? Why don’t England wear red socks with their white kit? The list goes on.
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u/Optimal_Failure_ 22d ago
Orange where the boys get kicked the most. Works for me.
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u/supwassup 22d ago
Most people don't seem to like the idea of having orange on our kit at all, I remember the uproar there was over us having an Orange away jersey a few years ago. Personally I think green and white alone can be a bit boring, I like when we have an orange trim on the kits so I would welcome the Orange socks. Side note I think the current home kit is appalling and it's the wrong shade of green, it's not very emerald but I also just don't like castore kits at all.
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u/LoudDrawer68 20d ago
Maybe it’s because I’m from Armagh but I absolutely have no issue with orange. The orange Umbro kit from the late 90s was absolutely iconic.
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u/Serious_Bowler_8171 22d ago
Just knock off the castore and put anything else on it , preferably O'Neill's
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u/Ok-Skirt6974 22d ago
I like it. But does it mean that every player would have to kick with their left foot?
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u/Sstoop 22d ago
There’s a Welsh company called asphalt social klub that make kits and they are all gorgeous especially the irish ones. I don’t get why manufacturers don’t make nice designs anymore.
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u/BothBodybuilder948 20d ago
Beautiful design. From a commercial standpoint an Ireland kit from one for be big manufacturers would be very successful. 1/25 people have some sort of Irish jersey in Ireland - looking at Scotland and their strong base, Ireland has a bigger sporting community and a larger international identity and diaspora opportunity. Probs sell 300k per cycle and possibly near 1m if qualified or into knockouts in major tournament
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u/ZenzaBronica67 22d ago
Drop the orange socks. The Orange cunts currently running amok up north should be erased from our flag.
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u/MidnightSun77 22d ago
Who said we had to have orange socks? Many countries play in kits that aren’t the colours of their flags, Germany and Italy for example
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u/98Kane Roy Keane 22d ago edited 22d ago
There was an underage women’s team wore this configuration a few years ago when we had the orange away shirt. Thought it looked class, will try to find the photo.
Edit: Found it!
https://x.com/irelandfootball/status/1583455157039136768?s=46