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...& when you see one in good nick, people stare and go, wow ! That shirt is **** shit!

Fixed.

Groundbreaking kits?

I'd love to know what exactly you were expecting. Give it a rest, to don't like them, we know!

I really love the shirt and have just bought it, but does anyone else think that the claret is ever so slightly off? Was looking at it compared to some of the older shirts and it definitely looks a little paler.

I'm just nitpicking now tbh.

Edit: the blue is definitely a lighter shade too. I, shamefully, usually wear a long sleeve Nike pro shirt under the Villa shirt when I play football...it matched the sleeves of last seasons kit perfectly, but it doesn't match the blue of this seasons shirt.

Any idea if Sports Direct are stocking the new home kit? Just tried to give them a ring but got the engaged tone.

You don't like them, we get it.

No need to constantly keep telling people, it's boring.

Do not think the kit sucks, but it is by no means a success either. A 6/10 from me.

My main impression is that it looks a bit plain and rushed to be honest, with some of the details badly mixed:

- The collar is back in style as we can see in the Euros, but I think ours look a bit soft and unnecessary, it should have been in a more "rigid" material so to speak

- The sleeves are too long and unfitted, just too much fabric hanging about as we can see on Darren Bent in the pictures. I have played in everything from Kappa (too fitted), Umbro and Nike, and unfitted sleeves are just annoying. You kind of correct it all the time whilst on the pitch. I think Nike do this well, as well as Adidas. Not every player needs to have bursting biceps when wearing a kit, but a few centimeters off would have made a lot more sense.

- The detail over the Genting-logo is also very random, why did they put it there? Less is more in my opinion, and it just looks untidy IMO.

- The Macron-chaps om the shoulders is OK, they put them there on every kit so we cannot expect anything else.

- The Villa-logo looks unfinished too with the crisp white border around it, why did they make it that big? Clearly without the border it looks better, again IMO.

It might be that the kits our players are wearing are random sizes, but my biggest and only worthwhile concern is that is looks wastly big around the stomach. Why so much fabric used around the waist? You can see Ireland tidying it in whilst showing it off. I am not a fan of the Kappa-style, does not need to be that fitted, but come on, it looks huge! On every picture the material is just hanging out on every player, I hope this will be better when we kick off the season. Just look at every picture before the Euros and we can see that the kits are the same for most teams, nicely fitted around the waist and no extra. Again, a bit sloppy and generic. I mean, if I wanted my local team to play in Macron this is exactly what I would expect we would have gotten just with our colours and badge.

With regards to the yellow line across the bottom of the kit, I have no concerns. I like adjustments from year to year, or else you could have played with the same kit every season. But it would have been much cooler with a really clear-cut and simple, classic kit without all the details - and then the yellow to spark it up.

An untidy, pretty dull and rushed edition of a football-kit that will be lost in the history of many nice Villa-kits. The away kit? Not something I will buy, and I doubt we will wear it much. I am looking forward to a navy away-kit if that ever comes back, which could have worked with blue sleeves and claret Macron-men on the shoulders as well as a claret collar.

For what it's worth, I like the socks!

That is quite the review!

I know what you mean about it looking a bit big in places, looks like they've given the players the size bigger than the one they usually take.

West Ham have a navy away kit for next season fairly similar to what you've described there.

Any idea if these are going to be available to buy at Sports Direct? Or will it just be available at the club shops?

Love both kits!

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There's a video up already. Kit looks great on the players.

I'm sure some will still dislike it, but I guarantee that after seeing the official shots of the kits on the players some will change their mind. I haven't seen them or anything, it just happens every year.

It looks more like a West ham shirt, than a Villa shirt tbh, and I have that Villa kit with Baros on the back lol..

This shirt is a **** load better than those Hummel ones!

It's claret body, blue sleeves with a Villa badge on, what else does it need to have to make it less West Ham?

Shows how much personal opinion comes into things, because I think that Arsenal shirt is absolutely **** horrible.

Why?

I wish people would stop judging the kit from that awful quality photo. Wait until the official shots come out, I guarantee it'll look much better on the players.

For people questioning the colours and saying they don't look right - look at the colours on the official teaser picture. That's what they will actually look like.

Time will tell, if its a straight choice between our CEO and yours, McNally is streets ahead imo.

I don't think many would dispute that tbh.

Most of the Norwich fans commenting on that story seem to have their doubts about them staying, as the previous poster said, sounds like it's a matter of money.

Some disgusting rumours afoot that Jonathan Hogg will start this game :?

If Ciaran Clark starts in centre midfield tomorrow, I'll shit a **** cinder block, never mind a brick!

From what I've seen of the lad he doesn't have the mobility to be a centre midfielder, and it's far too big an occasion to do it for the first time. I'd want GH to try it out in the cup, even tell K-Mac to try it in the reserves before he tries it in the biggest derby for the club.

Just like when Milner first started here, give the lad some time. He'll be fine.

General, I asked the question before but I think you must have skipped it. Do you have an update on the situation with the new kit? It's November next week and we still don't have a release date. Cheers.

General, can we have an update on the new kits please? It's November in two weeks and we haven't been given a date for it yet. When can we expect it? Thanks.

That is a **** amazing header.

this has stoke again written all over it

This

Can't say it hadn't been coming.

Smart sub.