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Post by captgas on Oct 31, 2016 13:12:07 GMT
Sometime around 1930, Albert Prince-Cox, the Bristol Rovers manager decided a quartered kit made our players look bigger and more intimidating, so we ditched plain blue, for our now famous blue and white quarters. I've never really paid it much thought before, but during Saturdays game I couldn't help but feel the neon kit worn by Posh did exactly what Prince-Cox was hoping the quarters would achieve. Their players were easy to spot and I'm sure they appeared bigger. After doing three minutes of research, it seems there is a little bit of science backing this theory up and Petr Cech agrees. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-564804/Chelsea-goalkeeper-Cech-says-new-orange-kit-distract-strikers-boost-push-double--scientists-agree.htmlWhat are people's thoughts on luminous/dayglo/neon kits? Would you like to see it as an away shirt one day? |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Oct 31, 2016 13:24:40 GMT
I find them a bit of a "turn off"
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Post by lympstonegas on Oct 31, 2016 13:39:08 GMT
Still think some of them were just plain overweight 😀
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Oct 31, 2016 13:40:51 GMT
Prince Albert.
Cocks.
Geddit.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Oct 31, 2016 13:43:48 GMT
Still think some of them were just plain overweight 😀 Fatty Bostwick would look big in camouflage. Also, I recall our infamous purple and black relegation kit which made us literally invisible. |
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Post by RetroGamer on Oct 31, 2016 13:53:56 GMT
I'd love a highlighter green gas away shirt! Got a keeper one already from the Buckle era but would prefer one that isn't long sleeved. Perhaps Chelsea having one a couple of seasons ago might influence Wail to go for one. Another Chelsea one that would be smart for a gas shirt would be the black and silver pinstripe away shirt they had.
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Post by syg on Oct 31, 2016 14:10:14 GMT
its interesting. didnt we have a manager who painted the away dressing room grey? i havent read the link, im not sure if an intimdating shirt would motivate the opposition, or if having a dour shirt may deflate them. im shirt there is a costume psychology expert out there somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 14:23:30 GMT
I have a memory of Man Utd, under Sir Alex, who lost a night game at Southampton when they wore their grey away kit for the first time, and he mentioned something about the players having trouble picking each other out under the lights.......they never wore the grey kit again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 14:46:04 GMT
I have a memory of Man Utd, under Sir Alex, who lost a night game at Southampton when they wore their grey away kit for the first time, and he mentioned something about the players having trouble picking each other out under the lights.......they never wore the grey kit again. They changed kit at half time i think. |
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Post by bs14gas on Oct 31, 2016 14:55:51 GMT
its interesting. didnt we have a manager who painted the away dressing room grey? i havent read the link, im not sure if an intimdating shirt would motivate the opposition, or if having a dour shirt may deflate them. im shirt there is a costume psychology expert out there somewhere. I think that was atkins... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 15:08:19 GMT
Splash the shirts in pigs blood before each game for that realistic psycho effect.
Also I'd turn the heaters off in the away dressing room, especially this time of year. When I was playing county league football a freezing changing room was the worst start to a game.
I'm surprised Ian Atkins hasn't got some ideas on his linkedin profile, he seemed to like the odd bit of gamesmanship!!
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 31, 2016 17:50:04 GMT
Given Posh despite spending £3m were only mid table before Saturday it doesn't seem to be having the desired effect? Plus who would want to wear one of those apart from cycling etc, which must hit sales of the replica kit?
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Post by countygroundhotel on Oct 31, 2016 18:07:39 GMT
Late 80s we had a horrendous luminous yellow and green (if my memory is correct) away kit, we played one game in it and someone said never again. Next day Ray Kendall turned up at Bert Britton's sport shop in Shire with a pile of the previous seasons yellow away kit and told him to get them printed with numbers.
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Post by Russgas on Oct 31, 2016 18:31:32 GMT
its interesting. didnt we have a manager who painted the away dressing room grey? i havent read the link, im not sure if an intimdating shirt would motivate the opposition, or if having a dour shirt may deflate them. im shirt there is a costume psychology expert out there somewhere. I think that was atkins... Yes it was Atkins. He painted the away dressing room walls battleship grey and the floor black. He got the idea from a motivation and psychology course he once attended and the aim was apparently to de- motivate the opposition. What a bunch of total crap. |
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Oct 31, 2016 18:37:42 GMT
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Post by socrates on Oct 31, 2016 18:57:15 GMT
That's the worst kit ever. If Roos f**ks up again he should be forced to wear it in training. That should get him on form. |
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Post by inee on Oct 31, 2016 21:30:21 GMT
Lmao, if i played against someone in that kit you would be distracted in a way which would subconsciously kick the ball either in his throat or his nads. but mainly at the Nads as you only get 1 point for a throat shot |
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Post by LJG on Oct 31, 2016 23:12:43 GMT
I have a memory of Man Utd, under Sir Alex, who lost a night game at Southampton when they wore their grey away kit for the first time, and he mentioned something about the players having trouble picking each other out under the lights.......they never wore the grey kit again. I fully subscribe to the theory that the "unlucky" purple and black away kit of the relegation season was just too difficult to pick out and accounted for our poor away form. Someone put up a "spot the players" photo on here once I think. There are about 8 players in shot and it's virtually impossible to see them against the crowd. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 6:32:04 GMT
Send them out bloodstained clothes done up full horror.
Mass the players in the centre circle and do a zombie walk.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Nov 1, 2016 7:47:09 GMT
I have a memory of Man Utd, under Sir Alex, who lost a night game at Southampton when they wore their grey away kit for the first time, and he mentioned something about the players having trouble picking each other out under the lights.......they never wore the grey kit again. I fully subscribe to the theory that the "unlucky" purple and black away kit of the relegation season was just too difficult to pick out and accounted for our poor away form. Someone put up a "spot the players" photo on here once I think. There are about 8 players in shot and it's virtually impossible to see them against the crowd. Yep, literally invisible:  |
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