The thing is, the home kit needs to be simple, red and blue stripes.

The home hit, it's good enough for me.

The away kit is, in my mind a good chance to have an alternate palace shirt - a colour, style we don't normally have - I have always gone for away shirts for that very reason - they seem more collectible to me.

The 3rd shirt has been a rarity but seems to be a mainstay... this is where you do a crowd pleaser or just something different - like the black sash or a homage shirt.

I have to admit - recently it seems the remit for these shirts is 'appeal or represent the urban, grittier side of south London, the street side' with a lot of our black players - which I find derivative. The music, the editing, too much for me... Sure, tap into that aspect but we have so much more..

This was once a quality forum....

Its not helpful to bring the colour of someone's skin into this. I doubt the club has launched any kit to appeal to a particular ethnic group and anyway no self respecting Cronx fashionista would be seen dead in any of these hideous concoctions.

We have had the sash, the evil sash, the Brazil kit and now have the toothpaste kit.

I like them and i think they are great designs can just see the opposition going my eyes my eyes or throwing up so we can walk round them. god they are awful

listen to the price of football podcast with palace fan kevin day & football finance expert keiran maguire....this will give you facts to work with.

puma would have paid an up front fee to make the clubs merchandise in the 1st place, however after that initial fee most clubs on average only get approx 7% commission on any product sold there after. 7% of £50 is approx £3.50.

the deal liverpool have struck with nike is 20% and thats a one of a kind deal.

Edited by braunstoneagle (16 Aug 2020 8.56pm)

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Yes, good to see we have our top people on the case. It’s a shame we still have a couple of 4 year olds dealing with in the transfer market. You’d have thought they would have wheeled out the more experienced 9 year olds for that.

From the website:

"When Richard Melik and his seven-year-old son sat down with sheets of paper and a handful of crayons in October last year, they didn’t realise they’d inspired the process behind designing Crystal Palace’s kits for the following season."

If you were writing an article with the intention to take the piss out of the kits, I can't actually think of a much better first paragraph.

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