keepthefaith70":3d0425la said:
X-isle - it is physically obvious, the shade is too dark.
This is not the first season since being in dark green, we have had to switch to a lighter colour, because fans, players and managers considered the visibility of dark shirts a problem.
Firstly, as much as I love green and black stripes from the seventies promotion season, We switched to green and white stripes for the 2nd half, because the all green/black was considered too dark.
Secondly and more significantly, following the imposition of the dreaded dark green, we switched to white for an evening game during Sturrock's 2nd reign, because all parties considered it too dark.Incidentally, we played really well that night against a top of the table Birmingham. So saying the Blackpool defeat was partly caused by the all white - is rubbish. Basically Blackpool was a shocker full stop.
The last time England played Germany away and won 3-2. The Germans wore a dark green shirt and again this was universally sighted as a bad choice re visibility.
There is a reason why very few clubs wear dark shirts, simply not good for visibility. Particularly not helped by the current poor lighting on the Mayflower side.
I agree with you totally regards random 'foreign' colours being imposed as terrible away kits in recent years, but the same commercialism argument stands for why the hell was dark green imposed with no consultation.
Emerald green and white stripes and black trim, white shorts, and green/black hoop socks would work, re both visibility and ensuring all 3 club colours are featured
I agree with Foreigner, it has been done to death.
I agree with the concept that it may aid the crowd, most are older than the players and macula degeneration will have set in. That is a valid reason to change to a lighter (ensemble) kit.
While we're talking about death however, it'll be over my dead body that I accept there is a playing advantage to having a white/bright kit. Unless our players eyesight, in their prime, is significantly lower on average to the eleven opposition players, also in their prime, then it is a physical impossibility that they can see things clearer than us. In the small margins of split seconds in a football match if Carey perceives he can pick out a Kennedy run better out the corner of his eye in open play, or Sonny's movement at a corner/free kick...then so too can the opposition to track that run or to pick up their man at the set play.
To suggest otherwise defies how eyes and brains work. I am not saying a dark kit helps us, but neither does it hinder us. It's neutral. We switch to a light/bright kit it will help the opposition every bit as much as it helps us. We need to play better, changing the kit will not improve our performance.
By all means do it to help the Mr. Magoo's in the crowd but citing a playing reason is just excuse mongering.
NB - For historical record NEVER have I said the Blackpool result had anything to do with the white kit. As explained above, kits have nothing to do with performance, the effect of a kit is totally neutral...that is physically AND scientifically obvious :wink:
