Tom the bee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Been our best away kit for years. Why aren't we keeping it? The current one is OK, though a bit bland.
Keep the bumblebee kit.
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redsbee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
100% let's keep it, the best away kit in years. But it's more than that, it has a personal meaning for the club, the bees, bees colours. It represents us in a way that a strip should.
I'm up for a redesign, let's face it that needs to happen so that people will buy the new kits, which suit the sponsors and the clubs finances. But the home colours stay the same even with the redesigns, I fail to see why the same can't apply to the away strip.
I'm up for a redesign, let's face it that needs to happen so that people will buy the new kits, which suit the sponsors and the clubs finances. But the home colours stay the same even with the redesigns, I fail to see why the same can't apply to the away strip.
alexcavell
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
If we hold it back for another season, its return will make it sell in greater numbers and we'll get more money out of it because of the new non-Puma kit deal. For the moment, the plain black kits always sell well because they go well with jeans etc. I don't buy the "scientific proof" - Real Madrid and Barcelona both have black away kits, and we've played exceptionally well in black before too (at Leeds 2010, Millwall 2010, Forest 2005, etc).
Keep the bumblebee kit.
It's a shame, I'm sure when I was growing up most clubs had an away colour?
Never know what our away colours were, Blue and white stripes, yellow and blue, blue and blue, black, white??
The black and yellow is iconic and i thought it sold very well, certainly do see a lot of them about, my mate tried to buy one Saturday but were sold out in his size and he isn't a large boy lol appears most want to keep it, according to Mark Devlin the feedback from those in the clubshop was it wasn't liked.
I understand changing kits each year is a good commercially but would have been good to keep the black and yellow concept.
Even if it was like it is now but with yellow trimming and not red.
Oh well not that bothered as my only issue was the home strip but I hope black and yellow returns next season
Never know what our away colours were, Blue and white stripes, yellow and blue, blue and blue, black, white??
The black and yellow is iconic and i thought it sold very well, certainly do see a lot of them about, my mate tried to buy one Saturday but were sold out in his size and he isn't a large boy lol appears most want to keep it, according to Mark Devlin the feedback from those in the clubshop was it wasn't liked.
I understand changing kits each year is a good commercially but would have been good to keep the black and yellow concept.
Even if it was like it is now but with yellow trimming and not red.
Oh well not that bothered as my only issue was the home strip but I hope black and yellow returns next season
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SmiffyBee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
We are probably under contractual obligation to change kits every year by Puma.
Perhaps BIAS can adjust the customer charter to push for only one kit change every 12 months.
With respect to this particular kit. It was good but as Echo + the Bunnymen said, nothing is forever.
Perhaps BIAS can adjust the customer charter to push for only one kit change every 12 months.
With respect to this particular kit. It was good but as Echo + the Bunnymen said, nothing is forever.
Keep the bumblebee kit.
As a pedantic Bunnymen fan I feel the annoying need to point out it's called Nothing LASTS Forever...
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Balders Bee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Yes but let's be honest it's the end of the season and we've got to occupy our time somehow other than wondering when Uwe is going to unveil Messi and Ronaldo as our new striking partnership to supplement CD..........
Keep the bumblebee kit.
For many, many, years our away strip was same shorts and socks as home kit, but with white shirts.It's a shame, I'm sure when I was growing up most clubs had an away colour?
Never know what our away colours were, Blue and white stripes, yellow and blue, blue and blue, black, white??
The black and yellow is iconic and i thought it sold very well, certainly do see a lot of them about, my mate tried to buy one Saturday but were sold out in his size and he isn't a large boy lol appears most want to keep it, according to Mark Devlin the feedback from those in the clubshop was it wasn't liked.
I understand changing kits each year is a good commercially but would have been good to keep the black and yellow concept.
Even if it was like it is now but with yellow trimming and not red.
Oh well not that bothered as my only issue was the home strip but I hope black and yellow returns next season
I believe this was the case from the 1920's up to the latter 1960's , albeit for a brief spell, under Scottish boss Malcolm Mc Donald, we played our away games( and at least one home Football League Cup game) in a very similar strip to the Scottish International team!
Both of those away strips looked very good, in my opinion.
But they were different days...
nick logan
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Why ? if you dumped Kelly Brook for Thora Hird, it would make waves.
Les Beeavinu
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
I genuinely thought this thread would be about a kit you can buy to help preserve the bumblebee. :nutty:
SmiffyBee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Lasts for ever Smiffy....
...Very Good Corrections.....not sure what I was thinking...
Keep the bumblebee kit.
Me too.
I have only just got back in after collecting 10, 000 signatures on a petition to save the blighters!
westwing
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Them were the days!!!! The pre-season game was always Stripes v Whites & we always hoped to see new gems like Docherty or Higgy although a couple of new players were all that was likely, unlike today's wholesale changes.
Always remember the shock of the Bees coming out in the navy blue Scotland-like kit at Crewe - first time anything changed from the white change shirts. It looked really smart. Drew 1-1 as I recall & Dave Whelan played at full-back for Crewe. Great memories.
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Echo and the Bunnymen had a album / sinlge called "The Game" if that helps...
hanworthbee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Weve always been red and white Bees.....black and yellow is nothing to do with us...if anything bring back dark and light blue stripes
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Guildford Bee
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Keep the bumblebee kit.
Our best away kit for sometime...
I also remember reading somewhere it was the worst seller so I don't expect that to happen.
I expect our hands our tied re changing the kit but I like the idea of keeping yellow and black as our permanent away colours.
Keep the bumblebee kit.
Keep the bumblebee kit.
This is true Smiffy but we have been 'The Bees' for many, many decades so I guess that counts for something - and I still like the yellow/ black stripWe were orignially the "B's"Not the Bees.