See this thread. Photo of new Wakefield shirt. - Would be v good for Cougars - just change the blue & red bits to scarlet and emerald viewtopic.php?f=2&t=538279&tsmp=1349098875

See this thread. Photo of new Wakefield shirt. - Would be v good for Cougars - just change the blue & red bits to scarlet and emerald viewtopic.php?f=2&t=538279&tsmp=1349098875

That Wakey shirt is a cracker, do exactly as you say with the chevron and for my 2 penneth worth stick a proper woven badge with the town's coat of arms as the main badge, the KC one can go on a sleeve somewhere, and call it a "Vintage" shirt. Because we all know that vintage is chic at the moment.



Now on a slightly more cynical note. Do you reckon there's any chance of having it launched well before christmas, available to buy and take home there and then when it is launched and being made of decent enough quality material so as that it doesn't look battered after it's been worn 10 times?

Agree 100%

Rather than expecting the club to adopt a "vintage" shirt design - which invariably would be replaced after 1 -2 seasons, could the supporters association not organise the design of one, produce and sell it independent to the club but channel all profits from the sales to the club as per the supporters asscociation aims?



That way it could become the "unofficial" club shirt, retro, possibly polo shirt style, made from a non-match shirt material, which would encourage people to wear it on a more regular basis, not just to matches and therefore increase it's appeal.



I for one regularly wear my black cougars polo shirt (ordered through the club shop) whilst commuting to and from work in London (and receive numerous people looking at the cougars emblem on my chest) and would welcome a similar polo shirt design which was slightly more match shirt whilst still "casual". On my first day of wearing my black polo shirt I even had a comment and got into discussion with my train's guard who incidentally was a Wigan fan.



Lets do it ourselves rather than expecting the club to do it on our behalf!

Have allways prefered the traditional designs....but maybe green

with red and white chevron would be nice with some human sizes for us big lads lol.

Hopefully the club will get it's finger out and get it on sale

well before christmas so santa can pick them up and the club wil

get some cash injection during the close season.

Something like the BISSA 'Pride and Heritage ' Shirt ??

seems a good template to base a cougars version on, but not quite, it's still too much like a contemporary match shirt.



I agree with an earlier poster, retro shirt design, town crest, possibly a reference to cougars on the sleeve or perhaps cougars crest on the opposite breast to the town crest, possibly a kisa reference and no more! Retro means retro, i.e. before the time of shirt sponsorship, keep the shirt plain, but attractive.



My other thought was that it shouldn't compete against the official match shirts, therefore make it a shirt that people feel comfortable wearing on a day to day basis, perhaps as a replacement for a regular polo shirt. Not every cougar fan wants to go to sainsbury's in their cougar shirt, or on the golf course but design a retro one well (possibly as a polo shirt or short sleeve old fashioned union style shirt) and people will feel comfortable wearing it all the time, increasing demand and income whilst not competing for sales with the official match shirt.

Quote Wooden Stand="Wooden Stand"See this thread. Photo of new Wakefield shirt. - Would be v good for Cougars - just change the blue & red bits to scarlet and emerald viewtopic.php?f=2&t=538279&tsmp=1349098875'" Agreed - a very nice looking shirt which would be a good one for us in our colours. For me, any Keighley shirt has to have the town's coat of arms on it along with the Cougar badge, one on either side of the chest perhaps. On last season's shirt the word 'Keighley' blended in with the surrounding red of the shirt too much so I often had people, even fans of other RL teams, squinting at the badge to try to work out which team it was. Up here in the north east where it's all football, I get some very strange looks. The fact that the shirt is a Keighley shirt should be made much more obvious. . Remember when we had Bradford council's coat of arms complete with the word 'Bradford' written in massive letters on the left side of the shirt where the club badge should be? I have to say I found it difficult to wear that one and often covered up the offensive logo with duct tape

Quote Wooden Stand="Wooden Stand"See this thread. Photo of new Wakefield shirt. - Would be v good for Cougars - just change the blue & red bits to scarlet and emerald viewtopic.php?f=2&t=538279&tsmp=1349098875'" Agreed - a very nice looking shirt which would be a good one for us in our colours. For me, any Keighley shirt has to have the town's coat of arms on it along with the Cougar badge, one on either side of the chest perhaps. On last season's shirt the word 'Keighley' blended in with the surrounding red of the shirt too much so I often had people, even fans of other RL teams, squinting at the badge to try to work out which team it was. Up here in the north east where it's all football, I get some very strange looks. The fact that the shirt is a Keighley shirt should be made much more obvious. . Remember when we had Bradford council's coat of arms complete with the word 'Bradford' written in massive letters on the left side of the shirt where the club badge should be? I have to say I found it difficult to wear that one and often covered up the offensive logo with duct tape

Great ideas all round , I will mention it at the next ' Pride in the red and green. '

meeting. I prefer the cotton type old fashioned rugby shirt over the idea

of a polo shirt but it always boils down to cost doesn't it . One of the redeming

features of the modern match type synthetc shirts is they keep ythe shape well

and seem to last forever too !

I anyone can cast their mind back about 15 years the club brought out a replica of the the 1937 Wembley red shirt complete with woven badge and sewn on 37 numbering on the reverse, in very heavy 'old fashioned ' material (actually lovely and warm for chilly away trips to Cumbria in Feb , mine still gets the odd 'awayday' now).



If I remember then they came in at something like £45 then which would equate I'm sure to a cost of something like sixty quid now

Yes, I remember that. In fact, my one is hanging in the wardrobe right now. For the last few home games of the season, the ones I could get to anyway, I was wearing my Keighley shirt from the early to mid 80s after my Mum found it tucked away in a drawer in her house at Riddlesden. It's the old shirt material and is plain white with a red collar and the scarlet & emerald 'V' on the front. There's no club badge on it, no sponsors names etc etc but for me it's a classic Keighley jersey. And I was so glad to find that, almost 30 years later, despite being a little larger than I used to be as a teenager, I can still struggle into it and just about carry it off. I need to do some work on my man-boobs mind...

Sounds a great idea guys and with all the ideas kicking around I think we could come up with a great design amongst us all. I agree on the idea to do the top through PIRAG (Pride in the Red & Green) as this could raise a nice amount of cash to get us up on our feet.



Just one or two questions, what sort of price would people realistically pay, would we get some designs made up and put it to the members for a vote and we would have to get cracking ASAP to have it ready for Xmas. Would fans be interested in other items for Xmas and what sort of the things are us as fans wanting. Just a thought.