Comments on: Newcastle 09-10 Away Kit

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:02:20 +0000

Well, look on the bright side guys … now if your fried egg butty dribbles down your chin and onto your top you’ve no worries!

By: rod

rod — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:09:19 +0000

hmm torquay untd….

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:23:52 +0000

Come to think of it, the two shades of yellow/amber/cheese/puke has been used before on an adidas kit… by another team who seems to change away kit colours every season…

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Ajax wore that as their away kit a full five seasons ago, yet it was paired with navy shorts and socks.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:08:49 +0000

Obviously Newcastle have no tradition of away kits and pretty much like recent liverpool kits have changed colours but that shirt is so nice i think i might buy it and i dont support them.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:36:08 +0000

Teams like ac Milan always have the same colour away kit- white. Newcastle should have a consistent away colour. Yellow with green trim, green shorts and yellow socks similar to the 70’s one. An alternative to this would be to simply not have an away kit. We have worn the home kit at Bolton and Spurs etc quite a few times. We could sell only home colours in the club shops and the players can wear exclusive alternatives for matches v West Brom etc. We won’t lose money on this as I can’t see many epople buying this grilled cheese kit anyway.

As a footnote, the link on the official site to view the prices of the new kit has been blocked these past two days. Could they be about to withdraw it?

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:18:11 +0000

I can’t understand how grey/silver can possibly be a change kit for Newcastle. The sides they usually clash with most are those in white so grey simply doesn’t work.

Blue should be fine and likewise yellow but this yellow/orange/wee colour is just awful. Not just the shirt itself but the whole lot together. Yuk!

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:41:54 +0000

Jon – you’re stealing my thunder here!! This was all going to be in my review…the club have had an identity crisis away from home in recent years haven’t they? I think the main problem with the new kit is timing. Of course adidas weren’t to know that relegation was going to occur, but a new season in a lower division is not a good time psychologically to start wearing a controversial and risky new kit. I would have thought something familiar and intrinsically Newcastle would have been a better choice, ie yellow and blue or yellow and green – colour schemes I know Toon fans have been shouting for.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:31:59 +0000

Newcastle have had a new away kit every season since adidas first made their kit back in 1995 and I’ve lost count how many colours they have used…

95/96 – Dark red and blue hoops, white shorts
96/97 – Pale blue (with black chest band)
97/98 – Navy with orange and green (that monstrosity)
98/99 – Blue with amber trim
99/00 – White with teal (used just once, strangely at Coventry)
00/01 – Black with blue underarms
01/02 – Bluey-green
02/03 – Silver with bluey-green front (used just once and caused a terrible kit clash at West Brom)
03/04 – Black with silver trim
04/05 – Navy with blue stripes
05/06 – Two-tone dark green
06/07 – Claret and dark blue
07/08 – Sky blue
08/09 – Purple

And they’ve had some third kits too
03/04 – Silver
04/05 – Yellow
05/06 – Blue
06/07 – Black with sky blue sleeves
07/08 – White and sky blue stripes (very superfluous given the home and away kits)
08/09 – Silver (never worn in action)

From 1980 until the adidas era, away kits had either been yellow, silver or blue. There was a green third kit necessitated by that infamous Sheffield Wednesday match incident. Oh and in the 1974 Newcastle were one of the first to wear a Brazil style away kit, a full 15 years before Pompey followed suit (and countless others)!!

But out of all of their away kits this yellow one to me is the worst, it even puts the navy/orange/green kit of 97/98 to shame, and that kit was a shocker!

By: john

john — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:46:31 +0000

knowing geordies they’ll buy it in there thousands!!! i always liked newcastle to wear grey away from home.

By: Rich Johnson

Rich Johnson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:47:06 +0000

Bizarrely, I’d like Cov to go back to yellow away kits…really liked them; The Hummel 87-89 one being the nicest. They seem to only go for black or red of late. We had some awful ones in the 90s…2 shades of purple with yellow trim, green / black etc…hideous!