kiwi_canadian Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 URC's Zebra Parma are switching their kit from Macron to Canterbury and Osprey will be switching to Macron. And in the Premiership, the Bristol Bears are switching from Umbro to O'Neills: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 New Toulon Nike kit: New Zebra Parma logo: New Munster kit: Toulouse Nike away kit: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share Posted July 18, 2023 Racing 92: Harlequins: Leicester Tigres: And it rather big news, after 23 years with Adidas, all 5 NZ based Super Rugby teams have signed a kit deal with Classic brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted July 20, 2023 Author Share Posted July 20, 2023 New Lienster Castore kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Bath's new kits: Northampton: Toulouse home: Scarlets: Gloucester's heritage kit: Execer Chiefs: Perpignan: Harlequins away kit: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted August 17, 2023 Author Share Posted August 17, 2023 Toulon away: La Rochelle: Lyon: Saracens home: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 Leinster away: La Rochelle away: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 Also something interesting perhaps happening with the Toronto Arrows of the MLR. Their instagram has been releasing a few black and white images of the cityscape with a new colour scheme as well as a new wordmark and a date for 05.09.23 with a title of "From Above". The new wordmark simply says "Arrows RC" https://imgur.com/a/YSLPnBm Looks like a possible rebrand and dropping the blue and white to a grey, red and light blue colour scheme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted September 12, 2023 Author Share Posted September 12, 2023 Well it is a rebrand for the Arrows. They have totally taken on the Avro Arrow theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted September 12, 2023 Author Share Posted September 12, 2023 Sale Sharks: Glasgow Warriors: Bristol Bears: Cardiff Blues: Connacht away: Osprey: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny24 Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Don't like the Arrows rebrand at all really - exception being the wordmark. 1. Departure from the Blue, White, Gold colour scheme they've been building up, quite nicely IMO. Don't like Red+White+Blue when we're the only Canadian team in a US league, and there are alraedy 2 otehr RWB teams. 2. Ham-fisted "Canada's Team" approach every single logo in this country doesn't need a red maple leaf. The Arrows are not team Canada (thank God), and people know where Toronto is. Or if they don't they're too dumb to matter. 3. Inconsistency - the wordmark font and wings aren't in the crest at all. It looks like two separate rebrands that share colours. 4. The crest is too busy and too cartoony. It's going to look horrible when embroidered. The current TA monogram looks classy as hell. 5. Before, the use of "Arrow" was flexible. It could be the jet, it could be bow+arrow, it could be whatever. Arrows is really good name that just needed a bit of tie in to something so it wasn't just generic. The Avro Arrow didn't need to be the whole identify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 18 hours ago, jonny24 said: Don't like the Arrows rebrand at all really - exception being the wordmark. 1. Departure from the Blue, White, Gold colour scheme they've been building up, quite nicely IMO. Don't like Red+White+Blue when we're the only Canadian team in a US league, and there are alraedy 2 otehr RWB teams. 2. Ham-fisted "Canada's Team" approach every single logo in this country doesn't need a red maple leaf. The Arrows are not team Canada (thank God), and people know where Toronto is. Or if they don't they're too dumb to matter. 3. Inconsistency - the wordmark font and wings aren't in the crest at all. It looks like two separate rebrands that share colours. 4. The crest is too busy and too cartoony. It's going to look horrible when embroidered. The current TA monogram looks classy as hell. 5. Before, the use of "Arrow" was flexible. It could be the jet, it could be bow+arrow, it could be whatever. Arrows is really good name that just needed a bit of tie in to something so it wasn't just generic. The Avro Arrow didn't need to be the whole identify. I really don't like the "Canada's Team" stuff either. I can bet a lot of Canadian rugby fans on the west coast actually support the Seattle Seawolves more than Toronto. I'll reserve judgement on the colour scheme until I see how they execute it on their kits... Same with the logo. The logo is busy and I wouldn't be surprised if they are most likely will sublimate them which makes really complicated crests easy to use... Having said that, I do have an authentic Seawolves jersey from a couple years ago and Paladin did stitch the logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny24 Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 I too wouldn't be surprised if it's sublimated on the kits. I was thinking about hats/polos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 Major League Rugby has announced that Kappa will be their new kit provider for the next 3 years. MLR and Kappa Sign 3 year deal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 On 11/3/2023 at 9:10 AM, kiwi_canadian said: Major League Rugby has announced that Kappa will be their new kit provider for the next 3 years. MLR and Kappa Sign 3 year deal What is their quality considered, in comparison to Paladin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted November 7, 2023 Author Share Posted November 7, 2023 Not too sure, but I know that Stade Français Paris, Union Bordeaux Bègles and Castres Olympique in the French Top 14 use them. US Carcassonne, FC Grenoble and Provence Rugby from the French D2 league also use them. In Italy's top league, Rugby Rovigo Delta use them. So not the first brand you think of for rugby but they've been in it for a while. I think at one time they might have been the kit supplier for Italy as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, kiwi_canadian said: Not too sure, but I know that Stade Français Paris, Union Bordeaux Bègles and Castres Olympique in the French Top 14 use them. US Carcassonne, FC Grenoble and Provence Rugby from the French D2 league also use them. In Italy's top league, Rugby Rovigo Delta use them. So not the first brand you think of for rugby but they've been in it for a while. I think at one time they might have been the kit supplier for Italy as well. I remember them using a similar design to what Roma and the Tampa Bay Mutiny used for the rugby uniforms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 New Zealand based Super Rugby teams have released their kits for the upcoming season. They made a switch from Adidas to Classic and the results are... disappointing. Crusaders: Blues: They are going with 3 kits, the third being a retro. Hurricanes also going with 3. Chiefs: Going with 3 as well. Highlanders: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi_canadian Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 So the Atlantic Selects from Canada (Not even sure what competition they are part of) have rebranded as the Atlantic Privateers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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