FrutigerAero Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 3 hours ago, aawagner011 said: I have never liked the debut patch that we’ve now seen in MLS, MLB, and NFL. I guess it’s cool for the trading card community, but I think it’s fairly stupid for on field gear. Another example of the merchandising machine impacting the equipment space. Is it for their first game or entire season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacoCat83 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 4 minutes ago, FrutigerAero said: Is it for their first game or entire season? Players first game 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aawagner011 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I’m watching the Inter Miami vs Real Salt Lake match, and apparently Suarez is wearing the debut patch. Makes it even sillier. I could understand it for an academy or young player making his professional debut, but it seems stupid to see the patch on a 37 year old who has won nearly every trophy that the game offers. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VampyrRabbit Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 The patch also looks like it was designed in 5 minutes by taking the MLS shield, adding some text in a bog standard font then putting a stroke around the two. It looks lazy as :censored:. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Referees are wearing the US Soccer referee kits instead of Cappelli tonight. I'm guessing that's because they aren't members of PRO? Or did Cappelli walk away? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upperV03 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 The league doesn’t appear to be posting the kit assignment graphics again this year (sigh), but here’s my guess at the rest of this week’s matchups. An * indicates a confirmed choice. Columbus (new yellow/black/yellow) vs. Atlanta (red/black/red) *LAFC (new all-black) vs. *Seattle (new green/blue/white) Charlotte (new blue-ish/white/white) vs. NYCFC (new all-black) *DCU (new all-black) vs. *New England (white/red/red) Orlando (all-purple) vs. Montreal (new all-light blue) Philadelphia (new all-navy) vs. Chicago (white/light blue/white) Austin (green/black/black) vs. Minnesota (all-white) Dallas (new navy-red/navy/navy) vs. San Jose (new all-white) Houston (all-orange) vs. SKC (new all-navy) St. Louis (all-red) vs. RSL (gold/blue/gold) Portland (all-green) vs. Colorado (all-light blue) *Cincinnati (new all-cream) vs. *Toronto (gray/red/gray) Nashville (new yellow/blue/yellow) vs. *NYRB (new red/black/red) LAG (new all-white) vs. Miami (all-black) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacoCat83 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 16 hours ago, MJWalker45 said: Referees are wearing the US Soccer referee kits instead of Cappelli tonight. I'm guessing that's because they aren't members of PRO? Or did Cappelli walk away? Majority of the replacement refs are US Soccer certified so will probably be wear those logos. The fact that there is one wearing a pro badge is interesting though as they are the ones on strike. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisCan Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 On 2/22/2024 at 10:50 AM, TacoCat83 said: Majority of the replacement refs are US Soccer certified so will probably be wear those logos. The fact that there is one wearing a pro badge is interesting though as they are the ones on strike. PRO can’t be on strike — they’re the employer/management. PSRA is the labor union of officials who are employees of PRO. The referees are not on strike; it’s the opposite — they’re locked out by PRO, who brought in the replacements in place of the union workers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereandthere Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 If anyone is intereste, the European Adidas store is selling the new Timbers kit in a sponsorless version 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrOrange Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 found an LAFC one too and a LA Galaxy one 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tBBP Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 CITY change kits in action on the pitch last night: That dose of color is really needed. That said, it not illegal to wear contrasting shorts, MLS sides. This one could really use the CITYRED shorts (and the primary kits could use navy shorts). All in all, I still really like these. 1 Quote *Disclaimer: I am not an authoritative expert on stuff...I just do a lot of reading and research and keep in close connect with a bunch of people who are authoritative experts on stuff. || dribbble || Behance || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFB Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 2 hours ago, tBBP said: CITY change kits in action on the pitch last night: That dose of color is really needed. That said, it not illegal to wear contrasting shorts, MLS sides. This one could really use the CITYRED shorts (and the primary kits could use navy shorts). All in all, I still really like these. What kills this kit for me is that they inverted the colors on their badge for some insane reason... Instead of having a red crest on a white shirt, it's a white crest on a white shirt. Dumb. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tBBP Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 17 minutes ago, GFB said: What kills this kit for me is that they inverted the colors on their badge for some insane reason... Instead of having a red crest on a white shirt, it's a white crest on a white shirt. Dumb. Not too much of an inversion...they just made the navy background of the badge white for this kit (and added a CITYRED border). I'm going to presume it was to keep emphasis on the CITY banner. Not really a justification, but more a clarification. That said, that would have been a great kit to apply CITY's alternate mark to: THAT badge, truly inverted (white for CITYRED and CITYRED for navy), would have been a big winner. 3 Quote *Disclaimer: I am not an authoritative expert on stuff...I just do a lot of reading and research and keep in close connect with a bunch of people who are authoritative experts on stuff. || dribbble || Behance || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 2 hours ago, tBBP said: CITY change kits in action on the pitch last night: That dose of color is really needed. That said, it not illegal to wear contrasting shorts, MLS sides. This one could really use the CITYRED shorts (and the primary kits could use navy shorts). All in all, I still really like these. Columbus and Atlanta got the memo. I feel like this will be the primary look for the Crew going forward, especially having that large splash of black on the front of the jerseys. I would say, Atlanta should have red undershirts or long sleeve versions available as well. I don't know of any MLS team that has long sleeves available for players or fans. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFB Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 34 minutes ago, tBBP said: Not too much of an inversion...they just made the navy background of the badge white for this kit (and added a CITYRED border). I'm going to presume it was to keep emphasis on the CITY banner. Not really a justification, but more a clarification. That said, that would have been a great kit to apply CITY's alternate mark to: THAT badge, truly inverted (white for CITYRED and CITYRED for navy), would have been a big winner. The "inversion" is that they flipped the highlights and the shadows... the dark parts of the crest are now light and the light parts are now dark. They "ghost logo"-ed their own crest. It's a little less egregious because it's a symbol and not an illustration, but the crest has less visual weight and is more intricate when inverted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digby Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Hope they didn't sell too many of those pine needle jerseys yet! Absolutely wild to go from the same sponsor for 12 years to the same sponsor for 1 match. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosioux76 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 9 minutes ago, Digby said: Hope they didn't sell too many of those pine needle jerseys yet! Absolutely wild to go from the same sponsor for 12 years to the same sponsor for 1 match. I would suspect that they will either offer refunds or jersey swaps to anyone who wants to rid themselves of the Dabella jersey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upperV03 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Luckily for the Timbers, the new jerseys were initially manufactured without the sponsor logo so there should be some stock laying around. It’ll take a while for new runs of the jerseys to get produced, though. The most pressing thing is for the EQ staff to get jerseys ready for matches, but I believe they received blank shirts (both the primary and new secondary) before the season and were applying the DaBella logo in house anyways. Here’s my thought on what they’ll do for the rest of the season: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 5 hours ago, upperV03 said: Luckily for the Timbers, the new jerseys were initially manufactured without the sponsor logo so there should be some stock laying around. It’ll take a while for new runs of the jerseys to get produced, though. The most pressing thing is for the EQ staff to get jerseys ready for matches, but I believe they received blank shirts (both the primary and new secondary) before the season and were applying the DaBella logo in house anyways. Here’s my thought on what they’ll do for the rest of the season: Not sure if it’s any different than when I was doing it ( I was working for a USL club outfitted by Nike), but we got the kits fully blank, and I had to apply everything down to the team crest. I’m assuming Adidas ships theirs out with the crest already heat pressed to the jersey. Sponsor patch was the very last thing I pressed (other than numbers and league logo, and that was only for game kits). This was the primary reason why we held off on that, and we had a rock solid sponsorship deal (with a local hospital conglomerate). 2 Quote On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayGloria Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 14 hours ago, upperV03 said: Luckily for the Timbers, the new jerseys were initially manufactured without the sponsor logo so there should be some stock laying around. It’ll take a while for new runs of the jerseys to get produced, though. The most pressing thing is for the EQ staff to get jerseys ready for matches, but I believe they received blank shirts (both the primary and new secondary) before the season and were applying the DaBella logo in house anyways. Here’s my thought on what they’ll do for the rest of the season: This just shows you how great soccer kits would look without a massive ad on the front. Not trying to start a debate on why they need them financially. Just pointing out the obvious. Universally, MLS and soccer just seem to get a free pass on the ads. I can't stand them aesthetically. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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