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What’s your opinion on the new seasons top Lip? And will you be buying it?

Thanks for the detailed info Alan. This board gets more Gok Wan every minute! (I still prefer the direct embroidery on to the shirt! ) Will you be around for Craigan’s testimonial game? I can collect the shirt before the match, if that’s okay by you? Cheers Willie

Looking at this years promo pictures, the only stitching is on the Glencairn Alpha 125 text around the badge. Sadly the crest just looks like another printed patch.

It might well be a “stitch up” although the recent Puma 125 Years retro top has been properly embroidered.

Not sure about their replica kit but you can bet that the match wear will have a proper embroidered badge. Just look how much better this looks!

If Umbro can do it on their £40-£45 replica tops, surely Puma can do it on theirs. It seems like penny pinching on Puma's part, if not that, laziness to do the job right. It's certainly odd that Xara can produce a top with a properly embroidered badge and all Puma can offer is a printed patch sewn on to the top.

I've washed my old Xara 2006/07 home top many times and the badge is still perfect. A properly stitched badge will always suggest quality, a patch merely suggests convenience.

The club appear to be going down this route of late, with proper stitched badges being reserved for squad wear only. It's a shame as it looks classier with a properly stitched badge and not like some knock off from a spanish market. Umbro have the right approach where all strips including replica have stitched badges.

Claret and grey with a small amber stripe. Not sure that it works for me.

I posted these pictures earlier today but they appear to have been removed.

Quite a few teams have chosen this route of late. The new Oldham Athletic crest Coventry City retro crest and FC Thun who are shortly moving to a brand new stadium, allowed the fans to choose a new logo for a new era in the club's history. I like our current crest, I think certain elements just need to be better drawn. Before computer graphics club badges were designed in a traditional manner using conventional freehand and technical drawing skills. Over the years I've designed numerous things using this tried and tested method. Our original badge was designed this way, although I'm pretty certain the finished artwork has long gone! Someone at some point recreated the badge in digital form and without sending you all to sleep certain elements have been poorly translated from the original. An example would be the fir trees on the original 1982 badge which were clearly defined. On some recent versions floating around they have seen better days. I suspect some lazy designer/printer has used "Auto Trace" or "Adobe Streamline" at some point to convert our badge to digital form. This is a quick method used to convert old style graphics to vector, but is no where near as accurate as recreating it by hand in Illustrator, Freehand or Coral Draw. It seems that now with a little computer graphics knowledge everyone is free to try their hand at design, although without any design training the finished article is usually pretty poor. It all depends what image you want to portray. To compete with the big boys, you need to copy their approach to design detail whenever possible.

Zero chance. Until he’s at least 34.

A few 1960s/70s pics V Celtic

It must be a Puma thing, they did the exact same on their retro Partick Thistle top a few years ago. I have to agree, it is a bit random.

At least someone wearing C&A brought home some silverwear!

As a designer I have to agree, the italic text running around the badge is not the best looking, as for the Glencairn wording it just looks like a type error. On the positive side, it was a nice touch mentioning both teams on the shirt.

I have to agree, I think I would have preferred either white or claret shorts. We haven’t had white shorts since 2006-07 and it would have been nice to see a return. Apart from that it’s not too bad a kit.

Burnley Away.

Aye for Partick! The sort of nights that make you proud to be a Well fan! My mates a Thistle fan and he’s gutted that he is going to miss this.

Scottish Brewers

I'm sure he will give a first, second or maybe third division side some loyal service.

Wise words, I won’t be happy until he’s paraded holding the shirt ... Oh shit!!!

He's certainly not a striker, as Wiki claims he has only scored 6 times in 58 appearances. The page says he is a midfielder but that is Wiki so it just might be made up pish. So to be on the safe side, I'll just say missionary.

I hope he is good at keeping the ball as you know what they say... Possession is nine tenths of the Law.

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