Now you're all probably thinking, 'why on earth are we talking about this just now?'...However next season will be our 20th year and I believe the fans should have a say in what the new strip should be like.

The current away shirt was designed after consultation with CJT and from what I've heard the final design was submitted as early as December 2012. This could mean that the club and CJT are already or are about to talk about our new home shirt for next year. So its paramount we get our views in as early as possible!

I created this topic so fans will be able to express what they would like the new shirt to be and so CJT and the club could see the fans views.

Also FC United of Manchester present their members with 4 different shirt designs every couple of seasons. The fans then get to vote for their favourite with the winning shirt being the new home/away shirt. Would the club and CJT be prepared to do this for our special 20th year?

Now, I would normally ask for simple blue and red even and vertical stripes like the 95/96 shirt. NO fancy swooshes or diagonal stripes. NO more blue than red or vice versa, 50% blue and 50% red. However with the current red and black striped away I would be open to an all blue shirt with red/black trim like our 94/95 first strip. Also I would like to see a return to white shorts like we had between 94-97.

How would old Caley fans feel if our home strips were red and black vertical stripes ? I suspect they would feel that was wrong and inappropriate. Well, our home strip being solid blue is no less wrong and inappropriate.

 

Absolutely.  In our history, we've only had one shirt that had more red than blue* and even that was cutting it fine.  Predominantly blue shirts again and again in the mostly blue "Caledonian" Stadium.  From the outside looking in, this looks like less of a merger and more of a takeover.  If I was an old Thistle fan, I'd be pretty annoyed.

 

I still live in hope that it'll be stripes (though hoops may be an interesting design), but I won't be very pleased and certainly won't be buying it if it's another poorly designed predominantly blue kit with apologetic hints of black and red.

 

* This one 

 

Edited July 21, 201410 yr by Renegade

How would old Caley fans feel if our home strips were red and black vertical stripes ? I suspect they would feel that was wrong and inappropriate. Well, our home strip being solid blue is no less wrong and inappropriate.

Think we need to move on tbh. I actually like our current red and black away strip so don't have any issues.

 

How would old Caley fans feel if our home strips were red and black vertical stripes ? I suspect they would feel that was wrong and inappropriate. Well, our home strip being solid blue is no less wrong and inappropriate.

Think we need to move on tbh. I actually like our current red and black away strip so don't have any issues.

 

 

Why are Thistle relegated to the away shirt?  It should be an equally coloured home shirt (red and blue with black and white trim).  That should be our identity.

How would old Caley fans feel if our home strips were red and black vertical stripes ? I suspect they would feel that was wrong and inappropriate. Well, our home strip being solid blue is no less wrong and inappropriate.

Think we need to move on tbh. I actually like our current red and black away strip so don't have any issues.

 

Why are Thistle relegated to the away shirt?  It should be an equally coloured home shirt (red and blue with black and white trim).  That should be our identity.

What I'm saying is it wouldn't bother me personally if the strip home or away was red or black. Think folk make too much of this nowadays. Just my opinion.

The current home top is rotten, looks like a train carpet IMO. New one is bold to say the least.

How would old Caley fans feel if our home strips were red and black vertical stripes ? I suspect they would feel that was wrong and inappropriate. Well, our home strip being solid blue is no less wrong and inappropriate.

Think we need to move on tbh. I actually like our current red and black away strip so don't have any issues.  

Why are Thistle relegated to the away shirt?  It should be an equally coloured home shirt (red and blue with black and white trim).  That should be our identity.

What I'm saying is it wouldn't bother me personally if the strip home or away was red or black. Think folk make too much of this nowadays. Just my opinion.

Says Old CALEY Girl. If it is all blue then there won't be a penny from me. Is it a parting gift for Tommy Cumming? He will be delighted. If it is true it is a true 2 fingers to our history.

 

 

 

How would old Caley fans feel if our home strips were red and black vertical stripes ? I suspect they would feel that was wrong and inappropriate. Well, our home strip being solid blue is no less wrong and inappropriate.

Think we need to move on tbh. I actually like our current red and black away strip so don't have any issues.  

Why are Thistle relegated to the away shirt?  It should be an equally coloured home shirt (red and blue with black and white trim).  That should be our identity.

What I'm saying is it wouldn't bother me personally if the strip home or away was red or black. Think folk make too much of this nowadays. Just my opinion.

 

 

I also think lots of red and blue together looks cool! 

 

The current home top is rotten, looks like a train carpet IMO. New one is bold to say the least.

 

I always thought it bared more resemblance to the seats on the Megabus!

Or in tribute to the Glasgow side that went out of business a few years back.

As somebody who grew up supporting ICT and not a glimmer of any bullsh*t from before in sight, I've always been fond of Stripes. Fairly equal measures honouring both old sides just seems adequate to me. Obviously it all comes down to the board and such ultimately but I'll still be livid if it's not Stripes.

Hell. I suppose I'de be alright if it was just red AND blue and none of this predominantly blue malarkey.

Grew up with ICT being red and blue bar a few seasons, why change it now.

Just delves further into seeming we don't know what we want to be. Shame.

I kind of like a blue shirt with red diamonds and hearts and black clubs and spades. Its certainly different

 

Post 302  is very close at the early design stages.

Edited July 21, 201410 yr by 12th Man

I would imagine we will all find out  in the local press  by Friday, if not  on Sunday at the match.

Decent mix of red and blue, some stripes and a general image to reflect the amicable union of two clubs with proud traditions.  Is this the sort of thing folk are after? 

 

 

 

 

The club is referred to as "Caley" by most so it makes perfect sense to wear a blue strip . Hopefully some of Caleys success will rub off on ICT .

I like the stripes but more blue or red? Couldn't care less. Just hope it looks decent. Perhaps ICT should have gone for a totally different colour from the offset to avoid these type of arguments, probably didn't think they'd still be going on after 20 years though.

The club is referred to as "Caley" by most so it makes perfect sense to wear a blue strip . Hopefully some of Caleys success will rub off on ICT .

 

You mean you hope we might win some Highland League titles and the odd Qualifying and North of Scotland Cup ?

Don't understand how some folk don't care. What's wrong with having individuality, identity and an image that sets up apart from the rest.

Or are we all just worried we'll be confused with Crystal Palace. I hear that's a major problem.

Decent mix of red and blue, some stripes and a general image to reflect the amicable union of two clubs with proud traditions.  Is this the sort of thing folk are after? 

 

 

 

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That would be ok till 2016 but then there wont be a union flag as we know it.

 

Proposal after Indy

Don't understand how some folk don't care. What's wrong with having individuality, identity and an image that sets up apart from the rest.

Or are we all just worried we'll be confused with Crystal Palace. I hear that's a major problem.

Not sure if that was a response to me but as I said l like the stripes, they are a bit different. The whole red/blue argument I don't care about. We should have a canary yellow / shocking pink strip. That would be distinctive.

Trying to find a blend between two strikingly different kits is always going to be difficult, particularly when the two clubs played in blue/white and red/black.

Mucking about with different designs every few years leaves us 'wide open' to accusations of not knowing our own identity and being an artificial club.

We need to have a consistent , recognisable identity - and this should have been addressed at the outset. Obviously, the debate had more to do with the feasibility of such a club, rather than what colours it would be wearing. But, rightly so - a time-scale had to be met.

However, this constant changing of kit is pathetic.

Ask a football fan in the street to name the colours of Scotland's clubs:

Celtic - green/white hoops

Ross County - navy blue

Aberdeen - red

St Mirren - black/white stripes

Hibs - green/white arms

Dundee Utd - tangerine

Hearts - maroon

The Rangers - blue

Kilmarnock - blu/white stripes

Motherwell - amber

Dundee - navy blue

St Johnstone - blue

Elgin - black?white stripes

etc.

ICT - Nobody knows.

 

And we wonder why we're still considered a joke club?!

Yes, it may take 60 years or more until the last Thistle or Caley fan 'passes on', leaving the debate behind, but surely, in the present, can't we find an identity, a unity, a consistent set of colours that we're recognised by?

Have I missed something?. I have been under the impression right or wrong that for the last twenty years our colours were red and blue

Sorry, Renegade. I meant, basically, we need to decide - stripes or not! Other clubs tend not to vary from their historical pattern. Can't we make our minds up!

Sorry, Renegade. I meant, basically, we need to decide - stripes or not! Other clubs tend not to vary from their historical pattern. Can't we make our minds up!

 

We need to do something to set us apart from the rest and stripes seem the most logical way to do it.  In my experience talking to ICT fans on here and at matches etc., the vast majority seem to want stripes.  The board don't seem interested though for some reason.  This chopping and changing is a lot of nonsense.  Twenty years old now and we still don't seem to know what we are.

Edited July 21, 201410 yr by Renegade

The club is referred to as "Caley" by most so it makes perfect sense to wear a blue strip . Hopefully some of Caleys success will rub off on ICT .

Outsiders call us Inverness.  Nearly everyone i know in the central belt know us as that.

 

The club is referred to as "Caley" by most so it makes perfect sense to wear a blue strip . Hopefully some of Caleys success will rub off on ICT .

Outsiders call us Inverness.  Nearly everyone i know in the central belt know us as that.

 

 

That's my experience as well.  In Inverness from what I've found, we're usually called Caley or Caley Thistle. Almost everyone to a man and woman I've spoken to about ICT referred to us as Inverness.  One person I know was really surprised when I informed him of this as well!

Edited July 22, 201410 yr by Renegade

Here's the new Cheltenham kit - 

 

 

Something like that would('ve) look(ed) pretty cool IMO.

Edited July 22, 201410 yr by Renegade