JAQ Article

After washing white shorts for 137 years bar a few seasons it's now become an issue to get grass stains out.

 

Agreed, as you've explained, it really isn't a complicated solution.

 

Not been impressed with JAQ from day 1, especially when it comes to the men’s team. She should stick to promoting the women’s team, something she has been good at.

 

I like the red shorts. 88/89 still one of my favourite ever kits.

 

I guess they wanted unity and a strong brand image across the men's and women's teams, so same colour shorts.

Different shirt sponsor though. And different badge on each of the three kits.

 

I think the laundry thing is a woeful and weak argument that doesn’t stand up.

The white shorts for the women’s team definitely does stand up, and I get the 3rd shirt pink to appeal to a different audience (young girls) - my 11 year old thinks it’s great.

perhaps the answer could have been home kit could have had white shorts the second kit red shorts and the teams just swapped what shorts they wore as ‘home’?

im wondering if the men will only wear red and grey kits and the women will wear red and pink?

 

Seems to me that this is the same as when the club changed the programme name to Grove St, and I’m sure there were people who wrote letters to the the Chronicle when we dropped the St Peter’s from the club name.
It’s natural to be resistant to change, but it’s not the first time we’ve had red shorts, it just seems that some people are more upset about it this time because JAQ has done an interview about it.

 

I think JAQ is doing a good job promoting herself.

I do wonder sometimes if her objectives are somewhat different to those of the football club.

 

Laughing at some of the posts in here, the article is clearly about promoting the Women’s team and all her references are in relation to that.
It appears to me she has clear autonomy about speaking/promoting the Women’s side but I doubt very much she alone decided the colour of the kit for the men.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if the laundry thing was more of a tongue in cheek/throw away comment, than an actual reason.

 

Aren’t we meant to have fan engagement if we had then this should have been talked about it in advance and not come as a surprise to the fanbase. If we haven’t then it’s yet another own goal from the club tbh.

 

If grass stains on white shorts is actually a problem, just use them for 23 home matches and wear summat else to practice in.

If the laundry woman can't cope with that, she needs replacing.

 

She says women won't wear white shorts and then further down in the article there's a picture of one of the women's team wearing white shorts

 

Yeah begs the question how every single team out of the 92 who wear white shorts cope with stained white shorts and how we've coped all these years.
There's some pretty pathetic reasoning being thrown about towards the changes, there are loads of women's teams playing in white shorts for starters how do they cope? If the women's team felt uncomfortable then fair do's but it didn't mean changing us to red to match.

 

Not read the article and just had a quick glimpse at the replies, am I right in thinking this thread is all about grass stains?

 

How do women Tennis players cope at Wimbledon forced to wear all white outfits.

 

Can we have red?

 

My thoughts are with Leeds United's kit cleaning team at this difficult time.
And probably Man City's.

 

@Stephen Dawson had to turn down a job at his beloved Spurs because he didn't want to get grass stains off the white.

 

Exactly this.
An entire laundry cleaning product industry grew fat on the back of sports like tennis.

"Get your whites whiter than white".