Everton unveil black away kit

The clubÂ’s shops couldnÂ’t cope with the demand & every other club on earth would copy us, imho!!!

The top looks a little small on Osman. Must be the latest thing type thing I suppose.

Must add that black does shows up the pallor of a man as illustrated above.

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Should we try wearing them at Anfield for the derby and see if it works?

Love both kits this year....and the badge too. Coolio.

Strips under the arms identical to the Home Umbro kit of 2005/6?

Like the fitted look - lose the manboobs fatboys if you have some!

Stripes on socks look a bit cheap to me.

Definitely prefer the home shirt. Best bit is the badge.

Harold - yes we did very well in the black LeCoq away kit with the thin pink lines across the chest a few years ago. 13 matches played in it and unbeaten in all of them!

Like I said, I would not buy the replica kits anyway, too expensive just to wear to the matches, but the leisure and training wear, at £30-50 for some basic Umbro apparel you would see in a bargain bucket is Sports Direct merely with an EFC badge is daylight robbery.

WonÂ’t be buying the kit though. The last time I bought a kit was back in Â’84 when I went to Rotterdam in full dress kit, I think that I looked very impressive. Loved the hooped socks.

I skipped last year's offerings because of the badge and I thought the designs of two of them were a little too much (double-armbands on the home kit, Minion effect on the away), but have purchased my first home kit in 3 years this time around.

This black number is better than the one from two seasons ago, too – I like the white for the logos as opposed to the yellow from 2012-13. I haven't worn a name/number combo on a shirt since Bilic/28 17 years ago (exactly!) but if we sign Lukaku on a permanent deal I'm committing here and now to get the new away kit with him on the back to celebrate!

Having said that, what happens with the away kit if, say, you are playing Man Utd at Old Trafford, they play with black socks?

I'm sure in the distant past my father told me the story of the 'Black Watch' nickname. Everton played in salmon pink shirts with a diagonal, black sash, stripe.

The black dye apparently ran in the wash so the shirts were changed to All Black. I'm sure someone can help or confirm this history of our shirts.

I think you'll find when playing away we wear all blue more often than we do our official away kit. That's what normally happens. For the record, I think the black kit is bloody rubbish. I mean, if we're going to depart from the amber & blue template, and we're not going to plump for the perfectly respectable white & black/blue then surely we could come up with a more imaginative colour combo?

As to this away kit.... mehhhhhhh. I think I will have to see it in action.

The rest of the merchandise is poor as well and I can't help but think we have still ended up with an amateur-looking badge: I think we left the 6-year-old effort to move to one drawn by an 8-year-old.

Nil spend on merchandise for me again this year.

I like the simplicity of white/blue/white – ie, the classic home kit inverted – but simplicity and Premier League merchandising don't exactly go hand in hand.

Thanks mate, I was under the impression from the photos, when the kit was released, that it was all blue, which I felt was too much! Playing against Tranmere, who obviously play in white, I must have thought, somehow, maybe Amigos were distorting my thought processes, that was the norm!

Glad I was mistaken, and thanks again for your correction. I hope we perform a lot better against Leicester, both in Thailand and the first-day opener!

I know I'll be in the minority here but I also preferred last season's badge to the new one. There's something not quite right about about it. Obviously I prefer the older badge to both.

1999 was our last win there, which a disgrace for our great club! Oh & wearing all Blue for games is a defo no-no... we always get hammered like!!!