Everton celebrate 'The Originals' with new kit for next season

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2024/july/17/everton-and-castore-/

Horrible, cheap looking shiny shit. Looks like someone has been using it to carry chips round and couldn't be bothered washing it.

And for £110, we're talking expensive chips!

Looks sweaty and wet within minutes.

Moaning for moaning's sake.

No wonder these sites selling fake kits are becoming more popular.

I haven't bought a replica kit since 1997.

Have football clubs ever considered they would sell more if the price was reasonable? Kids prices too are insane.

Nice kit though.

Never did see the point in buying a new top every year — but each to their own.

Spot on there mate, sometimes I don't think they really consider the fans and their affordability.

They must all be on megabucks and think it's a bargain and we will feel the same, totally twisted (non-)logic!

The worst I can remember is that white bib thing in the '80s and the one in the season we stayed up. The one-to-one kit that had a horrible stripe across the middle. It wasn't even Royal Blue.

As for away / 3rd kits, that strange pink-looking strip last season wasn't easy on the eye and the one in the mid-90s, yellow with black and blue stripes didn't look great for me.

Royal Blue and Amber for me.

I would have thought a tribute to the Old Lady — like the date we started there until the end in 2025 —not hard to do.

I want Everton to be commercially savvy and successful but surely that price isn't at the optimum point?

'Black Friday' through 'Cyber Monday' might be the go.

As for the design... It's blue so it will do.

You do indeed, mate. 👍

Ryan, that's a good shout. Make it amber, with references to Goodison and St Domingo's.

They know I'll break down and buy a few anyway, and that's extortion!.. people's club my arse. We should complain or sign a petition to not buy it and only wear retro shirts. It's the principle.

If I pay $110 and the bloody sponsor peels off like last season's Hummel kit I am absolutely having murder with them… I have the money and can order a couple right now for me and my lad, as I usually do get them on the day the release, but this time I'm waiting a month.

I want their sales to reflect that we aren't happy… other than that, it's a nice kit… we have a gambling sponsor and the kit costs $100. They. Outlet give a fuck about us!… UTFT though like

Looks like a price hike across the board. As other posters have said, they are just taking advantage of young fans really. No doubt they'll explain it due to inflation and cost rises etc.

I doubt the kit makers even know we had blue socks the last time we were champions in '87 and blue and black, the last time we won a trophy. That '95 kit with the black edging was superb.

Toffee Tv Advertising the Memorial Presentation Pack, which admittedly looks quite good, but no mention of price ! ONLY available to Season Ticket/Share/ Holders.

Now again, how many overseas Evertonians are there ? How many Digital Members ? To mention just a few who seem to be excluded.

I suggested some time back too, that as there is likely to be a huge demand for Tickets being the last season. Why not, after B M D Stadium has officially opened, erect a large Screen, which would serve 3 purposes. It would give supporters who didn't, or couldn't get Tickets, a chance to see both the Stadium first hand and see the Match. It would also serve as a trial for the new Stadium coping with decent numbers and how access would pan out !

I remember late 80's they did this at G P for Derby Matches and high profile away Matches. A nominal Fee, have a couple of Catering outlets open, and extra revenue coming in. Their reply was 'there were no plans at this stage to entertain such an idea' !

Strewth!

Apologies to all Victorians, past or present, :-) they WERE forward thinking in many ways, so maybe Bohemians/Neanderthals may be more appropriate !

If it's made from the same material as the Belgian kit, I deffo wouldn't bother. You'll never pull, looking like, a sweaty, wetty, stinky, day-old bag of chips.

The ladies should deffo not wear one on hot days. It could be too much for our older fan base.

It's a perfect Everton shirt in my opinion.

Only surprised that we haven't had a commemorative badge for the last season at Goodison Park or something, would have been great to chuck the bloody Stake sponsor for this season and get something nodded towards Goodison but, hey ho, I understand the financial side.

All-in-all, it's blue and that's enough for me.

It looks horrible anyway.

But the price tag this season for both variants is ridiculous. It will most probably rip the first contact a play gets.

Having said that, this season's looks pretty nice and classy, style-wise. But material is a different matter.

I'm no designer of fashion or sportswear but I'd like to see the club badge in gold and the years we played at Goodison adorned either side.

I'm for blue socks as we see in the footage and pictures of Alex Young.

And yes, the blue & black when we won the FA Cup in '95.

The kit? I hate it, but I've hated most of the kits we've done (relatively) well in over the years. The first Nike kit is one of the few I've really liked.

I normally go out on the pull in a full Everton kit.

Always wondered why the ladies weren't all over me. Now I know it's cos I resemble a 'sweaty, wetty, stinky, day old bag of chips.'

I will have to invest in a pringle jumper, farah slacks and loafers for when I go back to The Grafton.

Is it not about time that football clubs consider their fans, as I can buy a very nice, good quality sports shirt for half the price of the club shirt, which of course carries the name of at least one sponsor.

Not for me… and certainly not at the price.

I've always wanted to buy Castore for that very reason. Given the choice, I'll go with a local brand.

Yet as a golfer who spends a decent amount on my golf obsession, I can never justify buying their massively overpriced and pretty ordinary looking gear.

The difference with golf gear is that I do have a choice - I don't have any real loyalties (except not owning anything red).

Clubs think they have fans over a barrel. Their kids are seeing the release on Tik Tok and Lord knows it's already hard enough raising young Evertonians.

For me, it's going to be a great opportunity to talk to my kids about obscene pricing and the value of money.

Son has a new castore Irish rugby jersey, cheap quality. Weren't Villa and Newcastle complaining about their kit last season, and left them for Adidas even though their contract wasn't up?

The thing that really spoils it is the logo/font for the main sponsor.

If I was to wear it, it would look like I'd been ironing my clothes on a Swiss exercise ball.

Villa binned them.

But we've blown that chance. Pity.

Blue socks for me always, most of our memorable teams I can think of wore blue socks.

The 86-89 kit simplistic.

Most of the 1990s we had good kits if not good teams, had blue socks.

Everton's primary colour is Blue so it should be predominantly Blue throughout.

The rest is over-priced tat, but what's new?

I wouldn't even contemplate buying a replica kit — if I want to look a twat, I can do it for a quarter of the cost without buying an Everton shirt.

As for no thought, wait til they bring a limited one out later in time for xmas, with a Goodison theme about it, no I am just guessing, but if these guys have knowledge on success, they will come up with one to ring the cash tills.

I agree Derek K, I've been asking the same question since tail end of last season, once our stadium is complete and proof tested, why not let the 30,000 on the season ticket waiting list and official members have use of the stadium for at least the final home game of the season, or a couple before that as well, they have two big screens in the stadium so could be done.

Other than that you will probs have thousands outside the stadium waiting to get in when the match is over, be much safer to have fans diverted away to our new stadium, even if they will not allow people in, there is the option of the fans plaza at Bramley Moore, everyone a winner.

Photographer should be ashamed of himself that he couldn't even get a smile raised.

We all have opinions but what do you want?

Go buy a kit and if not for yourself for your kids or grandkids.

Top league UK football has been priced out for the fans for years. We are now having to play catch-up or face another PSR/crap transfer window debacle.

Just wait for the sales, like when we buy anything else.

It would be nice if the away strip would be yellow top, blue shorts and yellow socks.

“if you want to look a twat, just buy a Liverpool shirt!”

You mean they actually pay for them?

I've never understood moaning about the price. If it's too high, don't buy. Wear an old kit instead.

I wear the 2013-14 one. It was the plainest, simplest, nicest one we've ever had.

That would send a message that those prices aren't on.

Still, we've had a lot worse in the past.

And all clubs are the same.

Thank Christ we fucked those ridiculous collars off and we have a round neck no nonsense top.

The colour is good and the pattern, not too in your face - looks classy. Let's hope it doesn't retain sweat like Villa's early kit, hopefully they've ironed that out.

"Oh its Dixie's, its special. Shouldn't be cheapened"
"The material is cheap and cottony".

Whatever came out, people were ready to moan. Let's get them in fluorescent rainbow tabards and grass skirts, no socks and carpet slippers.

As for me, coz I know you are all so interested, I kinda like it. They could have had the top and socks stripes running down the side of the shorts, they look mismatched, if I am being fussy.I really like the socks. But only the left one.

As for cost,s it comparable to other clubs?Do we compete or give up and do what we do when on tour. Tell the fans eager to part with their readies to "Fuck off as we can't be arse'd bringing all that shit with us."

Others, I mean everyone in the top two divisions, have better commercial sales than us. It needs massive restructuring and reinventing.

However we gotta build up a mega fanbase outside of the city first. That's a Herculean task. The strangled one having achieved fuck-all during her reign of supremacy.

COYB

As a shirt collector, I'll just plump for the replica version then at the start of the New Year… when it's a lot cheaper!!

Every fecking year, the same comments. It looks cheap, it's crap and a child could do better. Why do we offer this?

The best comments are it is overpriced, probably from the same people who moan that we do not maximise our revenue from merchandise. Well it looks like the club are having a good go now!

The collar reminds me of our '95 shirt.

As for as home socks...should be amber!!!

Matt Byrne 23: "The kit looks the same every year".

Spot on Matt, it looks the same as the one from last year and the one from the year before that. I have a good friend Matt, no longer living in Liverpool but the Peak District if that helps, who has been an optician for three decades. I could probably get you in for an appointment. Maybe, for homework, you could closely - forensically - examine our last dozen shirts and bring your thoughts to these pages because not much thought went into your daft comment.

Steve Brown 26: "Zero thought or effort has gone into the design of this kit".

Spot on Steve, which is a lot more than the thought that went into your post.

I love this kit! I wish the collar was white but I love the blue and white hoops effect that is oh so "contemporary". Same thing with the socks: I love the blue/white stripe cluster at the top. I might prefer a full blue and white Rotterdam sock (with more hoops though). But the socks are classy (not sold on the EFC though).

Completely agree with Jim, I think it was, who asked for a gold outline badge.

It at least involves the past in a hideous commercial world. It's the sort of kit I have wanted for ages. I can now reduce to simmer after the rags we wore last season. I think that this is as good a gesture to tradition as we were ever likely to get for our last year at The Old Lady.

Can't wait to see our lads strutting around Sligo in it two days from now.

I once read (which I agree with); "If you're too old or too fat to actually play football, then you should avoid the replica shirts."

That's ruled me out on both counts for the last 25 years.

To be honest I like kits with a collar... I just want 2nd and 3rd to be different designs.

When you see some of the rags people wear whilst walking around the city, or even worse, those horrible looking Hawaii shirts when on holiday that definitely do look like a sweaty, wetty, stinky, day old bag of chips, then I'd definitely rather be seen in our new shirt!

To be fair, I suspect most people know what I mean by the kit being very similar each year. I've got boys aged 9 and 12 and no doubt I will get the second mortgage to pay for the kits come the September birthdays and the very plain white shorts and plain white socks will blend in with the near identical ones from their previous kit collection.

I'd like white shorts with a thick blue stripe down the side and blue socks with a thick white turnover, think of the pictures of Alex Young or Roy Vernon. The 1986-87 kit was great as was the 95 FA Cup Final kit. I loved the blue and black hoop socks.

If we have to keep the white socks, why not go for the classic 1983-85 with the blue hoops? Makes me think of Reidy v Bayern with his sock covered in blood as he led us to glory.

I always resented the Lineker kit. Those white bibs spoilt the classic team photo with all the trophies!

I did know what you mean and, if you had said that this time last year, I would have not bothered to post but I do feel that this one is different.

I, too, hated the Rotterdam bib, Matt. I have a soft spot for the socks but that shirt is one of the worst we have had in my lifetime. But it doesn't affect the sheer joy and lovely memories of Howard's Way.

Remember Arsenal's sort of burgundy kit in their last season at Highbury, based on a very early design?

If we'd gone down that route, we could have gone with a Cambridge blue and white half kit (like Blackburn's but lighter blue) from 1888 and our first season or imagine the uproar if we went for Ruby red from 1891 and our first league title!

Paul, at least I couldn't then moan about it looking the same old thing!!

The background in the picture however is another matter.

The kids kits look shite without a sponsor, why not put Everton in the Community on it?

Even so, it set me back me a whopping £4.

I seem to recall an old song that started with the same 4 words. 🧐

It's interesting in a ‘Why? Just Why?' Kind of way that the cheaper kit has embroidered badges whilst the ultra expensive one has just transfer badges. Some sort of anti logic?

Design-wise, I like the shade of blue (much better than last season which was a bit pale). I don't like the collar, but I love the socks and a big tick for the white socks, which keep us looking like Everton in my view and not like Millwall, Ipswich, Birmingham or Leicester.

Jim's suggestion of a gold coloured nod to Goodison 1892-2025 is a good one and I'm not sure why they've homed in on a badge from the 1920s, which seems a bit random.

Fit is ‘athletic', by the look of it, so any ‘big fatties' choose the the next size up to your usual XL variant.

The prices are, of course, ridiculously high. Just like all the other Premier League clubs, as has been pointed out, and if you want a state-of-the-art stadium, I guess this is what comes with it sadly. I'll be waiting till the price drops though, not sure if it will ever drop enough for me to buy a pro version.

Overall, it looks good, costs too much, no nod to Goodison… 8/10.

Honestly I think it's fine except the weird sweaty looking wet look. What's with that? Some way for players to convince the gaffer they've busted their asses?

Won't work cause Lukaku looked like that before kick off in his Castore shirt at the Euros.

I'm also a fan of blue socks as they were the last ones I owned back in the '70s!

I was practising brevity … for once. As a kit launch in a normal season, it is fine. But I think more thought could have gone into the kit to reflect our last season at the Old Lady.

My reply was also tongue-in-cheek by the way.

Sorry for being so abrupt and rude.

But one of the nice things about today is rushing back to look at the new kit! Still wish the collar was all white but we'll look sharp next season at least.

You all spend way too much time fretting over this when there are far more things going on. What's going on with the takeover? Will Calvert-Lewin stay or be sold? When will the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock be open for tours? Who are our viable transfer targets etc…?

A bloody expensive, awful looking shirt doesn't change things on or off the pitch does it?

It may be awful looking. That's in the eye of the beholder, but it is now our chosen battlewear (if that's a word) and it's not that expensive compared to many other club shirts.

I think it's a little unseemly for gentlemen of a certain aged and shape to walk around in public wearing footy shirts, unless of course it at barbecues, in which case it should be compulsory.

The kit (whatever it looks like) offers us fans the opportunity to get a blue presence on the street. Buy one for your sons, grandsons,daughters, granddaughters and bear in mind the whole point of new kits is to generate a much needed boost to the club's coffers.

Beautifully put and felt here Dave. Nothing worse than a row of chubby replicas and then one throws it off waving it in the air and the others huffing and puffing get on their feet and do the same.

Have you thought of doing a podcast in Newcastle mate?

The scarf, rosette or even club tie was a far better look. I wonder if these might make a comeback?

I think club cufflinks are quite sufficient and, if one wants to go over the top, a matching cygnet ring.

Would it be sacrilege to have my valet make one by cutting up an old replica shirt?

No issue with people wearing Everton tops, I've just always (and we're talking years ago), found it odd when grown men wear an Everton top with a name and number on the back. That should stop at 18 years old!!! All opinions I guess. As I say, I haven't owned an Everton top since 1992.

Andy, I now expect you to turn up at your next match dressed in a Sean Dyche like suit with tie and cufflinks!!

Not long to go, Blues. When they walk on the pitch on 17th August, we won't care they look like. They'll be wearing Royal Blue and those at the match as well as those all over the country and globe will be right behind them.

I got one for Christmas when I was about 8. Not seen it for a while, but I guess its in the loft at my mother's house in Old Swan - I'll have a look next time I'm there. Sadly I suspect it breaches today's health & safety rules and wouldn't be allowed into a ground.

Andy (90) and Michael (91) - both good ideas that would complement a small badge worn on the lapel of your match day jacket (suit jacket that is).

‘a nice Everton cravat'

It should compliment your collection of Everton Posing Pouches quite nicely.

Seeing the Dutch national team's fans for example, all decked out in orange, is a great sight, and must surely inspire the team. Other clubs, particularly Dortmund with their yellow wall, and Celtic with green etc, it all adds to helping generate a great atmosphere within the stadium.

Imagine our new South Stand in the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, bathed out in a sea of blue! The Blue Wall…. Bring it on!

Those moaning about colour of shorts / socks didn't read the bit about those being in blue as well as the white?

There is a very good reason for ‘shiny' material. Much more difficult for opponents to get a grip of if it's slick.

The price of it? You can't expect the club shirt to be selling for miles less than our rivals. If the club get a slice then just consider it a way of actively supporting the club; if it's all for Castore then just don't buy if it's too much for you.

But it's a substantial deal (£20M+ per year).

Any chance of doing the '94 away shirt if possible in the very near future?

As for the new home shirt, not too shabby like, but the idea of two different home shirts is just taking the piss, which sadly most clubs are doing in the Premier League this season... sigh.