Why do the Reds need to play in white against a team playing in blue?

It’s the colour of surrender

 

We are surrendering our position in the Championship hence the white.

 

Sells away shirts.
Tradition yields to the dollar.

 

The thing is we've played at Brum in red shirts countless times in the past with no problem. So what's the "reason" now?
Game being run by accountants and marketing men.

 

Saving on laundry bills.White kit not been used for weeks so was due washing again.

 

At least its more visible than dark green so there were fewer passes going astray. Still plenty mind you. Need a day-glo kit.

 

Isn’t it something to do with one of our players being colour blind ?

 

Contractual obligation on shirt sponsorship deal?

 

For people watching in black n white..

 

Are you still allowed to say “black n white”?

 

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It;s usually part of the Kit Suppliers deal that the kit will be worn a certain number of times per season.

 

Isn’t it because one of our players is colour blind

 

Can't be that. Last year that was the reason we DID play in red and they wore blue.

 

The likes of you and me, and by that I mean people around before the 1990s, believe we have a 1st kit and a change kit. So we always play in red at home and as often as possible away from home, only changing our colours if they clash with the team we're visiting ie they also play in red.

That is not how the younger generation view it. We have a home kit and an away kit (and a third kit and possibly more). We play in red at home and any one of our other kits away from home. That's not unique to Barnsley, every team does it. I've had conversations with fans younger than me who can't understand my pov. It's a home kit and an away kit, so what am I talking about.

I don't like it, but then I don't buy Barnsley shirts.

It would be easy to blame greedy football clubs for this situation: they play in more shirts to sell more shirts. But I'm not so sure, I think it comes from both sides, fans and clubs. Most shirts are sold on release. We'll not sell a boat load of white kits because we played in white on Saturday. We sold the white kits in the summer. And we did that because people wanted a choice. "I don't like the home kit or the away kit but I like the white one so I'll get that". And that's not necessarily kids, it's people of our generations too. If the club give them that choice they have to play in the kit at some point otherwise they're flogging a t-shirt not a football kit.

It's a consumer society, the public get what the public want, and before I break out into a Jam song, I'll leave it there.

 

When it comes to finding a red shirt, they all look colour blind to me.

 

Well I take the point but we DO sell t shirts. And training tops. In a variety of colours and styles. I'd imagine over a two or three year period you could buy BFC badged tops in a myriad of colours to match every pair of trousers in your wardrobe.
Tradition reinforces identity and the wearing of red should be paramount wherever possible. Otherwise what do we become? A marketing vehicle. Which, it seems, is what we actually have become.

 

I thought the match officials decided what colours we can play in, pretty sure @YTBFC has responded to similar accusations of wearing a certain colour kit, so they could sell more.

Find the idea that we've waited till now to wear the white kit, so we can sell a few to be a bit odd.

Doubt we'll be launching a green kit again in future seasons, given the issue it causes the colour blind.