Courtesy of the Sharks on Twitter. Feast your eyes!
The three jerseys were launched at an event at Kings Park this evening. The black strip is the home strip and there are two away strips, one in white and one in cherry, a new colour from a Sharks perspective. What do you think? I LOOOOVE all three.
According to the Sharks website, “the design of the jerseys is culturally inspired and based on the five pillars of The Sharks brand, which is [sic] Innovation, Courage, Passion, Unity and Perseverance.”
The new jerseys will be available nationwide from tomorrow (Friday 4 December).
All iamges credit The Cell C Sharks.
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That kit, I like it.
@Seth101 (Comment 1) : Would have gone for slightly smaller white/black sections on the sides….but that is literally the worst I can say about it 😀
Absolutely love this jersey! I’m definitely getting one in each colour!
@Sharksmad – The Blog’s Dudette (Comment 3) : Zuckerberg, is that really you?
Not bad. Just one question. What the heck is Nosa?
The cherry shirts don’t work with the black shorts in my opinion. The cherry/white/black contrast is just a little too much. Think it’ll look amazing with the white shorts. Like the kits otherwise. A little more fun and out there.
@Ben (Comment 5) : They do occupational health and safety (my father-in-law consults for them on occasion). Subsidiary of MICROMega.
Hope they are making some that will fit Giant. 🙂
@vanmartin (Comment 7) : Thanks!
@vanmartin (Comment 6) : Okay, having a look again, the black shorts actually don’t completely blend with the black shirts either. They seem to be different shades. I think that’s what’s bothering me.
@Seth101 (Comment 2) : I missed this comment but I agree with that.
Are those tyre tracks on the jerseys? 🙂
One thing I am curious about, not complaining just curious. So far out of 9 or so clubs we have had by far and away the biggest event for revealing the jersey, why?
@Blue Centurion (Comment 12) : Designs inspired by Zulu art.
Nit picks, I don’t like the stars under NOSA, stars on sports jerseys usually indicate tournament victories. I don’t liveth super sport sign in the Sharks name. And I think the colour on each side is slightly big. Really small nit picks and other than that I really like them.
Love it, especially the Zulu inspired artwork!
@Seth101 (Comment 13) : Why not?
I sooooo miss the – dwars wit streep – on the jersey.
Agge nee !!!
The reverse black stripe across the white ….would also be awesome.
Heheheheeee and who is the fatty in the cherry jersey ……..?
Shame ………….
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Won’t say I love it but it is definitely interesting and diffrent
Why is there 2 away jerseys
It might grow on me…certain parts of it I like – certain parts I’m not so fond of….a modern interpretation of the Zulu art would have gone a long way in stylising the jersey (that is a very linear interpretation).
Oh well.
@The Brand (Comment 19) : don’t thank me…. thank the fact that I use CloudFlare in front of the site.
All in all I like…the black one is my favourite…striking…
Love all three. Great.
You cannot please everyone. But I am pleased. In future I’d like to see even more adventurous designs and less PR talk from the union about the “5 pillars” of the Sharks represented in the jersey. Who buys this marketing gibberish?
And maybe a colour not already catered for. Whilst I like the cherry tone, red is pretty common. Along with blue and black and white.
@Gold_Must_Go (Comment 27) : that’s what I loved so much about the ‘Landers away jersey. Nobody else in Super Rugby has a green strip. I wonder why not
@Gold_Must_Go (Comment 26) : must say, I’m also not really getting the “5-pillars” lark. Would be nice if they explained exactly how those pillars translate to what’s on the jersey.
Nice jerseys but not sure about the red one. It almost looks like a practice jersey, I personally would have chosen a grey jersey with red highlights.
@robdylan (Comment 28) : just like pink I do not think lots of teams historicaly picked green jerseys so most teams stay within their team colours as fan will riot if you change their team colours. Can’t you remember the outcry when they first decided to go green?
I dig it. Going to pick up a red one, seeing as I’ve got 3 black and 2 white ones currently.
I want the red one. Collectors item.
So the Lions have gone with black and sharks have gone with red? What is this world coming to? What’s next, the cheetahs with Blue?
@coolfusion (Comment 34) : Strangely all SA SR teams have black away jerseys. Exept us of course. Conspiracy I tell you
@robdylan (Comment 29) : Hey the marketing company must come up with crap like that to justify their bill.
@Dragnipur (Comment 35) : Except the kings. They will have to go to salvation army for their new shirts. May they can get the bulls “fuchsia” kit from a while back and some permanent markers for retrofitting?
@coolfusion (Comment 37) : no need to be mean! I’m sure they will have nice kit seeing that SARU will be paying for it!! 😈
Niiiccceeee, now for the Shark logo to evolve.
@Seth101 (Comment 15) : Those stars are part of the NOSA logo so they are going no where. As Van says, they are occupational / environmental health and safety boffins. They offer courses but also grade industry on safety etc. The aim is to get those 5 stars as the pinnacle of having an environmentally and occupational healthy safe, environment at the work place. Lets hope they are going to be rating, and improving, the Sharks on the field of play.
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 40) : I assumed they were a logo, still don’t like it.
I like it. Just hope they match the colour tone of the shorts to their respective jersey colours.
Looking at the jersey from the back (not pictured here) I see traditional Zulu clay beer pots.
Not a fan..compared to the other teams it’s really not great..Rather disappointed as I was keen to buy one tomorrow at the Jozi launch tomorrow
@Esmo (Comment 44) : What, why?
Love all three jerseys.
The zig zag patterns don’t do it for me!
@JD (Comment 38) : Yup. The designers are also centrally contracted.
@Esmo (Comment 47) : Looks like they found shapes from MS Word 3.0. So bad.
Well, the shirts will take a bit of getting used to…very busy, like those heineken cup teams but with the Sharks jerseys havbing far less colour. A shed load of sponsors; that also detracts from it in my view. I wonder if the designers tested what it looks like on TV in motion…of course, the jerseys will mean very little if the heart is not there. We will have to wait until mid-competition to find that out. I’m glad most of you blokes are gung-ho about them, but speaking personally I will wait to see if we can have a first date and a meal (a few games to see how it looks and whether it seems to mean anything).
And seeing PSDT in that new stormers jersey just hurts…ouch
@SeanJeff (Comment 51) : got to agree.
@SeanJeff (Comment 51) : *sigh*