What would a natural amount of time be, asking for a friend.
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He’ll coat the tv screen with o Mahoney on laochra Gael on Wednesday …
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Omfg what a stunner. And the three stripes over the shoulder and all 
Bit too much going on, had potential though with the colours.
OMFG 
Missing those 3 stripes over the shoulder though. That’s what makes it am afraid.
Oh my lord.
That’s incredible. I hate Kerry GAA but fucking hell that’s some kit
What a jersey this was. I had no idea what Kersten or Kersten Hunik was, I later found out it was a Dutch haulage company, but whatever it was, it seemed exotic and cool and swaggery. This Down team also turned the Puma King mouldy into a fashion icon.
It’s no wonder Donegal were smashed in this match. When you turn up in that, against this, well, goodnight Killybegs.
I was perched up in the corner of the Canal End over the tunnel for the 1992 All-Ireland final, my first. I was expecting Donegal to be wearing their Kerry style colours, having had to change for the semi-final against Mayo. Instead I saw them running out in this Down style template. Magee are still living off this. All was changed, changed utterly.
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That Kersten shirt changed the game entirely. You obviously remember Meath’s dreadful O Reilly Transport aborted attempt at that template, short lived in the 4 game saga. in 1991. It wasn’t right. Meath should always be fully green
But that Magee tailored Donegal shirt was fucking sublime. It should be barely tweaked. Its like Offaly getting it right in 94 and keeping it for the best part of a decade.
The different colour sleeves craic came in for 1991. With some counties it worked, with others it was a disaster. My general rule of thumb is that it tended to work better where the sleeves were a darker colour than the rest of the jersey (Down, Dublin, Roscommon, Donegal 1992), and didn’t work where the sleeve was a lighter colour than the rest of the jersey (Meath 1991, Donegal 1991, Armagh 1992 on).
Like, you couldn’t imagine a Cork or Galway jersey with white sleeves.
Then you had other counties who had hoops or stripes and tried it (Clare, Derry, Wexford, Kilkenny). Derry and Wexford just about got away it because they won All-Irelands with different coloured sleeves, but overall, different coloured sleeves with a hoop or stripes or halves is too fussy. Kilkenny have had non-striped sleeves it for the last 25 years. They’ve won 24 senior hurling All-Irelands in that time, but not one of those jerseys will ever be loved.
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The truest thing ever written on this forum.
I’d agree re the lighter sleeves to an extent, but I really liked this jersey nonetheless.
And I’ll always love this one
The man, the legend.
I don’t know how Offaly managed to pull off that 1994 kit. I really don’t. It had all the ingredients for a turkey, but somehow it wasn’t.
The Armagh one above is hilarious. They changed the chevrons or whatever you call them for the 1994 League final. An Amiga Paint five minute job. I also hate that jersey because I associate it with the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
The 1999 jersey worked better, I don’t know why, probably because Armagh wore it on prototype summer days in Clones. The 2002 Armagh jersey was a pig, but it was a fondly remembered pig.
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I think much like Offaly itself, for a pig ignorant shower of fuckers, there was and is an absolute beauty to how they played the game in the 90’s. Even their footballers pulled it out of the bag for a few years. And having an iconic change strip helps too.
The chevrons were much better, couldnt find a picture of them. I thought the 99 one was a little busy, but much better than the 2002 yoke which was simply ugly and the wrong shade.