The problem with the white kit being used by both men's and women's teams is that it isn't an all white strip. Fine for the ferns as they aren't called all whites, but how can you have a team be called the All Whites and not have an all white strip (i.e. white shirt shorts socks).
The wording in the press release made it quite clear that the white strip is not considered the home/main strip, curiously it seems neither the white nor the black is labelled as the home/main or away/alternate strip.
Really does seem to be another step along the road of getting rid of the all whites name and making the black strip the main/home kit, and that they're trying to do it so slowly that it is imperceptible. I don't necessarily have a huge problem with the change in general, though I am fond of the name and the all white strip. But I would prefer the decision/debate happened properly, rather than it being something decided on high and changed by stealth, which is what I suspect is happening here.
But I don't know how we can call the team the all whites now without an all white strip. Is this already the end of that name? And the only step left is the explicit labelling of the black kit as the main/home kit the next time a kit is released?
