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Posted July 03, 2025 06:32 · last edited July 03, 2025 06:58

Simon B
mykey
What does this mean? Is it an away kit in home colours? Seems complicated. 

Dynasty will also produce two alternate away kits to ensure the Phoenix will always be in their home colours when they play in Wellington (or Christchurch).


Based on what was said back at the Fraser Park members’ day, I’d guess a “dark” home strip for when teams like CCM show up in their “light” away one. 

You’re right though, it’ll be interesting to see how they manage that so we don’t end up with a repeat of the Christchurch confusion.
I imagine it will be two very differing colour schemes of away shirts, so that we always wear the yellow home at home and never have to wear our home shirt for away games against other teams where our regular away shirt would clash. 

As the sponsor contracts mean we have to wear each shirt a certain amount of times, they can guarantee the away shirt sponsor that they can be front of shirt for every away game rather than having to make up that number of matches the home shirt and home sponsor was worn away by wearing the away sponsor at home games.

Last year the issue in Christchurch with CCM was that the Nix needed to wear the away shirt to get Entelar Group another game as front of shirt sponsor. CCM could've worn their away shirt and we could've worn our home as theirs was blue so there would've been no clash - it was just the sponsorship contracts which dictated it. And because of the rule of only being allowed 3 kits in the A-League (and the Nix had a charity strip counting towards one of those) they couldn't make a "men's version of the women's home" where they put Entelar on the yellow shirt instead.

Anyway that's just my reading of the whole thing and I could be proven wrong!

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Unknown editor edited July 03, 2025 06:58
Simon B
mykey
What does this mean? Is it an away kit in home colours? Seems complicated. 

Dynasty will also produce two alternate away kits to ensure the Phoenix will always be in their home colours when they play in Wellington (or Christchurch).


Based on what was said back at the Fraser Park members’ day, I’d guess a “dark” home strip for when teams like CCM show up in their “light” away one. 

You’re right though, it’ll be interesting to see how they manage that so we don’t end up with a repeat of the Christchurch confusion.
I imagine it will be two very differing colour schemes of away shirts, so that we always wear the yellow home at home and never have to wear our home shirt for away games against other teams where our regular away shirt would clash. 

As the sponsor contracts mean we have to wear each shirt a certain amount of times, they can guarantee the away shirt sponsor that they can be front of shirt for every away game rather than having to make up that number of matches the home shirt and home sponsor was worn away by wearing the away sponsor at home games.

Last year the issue in Christchurch with CCM was that the Nix needed to wear the away shirt to get Entelar Group another game as front of shirt sponsor. CCM could've worn their away shirt had we could've worn our home as theirs was blue so there would've been no clash - it was just the sponsorship contracts which dictated it. And because of the rule of only being allowed 3 kits in the A-League (and the Nix had a charity strip counting towards one of those) they couldn't make a "men's version of the women's home" where they put Entelar on the yellow shirt instead.

Anyway that's just my reading of the whole thing and I could be proven wrong!
Unknown editor edited July 03, 2025 06:37
Simon B
mykey
What does this mean? Is it an away kit in home colours? Seems complicated. 

Dynasty will also produce two alternate away kits to ensure the Phoenix will always be in their home colours when they play in Wellington (or Christchurch).


Based on what was said back at the Fraser Park members’ day, I’d guess a “dark” home strip for when teams like CCM show up in their “light” away one. 

You’re right though, it’ll be interesting to see how they manage that so we don’t end up with a repeat of the Christchurch confusion.
I imagine it will be two very differing colour schemes of away shirts, so that we always wear the yellow home at home and never have to wear our home shirt for away games against other teams where our regular away shirt would clash. 

This way they can guarantee the away shirt sponsor that they can be front of shirt for every away game rather than having to make up that number of matches the home shirt and home sponsor was worn away by wearing the away sponsor at home games.

Last year the issue in Christchurch with CCM was that the Nix needed to wear the away shirt to get Entelar Group another game as front of shirt sponsor. CCM could've worn their away shirt had we could've worn our home as theirs was blue so there would've been no clash - it was just the sponsorship contracts which dictated it. And because of the rule of only being allowed 3 kits in the A-League (and the Nix had a charity strip counting towards one of those) they couldn't make a "men's version of the women's home" where they put Entelar on the yellow shirt instead.

Anyway that's just my reading of the whole thing and I could be proven wrong!