IRELAND LAUNCHED THEIR new jersey with a new sponsor at the Aviva Stadium this morning.
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First impressions: The jersey itself looks good to us, the neckline on the old one (below if you’ve worked hard to forget the Six Nations) was far too round for our tastes, so the high neck and simple collar is a big improvement.
The only quibble we have with it is the clash of the red of the new Vodafone logo with the green of the jersey.
As an aside, fair play to Ultan Dillane for dragging himself out of bed to be in Dublin this morning while all his team-mates are enjoying breakfast in the Galway sun, squinting because of the glint of their medals reflecting harsh light into their eyes.
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That’s really not nice, jersey itself is fine, the red Vodafone logo is just horrible and clashes with the green.
Fairly uninspiring – like most Canterbury kits these days – and the red on the sponsor’s logo is just awful. What were they thinking?
I’m thinking they were thinking €€€€
If they really want to make money sell one without the logo!
Vodafone are thinking about selling phones and not much else !
The picture of the four lads needs to be accompanied with riverdance song playing! Vodafone logo doesn’t suit it, sorry.
Pity about the Vodafone logo. Looks nice apart from that.
Red vodaphone logo on new Ireland rugby shirts looks like a target for the South Africans to hit!
Any chance they could make the Vodafone logo any bigger?
Looks like a green England shirt
Best looks like he’s doing a jig
There must be an new Ulster forwards coach on the way.
I’m not gone on the lime green stripes on the shoulders on front & back between them and the red, white & black logo…. Correct me if I’m wrong, is this the first Irish rugby jersey to have another colour other than green, white & the occasional black?
Big downgrade on the last one. Maybe we shouldn’t complain too much though… O2, Three, Vodafone… Next time it will be Tesco mobile
That jersey will flop. Can’t see many buying it unless there is a sponsor-less option.
What it needs is maybe one white sleeve and lifestyle sports as a sponsor
Can’t we just be done with all the nonsense and send the Connacht team off to South Africa instead?!
If Connacht did a rerun of the Green Lantern shirt it would sell more than this shirt.
How feckin big is Dillane??
It’s horrible #bringbacknosponsor
Awful. But i gave up hope for nice Cabterbury shirts long ago. Bring back Puma or Nike
Looks like an English rose on the jersey, well done lads excellent work.
It wud be nice without Vodafone
Can’t find a pic of someone wearing it that link is not working for me.
Red logo is fire in the belly
More like heartburn..
That’s fookin gash…. god bless the old Cotton jerseys!
Surprised by the reaction, somewhat uninspired but for a Canterbury but all in all I like it
Anyone have any idea how much this deal is worth? More than the deal they had with 3?
€50m over 10 years I believe, with O2/3 it was 2.65m/yr
Nice article
This jersey looks good!!
Looks like one of the Care bears. All that effort just to make a mess of the whole lot…. a green centre flame (is it a flame?) would be an immediate improvement.
I will always support the green of the Ireland Rugby team, just not with that jersey :-)!