I went up this morning and bought 2, the thing is the sizing is way out from previous Steeden shirts and the shop is recommending trying them on. Mine is a 5XL last seasons was a 2XL, so beware.

5XL? Blimey Marvin have you been on the Ant Walker diet?

It says something about the size of our guys last year that we ordered 5XL shirts

Looks ok, I’ve seen worse. As long as performances improve, I’ll be happy

Well, it's not the best is it? Not sure what the process is for selecting a shirt design but it's definitely not my taste.

Well it’s not my cup of tea so I will wait to see the away shirt but at least the splatting of all those sponsors hopefully mean 1) we have been busy and 2) business want to be involved with us.

You can’t please everyone and I’m sure enough will like it to shift it in decent numbers.

It’s not great but at least it’s not as bad as another certain teams shirt I guess

Hmm interesting. I do like a black kit in general. Could be the away shirt sells better than the home shirt which would be ironic considering we were generally more entertaining to watch away from home last season.

Maybe they are trying to tell us something…

Away kit looks very smart.

The shirts seem to be quite complementary. Everyone will like one of them I think. Also, the home shirt looked more appealing in person rather than the social media pictures of it

I had big hopes for him but not to emulate him lol

I saw on the Widnes Facebook that JK has said his new signings have brought a real hunger to his squad… so you might have some further catching up to do now anyway.

Bongser’s metabolism has slowed down drastically in late middle age and he does not like cold weather. He attended Leigh’s first game of last season but his existing colours were buried under numerous layers of clothing so he then bought a 5XL shirt that would, just about, fit over his outer coat - relative warmth with colours on display. Maybe Ant Walker also feels the cold?

There now follows a cautionary tale for anyone considering adopting this approach. Bongser knocked off work early for an evening match early last season. He had a couple of scoops in The Egerton Arms in Salford during which consumption he donned his outer shirt. This necessitated his mate, Oirish Mick, freeing Bongser’s coat hood and pulling the shirt down at the back. Arriving home after the match, Bongser found that Natalie (aka “la jeunesse Mme de Bongseur”) had already turned in. It took forty minutes of self-wrestling (no, not that sort) for Bongser to squirm out of the shirt!!

I think both look OK, not that I've bought one for many years.

It's always going to be hard to please everyone and come up with something different every year!