Matching shirts & years: Clarification help please

[Ian_D]

I am getting all my shirts Framed and with them a plaque saying what year they are from, however, I am a bit unsure about what order they go in and how many years etc we wore that particular shirt for, so can someone with a good memory please help me with what I've already got...!?

 

I started supporting when we were wearing the Mister Ham Man shirt with red dotted arms (not the solid red one we wore for Villa in 96, was there one in between?)

 

I am 80% sure we wore the Shepherd Neame shirt when got promoted at Bedford in 01/02 season, and have also found a photo of Che Stadhart wearing it against Notts County (the one at Priestfield) in December 2000, so I assume we wore that for two seasons?

 

Was the Scania one before or after promotion? Originally I thought it was before promotion (perhaps the 1999/00 season), but this would leave a gap after promotion... Did we wear the Gladwish Land Sales one for two seasons, before GLSFootball.com? Am I putting the Mister Ham Man Shirt (from when I started supporting) too late? Thinking about it, it's really bad I can't remember all this!

 

Anyways, this is what I have so far...

 

1999/00 - Mister Ham Man

2000/01 - Shepherd Neame

2001/02 - Shepherd Neame (Promotion Year)

2002/03 - Scania??

2003/04 - Gravesend Reporter

2004/05 - Gladwish Land Sales

2005/06 - GLSFootball.com

2006/07 - Austrian Airlines

2007/08 - Eurostar

 

Someone who can remember, please help! What's right and what's wrong?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ian_D]

From trawling through previous posts on this forum I have discovered three more things (all thanks to Stu M )

 

Gravesend Reporter shirt was the one we wore first season up.

 

The red Gladwish Land Sales shirt was used for two seasons (03/04 and 04/05) before the introduction of the GLSFootball.com shirt.

 

We did wear the Shepherd Neame one for the promotion season as well as the previous one.

 

Therefore with that in mind:

 

1998/99 - Mister Ham Man

1999/00 - Scania

2000/01 - Shepherd Neame

2001/02 - Shepherd Neame (Promotion Year) (same shirt as previous year)

2002/03 - Gravesend Reporter

2003/04 - Gladwish Land Sales

2004/05 - Gladwish Land Sales (same shirt as previous year)

2005/06 - GLSFootball.com

2006/07 - Austrian Airlines

2007/08 - Eurostar

 

To those in the know does that look correct?

 

It's amazing how with a little time and effort you can answer your own questions!

[mikefleet]

seems right with me matey, be good to see them once there done.

 

Interesting as well to see that we have had nearly as many shirts in as many years!!

[Stu M]

Yep, that's right as far as I can recall, except Gravesend Reporter was also the shirt at start of 03/04 until Gladwish came on board a few months later.

[kmj]

It looks like you are going to need a very big wall to hang these on!

[Ian_D]

Thanks for the clarification Stu, and kmj, my four bedroom walls should be enough... for now!

[StuThompson]

Correct. Gladwish shirt the first version, was only used for half a season. We started off a second conference season with the reporter shirt then changed halfway through.

[GillOrient]

Where are you getting them framed Ian, and how much are they charging?

[Ian_D]

Phoenix Framing in Gravesend, got them down to

[Harry J Allstars]

That is going to be so worth it.

 

I am very jealous Ian.

[Bernard]

The Shepherd Neame promotion shift has a slightly different collar to the one the year before. I think one was just black, and the other was black with a red stripe. I can't remember which was which, however.

[David Holden]

If Ronnie ever returns my SN shirt, I'll let you know.

[Jeff]

I have a feeling that I left the Austrian Airlines and GLS shirts at the apres Wembley MyFC shindig.

 

Gutted.

[David Holden]

Well if you will mix with these dodgy characters!!

[Jeff]

In fairness, I leant them to a couple of my mates from Gravesend who left the do before I did.

 

I thought that they had the shirts with them but apparently, they did not.

 

 

[kmj]

As these shirts are 'design classics' and totally irreplaceble, I would suggest that you send each of your so-called friends a bill, for , say,

[StuThompson]

Originally Posted By: Bernard

The Shepherd Neame promotion shift has a slightly different collar to the one the year before. I think one was just black, and the other was black with a red stripe. I can't remember which was which, however.

Promotion shirt had the stripe.

[Ian_D]

Originally Posted By: StuThompson

Originally Posted By: Bernard

The Shepherd Neame promotion shift has a slightly different collar to the one the year before. I think one was just black, and the other was black with a red stripe. I can't remember which was which, however.

Promotion shirt had the stripe.

Cheers for that. Means I am now missing two shirts instead of one! If it's gonna be done it's gotta be done properly in my mind...!

I'll keep my eye open on eBay... anyone got a Shepherd Neame shirt they want to sell

[StuThompson]

How much you paying?

[StuThompson]

What the hell are you up at 2:45 a.m for?