Warrington - A Teaser Of The New Away Kit

[josie andrews]

Warrington Wolves will be going back to the future next season by wearing the club's original colours - scarlet and black - for the away strip.
The Wolves are confident that the new kit will prove popular with all supporters, young and old alike, and are proud to honour the club's heritage with the design.
The Wolves are famous for playing in primrose and blue but new research has found the first mention of the club's colours dating back to an annual general meeting held at the Patten Arms pub in the town on the evening of Wednesday, September 24, 1879.
The meeting was reported in the Warrington Evening Post newspaper two days later and included the following: "The advisability of changing the colour of the club was brought forward and after a lengthy discussion it was resolved to adopt the old colour, viz scarlet and black."
Frustratingly, this account did not reveal how the scarlet and black was designed but this gap in our knowledge has been filled thanks to a Baines football card from the late 1880s that shows that the scarlet and black was arranged in narrow hoops.
John Baines Limited, of Manningham, Bradford, began producing collectors' cards in 1887 and featured hundreds of rugby, football and cricket teams. The cards sold in packets of six and were avidly collected by the schoolboys of the day.
The card that features Warrington shows the scarlet and black hoops being worn by the three-quarter James or Jim Jolley, who was one of the star players of the day, and will be incorporated into the new kit.
Warrington did not wear primrose and blue until December 1886 for the visit of Wigan when Warrington wore narrow primrose and blue stripes with turned down collars.
It is thought that Warrington adopted the new colours to impress the wealthy Greenall family, owners of the Greenall Whitley brewery, who lived at Walton Hall. The Greenalls were keen supporters of the Primrose League and, of course, true blue Tories.
The Primrose League was founded in 1883 with the aim of spreading Conservative values in Great Britain and by 1886 it may have had as many as one million members.
Another, less political, theory is that Lady Daresbury was asked to choose the new colours and picked primrose because it was her favourite flower and blue to provide a nice contrast.

http://www.warringtonwolves.org/a-tease ... -kit--4731

[weststand-rich]

They should adopt 'bottle green' as their new shirt colour.

Green for the hard faced envy over our sucess and history and bottle ...... well that speaks for itself.

[josie andrews]

They should adopt 'bottle green' as their new shirt colour.

Green for the hard faced envy over our sucess and history and bottle ...... well that speaks for itself.