The new Wales shirts are out and I think they look pretty good! The home shirt seems to be a modern take on the strip from 1994-1996, which works well. The away top, a pretty simplistic design with the single horizontal red line on a bright yellow backdrop, again not a bad look at all. But do we need a new kit now?

There is no doubt that there is feel good factor about the Welsh national football team at the moment, but with the release of the new Adidas kits, are the FAW cashing in on the euphoria at the supporters expense?

Why release them now?

There is the obvious timely release for Christmas. The home shirt is available to pre order and the away shirt is already for sale. It gives plenty of time for Santa to deliver the jersey in time for the 25 December. The team in the 0-0 draw modelled the away shirt; an excellent result which will do no harm to the shirt sale figures.

A new shirt in the middle of the EURO 2016 campaign does not seem fair to me. You don’t get club teams changing their kit halfway through a season so why should international teams do it? It could be argued that it would be fairer if the club teams changed; after all they play a lot more games in their kits than the national teams do.

So how many times have the red and white Adidas kits were worn before being replaced?

Remarkably, both shirts were worn a combined total of just six games, three in the red and three in the white. The red shirt was debuted back in November 2013 with a friendly fixture against Finland and subsequently not used again until the double header against Bosnia Herzegovina and Cyprus in October. The white shirt was used in just one competitive game in Andorra and two friendlies against the Netherlands and Iceland.

The new yellow away shirt was revealed just nine months after the launch of the previous white shirt.

How does it compare?

The new releases never used to be this frequent. If you look at Wales shirts from past campaigns you would be able to wear them to follow your team for more than a measly six games before you needed to update. The two Umbro shirts worn from 2012-2013 was used by the national squad for more than double the amount of games that the 2014 adidas edition was used. Gareth Bale and company wore them on 13 separate occasions, starting against Bosnia in Parc Y Scarlets in August 2012 up until Chris Coleman’s 1-1 draw in Belgium on 15 October 2013.

Are the new Wales kits too expensive?

The regular release of kits may be more acceptable if the prices were not so expensive. The 2014 shirts when released would have set you back £52 for the shirt. Now, six games later a new shirt is revealed and is even more pricey. This time the charge is £55.

If you want to buy and wear the whole 2015 kit (not recommended if you over the age of 12) it will cost you a grand total of £92 for the set. The shorts come in at £25 and the socks at £12. Not that many would opt for this option but if you wanted to buy two full kits you would have to fork out a whopping £184.

How many Welsh fans will actually buy them?

With the expensive prices and the availability of previous strips for discount prices how many Welsh supporters are going to splash the cash on the new kits?

The recently dropped shirts are now available for £20 but are you one of many fans who will buy the kits no matter what? Tell us your plans in this poll.