I don't like the thick black stripe across the top
Yea. The stripe placement is my main issue with the jersey.
IMO if they were going for something like that, then everything above this line should be black.
The clash of horizontal stripes and vertical stripes just doesn't sit well with me. In previous years they did much neater job of separating the stripes on the shoulders from the stripes on the front of the shirt. From 16/17 to 18/19 we had solid black shoulders which negated that issue entirely and framed the shirt quite nicely, regardless of the rest of the design.
Having blue on the shoulders with a thick black stripe across the collar bone frames the shirt in a very odd shape IMO. Kind of raglan, but not quite. Gives a weird turtleneck vibe. Every time I see our jersey I think of these things I see girls wearing these days..

