The home and away shirts are decent quality this year just the collars are a bit large. The jacket I have is good too, other than the fact it is a virtual copy of the one Huddersfield sell with a different badge. I found this out to my horror at Huddersfield earlier this season.
That is the unanimous and only criticism heard of them at Fax. I always wear a hoodie underneath to fill in the gap but that might become impractical when (if?) the weather gets warmer.
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Jemaine Clement wrote:great idea.
it's worth noting that proposals were made a couple of years ago for one manufacturer to sign a central contract covering all clubs. I think the companies involved were Puma, Steeden and another one. It ended up never happening because the prices offered were no better than what each club could get individually anyway.
But was this SL or Championship clubs
All the Championship clubs combined support only adds up to about the same as a Leeds or a w1g4n
What I am suggesting is that the clubs actually purchase a smallish british based manufacturer
I doubt it would need a lot of actuall cash to get a 50 % share in one at the moment especially with a potential 1/2 million quid a year order on the table as well
Stick with a few basic designs to start with and get all printing done abroad , have the initial start of season supplies manufactured abroad with top ups and specials put together locally
Every item sold makes money both for the club buying/selling it and for all the other clubs as well who are part of the consortium
You end up with a brand name and 20 outlets for that brand name spread out over the country
Possibly easier then to try to get bigger more lucrative sponsorship on every clubs shirts , ie you could approach say the Co-oP to have the main sponsor on every shirt for every televised game , ie 20 odd matches a year
The clubs then have an incentive to sell their branded goods to other local sports clubs be they footy,netball,RU,RL ,anything , making extra evenue outside of their main business of RL
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Starbug wrote:I have suggested that all the championship clubs should get together and set up their own brand , Best way would be to club together and purchase an existing local manufacturer and then source inital batch purchases from abroad for best economy and then bring in the ' prints ' from abroad for assembley over here
Group purchasing would mean that all the clubs would actually make some income out of it rather than at present where very few if any make a profit from merchandising
You keep saying it, it keeps making sence, no idea why it doesn't happen...
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Starbug wrote:But was this SL or Championship clubs
All the Championship clubs combined support only adds up to about the same as a Leeds or a w1g4n
What I am suggesting is that the clubs actually purchase a smallish british based manufacturer
I doubt it would need a lot of actuall cash to get a 50 % share in one at the moment especially with a potential 1/2 million quid a year order on the table as well
Stick with a few basic designs to start with and get all printing done abroad , have the initial start of season supplies manufactured abroad with top ups and specials put together locally
Every item sold makes money both for the club buying/selling it and for all the other clubs as well who are part of the consortium
You end up with a brand name and 20 outlets for that brand name spread out over the country
Possibly easier then to try to get bigger more lucrative sponsorship on every clubs shirts , ie you could approach say the Co-oP to have the main sponsor on every shirt for every televised game , ie 20 odd matches a year
The clubs then have an incentive to sell their branded goods to other local sports clubs be they footy,netball,RU,RL ,anything , making extra evenue outside of their main business of RL
i'm with you on this one. the more things we can do centrally, the better placed we'll be to excel in other areas.
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belgianxiii wrote:You keep saying it, it keeps making sence, no idea why it doesn't happen...
Simple it needs the clubs to all sit down together to agree to all start to work together , this unfortunatley is the problem , when we are down to 14/15 clubs they might see sense , hope it's not too late by then
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SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
Starbug wrote:Simple it needs the clubs to all sit down together to agree to all start to work together , this unfortunatley is the problem , when we are down to 14/15 clubs they might see sense , hope it's not too late by then
building on the idea of operating things centrally, how about we do the same with websites?
99% of football league clubs' (if not all of them) websites are run by 'premium tv'. This arrangement means top quality website with premium content, a collective market, encompassing millions of visitors, to attract advertisers whilst still granting some autonomy to the individual clubs.
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Jemaine Clement wrote:i'm with you on this one. the more things we can do centrally, the better placed we'll be to excel in other areas.
the case above did concern championship clubs.
On my other post I mentioned that the clubs need to start to work together , I do know that Keighley have approached your board to suggest that as you both play each other on Sky televised matches that you both possibly provide free transport for away fans to the games at your home venues
The idea being that you both try to outdo each others away support and bring say at least 500 away fans to each match
This would make for a much better atmosphere at both games
Co operation between the clubs outside SL is the only way they will survive
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SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
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Jemaine Clement wrote:building on the idea of operating things centrally, how about we do the same with websites?
99% of football league clubs' (if not all of them) websites are run by 'premium tv'. This arrangement means top quality website with premium content, a collective market, encompassing millions of visitors, to attract advertisers whilst still granting some autonomy to the individual clubs.
Yes the websites would have been the first thing they should have done , before they even came up with the shared programe
kcab sfrawdder
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Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
Starbug wrote:On my other post I mentioned that the clubs need to start to work together , I do know that Keighley have approached your board to suggest that as you both play each other on Sky televised matches that you both possibly provide free transport for away fans to the games at your home venues
The idea being that you both try to outdo each others away support and bring say at least 500 away fans to each match
This would make for a much better atmosphere at both games
Co operation between the clubs outside SL is the only way they will survive
yeah i heard about this, i think there are a few ideas in the pipeline.
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