in the case of Nike there doing Catalan shirts at the moment so they know there fanbase not huge!! so Hull would be good next target as were probaly in top three of merchandise buyers!! if they want more rugby league clubs that is!!

chances are Catalan are buying them from someone else and paying to stick the Nike brand on, or are buying a generic Nike design (like Widnes did last season)



its tougher to get the actual Nike brand and factory to produce them, though i'd love to see a Nike FC shirt.

I'd like to see Canterbury on board with us, seem to have generally nice designs and don't think I've heard of them having any problems with distribution or production like KooGa have of late.

it would be great to see a FC Nike shirt as you very much doubt it!! Canterbury more likely and best option!!

There is also Reebok aswell. They do Melbourne, Manly shirts and I would imagine that they do other NRL clubs also. Not sure if they would consider SL clubs though.



I would imagine that the board will go with who puts the best offer on the table etc. The designs of the shirts will be the last thing they think about imo. But then again they've got to be good otherwise they wont sell.

You do know who who own umbro dont you

this isnt going to affect us from what i hear

Obviously not!

In that case I'll tell you.

Nike bought Umbro about 2 years ago

Well in that case the designs are awful!

Thats because Nike 'OWN' Umbro but have left the company 100% untouched.

No redundancies were made.



They are in effect exactly the same company, just with a hefty helping hand from Nike!



Thus, why the designs are still pants!

totally agree with you there