Cadiz Seagull
Grey bearded old man
Why couldn't they have played in skins?
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We don't want another shirt for gawd's sake
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Why couldn't they have played in skins?
- Aug 8, 2005
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It would have scared the sheep.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It's strange seeing complaints about new shirts and away kits, yet on other threads on Nsc, loads of posts saying how great it is that kids are wearing Brighton shirts and not Prem clubs.
Christmas is coming.
Christmas is coming.
midnight_rendezvous
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I remember at the start of the season people were moaning that the orange shirt wasn't available to buy. Football fans eh? Never happy.
Goring-by-Seagull
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- Jan 5, 2012
- 1,980
Black goalkeeper top next please. TAKE MY MONEY
Prince Monolulu
Everything in Moderation
It's like anything in life, business or anything really...all about timing.
Scoffers
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So I wonder if those who complain about the club trying to generate cash with this new shirt will also be moaning when we don't spend millions on a new striker.
Folks can moan all they like about the club changing and the commercial nature of the club being alien to them. The thing is you cannot have things both ways and despite Saturday's inept performance, we are spending a lot of cash on players as the loss of 12m proves.
In any case, if you cannot afford the shirt, or don't want to, then don't buy it and quit moaning about the club trying to raise funds.
Folks can moan all they like about the club changing and the commercial nature of the club being alien to them. The thing is you cannot have things both ways and despite Saturday's inept performance, we are spending a lot of cash on players as the loss of 12m proves.
In any case, if you cannot afford the shirt, or don't want to, then don't buy it and quit moaning about the club trying to raise funds.
nwgull
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I missed all this as I went for a slash and a cup of tea at half time. However, from some of the posts it sounds like Paul Barber had the entire match day squad running around the pitch in the new shirt getting knackered at half time instead of having a 15 minute breather and team talk.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Be bold, pay £45 for this shirt when it's readily available without the badges for £10.49.
Very bold.
yxee
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Ah, I can explain this one! "football fans" is not a single entity, but really a name for lots of different people with different opinions. So it is quite possible that "football fans" bemoan a 3rd shirt whereas other "football fans" want to buy it. It just means the group of people have differing opinion.
Mystery solved.
It comes to something when that needs explaining ... which you have done very well by the way
Take the rest of the day off
You might also add that it works well for similar statements made about Barnes, Ticket Prices, Gullys Girls and and and .... just like magic!!
el punal
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Of course it is. Long gone are the days when you could stroll up to the Goldstone, pays yer money and get in at 2.55. It's now called entertainment. Having said that would we all be carping on if we had won our last three games? No.
TWOCHOICEStom
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This is the sort of thing that gets on my tits. Stop feeding us this horseshit, we're not idiots. Nike haven't gone to great lengths to bring us a hand-crafted, one off piece of art in a week. They've ironed on a crest and two Amex logos (which have already been produced) to some teamwear and are going to sell it for a huge profit.
I can understand exactly why the club are making it available, but please, when we're looking at paying £45 for something which likely costs less than £5 to produce, don't go on about how lucky we are to have such wonderful kit suppliers. Errea made pink versions of the home kits, incorporated logos into each shirt, made special edition shirts and actually designed bespoke kits every season for us. That's commitment.
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Knotty
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It's always been a business, as have all other professional football clubs. These days they have to be very well run businesses to survive. And that means selling as much as possible in addition to match tickets. (The cost and quality of what's sold is another issue.)
If you don't like the club's marketing, ignore it. If you don't like the orange shirt, don't buy it. It really is that simple.
If you don't want your club to be a business, support your local pub team.
gripper stebson
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- Jul 27, 2004
- 6,657
Completely agree with all this however it was the timing on Saturday that caused a fair amount of booing around me.
"The team are crap but don't worry you can have this new massively overpriced piece of tat to make up for it you lucky little people... it has an iron on sponsor you know!"*
*Not RR's actual words but you get the point!
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And the way that it was done - almost like we were getting a freebie.
That's all very true, but I think what's sticking in most people's craw is that at the moment the club appears to be more interested (and is much better) at marketing and selling the add-on products rather than playing football.
The crucial word in the above sentence is 'appears'. As someone else said, if we'd been top of the league and 3-0 up at the time no one would have batted an eyelid.
dejavuatbtn
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I think this is going to be the problem. Not pub teams, perhaps, but local non league. If those leaving early, not renewing season tickets this year, and general dissatisfaction with value for money (be that entrance, food, drink, programme, whatever) don't come back next year we have a problem. The following season will then see the 5 year renewals for 1901 and that will be a telling time.
Re the orange shirt, I don't have a problem with its issue, I was just a bit disappointed with the marketing aspect of it being scheduled to be worn at the spurs away game - so get your order in NOW! As if there isn't enough financial pressure on those taking kids to White Hart Lane.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,205
More commercial = more money to spend on the squad (better chance of promotion)
Less commercial = less money to spend (and therefore less likely to be successful and to get promoted)
You can't have Less commercial and more money spent on the squad as those who seem to complain about this appear to want. So choose which one you'd prefer!