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willyfantastic

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Mar 1, 2009
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Like Southend and Fleetwood, you mean?

arent their agreements with distributors and not directly with nike?

i get what you mean but then you could say the same about adidas and swindon/bristol city and puma and plymouth/fleetwood (they arent with nike anymore)

lower league teams will wear crappy teamwear of big brands, we just have to hope either we get one of the plainer, nicer templates (with no weird panelling or annual design changes (like the nike chevron, or the adidas horizontal sleeves), or something bespoke
 


Lady Whistledown

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Jul 7, 2003
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arent their agreements with distributors and not directly with nike?

i get what you mean but then you could say the same about adidas and swindon/bristol city and puma and plymouth/fleetwood (they arent with nike anymore)

lower league teams will wear crappy teamwear of big brands, we just have to hope either we get one of the plainer, nicer templates (with no weird panelling or annual design changes (like the nike chevron, or the adidas horizontal sleeves), or something bespoke

I'm pretty certain we won't get anything bespoke. All the teams with Adidas & Nike who aren't the marquee names (Arsenal, United, City, Chelsea etc) have the off the peg team wear style kits. Look at Sunderland, Stoke, Fulham, Swansea & Forest: their home and away shirts are just standard templates that they picked out of the catalogue.

If Fulham, Stoke, Saints & Forest don't get a bespoke kit, then we sure as hell won't.

I think Barnsley have a Nike teamwear kit currently. Basically the previous season's Everton shirt, in red. That's where we'll end up, depressingly. Probably the same design as some no-hoper will be wearing at the World Cup. Australia, perhaps.
 


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Vegas Seagull

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Jul 10, 2009
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Important for the club's marketing machine.

As someone who won Marketing Weeks annual prize for the best product launch in 1998 I find this response is inadequate, you need explain in much fuller detail your reasoning rather than simply sidestepping the actual question
 


Silverhatch

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Feb 23, 2009
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Nike is a huge American brand. They are planning a big expansion into the UK retail scene. They have also done a big deal with Amex on rewards. They must be very interested in Amex's multi-year shirt and stadium relationship with BHA. I wouldn't be so sure that we don't get something bespoke.
 


Stat Brother

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I'm pretty certain we won't get anything bespoke. All the teams with Adidas & Nike who aren't the marquee names (Arsenal, United, City, Chelsea etc) have the off the peg team wear style kits. Look at Sunderland, Stoke, Fulham, Swansea & Forest: their home and away shirts are just standard templates that they picked out of the catalogue.

If Fulham, Stoke, Saints & Forest don't get a bespoke kit, then we sure as hell won't.

I think Barnsley have a Nike teamwear kit currently. Basically the previous season's Everton shirt, in red. That's where we'll end up, depressingly. Probably the same design as some no-hoper will be wearing at the World Cup. Australia, perhaps.
I wonder what our sales and spending per head comes out at, verses say Stoke?
That might impact on what Nike are prepared to offer us.

Remember all the stuff people leave under their seat still count as sold!!
 




poidy

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Aug 3, 2009
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Yep, absolutely like that. :thumbsup:

I think it would be STUNNING.

Until it's stocked in the club shop and we see 40 something's squeezing into the size too small with chicken balti pie and crumbs all down there front
 


samtheseagull

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Sep 15, 2010
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nike will be better quality, ive had loads of nike gear for footy and cant knock the quality. hopefully the kit is not too standard.
 


DarrenFreemansPerm

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Sep 28, 2010
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I can appreciate why some people will not want Nike as the supplier, and why some would like to keep the ERREA shirts for the bespoke design, however if we do get a template or a copy of one of the big club's shirts I'd be more than happy to see us sporting a blue and white version of Juve,Barca or Atleti's kits.
 




colonies man

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Jul 30, 2011
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So it looks like Nike is our new kit manufacturer after having it confirmed at the club superstore.

I can't wait to see it personally, all clothing will get a much needed boost in quality.

Any thoughts?
One of the worse companies around for abusing labour and nobody should ever buy any of their products.
 


Surf's Up

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Jul 17, 2011
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I can appreciate why some people will not want Nike as the supplier, and why some would like to keep the ERREA shirts for the bespoke design, however if we do get a template or a copy of one of the big club's shirts I'd be more than happy to see us sporting a blue and white version of Juve,Barca or Atleti's kits.

Me too, ERREA have always been crap because the designs have been, by and large, crap and the quality has been poor. The above design, or similar, with white shorts and blue piping + blue socks will be, IMO, the dogs bollocks.
 






Dan Aitch

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May 31, 2013
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As long as they're made of a stretchy material they'll go over the pie-bellies. I just hope the replicas aren't all designed with the pie-belly in mind, leaving some of us at risk of looking like we're wearing maternity clothing.

Never understood why s/m/l/xl stuff always assumes you get fatter as you get bigger, rather than taller/longer. I have replica shirts that both me and my wife could get into at the same time but that still don't get further than halfway down my forearm (and yes, they are the long-sleeved ones). A bit of tailoring to the belly-size and arm length would be gratefully received.
 


Titanic

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Jul 5, 2003
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Me too, ERREA have always been crap because the designs have been, by and large, crap and the quality has been poor. The above design, or similar, with white shorts and blue piping + blue socks will be, IMO, the dogs bollocks.

For me, they never really recovered from the iron-on Skint logos :nono:
 


Mellotron

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Jul 2, 2008
31,973
Brighton
This (with our badge and sponsor obviously) could look superb - possibly not one for the fatties though.

Porto+13-14+Home+Kit+(4).jpg

That would possibly be our nicest EVER shirt - kinda puts paid to the "Nike don't do good shirts" argument immediately.
 






Frutos

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That would possibly be our nicest EVER shirt - kinda puts paid to the "Nike don't do good shirts" argument immediately.

Yep.

I honestly can't think of a shirt of ours that I would put ahead of that one if it were somehow to end up actually looking like that.
 


StonehamPark

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Oct 30, 2010
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One of the worse companies around for abusing labour and nobody should ever buy any of their products.

Yep. No one should use Nike, as well as Apple iPhones, anything Samsung, don't drink coka cola or smoke cigarettes. Don't buy any clothes from any high street shop or online, don't play video games, don't wash your clothes in your chinese mass produced washing machines, don't play with footballs bought from sports direct and definitely do not wear football boots. Apart from that, everything else is 110% ethically made. Nice one.
 


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