The New Shirt - Yay or Nay?

I'm sure cotton is unsuitable for a football shirt. Remember they have them on for only a couple of hours unlike fans. They are light, probably made of a wicking fabric, and easy to stick numbers and letters on. Also easy to wash. Cotton would be heavy and hotter and I'm sure hard to print on. However, might be nicer for fans.

 

Only realised this this season. Always presumed we would pay them...good business.

 

The average kit deal in the prem last season netted each club £6m. Massive variation in that though obviously- Chelsea's new deal with adidas is for £18m per year

 

Is the median 6 million or the average? If the latter, deals to the top clubs will massively skew the figure and we could get a lot less than 6 million.

 

Chelsea and the like get paid tons and they take around 50% of the shirt profit too.

Saints, for our first deal with Adidas, probably get £2m this season and I doubt it's more than 20-25% per shirt.

 

Anyone buying the new effort needs a check up from the neck up, its complete gash.

 

It's not even Marmite, at least someone likes Marmite.

 

Yes because everyone has to have the same opinion.

 

I bet it gets far more sales then everyone thinks.

 

Which makes sense, as there will be a lot more Chelsea shirts sold than Saints shirts until we sign two Chinese internationals. We could do with an Indian player to tap that market (as a side bar, I was told by an Indian that one recent there are not many Indian/Asian footballers is that culturally they don't rate exercise and fitness. They are encouraged to do some thing that can make them money or get them somewhere that has a good chance of making money....)

 

I love Marmite.

I'm going to get shot now. I hadn't made up my mind on the kit. First impression was eeeww I'm not sure about that, however watching the hordes buying them and trying them on in the shops, it looked a little better. I'm staying undecided, but with a birthday in August and my Dad probably going to ask me soon what I want .....

 

I guess you don't actually need to like it, to buy it, loyalty to the Club ethic is very nebulus! We need every penny we can get even with our wealthy owner status.

 

I did vote "that it would grow on me" but it hasn't even started to yet, but then again I have only seen pictures and I believe everything I hear on this Forum, it's so much better and more truthful than the others.

 

I didn't say you did, I dislike the kit as well. It's just I don't say people that like it need their head tested or the more annoying 'it's against our tradition" ****e.

 

You did say that anyone buying it needs their heads checked. Same thing, different words. Not fond of it myself, but am glad people are buying it. I enjoy being surrounded by people in kits on match days as it creates a togetherness feeling.

 

My sincere and deepest apologies to all lovers of the new kit, I unhestatingly withdraw my assertion that you must immediately avail yourselves of a detailed phychological evaluation as that of course is a deeply offensive, terrible thing to say; I should have said something far less serious, and phrased my post in a lightheared manner. Here's to us all creating a togetherness feeling.

 

Sarcasm is far better.

 

Are there minikits in the store? They don't seem to be online, just everything priced separately - my dad likes to buy a strip for all of his grandchildren (despite my protestations).

 

Its the lowest form of wit, not big, clever or funny, I'm just not myself today Beef, I don't know why, I think I've lost my togetherness feeling.