Rovers kits 24/25 season

[Oldgregg86]

17 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Yep, went down to Ewood on Friday to pick up the away shirt. Checked the third shirt and they only had kids sizes or 5XL left in adults. Seems to be very popular!

Am guna get the goalie shirts instead , just waiting see if we sign a new keeper first, Don’t really fancy pears on back lol

[Oldgregg86]

Does anyone know when the pink kits will be back in stock

[Herbie6590]

37 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Does anyone know when the pink kits will be back in stock

Order one of these whilst you are waiting… help keep us in business 👍

 

[alex l]

For all the flack SW/the club gets regarding our sponsor (and I'm not saying it couldn't be better both financially and the company), I've noticed Chelsea for the second season running begin the season without a main sponsor. You'd think it'd be relatively easy for them to negotiate a decent deal given the global reputation of the club. 

[Herbie6590]

3 minutes ago, alex l said:

For all the flack SW/the club gets regarding our sponsor (and I'm not saying it couldn't be better both financially and the company), I've noticed Chelsea for the second season running begin the season without a main sponsor. You'd think it'd be relatively easy for them to negotiate a decent deal given the global reputation of the club. 

When it starts to unwind at Chelsea…as it surely must…it’s going to be quite the ride…

[Upside Down]

3 hours ago, alex l said:

For all the flack SW/the club gets regarding our sponsor (and I'm not saying it couldn't be better both financially and the company), I've noticed Chelsea for the second season running begin the season without a main sponsor. You'd think it'd be relatively easy for them to negotiate a decent deal given the global reputation of the club. 

Having no sponsor would be infinitely better than the shit we had on the shirt the last two and a half years.

[Mattyblue]

Swag deserves, what, praise for getting something, anything on the shirt? Which is usually a firm already in the tent in a radius of five miles from Ewood?

My nephew’s under 10s have a shirt sponsor.

He deserves nothing unless he’s attracting sponsorship income to that of our peers.

Edited August 19, 2024 by Mattyblue

[alex l]

I didn't say SW deserves praise, only highlighting that even at a club with a worldwide reputation, getting a sponsor seemingly isn't simple. 

Fully agree that the reasonable way to judge the sponsorship is against our peers. However, I'm not sure how easy it is to find out the financial details of sponsorship deals of clubs and even then, there'd be those who disagree on how to determine which clubs should be classed as peers. 

[Mattyblue]

I wouldn’t use Chelsea as any kind of yardstick, total basket case.

I’d imagine they’ve had plenty of offers (from companies quite a distance from the King’s Road too), why wouldn’t they, but that regime is the kind of one that will barter with a firm over a few hundred grand for a shirt sponsor after shelling out a billion on attacking midfielders.

[windymiller7]

Well, the club shop are really outdoing themselves this season - no 3rd shirts left after about 2 days of being on sale & now the home shirts are out of stock in all but small 3 weeks into the season!!

[Mattyblue]

But running out of stock in August is a good thing! As it shows they are popular… or something.

[arbitro]

15 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

Well, the club shop are really outdoing themselves this season - no 3rd shirts left after about 2 days of being on sale & now the home shirts are out of stock in all but small 3 weeks into the season!!

The mascot package will have to be rewritten.

[chaddyrovers]

15 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

Well, the club shop are really outdoing themselves this season - no 3rd shirts left after about 2 days of being on sale & now the home shirts are out of stock in all but small 3 weeks into the season!!

Isn't there another batch from Macron coming in shortly? 

[MarkBRFC]

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Isn't there another batch from Macron coming in shortly? 

November apparently 

[Herbie6590]

 

[Mattyblue]

22 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

November apparently 

Then they will run out before Christmas… repeat every season, totally normal though.

[Erased Citizen]

On 18/08/2024 at 17:25, alex l said:

For all the flack SW/the club gets regarding our sponsor (and I'm not saying it couldn't be better both financially and the company), I've noticed Chelsea for the second season running begin the season without a main sponsor. You'd think it'd be relatively easy for them to negotiate a decent deal given the global reputation of the club. 

I think Chelsea (and Notts forest if memory serves) don't have a front of shirt sponsor for aesthetics purposes rather than because they can't find one. They do have a sleeve sponsor though

[Herbie6590]

2 hours ago, Erased Citizen said:

I think Chelsea (and Notts forest if memory serves) don't have a front of shirt sponsor for aesthetics purposes rather than because they can't find one. They do have a sleeve sponsor though

Chelsea were hanging on to sign one up believing they could qualify for the Champions League & secure more money apparently (think it was the Totally Football pod I heard that on..?). And events overtook them..!

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, Erased Citizen said:

I think Chelsea (and Notts forest if memory serves) don't have a front of shirt sponsor for aesthetics purposes rather than because they can't find one. They do have a sleeve sponsor though

I'm sure Chelsea wanted a front of shirt sponsor but asking far too much for it. 

[Erased Citizen]

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Chelsea were hanging on to sign one up believing they could qualify for the Champions League & secure more money apparently (think it was the Totally Football pod I heard that on..?). And events overtook them..!

Ah I see, think I'm conflating with another story then 

[Exiled_Rover]

14 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

But running out of stock in August is a good thing! As it shows they are popular… or something.

Saw one on the Surrey Cricket live stream yesterday (at the Oval), and of course Ewood is literally flooded with them. The new kits have gone down very, very well it seems.

[bluebruce]

Does anybody else think it's shit that sponsors are stuck on (I can't think of the proper term for it) rather than stitched in or woven into the pattern as part of the shirt?

I keep old shirts for as long as I can. There's only one shirt I have that has stood the test of Time (pun intended), the Kappa kit with Time as the main sponsor, which I believe was used in the 2000/2001 season and the 2001/2002 season in the days before the kit had to change every season. The sponsor is woven in as part of the pattern, it can't peel off or get damaged in the washing machine.

Meanwhile I have a Dafabet shirt which I believe is from the 2015/16 season that looks in much worse condition simply because the sponsor has become patchy, with white flecks all over the black material from where it has deteriorated in the wash.

I also have the Recoverite sponsored shirt from 2020/21, which I think is a really nice home kit. However after the latest wash I've just noticed that whilst the main sponsor is fine for now, the Watson Ramsbottom back of shirt sponsor was peeled off to the point there was hardly anything left except the black box it's on. I suspect it's been glued on in a different way and the washing machine heat has killed the glue off. I had to peel off what was left, leaving a gross black substance on my fingers.

Honestly, all kits should have to be made the same way as that Time one was. I get that clubs probably want your shirt to deterioriate so they can flog you the next one, but these shirts aren't cheap these days. They're massively overpriced for what they are and what they'll cost to make, they should at least have a long lifespan. The shirts themselves hold up fine to wash after wash but it's all ruined by the sponsors. You'd think the sponsors themselves would appreciate them being made like those Time shirts too, as their company can continue getting advertising benefits for many years later.

(and yes I know names and numbers on shirts would have to still be made as they are and can peel off, but I don't think most fans get those on a shirt...I haven't since I was a kid)

[doctorryan]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Does anybody else think it's shit that sponsors are stuck on (I can't think of the proper term for it) rather than stitched in or woven into the pattern as part of the shirt?

I keep old shirts for as long as I can. There's only one shirt I have that has stood the test of Time (pun intended), the Kappa kit with Time as the main sponsor, which I believe was used in the 2000/2001 season and the 2001/2002 season in the days before the kit had to change every season. The sponsor is woven in as part of the pattern, it can't peel off or get damaged in the washing machine.

Meanwhile I have a Dafabet shirt which I believe is from the 2015/16 season that looks in much worse condition simply because the sponsor has become patchy, with white flecks all over the black material from where it has deteriorated in the wash.

I also have the Recoverite sponsored shirt from 2020/21, which I think is a really nice home kit. However after the latest wash I've just noticed that whilst the main sponsor is fine for now, the Watson Ramsbottom back of shirt sponsor was peeled off to the point there was hardly anything left except the black box it's on. I suspect it's been glued on in a different way and the washing machine heat has killed the glue off. I had to peel off what was left, leaving a gross black substance on my fingers.

Honestly, all kits should have to be made the same way as that Time one was. I get that clubs probably want your shirt to deterioriate so they can flog you the next one, but these shirts aren't cheap these days. They're massively overpriced for what they are and what they'll cost to make, they should at least have a long lifespan. The shirts themselves hold up fine to wash after wash but it's all ruined by the sponsors. You'd think the sponsors themselves would appreciate them being made like those Time shirts too, as their company can continue getting advertising benefits for many years later.

(and yes I know names and numbers on shirts would have to still be made as they are and can peel off, but I don't think most fans get those on a shirt...I haven't since I was a kid)

I agree with Bruce that from a pure manufacturing & quality standpoint the Kappa Time/AMD kits of 2000-03 were the best of the last 30 years, though I remember some complained about Kappa's tight fits.  The process he refers to is called sublimation printing & is far superior in terms of quality for this kind of purpose, but also more costly.  Not all the kits from this period used it (the keeper kits had "Time" glued on as did the 02-03 AMD home (or as I prefer: "traditional")), but those that did were the best we ever looked on the pitch.  The home 00-02 & away 00-01/change 01-02 red & black stripe are personal faves & when cared for properly look as good as new 20+ years later.



 

[bluebruce]

27 minutes ago, doctorryan said:

I agree with Bruce that from a pure manufacturing & quality standpoint the Kappa Time/AMD kits of 2000-03 were the best of the last 30 years, though I remember some complained about Kappa's tight fits.  The process he refers to is called sublimation printing & is far superior in terms of quality for this kind of purpose, but also more costly.  Not all the kits from this period used it (the keeper kits had "Time" glued on as did the 02-03 AMD home (or as I prefer: "traditional")), but those that did were the best we ever looked on the pitch.  The home 00-02 & away 00-01/change 01-02 red & black stripe are personal faves & when cared for properly look as good as new 20+ years later.



 

How much costlier is that as a process though? I'd imagine the markup on shirts is enormous and could stand the added cost. I have Firetrap t-shirts from Sports Direct that must use that kind of printing and only cost me a tenner (albeit that's not the RRP).

Good as new is right. Even the club badge is in much better nick than some of the newer ones, some of which have started to shrink and crinkle in on themselves, so you're right about the manufacturing quality being higher.

[Oldgregg86]

All my mcewans lager and cis sponsors have lasted. I agree with what you say though. It is annoying watching your shirts slow get ruined by cheap logos