Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:17 pm  

dddooommm wrote:

I can understand people moaning about the slight contrast between what the players are wearing and what is being sold to the supporters. But let's be honest, people will buy it regardless if it's black, silver, pink or poop stained brown.

People need to get out more if they're complaining about the kit. Just remember, we didn't have a club to support 5 months ago. The new owners are doing their best. Judging from that poorly written statement the squad will now be wearing the newer, more darker away jersey.

I disagree. What you're saying there is along the lines of what a few people on facebook have been saying. The "Be happy you have a club to support and don't complain when they rip you off. Just give them your money and stop moaning" approach isn't one I subscribe to. They still need to make things value for money, and offering substandard merchandise (i.e. something that isn't as advertised) is not a way to please customers and encourage people to spend their hard earned.

[Bulliac]

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Sat Apr 15, 2017 5:04 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

Spelling "original" with an extra O doesn't even need a proof read. It needs a basic spell checker which a lot of internet browsers would do for you even if you don't own a license for Word Processing software. Somehow that even managed to pass the first "release". Surely you run that before you press "Submit" on the website editor?

Whoever does the match reports also has problems with his/her spellchecker. I assume it's set to English (USA) as it seems to spell defence with an 's'. Personally, I view American spellings as being on a par with pidgin. Fair enough, absolutely anyone can make a typo but it takes a spellchecker to get it wrong twice in the same report.

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:07 pm  

It could be worse. Bongser recently contacted a pal at a leading UK publisher to ridicule what he had just found in his inbox. Graphics all very nice but spoilt by the following imponderable:

"Offer available until stocks last,"

The person responsible should be in said stocks! Until they last.

You only need worry if it turns out that the lad/lass posting on your website is alwrist awing up the players contracts and registration requests!

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:44 pm  

I saw plenty of people in the away shirt at the game today. I have to say I thought it looked good and will probably get one. From a distance the V and the stripes were visible and I like that they are a little more subtle than on the 'fake' shirt that the players wore at oldham. Good variation of colours in the sponsors too which all stand out really well with the shirt being black.

The route to getting the shirts on sale has been extremely unprofessional but hopefully now a few people will have seen them being worn at matches and that they are actually pretty nice, they may start to shift a few.

[Bulliac]

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:30 am  

To be honest, I'm a bit less impressed by the actuality than I was by the original photo, even though I thought that was more like something Leigh Centurians might have worn, rather than us.

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:37 am  

The players shirt will be black and black, like the replica...
The other was played in out of necessity as it was needed for the Oldham game..

Shirt gate seems imho to be a massive over reaction,
If I was wanting to get Irate about any aspect of the new clubs running it would be the desperate need for new players that aren't coming, and visa gate added to this the total silence with regards to the former.

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:48 am  

And the fact that we can't write a simple press release in English...

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:49 pm  

bowlingboy wrote:

The players shirt will be black and black, like the replica...
The other was played in out of necessity as it was needed for the Oldham game..

Shirt gate seems imho to be a massive over reaction,
If I was wanting to get Irate about any aspect of the new clubs running it would be the desperate need for new players that aren't coming, and visa gate added to this the total silence with regards to the former.

If the club hadn't marketed it for weeks like that was the shirt that was going to be on sale, it would be something of nothing. But they did. Sorry, but not a single part of me believes that they knew a different shirt was going to be delivered, otherwise it would have been mentioned earlier so fans were aware. Instead they marketed the "other" shirt for weeks and then got caught with their pants down when a different shirt appeared, then (bizarrely) appeared to carry on like nobody would notice, then when they did came out with some total bull excuse as damage limitation.

They've made themselves look really really stupid. Which is unfortunately becoming a regular occurrence with this media guy.

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:46 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

If the club hadn't marketed it for weeks like that was the shirt that was going to be on sale, it would be something of nothing. But they did. Sorry, but not a single part of me believes that they knew a different shirt was going to be delivered, otherwise it would have been mentioned earlier so fans were aware. Instead they marketed the "other" shirt for weeks and then got caught with their pants down when a different shirt appeared, then (bizarrely) appeared to carry on like nobody would notice, then when they did came out with some total bull excuse as damage limitation.

They've made themselves look really really stupid. Which is unfortunately becoming a regular occurrence with this media guy.

Completely agree with this.

The club waved around the "new" shirt and got a lot of interest. Not once did they say the "real" shirt would look completely different.

The whole situation did have a sense of "Shhhh, hope that nobody notices" about it, which riles fans and pretty much insults their intelligence!

Re: Shirts/Merchandise : Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:45 pm  

daveyz999 wrote:

Completely agree with this.

The club waved around the "new" shirt and got a lot of interest. Not once did they say the "real" shirt would look completely different.

The whole situation did have a sense of "Shhhh, hope that nobody notices" about it, which riles fans and pretty much insults their intelligence!

Completely agree with the above. If they's just come out and said "sorry we've messed up but hopefully you will like the "new" new away shirt and buy it anyway" then fair enough. To try to hide behind excuses is just poor judgement in my opinion, like announcing you've re-signed Chissy until its all done and dusted.
Who makes these decisions and would you like to explain to us the paying customers, or will you just hope we keep on taking crap forever? Now that we are entering a very tough period of the season and sucesss on the field is going to be scarce, you can't afford to p*ss supporters off any further.