New Kit Update (& er Watches)

Kids new kits arrived today .
Have to say its the nicest kit we've had for years.
Well impressed with it .
Haven't bought a top for myself since 2011 season but might get this one

 

Quick delivery too

 

I very much doubt it it’s down to scale

 

Not really.
There is a kit manufacturer in this city whom I know, who could easily make up a bespoke shirts for less than £20 each for approx 3-3500 units

 

But could they do three times that amount?

 

Do we sell 10k shirts ?

 

I was trying to work out how many shirts we would need to order.

First team squad of 25, not sure how many shirts each player goes through but it wouldn't surprise me if the squad go through 200.

Youth team another 200
Boys teams, 6 age groups, another 200?
Disabled teams, ladies teams, girls teams , maybe 300

So that is 1,000 for the club and I think that will be a low figure. So from your 3-3,500 it only leaves 2,000 for sale

 

I posted this in the general football section, but this is how to design a shirt.

 

Working with a local manufacturer would surely provide more flexibility with deleveries.The design could be agreed and production started long before the previous season had ended,there must be a long lead time before production starts with the big companys,and as Nike proved with the cup final shirts,you have no chance of a special run.

 

I would say that sounds to make sense but the fact that most clubs work with the larger firms suggest to me that there must be financial or practical reasons for that fact.

 

Yes!

When we were shifting 18,000 ST’s, we were frequently requesting a third batch of shirts. Nike sold their batches in 5,000’s. I recall reading about how we had sold 15,000 units a few season’s ago.

 

That a resonable price for a football shirt.

 

The bigger clubs will get big sponsorshipship deals,with shirts sold around the world,but I would guess some of the smaller clubs are just lazy,it's easier to accept a deal rather than do some work on it.

 

It is the best kit we've had for a long time .
Really well made and lush to look at

 

Nah lad surely there something negative to say about it, a far too positive post

 

Well, I most certainly didn’t make it up. I think it was Mark Lawn who mentioned it during a radio interview, but Nike most certainly issued their batches in 5,000 units at a time. The conversation went along the lines of, ‘we ordered our 3rd batch x amount of weeks ago and they’re almost sold’.

 

All depends on what like for like period they are talking about. The same weeks previously or the week of launch previously