94/95 retro shirts

When they were first put up on the website last week there were a couple more styles on. There was the white and blue one which is in xxlshirts photo above (think Juninho in the rain at Old Trafford) and the blue and white stripe one from 98/99 which I always picture Hamilton Ricard in for some reason.

Not sure if these will be coming in soon but they didn’t have the Errea badge on.
 
Nano said:
This is what really frustrates me about the club shop/merchandise. It is always such poor quality for the price. They are charging John Lewis prices for Primark gear. I wouldn't mind spending £10 on this and I'm sure they'd shift thousands of them at that price but instead they insist on charging such a premium that they sell a couple of hundred and make less money overall. If the quality isn't great for £10 then so be it, that's what happens to a £10 shirt. At £40 I want a premium product and not just a £1 shirt with a badge ironed on.
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I totally agree with everything you've said. I had a few vouchers for the club shop I had to use before they expired so it made sense for me. Would I have paid £40 for it? Absolutely not. I'll give it 3 washes and that dickens logo will be peeling off I'm pretty sure of that.
 
Love the green away top, i think its more nostalgic for me. Its the first full season i fully remember being 6 years old - I remember getting the full kit that Christmas and pretty much living in it. Promotion certainly helps make the memories happier but i just love that kit.

Sitting down in my bedroom with my scrapbook cutting everything out of the Gazette following match days and reading the Red Roar magazine and then playing outside - i was always Paul Wilkinson.

I have a box in my loft with all the Boro kits i got from the green one, right up until around 2006. Cant wait to start and show my two boys.
 
Nano said:
This is what really frustrates me about the club shop/merchandise. It is always such poor quality for the price. They are charging John Lewis prices for Primark gear. I wouldn't mind spending £10 on this and I'm sure they'd shift thousands of them at that price but instead they insist on charging such a premium that they sell a couple of hundred and make less money overall. If the quality isn't great for £10 then so be it, that's what happens to a £10 shirt. At £40 I want a premium product and not just a £1 shirt with a badge ironed on.
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I could never fault the quality of the Adidas gear, some of the stuff I still wear today and after multiple washes they remain in excellent condition.

The Errea stuff is garbage in comparison.
 
InglebyUTB said:
I could never fault the quality of the Adidas gear, some of the stuff I still wear today and after multiple washes they remain in excellent condition.

The Errea stuff is garbage in comparison.
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Yes the grey track suit bottoms are still my go to fit casually sitting around house and I still wear the black training t shirt as well

Errea are awful always have been
 
Wait for the Er to wash off ... to leave you with rea , in Italian , means Offender :(

But seriously , Errea headquarters in Torrile in northern Italy , 8 miles north of Parma. Boro , the home of the Parmo has kits made just outside Parma the home of the Parmigiana .. We are forever entwined it seems.
 
Managed to get the away one in the shop, they still had plenty of stock and it looked like they were putting more out as well.

Heard what sounded like someone complaining on the phone line and the poor lad in the shop just kept apologising, not his fault the website is crap haha.

And yeah, definitely size up!
 
Nano said:
This is what really frustrates me about the club shop/merchandise. It is always such poor quality for the price. They are charging John Lewis prices for Primark gear. I wouldn't mind spending £10 on this and I'm sure they'd shift thousands of them at that price but instead they insist on charging such a premium that they sell a couple of hundred and make less money overall. If the quality isn't great for £10 then so be it, that's what happens to a £10 shirt. At £40 I want a premium product and not just a £1 shirt with a badge ironed on.
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Doesn't sound like they're struggling to shift these ones, but I do agree re: the quality.

Demand maybe higher because you can't buy this season's kit for love nor money.

That sponsor looks really cheap and tacky. Some of the retro stuff has been decent quality in the past, but this looks like tat. The original sponsor on these was a sort of felt type material I think? Which was better.
 
festa5 said:
Doesn't sound like they're struggling to shift these ones, but I do agree re: the quality.

Demand maybe higher because you can't buy this season's kit for love nor money.

That sponsor looks really cheap and tacky. Some of the retro stuff has been decent quality in the past, but this looks like tat. The original sponsor on these was a sort of felt type material I think? Which was better.
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They aren't struggling to sell them but I bet it's a small order and they run out and nobody will buy the other over-priced garbage they have left in the club shop. It's also a one-off, there has never been this demand for anything other than a current 1st team kit as far as I remember.

My gripe is that they should generally have a load of cheap merchandise, especially for kids, that people can buy for every day wear. I, like a lot of people, wear cheap t-shirts all the time. If I could get one of similar quality from MFC for a similar price then I would probably go for those instead of the ones I pick up from where ever or if there were some smarter polo shirts for golf, decent priced running/gym gear etc. then I'd buy some. However, it's almost universally rubbish quality so I buy something better for the same price. so I just don't know why they don't price it correctly and make loads more sales. I mention it every time the club's retail side gets mentioned but the concept of volume seems completely lost on the club. You can have high margin and low volume, low margin and high volume or somewhere in between but nobody seems to have told anyone that at the club.

I remember on Premier Manager on my PC in the 90s the game let you set prices really high and you would still get some sales no matter how high you went. It was basically a cheat because you would have a stadium with 100 fans paying £1m a ticket each. I think that's how we set prices at MFC.
 
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