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Priv said:
Get a tin of this to remove the sponsor from the front and it will look fine, there will be enough in one tin to do about 40 shirts.

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Perhaps the club shop could offer it with every home shirt. Might increase take-up. If the general feeling on multiple social media sites is reflected by sales the club might get the idea pretty quickly. I could live with the Unibet name on its own but Player Safety First imbecilic tagline would have to go. Still, as roofie mentioned, most of it would probably fall off in the wash anyway.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
So you're effectively saying the club should focus on manufacturing kits and all the challenges that go with it (legal, logistics, commercial etc) as well as trying to run a football club focused on promotion. I wonder why they didn't retain the Skill brand if it's as easy as you're suggesting.

Of course it's about money, are you new to the game of football ?
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Yes, why not?! Are there not different departments in the club? If they got it right, financially it could work in their favour. For instance, if I knew a shirt had been created by fans, for fans, I’d be willing to pay more for it.

There’s no need to be rude is there?

I’m not suggesting it’s easy, it would be challenging. But **** it, let’s be the first club to try something challenging like this and succeed.
 
Saw a guy in the 2011/12 top today (without sponsor), that's my favourite kit we've ever had.

One that was genuinely ruined when they shot the sponsor on too.
 
Enough of the white band, it's just used to make the sponsor look more prominent these days.
I loved Errea for taking a gamble on the 96-97 shirts, they weren't to everybody's taste but I loved the uniqueness of them.
I'm so curious as to what the other prototypes looked like. I get the feeling the club opted for the safe (and boring) option.
 
Scrug said:
Yes, why not?! Are there not different departments in the club? If they got it right, financially it could work in their favour. For instance, if I knew a shirt had been created by fans, for fans, I’d be willing to pay more for it.

There’s no need to be rude is there?

I’m not suggesting it’s easy, it would be challenging. But **** it, let’s be the first club to try something challenging like this and succeed.
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The club's been there, done that, worn the t-shirt.
 
whiteadder said:
Enough of the white band, it's just used to make the sponsor look more prominent these days.
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This. It's fans give the club and sponsor the opportunity to totally dominate the shirt. It's just a large ugly billboard. Whilst the points about the actual sponsor and the clueless tagline would not go away the graphic being in white on a Red background would be way less shouty.
 
Scrug said:
Ok!

So it is possible!

Got to be better than stock Errea shirts.
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You do realise that Errea pay actual money to provide our shirts, and therefore your idea means that the club will lose revenue it can ill afford in a world of FFP, simply to appease your romantic idea of an in-house designed, manufactured and distributed shirt.

Before you come back and claim that the sales of shirts will make up for it, that's extremely unlikely if not impossible, we have a finite fan base and some of us wouldn't dream of buying a shirt irrespective of who it was designed by.
 
whiteadder said:
Enough of the white band, it's just used to make the sponsor look more prominent these days.
I loved Errea for taking a gamble on the 96-97 shirts, they weren't to everybody's taste but I loved the uniqueness of them.
I'm so curious as to what the other prototypes looked like. I get the feeling the club opted for the safe (and boring) option.
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Yes ditto I loved the 96-97 shirt - it’s the only one I wear. I was dismayed when they brought the white band back the following season. I also agree the white band just looks like the background to the ad.
 
Shame Paddy Power didn't want us. If we have to sell our soul to a betting company. The no logo was frankly genius and probably gave them far more positive advertising.

I'd even take the kids sponsor on an adults shirt. It's at least a worthy cause and highlights 'positive' things.

I do love a good 'Asian' beer logo like Chang or elephant. Although I guess you'd have to have the tagline 'drink in moderation' underneath now 😒
 
newyddion said:
I think gambling sponsorships on shirts are being phased over the next few years.. I'm guessing we don't have the financial clout to make responsible forward thinking decisions like that
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I'd love to know how much difference there is between what we were offered by gambling firms and next highest bidder by a non gambling firm.

Few hundred thousand maybe?

We certainly had the cash to spare to donate the Chelsea gate receipts to Ukraine (rightly so).

Would a few hundred thousand make a significant difference to our promotion push?

While I get every penny counts I think if there was a genuine desire within the club to not use these firms I'm sure we'd cope, we're surely not talking millions. Which suggests Gibson doesn't really have a particular problem with it.
 
I actually think football supporters groups should campaign to force clubs ro sell replica kits without sponsors. It should be a choice. I dont want to wear something that encourages, gambling, or drinking or smoking
 
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