speaking of retro Salford kits. i saw this on ebay:


[urlhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MATCH-WORN-SALFORD-AWAY-RUGBY-LEAGUE-SHIRT-/250695956244?pt=UK_Rugby_Shirts&hash=item3a5ea4b714[/url

£50, that guy is dreaming.

I have that and others from that era, though they are more on the robust side - PEV you got any money to buy them off me

He's got no chance like you say.

Sorry but for a club that is struggling to get people through the turnstiles, I find it incredible that they are only just getting around to opening a retail site. They have been shooting themselves in the foot with regards to club merchandise for a number of years. I just feel that they haven't taken advantage of what could prove to be a lucrative revenue stream. Does it make good business sense to you?

Bloody marvellous - we now actually HAVE a shop and still folk whinge - "it should have been done earlier" well yes, probably - BUT for FFS realise - You can't change the past - only the future!!!!!!

This whole retail debate has been done a few times before - this old post [urlhttp://viewtopic.php?f=20&t=437414&p=14745342#p14745342[/url argued the whole thing out a few years ago - just do the sums, retailing to the Salford faithful is not a terribly enticing project!

Got the email about the deal of the day - ordered - said it had been shipped already too hopefully get it tomorrow! my first bit of reds merchandise!



looking at the news section on the store sounds like they do look at this forum! Your (sort of) famous mate well done

(sorry dont know how to post the link - its on the front page on the online shop though)

So my opinion which is based on my experiences of trying to purchase official merchandising is classed as whinging. So be it. If my whinging along with others who are disgruntled has made the club get it's a**e in gear with a retail site, even better. I hope it's a big success.

With reference to your last point, even less so if you've nowt to sell.

I think his point is you bemoaned the fact that we did not have an online shop for ages, then we get one, and you still harp on about how it should have been done sooner. Moaning for moanings sake. Even "I told you so, nah nah na nah nah" would have been better.

Well, to be fair, it should have been done sooner. If it had, it's viability, stock and revenue streams would be more finely tuned for the big push into the new stadium.

Saying that, at least they have finally done it, so A shop is better than none.

I just hope the internet is braced to withstand the volume of traffic.

Maybe we should have two online shops? We haven't. There's something to whine about.

As stated, the point i was making that people are on this site moaning about no shop being available online and it is clear that someone has read this board from Salford and got something in place even with limited goods available but it is a start and with the season now over, can get all the new merchandise in ready for the new season and update the site when it's ready but that's still not good enough because it doesn't have 3000 different things for people to look at from behind their monitor.

as for your point on the shop - We are a small club (at present) and the club over previous years have stocked a lot of things only to have to sell it all off at the end of the season just to clear it out ready for new things. I dont know if they make profit at all on these items when they do sell them at cheap but you cant then complain that there aren't enough things to buy in the shop because they have learnt from previous years and not spent as much on merchandise because it clearly doesn't shift. That is clear business sense.

I'm not saying there perfect and they have missed a lot of oppotunities with things like this but at the end of the day, i imagine there's not a great deal of money to spend in this area in the hope that they might make a profit or even just break even. I'm sure in future when we do attract a bigger fan base, we will start to stock better and more goods because it's less risk of losing out.

Swinton a couple of years back didn't even sell replica jerseys because it cost to much too produce enough that they could make a return on and knew they wouldn't sell that amount of tops.

Can you explain how the latter part of that sentence is qualified by the first bit? I've read it a few times but all I can see is a peculiar contradiction.

Brilliant these 11.00 O clock offers, only problem just like United as well they only go to XXL, only hope to go on a diet

As long as you don't resort to cheating like some weak minded fool did on here

in the past the best "diet" was to buy bigger clothes and people would remark on how much weight I had lost, now the clothes trick will have to stop

We're not exactly cramming them in are we so we should explore other avenues to bring income into the club.

Think it's the Grog that needs to stop Pev, either that or get on Ebay and get one of the Playtex 24 hour girdles they used to advertise

You sincerely find it "incredible" that a club struggling to find customers for it's biggest product (rugby league matches) hasn't rushed to supply a highly-unlikely demand for peripheral products?

You really are THE most miserable poster on here EX.SALF.UNI

Now come on, I doubt he'd even make the top 10! I've not seen neil72 express an opinion recently - I really miss those

I agree, I've just finished listening to the Smiths greatest hits and need talking down from my high.

why, are going to jump of the top of Langworthy Flats?

Good point BF.

Neil will only turn up when the good news surrounding the club dries up.