Mickey don't go into marketing.

I agree wholeheartedly that the club ought to have the kit on sale before Christmas. However the finances of the club ain't there yet and quite frankly we're only able to have this debate because someone else has ensured the club exists in the first place.

The reality is at the moment we don't have enough fans to worry too much about it.

I always moan about the Christams Shirt or lack of one there of, but, the Missus generally gets it in April for my Birthday, so I guess there is a truth that those of us who are gonna buy it, do so anyways.

Apart from the obvious money making side of it, I can't see why we have to have a new strip every year anyway. Why not stick with what you like?

Change of sponsors maybe

Could stick with same design just different sponsor on it

Something tells me I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered !


Quick answer no, but I have a polo shirt and a T shirt from the 2016 range. Other family members have 'em though. The younger more athletic looking ones. - think I'm probably a bit past wearing a replica shirt. If they were available for next season then they'd most likely get one from St Nick.

Point I've been trying to make is that one, folk are a bit more loose with the purse strings around Christmas, that shirt could turn into a scarf , hat or hoody too - 'go on it's Christmas.!' So that £45 - £50 spend could end up as £60,£70 or more! And that two, every other sports team does an extra marketing push at Christmas, special new ranges etc. - West Ham even sent me a special Christmas tat catalogue, a 'tatalogue' if you will! If everyone else is doing it then they must be earning out of it? Right? So why don't London Broncos ? The club can't be making much money at the moment, what a couple of hundred ST's sold.

That's it, I've no more to say on the subject - I just reckon the club have missed out on the chance of an earner. Happy Christmas!

Something tells me I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered but I'm sat here waiting on a courier and so I've nowt better to do.

Quick answer, me personally no. The younger, more athletic looking members of the family yes. I have a polo and t shirt from the 2016 range. Size XL, in case you were wondering.

The point I've been trying to make is that at this time of year people are a bit looser than usual with the purse strings - that £50 shirt could also become a £10 for a hat, or a scarf or something else couldn't it? 'Go on it's Christmas'! If every other sports team does a promotion in the run up to Christmas (you can see all the nice - and some not so nice new shirts for 2017 on the VT ) why doesn't London? For heavens sake I even received a special catalogue of Christmas tat, a 'tatalogue' if you will from West Ham! Presumably other RL clubs get themselves set for Christmas because they get in a nice bit of wedge from the punters before the first ball has even been kicked!
Surely it's not as if the club couldn't do with the money is it? Couple of hundred STs sold, and probably a lot of them the Bronze £99 type ( guilty as charged, wasn't going to bother but what's a hundred quid ?). Not going to go very far is it?

Anyway, that's it, I'm saying no more - I'm not going to turn into GF, no matter how hard you try!



Happy Christmas!

Lol
Hey Rob look at it this way then, as you suggested for some reason you think you are past wearing replica shirts the club have saved you the disappointment of getting a pressie you would not want!

Does GF still promote his 20 point plan on any RL sites, or has he melted away into the Tasman Sea??

The problem is, for a club our size, who would do us a "Sale or Return" supply deal?? MMmmm, see I think we'd 'prolly have to buy ALL the stock and then hope to sell ALL the said stock to make a profit.

Latest on kit.

New Swinton Lions Kits 2017 (TBA, but likely to be produced by Errea, launch event in January)

New Bradford Bulls 2017 Kits (TBA)

Toulouse Olympique XIII Kits (TBA)

Oldham RLFC (TBA but Roughyeds have confirmed that it will be made by Kappa)

New London Broncos Strips 2017 (TBA)

What will the guys be wearing Sat Mickey, Skins?

It may please the ladies.

Altho joking aside, am going to take a wild guess that the boys will wear the current kit

Which looks like what exactly?

Do you remember the year we went in to a SL first game and had to wear away kit at home as we didn't have a home kit!!

Not wanting to state the obvious but I do believe we have a pretty natty looking kit that we played in last year.

Pretty sure you know what that looks like WQ. I would imagine that the club didn't throw all last year's playing kits away at the end of the season.
As for the season we played our first game in the kit from the year before! So what? Did it effect the result? Did it effect the season? And when we did get the new kit did it effect how many of us bought the replicas? I doubt it very much.

Maybe it was just another example of poor management which ultimately saw the club go into administration and relegation

But hey its just a top

Ps we played at home in our away kit

Given the players are being presented with their tops I suspect it might be good for the players (especially the new ones) to get this years top. We might be able to find Dixons old top, Sammut could wear Slynes from last year maybe

Don't think we actually went into administration did we?

Is it shirt presentation or squad number announcements? It's not quite the same. For me why we have to have a new kit every year is still beyond me.

Thats a different issue. The club has said there will be new tops in 17. You would hope the guys will be getting them presented on Saturday at the shirt presentation !

The season launch kicks off at 12:30, with a Q&A with Andrew Henderson and the players, and 2017 shirt and squad numbers revealed.

According to the club website that's what will happen