teacher Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Fingers crossed it will be better than the poor quality shirt this year!
The9 Posted 14 February, 2015 Author Posted 14 February, 2015 Well would you look at that.. http://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/566522306847985664
The9 Posted 14 February, 2015 Author Posted 14 February, 2015 For those who can't be bothered to click, Saints have announced Adidas as our technical partner for 2015/16. Only sounds like a one year thing though, bit weird.
Cascadia Saint Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Just saw that on Instagram. As expected, I just hope they give us something decent this time. Last years kit has not aged well. Shudder...
The9 Posted 14 February, 2015 Author Posted 14 February, 2015 There's a thread for this, it has the word pointless in the title. I sort of agree on the quality front now, my long sleeved shirt now has about 9 pulls all down the one sleeve, the stitching has gone as well as the pebble thing, plus the club ran out of replacements before Xmas.
The9 Posted 14 February, 2015 Author Posted 14 February, 2015 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150214-adidas-southampton-201516-2269810.aspx Full article. We're being very nice to them for their support and understanding. Fůcking Cortese.
krissyboy31 Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 For those who can't be bothered to click, Saints have announced Adidas as our technical partner for 2015/16. Only sounds like a one year thing though, bit weird. I read it as a continuation of the aborted deal, so 3rd year of 3.
Badger Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Hooray! Back to quality merchandise. Lets hope it does not compromise the design or style. The previous Adidas offerings have been abortions of a Saints shirt, but so far that has been blamed on NC.
DT Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Matter of taste I suppose. I quite liked them. This season's looks so bad (personally speaking) even my 8 year old says he'll wait until next season.
CB Fry Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150214-adidas-southampton-201516-2269810.aspx Full article. We're being very nice to them for their support and understanding. Fůcking Cortese. I'm sure whatever he did was no more than the actions of the greatest businessman that ever drew breath.
Turkish Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150214-adidas-southampton-201516-2269810.aspx Full article. We're being very nice to them for their support and understanding. Fůcking Cortese. Garth's done well getting them back on board after Cortese screwed up.
View From The Top Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Matter of taste I suppose. I quite liked them. This season's looks so bad (personally speaking) even my 8 year old says he'll wait until next season. My 12yo hasn't had a shirt for the 1st time this season as they are so awful.
Daft Kerplunk Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 cortese did not like stripes so expect the stripes to stay but this time with a quality global manufacturer - strong
Mikey88 Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Jim Lucas @JFBLucas 41 minutes ago #TheStripesAreBack! Looking forward to working with @adidasUK next season. #saintsfc
Colinjb Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150214-adidas-southampton-201516-2269810.aspx Full article. We're being very nice to them for their support and understanding. Fůcking Cortese. The final year of the initial three year deal. All this to look forward to again next season.
beatlesaint Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Jim Lucas @JFBLucas 41 minutes ago #TheStripesAreBack! Looking forward to working with @adidasUK next season. #saintsfc Pretty strong hint they will be producing something of the stripey variety then !
CB Fry Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Garth's done well getting them back on board after Cortese screwed up. Don't ask if you can utterly fu ck up a core commercial partnership with a worldwide sportswear brand, but how.
MongoNeil Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 So back to boring template shirts that will be a variation on every other shirt in the league, yawn. Much preferred the Umbro shirts we had a few seasons back, they were a bit more unique and better quality in my opinion.
doggface Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Garth's done well getting them back on board after Cortese screwed up. Based on Jim Lucas's tweet, sounds like he's hinting at stripes. Still stand behind your sash prediction?
Turkish Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Based on Jim Lucas's tweet, sounds like he's hinting at stripes. Still stand behind your sash prediction? Yep
JonnyOldBoy Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 what is the problem with templates !? the footy shirts are mainly for kids surely ;-) ... Adidas generic training wear is superb quality and priced well and sells well for most clubs... Nike stuff is also awesome quality regards training apparel... for me templates are fine.... especially when you consider our "bespoke" kit this season was utter garbage with no proper anchor stitching and the training wear all over stretched as the badge was applied leading to scrunching around the badge... shocking quality...
CB Fry Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Based on Jim Lucas's tweet, sounds like he's hinting at stripes. Still stand behind your sash prediction? In fairness, that tweet is clearly a reference to the Adidas three stripes. That is what is "back" as of today/next season.
Fowllyd Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 There's a thread for this, it has the word pointless in the title. I sort of agree on the quality front now, my long sleeved shirt now has about 9 pulls all down the one sleeve, the stitching has gone as well as the pebble thing, plus the club ran out of replacements before Xmas. I'd have taken it back as soon as I saw it only had one sleeve.
doggface Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 In fairness, that tweet is clearly a reference to the Adidas three stripes. That is what is "back" as of today/next season. True, I hadn't thought about it like that. I guess it could be interpreted in both ways. Turkish seems pretty sure of the sash. I would love that. As this deal is just picking up the last year of the contract, a new deal is up for grabs from 16/17. Seen a couple of rumours on twitter of US giants Under Armour. Connor A has mentioned it along with a couple of others. Personally I would like to renegotiate with adidas for a fresh deal. Surely next contract will be a lot more lucrative and I imagine will go to the highest bidder. well known fact that commercially we are poor compared to similar sized rivals, and peanuts compared to where we have found ourselves in the table.
pap Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Change the thread title so we spell the kit maker's name right please, mods.
Lorne Malvo Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Change the thread title so we spell the kit maker's name right please, mods. All day day I dream about sex After dinner dinner I did a **** yeah doesn't work.
Badger Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 what is the problem with templates !? ... I suppose it entirely depends on what the template is to begin with. If the Ajax shirt were the template, then fine. If on the other hand its a template for Bristol City, and pub teams then I think we have been undersold.
BlakeySFC Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Very pleased the kit has been confirmed as Adidas next season, haven't bought either home or away shirts this season for the first time in as long as I can remember due to the poor quality of the shirts reported on twitter etc. it is nice to look at I think, but I just know a couple of times through the wash and it'll be peeling off all over the shop.
CWD Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 So what exactly did Cortese do to **** them off? I know its been mentioned before but I carried on living my life and forgot.
SaintJackoInHurworth Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Jim Lucas @JFBLucas 41 minutes ago #TheStripesAreBack! Looking forward to working with @adidasUK next season. #saintsfc Pretty strong hint they will be producing something of the stripey variety then ! Based on Jim Lucas's tweet, sounds like he's hinting at stripes. Still stand behind your sash prediction? Yep In fairness, that tweet is clearly a reference to the Adidas three stripes. That is what is "back" as of today/next season. There is another possibility... that the new kit is both stripy and sash style - i.e. some trendy stripy design from one shoulder down. A couple of years ago when some people were saying that we should stick with the sash and others were arguing for a return to stripes (prior to us having the horrible Liverpool/Forest pinstripe design) I suggested that possibility and using my very limited graphics software (i.e. Paint) I tried to produce a vague mock up of that idea. So, if they do go with that I think they should give me some royalties!! lol
SaintJackoInHurworth Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Incidentally, for those that suggest that the statement 'The Stripes Are Back' is only a reference to Adidas, perhaps it is worth remembering this: And then there's also this: In other words, ever since Saints started using the #TheStripesAreBack hashtag last summer it has been a reference to a striped kit. The one thing that is interesting about our current kit and the marketing for it, however, is the presence of the diagonal stripe through it. I wonder if this, together with Turkish's absolute assertion that we are going with a sash kit, acts as some sort of hint that maybe we are going to go with some sort of diagonal sash stripes on next season's kit?
CB Fry Posted 14 February, 2015 Posted 14 February, 2015 Incidentally, for those that suggest that the statement 'The Stripes Are Back' is only a reference to Adidas, perhaps it is worth remembering this: And then there's also this: In other words, ever since Saints started using the #TheStripesAreBack hashtag last summer it has been a reference to a striped kit. The one thing that is interesting about our current kit and the marketing for it, however, is the presence of the diagonal stripe through it. I wonder if this, together with Turkish's absolute assertion that we are going with a sash kit, acts as some sort of hint that maybe we are going to go with some sort of diagonal sash stripes on next season's kit? Err, I think everyone remembers that. The point is the only "stripes" that are "back" in that message are the adidas stripes. If next season's kit is striped, then the stripes won't be "back" will they? Just like they won't be back for Stoke or Sunderland if they go with stripes next year.
sebastian firefly Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 dont know what went wrong as per images so to avoid disapointment ill direct you to the new Estudiantes reveal id go for that
JonnyOldBoy Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 So what exactly did Cortese do to **** them off? I know its been mentioned before but I carried on living my life and forgot. He played hardball right up until the last minute with the initial contract.... so in the end we were told here is what you get , like it or lump it.... we had no choice but to accept their cast-offs and then adidas treated SFC as second class citizens with training wear with the wrong badge colour etc etc and blue stuff..... so Cortese ( partly for the right reasons ) told them to sling their hook. I am sensing that SFC are playing the situation very astutely now.... There are probably lining up a potential replacement supplier for 2016/17 and saying to Adidas " deliver this time properly and we will sign a bigger deal"... I know Puma are strategically well set up to supply Saints and would want the contract so I think as last the kit issue is all in our favour... Cortese did **** up initially , but then Adidas did treat us like mugs so the muck can not all be stuck to him for this years disasterous kit.
doggface Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 A lot better than Stoke at least Stoke are with Warrior now, like most of there stuff it's disgusting.
simo Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 As for just sitting behind a computer, I would suggest what it says on the door plate of that office would be more relevant Until I see a shirt with Veho/Muvi on I'll take my chances with what I know
St Jim Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 I'd like to think the man who deals with selling our kits knows what he's talking about he also said next year's kit maybe own brand again as negotiations for next seasons kit had to be done by last October to be ready for the summer and they weren't Still confident he knows what he's talking about?
simo Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 Still confident he knows what he's talking about? No reason to doubt him like I said above until I see different to what I was told if so I'll go call him a liar!
krissyboy31 Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 Stoke are with Warrior now, like most of there stuff it's disgusting. I read somewhere that they were re-branding under their New Balance label.
The9 Posted 15 February, 2015 Author Posted 15 February, 2015 I'd have taken it back as soon as I saw it only had one sleeve. Strangely the other sleeve is intact. despite being my phone pocketside.
The9 Posted 15 February, 2015 Author Posted 15 February, 2015 I read somewhere that they were re-branding under their New Balance label. Next season's NB Liverpool shirt is already on this thread.
The9 Posted 15 February, 2015 Author Posted 15 February, 2015 (edited) He played hardball right up until the last minute with the initial contract.... so in the end we were told here is what you get , like it or lump it.... we had no choice but to accept their cast-offs and then adidas treated SFC as second class citizens with training wear with the wrong badge colour etc etc and blue stuff..... so Cortese ( partly for the right reasons ) told them to sling their hook. I am sensing that SFC are playing the situation very astutely now.... There are probably lining up a potential replacement supplier for 2016/17 and saying to Adidas " deliver this time properly and we will sign a bigger deal"... I know Puma are strategically well set up to supply Saints and would want the contract so I think as last the kit issue is all in our favour... Cortese did **** up initially , but then Adidas did treat us like mugs so the muck can not all be stuck to him for this years disasterous kit. Apologist ahoy. So you're saying Cortese delayed until it was too late for anything bespoke and then didn't like what we got given, but that's not his fault? Plus you also haven't seemed to work out that Adidas pay the club, not the other way around. So "a bigger deal" wouldn't necessarily be better for them. Though it's also us who insist on the limited retail points, which massively hampers the sales figures, so I guess we could move away from that and Adidas would get a cut of a much bigger market in exchange for use of their distribution infrastructure. Picking up year 3 of a deal having just ignored year 2 seems strange, maybe it was the easiest and cheapest way to revive the agreement? Edited 15 February, 2015 by The9
Puddings and Monkeys Posted 15 February, 2015 Posted 15 February, 2015 Next season's NB Liverpool shirt is already on this thread. Warrior is owned by NB and there is a "strategic" move to replace it with the more widely known NB brand. Don't know why they didn't just go straight to NB in the first place. Seems odd to me.
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