Quote giantsrabbit38="giantsrabbit38"It's Crap!!!are ur eyes painted on...compare it to towns umbro!!!???? Look at wot choice they have I'm no football fan but I look around and think fantastic choice for all ages!!! Go in the leeds rhinos shop,st Helens shop,hull shop!!! A decent choice will create more sales and more demand instead of retro shirts being done by ex players and the club???. I follow rabbitohs in nrl and Russell Crowe works with isc as owner, they designed a jacket in red and white ...he said yes its ok but we are red n green ,not red and white like our rivals st George!!! Tell the person who did this he,s doing it for south sydney rabbitohs!!!!...ie passion about his team. It's as with we push everything into our playing jerseys, but not everybody can afford £ 50 a season, so a nice hoody or polo or training t shirt will be cheaper and keep the tills ticking???'"
You appear to be living in a strange fantasy world wherein the club can ignore things like Economies of Scale, Profit and Loss, Supply and Demand, Market Size, Bankruptcy etc.
!) We are a small market club in a small market sport.
2) we have no recent tradition of being a big club
3) If we change kit supplier we won't get a better choice of merchandise. We will get pretty much the same stuff.
4) What Leeds, St Helens, Hull, Town, South Sydney or the Halifax Mooseheads have in their club shop is not relevant to us because they are different clubs. The first three are bigger markets. the fourth plays in a global sport awash with money. The fifth plays in a sport that is dominant in it's geographical location.
5) the club will have to place minimum orders. That means it has to get products with a reasonable mark up but that do not have a massive base price so any unsold stock does not represent too big a financial loss.
6) The only way the club can avoid this is to sell more stock overall and get more goodwill from the suppliers.
7) It won't do this if everyone says the stuff in the club shop is crap and refuses to buy it.
8 ) Ergo if you want the club to get better merchandise the only way you will achieve this is to buy the stuff they currently have and get other people to buy it. Then go to the club and give suggestions as to other stock they may have.
9) Believe it or not the club will want to supply what people want to buy but it can only do this if it gains the leverage that having a larger market will bring it.