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Seriously who in their right mind over at Nike came up with a rrp of 90 quid for a football shirt! Piss take of the highest order!
They'll sell 1000s
They'll be a tenner each in Sports Direct once we fail to get through the group stage
Cost £1, some mugs will buy for £99. Why not?
Even if people baulk at the price, they can do a 50% sale and still make a great margin.
Isn't the question, why would anyone buy one, and yet they do. They will be spending their hard earned cash to go out to Brazil to watch their team play poorly next!
It's a ploy by the FA to pull football out of the underclass and into the middle classes. They've realised there's too many oiks and plebs who watch football and give it a bad name with their cheap lager and abusive songs, so they're trying to price them out of the game.
This is just the start, next seasons kit will see a 50% increase in price, pies will be withdrawn from games and replaced with quails egg salad and all the pubs near football grounds will be banned from selling lager and instead have to sell champagne and white wine.
Kids will go hungry, the price of Stella will plummit, chicken tikka shops will go out of business, gas and electric bills will go unpaid and long suffering Wives will rue the day the £90 wendyballers shirt hit the market.
Don't buy it 😉
I'm all for the price of Stella plummeting! Up the shirt price I say!
its the same with rugby gear, I wanted to get england rugby shirts for my kids, 45 quid!
It's a ploy by the FA to pull football out of the underclass and into the middle classes
Mission accomplished already on that score. Have you seen the price of tickets for a premiership match? Its eye-watering!!! I've no idea how anyone affords to go regularly
The fact that the FA thinks that ninety notes is a reasonable price for a piece of man made fibre, chucked out of a Chinese sweatshop, suggests they know full-well who the audiences are nowadays
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They have been doing the same for rugby for a few years, selling a cheaper "stadium" shirt which doesn't have the technical materials of the pro kit. I think before the last rugby world cup, it was about the same price as well.
They'll be a tenner each in Sports Direct once we fail to get through the group stage
Beaten to it.
I shall show my patriotic traditional support by chosing a foreign team that I will support/back.
Germany as usual.
Ill stick with my 1999 away shirt I think. It needed no cooling technology when the jet from the water cannon hit 😉
So it's only 90 for the same one as the team wear, there is a 60 one that looks the same but not the exact same. Whats the actual story, people can't read there are 2 versions or people want to get outraged.
You dont think £60 is too much? Not all football fans are loaded you know.
I'm not poor or loaded but if I bought a £60 pair of jeans- I'd get ten years wear out of them. If I bought a football shirt, its effectively a souvenir for one set of matches no?
Or you could be a tight wad like the OP 😉 😆
Ill stick with my 1999 away shirt I think
I'll be in my Italia '90 version. Three reasons; it's owned outright and won't need a remortgage, second; it still fits even after 24 years, and last but not least the beer stains caused by dozens of pints being ejected from their glasses simultaneously as David Platt scored vs Belgium bring back memories of when we could actually compete* against the best in the world.
(* just not from 12 yards)
it still fits even after 24 years
You're not the only football fan labouring under that misapprehension.
If it's the actual 'technical' shirt worn by the players, then it's not so bad, is it?
For what is worth, I think that it is way too expensive, but then I don't like paying more than £30 for a cycling jersey, but plenty of people are happy to pay loads. I was gonna get the Dragon Sportive jersey from Wiggle, but it's £60 or £70!
A British Heart Foundation jersey for the London to Brighton is only £30...
I,ll stick with not caring - football is boring anyway and England are pretty useless
The really mind boggling thing is that people buy it. Same with the rugby "match shirt".
You've spent £90 for a skin tight piece of technical kit designed for playing sport in that you can never wear to play in since you don't even play football, let alone for England and you are to fat for a skin tight shirt.
When you could have bought a shirt designed specifically for watching sport and demonstrating your allegance at the same time for significantly less.
You berk.
[i]If it's the actual 'technical' shirt worn by the players, then it's not so bad, is it?[/i]
Polyester with a few logos on it? £90 (or even £60!), not so bad? Some people are suckers aren't they?! 😉
Anyway, £10 would be too expensive to look like a chav.
Don't the EDL sell cheaper shirts that demonstrate the same allegiances and mind-set?
For wearing to the disco?
I suppose wicking fabric will be of some benefit.
They have been doing the same for rugby for a few years, selling a cheaper "stadium" shirt which doesn't have the technical materials of the pro kit. I think before the last rugby world cup, it was about the same price as well.
they've been doing this since the 2003 shirt, there were the normal l, more traditional ones, then the tight 'players' shirt at about 80-90quid Since then you now have one in between as well.
can kind of see the point in rugby as there's the traditional cotton jersey and the synthetic material of the playing shirts. But surely in football there isn't a vast difference between the synthetic supporters shirt and the also synthetic players shirt? If you want it tight like the players buy a size smaller! Will look well on the average beer gutted football fan!
Nike Team Canada ice hockey shirts are $130, but they're a hell of a lot better made than your average footy shirt.
And cover a multitude of sins, too...
The point being, exact copies of team kit, by the manufacturer, are always going to be pricey, but I can't see why a 'stadium' version, same style/colours, lower spec, can't be fifty percent or less cost-wise; £35 should be near maximum.
£90 does sound a lot. It would be interesting to see what the manufacturing costs are. But, if i had 90quid spare, and i was going to play in it. (i know, bizarre idea) id get one over the 'poverty spec' one.
i have a couple of shirts i use to regularly play in, of which one uses the technical material spoken about in the new nike top the other is just polyester. The technical one is far more comfy.
And, if i spent 90quid* on a top, wore it for 75 to 100 hours a year playing football, that's mot too bad is it?
*For the record, my last two playing shirts cost £2.20 and £1.85ish respectively so ignore me.
If you've got anything like an eye for goal, by the sounds of it Jose will give you a technical shirt with your name on for free.
Only one downside.......
The difference with Rapha et al is that at least the cycle jerseys stand a chance of being used on a bike one day
Nike Team Canada ice hockey shirts are $130
I bought one recently, direct from Nike, for £50.
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I can get the top of the range Bioracer cycling jersey with all the latest technological fabrics custom printed in my team colours for £60. And that's in a very small run of 5 or so.
£90 for a mass-produced, low quality (they're nowhere near cycling kit in terms of tech) football jersey is a joke.
Nike paid the FA c£200M for an 8 year deal so surely that needs to be taken into account with the cost of shirts etc
^ Nahh who really GAS who makes the garment? Be it Nike/Addidas?Puma etc. etc. Swallow up the £200m and sack the dumb idiot that signed the deal. Then go back to the FA and remind them who a)watches the game and b)who the FA are supposed to support.
Theres too much whining wendyballers on the TV as it is. Every BBC new bulletin contains some rambling Italian talking the pants of 12 words he's just put together infront of the Cameras and "Jurnos"
Also, whats with the Sponsors screen behind every interview these days, sorry but again WGAS about who sponsors what?
Mikey, really?
(Shoots off to Google...)
No need:
Edit: Ah, sorry. It now says they are out of stock.
Meanwhile the Scottish FA have given up trying to sell shirts
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