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Author Topic: Kits 23/24  (Read 262359 times)

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1620 on: September 26, 2023, 10:36:56 PM »
This whole story is absolutely fucking absurd.

We need to use this problem as cause to dump these idiots as soon as we possibly can.

Yep, or go back to last season's kits if necessary.

So not only are they shit, overpriced and fall to pieces, they also could now be affecting our season and performance.

I hope Castore fucking fold. Bunch of cowboys.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1621 on: September 27, 2023, 01:24:04 AM »
I remember bringing this up after our first game and the general reply was it that looks worse on our shirts because the colour of our tops and the other team's playing in Castore shirt's look okay.

So are all the Castore football shirt's manufacturerd the same or have they somehow managed to just screw ours up?

Whatever the answer is, how on earth could they get it so badly wrong. This could be potentially costing us points.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1622 on: September 27, 2023, 03:15:29 AM »
I'm amazed any player can wear such things without layers underneath. This Castore batch seems to be the worst yet, but all football shirts are dreadful tacky plastic shite, and I don't know why anybody would buy one.

Fans can do what they want with their money, but let the poor bastards playing for us wear cotton or some other loosely natural fabric.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1623 on: September 27, 2023, 07:08:07 AM »
This whole story is absolutely fucking absurd.

We need to use this problem as cause to dump these idiots as soon as we possibly can.

Yep, or go back to last season's kits if necessary.

So not only are they shit, overpriced and fall to pieces, they also could now be affecting our season and performance.

I hope Castore fucking fold. Bunch of cowboys.

Don’t think I’d go as far as wanting people to lose their jobs just because our shirt is a bit wet but we do need one of the better manufacturers now, Adidas/Nike or Puma please

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1624 on: September 27, 2023, 07:28:45 AM »
Apparently Newcastle had Castore and managed to get put of their deal with them, which had been set to run until 2027.


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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1625 on: September 27, 2023, 07:59:27 AM »
Quote from: The Grauniad
Chelsea are set to receive approval from the Premier League for Infinite Athlete to become their new shirt sponsor. The Stamford Bridge club have been waiting for the deal, which is understood to be worth around £40m a year, to be given the green light.
£40m per year?!! - we are so far behind the commercial big-hitters.

Offline PaulTheVillan

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1626 on: September 27, 2023, 08:15:21 AM »
Utter shambles.

The shirts
The crest
The Lower Grounds
The Terrace View

What else have I missed?

Offline cdward

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1627 on: September 27, 2023, 08:19:04 AM »
It's a good job Stilyan Petrov didn't have to wear the Castore kit, i've never seen a player sweat as much as he did.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1628 on: September 27, 2023, 08:19:20 AM »
Quote from: The Grauniad
Chelsea are set to receive approval from the Premier League for Infinite Athlete to become their new shirt sponsor. The Stamford Bridge club have been waiting for the deal, which is understood to be worth around £40m a year, to be given the green light.
£40m per year?!! - we are so far behind the commercial big-hitters.
They've been qualifying for Europe reasonably consistently for the past 25 years, and have won 5 league titles, 6 FA Cups, and 3 league cups in that period. Plus 2 European Cups, 2 UEFA Cups, a Cup Winners Cup, and a European Super Cup. Which makes them more successful in the past quarter of a century than we have been in our entire history.

In the same period we've won the Inter Toto Cup.

And that's why they get £40m/year sponsorship and we get some dodgy east Asian bookmaker.
« Last Edit: September 27, 2023, 08:21:41 AM by algy »

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1629 on: September 27, 2023, 08:27:04 AM »
They're getting nowhere near Europe again this year and given how interestingly they've stacked the gaming table with long contracts, it will be interesting to see how much a second successive season away from Europe starts to bite.

I genuinely hope this is the slow death of Tarquin's England and Chelsea endure 90 years in the wilderness, the disgusting bunch that they are.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1630 on: September 27, 2023, 08:41:00 AM »
They're getting nowhere near Europe again this year and given how interestingly they've stacked the gaming table with long contracts, it will be interesting to see how much a second successive season away from Europe starts to bite.

I genuinely hope this is the slow death of Tarquin's England and Chelsea endure 90 years in the wilderness, the disgusting bunch that they are.

Like their first 90 years, where apart from a violent cup final and Raquel Welsh turning up, the most notable thing about them was that their one title was the lowest winning points total ever.

My late father in law watched them in his youth and said they were shit, the worst team to ever win the league.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1631 on: September 27, 2023, 09:55:22 AM »
It's a good job Stan Petrov didn't have to wear the Castore kit, i've never seen a player sweat as much as he did.

You should have seen how he much was sweating 40 years ago yesterday.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1632 on: September 27, 2023, 10:32:26 AM »
Can we just slap the sponsor logo on the training or matchday tops and be done with it. Both better looking than our actual kit, and the women played a match in the match day top in sunny Spain and didn't look like they'd been drowned.

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1633 on: September 27, 2023, 10:42:56 AM »
Quote from: The Grauniad
Chelsea are set to receive approval from the Premier League for Infinite Athlete to become their new shirt sponsor. The Stamford Bridge club have been waiting for the deal, which is understood to be worth around £40m a year, to be given the green light.
£40m per year?!! - we are so far behind the commercial big-hitters.
They've been qualifying for Europe reasonably consistently for the past 25 years, and have won 5 league titles, 6 FA Cups, and 3 league cups in that period. Plus 2 European Cups, 2 UEFA Cups, a Cup Winners Cup, and a European Super Cup. Which makes them more successful in the past quarter of a century than we have been in our entire history.

In the same period we've won the Inter Toto Cup.

And that's why they get £40m/year sponsorship and we get some dodgy east Asian bookmaker.
That is grim reading. 

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Re: Kits 23/24
« Reply #1634 on: September 27, 2023, 01:39:29 PM »
Utter shambles.

The shirts
The crest
The Lower Grounds
The Terrace View

What else have I missed?


The North Stand

 


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