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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #345 on: October 02, 2023, 09:21:16 PM »
What has he got right or you can call a success since he came in?

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #346 on: October 02, 2023, 09:23:47 PM »
We're never going to get rid of the star with Chris Heck. Look, he has won the Cup at least six times himself and flaunts it!



He looks like the piggy guy in The Talented Mr Ripley.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #347 on: October 02, 2023, 09:43:07 PM »
Tintin's let himself go.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #348 on: October 02, 2023, 10:04:56 PM »
What has he got right or you can call a success since he came in?

Your location.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #349 on: October 02, 2023, 10:06:32 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #350 on: October 02, 2023, 10:07:32 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

That's fair. We briefed the living daylights out of Castore last week and I suspect we'll have a new kit manufacturer paying double what we have now.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #351 on: October 02, 2023, 10:08:32 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more, or increase the price of a jersey to £125 a pop.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #352 on: October 02, 2023, 10:11:51 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more, or increase the price of a jersey to £125 a pop.

Don't give him ideas

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #353 on: October 02, 2023, 10:20:21 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more, or increase the price of a jersey to £125 a pop.

Don't give him ideas

That's kind of my point though. Be careful what you wish for when it comes to kit deals. We're only worth a certain amount and it's probably not that much, comparatively speaking.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #354 on: October 02, 2023, 10:33:32 PM »
What has he got right or you can call a success since he came in?

Your location.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #355 on: October 02, 2023, 10:36:23 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more

Well, that's his job to move those figures.

We moan about the guy and we hate this and hate that (and I do, too, in the case of the LG and TV) but he's going to be measured on a lot of things and one of those is going to be shifting shirts.

So let's see what he achieves. He's got a good pedigree, whatever we think of him.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #356 on: October 02, 2023, 10:40:36 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more

Well, that's his job to move those figures.

We moan about the guy and we hate this and hate that (and I do, too, in the case of the LG and TV) but he's going to be measured on a lot of things and one of those is going to be shifting shirts.

So let's see what he achieves. He's got a good pedigree, whatever we think of him.

I agree completely. Shifting more shirts will result in bigger and better kit deals, but looking at how things have been handled with hospitality and ticket pricing, for example, we may go about things the wrong way and just start charging more for jerseys in order to maximise profit for the manufacturers.

I could see us getting Nike or Addidas on board next season, but it won't be a big money deal. Hopefully better design and quality will shift a lot more though, which in time will lead to bigger deals.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #357 on: October 02, 2023, 10:41:52 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more, or increase the price of a jersey to £125 a pop.

Don't give him ideas

That's kind of my point though. Be careful what you wish for when it comes to kit deals. We're only worth a certain amount and it's probably not that much, comparatively speaking.
Compared to clubs like Man U with a worldwide glory hunting network we're pretty small. Like my mate once told a bluenose "We are a behemoth. You're just a moth"

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #358 on: October 02, 2023, 10:45:35 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more, or increase the price of a jersey to £125 a pop.

Don't give him ideas

That's kind of my point though. Be careful what you wish for when it comes to kit deals. We're only worth a certain amount and it's probably not that much, comparatively speaking.
Compared to clubs like Man U with a worldwide glory hunting network we're pretty small. Like my mate once told a bluenose "We are a behemoth. You're just a moth"

I saw figures the other day for 2022 that said we sold 245k shirts that year. Man U sold 2.5 million.

Newcastle, West Ham, and even Everton sold nearly 2x what we did.

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Re: Chris Heck - President of Business Operations
« Reply #359 on: October 02, 2023, 10:56:35 PM »
Tbf to him, we don’t have overview of what he’s working on so I don’t think we can write him off just yet.

Maybe in the background he’s negotiating a break with Castore and a massive new deal with Nike. We don’t know.

We're unlikely to get a massive deal with anyone for  kits unless we start selling an awful lot more, or increase the price of a jersey to £125 a pop.

Don't give him ideas

That's kind of my point though. Be careful what you wish for when it comes to kit deals. We're only worth a certain amount and it's probably not that much, comparatively speaking.
Compared to clubs like Man U with a worldwide glory hunting network we're pretty small. Like my mate once told a bluenose "We are a behemoth. You're just a moth"


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Brilliant.

 


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