Aston Villa players complain Castore shirts negatively impact performance

[Bad English]

Post-Everton fiasco: "Castore complain that Villa players' performance negatively impacts shirts."

[Des Little]

Can’t we sponsor up those pre match shirts and at least give them a go and see if they’re any better? To be honest I think they’re better than the home shirt anyway.

[AV84]

There's a story in the Telegraph about Newcastle dumping Castore as their supplier due to a huge amount of complaints from fans about customer service and quality of merchandise, and the club felt that reflected badly on them. It says though that there were no complaints about the kits from players, last year or this year.

It also says Emery was asked about the sweaty shirts after the Everton game and he said he knew nothing about it. Damian Vidagany (Villa director of football operations) said "it's true we have a problem with the shirt, because clearly the material is not absorbing the sweat. We have a situation and the marketing department is dealing with the supplier to try to change it. It is not a question that concerns the manager, it is for the business side."

[Gareth]

If the women’s team play on Sunday in front of a bbc tv audience and they are in these garbage kits and its is so clingy as to be indecent the publicity that it will generate will be huge.  Particularly on the back of the Spain thing and the sexualising of women’s footballers.

Just get out last seasons kits and change the sponsor on it with a patch if necessary.

[Bobby Boy]

There's a story in the Telegraph about Newcastle dumping Castore as their supplier due to a huge amount of complaints from fans about customer service and quality of merchandise, and the club felt that reflected badly on them. It says though that there were no complaints about the kits from players, last year or this year.

It also says Emery was asked about the sweaty shirts after the Everton game and he said he knew nothing about it. Damian Vidagany (Villa director of football operations) said "it's true we have a problem with the shirt, because clearly the material is not absorbing the sweat. We have a situation and the marketing department is dealing with the supplier to try to change it. It is not a question that concerns the manager, it is for the business side."

Unai being diplomatic there I'd say. He can see what we see.

[Bad English]

I wouldn't use the word indecent to describe women's bodies but I know what you are getting at.

[Risso]

There was quite a long piece about the kits on R5 this morning. I'm glad it's being picked up on, hopefully it's causing Castore all sorts of headaches as a company and is accelerating the process of us dumping them.

[Des Little]

My boss, who takes very little interest in football, asked me what this shirt issue was all about just now.  It's trending!

[Drummond]

The Sale of Goods Act was replaced in 2015 by the Consumer Rights Act. Companies can't claim under the CRA, it's there to protect individuals.

That's it. I'm calling the cops.

Stop twisting my melons man.

[Smirker]

Castore are not even active on their Twitter account. They couldn't give a shit.

[Grande Pablo]

Once Villa get sorted I hope England cricket dump them.  I don't want to be wearing cheap chav wear.  It'll be Stone Island or Superdry next.

[pablo_picasso]

There's a story in the Telegraph about Newcastle dumping Castore as their supplier due to a huge amount of complaints from fans about customer service and quality of merchandise, and the club felt that reflected badly on them. It says though that there were no complaints about the kits from players, last year or this year.

It also says Emery was asked about the sweaty shirts after the Everton game and he said he knew nothing about it. Damian Vidagany (Villa director of football operations) said "it's true we have a problem with the shirt, because clearly the material is not absorbing the sweat. We have a situation and the marketing department is dealing with the supplier to try to change it. It is not a question that concerns the manager, it is for the business side."

The sterilisation of PR driven interviews of managers & players makes them utterly pointless & a waste of everybody's time.

It absolutely concerns the manager if it is affecting the players & any words to the contrary are more PR driven lies.

[AV84]

There's a story in the Telegraph about Newcastle dumping Castore as their supplier due to a huge amount of complaints from fans about customer service and quality of merchandise, and the club felt that reflected badly on them. It says though that there were no complaints about the kits from players, last year or this year.

It also says Emery was asked about the sweaty shirts after the Everton game and he said he knew nothing about it. Damian Vidagany (Villa director of football operations) said "it's true we have a problem with the shirt, because clearly the material is not absorbing the sweat. We have a situation and the marketing department is dealing with the supplier to try to change it. It is not a question that concerns the manager, it is for the business side."

The sterilisation of PR driven interviews of managers & players makes them utterly pointless & a waste of everybody's time.

It absolutely concerns the manager if it is affecting the players & any words to the contrary are more PR driven lies.

I think it's more likely the question was about whether or not it was an issue that was being dealt with, and Emery didn't have an answer. It's obvious to anyone with eyes that the shirts are shit, so I don't think it's a case of Emery trying to tell us he has no idea about the problem at all.

EDIT - The line in the article says " asked whether he supported the players complaints..... Emery responded "I don't know" he said "they (the club) didn't tell me about it."

It was after the game, maybe he just had more important things on his mind and couldn't be arsed answering it.

[algy]

If the women’s team play on Sunday in front of a bbc tv audience and they are in these garbage kits and its is so clingy as to be indecent the publicity that it will generate will be huge.  Particularly on the back of the Spain thing and the sexualising of women’s footballers.

Just get out last seasons kits and change the sponsor on it with a patch if necessary.

100%.  It would be degrading to make the women's side play in those kits IMO.  I'd hope they'd be allowed to play in the training shirts, with sponsor applied if necessary, for that game.

[Des Little]

Once Villa get sorted I hope England cricket dump them.  I don't want to be wearing cheap chav wear.  It'll be Stone Island or Superdry next.

Luke Roper falls into this category.  He knocks out some absolutely minging gear, Villa fan or not.