Toast 2022 Indigenous Jumper

[greatwhiteshark]

Why does it have to be a new design every year? I would be more worried about getting the team on the park.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

If this was an isolated issue, I'd agree, but how many issues does the club need to have before it acknowledges it's rotten to the core?

Indigenous jumper rehash from 2021
No Pride jumper (plus the subsequent comments from Prior)
Players without their own jumper
Harry Edwards rocking a completely wrong design in a game last year
Chesser being presented with a jumper big enough for that lard arse in the cheer squad

And that's just jumper issues off the top of my head, let alone everything else.

 

[LewyBroome]

Castore aren’t actually making the guernseys, so it has nothing to do with them. Sekem are making the playing gear as they were last year, so if the club really wanted to, they could’ve designed a new one. Honestly though, it’s the least of our worries. Let minnow clubs worry about new designs every year to make money, we’ve got bigger things to focus on.

27k fans on the weekend tells me that now more than ever you need to make a conscious effort into fan interaction and marketing. This is exactly what you need when the football is dires and isn't a quick fix, need to keep fans engaged in other ways. The club resting on laurels from yester year will get us into minnow clubs. The fact that Sekem have to do production on behalf of another company because they can't supply demand is very minnow...…

Our engagement and PR is the worst in the league and it's not even close.

 

[ziad]

I see no need to redesign a jumper every year, very commercial and loses sight of the intent.

 

[FXD_]

F**k me, did we have similar back page of The West beat ups and threads like this when we reused our Indigenous design in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020?

If anyone should be pissed it's Kevin Bynder who didn't get his design reused!

Pour one out for Swans fans, two designs in eight years. Only on their third one this year.

 

[Bender_]

TBH it doesn't bother me at all, but the club is firstly missing out on a positive public relations spin by giving a young Indigenous artist the opportunity to design a strip for us, and secondly on the marketing/revenue possibilities of releasing new merchandise.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

I for one like the design and think it brings the jumper more meaning wearing it for multiple seasons. It Seems more of a cash grab and makes the guernseys less meaningful if they are just used for one season

 

[THE A5]

I was annoyed for a hot minute but also noticed how it took sekem nine weeks to produce Naishys jumper, so i'm not really surprised with this at all

 

[Mighty Eagles]

Speaking of Castore, why did we leave Puma at the end of 2017?

I've never understood that

 

[EdCurnowRules]

I loved the original one with the big Eagle head, which we used for two seasons or so. Would love to see that become permanent (or even used for our clash jumper).

That was my favourite of the IR strips also

 

[Altum Volantes]

Speaking of Castore, why did we leave Puma at the end of 2017?

I've never understood that

I’m sure the ‘jumper guy’ (Ford? I feel that might be an old username) will know more but I think the club felt Puma were not giving them the service/attention they had done in previous years, and ISC were offering a great deal that a lot of clubs jumped onto at the time. So it probably just came down to money, as you would expect.

Castore has been a next level disaster though - I suspect we have at least another year to stumble through with them before we can get the hell out of that deal and (probably) sign with Sekeem full time like Freo.

WCE is a tough one - big seller of merchandise….but it’s isolated to 1 city and there is no broad ‘presence’ in the market that the big Vic clubs enjoy due to it being a 2 team town. May as well get a WA supplier and spin that as a positive.

 

[06Premiers]

Really we should be with a big manufacturer like Nike, Adidas or Puma given our apparent status as the biggest club in Australia.

 

[ziad]

Recycling is good for the environment.

 

[Mighty Eagles]

Really we should be with a big manufacturer like Nike, Adidas or Puma given our apparent status as the biggest club in Australia.

1000% yes

 

[ep2018]

We have a very good indigenous guernsey, why change it?

 

[Altum Volantes]

Really we should be with a big manufacturer like Nike, Adidas or Puma given our apparent status as the biggest club in Australia.

Who only sells jumpers in Perth…

 

[ziad]

Who only sells jumpers in Perth…

Well the Puma outlet in Sydney was good for a $5 eagles polo and a $15 jumper. So there is a sort of market.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Australia doesn't have enough diversity of population centres to worry about sales outside of one city. Numbers in the main market would be key.

 

[jaxxon]

I’m sure the ‘jumper guy’ (Ford? I feel that might be an old username) will know more but I think the club felt Puma were not giving them the service/attention they had done in previous years, and ISC were offering a great deal that a lot of clubs jumped onto at the time. So it probably just came down to money, as you would expect.

Castore has been a next level disaster though - I suspect we have at least another year to stumble through with them before we can get the hell out of that deal and (probably) sign with Sekeem full time like Freo.

WCE is a tough one - big seller of merchandise….but it’s isolated to 1 city and there is no broad ‘presence’ in the market that the big Vic clubs enjoy due to it being a 2 team town. May as well get a WA supplier and spin that as a positive.

FXD_

 

[SkeletorsJawbone]

I was annoyed for a hot minute but also noticed how it took sekem nine weeks to produce Naishys jumper, so i'm not really surprised with this at all

Perhaps the fact that it doesn’t say Sekem is why it took 9 weeks to produce at a critical time of the year for a company with other commitments involving its actual brand?

 

[FXD_]

I think the club felt Puma were not giving them the service/attention they had done in previous years, and ISC were offering a great deal that a lot of clubs jumped onto at the time. So it probably just came down to money, as you would expect.

This is pretty much spot on.