News Hawthorn and Adidas part ways in 2022…what next?

[Beandip]

Wow, love those training kits. I think they bring a very nice, fresh take on our designs.

 

[pattymalone00]

 

[moginie]

I really like these. A lot more attractive than the purple, grey, blue or white training tops from the past.

 

[Max Powers]

For all the carry on these jumpers and warm up gear looks fine to me.

 

[Mercy Seat]

For all the carry on these jumpers and warm up gear looks fine to me.

I don’t think many here were carrying on that they’d look bad. Fwiw I love what I’ve seen so far, though it all appears to be the work of ISC, not sketchers.

It’s just brand alignment I have an issue with like I would with any sponsor that I thought wasnt right and I still think that. But it’s also about number 50 on the list of things to really be bothered about when it comes to footy and supporting our club.

 

[Baz_hawk]

Well, I guess I'll be ordering a warmup top. Looks great!

 

[Max Powers]

I don’t think many here were carrying on that they’d look bad. Fwiw I love what I’ve seen so far, though it all appears to be the work of ISC, not sketchers.

It’s just brand alignment I have an issue with like I would with any sponsor that I thought wasnt right and I still think that. But it’s also about number 50 on the list of things to really be bothered about when it comes to footy and supporting our club.

Don't get the angst over the brand. Looks good, the quality will be fine no doubt (have siblings who have ISC St Kilda guernseys and there fine) and just because it doesn't say Nike or Puma doesn't mean it's lesser quality. But that's just me I guess.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Both the training gear and the warm up tops are having my think about a purchase for the first time ever.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Kudos to the The Kid 23 who absolutely nailed all the news on this.

 

[TylerDurden]

No ISC haven't had a link with the Hawks previously. Skechers will be using the ISC factories and utilise the club teamwear business model from ISC. So, you could say are partnership between the brands, but the consumer will believe it’s all Skechers!

This guy had the mail early.

 

[pattymalone00]

This guy had the mail early.

Still funny that people didn’t really believe isc and sketchers wouldn’t be a thing and it would be only one of them

 

[pattymalone00]

Wonder if Hawthorn gear will be available at sketchers stores with this deal…?

 

[Yardie]

I want my Hawthorn pickleball racquet!

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I want my Hawthorn pickleball racquet!

Suuuuure, ‘pickleball racquet’…

 

[undefined]

Training/warmup tops look great, Would purchase if not for the ugly KFC logo on the back.

 

[Yardie]

Suuuuure, ‘pickleball racquet’…

Sounds like someone needs a good paddlin'.....

 

[Rich]

They might have just been working to a brief. Not a lot of creative types in football it seems.

Sponsors logos on NRL outfits are particularly jarring.
It’s like they go out of their way to make them look as bad as possible.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Sponsors logos on NRL outfits are particularly jarring.
It’s like they go out of their way to make them look as bad as possible.

Not to mention they have about 16 sponsors per kit so they look more like a webpage with pop up ads than a jersey. That’s why I stick solely to the heritage NRL jerseys because they look so much better and don’t feel like they’re made of cellophane.

 

[Hodginator]

Any chance of an away jumper with the brown back?

 

[Mercy Seat]

Any chance of an away jumper with the brown back?

I’m pretty sure it was mandated a few years back that you need a predominately “light” kit as your away jumper which kinda made our brown one obsolete. I think our only way to bring this back would be to have it as our home strip.

 

[Hodginator]

I’m pretty sure it was mandated a few years back that you need a predominately “light” kit as your away jumper which kinda made our brown one obsolete. I think our only way to bring this back would be to have it as our home strip.

Well there you go. Wouldn’t be against it.

Controversial opinion perhaps, but I prefer the brown back.

 

[MrPremiership]

Both the training gear and the warm up tops are having my think about a purchase for the first time ever.

Same. They look great and have me considering purchasing a warm up top for the first time ever.

 

[Bremner20]

Well there you go. Wouldn’t be against it.

Controversial opinion perhaps, but I prefer the brown back.

I’m with you on that . It’s true we haven’t been blessed historically with the best colour combination to work with , we’re kind of like the Cleveland Browns of the AFL in that regard , but out of all the versions of the brown and gold jersey I’ve seen over the years that predominantly brown kit has easily been the best .

 

[Beandip]

Kudos to the The Kid 23 who absolutely nailed all the news on this.

Do you think this new breed of 'club jumper/sponsor' ITKs will get absolutely (and illogically) hammered like the trade ones each year?

 

[bradburygold]

These however look garbage