9am Kit Release!!

Horrible home shirt.
- I hate the sponsors.
- I hate the sponsors’ horrible logo.
- The collar is awful.
- The overall design is horrible and the colours clash
- I can’t bear Ravanelli.

On the plus side the juniors shirt is pretty good.

Let’s hope Massimo’s away shirt is one we “love til we die”.
 
The estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is
£500,000 If PNE can afford to stop having gambling sponsors on principle its high time we did the same. It would be a good subject to bring up at the supporters meetings
 
Glover_elbow said:
The estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is
£500,000 If PNE can afford to stop having gambling sponsors on principle its high time we did the same. It would be a good subject to bring up at the supporters meetings
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I'm sure our deal per year was 7 figures, but that could mean its £1m. I actually think we get about £1.5m a season off the Kindred group but it's hardly ground breaking.

Bizarrely, it's taken a shirt release for people to kick up a fuss. The shirt itself is quite smart, but the sponsor looks vvank. I'd rather it just said unibet. One thing that has come to light today is that they refer to gamblers, and in many cases, gambling addicts, as players. That has to change!
 
Glover_elbow said:
The estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is £500,000
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And on that subject - are Unibet paying us 4 times more than they pay Aston Villa? I think that's quite unlikely. The advert size on our shirt is certainly 4 times the size. Just check out their shirt on post #163 on p9 of this thread. That - Middlesbrough FC and Errea is the way to do it. The Unibet dot logo can contain the wording so there is no need for both the CAPITAL letters AND the dots. As for the completely inane 'Player Safety First' tagline - it's a completes a Dog's Dinner of an apology for a shirt. 3 lines of advert. It's a disgrace.

That's leaving aside the fact that the Grandad collar is horrendous on a football shirt. Surely the whole thing must be a joke.
 
Johnnyweetabix said:
Im so sick of the club not listening to their customers and stakeholders. It is absolutely crap, it is one of the few things fans look forward to whether you buy it or not, along with fixture list announcement, deadline day etc. We consistently get it wrong. An opportunity to get something so right and to have step changes in sales but oh no, lets just design something totally and utterly turd and ignore all the feedback and thoughts from their fans.
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They HAVE listened to a lot of supporters though. Lots of Boro supporters constantly talk about the white band and how that forms a part of the club's identity. When I started going to games as a kid in 1991, we didn't have that band. We'd barely had it since the 1970s, aside from a season or two in the mid-80s I think. We had it back in 1997/98 and that was the only time until the year after we'd won the League Cup. In the years since, we seem to have had the band fairly consistently from what I can recall.

To be frank, the kit and its launch isn't really targeted at the majority of people who post on this forum. It's aimed at younger fans. I imagine the club have a pretty consistent number of shirts sold year on year, we're not a Manchester United or Barcelona, a club that shifts millions. The club will make some cash out of it, like they will the change kits and training gear. It isn't going to be the difference between us being able to sign a top-quality striker that pushes the team over the line and finishing 7th. It's just a shirt.

I'd also say that there may well be swathes of people slagging it off on Twitter, on here, on your TikTube and your social video channels and wherever else, but these people slag everything off. They know everything and they know nothing. Everybody has the answers to everything.

It's just a red shirt with some white details. The sponsor is sh*t but that sort of leads into a separate debate I suppose. If you don't like it then don't buy it. But saying the club doesn't listen to its supporters is demonstrably untrue.
 
Any news on the away shirt? I can only assume its going to be 'better?'

Yet I'm guessing the sponsorship logo will still be the same style. Although maybe not as highlighted without the white band. I suggest a black sponsor on a black shirt 😉
 
uncle_rico said:
I'm sure our deal per year was 7 figures, but that could mean its £1m. I actually think we get about £1.5m a season off the Kindred group but it's hardly ground breaking.

Bizarrely, it's taken a shirt release for people to kick up a fuss. The shirt itself is quite smart, but the sponsor looks vvank. I'd rather it just said unibet. One thing that has come to light today is that they refer to gamblers, and in many cases, gambling addicts, as players. That has to change!
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Why didn't they just keep with 32 RED?
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Also, this may be a bit of a soft thing to say but I actually a bit sad for the people who work within the club TBH. They've made a big effort to tap into our past and get a superstar player back to launch a new shirt and all they're getting back online is a wave of reactionary horsesh*t. There's absolutely no sense of perspective any more.
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I really like the shirt, the thing with ravenelli was cool. The wait was dragged out a bit too long (a month) but the UNIBET LOGO LOOKS ABSOLUTLEY SHYTE!!
 
Glover_elbow said:
The estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is
£500,000 If PNE can afford to stop having gambling sponsors on principle its high time we did the same. It would be a good subject to bring up at the supporters meetings
Click to expand...
I think gambling sponsorships on shirts are being phased over the next few years.. I'm guessing we don't have the financial clout to make responsible forward thinking decisions like that
 
viv,

Whilst I could agree that there is a high percentage of older posters on FlyMe I would contend that a great many negative comments from Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere ARE from somewhat younger people who are very active on social media. Although I don't bet I don't have a personal objection to a betting company being a sponsor. Supporters who want the white band often long for a version of the original which had a club crest. I'm sure they don't look forward to it becoming a highlighted 'foot deep hoarding' for 3 lines of advertising.
Not sure how popular this site is but they seem to be taking some incoming:
fanbanter.co.uk

Middlesbrough's new 2022/23 home kit causes huge uproar with own supporters - Fan Banter

Middlesbrough’s new home kit for the 2022/23 season causes huge uproar with their own supporters, it’s easy to see why just looking at it. The only great thing about it was Fabrizio Ravanelli modelling the new Boro jersey as the club unveiled the much-anticipated kit only for it to be a let down...
fanbanter.co.uk fanbanter.co.uk
 
What a crock of ......
Run it through the self-service till at Tesco and it will red-flag to the "superviser".
He`d probably ask if you had I.D?!
Was it printed on a Xerox machine?
Do the dots come off in the wash?
 
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I don't mind the shirt at all. It's like the retro shirt sold to commemorate the first game at the Riverside (Vs Sampdoria) with the band added.
Yes, I'd prefer a deeper red colour.
The sponsors logo is too big and dominates the shirt. That's the problem for me.
And anyone but a Payday Loan Co, or Betting company - that really shouldn't even be allowed in my opinion. A charity would be ideal (but we probably need the money) or the airport would be potentially helpful.
 
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