Adidas - Technical Partner Of Watford FC

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by hornetboy1, Dec 6, 2016.

  1. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    ISTR reading in something by Naomi Klein that US baseball shirt manufacturing costs in Haiti/Phillipines was in the region of a dollar a shirt.

    FWIW I did some work for a Lithuanian sportswear manufacturer ("Audimas") who in '98 were looking to get a "BigCompany" contract in trainers and breathable waterproof jackets. The price of the jackets was just under $4...the company didn't even get past the "...written expression of interest in acting as a supplier..." round of the competition.
     
  2. Timbers

    Timbers Apeman

    It cost about £5 to make a Nike shirt in Philippines and Indonesia (and transport it) if my old A Level globalisation memory is correct. The manufacturers takes about £15 quid, and it would be about £9 VAT and then a few quid marketing etc. Seeing that we sell in house and not via stores, we then cream licencing costs and then another £15 quid profit on top.

    A lot of big clubs will also sell licencing to people like Sports Direct, who pay a flat percentage fee to the clubs on each shirt sold. They are your Liverpool, Chelsea etc, way out of our league. Some clubs like Rangers get it totally wrong, they only got 7% on each shirt sold, hence the big do about them renegotiating the deal this week.
     
  3. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Saw somebody with the new kit earlier, it looks alright but the sponsor's font is hideous and ruins it for me.
     
  4. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    In the eighties my brother's then wife was a designer for Razzy a jeans company.

    Julie went on a buying trip to Italy where they bought cotton t shirts for £3 and then printed the Razzy logo and any design on them,some were round necks other polo shirts. They retailed for £13.

    Ellesse,then at the height of their powers with Boris Becker and Chris Evert as their leading contracted players,bought from the same factory. Ellesse printed their half tennis ball and so on to the garments and they retailed for £35.

    Morale of the tale?

    Nothing new under the sun,or half tennis ball!
     
  5. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    Because it's Errea.
     
  6. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    The average is only supposedly between 10% and 15% so at 50 quid a shirt the club can expect to keep a fiver or seven pounds fifty tops. When you take out the overheads such as paying shop staff etc it hardly seems worth it.


    I took a guess earlier about numbers of shirts we are likely to sell.. but according to this.. http://talksport.com/football/premi...ge-global-shirt-sales-year-201112-201516?p=19 the figure of 10 thousand was about right.
    That means the entire income to the club from shirt sales wouldn't cover a weeks wages for Troy Deeney.
     
    Last edited: Jun 26, 2017
  7. HornetHopefuls

    HornetHopefuls Academy Graduate

    They also released all three kits at the same time, whereas us only the home shirt.
     
  8. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

  9. lendal

    lendal Reservist

    want the 1898 one:)
     
  10. cpm82

    cpm82 Academy Graduate

    When is the away shirt being released? Does anyone have any info?
     
  11. Pozzo Out

    Pozzo Out Squad Player

    It's not the same as the home one
     
  12. El distraído

    El distraído Johnny Foreigner

    Not yellow.
     
  13. Markoa$

    Markoa$ Squad Player

    My contacts at the club have told me that it will be released before our game against Liverpool. #itk
     
  14. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Not so fast cowboy. Plymouth have gone green home and green away this season.
     
  15. jw-

    jw- Reservist

    Adidas have already done better than dryworld be giving the players training kit on day one of preseason.

    [​IMG]
     
  16. Harefield Yellow

    Harefield Yellow First Year Pro

    Best new shirt I've seen over the summer is Southampton's new home shirt. They've based on the Patrick kit launched in 1980, broad white central panel with red sides. Very smart.
     
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  17. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode First Year Pro

    Wouldn't be Patrick Thistile, would it?
     
  18. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Or Patrick Malahide,cheerful Charlie Chisholm in 'Minder'!

    "My name is Albert!"
     
  19. Nuandy

    Nuandy Academy Graduate

    Just a shame it looks 10X worse than Dryworlds
     
  20. CaveManHornet

    CaveManHornet Reservist

    I really like the new training kit. I thought last seasons looked a bit bland.
     
  21. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    Yeah, the red stripes on red shirts are very good; better than the actual kit, in my opinion.
     
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  22. poleman

    poleman Reservist

    Disagree, I quite liked the grey and yellow combo. Perhaps a grey away kit with the three yellow stripes would look good...
     
  23. CaveManHornet

    CaveManHornet Reservist

    <blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Session 2 done now off for training preseason in full effect now <a href="https://t.co/cneks0iKLc">pic.twitter.com/cneks0iKLc</a></p>&mdash; Troy Deeney (@T_Deeney) <a href="https://twitter.com/T_Deeney/status/882255919500996609">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
    <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

    White away kit confirmed (Deeney's shirt)?
     
  24. CaveManHornet

    CaveManHornet Reservist

  25. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    I'd still wager that this is just more training gear; as someone said yesterday, the kit man will be controlling all the distribution anyway, and they won't just let one of the players wander about in it before the 'launch' if they don't want them to.
     
  26. El distraído

    El distraído Johnny Foreigner

    People on enjoy the game on FB claiming that the away shirt is purple and orange!

    I wouldn't say no to something that wacky myself. It's only for one season after all.
     
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  27. Pozzo Out

    Pozzo Out Squad Player

    Last season our players looked like they worked in an EE shop.
     
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  28. Ray Knight

    Ray Knight First Year Pro

    YES... No more bland!
     
  29. TheDon

    TheDon First Team

    Why do every ******* year morons say "Is this the new away shirt!?" When they see some training kit.

    Are people genuinely that thick to think that would happen?
     
  30. R4E

    R4E Reservist

    Yes. Yes they are.
     
  31. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    Well apart from last year that is.. when the training kit wasnt ready in time :)

    PS I believe i was the "moron" who first mentioned the training kit as a possible away kit. Reason for that was because the first pics that came out on Twitter showed only a candid shot of Troy wearing something seemingly different from the others (though in the video clip it was clear others were as well) Now i know the club wont knowingly release pics of the kit before it's released.. though other leaks do occur, as weve seen.. but i was thinking that possibly the club might have been playing a little game with us.

    Anyway.. blame me.
     
    Last edited: Jul 5, 2017
  32. CaveManHornet

    CaveManHornet Reservist

    Settle down.... Jeez

    Of course people (like myself) are going to get excited about Watford related stuff such as new kits being released because this is the stuff that entertains you temporarily whilst you wait for the new season to begin
     
  33. goldenstate-goldenboy

    goldenstate-goldenboy First Year Pro

    I feel better about our home kit now that I've taken a look at everyone else's. Ours is a bit lame but Swansea, West Brom, Leicester, and Everton all are worse than their respective kits last year and worse than ours this year. Huddersfield and Crystal Palace kits are hideous. Newcastle and Chelsea manage to be more boring than us. Only Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, and Southampton are genuinely good. The rest are on par with us.
     
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  34. Markoa$

    Markoa$ Squad Player

    Palace's kit is worse than hideous, it's definitely the worst kit I've seen in years. They should be deducted points for having a kit so repulsive.
     
  35. Jossy

    Jossy Reservist

    It's a tactic to distract opposition players and supporters from noticing how appalling Selhurst dump is.
     

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