My family and I used to buy quite a few things from the club shop when Malcolm used to be in charge of the buying. The availability and more importantly the quality was better. Although the look of the new shirt seems ok we wont be purchasing any again its down to quality value and availability - unfortunately thats where X Blades dont get anywhere near!

i used x blades for my ametuer team when they first set up and they were good to deal with at first but then when they got orders from pro teams they became very unreliable and their promise of turning round a kit in 4 weeks suddenly turmed into 4 months, would not recomend them to anyone

I realise that this forum is primarily for the posters to moan about things, but everything the Club seems to do brings out the same old whingers. . had any of you gone along to the Meet the Players last night(not that any of you actually ever go down to the Shay either for events or even games, preferring to sit at your computers firing off the same old moans season after season) you might have seen both the new shirt with its embroired badge and Karl Harrison "signature" and the Players training top which sold out !! so I guess those that bother to turn up have a somewhat different opinion of the new kit !!

The new shirt looks very good, much better than last years poor effort. Lets hope this continues with the T shirts, coats, training gear etc.

You are being very unfair here.
You will see that I have stood up for the quality of the shirt, but some people are not happy and that is their entitlement.
This forum is not "primarily for moaners" as you say.
Most people on here are very positive and I can assure you that probably all the posters do go to games.
Many of the posters like me have been to Toulouse 3 years running and hope to go again this year.
This is a forum and all are entitled to their opinion, if you/we don't agree it is better to counter those opinions with reasoned arguments rather than assume those people don't support the club.

I was there last night and it was a good one.
The shirts are good quality that is not the issue for me its the way the club have given over the whole shooting match to X Blades without thinking about things, like who runs the shop and online sales on the club website and who and where will stock of other stuff come from as X Blades only make shirts, training tops and some leisure wear, a lot of the other stuff that WAS in the shop comes from other providers yet they still get 90% and the club 10% of any sales!
Yer okay they pay a guaranteed set amount each year but if we go well next year they are quids in.