Does anyone know when/if the club will have shirts and other 2017 merchandise on sale?

Probably the same time the pies turn up.

Phoenix might be bringing them with him..

Think the tea lady has it in hand - a lady of all trades now, in these austere times.

The longer it takes to get these out though, the less they'll realistically be able to charge. Most people aren't going to want to pay £45 per shirt when half the season has already gone. UNLESS they keep them for next year too, but then they have the added issue of losing out on the extra revenue next year's new shirt brings in.

also what about the away shirt?

If i'm honest though they can still play in the menace kit as long as we bring some players in,
Toovey signs on the dotted and we survive this year.. will not even be bothered what songs get sung on the terraces..

Seems strange they're not out already. I mean, obviously there have been problems and things have got a bit late and all that, but there are all these manufacturers and, you'd imagine they would all have hit a quiet spot after the season started, so why would it take so long? Unless it's the bank account thing raising its ugly head again?

Probably the bank account and the fact that usually a supplier has pretty much all the off-season to create stock. Whereas we still have only had, what, 6 weeks?

Away shirt will probably be released at the start of next month or at least in the next 2 weeks as we require one for Oldham away on the 2nd April! Knowing the Bulls, we will play in the away kit for that game and not release it to the public for another 10 weeks haha!

I noticed that the players are now sporting some new training gear during the post-match interviews in the Southbank Stand.

It's gone a bit quiet on the kit front. I assume we won't have anything for sale until we have these bank accounts sorted. It appears that everything is still going through the RFLs books for now. It would be nice if I could get my hands on the new kit but 3 months ago I didn't think we had a club. Another month won't hurt.

That was, sort of, the point, though.

The clubs in a position to pre-order (ie everyone else) would have had their stuff done, dusted and delivered by the start of the season, leaving a large manufacturing capability doing....well, doing not a lot. To knock up a (in the great scheme of things) a small order for us shouldn't have been a great logistical problem, or, at least, I wouldn't have thought so.

Unless said manufacturer also provides other sports with seasons that run on a different calendar.

That is a fair point - though, I don't think I've seen any ISC gear (who I guess we're still with?) used in connection with other sports?

A quick look at the ISC website says they do some Basketball and whatever AFL is (dunno if that's Aussie Soccer or Aussie Rules). No idea when those seasons are though.

AFL is Aussie rules, though Ive no idea when their season is. Neither do I know if ISC stuff is done in Australia or over here. It could be done by a sub contractor in the UK as that is quite common, I believe, as my brother-in-law knew a bloke who ran a company doing exactly that.