It could be worse. Bongser recently contacted a pal at a leading UK publisher to ridicule what he had just found in his inbox. Graphics all very nice but spoilt by the following imponderable:

"Offer available until stocks last,"

The person responsible should be in said stocks! Until they last.

You only need worry if it turns out that the lad/lass posting on your website is alwrist awing up the players contracts and registration requests!

I saw plenty of people in the away shirt at the game today. I have to say I thought it looked good and will probably get one. From a distance the V and the stripes were visible and I like that they are a little more subtle than on the 'fake' shirt that the players wore at oldham. Good variation of colours in the sponsors too which all stand out really well with the shirt being black.

The route to getting the shirts on sale has been extremely unprofessional but hopefully now a few people will have seen them being worn at matches and that they are actually pretty nice, they may start to shift a few.

To be honest, I'm a bit less impressed by the actuality than I was by the original photo, even though I thought [ithat[/i was more like something Leigh Centurians might have worn, rather than us.

The players shirt will be black and black, like the replica...
The other was played in out of necessity as it was needed for the Oldham game..

Shirt gate seems imho to be a massive over reaction,
If I was wanting to get Irate about any aspect of the new clubs running it would be the desperate need for new players that aren't coming, and visa gate added to this the total silence with regards to the former.

And the fact that we can't write a simple press release in English...

If the club hadn't marketed it for weeks like that was the shirt that was going to be on sale, it would be something of nothing. But they did. Sorry, but not a single part of me believes that they knew a different shirt was going to be delivered, otherwise it would have been mentioned earlier so fans were aware. Instead they marketed the "other" shirt for weeks and then got caught with their pants down when a different shirt appeared, then (bizarrely) appeared to carry on like nobody would notice, then when they did came out with some total bull excuse as damage limitation.

They've made themselves look really really stupid. Which is unfortunately becoming a regular occurrence with this media guy.

Completely agree with this.

The club waved around the "new" shirt and got a lot of interest. Not once did they say the "real" shirt would look completely different.

The whole situation did have a sense of "Shhhh, hope that nobody notices" about it, which riles fans and pretty much insults their intelligence!

Completely agree with the above. If they's just come out and said "sorry we've messed up but hopefully you will like the "new" new away shirt and buy it anyway" then fair enough. To try to hide behind excuses is just poor judgement in my opinion, like announcing you've re-signed Chissy until its all done and dusted.
Who makes these decisions and would you like to explain to us the paying customers, or will you just hope we keep on taking crap forever? Now that we are entering a very tough period of the season and sucesss on the field is going to be scarce, you can't afford to p*ss supporters off any further.

With all the austerity measures surrounding us, my wife popped into the Club shop to collect my lottery winnings on Tuesday.Does anyone have any ideas who would own and park a red ferrari outside? Surely not one of the playing staff.

Nigel Wood?? Could she see a shoe horn on the passenger seat

Not sure, but those cream horns do leave a mess!

Was it yours mini?

Probably a bonus given to the RFL member who convinced Cha-Lo to buy the Bulls with -12 points, no players, no bank account and stay in the Champ league so as not to upset anyone (excl the fans)

Was the registration MA12 WAN ?

66 plate so it can only have been a Red Hall fleet car!