Theres plenty of British sports manufacturers out there...

OPTIMUM (based in at the old Ellgren site in Wigan...make quite alot of the Amateur kits...excellent quality).

HALBRO??? (I'm pretty sure these are still going...based in Horwich near Bolton)

O'NEILLS (based in Belfast & Strabane)

PRO-STAR??? (pretty sure they're British too)

X-Blades UK is a far cry from X-Blades Australia, the quality is poor, made in a little sweatshop not by X-Blades Australia. It will be gone soon if what I hear is correct.


Kooga, O'Neills, Samurai, Gilbert/Steeden and Genesis (Puma) all make very good kits and are UK based.

Kooga make replicas overseas and Gilbert/Steeden use China but the others make in the UK/Ireland too.

Ravensport are in Dewsbury. They make the Swinton and Hunslet kits aswel as bags of amateur kits.

They run a twitter account that's quite interesting and shows what they do from designing to sewing the kit, all in-house. Have a look at @RavensportUK

The current Puma replicas for Quins are very good. Well made and fully sublimated. A very comfortable set of jerseys.

I've got one of these.

Puma.

Made in Turkey.


Excellent quality.

I had a Quins one that used the same template but it didn't sit well across the shoulders.