What!!!!!

They also sell 5000 shirts a year and without the money from those shirts and merchandise they would struggle massively due to the fact they have a high street store with rent/rates of £20,000 a year plus half a dozen full time staff

Bit of a daft comparison. At least compare to a club who sell like for like merchandise amounts.

So will ask the question again. Why does it matter that the shirt is not launched before Xmas? Those that will wear the shirt will still buy it irrelevant of when it is available, would the club sell anymore in total if it was free to buy now? Doubtful.
the measure of hull KR will be this time next year if they didn't bounce straight back to super league.

Mickey don't go into marketing.

I agree wholeheartedly that the club ought to have the kit on sale before Christmas. However the finances of the club ain't there yet and quite frankly we're only able to have this debate because someone else has ensured the club exists in the first place.

The reality is at the moment we don't have enough fans to worry too much about it.

I always moan about the Christams Shirt or lack of one there of, but, the Missus generally gets it in April for my Birthday, so I guess there is a truth that those of us who are gonna buy it, do so anyways.

Apart from the obvious money making side of it, I can't see why we have to have a new strip every year anyway. Why not stick with what you like?

Change of sponsors maybe

Could stick with same design just different sponsor on it

Something tells me I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered !


Quick answer no, but I have a polo shirt and a T shirt from the 2016 range. Other family members have 'em though. The younger more athletic looking ones. - think I'm probably a bit past wearing a replica shirt. If they were available for next season then they'd most likely get one from St Nick.

Point I've been trying to make is that one, folk are a bit more loose with the purse strings around Christmas, that shirt could turn into a scarf , hat or hoody too - 'go on it's Christmas.!' So that £45 - £50 spend could end up as £60,£70 or more! And that two, every other sports team does an extra marketing push at Christmas, special new ranges etc. - West Ham even sent me a special Christmas tat catalogue, a 'tatalogue' if you will! If everyone else is doing it then they must be earning out of it? Right? So why don't London Broncos ? The club can't be making much money at the moment, what a couple of hundred ST's sold.

That's it, I've no more to say on the subject - I just reckon the club have missed out on the chance of an earner. Happy Christmas!

Something tells me I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered but I'm sat here waiting on a courier and so I've nowt better to do.

Quick answer, me personally no. The younger, more athletic looking members of the family yes. I have a polo and t shirt from the 2016 range. Size XL, in case you were wondering.

The point I've been trying to make is that at this time of year people are a bit looser than usual with the purse strings - that £50 shirt could also become a £10 for a hat, or a scarf or something else couldn't it? 'Go on it's Christmas'! If every other sports team does a promotion in the run up to Christmas (you can see all the nice - and some not so nice new shirts for 2017 on the VT ) why doesn't London? For heavens sake I even received a special catalogue of Christmas tat, a 'tatalogue' if you will from West Ham! Presumably other RL clubs get themselves set for Christmas because they get in a nice bit of wedge from the punters before the first ball has even been kicked!
Surely it's not as if the club couldn't do with the money is it? Couple of hundred STs sold, and probably a lot of them the Bronze £99 type ( guilty as charged, wasn't going to bother but what's a hundred quid ?). Not going to go very far is it?

Anyway, that's it, I'm saying no more - I'm not going to turn into GF, no matter how hard you try!



Happy Christmas!