So you pay Macron £107,000 minimum this year, at £45 per shirt, you have to sell 2,400 shirts to make a profit? How many did you sell last year?

That's alot of shirts. May make a profit due to all the Macron range we sell.

I will all the kit we sell not just the shirts as shifty said, but still a huge total better than liquidation though

That includes all retail as well. We have to buy a minimum of 2500 shirts. Last year we sold around 1800?

1800 seems like a good number of shirts to have shifted, certainly more than I would have guessed at, Well done the club.

Does the 2,500 we have to buy include playing and training kit for the various teams

No that's on top of that

The original deal done by the previous regime was a real corker wasn't it, I bet the Macron rep got a promotion after ringing the bell on that one.

What will be done with the excess stock from last year? Have you considered a fire sale, like a couple of years back - happened in the belle vue car park and shirts were being sold off at a heavily discounted price.

Im sure some would argue that it may detract people from buying this years stock which I guess is a fair point., but this would at least ensure stock that the club have paid for is not sat gathering dust and cobwebs

Depends on the price i guess. If they are sold off at, say, a fiver then i doubt it would put anybody off buying a new shirt if thats their plan, they would probably just get the old one as an extra. If its much more than that then they probably just wouldn't bother with the old one. Anybody who comes down only for the five pound sell off probably has no intention of getting a £45 shirt anyway. Although all of a sudden you have them on site with money in their pockets and xmas coming up and a bit of hard sell...

I pretty much had that argument with myself when I posted.

However, if the people buying the discounted shirts would have no intention of buying the full price ones, then getting say £10 off them for two of last seasons shirt is better than getting nothing off them at all - If you get what Im saying.

As I have previously stated the point would only be to squeeze the last penny's out of the previous years stock. £500 from selling discounted shirts is better than them sitting in a stock room.

Or offer a 2014 shirt for a £10 with every 2015 shirt sold ((£45 spent)

Would still go a fiver. Two shirts for fifty quid sounds ok.

Haven't bought a shirt for a good few years, usually stick to training wear. But i'll get one this year, would be good to see a sneak peak soon if possible

As i've said previously i'm hoping the quality will be better this year and i'll get one. Otherwise it might well be the first time in the superleague era i skip it.

If you don't mind me nicking this thought, I think this has a lot of merit, and am giving it serious consideration