Well done, Mystic Eddie, made me feel good reading your post..(where about's in Scotland do you reside? your not the person who lived in Glen Coe are you?) I only ask because I was born in Ballachulish, that's all.

Hey boss. Sadly not Glencoe! I reside in the "beautiful" borough of Alloa!

And thanks for your kind words.

Second this, Chris is a quality guy - had a very long and deep convo with him a few weeks back before ths Hull game and he really does have some great ideas for the shop and for merchandising, and seems like he wants the shop to be back to how it used to be many years ago now,

But just seems he doesnt get much support from people up at the club to get said merchandising underway even though in no doubt at all it would all make profit,

I think people need to rally round to express their feelings of the lack of stuff available in the shop so the shop is actually worth visiting again,

for example if you look at our shop and compare to the likes of the Hull FC online store its puts ours to shame



But back to Eddies main point this guy really is a great credit to the club went to great length to sort me out when i had issue after issue with my home shirt - top bloke

I don't know if it's the same bloke who was in the shop when I went to get my shirt yesterday (as I didn't get his name), but I must say that bloke was very helpful and friendly.

I started getting quite disillusioned with the shop under the previous regime, as the woman that used to be in there most of the time always seemed like she was annoyed someone had come in, and was in a permanent bad mood. The bloke who's been there when I went to get both my home and away shirt though was much better. If it's the same bloke, sounds like other people are getting the same good service.

The online shop is a shower of sh#te. Variable options are COMPLETELY wrong (size 7-11 shirts - surely these are socks) Lack of design and "brand" ideas.

Still a completely clueless bunch of muppets up there that kept their jobs IMO.

Think it's more a case of one our major creditors (owned by a ex shareholder) being the old clubs It provider. When they didn't get paid they took all the infrastructure back. New regime are having to do everything from scratch including website and online shop. Would hope that it will improve fairly rapidly now things are settling down.

It's not difficult to set up an online shop, and maintain it... Trust me, its my job!

I just hope you ordered about 2 sizes above what the Kooga shirts were sized at Eddie or you may be hitting your head against the wall in frustration come Tuesday!

I went up there yesterday and staff were friendly and helpful. Just making sure you try it on before buying though because I picked up a shirt with one arm longer than the other to start with! It might fit somebody in our fan base I guess, unless it was from the Giants template? Who knows.

Maybe you should give the club a ring and offer your services then?.

I have...

I got a small, was a small in Kooga as well.

You must have shrunk!

I took an XL in Kooga and in normal shirts I vary from XL to XXL. Whether the smaller shirts are on a par I cannot comment but the larger sizes are definitely smaller and the sleeves are a tighter fit and higher up the arm.

Just laid last years and this years shirts on top of each other both small, the ISC one is probably an cm wider.

I was a Large in Kooga. I have XL in these, but they're tighter on me than my L Kooga shirt (tried at the same time too, so not simply extra timber!)

There was plenty of criticism about certain issues on other threads. I started this to try and put a different perspective on things. The online shop IS lacking. Just a shame for you that I dealt with the shop on the telephone and found the service to be excellent.

I doubt it is the fault of Chris what stock the shop has but it seems to me that he is keen to offer the best service possible using the tools at his disposal.

Thanks BB.

I read that they were a smaller make than Kooga so I ordered a bigger one than last years medium shirt that was fine.

That said, I need to go on a diet anyway so if it IS a bit tight then it is more of an incentive to lose some beef!

As I said above, I can't comment on the smaller sizes but the XL shirts aren't comparable.

To anybody that has been in the shop lately, what new products are there?

To be honest there isn't a great deal in there other than a small selection of t shirts and the actual replica shirts. I assume we might see some coats/hoodies later in the season.

Laid ISC 3XL on top of Kooga XL; Kooga about 2 ins longer, 1 in wider, sleeves 2 ins longer. So I have a new shirt allegedly 2 sizes bigger but its actually smaller. You MUST try them on before buying.
As regards shop and Website, please lets remember that we almost lost the Club, that we were obviously late in setting up contracts for website and kit replica. Our credit was ZERO. We have a team playing each week ,which is surely the first priority. I cannot imagine that our new owners are deliberately holding back other improvements. We have less to spend than other Clubs and I trust them to optimise our resources as they think best.

No one 'up there' connected with the shop 'kept their jobs'. Chris, who is running the shop is doing an excellent job.

For what it's worth I found the new home shirt, size L to be a bit on the tight side and, in general, large [i:1eetzn54always[/i is just not going to give a fair comparison.

The last decent quality shirt I bought was the Jamie Langley testimonial shirt. The design wasn't everyone's cup of tea but it was well made and had some nice embroidery on it. I quite like the heavier shirt with embroidered badges but perhaps I'm in the minority because the newer shirts are mainly printed.

The last couple of Kooga shirts were really poor quality IMO but this seasons are a step back in the right direction.

I got a home shirt bought as a present with my name on the back in XL the size i usually wear (cant take back). Gonna have to by an XXXL in the away kit doing nothing for my self esteem.

Was it a present from the missus?