To be fair it is a bit naughty, you'd be a bit peed off if you'd just kitted out the family 2 hours before. I assume it was planned so why not advertise it beforehand. It's not good business to pee off your customers. My wife bought a shirt beforehand, if we'd heard the announcement we would probably bought another and took the original back!

Appalling way to do business the least we should expect is an apology to the fans who bought goods before the game. Why was there a panic to turn over money today? Shocking karma after a fantastic result. Does anyone think the attendance was accurate today.

Yes. I was stood in the middle of the popular side with plenty of space around me. I arrived with five minutes to go before kick off and immediately texted a friend to say the crowd was going to be embarrassing. And it was. We're only 50% higher than Huddersfield, which frankly is appalling.

^Agree^

Game which could be close and high scoring and "fans" cba tuning up, the 10k fans we always get seem like a pipe dream now. I made the effort from bolton and i was on call so i risked it just so i could be there, so unless 5k people had to go to work i really (doubt it), Hulls kr didnt bring truck loads but its not up to them to help us sell out

I'm hopeful that Kate Hardcastle has some ideas on how to market the club and hopefully boost the crowds. Perhaps the positive is we're getting an ok crowd with very little marketing in evidence.

Fwiw, for all that the 10,000+ crowds of the past few years were probably inflated above the actual figure (due to all season ticket holders being counted) the spaces between people on the pop' side were very marked yesterday. It's a long time since I've seen it like that. Something else is happening here.

That's how I feel but just can't put my finger on it. Strange thing is something's definitely right with the squad performing as it is.

The club has finally got the some ISC leisure wear in, went in after getting my Leeds tickets, the shop was full of boxs, should be on sale tomorrow.

Might explain the 25% discount on Sunday.

Seems highly-probable?

In which case, all they had to do was limit the discount to the stuff being superseded...? The discontent has been about the premature discounting of replica shirts.

MMmm, sure I mentioned something like that [icould[/i be the reason

Just announced on Twitter from the retail manager at the shop that all new training gear, hoodies, tracksuits etc are on sale now. Should be online soon. Some of the gear looks great!

Have you seen the price of it £37 for a polo shirt is really steep, I hope they're not putting up prices in the hope of filling sum of the gap from ticket sales. I'm not sure there going to flying off the shelves at that price.

£51.99 for a hoodie

Are they Ralph Lauren?

For that price they better be...but being serious

Lets take the Rhinos kit as a comparison, they use ISC the same as us

Their Polo shirts are £23 and we're charging £37
Their Hoodies are £35 and we're charging £51

I like buying the club polo's etc but thats taking the p&ss and i won't be buying at that price

I brought 1 baby grow(£9) and 1 baby bib(£6.50) on Sunday(before ko) which I thought was very steap for what they are!! I'm happy to help put some money in the tills and want to buy some of the new gear but the mark-up is ridiculous!!

Hmm.

Based solely on what has been posted, I suspect another marketing own goal may be in the offing here?



Been involved in marketing for years, but WTF do I know, eh? But, had it been me and had I been seeking to charge über-premium prices for leisurewear, I would have said something like "from this sale, £x will go straight to funding the Bulls academy. Buy this hoodie/polo shirt/tee shirt/whateveer and you will be directly helping to build our stars of the future." Assuming that such a statement was the truth, and assuming £x was quite a significant number, I personally would have been quite happy to "do my bit" with several items - also assuming of course that the kit in question comes in XXXXXXXL...



But I fear they might have shot themselves in the foot again here. Who are they listening to?

Adey aren't the Club looking for a volunteer Company Accountant? Right up your street this one, suprised you haven't been head hunted by them, or is your penchant for asking awkward questions making you a no no? I think TT with his behind the scenes influence can make this position yours!

ISC are an Australian company and the deal will have been done 6 months ago when the Aus $ to the pound was not very good value. If we were to sell shirts etc at those prices we would loose a fortune.

I will be happy to pay as long as its going to the club and supporting them. Dont forget we almost didnt have a club to support and we all wanted decent gear.

I agree to a point

The club need fans coming through the gates and buying merchandise. The problem with these prices are that I think they've priced themselves out of a fair few sales, £37.50 is a lot of money for a polyester polo shirt. From memory this is at least a £10 increase from last years prices.

The fans have already put money into the club (£500,000) and we continue to do so when we buy tickets, attend the events and buy food/drink. The club have got to be careful to tread a fine line between trying to get every penny out of fans and pricing them out of buying things.

As I said, in previous seasons i probably bought 2 hoodies & 2 polo shirts every year. At this price i just can't justify that, over £50 for a hoody is just plain robbery

Going a little OT here but didn't anyone receive a Bulls Lotto letter through the post? I say letter, I just got a single A4 application in an envelope with no explanation of what I was signing up for. I assume this was a clerical error? I've since had a read up online about the new lotto but it seemed a bit odd sending an application form without any information.

Maybe if the merchandise didnt have Omar Khans embroided into most of the stuff it might of been a slight bit cheaper,

dont get me wrong i appreciate a great deal what the guy has done for the club.............

but i just think the omar khans logo spoils alot of the stuff in the shop for example the tracksuit tops, and i would of been happy to pay £55 for a hoody they have but it just puts me off, as it has quite a few other people so ive heard

Also have some Authentic playing shirts now in stock for £75 a pop

you can really tell the difference in quality but not worth the extra £30 to wear asa supporter IMO

At least steve will be happy. Sure he will be first in line to buy one