A red one?

*throws up in the bin at work at the thought of Wire in a Saints kit*

Dragons staying with ISC apparently.

Exactly, Halbro really are quite a step down considering the likes of Swinton have Errea which Wigan do as well.

Halbro are more suppliers to amateur sides, so it's probably a good match! O'Neils, Kukri, Macron are other suppliers we could go with I could go on but it will be cheap as chips for the club.

It is not even true, you are with Raging Bull on a one year deal, the only brand to make an offer after recent problems suffered by other suppliers.

Raging Bull are going to be using a mobile shop to pitch up outside home games (and some away I believe) and pay the club a royalty to stop themselves having hassle over payments as per Kooga x 2 and Under Armour.

raging bull??? that dosent make it any better... besides what happen with the salford-kit mess?

Its a parable
we lost money the previous Kit suppliers Kooga - UA . and it also restricted the options on casual wear ,
just as the owners ' big name signings ' didn't pay in results.
MK started out believing if he brought in big names & a ' big name kit supplier' that would make us a more successful club- overnight.
Now our recruitment is decidedly austere,with more rational ambitions . and the club may actually make money with Halbro and have more options on leisure wear to sell alongside.
I also suspect ISC, ERREA BLK wouldn't touch us with a bargepole.

Just how are Salford, even with a billionaire owner, in such a $@%t mess?

ISC won't come anywhere near a team if you cannot shift at least 8,000 shirts.

A) You have a deal with Raging Bull and not Halbro
B) You did not lose money, you did not pay the suppliers who took you to court and got CCJ's against you so in fact you only paid the amount you owed. MK ordered a silly amount of Under Armour shirts then remembered you dont have a shop so sold them out of boxes behind the bar.
C) You are correct that every brand worth it's salt turned down the chance to get involved and with Raging Bull being one of the only options the club accepted very strict payment terms and handed over the retail operation meaning they get a royalty on replica sales and not control their own merchandise.

It is a sad situation that your owner and management brought upon themselves.

Because he is a front for someone else and is working to a script. Anybody remember the Hotel in Liverpool he started to build before going bust and then another company finishing it off?

I would say from the fans point of view it is marginally better than Halbro



They ordered way too much gear from Under Armour and then could not pay for it leading to a Court order being served. They did the same with Kooga and were a couple of hours from having their shop at the Willow's emptied by Baliff's before someone paid the bill.

It is well documented about their failure to pay people and companies so we do not need to do it again on here.

Sad if true.

Could that be a reason London are moving away from Jako who seemed to own all retail at the Hive?

The owner of Barnet FC is the UK distributor of Jako. I am not sure the kit was the sole reason for moving but he would have certainly insisted they wear his kits whilst living in his stadium I would have thought.

Salford... the Faulty Towers of rugby league

Are they?
For me in living memory they are planning for the long term

It seems like they are chopping and changing players and coaches... is that planning for the long term?

Where have you heard this about Raging Bull, they sponsor one of our local amateur sides...says it all really.

Yes we are like Faulty Towers, MK is very Basil esque and Martin Vickers Manuel.

Your CEO told me.

They do supply Hemel Stags as well so your not the only pro team

To be fair no many casual RL or sports fan could tell you who the bigger brand between ISC and raging bull is. They both have very little presence in the UK

Agreed. Some people get very worked up over who is making their clubs kit.

For me, as long as the replica shirts are of a decent enough quality so fans aren't getting screwed over, it really doesn't matter who makes them. So it's all about the best deal for the club and which brings the most money in.

Obviously Salfords terrible management in the last few years is coming home to roost.

Correct. ISC is to Under Armour or Nike what A Nissan Sunny is to a Rolls Royce.

Surprised anyone can even remember the Nissan sunny, I thought that nightmare has been lost in history and scrapyards hahaha

I nust agree though, ISC isn't particularly great quality. Every year they do the hull shirts with a massive KC advert on the neck and it just peels off after a couple of months. They did one in 2011 which had the sponsors as sown on patches and the material was thicker, really liked that shirt but then they have all been, thin, glossy, cheap nylon ever since.

New Hull FC kit being launched on Friday, on sale Saturday, we are marketing the thing with the hashtag #V4Victory so I think we can say it is gonna be a V design, one of the few teams still with ISC it seems.

Fans always get screwed over with replica shirts and not just in RL.

How much do you think it costs to produce a screen printed 2 piece shirt, it certainly wont be above £10.

BUT, they are a great income stream for ALL clubs and if supporters didn't buy them, the clubs would need a different/new revenue stream.

I know we don't like to talk about the other code on here but, if you want a rip off shirt, an England RU shirt would be the thing to buy, although there may be a sale somewhere near you quite soon