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  1. 23 minutes ago, Agard Days Night said:

    Hoping this kit is a nice one. No central badge, no parasite betting company sponsor, no Comic Sans, no hashtags. And out in the club shop ready for purchase in time for caravan holiday in late July. Fingers and toes crossed!

    I posted this previously, seems an apt post to include again:

    New kit bingo goes as follows:

    1) I don’t like the shade of red

    2) I prefer a proper collar cause it looks well smart when I wear it out on the town innit

    3) I don’t like the badge position

    4) I don’t like the sponsor

    5) I never buy the kit anyway

    6) It looks cheap

    7) It looks tacky

    8. I like it

    9) I don’t like it

    10) Modern kits look crap in XXXXXL

    11) I can’t believe they’ve run out of the 3rd goalkeeper kit socks

     

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  2. 9 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

    I think this is what people don’t realise - if you take the cost of rent, rates etc even before staff costs for most retail areas it isn’t viable for a business like City/Bristol Sport

    https://shopproperty.co.uk/PropertySearch.aspx?Region=SouthWest&Tenure=Leasehold&SortBy=Highest Price&Page=4

    This is a search of retail properties to rent in the South West. For City to have a unit in Broadwalk is £50k (plus rates, heat, light, staff) before we start. There is no way BCFC are making the £4K a week it needs to make such a unit viable - and that’s not in prime retail location.

    If you take another example, Villa closed their shop on Broad Street for similar metrics.

    The talk of a “centre” location is nonsense. Yes, we need a better shop/range - but it needs to be in the wider AG estate when redeveloped 

    Agreed, they would be better off selling shirts or whatever in agreement with another retail store and save themselves the hassle and costs of running a shop

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  3. 21 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

    I would suggest the shop hasn't been any good since we had that Portakabin one behind the Grandstand, a proper Tardis in there

    I remember going there in my first season 89/90 as a 10 year old, and it was like being on the terraces, you just had to squeeze into the shop and you sort of got moved around by the crowd without moving your feet!  

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  4. Surely by now there has been some analysis done on how much food and drink is sold on a match day, including how often they sell out, and therefore they can adequately stock all of the outlets based on the expected crowd?  

    I’d also have communication channels with the outlets open at all times (I assume there is somebody in charge of the outlets?) so they can talk to each other and if stocks are running low in one, they can share stock with each other to keep sales going.  

    It’s not rocket science but it’s always seems to be the same.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

    It seems a bit strange that Bristol Sport do not have a Superstore in town. You could buy match tickets make club enquirers and sell lots of shit too! Player appearances would be great and little charitable events and any amount of community out reach. 
     

    I think we are still restricted even now with a small town small club culture and attitude. The place only needs to pay for itself any profit really is a bonus. 

    They had a pop up shop in cabots at Christmas a few years back, I guess rental for a shop in town will be very high so might not be worth it?

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  6. 11 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

    The madness of having three teams stuff in one shop is crazy. The whole space in the shop needs to be Bristol City end off. I am sorry to the rugby and basketball but you can bog off elsewhere. 

    During the week when no games on I can’t see an issue with all 3 teams merch out, but on match days for City have all City stuff and match days for Rugby have all rugby stuff, wouldnt take that much effort to sort out surely

  7. 39 minutes ago, tin said:

    Our club shop has been a joke IMO, possibly since we dumped Adidas.

    My first child arrived in 2020 and I was surprised to see they didn’t offer babygrows. I dug a little deeper and saw there was next to nothing for kids. 

    Agreed, my daughter was born March 2020 and I had to buy a ‘City Born and Bred’ baby grow from some eBay site as City had nothing much apart from the mini kit, which is crazy really as there’s so much stuff they could stock including clothes, baby bottles, plates and bowls, dummies, bibs, which I’m sure would be a popular range for those with kids or those buying for new parents etc

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  8. 3 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

    Having led the moans about the rewards offer ending on Friday instead of yesterday, I ended up not going in there. The queues before and after the game were so long I thought I couldn't be bothered to get in and probably find that my £10 off didn't extend to a stationery set for my granddaughter.

    I agree that the choice is poor and the shop is the least fit for purpose part of the stadium redesign.

    If the club want to do it properly and serve the men and women's teams in football and rugby and the flyers, they should  look  to rent the space that is vacant in the retail park, or open plan the bar, coffee shop and retail shop to create a space similar to those branded American bars. It worked for Hard Rock and others, so why not?

    I was chatting to a friend last week who was in America recently and in the same arena he watched an ice hockey team, and the next day two different basketball teams who played one game in the afternoon and the other team played in the evening, and he said the stadium including the shop completely changed stock and branding depending on which of the 3 teams was playing.  He even went in to buy some merchandise for the ice hockey team when one of the basketball teams was playing and they said come back when they play!

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  9. 12 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

    No. They planted then and they sprouted organically. #Sark

    Quite agree with you though, come up with a shit design, pay to get the thing made and then wear it, get photographed in and and then roundly mocked.

    Not exactly Paris Fashion Week.

    Sure a few years back, someone make some "City as ****" tshirts and the club took the decision to ban those sporting that particular legend from the stadium.

    I wasn’t sure if the t shirt was being made and sold somewhere, glad to hear they are not!

  10. 2 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

    Saw these guys at HT in the South Stand and thought, "Wow, the marketing team are really going down the controversial content route" :)

    IMG_20220430_155059__01.jpg

    Did they get them made?  Embarrassing!

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  11. 3 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

    I’ve been on a lovely trip this morning with my wife and daughter around the centre, we got the train from Parkway to Temple Meads, then the ferry around the docks to the centre, what a beautiful place we live in!.  
     

    Anyway, when we got to the centre I saw a lot of the Hull City players taking a stroll around the docks and I must say they looked way too relaxed, like they are already on the beach relaxed I’m talking, so I deduced that we will spank them 3-0 guaranteed!  

    fortune teller witch GIF by HelloGiggles

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  12. I’ve been on a lovely trip this morning with my wife and daughter around the centre, we got the train from Parkway to Temple Meads, then the ferry around the docks to the centre, what a beautiful place we live in!.  
     

    Anyway, when we got to the centre I saw a lot of the Hull City players taking a stroll around the docks and I must say they looked way too relaxed, like they are already on the beach relaxed I’m talking, so I deduced that we will spank them 3-0 guaranteed!  

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  13. 2 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

    IMO this is a key reason (along with COVID) for our present predicament. NP is addressing this - he doesn’t sign players for fun, is recruiting carefully without splashing too much out and blooding the youngsters. As has been discussed on here many times LJ and MA collected players like they were going out of fashion, which incidentally many of them did! 

    I wonder if NP has blooded a few youngsters with the sole purpose of giving them some games on their CV to help increase there value for sale.

    Wenger did this at Arsenal for many years, playing youth team players in the cups and early euro stages who are never going to be considered first team regulars, but they then have games on the CV and can get sold at more than they are probably worth because of it.

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  14. 9 hours ago, petehinton said:

    League one and two promos are absolutely mad. 90 points might not be enough for 2nd in league one. 
     

    This is all still set up for rovers to miss out on automatics on GD too. 

    Rovers GD is worse than all the other teams involved which could be crucial, fingers crossed it is! ?

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  15. 1 hour ago, RedRock said:

    Saw that Richard Scudamore was with SL yesterday.

    That would be a good appointment as Executive Chairman, to help share the burden with Jon. 

    Family Lansdown - Scudamore - Gould - Pearson. Not a bad off- the -field set up. Almost Premier League I’d say. 

    Just need to tweak the coaching with a bit of top quality/experience and sort the recruitment out. Then, with the infrastructure we have in place, there would be few better positioned Clubs in the Championship.

    Merely the players to sort then, aside from FFP.

     

     

    Easy!

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