ian.birchall wrote:All you clowns are missing the real point. It is appalling that the club intend to change the shirt every year just like the money grabbers in the football world. Bring some sense of realism to the scene and stick with your old shirt, I'll stick with my JJB one from 2000.
Silly statement.
It's appalling that the club intend to remain profitable and not fall into administration by changing the shirt and obtaining my extra £42 every year. Shocking! How dare they try to keep Wigan RLFC afloat! Scurge of the RFL these money makers. It's a disgrace, and they should hang their head in shame!
If they sold 1 shirt per season ticket holder in 2011, they would've turned over in the region of £570'000. Now i dont know how much these shirts cost to make, ship and store, but I'm certain the club do not make more than 50% markup on them, so we'll knock 50% off, so we're down to £285'000 there. But we know that not every season ticket holder will buy a shirt, so let's take off 25% for argument sake £213'750. Looks mighty like a figure that would pay, just about, the overheads for Warriors World in GA alone. Then there's the match day outlet, rent for the stadium, upkeep of the stadium, staff, players, transport to and from away games/wembley/old trafford, doctors bill, hospital bills, maintenance of Orrell...
Yep, i'll keep buying the shirts thanks
Can understand your Logic.However I for one do not mind( as stated in my earlier post)refreshing my kit every few years as I know that the revenue is vital to our club but unfortunately due to the quite long distances travelled and the cost of fuel I am not in the position to keep renewing on a seasonal basis as I am sure in the current financial predicament most people are in the same position as myself.Just hope that we can retain the hoops though.
Although i don't buy one every year i think that they are good value really. The number of times I've worn the top as well as at the match mean it gets plenty of wear
Ondego YOU can forget 50% costs. Without knowing exact figures I would surmise 20-25% maximum.
RE Shirts. I have 1 Retro but when you reach a certain age IMO you start to look a bit strange wearing the playing shirt. I now tend to wear Wigan RLFC clothes. So again your clamour for everybody to buy a shirt is way too simplistic.
cpwigan wrote:Ondego YOU can forget 50% costs. Without knowing exact figures I would surmise 20-25% maximum.
RE Shirts. I have 1 Retro but when you reach a certain age IMO you start to look a bit strange wearing the playing shirt. I now tend to wear Wigan RLFC clothes. So again your clamour for everybody to buy a shirt is way too simplistic.
You are never to old to wear the famous Cherry&White of Wigan cp.Though I myself do own several items of attire that are not the Shirt.
