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According to the Herald Express the new shirt sponsor will be releases this week. Does anyone know of any company that may be the shirt sponsor. Also, why was 420 Skate store only given one year???

Perhaps they didn't want to renew. Maybe sponsoring us resulted in no increased business for them. Companies don't sponsor football clubs for benevolent reasons, it is done for business reasons.

Because they are funding a 'professional skating' team now they don't have the funds to renew at the same level as before leaving the club needing to try to retain or even better that level of sponsorship from elsewhere.

Would like to have Bays Brewery sponsor us... 420 Skatestore was the least embarrassing thing to be emblazoned across our shirts for a few years.

If your middle aged, fat with a beer gut and balding 420 skatestore is a pretty embarrasing thing to have wrapped across your man boobs.

MarkL wrote: ↑08 Jun 2017, 10:16 Would like to have Bays Brewery sponsor us... 420 Skatestore was the least embarrassing thing to be emblazoned across our shirts for a few years.

I wore my shirt at work for a particular event and a young Goth asked somebody else "Does he know he has 420 across his shirt?"!

Looks like it will be Nike

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 29871.aspx

Not liked (or bought) the last two home kits. So I'm hoping for an improvement on them... as long as it isn't an excuse to hike the price up!

Given what Nike did to the England kit I wouldn't hold my breathe that this is going to look good.
Probably be yellow with blue sleeves, yellow shorts, blue stockings.

Yeah Nike's templated designs are usually crap, actually there's a thread on the Reddit soccer subreddit right now discussing it. So I wouldn't expect anything good looking and it definitely won't be customised (although I doubt anyone seriously expected it would), especially given the fact that we're getting the kit from Pro Direct and not directly from Nike. Still it'll be a nice and slightly surreal situation to see the club lining up in a smart well known brand rather than Vandanel, TSG or all the other random companies we've dealt with. Will be very interesting to see whether shirt sales spike - although the club probably won't release that information.

I've been a vocal critic of GI over the past year and I'm still infinitely suspicious of what they're up to but this is another decent move from them in the pre-season, the club should have been working with Pro Direct long before now given their geographic links. It needs to have a strong and deep link with the few successful local companies if it is to be a success, if this is followed up with something like a shirt sponsorship deal with Bays Brewery then I'd be very happy.

SenorDingDong wrote: ↑09 Jun 2017, 13:34
I've been a vocal critic of GI over the past year and I'm still infinitely suspicious of what they're up to but this is another decent move from them in the pre-season, the club should have been working with Pro Direct long before now given their geographic links. It needs to have a strong and deep link with the few successful local companies if it is to be a success, if this is followed up with something like a shirt sponsorship deal with Bays Brewery then I'd be very happy.

Pro-Direct were approached a long time ago now and a deal was in place, but there was a long standing agreement with Vandenel at the time and a certain female chief executive scuppered the idea!

Well having Nike on the shirt is a positive , let's hope the cost of having Nike on the shirt doesn't cost the earth when buying the shirt

lucy6lucy wrote: ↑09 Jun 2017, 19:23 Well having Nike on the shirt is a positive , let's hope the cost of having Nike on the shirt doesn't cost the earth when buying the shirt

Can't imagine it costing much more than the current shirts, the price of a Torquay United shirt is already ridiculous and not much cheaper than EPL shirts.

I imagine the attached will be the new shirt?

Good God I hope not, that looks disgusting IMHO.