New Kits

And new DVD so I can see how we have been playing ; )

as long as u don't go on holiday before March u will be ok

No. It's a new kit, but (going on previous seasons) there'll be just about enough to supply the first team for the start of the season.. The shop should have some by September.

agreed Kap would perfect commercial sense to launch a kit in May enabling fans to buy it for themslves or there kids for their summer hols rather than just get 250 in in the second week in September as per normal. Personally I think they could be struggling on a sponsor front

great time to launch a kit early august considering the season started week two of august as I said punters would buy the top to go on holiday in June and July

isn't it just typical charlton.look at high profile clubs launch there kit last game of the season shirt sales go through the roof enabling the manager to have more funds hardly rocket science

Easy, pro-star, we used to get a kit for our Sunday team every season, and they do a nice catalogue............. :-)

or should we not have negotiated a sponsor months ago......that would have more economical sense

Henry Irving, why are you such a wally?

It's all here

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa.htm

Rangers fans will believe anything won't they?

"The Scottish connection is evident in the clubs early choice of colours, which were initially described as "cardinal red and royal blue stripes" (ie hoops - vertical stripes did not appear until the 1880s). According to Tony Matthews, the dark red represented Hearts and the royal blue, Rangers."

Nuff said?

The champions of Scotland 51 times are Rangers, how many times have the green and white hoops won it?

Rangers were robbed of it this year and you know it!

So don't start me off or I might just have to come down there and sort you out!!!

I bet you weren't even there when we first sung Henry Irving, was you Ben?

[cite]Posted By: D_F_T[/cite]"The Scottish connection is evident in the clubs early choice of colours, which were initially described as "cardinal red and royal blue stripes" (ie hoops - vertical stripes did not appear until the 1880s). According to Tony Matthews, the dark red represented Hearts and the royal blue, Rangers."

Nuff said?

The champions of Scotland 51 times are Rangers, how many times have the green and white hoops won it?

Rangers were robbed of it this year and you know it!

So don't start me off or I might just have to come down there and sort you out!!!

I bet you weren't even there when we first sung Henry Irving, was you Ben?

Barca play in red and blue as a tribute to Palace and Real Madrid copied Leeds all white kit.

The Villa/Rangers/Hearts dates don't add up, there is no evidence given to back up what Tony Matthews, whoever he is, claims and you haven't explained why a team in Birmingham would choose to copy the colours of two teams that were only a year or so old that they most likely would never have heard of. (no tv, radio, no Scotish Cup or Scottish League). It's wishful thinking and that is all.

I think Celtic have won the league 42 times now to add to their European Cup. Rangers have won it 50.5 times not 51 as the first was shared with Dumbarton (The Sons actually had the better goal difference).

Dumbarton play in gold and black which "proves" that Wolves took their colours from them. I can't offer any proof for this but it's true because it says so on the internet (here) and they are 4 years younger.

I'm not as ancient as you DFT so wasn't meeting up for away trips in the late sixties/early 70s by my statue but my brother was. Hence I knew the chant long before I adpoted the name. You see, dates are quite important when you are trying to work out when and in what order things happened and which influenced the others.

Live, love, laugh and be happy/ Hail, Hail

[cite]Posted By: kimbo[/cite]If Charlton are unable to get a sponsor why not use the space on the shirts to give exposure to a charity, like they do at Barcelona?
Although a cynical friend of mine said that Barca have never had sponsorship on their shirts and by breaking tradition by advertising UNICEF they can now accept corporate sponsorship in the future.

I think some money, rather than none is a far better option at the moment.

If we don't go up this year then expect to see sponsors on the shorts and back of the shirts as well in 2009/10

[cite]Posted By: kimbo[/cite]If Charlton are unable to get a sponsor why not use the space on the shirts to give exposure to a charity, like they do at Barcelona?
Although a cynical friend of mine said that Barca have never had sponsorship on their shirts and by breaking tradition by advertising UNICEF they can now accept corporate sponsorship in the future.

I think Barca actually pay UNICEF to have the sponsor, think we're skint enough as it is.

isn't it just typical charlton.look at high profile clubs launch there kit last game of the season shirt sales go through the roof enabling the manager to have more funds hardly rocket science

Except that isn't the case. The kit manufacturer pays the club a vast sum and then makes all the money on sales. The only extra money the club would make would be the retail mark-up on shirts sold through the club shop. So if the shirt went on sale earlier and the club sold a total of say 3000 shirts in may, june and july (and I think that's a very generous estimate), then it would only add the huge amount of £30,000 - £45,000 to the transfer kitty.

The big clubs launch their kits early as the majority of sales are abroad and they therefore need the new kit shown on worldwide tv to let their "fans" know its out. It's different when the vast majority of your fans base is in the uk and the majority of your shirt sales are through your club shop. There's absolutely no guarantee that having a big name manufacturer would make any difference (e.g. did the villa and west ham kit get launched last day of the season? I don't think so,but they're both Umbro)