Next seasons kit

I reckon Chat GPT, Google Gemini and Meta AI could make us some good kits if someone typed to them to make a red Football shirt with Bapp For Bolts across the middle and Okon in the top corner.

 

Chat GTP came up with this

https://ibb.co/35kMwFbc

Can't find right option to embed so click on in will show you

 

Ok don't belittle Aldi middle aisle.
I got a lovely welding mask, solar powered sunglasses and a special limited edition meerkat feeder, all on special offer.
Made my day.

 

That's a pretty good effort apart from the club name on the badge being written in Hindi.

 

How much intelligent AI design software does it take to design a red shirt and white shorts?

 

I genuinely didn't notice that lol

 

Hoping we bring back the “Inter” away shirt this year…

 

Can you:

Change the colours to Internazionale blue and black?

Kit manufacturer logo to Oxen?

And the sponsor to Gleeson Homes?

Toby Tyke badge?

 

Can you remeber years when we played at Crystal Palace wearing a blue shirt with black stripes.The commentator said "Barnsley came on to the pitch looking like Inter Milan but played like Inter Flora"

 

It was 4-3 to Palace so that was harsh!

I think we’ve used those colours a lot so can’t see it happening, but I’d like it to. Or some kind of light blue like we’ve had in the past.

 

As Gordon Owen said, the trouble is teen supporters won’t buy it. Puma has a level of street cred, as does adidas, Nike and to some level, Castore. Oxen just doesn’t, it’s bargain bin stuff.

we had their kits last season for our Sunday league and honestly they’re terrible. They’re cheaply put together, can you all remember Prostar? The Sunday league king? Think that, but not as good. Yes I’m being serious.

I showed my young lad the new brand, and he said he’ll just wear the puma kits instead. It’s a massive backwards step this in terms of quality. I can only assume the mark up has drawn our rather brain dead club operators in. The oxen shirts will be manufactured for round about 9 quid, they’ll be custom designed and they’ll sell them for the same price as the puma attire.

 

would have loved if we went with Umbro. Never heard of this Oxen brand and not convinced by it

 

My preference would have been Castore - or Umbro Pro which is licensed to Castore now.

Adidas look great, but are a nightmare to deal with and get stock sorted.

I suspect the Oxen deal is to enable more flexibility about design and availability. As it stands, Puma have little flexibility in their supply chain.

I agree in regards the brand Oxen coming across as cheap (not saying it is), I’ve no ideas about quality either. But it’s a local supplier and gives the club more flexibility. So hopefully it works out.

Designs will already be done and signed off, so CH will have had minimal input if any at all. Tbf, it’s the least of his worries for next season.

 

Wow there are some entitled people on this thread!

We are tinpot if we have Oxen as kit supplier? Why? Because they’re based in Donny?

Are the multiple international rugby players they have partnered with, of both codes, tinpot? Including Courtney Lawes, Billy Vuniopola, Sam Tomkins? Kevin Sinfield has been doing defence training with the RFU wearing Oxen boots.

Is the England national rugby league team tinpot? Gloucester RUFC? Leeds Rhinos? Castleford Tigers? Huddersfield Giants?

Lincoln City? Doncaster Rovers? Shrewsbury Town? They had Oxen kits this season just finished. They’ve been supplying Donny and Lincoln for several seasons I believe.

This isn’t having a kit made by Red Flag or Koala.

They are a growing business with an increasingly bigger presence in top level sport.

Castore didn’t exist ten years ago and they are all of a sudden a big player - nobody questions them being all over football, cricket, F1. Yet both Newcastle and Villa dropped them due to poor quality - Villa publicly lambasting the kits sweat absorbing quality compared to others.

I really don’t see an issue if it is true we are going to Oxen. Obviously I know Donny fans - the quality is apparently pretty good. Only thing I’ve heard moaned about kit wise is that they had four kits out this season.

 

Agree.

I Think it will open up a more flexible supply chain which means we can do more and react to supply issues quicker than Puma.

Problem with the big boys (like Puma) is that we’re way down the priority list.

 

Don’t give a **** what the kit is, it’s only what’s in it that matters to me.

 

You’re missing the point massively here. You’re coming off a disastrous season, bad decisions galore. You’re trying to retain the interest of fans, especially the younger end. They’ll be practically begging for you to renew shortly, they’ll want the younger fans to buy shirts, training gear etc. Puma sells itself, in football you can throw their logo on a shirt and it’ll sell. This brand simply doesn’t have that ability and younger fans will have a level of snobbery about it and refuse to wear it/buy it.

puma shirt this season was 45 quid, o don’t bother with the kits but id pay that. Would I buy a kit made by a company I’ve never heard of for the same money? Absolutely not.

It’s like going to buy a Burberry tshirt and instead walking out with a Lonsdale one. Only you paid the exact same price for the Lonsdale one that the Burberry one was for sale at.

If these shirts are a lot cheaper than puma then great, I get it. If they try to mark them up at the same price which we all know they will, it’s a marketing disaster. The younger fan wants the bigger name brands, not cheap tacky unheard ones. It’s just the way it is.