Castore

[WV10Wolf]

Were they templates? I don't recall other kits that looked the same.

I assume you can show me the West Germany template in different colours?

Boca Juniors and Cork City spring to mind.

Loads of countries and clubs had the Holland 88 template. Germany had it in a green away shirt. Porto had it in blue, Dortmund had it in yellow.

 

[WV10Wolf]

Believe it or not but some of us born in the borough actually did okay in life and spending £80 isn't a trade-off between buying a shirt or feeding the kids for a week

Good for you. There’s another quarter of a million people in the city though

 

[Deleted member 8455jwf]

I said that they would keep every penny of the £55 retail price. Not that they’d make £55 profit off every shirt.

Where do you think Addidas currently make their kits? Willenhall?

 

[Bill S Preston Esq.]

was very disappointed that Adidas didn’t bother making anything for the club shop different to the usually chavvy crap with weird logos and 157 colours

Surely could make some tasteful stuff but obviously decided there’s no market for it

How hard would it have been to add woven badges to the originals line. Would have sold like proverbial hotcakes.

An opportunity missed by Wolves and Adidas. Decent quality t-shirts, track suits and jackets that Adidas already make in black with gold stripes. Not ****ing difficult is it?

 

[WV10Wolf]

Where do you think Addidas currently make their kits? Willenhall?

Yes mate, little industrial estate on Clarke’s lane.

 

[Bill S Preston Esq.]

Boca Juniors and Cork City spring to mind.

Loads of countries and clubs had the Holland 88 template. Germany had it in a green away shirt. Porto had it in blue, Dortmund had it in yellow.

Well there you go. A good point, well made.

I love how the Cork City kit sprung to mind too. Because obviously Cork City are massive and everyone should know.

 

[Leominster_Wolf]

Well there you go. A good point, well made.

I love how the Cork City kit sprung to mind too. Because obviously Cork City are massive and everyone should know.

in fairness they've been in Europe more than us recently

And he probably remembers it from their epic victory on away goals over Cwmbran Town A.F.C. in the 93/94 Champions league preliminary round

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[Deleted member 11332]

Yes mate, little industrial estate on Clarke’s lane.

There isn't any.

 

[Stoichkov]

They do appear woven which is a huge step up imo.

are they? i thought they looked shiny and same as adidas ones - which completely put me off the training gear

how do you know and do you have pic to prove??

i don't know why but this is a make-or-break matter to me. if castore do nice clean designs and it's a woven badge, then my bank account is over

 

[WV10Wolf]

in fairness they've been in Europe more than us recently

And he probably remembers it from their epic victory on away goals over Cwmbran Town A.F.C. in the 93/94 Champions league preliminary round

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Cwmbran Town had quite the fall. They’re in the 5th tier of Welsh football now

 

[Stoichkov]

Seems a very interesting and exciting deal. Interesting that Castore have said they only wanted to be involved in a club that was going to challenge for European football. Would lead me to believe that they have been told we intend to have a good go at getting back into Europe from next season.

definitely - watch the video with our marketing chap, he's talking about challenging for top four - the big tease

 

[Bawtry Wolf]

From the looks of it it definitely appears a good business decision and fits into what’s written in the press release and in the statement following the ESL announcement, namely we’re looking to disrupt and do things differently.

Whilst we all love Wolves in the minds of the established kit suppliers we’re not anything special and therefore we get templates kit and don’t get the commercial benefits of selling merchandised clothing. Looking at this deal we get something unique (not sure how unique a football kit can be) and the ability to keep more money from what is sold to fans, plus greater range. If we are as successful as we want to be, clothing sales will increase and we can leverage the name Wolves for own benefit not for the benefit of Adidas or Nike.

 

[xbomber]

Third time lucky – home-made here we go - Wolves, Wolverhampton Wanderers Shirt Museum blog

Echoes from the past today following the announcement of a landmark agreement along the lines of a model more commonly seen across the pond in the US but which could just may make us the new Netflix. What does that mean? All shall be revealed below. The biggest kit partnership deal in the club's...

www.wolves-shirt-museum.co.uk

From a business strategy it's all about vertical integration. Take the likes of Netflix who were established at the end of the supply chain as a platform to distribute films and TV shows created by other content creators. They then procured and developed the ability to do it themselves, cutting out a dependency (and cost efficiencies) implicit when you partner up with another company. Or Amazon who started as a book re-seller and now own their own media production output. Or Apple Inc a few years ago who bought up the chip manufacturer that supplied them (and also affected their competitors). All very smart examples of business strategy...

 

[Stoichkov]

just putting it out there, if castore wanted to do something traditional but different.... how about all gold kit, shorts too.... always love it when we play in that

 

[Kashmire Hawker]

just putting it out there, if castore wanted to do something traditional but different.... how about all gold kit, shorts too.... always love it when we play in that

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A winning kit too, with THAT winner at Newcastle United away and Wembley v Spurs!

 

[Kashmire Hawker]

Ranger, McLaren, Lazio and now us; all in the space of less than a year, shows they really mean business.

Andy Murray is also a shareholder, so maybe that could open doors!

And so are the billionaire Issa brothers, who have about 11% in the company and recently brought Asda for several billion, after building up the EG Service Stations empire!

The corporate opportunities around this deal are simply unbelievable

 

[Stoichkov]

Hmmmmm no mention of us on the Castore website. Not very impressive

Premium Performance Sportswear | Castore Sportswear

Castore is the world's first premium sportswear brand, for the discerning athlete who values attention to detail & precision performance features.

castore.com

 

[Super Ted]

just putting it out there, if castore wanted to do something traditional but different.... how about all gold kit, shorts too.... always love it when we play in that

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This in the same style as the current Rangers Away or Third kits would be superb.

 

[Bawtry Wolf]

Bet they’re chuffed to bits about today’s announcement. I wonder how many phone calls have been made about the European ambition. I would be checking the contract clauses very carefully if I was them to see what get outs they have.

 

[clivewolves]

Vinny the marketing man thought today was his day to shine.

 

[Wandsworth Wolf]

Hmmmmm no mention of us on the Castore website. Not very impressive

Premium Performance Sportswear | Castore Sportswear

Castore is the world's first premium sportswear brand, for the discerning athlete who values attention to detail & precision performance features.

castore.com

Castore and Wolves team up to sign multi-year kit deal

Sportswear firm backed by billionaires makes first move into Premier League Castore sportswear has agreed a multi-year partnership with Premier League football side Wolves to become the club’s new on-field partner, in a landmark deal for both brands. The fast-growing British brand – which...

castore.com

 

[Stoichkov]

Castore and Wolves team up to sign multi-year kit deal

Sportswear firm backed by billionaires makes first move into Premier League Castore sportswear has agreed a multi-year partnership with Premier League football side Wolves to become the club’s new on-field partner, in a landmark deal for both brands. The fast-growing British brand – which...

castore.com

that's better - cheers

 

[Stoichkov]

interesting at end of castore website article - "Castore will partner with 5 leading clubs across Europe for the 2022/2023 season"

 

[Sheriff Woody]

interesting at end of castore website article - "Castore will partner with 5 leading clubs across Europe for the 2022/2023 season"

and Wolves.

 

[Finch3d]

So they are making the players and managers kit, and wolves making the stuff to sell in shop? Did I hear the interview right?

 

[marrs-guitar]

Certainly sounds like we're taking production of the Wolf Call aftershave in house. Maybe Jeff's set up a production lab in his garage....

 

[NewarkWolf]

definitely - watch the video with our marketing chap, he's talking about challenging for top four - the big tease

Haha of course we will...

 

[Tonesterwolf]

that's better - cheers

It is better but I'm a stickler for getting things right - no where in the article do they call us Wolverhampton Wanderers yet they then mention Glasgow Rangers (they are just called Rangers).

 

[Chris H]

It is better but I'm a stickler for getting things right - no where in the article do they call us Wolverhampton Wanderers yet they then mention Glasgow Rangers (they are just called Rangers).

To be fair, everyone knows who Wolves are. They probably added the Glasgow bit for people who don’t know who Rangers are or where they’re from!

 

[Bill S Preston Esq.]

are they? i thought they looked shiny and same as adidas ones - which completely put me off the training gear

how do you know and do you have pic to prove??

i don't know why but this is a make-or-break matter to me. if castore do nice clean designs and it's a woven badge, then my bank account is over

I don't know. I've deduced they're woven from some unclear black and white photos. I may be totally wrong. But **** it, I'm nailing my colours to the mast - so they're woven.

 

[el gringo]

A video just popped up on my social media about Castore and I started to watch it - it's 7 minutes long. Got bored of them talking about "fan experience", how much better their cloth is, and whatever the eff else. This on the day of the announcement of Nuno's departure. Seven minutes on shirts and a few social media lines on the future of the club. Lines that told us only one thing, AFAICT.

 

[SuperGran]

A video just popped up on my social media about Castore and I started to watch it - it's 7 minutes long. Got bored of them talking about "fan experience", how much better their cloth is, and whatever the eff else. This on the day of the announcement of Nuno's departure. Seven minutes on shirts and a few social media lines on the future of the club. Lines that told us only one thing, AFAICT.

Seems mad they released that on the same day it could have waited surely

 

[cowshed]

I did not realise Sir Andy Murray was involved with this company. Wolves are his English football club.

 

[Bob Wolf]

I did not realise Sir Andy Murray was involved with this company. Wolves are his English football club.

Well if the last 24 hours couldn’t have got more depressing

 

[Deleted member 11332]

interesting at end of castore website article - "Castore will partner with 5 leading clubs across Europe for the 2022/2023 season"

Us and Newcastle are 2. Take from that what you wish.

 

[OLDGOLD]

Cwmbran Town had quite the fall. They’re in the 5th tier of Welsh football now

Cwmbran down, the price is right.......

 

[Sheriff Woody]

Just bumping this up so the news of Castore is not lost amongst the Nuno angst.

I’ve seen loads of ********* on social media promoting brands and getting free stuff so I fully expect Wolves and Castore to send me their entire 21/22 range through the post.

Seriously though I’m pleased about this. The Castore stuff I’ve seen made for others looks great.

 

[Wandsworth Wolf]

I must admit, I’ve been pronouncing wrong all this time. Never realised the ‘e’ was silent.

I’ve always thought it was more Italian sounding: Castor-e or Casto-ey

 

[WV10Wolf]

Cwmbran down, the price is right.......

People need to remember this when the poll goes up for post of the year

 

[Deleted member 11157]

Will the fit be free and crispy or will it light up the moob holders like lamping rabbits. I will encouraged if they present a short with inner mesh gusset. Something sadly lacking in recent events and not at all favourable to keen swimmers or those that suffer from jock itch. Enquiring minds and all that ... Mmmmm