deeps Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Worse barca kit ever!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 That Barca kit is proper minging like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 however prior to Villa having their kit made by Nike you could not get a Villa shirt in NZ or Australia from a high street store. Well you could in Melbourne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 getting OT - the barca one has been revealed a while, along with the away shirt and nikes training range top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 getting OT - the barca one has been revealed a while, along with the away shirt and nikes training range top Am I the only one who thinks it looks like they were made on Clipart fill effects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Ha nope, I thought the exact same thing, we used to use those gradient effects when I was in school back in the 90's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I share your desire for AVFC to be a global brand and for our shirts to be sold in every corner of the globe. But I live in Leicester and walk into my local JJB and Soccer Sports and can find maybe 4 tucked away home Villa shirts. The fact is, big teams have their shirts in shops because they win games, floating around mid to lower table we won't be a global brand for a very long time. This may be the case to some extent, however prior to Villa having their kit made by Nike you could not get a Villa shirt in NZ or Australia from a high street store. As soon as Villa kits were by Nike they were found in stores right next to Barcelona, Man United and Arsenal Nike shirts. This had nothing to with winning games and all to do with distribution and sales agreements. I doubt I will ever see a Villa shirt made by Macron for sale in a high street store in this part of the world. I live in Dubai where we're not exactly starved of a Nike store or two. I can categorically state that I have never seen a Villa top for sale in any of those stores - or any of the major sports store in the entire UAe in the last 4 years. Nike did Jack Shit for us on a global scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 In Korea I have never seen a Villa shirt for sale but have seen two Koreans wearing them. I have however seen an abundance of the Nike warm up jackets which the local Nike store began stocking. Saw a few people wearing them although the majority didn't realise they were anything to do with football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I was actually thinking Clarisworks 3.0 gradient tool for the Barca kit. Same thing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiVillain Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 however prior to Villa having their kit made by Nike you could not get a Villa shirt in NZ or Australia from a high street store. Well you could in Melbourne. Prior to Nike the kit was by Hummel and I quite liked the 04/05 & 05/06 shirts, but I sure couldn't find a Villa shirt in Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane at that time, and I was travelling to Australia frequently back then. Lets make this clear....I am not pro Nike but I am pro a global brand such as Nike, Puma or Adidas because they will get better distribution and therefore Villa's profile will be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 So out of the 4 recent VT posters (on this page or the last) that live abroad; 3 have rarely, if ever, seen one of our Nike kits in a local shop, whereas 1 has? I'd rather be Macron's main English club, gaining all their focus, than one of Nike's little clubs that they don't care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I did see a good selection of our Nike kits (home and away in a variety of sizes) in a sports shop in Florence a couple years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 No no no, you don't count Gareth... you live in England. Don't squiff the 25% stat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I am known in certain Basingstoke circles as the midnight squiffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Edit: Wrong thread. Curse you, multiple tabs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I've lived in Kent for 20 years now and NEVER seen a Villa kit made by any manufacturer in ANY sport shop, Nike or otherwise. The arguement that Nike give us bigger "global appeal" is quite simply bollocks. Liverpool, Man Utds global profile is down to the fact that they are the two most succesful teams in the county. Do you wander into JJB and see any Sporting Gijon (HeeHon) kits? No. Why? Because nobody gives a **** about Sporting HeeHon. They care about Real Madrid and Barcalona. Why? Becuase they are the most successful teams in Spain. So the sad, and seemingly difficult lesson for us to note is..... Nobody in Asia, the Middle East, Antartica or anywhere else gives a **** about Aston Villa. (apart from the collection of global miss fits and perverts that grace Villa Talk of course - and FWIW I love each and everyone of you.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I've lived in Kent for 20 years now and NEVER seen a Villa kit made by any manufacturer in ANY sport shop, Nike or otherwise.Same here. What annoys me though is that I've often seen Newcastle shirts down here! In fact, I've known a fair few people who support Newcastle down here. Why are they so popular? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I've lived in Kent for 20 years now and NEVER seen a Villa kit made by any manufacturer in ANY sport shop, Nike or otherwise. The arguement that Nike give us bigger "global appeal" is quite simply bollocks. Liverpool, Man Utds global profile is down to the fact that they are the two most succesful teams in the county. Do you wander into JJB and see any Sporting Gijon (HeeHon) kits? No. Why? Because nobody gives a **** about Sporting HeeHon. They care about Real Madrid and Barcalona. Why? Becuase they are the most successful teams in Spain. So the sad, and seemingly difficult lesson for us to note is..... Nobody in Asia, the Middle East, Antartica or anywhere else gives a **** about Aston Villa. (apart from the collection of global miss fits and perverts that grace Villa Talk of course - and FWIW I love each and everyone of you.) Exactly. Shops of any kind don't stock items in the hope that they'll give those products more exposure, they stock them because they believe the products will sell. Regardless of who makes our kit, if any sports store across the globe believes they are going to make a profit by selling our kit, they'll stock it. Truth is however, apart from a few expats, no one gives a hoot about our beloved team. If we started to play well, entertain and win things then that would quickly change. With our current setup however, the kits could be made by Hugo Boss and cost a tenner and it still wouldn't be popular. You're lucky to find a stockist outside of the West Midlands, let alone in Asia or the Middle East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Woops. Delete this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parisvilla Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Bizarrely I saw some of our Nike training gear in a sports store in Budapest a couple of years ago. Didn't appear to be selling particularly well mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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