New sponsor announced

[SHOREHAMST.com]

Please don’t let this happen - both home and away kits designed around a sponsor.

It’s the word ‘currency’... it’s too much.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Its a new kit. Some people will like it, some people wont.

 

[Dronfield Blade]

Just out of curiosity, who would be the “ideal/perfect” appease all sponsor? Because I doubt there is one.

Easy......



Just for the media meltdown and for us to be associated with knife/sword/katana related crimes. #SheffieldUnitedFansAreDisgrace

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

It’s what we do.

I’m already furious about the lack of quality signings in the next JTW

I’m not. It’s expected.

 

[BushBlade]

You'd be happy wearing a Wonga or 118-118 sponsored Blades shirt?

I wouldn’t. So I wouldn’t buy one. It’s not obligatory. I can live without having a current replica shirt, I don’t wear them to matches anyway. If I was that desperate to fit in with the rest of the fat bald 50 year olds I’d get a historic one instead.

 

[Blade58]

Please don’t let this happen - both home and away kits designed around a sponsor.View attachment 40657

It’s the word ‘currency’... it’s too much.

The whole band across the middle is too much

 

[blackydog]

I wouldn’t. So I wouldn’t buy one. It’s not obligatory. I can live without having a current replica shirt, I don’t wear them to matches anyway. If I was that desperate to fit in with the rest of the fat bald 50 year olds I’d get a historic one instead.

Amazing, I don't believe we've ever met!
I probably won't but my 11 year old will want one regardless.

 

[BushBlade]

Amazing, I don't believe we've ever met!
I probably won't but my 11 year old will want one regardless.

I’m the fat bald one not wearing a replica shirt. Personally, I’d get one for the kid because once you go down the route of looking at moral issues, you won’t want to buy him half of the stuff he wants (or she). Trainers made in sweat shops etc.

Kids are desperate to fit in with their mates and by making them stand out as the ‘kid with weird parents who won’t let him do owt’ you risk creating issues (like Vicar’s kids or copper’s kids that act up all the time to prove they’re one of the lads. When he or she gets older they can make their own minds up about things like that. If you put your foot down over every little thing they just end up seeing you as a bit of a prick and learn to ignore you, even about important things.

 

[blackydog]

I’m the fat bald one not wearing a replica shirt. Personally, I’d get one for the kid because once you go down the route of looking at moral issues, you won’t want to buy him half of the stuff he wants (or she). Trainers made in sweat shops etc.

Kids are desperate to fit in with their mates and by making them stand out as the ‘kid with weird parents who won’t let him do owt’ you risk creating issues (like Vicar’s kids or copper’s kids that act up all the time to prove they’re one of the lads. When he or she gets older they can make their own minds up about things like that. If you put your foot down over every little thing they just end up seeing you as a bit of a prick and learn to ignore you, even about important things.

My wife will probably buy it for his birthday anyway. (and the away one - gold and silver with Ramsdens across the front )

 

[YES Blade]

Because some people do care about endorsing companies that run buisness models that knowingly ruin peoples lives.

A pawnbroker is surely the result of someone ruining their life and not the cause? I don't see what the issue is, if someone needs to raise cash they will sell stuff whether that's at a pawnbroker, ebay or to a mate down the pub.

 

[blade too long]

thought ebay was the worlds biggest pawn broker

 

[S64 Blade]

Proper ‘gammon’ this, if true.

 

[Rodders]

At what point in the thread do I link the David Squires strip?

 

[AWetFlannel]

A pawnbroker is surely the result of someone ruining their life and not the cause? I don't see what the issue is, if someone needs to raise cash they will sell stuff whether that's at a pawnbroker, ebay or to a mate down the pub.

Wasn't referring to a pawnbrokers specifically, my comment was a response to a comment arguing that we shouldn't care about any sponsor.
Pawnbrokers, in my opinion, are not as bad as payday loans and gambling ect.

 

[YES Blade]

Wasn't referring to a pawnbrokers specifically, my comment was a response to a comment arguing that we shouldn't care about any sponsor.
Pawnbrokers, in my opinion, are not as bad as payday loans and gambling ect.

End of the day, gambling and payday loans are legal in this country, it's not up to SUFC to start any sort of campaigns.

I agree they aren't the best morally, however it's up to the individual to take responsibility for their own actions, no one is putting a good to anyone's head, it's our own choice whether we gamble or take out a payday loan.

 

[robbiez666]

Not exactly a great sponsor but they generally are horrific, one way or another.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Ramsden's? Who dat den? Harry Ramsden's chip shop? That's the only one I can think of.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Their fish isn't too bad.

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We'll get battered!

 

[Clarkey87]

Because some people do care about endorsing companies that run buisness models that knowingly ruin peoples lives.

I take that view and give you the unsustainable ‘business model’ that is a football club which ruins people’s lives......especially small/local business owners that are shafted when said clubs going into administration after spending money they haven’t got, or normal club staff that get sacked because of the failure of the club to adopt a sustainable operating model in pursuit of ‘glory’.

But many many people endorse those business models......

So that argument sounds double standards - a more of a pick and choose which companies to take then moral high ground over.

 

[Clarkey87]

A sponsor that has to pay a 7 figure sum for the privilege rather than a 6 figure. If we want to compete at the top end of the championship we need sponsors to be injecting millions not thousands into the Club.

I agree however, find one for the club and take the offer to them, because it isn’t as easy as that.

We’d all love a higher paying sponsor but people would still moan about the company, the company name, the nature of their business etc etc even if they offered us mega money to plaster their name on the shirt.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Quite liked Teletext holidays, me sen.

 

[Clarkey87]

You'd be happy wearing a Wonga or 118-118 sponsored Blades shirt?

Couldn’t care less if they were on the shirt to be fair.
What matters to me (and I suspect many others) is what’s happening on the pitch not what fills the sponsor slot on the shirt.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I take that view and give you the unsustainable ‘business model’ that is a football club which ruins people’s lives......especially small/local business owners that are shafted when said clubs going into administration after spending money they haven’t got, or normal club staff that get sacked because of the failure of the club to adopt a sustainable operating model in pursuit of ‘glory’.

But many many people endorse those business models......

So that argument sounds double standards - a more of a pick and choose which companies to take then moral high ground over.

Sorry, but that is a load of nonsense. I assume the business model you are referring to is the one which means clubs overstretch themselves and constantly risk going out of business. Except that football clubs hardly ever go into liquidation, unlike other types of business which have a horribly frequent tendency to go to the wall - and unlike football clubs, they are rarely saved, or if they are, it's often simply to asset strip. In fact a business doing well can be bought, merged, relocated, "consolidated", resulting in a loss of jobs at any time.
So actually employment at a football club, far from ruining lives - if you can use that term to describe redundancy - is probably more secure than elsewhere.
Any small business that has extended credit to anyone to the degree that its very existence is in jeopardy is a failure waiting to happen, let alone to a football club whose debts are usually common knowledge.
The suggestion that sponsorship by a questionable* company, for an institution that deliberately places itself at the heart of a community and involves itself with the development of young kids, is equal in morality to the normal running of a football club, is stretching the comparison beyond reason.

(* I'm not saying Ramsdens is a questionable company)

 

[blade.i.am]

Who is going to sponsor added time at the end of the game?

I’m having difficulty getting to sleep because I’m so excited about this one. Come on commercial team - pull yer finger out!

Dignitas?

 

[grafikhaus]

I don’t know why people whinge about the nature of the businesses who sponsor us. I couldn’t care less as long as they put decent money into the club. It’s what happens on the pitch that counts, not who is the shirt sponsor.

Just out of curiosity, who would be the “ideal/perfect” appease all sponsor? Because I doubt there is one.

Too true. Is it worse than 'Door Deals', 'Teletext Holidays' etc? So Ramsdens are meant to take money off 'poor people down on their luck'? That'd be 90% of PL teams with their fucking gambling ads. then.

Unitil Emirates or Jeep (Juventus) come knocking, we should be grateful that we can actually attract sponsors and not rely on a 'vanity project' chairman. Like Laver. Or Chansiri.

 

[Kev Gee]

who gives two fucks about the business nature of a sponsor?

Seriously get a grip.

Ive used Ramsdens for a few years to get my currency for holidays at the Doncaster branch.

Always got good service from them.

 

[GrayBlade]

I suspect that if we’re having a decent season come January, most Blades will be happy enough with these sponsors....if not they’ll be the crappiest of crap.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

That the Pawnbrokers that buy expensive jewellery for next to nothing, off folk who have taken a downturn in fortune?

That's bad

On the back of the collar it will say " *Representative APR 1325% ".

 

[mattbianco1]

who gives two fucks about the business nature of a sponsor?

Seriously get a grip.

Ive used Ramsdens for a few years to get my currency for holidays at the Doncaster branch.

Always got good service from them.

I used them when I found my nan's wedding ring. Funny story, I found it in her jewellery box that she keeps in the top of the wardrobe behind the duvet covers... that night I remember coincidentally trying the best heroin in the world

 

[Tezza1889]

This can only mean one thing......



Kit photos in the morning....