New Kit 16/17

[ChorleyRam]

This might not be the best timing to ask after yesterday but has anyone else heard the rumour that we're going back to Adidas next year?

[AshfieldRam]

Nope? I thought it was another year with Umbro

if it is Adidas I hope it's the new template with the stripes under arm 

[CornwallRam]

The deal with GLD who supply both Kappa and Umbro runs until next season. It's possible that GLD have signed an agreement with Adidas. However, I heard from a pretty reliable source that Mel was reviewing all the ongoing supply contracts - catering, merchandise etc. It is quite possible that Mel has done a deal to get out of the GLD contract a year early. Let's see what happens.

[Uptherams]

Apparently our next shirt sponsor is going to be a bottling plant.

[Ahjames08]

God hope so, putting on an Umbro kit is not very motivating. 

[Tamworthram]

On 5/15/2016 at 15:19, Uptherams said:

Apparently our next shirt sponsor is going to be a bottling plant.

Hilarious. Well done.

[SIWY]

On 15/05/2016 at 13:44, CornwallRam said:

The deal with GLD who supply both Kappa and Umbro runs until next season. It's possible that GLD have signed an agreement with Adidas. However, I heard from a pretty reliable source that Mel was reviewing all the ongoing supply contracts - catering, merchandise etc. It is quite possible that Mel has done a deal to get out of the GLD contract a year early. Let's see what happens.

Am I right in thinking that under the current contract Derby rent out the club shop to Umbro and don't make profit on shirt sales (or something along those lines). If so I could see Mel trying to get out of that contract. 

[CornwallRam]

59 minutes ago, SIWY said:

Am I right in thinking that under the current contract Derby rent out the club shop to Umbro and don't make profit on shirt sales (or something along those lines). If so I could see Mel trying to get out of that contract. 

I don't think anyone outside the club and GLD actually knows the details. GLD run the shop, but quite how the payments work, I wouldn't have a clue. whatever, it's a pretty lacklustre operation.

I got a snippet of info from about the catering deal from Sam Rush once. Apparently Delaware have to pay more when our attendances go over a certain level. I would doubt that it's just a single phase, so I'd imagine that keeping the attendances up is pretty important to keeping the cash flow ticking over.