blueflag 386 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 No offence but it just screams "give us more of your money,". No doubt they be about 60 quid too But at least i will get a priority chance to buy one.. blah Not impressed by how cheesy and desperate the whole email is.. I will be honest, i was quite ok with Castore,if anything this absolute wet fish of a launch has put me right off them. Sound like a desperados Quote Dear Rangers Supporters, It is a huge privilege and honour for us to partner with Rangers Football Club. We want to take this opportunity before the official announcement to reach out directly to the most important people within this club and introduce ourselves.The first thing to say right from the very outset is that we are here for one very simple reason – to drive this club forward and help bring trophies back to Ibrox. Rangers is one of the most prestigious football clubs on the planet and the most successful club in the world; trophies belong here. These are not empty words - as the new kit and retail partner of the club, we are committed to adding value and contributing to Ranger’s next chapter of success.Firstly, through ensuring the players are wearing the highest quality kit in the league – Castore exists in a highly competitive market because we create products that are undisputedly superior to our competitors. We create fabrics that are lighter, more flexible and more durable than anything else in the market and work with the best manufacturing facilities in the world; we have complete confidence our products will enhance world class athletes. Sport at the very highest level often comes down to the smallest margins and we will do everything we can to give Rangers players an edge. As for the designs of our new Rangers kits, we’ll let you be the judge of those yourselves.Secondly, we want to sell more products to Rangers fans all over the world. In a clean break from how things have been done in the past, Rangers Football Club will benefit directly from every product we sell. The more we sell, the more money flows straight back into the club. Castore is a digitally native brand, already selling into over 60 countries worldwide and we will use our expertise to leverage Rangers global brand recognition. Rangers has one of the largest, most passionate and most international fan bases in the world. We will utilise our expertise to better serve these fans and in the process look to create a blueprint that can deliver long term financial benefits to the club. We also have incredibly exciting plans for the megastore which we will refurbish and reopen in the coming months. All of the great clubs of European football have stadium megastores befitting their status and Rangers will be no different. We will make the megastore one fans can be proud of and call their own.When we founded Castore four years ago it was with the desire of building a global brand. Not an easy goal to achieve but the idea of being content with anything less appeals to neither of us. In a past life, we both had ambitions of playing professional football ourselves – unfortunately neither of us had the talent to get to the top so instead we want to do something where we could genuinely challenge the very best. The sportswear market is one of the most competitive in the world and the desire to compete is what drives us. A small clique of American and German brands have dominated the global sportswear market for so long and we see no reason whatsoever why a British brand cannot disrupt the status quo. Our business has grown extremely rapidly since we started and we now have a group of very strong investors backing us, with very high expectations. Partnering with Rangers is a seminal milestone for us on our journey of building Castore into the brand we want it to be and we have absolutely no intention of stopping before we get there.We made the decision to enter the football market 12 months ago and our strategy is simple – to partner with clubs who have a deep history and heritage, a global fan base and the ability to win trophies. It is the final of these points which most excites us. We will partner with 3-5 leading clubs across Europe in the next 18 months and had a number of options available to us when choosing our first partner. Nobody came close to matching Rangers and we cannot wait to be part of the next chapter of success for this phenomenal football club.Castore is proud of our Liverpool roots and the city of Glasgow and Rangers as a club share many of the values which are important to us – resilience, a commitment to hard work, a desire to overcome the odds. Nothing worth having in life comes easy and success is earned. Our brand ethos which drives us every single day is Better Never Stops – this attitude represents both cities very well and it is this mindset which will underpin everything we do with Rangers in the coming years.We will shortly be launching the new kits for the 2020/21 season and are incredibly excited to unveil the designs to you all. An exclusive pre-order window will be offered for all MyGers members and we look forward to sharing more details soon.The final message we would like to leave you with is that we are not like any other kit partner you have had previously. We have built this business ourselves, from the ground up, brick by brick. It has taken sacrifice, pain and an immense amount of hard work to get us here. This is personal for us. We are fully aware of the expectations in partnering with this great club and are relishing the opportunity to make you proud. We know that talk is cheap but in the coming months and years our actions will demonstrate that we will not let this partnership be anything other than a success.Tom & Phil BeahonCastore Co-FoundersBetter Never Stops [\quote] 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueflag 386 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Really disappointed in this.. Like some shit joke.. Blah. Wish i had stayed asleep. Not even a glimpse at the strip, a pure selling mission for Castore (who?). The only surprising thing for me is they havnt quite yet worked out how they can just add the strips to the continuous credit card scheme 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,231 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Personally I couldn't give a toss about announcements I would be happy with a team that plays good football and wins the league . 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uilleam 5,966 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Gonzo79 said: Saw that earlier. Hope it's a Doncaster meets Luca Brazi style headline but expect it'll be a new kit announcement Your wish.... Edited May 17, 2020 by Uilleam 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 15,299 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, blueflag said: Really disappointed in this.. The email from Castore isn't the actual launch. Not sure what you expect from an announcement about a kit partnership, to be honest - it's never going to be anything out of the ordinary. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueflag 386 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said: The email from Castore isn't the actual launch. Not sure what you expect from an announcement about a kit partnership, to be honest - it's never going to be anything out of the ordinary. Im grouchy in the mornings anyway. But thought we may get to see the bloody things. Plus what exactly did they announce? The two Castore founder brothers just giving us empty words. Why do that shit at 7am on Sunday.. There words made me cringe. 4 year old British outfit had the financial clout to take on Nike and Adidas. (Aye okkkkkk) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 15,299 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Fair enough. From the Get Ready thing last night, it seems there'll be something to see at 9am. I think the email from Castore was just a precursor to the actual announcement (but I could be mistaken). We'll find out in eleven minutes... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 10,825 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 If John Eustace is finally signing... I. WILL. LOSE. MY. SH*T. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueflag 386 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said: Fair enough. From the Get Ready thing last night, it seems there'll be something to see at 9am. I think the email from Castore was just a precursor to the actual announcement (but I could be mistaken). We'll find out in eleven minutes... My reading of the email is I got it 2 hours early for paying my bloody monies and being a member of this new fantastic club that gets me a wee priority period at giving them more of my bloody monies. (However it appears Castore also published on there own website before it had even went live on Rangers.co.uk) Hope i'm wrong and we see Jardel in a Castore strip in 5 mins 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 10,825 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 The Launch is at 9:00 am, isn't it? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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