With the addition of the Gold Coast based Slamtown Ultimate Club (and rumours of a possible seventh team now starting to circulate) to the Brisbane Premier League, there’s likely to be some added impetus to the movement of a few players between teams, as well as the usual recruiting of new talent to the League.
Some teams are prepared for this, and have a few spare shirts in the Captain’s car, and good on them for their foresight. (Remember our mantra kids – chipping in a few extra dollars to ensure there are a few extra shirts adds value to your own shirt, as you’ll be able to use it for longer).
But one question that always comes up to us who think too much about the wrong things, is to wonder why there seems to be no second hand Ultimate shirt market (leaving aside the souvenir market – see Camby’s current ebay efforts).
Which is the answer? Why is there no second hand shirt market, particularly in the BPL?
1. Ultimate shirts are great and well designed and people want to keep them forever, even if they never use them. So they don’t sell them.
2. Ultimate shirts are cheap and players are wealthy, so nobody is interested in getting a second-hand one cheaply. At $50 new or say $20 second hand, there's not much price difference. So they won’t buy second hand.
3. Its generally not important enough that you have the right shirt. You just chug around in something of roughly the same colour until the team decides that everyone needs new shirts. So they don’t care.
Your thoughts welcome, readers!
ps if you are a cheap-arse and joining a new team this season, why not post a comment asking around to see if anyone will sell you a shirt?
pps we have an XL Plastic Scourgery shirt we'd be happy to sell to anyone, player or fan.
5 comments:
Sadly, one of the poorer posts on this once great blog. Shark-jumping, anyone?
Ahm, probably a bit rough Anon - It's a pretty fair question. The answer could be:
4. BPL teams evolve in such a way that they seek a specific identity. Donning shirts that have taken on a previous identity may rob players of their uniqueness. There might be a stigma associated with advertising the sale of defunct shirts - like being cocky or something.
All the same, if a 2nd hand market increased the viability of future teams in this great comp then I'm all for it. Jury come out.
And just gotta say Anonymous, if you can make a better blog about Brisbane Ultimate than this one, then go for it. That's not a gripe -it's a challenge. In fact I'll give you $2000 at the end of this year if you win the popularity contest over this blog. I don't like your odds though :).
JDR: I'll give you our winning gift voucher from last season for your scourgery shirt... (Think it's worth $30) and I'll stick it in the captain's car for new recruits. Sound fair? :-)
Stop trying to sell second hand scourgery shirts, I've still got 4 spares sat in my car that I had to pay for!!
$32 for anyone interested?
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