We're talking about a very very hypothetical situation here, folks. No need to get worked up. I find it v hard to believe that Bohs and especially O'Neills would be retarded enough to leaving themselves open to litigation from the Marley estate.
Maybe we should park the whole debate about image rights until it actually becomes an issue.
Different times. Different leadership. Lessons learned (the hard way).
TBWRA
I hope you do sell 3k of them! Or more. Best of luck with it. I think it's insane, but the league merchandising doing better is good for everyone.
I also assume you won't be sued for it, you have to assume the club did their due diligence.
What I question is YOUR logic for it, not the clubs. The 'they never said it was Marley' nonsense. And then the contractions that followed. As well as the usual jealousy rubbish. We've sold that many jerseys before, it's great! No jealousy needed
It's an echo back to the glory days of foot.ie - Drogheda/Shels/Fingal/Gretna/Bohs fans telling us their club is great and everyone else is bitter/jealous.
Thought we'd moved on from that lately, but evidently not.
Mon the Town!
Loi fan thinks that his club couldn't possibly do something that ridiculous or stupid......
Next time on The Greatest League in the World
A lot of amusing enough nonsense about a marketing ploy to flog a shirt that is unlikely ever to be worn on the pitch, not exactly the sort of existential stuff that Stu refers to above. ( The funniest one was from a Hoop who suggested that the shirt on a fuller figure would more than resemble the late and great Mr Barry White, positioned just under Mr Green.)
Over 1000 pre sold already apparently
Wait, what? How do ye plan on not wearing your away jersey?! In that case, why call it your away jersey?
Absolutely.
Until Ashbohs came charging along unfortunately...
I could see it making sense actually. Make a one-off jersey for a bit of promotion, then not actually wear it (e.g. if the rules above on what's not allowed on your jersey are correct). All good PR.
Don't recall too many Rovers fans on here denying their club was going belly-up when it was. Happy to be corrected though.
I'm sure I could have listed them and plenty other clubs too. Not sure why you're singling out Rovers. (Well...)
But I was mainly thinking of the fans of clubs who were getting into big financial trouble and refused to acknowledge it. Plus Gretna, because SuperGretna was gas.
Ky-Mani Marley approves...
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