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Title: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: justnotcricket86 on July 18, 2013, 08:55:31 PM
For this interested, the good guys at Barringtons are now stocking Spartan!

Known about this for a couple of months but didn't realise he was going to pull it off.

So that makes just Romida and Barringtons I think? Unless I have missed something glaringly obvious

Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: fros23 on July 18, 2013, 08:57:02 PM
All rounder up in Leeds had Spartan gear in when I went in a couple of weeks ago
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: justnotcricket86 on July 18, 2013, 09:01:16 PM
Thought I was missing one! What did you make of the sticks mate?
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: Abighugeappl on July 18, 2013, 09:20:43 PM
Cricket Hockey also have Spartan
http://www.cricket-hockey.com/shop/section/633/1/spartan-cricket-bats/8e1cc9a319ea7a12485c8293c5b33165 (http://www.cricket-hockey.com/shop/section/633/1/spartan-cricket-bats/8e1cc9a319ea7a12485c8293c5b33165)
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: justnotcricket86 on July 18, 2013, 09:31:17 PM
Told you I was missing some people....they were the first 2 off the top of my head though
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: joeljonno on July 18, 2013, 09:38:50 PM
Thought I was missing one! What did you make of the sticks mate?

I was at Allrounder when they were unpacking their first load. There was the Clarke and Prior ones. Picked up a few, nice but nothing special. There was one 20 grainer but the rest around 6-10. Pick up and balance seemed alright.

I thought it was odd that the two different bats had (to my eye) the same profile and shape.
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: yvk3103 on July 18, 2013, 09:46:31 PM
My first impressions of Spartan bats - RUBBISH.

Very poor quality and you can get better bats at 1/10th the price from alleys in Meerut and Sialkot.

The will be luck if they survive half the time BoomBoom and Woodworm did.
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: justnotcricket86 on July 18, 2013, 09:47:36 PM
Hell of a lot more money behind Spartan though mate.
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: yvk3103 on July 18, 2013, 09:48:12 PM
BTW, UziSports also have Spartan (i think)
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: joeljonno on July 18, 2013, 09:49:07 PM
I wouldn't say rubbish, saw a couple at the weekend which went really well. They have got some good tactical advertising so will bd round a while.
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: yvk3103 on July 18, 2013, 09:52:35 PM
Hell of a lot more money behind Spartan though mate.

Money can't guarantee success.

Quality makes and sustains brands in the long-run.

The bats I have seen were just about average in quality, finish and pick-up (I am being very generous)

Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: yvk3103 on July 18, 2013, 09:53:04 PM
I wouldn't say rubbish, saw a couple at the weekend which went really well. They have got some good tactical advertising so will bd round a while.

Where did you see them?
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: joeljonno on July 18, 2013, 09:57:48 PM
Where did you see them?

The team I was playing against had a couple.
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: ajm90 on July 18, 2013, 10:15:05 PM
I've only seen one and it looked a belter, also the balls it hit took a while to fetch.
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: GarrettJ on July 18, 2013, 10:43:30 PM
Indian rubbish, worse than BAS and SS. Just because Gayle and Clarke are paid to use their STICKERS people think they are great. Johnson Charles and Darren Sammy don't quite have the same affect for BAS though
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: jamielsn15 on July 19, 2013, 06:55:10 AM
Anyone know what the softs are like?  Apart form expensive?
Title: Re: Spartan @ Barringtons
Post by: RoCo Da Pixie on July 19, 2013, 08:10:52 AM
two guys from my club use a spartan. They fly off the middle but they are very softly pressed. Guy at my club has scored over 700 runs in a two month period since using his spartan. But since then he has cracked the two twice and had the handle snap. Romida have repaired it every time.