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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Tom on June 28, 2008, 01:11:20 AM
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Puma Iridium
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Predator Max
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Nitro
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County White Lightning
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V389
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V8
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Nitro Players Pads
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Nitro 5 Star Pads
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White Lightning Pads
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Predator Max Pads
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Iridium 3000 Pads
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Iridium 3000 Gloves
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Predator Max 1000 Gloves
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Nitro 750 Gloves
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White Lightning LE Gloves
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Other bits
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Pred Max Wheelie
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Iridium Team Bag
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Puma 4000 Ballistic Wkt gloves
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Nice work tom! Not sure i like the Iridium :P
But that V389 is lush as always!
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me likie. that county is deadset the best looking bat ive ever seen. and do those gn & county pads have the removable shin plate that can be strapped onto the leg? well done tom. where'd you the pics for these?
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I love the V389, Predator Max and the Puma Ballistic gloves
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I think the Predator Max's stickers are nice, but cover too much of the back. The V389 looks lovely as usual, and so does the Puma Iridium- love the stickers but not the name!
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New Thigh pads from GN.
Also got some Newbery kit and Puma Ballistic gloves to upload later. Glad you like it anyway, from now on my finds like this are exclusives on here :P
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i like the new gray nicolls thigh pads are the just available in australia or can you get them over here in the uk i think they look better than the aero strippers
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Puma Ballistic Gloves
Woodworm are also releasing their gear in Aus, I believe with grades including Platinum, Titanium (not sure we get this in Uk) Gold and Silver.
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Ew, what have they done with those new puma gloves!
Was looking at the meulemans website and the price of the new GN bats is crazy, bloody expensive!
Not to keen on most of the soft goods though, will probably stick to xxx2 soft goods or english soft goods!
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Ha ha i will give 3 guesses at who the GN have taken the idea for their thigh pads off! lol!
Love the keeping gloves and Slaz V8
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They look better then Aero, doesnt actually look to similiar to be honest, as they have gotten rid of the crap hip protector.
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wth they certainly look nowhere near as good as aero! They look cheap and tacky compared to the classy aeros
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hey noz 3 guesses is being a bit generous isnt it? i like them though the seem a little less 'flimsy' that the aeros. i think the circles are hotplates on the ballistic. Go for those cold english days when the fingers are frozen solid. nah they are probably bits of hard plastic.
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The double teared structure on the front leg really puts me off. It is just so poor.
I mean they have ripped off the aero idea beyond belife.
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Hmm having a closer look if they had just had one large thigh pad on the front leg it would be much better, I just hate aeros hip protectors..
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Its so annoying how they have copied aero. I doubt they will sell very well though
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Not a fan of the thigh pads, like the County gear and Puma bats. But those dots on the Ballistics look terrible.
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I dont like the puma bat and agree the dots on ballistics are woeful! Slazenger is the best looking by far
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Fusion 2 Bat
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i like all that kit, i love the puma but hate the name
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I actually like all the kit epecially the new puma bat. I really dislike the keeping gloves though as the dots just look rubbish. The stickers on the new puma bat i think are lovely. Also like the white lightning pads.
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Is the fusion 2 even any different to the first one lol!? ???
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Tom are the WK gloves 4000 or 5000 as the boys at GCCC told me the 4000's were blue?
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The Only Difference I See On The Fusion Is The Cancer Logo On Our Top Left. The Bats Right Shoulder. ( Guessing Related To McGrath?)
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There's a small 2 under the Fusion sign and I thought the gloves were 4000, may be wrong as these are only sneak previews.
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nah the ribbon on the f2 has been there for about a year in aus. might be new for u guys. Maybe its there now as roy and hayden did a breast cancer raising thing with GN. This was only meant to go a season, but they continued it and its still going
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hi guys, when is the earliest this gear can be purchased?
thanks
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Not sure Ciaran, it may be an idea to email GCCC or Kingsgrove and ask. They may well have the gear in stock, just not updated websites.
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Kingsgove have a little bit of grey nic and slaz gear, most should be in by later this month.
The fusion 2 has a cane handle only, it's sales gimmick is the anti vibration dampner ie the rubber (No Swearing Please). I have a feeling those 2 strap nitro pads are junior only, there has been a version of them out for the last 5 years or so.
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End of july early august. Meulemans have the new GN bats in i think.
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Will be heading down there to check out the new gear then!
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What Nebery stuff do you have to upload Tom ? SPS range ...
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Has anyone seen the GN 'Legend'?, I Think it slots into their range amongst the custom's and the LE's which will give you an idea of the price bracket it will occupy. It was the only bat amongst all the samples that bordered on something Id use. It looks just like the GN customs but instead has a Gold and Chrome horizontal oval below the splice sticker that has legend written across it. It picked up nicely and had allot of meat (a 'bulbouss' Stu K profile) but obviously was made of a fairly sparse cleft. As for the majority of the other bats they were fairly bland.
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They will be made to order BL, and expect to pay around the $900 mark.
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expect to pay around the $900 mark.
I didnt even remotely want one and that still knocked the wind from my lungs!
Skipper where did you come across the RRP?
Is this getting utterly ridiculous to anybody else? I though it was excessive (amongst other things) when bats started cracking the $600 AUD mark a few seasons back, purely on the basis they sported a players name if little else.
If GN can justify selling bats of the quality that they are for the prices that they are, then any handcrafting podshaver worth his salts should be a veritable millionare!
Instead why are we 'dying' out?(rhetorical)
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So much of that kit is so nice! Dots on the Puma batting gloves look tripe, but keeping ones look good! Love the Puma Iridium, and the nitro pads look good.
Also, the GN 'Strippers' look awesome, maybe the hip bit might be a bit bulky?
Oh, and Tom... Where the bloody hell do you find all this??!!
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Is the newbery stuff gunna make an appearance sometime soon Tom .... ;D
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I've seen either the new Aus Newbery kit Tom is talking about, or the 2009 UK stuff... Guess I will wait and see Tom's pics before I can say which!
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How much is 900 aussie dollars in english money?
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I Would love to see the new newbery range, cause my sameriu is now . . . dead, maybee send it off to refurb or replace it with one of the new austrailian brands, and tom do you the retail prices ?
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The pics of the Newbery stuff is very poor quality and I'm not sure if it's even new, it looks similar to last years. I may upload anyway later.
Retail prices I do know, for which item in particular?
And how did I find it? Just spent a while searching and looking.
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How much is 900 aussie dollars in english money?
£436 and 5p if you wanna be Geeky bout it ! lol
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who would pay that much for a bat? That's ridicoulus money.
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Full Iridum Gear
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New Puma keeping kit? Or maybe not, I dunno don't follow keeping kit especially.
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That puma looks huge , without much concaving too - Is it SS who make these ....
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Sareen's and F.C Sondhi do a fair bit of Puma kit I know. Which bits they do I'm not 100%
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can you post the newbery kit mate i don't care if the pics are bad ...
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Newbery Crusader Kit, as I said before not sure if this is this seasons or lasts. Not seen it before tho.
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Majestic kit
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Rhino bat, Uno Keeping kit.
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loos terrible compared to english stuff ! is it same company
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Newberry kit is terrible!!! What have they done!
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I love the airmesh Pumas, well it is between them the 5000's and the 4000's for WK gloves next year!
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I love the look of the iridium gloves and the glody colour keeping gloves.
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With regard to the Newbery kit, Newbery have a completely separate 'division' in Aus, and the Hove guys know very little about the kit, it seems. I think the stickers are ok, but the UK ones are still winners :D
The Puma Iridum bat looks lush, odd two-strap design on the pads, and the gloves are not bad.
Keeping kit, do those holes really go all the way through?! The gloves look great as well, but I think they need a change in design next year
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I would imagine that there R&D came up with something like the previous FLextechs were not breathable enough and they retained too much moisture, and why do they have the equivalent of a knee bolster below the knee part?
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i noticed in the bobby's dazzlers on cricket am this morning that waston was using the iridium gloves
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GOOD SPOT MATE.
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good spot
i assume hes had this kit from ipl
but ANy 1 know if watson is reallly switshing?
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Love the new iridium, dont really like the predator max though
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Puma looks alright, love the keeping gloves gold and silver. Not to keen on the bat stickers though but pads and gloves are ok.
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Must be a pretty good bat that Plain bat of his! Seems to score loads of runs with it!
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hey, just a little feeling. I think puma might be scrapping the stealth range for the iridium. don't take this as a rock solid thing. it;s just an estimated guess
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Yeah i think they will Sambo as didn't they bring out the Stealth range for Watson and now as he is no longer sponsered byPuma it would make sense for them to scrap it.
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But why would he be using the Iridium Gloves if hes no longer sponsored by Puma
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He might not want to buy gloves, so is using his left over gear from Puma only covered up.
I imagine he'll get sponsorship soon enough from someone, if he doesn't he needs a new agent.
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Yesterday I went to Kingsgrove Sports to check out some bats. And I came across all the bats mentioned on the first page. The Puma Iridium is probably the best out of the lot. I picked up all the bats except the Slazengers. The County White Lightning is suprisingly good it had nice clean grains and the wood was clean it retails at $200AUD (97 pounds)
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To me it looks like Shane Watsons bat doesnt have a splice..
I hope to be going to meulemans soon so will let you all know whats there.
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ha back to the 1820's one piece of wood bats. I'll be going out to gccc soon to just settle on some pads and shoes. by the way does anyone know of a place in aus who can spike up sandshoes.
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Shoe spiking in Australia can be done by http://www.fbutd.com/