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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: tailender on June 05, 2015, 10:15:45 AM
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I've just tried to log onto the Mongoose website as I am looking for a new bat and it appears as though the website has been suspended.
Have Mongoose folded for a second time? :o
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I've just tried to log onto the Mongoose website as I am looking for a new bat and it appears as though the website has been suspended.
Have Mongoose folded for a second time? :o
Second? By my reckoning this is probably the 4th time.
I can have a Mongoose style bat made for you by the original Mongoose bat makers, they are just finishing an MMi for a customer of ours currently.
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Can you send me a PM mate
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Interesting to see this. I've been writing down a few of my thoughts of my time there just to get some of it down, there's some interesting stories through the years https://medium.com/@td_evans/batman-a-story-of-a-cricket-bat-ea5815612343
If there's anything you'd like to see covered let me know
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Interesting to see this. I've been writing down a few of my thoughts of my time there just to get some of it down, there's some interesting stories through the years https://medium.com/@td_evans/batman-a-story-of-a-cricket-bat-ea5815612343
If there's anything you'd like to see covered let me know
Really interesting stuff Tom thanks for sharing and I'll be looking out for part 2
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Really interesting stuff Tom thanks for sharing and I'll be looking out for part 2
Thanks, I'm mainly writing it for my own benefit as a retrospective look at what went wrong. But if there's anything you'd like me to cover in particularly let me know.
My time there covered up until my resignation in March 2011, 2 months before the initial administration so lots of ups and downs to mention
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Interesting to see this. I've been writing down a few of my thoughts of my time there just to get some of it down, there's some interesting stories through the years https://medium.com/@td_evans/batman-a-story-of-a-cricket-bat-ea5815612343
If there's anything you'd like to see covered let me know
VV good read cheers, always interesting to see the behind the scenes!
The biggest thing is why sponsorship is seen as the only way of promoting a bat. When I was working at a very large marketing agency an internal report showed that direct sponsorship of sports events has very little reach or memorability compared to more innovative or different types of marketing.
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I don't disagree that the value of sponsorship is over exaggerated at times. Only a small percentage of players sell cricket bats.
Our approach to sponsorship was to gain credibility in cricket, a bat which supposedly increases performance by 20% but is used by nobody didn't seem very credible.
For the first months of trading we also had a PR team on a retainer, but there's only so many stories you can tell about a bat used by no-one ;)
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Good read Tom,
Ferrari hey haha funny the market is very closed shop it hard to break into.
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I enjoyed that read cheers
It kind of explains why the one we at our club put too to buy at launch took 3weeks to arrive.
I still have it. Was a belter and scored many runs at our club.
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haven't they gone bust
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Great read Tom - well articulated! Would be interested to find out, with the benefit of hindsight, what you would have done differently.
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Looking forward to part 2!
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Part 2 has been written, and 3 is underway.
https://medium.com/@td_evans/batman-part-2-ec3db097c4a8
2 mainly focusses on some of our early production problems, in 2009 and touches on some player sponsorship stuff in 2010.
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Really good read. Cheers for that.
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great read!! can't wait for part 3...cheers!!
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Really enjoyed that. I can't wait for the next
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Fascinating stuff, bring on part 3!
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Really interesting read.
Perhaps a pre-warning to all the people on here interested in starting their own cricket brands.
Amazing that you got to mix with the likes of Hayden and Gayle e.t.c.
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Decent Tom. Looking forward to the next installment.
As a side note, there are still quite a few Mongeese knocking around at my club, apparently just before I turned up there one of the blokes who played for us was one of your sales agents.
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If you have any of the Green CoR3's let me know! Keen for one of those in good nick. Guessing it was Dave who played for you?
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If you have any of the Green CoR3's let me know! Keen for one of those in good nick. Guessing it was Dave who played for you?
Yeah Dave Trethaway I think. I never met him personally as he'd left by the time I joined. Off the top of my head I think everyone has the purple ones.
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Really interesting read, many thanks for posting.
lots of food for thought
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Yes really interesting have been following The Mongoose story for a while now.
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Glad so many of you enjoying the articles! If any of you are able to share them it'd be greatly appreciated and as always - any specific questions let me know
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If you have any of the Green CoR3's let me know! Keen for one of those in good nick. Guessing it was Dave who played for you?
There is a green CoR3 knocking around, unfortunately the owner has just scored his first ever ton with it so I doubt he's interested in getting rid!
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really enjoying reading the articles.
i do love mongoose's kit still do. although i have never actually bought much of it i love my mmi3.
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Very interesting read. Looking forward to part 3 :)
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Top stuff Tom
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I have the pictured green cor somewhere.
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/smilley792/50A73F54-6152-47DC-8607-95C88471C87C-839-000001001A02C1EF_zpsa3b564c9.jpg) (http://s61.photobucket.com/user/smilley792/media/50A73F54-6152-47DC-8607-95C88471C87C-839-000001001A02C1EF_zpsa3b564c9.jpg.html)
It's fairly used and abused. Had a lot of use.
What's so special about them?
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Oh wow you have an original MMi3 too with the wrap around back sticker.
There's nothing special about them, I just like to collect things I've designed or worked on. For the wall I guess.
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Oh wow you have an original MMi3 too with the wrap around back sticker.
There's nothing special about them, I just like to collect things I've designed or worked on. For the wall I guess.
I pre ordered the mmi3 on your marketing hype.
I also won the midweek league averages that year with an avg of 75! Was a cracking bat(still is to be fair)
The cor probably isn't for your wall. I didn't knock it in and and edge got destroyed by a full toss. And lots of tape was used to hold it together!
Did two more seasons after that!
Both have never been refurbed
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Great read Tom looking forward to part 3
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If you have any of the Green CoR3's let me know! Keen for one of those in good nick. Guessing it was Dave who played for you?
@Tom
Noticed this on Facebook mate
(http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/CPye061194/B8F2F9FE-2E25-4B82-BED4-633D95326ACF_zpseskdyir9.png) (http://s1206.photobucket.com/user/CPye061194/media/B8F2F9FE-2E25-4B82-BED4-633D95326ACF_zpseskdyir9.png.html)
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Pt.3 https://medium.com/@td_evans/the-mongoose-launch-into-india-9e5c1062a0b9
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good read again Tom. certainly seems like a good time
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Very very interesting reading
Looking forward to part 4
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Hi Tom,
Really enjoyed reading all 3 parts so far. Thanks for sharing.
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really interesting. Was having a chat with about Mongoose cricket the other day with my mate who has one.
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A really good read. I have a "general" question about the pads, were they uncomfortable? I have been told that they were but don't quite believe it yet.
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Good reading Tom. With the benefit of hindsight things could have been a lot different for the mongoose brand.
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cheers tom; great read & can't wait for part 4 :)
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Bit late on this one, will finish up with a bit more on production on Sunday.
https://medium.com/@td_evans/batman-part-4-32a67395fcd
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Amazing stuff
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Interesting stuff Tom
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading that.
on a side note...love the first pair of sample gloves you received back, I'd have had a pair of those :D
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good read Tom. i was always impressed by the looks of the softs but have never actually owned. wish i had
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Interesting read! Thanks for sharing!
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The suasage finger with the purple streak are pretty nice!
Nice to see the struggles and process brands go through trying to get the softs they envisage, I wonder how many people just accept and try to sell what arrives?
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Looking forward to part 4 and how the Mongoose Torq came about etc.! Thanks Tom! :)
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Remembered I liked this on Instagram a few weeks back.
Hayden, the goose and gloves looking good.
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/smilley792/0D40EE16-4DFE-4C86-A6A6-9F8E8FB321E0_zpshsfep141.png) (http://s61.photobucket.com/user/smilley792/media/0D40EE16-4DFE-4C86-A6A6-9F8E8FB321E0_zpshsfep141.png.html)
Wouldn't actually mind a set of those gloves
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So those gloves there were before we produced the 2011 range, the 2011 range was loosely based on them in the end - but these were a pro issue only job. We produced 3 colours for the pros, Purple (for the new range), Green (CoR3) and Red (MMi3).
They were made by Champ International, who were a lot more agile and willing to help than Sareen who made the stock range, and we used to send across a scan of the players hands which they'd be manufactured to.
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This is what I never understand in the industry. Edward Lowry(GM) keeps saying "I don't think they'd sell" but many on here think otherwise.
Why aren't the pro issue softs the ones on sale to the public???
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Generally speaking consumers want split finger gloves, and pros would want sausage style gloves with less flexibility.
The reason the purple ones were never made public is because they were for an intermediate period before we completed the design of the 2011 pink/purple/red gloves. As I said in the article we wanted all 3 colours so they matched any bat in the range.