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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Gray Nicolls => Topic started by: it's_a_pudding on February 26, 2016, 07:16:32 PM
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Just wondering if anyone has any of the new Legend softs at all and your opinions on them ? Pictures as well would be a great help IJC haven't reviewed them this year and last years ones looked amazing and felt good so I'd expect nothing less. As my newbery ones only last a season. So looking for something that would wear a little longer.
Thanks
Sam
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They aren't any different to last years ones.
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Are they still the best softs on the market (your opinion) ? i prefer the understated look the whiter the better ! I always regarded salix and newbery as the best softs but have been let down by both. Newbery protection and look was good but the stitching came out on one pad after 7ish games and the other pad I dived on hard ground and it tore a lot of leather off and gradually pieces Keep dropping out. Gloves by newbery have been very good.
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I have a set of legends gloves. Not that impressed.
Prefer my Warner kabooms and oblivion test over them. Even my cheap ass powerbow 700 feel comfier gripping the bat.
For the money of legends, I expected a lot more.
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/smilley792/82F3CCF8-15FA-4132-8575-B6923D7F9D8A_zpsaofhhn6w.jpg) (http://s61.photobucket.com/user/smilley792/media/82F3CCF8-15FA-4132-8575-B6923D7F9D8A_zpsaofhhn6w.jpg.html)
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If you're after a pair of pain white page then the H4L customs looks the business this year, and are even more understated with even the branding being white.
Honourable mention to Phantom who copied have an almost identical design.
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H4L, B&S, Salix, Focus, all offer high quality plain gear. if you ignore the tiny trim details on the glove and the lining of the pad, the New Balance TC range is pretty plain too
The legend pad is still the best pad in my opinion and I have worn it for 4 years now. The glove I never really bonded with and sold mine on a couple of years ago. It's perhaps pushing it a bit this year at around £80 for the glove too. I would be tempted perhaps to look towards the prestige range personally.
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Thanks for the opinions guys!! I'm not to fussy about either sausage or split I find I get on with both well. Just prefer not to have eye popping hear rather not hear the sledging I already cop enough 😂 Only thing i am picky about is having same brand pads and gloves. So who in your opinion does he best pad, split and sausage option ? I understand I may have to compromise on the sausage not being the same quality.
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Worried about sledging if you use eye popping gear?
If they have to start sledging you for your gear then you're clearly doing something right!
I've never understood people who worry about getting sledged. I personally like it as I feel if they have to resort to it I'm 1 up already. I've never not bough kit in case people said nasty things either, as a fatty who was fully adorned in pink neon gear a couple of seasons ago I can tell you that hardly anyone says anything anyway!
So my advice, in short - man up and get the brightest most in your face gloves and softs money can buy! ;)
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Sledging is a cracking part of the game. Ive been everything from Robocop (aero p1s!) to Henry VIII and everything in between. Luckily for the opposition im distinctly village!
Pick the gear you like, its as simple as that.
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It's not just sledging from the other team its sledging/banter from my own team that worries me more we tend to play a lot of pranks for instance bats taped to roof, clothes put in freezer, Aussie use to play in multicoloured spiked trainers and yellow helmet so they coloured in his helmet in different coloured blocks to match his spikes so I'd rather not add fuel to fire. I always find sledging from the opposition only helps though gives that added concentration side to batting. I think though back on topic I'm stuck between h4l pro pads and gloves also a pair of sausages or gray Nicolls legend pads and gloves with prestige gloves. Unless anyone else can think of a brand in mind with my specs ?
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In my opinion Focus Cricket offer one of the best as far as protection and value for money options if your looking for a minimalist pad and glove.
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Legend pads are insanely good. I used to have the Morant "lightest pads in the world", but the knee coverage was not the best for me (being 5 9.5, I was in between the sizes offered). Switched to legends, got the extra protection, and didn't notice the extra weight. They are some of the lightest "traditional protection" pads out there, and SO comfortable.
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If I had team mates that thought it was funny to damage and vandalise kit for a joke. There'd e a few options
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Number 1 would land me in jail.
Number 2 would see me move clubs.
But if the above isn't a choice. Then spending big big money on legends gear to find out some had coloured them in or made a sock puppet wouldn't be an option.
Buy the cheapest of cheapest gear so you don't care when your ass hat's off team mate mess about with it.
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I'm all for a bit of dressing room banter and a few pranks, but deliberately vandalising or damaging kit just isn't on.
There's a joke and then there's doing something like that, which simply isn't funny.
If that happened to me and I found out who'd done it, morals are gone and it's fair game. Their kit may mysteriously end up in a shower or on a roof (if I was calm about it!)
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Don't mind a bit of deep heat in the jock strap but touch my bats or pads or gloves and there will be carnage hobbit or not....
Cut my clothes up all you like I don't spend much on them
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Travel lock makes you more of a target people see it as more of a challenge. I don't think someone would damage a bat or they would be paying for it. I have seen the old deep heat in a box our captain usually gets that a few times in a season. Also kit and clothes being out in the middle while they are showering is another one or just hiding kit around the ground happens a lot also putting extra kit in their bag once they think they have packed up e.g putting spring back stumps in bottom of bag and put other kit over top of it and players haven't realised until following week etc. We do fines and a lot of bar games on a evening so it's all good banter but there is the odd person that may take it too far but they are usually punished for it. Cheers Aussie.kooky I'll check out focus soon see what they offer.
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Travel lock makes you more of a target people see it as more of a challenge. I don't think someone would damage a bat or they would be paying for it. I have seen the old deep heat in a box our captain usually gets that a few times in a season. Also kit and clothes being out in the middle while they are showering is another one or just hiding kit around the ground happens a lot also putting extra kit in their bag once they think they have packed up e.g putting spring back stumps in bottom of bag and put other kit over top of it and players haven't realised until following week etc. We do fines and a lot of bar games on a evening so it's all good banter but there is the odd person that may take it too far but they are usually punished for it. Cheers Aussie.kooky I'll check out focus soon see what they offer.
I'm sure i can help with Focus ;)
Feel free to send me a message.
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Worried about sledging if you use eye popping gear?
If they have to start sledging you for your gear then you're clearly doing something right!
I've never understood people who worry about getting sledged. I personally like it as I feel if they have to resort to it I'm 1 up already. I've never not bough kit in case people said nasty things either, as a fatty who was fully adorned in pink neon gear a couple of seasons ago I can tell you that hardly anyone says anything anyway!
So my advice, in short - man up and get the brightest most in your face gloves and softs money can buy! ;)
Good way of thinking. As a porky guy I tend to do the same and nobody gives me stick
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Right! Legends are obviously hard wearing gloves!! And should last you.
Octupus doesn't kill legends, legends kill octupus!!
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/smilley792/76FDAE6A-FB68-4AB3-B1AD-59B41381C04B_zpspotgbs25.jpg) (http://s61.photobucket.com/user/smilley792/media/76FDAE6A-FB68-4AB3-B1AD-59B41381C04B_zpspotgbs25.jpg.html)
Bear in mind these legends are jake @Vitas Cricket used gloves. Plus my use for 11 games indoor.
At the beginning of which that octupus was new! I'm quite impressed with the palm and the wearing.
Does this palm come on a sausage fingered glove jake?
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Worried about sledging if you use eye popping gear?
If they have to start sledging you for your gear then you're clearly doing something right!
I've never understood people who worry about getting sledged. I personally like it as I feel if they have to resort to it I'm 1 up already. I've never not bough kit in case people said nasty things either, as a fatty who was fully adorned in pink neon gear a couple of seasons ago I can tell you that hardly anyone says anything anyway!
So my advice, in short - man up and get the brightest most in your face gloves and softs money can buy! ;)
As some who always bats in sunglasses regardless of the light levels ( it's due to an eye condition) you can imagine the abuse I get....all I can say to that last paragraph is Amen brother[emoji1376][emoji1376][emoji1376][emoji1376]
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Legend pads + prestige gloves = winner
I've been using both for the first time this winter and have found them both really good. The pads are light and more comfortable than I thought pads could be. Can highly recommend.
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Mate I can not agree more I have been using the legend pads and prestige gloves all winter and have just purchased another 2 pairs of them gloves for the season! Best gloves on the market! And the pads are second to none! For traditional style pads no other pads even comes close to beating the quality, the protection and just the overall comfort of the pad! Plus they are ridiculously light for a traditional pad! Seriously can't see passed that combination!
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I have been using GM 909 Root Thumb gloves and they are amazing! Looks like Legend gloves are worth a try as well. Good gloves make such a difference.
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just out of interest are the legend pads still twisted?