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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: frontfootdrive2 on February 10, 2017, 02:44:29 PM
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...site finally updated !
Like new models,wonder who makes ?
awaiting new softs,doubt they`ll do an update of the iconic sausage with the green overflap
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A great walk down memory lane for players of a certain age... would love to know how they feel & go
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Like new models,wonder who makes ?
Urrrrrmmmm, Duncan Fernley? ???
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...site finally updated !
Like new models,wonder who makes ?
awaiting new softs,doubt they`ll do an update of the iconic sausage with the green overflap
Duncan Fearnley
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Not Necessarily , could be made in India by one of the countless bat makers and stickered up by DF as is the case with most bats these days
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Would love to see a few of these in the flesh, I was a massive DF fan as teenager.
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Looking at the prices of the new models, hope they are very good (wherever they are made).
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To clear things up, all of the new bats DF are selling are being made in Worcester, by DF.
I do however agree that the prices are a bit far-fetched, £440 for a G1 is simply too much
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To clear things up, all of the new bats DF are selling are being made in Worcester, by DF.
I do however agree that the prices are a bit far-fetched, £440 for a G1 is simply too much
Correct that said you have always been able to get made the bat you wanted at D F in Worcester.
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I've got one of the Slazenger V12s made by DF and it is a brilliant stick. Shame there prices are so high
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My very first bat was a DF Extra Cover, the white bat that anyone in their 40s will remember. Bit too heavy for me at age 12 tbh, but it could destroy a half volley. Great memories. I always wanted a Magnum, but never actually had one.
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Loved my VR 5 star when I was a nipper
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My first serious bat was a harrow-sized Duncan Fearnley 'Colt' and the Duncan Fearnley Magnum was always the bat I lusted after, from a distance. Funnily enough, once I actually had enough money to get a new bat I picked one up and didn't like the shape at all and ended up buying a G & M Maestro.
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I had a DF 405 size 5 or 6, no chance I'd pay 440 for another though
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Also had a colt, my first bat, and also craved a magnum. A mate had a very heavy attack, way too heavy for a 12 year old.
I do have a pair of DF green double finger gloves, purely for show. Safe to say that gloves have improved in 30 years...!
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Also had a colt, my first bat, and also craved a magnum. A mate had a very heavy attack, way too heavy for a 12 year old.
I do have a pair of DF green double finger gloves, purely for show. Safe to say that gloves have improved in 30 years...!
Ah. There's a pattern emerging here. We all had a kids size DF, and we all wanted a Magnum, but none of us got one. I think we can start to see why DF have struggled for market share in recent years... :)
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As an aside, I am astonished that DF are still using the same 3 black stumps logo that they had 30 years ago. It looked old-fashioned even when it was new.
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As I'm basically still in nappies to some on here, I never witnessed the Duncan Fearnley market domination of yesteryear. In fact I don't think I've ever seen anyone using a Duncan Fearnley bat, and their days of being "the bat to have" had long since passed when I took up cricket.
I can remember in the summer of 2006 Sports Direct were selling them for less than £10 (probably painted driftwood, but I didn't have a clue what I was looking for back then!) I'd just been bought my first bat (an entry level Woodworm Torch - "that's what Kevin Pietersen uses, can I have that one?") but because of the ridiculous price my Dad thought they fell into the "too good to be true" category, so I wasn't allowed one ("what could you possibly need a second bat for?")
Anyway, I digress. Are DF using their original/vintage branding to appeal to a more mature audiences nostalgia, or are they just hoping the name alone will be enough to sell bats? They aren't massively (if at all) cheaper than the competition and I can't really seen any USP that would make me pick them over another brand.
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It's surprising how much respect they do still hold even amongst people in their 20s who weren't around at the time actually - a player at my club cracked out his dad's Magnum for a game last season as an emergency option (my fault, I'd fixed his bat but overslept so badly I arrived at the game after he was out...) and it spent the day being passed around and being remarked upon by a bunch of players who definitely don't remember Botham/Richards etc playing international cricket.
Anyway, I'd guess they're partly trading on the name and partly being a bit lazy. I wouldn't pay their prices for what is a pretty unknown quantity now, but I would definitely rock a set of these stickers! https://www.fearnleycricket.co.uk/listings/2847-df-4-adult-bat.html (https://www.fearnleycricket.co.uk/listings/2847-df-4-adult-bat.html)
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Think the reason for the high price is because they are still UK made. Last year a gentleman called Steve Harris was the head bat maker and as far as I know that hasn't changed this year.
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Anyway, I'd guess they're partly trading on the name and partly being a bit lazy. I wouldn't pay their prices for what is a pretty unknown quantity now, but I would definitely rock a set of these stickers! https://www.fearnleycricket.co.uk/listings/2847-df-4-adult-bat.html (https://www.fearnleycricket.co.uk/listings/2847-df-4-adult-bat.html)
How good are those stickers! Simple, classic! I was almost going to say "un-offensive" but geez thats a sad state of play when to raise the bar set by most brands decals is simply to make something non-offensive.... Sad but true.
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bought a magnum on the back of a nostalgic impulse buy last season
still havnt used it
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Pictures can say a thousand words! Not brand new DF bats and not the old classics. But these were quality!
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Bck03.jpg)
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Fr02.jpg)
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Prof06.jpg)
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Fr06.jpg)
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Prof04.jpg)
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Fr03.jpg)
(http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/petehosk/DF/Prof09.jpg)
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That is exactly what I'm on about @petehosk , lovely looking stickers and bat!
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It's funny that with all these new sticker designs and embossing and offering loads of colours and choice, you only need look at these stickers and they would provoke as much talk and admiration as any other brands out there! ;)
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It's funny that with all these new sticker designs and embossing and offering loads of colours and choice, you only need look at these stickers and they would provoke as much talk and admiration as any other brands out there! ;)
They could have put them on straight though ;)
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Their logo is a brilliant design - simple, but immediately evocative of what the brand is all about.
No way should they change it.
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Their logo is a brilliant design - simple, but immediately evocative of what the brand is all about.
No way should they change it.
Fully agree! The Fearnley logo is bloody fantastic, they just need to sort the softs out!!!
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Their logo is a brilliant design - simple, but immediately evocative of what the brand is all about.
No way should they change it.
Agree, it is open of those iconic logos...
I can see a play on it though that opens up a whole load of new bat names.... How about a logo with a more prominent middle stump called the "Brazilian", or a full colour sticker with the stumps in a white outline called "full muff"
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Surely there is no place for lewd humour and base innuendo on this forum?
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Their logo is a brilliant design - simple, but immediately evocative of what the brand is all about.
No way should they change it.
Yeah, maybe, but for me what the brand is all about, is the 1980s. I'm just not convinced that is a progressive marketing plan.
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Yeah, maybe, but for me what the brand is all about, is the 1980s. I'm just not convinced that is a progressive marketing plan.
things were far better in the 80's JK
decent music too none of this grime stuff. :)
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Fo sho suckas!
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Magnums were THE bat on my local patch back in the day, with Symonds Tuskers and SS Jumbos added to the mix. My bat was from new upstart company Newbery...
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Magnums were THE bat on my local patch back in the day, with Symonds Tuskers and SS Jumbos added to the mix. My bat was from new upstart company Newbery...
yeah me too...I remember at 14 or 15 going to the sports shop with my mum wanting the bat Richards and Gooch used, The Magnum. I remember very well the shop telling me it was too heavy for me...Did I listen? no of course not :)
I walked out with my birthday present happy as could possibly be
in the rack in the shop was an SS Jumbo, magnum and GN powerspot and not much else-all in a wooden rack.
funny the things you remember as kid.....
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yeah me too...I remember at 14 or 15 going to the sports shop with my mum wanting the bat Richards and Gooch used, The Magnum. I remember very well the shop telling me it was too heavy for me...Did I listen? no of course not :)
I walked out with my birthday present happy as could possibly be
in the rack in the shop was an SS Jumbo, magnum and GN powerspot and not much else-all in a wooden rack.
funny the things you remember as kid.....
Isn't this the reason we spend so much time on here in middle-age?
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Isn't this the reason we spend so much time on here in middle-age?
yes...absolutely
haha
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Like many on here, one of my school mates who i played cricket with had his uncles DF magnum (around 92/93), it was hands down the best bat i've ever used but it was like a railway sleeper so none of us could us it in a game, just in the nets.
I had a DF MAX POWER which i bought around 1995, it was a gun, i only stopped using it 2013 when it fell apart. I got some stick from the younger members of the club about it until i launched two successive deliveries over the clubhouse during one game. Sadly about a week later it broke into a thousand pieces.
I am a big DF fan, i was very happy that to see that when i took my umpires course all the umpire stash is DF!
Great days of everlasting summer holidays at nets and DF bats!
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yeah me too...I remember at 14 or 15 going to the sports shop with my mum wanting the bat Richards and Gooch used, The Magnum. I remember very well the shop telling me it was too heavy for me...Did I listen? no of course not :)
I walked out with my birthday present happy as could possibly be
in the rack in the shop was an SS Jumbo, magnum and GN powerspot and not much else-all in a wooden rack.
funny the things you remember as kid.....
yep my 1st bat was an SS Jumbo which weighed as much as i did but Gooch played with it so i was going to open the batting with it as well. And to be honest it worked quite well cos i only had to get any sort of bat on anything and it raced away the thing was so heavy :D :D
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i'll go out on a limb here (expecting posts disagreeing :)) but IMHO (!) the Original SS jumbo was the most indestructible weapon ever made
the handles on those things were incredibly strong
it really was a game changer back-in-the day
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i'll go out on a limb here (expecting posts disagreeing :)) but IMHO (!) the Original SS jumbo was the most indestructible weapon ever made
the handles on those things were incredibly strong
it really was a game changer back-in-the day
Not certain but
Didn't Gooch use a laminated one in test matches
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Magnums were THE bat on my local patch back in the day, with Symonds Tuskers and SS Jumbos added to the mix. My bat was from new upstart company Newbery...
Magnums were the bat then :D
Newbery? Ahh, in those days they were all UK made and made by JN and then TK. Those were the days! How times have changed! ;)
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Not certain but
Didn't Gooch use a laminated one in test matches
I don't know.... Gooch and guys like Wayne Larkins(remember him as a pinch hitter after 10 pints and 20 benson and hedges) had SS jumbos
Gooch I think then went to the Magnum(might be wrong) then after GAG hit 300 against the Indians the SS Turbo 333 came out, and Gooch used the SS I think until he retired.
It was a big bat the 333 .....seem to remember some people saying it was a laminate...not really sure on that.
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I think gooch used the magnum prior to his SS deal. DFs were huge in the early mid 80s, notably Viv, Border, Botham, who had the career contract. Viv moved on to slazenger, but I think Border stuck with his DF until he retired. Could be wrong! Martin crowe another notable magnum user...
I remember thensports shops in the 80s and 90s, all GN, GM, DF. Kooks from the early 90s. Heady days!!
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I don't know.... Gooch and guys like Wayne Larkins(remember him as a pinch hitter after 10 pints and 20 benson and hedges) had SS jumbos
Gooch I think then went to the Magnum(might be wrong) then after GAG hit 300 against the Indians the SS Turbo 333 came out, and Gooch used the SS I think until he retired.
It was a big bat the 333 .....seem to remember some people saying it was a laminate...not really sure on that.
Remember Wayne larkins and the other 10 pints Northants England pinch hitter Colin Milburn also Northants David Steele looked more like a Barclays Bank manager than someone who took on Lillee and Thomson. Roberts Holding and Daniel without an helmet Wonder if he's eaten all these pork chops he was sponsored for every test run he scored.
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I think King Viv had his own DF VR 5* for a short time. I also remember one shop stocking a DF Rapier. I think the attachment so many have to the brand is that, simply,they were huge back in the day. And the fact that the fall from grace was huge, tragic even.
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I think King Viv had his own DF VR 5* for a short time. I also remember one shop stocking a DF Rapier. I think the attachment so many have to the brand is that, simply,they were huge back in the day. And the fact that the fall from grace was huge, tragic even.
Yes he's hoping the top end revamp will be a success.
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Lovely bats back in the 80,s
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Gooch was SS after many years with Fearnley. He ended his career using Slazenger, possibly because they had bought SS.
Larkins a 'pinch hitter'? How dare you!