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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Spartan => Topic started by: Keith Arthurton on June 30, 2018, 10:16:41 PM
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Dave Warner joined the spartan stable?
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=david+warner+spartan&client=ms-android-samsung&nirf=dave+warner+spartan&tbm=isch&prmd=inv&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpq9OwtPzbAhXBgLwKHTPaBCwQpwUIHQ&biw=360&bih=560&dpr=3#imgrc=pi_aq9HY8GxcMM: (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=david+warner+spartan&client=ms-android-samsung&nirf=dave+warner+spartan&tbm=isch&prmd=inv&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpq9OwtPzbAhXBgLwKHTPaBCwQpwUIHQ&biw=360&bih=560&dpr=3#imgrc=pi_aq9HY8GxcMM:)
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I wonder what makes player sign up with Spartan? They have had issues with paying their sponsored players in the past.
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Cash up front.
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Dave Warner joined the spartan stable?
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=david+warner+spartan&client=ms-android-samsung&nirf=dave+warner+spartan&tbm=isch&prmd=inv&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpq9OwtPzbAhXBgLwKHTPaBCwQpwUIHQ&biw=360&bih=560&dpr=3#imgrc=pi_aq9HY8GxcMM: (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=david+warner+spartan&client=ms-android-samsung&nirf=dave+warner+spartan&tbm=isch&prmd=inv&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpq9OwtPzbAhXBgLwKHTPaBCwQpwUIHQ&biw=360&bih=560&dpr=3#imgrc=pi_aq9HY8GxcMM:)
They misspelled 'sander' on the back of his bat though ! ;)
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Steve Smith batting for Toronto with all his nb kit (last seasons black/yellow colourway). Wonder what's going on with this ?
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The Steve Smith NB situation is strange. Stokes gets dropped immediately by NB for reasons that they said didn't reflect the brand's values, etc.
Smith is found guilty and admits to ball tampering and he's still using their gear. Warner gets dropped by Gray Nics. Very mixed messages and, it seems, standards from NB...
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The Steve Smith NB situation is strange. Stokes gets dropped immediately by NB for reasons that they said didn't reflect the brand's values, etc.
Smith is found guilty and admits to ball tampering and he's still using their gear. Warner gets dropped by Gray Nics. Very mixed messages and, it seems, standards from NB...
I think you can put Warner in the same boat as stokes, both with bad records who, realistically, don't offer all the much in terms of positive association with a brand. Smith on the other hand, had a pretty spotless record and held ( and will most likely hold again) the most important sporting post in Australia, his value as an ambassador is far higher than that of stokes and warner, also, depending on what you read, Smiths role in the whole debacle may have been limited to just being captain of two morons.
Either way, Warner looks to already have his own Range with Spartan so who knows how long it has been in the pipeline. I'm just glad that we won't be seeing anymore horrible Kaboom ranges.
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The Steve Smith NB situation is strange. Stokes gets dropped immediately by NB for reasons that they said didn't reflect the brand's values, etc.
Smith is found guilty and admits to ball tampering and he's still using their gear. Warner gets dropped by Gray Nics. Very mixed messages and, it seems, standards from NB...
you're kidding? Smith letting Warner use sandpaper is as bad on a brands image as a drunken moron hitting someone who wasnt hitting back.
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^ I'm guessing, since you and I are in full agreement, you are commenting on the opposing view in the previous post and not mine, as per your quote? :)
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Steve Smith batting for Toronto with all his nb kit (last seasons black/yellow colourway). Wonder what's going on with this ?
I guess there is nothing that NB could do if Smith simply rocks up with last season's kit until he lands a new sponsor. I can't see that they could require him to rip their stickers of his bat and cover up the logos on his softs
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I guess there is nothing that NB could do if Smith simply rocks up with last season's kit until he lands a new sponsor. I can't see that they could require him to rip their stickers of his bat and cover up the logos on his softs
Yeah , youre right ....and i thought about that . But it seemed odd , usually players make it obvious that 'this space is for sale'.
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(https://s15.postimg.cc/squ8t5hy3/20180702_133651.jpg) RIP KABOOM love or hate them they certainly caused a commotion everytime they were released
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Pre-Warner-ban mcc-restriction-compliant kabooms looked so ordinary .
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Pre-Warner-ban mcc-restriction-compliant kabooms looked so ordinary .
Like Arnie in his 60s . ;) :D
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RIP KABOOM love or hate them they certainly caused a commotion everytime they were released
If you look on ebay @Aussiecollector you will find a Spartan sticker for every mood. Hahahahaha
Perhaps that’s the ones Warner has on the Kaboom he’s still using ;)
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As you & i both know Mark he has only got a couple left , & they will be lucky to last the tournament , although the way he is playing atm a lot longer than usual.
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As you & i both know Mark he has only got a couple left , & they will be lucky to last the tournament , although the way he is playing atm a lot longer than usual.
Slightly off the Canada topic but you seem to be the man in the know. What are Warner and Smith allowed to do at the moment in terms of cricket? For the last few months, I assume they've just hit balls in nets and maybe some top-level grassroots stuff if they wanted? But just curious to see if they've been playing a lot at a lower standard?
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Noticed that warners spartan stickers have his signature in them ....so it seems a long term deal where spartan will promote the warner model/branding heavily .
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Slightly off the Canada topic but you seem to be the man in the know. What are Warner and Smith allowed to do at the moment in terms of cricket? For the last few months, I assume they've just hit balls in nets and maybe some top-level grassroots stuff if they wanted? But just curious to see if they've been playing a lot at a lower standard?
I think all 3 lads played some games in Darwin as it’s footy season at the moment.
IMO nobody watches Sheffield Shield it would have been good to see them play at that level next season.
I also don’t think NB have dropped Smith. Credit to them!
The sponsors jumping off like CBA after the banking royal commission makes me wonder whose worse.
Wonder when the next ball tampering saga occurs whether penalties will be that severe?
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Maybe ask Chandimal ?
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The Steve Smith NB situation is strange. Stokes gets dropped immediately by NB for reasons that they said didn't reflect the brand's values, etc.
Smith is found guilty and admits to ball tampering and he's still using their gear. Warner gets dropped by Gray Nics. Very mixed messages and, it seems, standards from NB...
I've followed this pretty closely since it broke, and have read almost all i can.
The official position is that Steve Smith looked over to see Bancroft and Warner unto something and Smith turned a 'i don't want to know what you guys are up to' blind eye. Subsequently, the end of day press conference he tried to take the focus away from the junior guy in the team, coming up with a 'story' that it was 'planned by the leadership group' of the team.
Warner wasn't instantly dropped by GN and as other statements have made, looks like his Spartan deal was in the mix already and is about the same time a lot of players change sponsors. Clarke switched to Spartan after being support by Slazenger for his early career. Morgan went to Spartan (from Slazenger), then to SF. Root left GM for NB. It's not uncommon now for players to leave the brands they were using to get big for significantly larger coin.
As for the mixed message from NB, I think they are looking at a long term investment. 'Steve Smith, the guy that feel defending his team (rightly or wrongly), broken as a person and a cricketer, went back to grass roots, built himself up again and re concurred the test world'. Sells a pretty big story and having a NB logo in all the photos to go with it.
Not sure they would have got the same thing regarding Stokes.
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Ye the reason eion Morgan and Matt prior left was money issues and I heard jonny bairstow is owed as well seems he promises everyone the world and never believers as the article says more bothered about hanging around with the big bits of world cricket than running his business