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[DaanalSeed]

People will buy them because the Australian capt uses one, the Indian capt uses one & the man of the moment Mitchell Johnson uses one.  That's great advertising for them.  Plus the top end ones I have seen are every bit as good as the established brands.

Granted there are not many smaller custom made makers in Aus but there is still a good variety.  As well as GN, Kook, GM you can get Puma, SS (Ton), Adidas, CA, BAS, SF, Slazenger, Steeden, County, Bradbury, Spartan, NB, Grove, Fearnley, Stuart Surridge anf SF from the major retailers.  A fair bit of variety there.

My first experience with Spartan was of them making cheap rugby balls.

But from that list, I'd say 80% of the sales are with GN, Kook, GM, and Puma. Slaz and Ton rising up that list. Especially with juniors, where I play.

For example, my team's bats go: Salix, GN, Puma, Slaz, Kook, GN, GN, GN, SS, GN, GN.

You can probably tell who uses the Salix.

On topic, I guess that is good advertising. And I may have to take a look if they really are that good. Anyone got any idea who their batmaker is?

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[iand123]

They must be loving Mitchell Johnson's resurgence, good advertising as many have said.

I've just ordered some Spartan softs, anyone know if these are changing too?

[mussaduq]

The Johnson one looks good but the MC one looks horrible. I'm a fan of the spartan stickers and the previous one looked way better

[Boydie]

Have to agree about the MC bat.  More brands should really go down the less is more route.  There's a definite trend nowadays of larger, almost garish stickers.  Previously I'd have always expected the looks from the big brands but quality from the boutique brands.  Now it seems like the boutique brands are leading on both fronts, coming up with some of the classiest stickers and maintaining the quality we've all come to expect.

[blocka]

The thing that gets me with Spartan gear is that their main business was, and is primary school plastic sports gear. My childhood was filled with tonking the tennis ball out of the school grounds with Spartan plastic bats. So, in my mind, they'll always be viewed like that.

Too me that was Kookaburra and why I'll never touch Kook gear. Spartan seems to be taking their place in the market and is why no matter how much I like the look of the Spartan bars have so far avoided buying one.