Let's not all fall out guys.
Haha, indeed! Please be nice Tom, you 'orrible lad!
Jake, what is the idea behind the net at the shop? Is it to supplement income from the shop, a gimmick (in the nicest possible word) to bring people into the shop, or just cos its a bloody good idea lol, and you enjoy doing the coaching side of cricket as well as the commercial side of it?
A combination of all your reasons i guess. The initial idea was to have a demo bat from every manufacturer, so customers could 'try before you buy' - whilst this has worked brilliantly for the smaller manufacturers, we've not really had much joy squeezing demo gear out of Grays, GM, Kooks and Slaz, we are always working on it though.
Coaching and net hire are also a nice supplement to the retail side of things, many regular netters have never bought a cricket item from us, a lot of gear is pretty old looking. We understand not everyone gets new gear every year, so its nice to be able to take some money off them via other methods like net hire and coaching
Its also great for me to be able to bunt say, 300-400 balls per day (many more on a quiet day!) and keep myself ticking over for when Saturday comes.
i absolutely love coaching. Not so much with beginners or really young children anymore, but it is so rewarding turning an average batsman into someone who can play a few shots, often just by tweaking a few things with them. And i love working with the 'elite' players like the one i mentioned before who's now doing a bit with the Northants Academy.
When will my slazenger bag arrive? Haha
Don't you know? We took your money an kept the goods!
No,seriously, if it did not come today then tomorrow mate.
People spend more up your way then down here then, surprised its top end gear as I seem to think most club players use the 5star,808 models etc
We have only just got 5 Star status with GM, so i don't know how well 5 Star will fare. But certainly not that many 909's or 707's sold noticeably well.
They do and they don't. Many many people are looking to spend as little as possible on a bat, hence our bargain bin that you may have seen in our sale topic. We are on the border of (or not far from) Cambs, Hunts, Rutland, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northants and Norfolk. So there is a lot of good quality cricket played near to us. I think people playing top level cricket want a top level bat, providing they can afford it, so maybe thats the reason.
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