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[SomCountySports]

Afternoon All,

Have finally received some Samples of the 2014 Sabre Range, Will post some pictures now,

Please be open and honest about the designs, I know before you were not the biggest fans of the design!!!

Thanks

[SomCountySports]

Front EVOLVE Sticker

[SomCountySports]

Front side and Back EVOLVE sticker

[SomCountySports]

Evolve Glove

[SomCountySports]

Evolve Pad

[SomCountySports]

Front and Back Pad

[ajmw89]

The pads don't look too bad, but the gloves and the stickers are not my cup of tea.  Also, the back of that sample bat really doesn't look well finished at all!

[SomCountySports]

The pads don't look too bad, but the gloves and the stickers are not my cup of tea.  Also, the back of that sample bat really doesn't look well finished at all!

Should have said... the bats are from clean up's from old bats! hence the finishing

[TangoWhiskey]

That colour scheme really isn't my cup of tea...

[Gingerbusiness]

In my view, the brand name is, for me, linked to the GN Sabre of the 90s. The bat finishing is very similar too... Poor!

The colour scheme looks like it was designed that way because all the other crayons in the packet were broken - red and blue is not a very nice combination.

This is from someone who has a top of the line sabre bat and it is a very, very good bat.

This was the reaction of a mate of mine;

"If I owned the brand, I would want a full branding redesign - some money spent on a proper graphic designer and they will sell alot more gear.

Obviously whoever is designing the product really knows that they are doing - unfortunately, they have allowed their young child to colour them in."

[Abighugeappl]

I think it would look alright, if you used different colours. The Red and Blue are just not a good match

[FattusCattus]

I like the honeycomb effect, but I think the shape is very simple and formulaic - it would have been nicer to make the shape more interesting than a rectangle with a chopped off bottom.

some of the RPC and Blueroom stickers, the new Salix stuff, Red Inks stuff and the Ayrtek bat stickers are all examples of interesting shapes to put on a bat.

The bat shapes themselves are lovely, but I feel the stickers are a bit unimaginative.

Sorry.

[Six Sixes Cricket]

I don't think they look too bad, I presume the picks have been taken on a mobile as the colours look different on each pic. The pads look puma-esque which is a good thing but the badge on the pad looks plasticky and cheap.

[procricket]

In truth not bad a well used design i agree with Rob the badges do look a tad cheap.

I guess it comes down to price as i suspect if there in the same price range as Puma they will not sell .

Sorry.

Bat stickers look ok maybe a tad too much but i guess like Optimax or whatever Owzat own brand are called very marmite.

[Manormanic]

Yuck:  a great band, and an apt description of this.....