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[ItsJustCricket]

Thanks for your order and post, Ian - good to see you today!

As for you, Steve, that post of yours is completely true...  That reminds me, we need to knock in your bat too!!

[Alvaro]

Yes, yes you do.

[ItsJustCricket]

The Hitshard bats are up on our website now: http://www.itsjustcricket.co.uk/hitshard-m56

Most of the Salix bats are up now too - will be complete by tomorrow lunchtime.

[Giraffe208]

Must admit the HH bats do look like beauties. It was never the stickers that put me off but the initial lettering on the gloves when Chris first posted about them. We all like equipment to match and having hits hard on the knuckles didn't do it for me. If that is changed to HH placed somewhere else on the glove and a similar branding that existed on the current pads then I think this will definitely outsell the Salix range.

[smilley792]

Giraffe makes a good point.

This hard original inception shows we should never judge a book by it's cover.
The gloves seemed tacky, and name suggested, you thought you was a bruiser to.


But a little down the line, and name doesn't have the same impact for me, and I'd buy a lot of there kit, accept them gloves. There sill chav.


I wonder if hell 4 leather had a similar, "cheesey feeling" start? Yet hh4l is see as a great brand now.

[ItsJustCricket]

Must admit the HH bats do look like beauties. It was never the stickers that put me off but the initial lettering on the gloves when Chris first posted about them. We all like equipment to match and having hits hard on the knuckles didn't do it for me. If that is changed to HH placed somewhere else on the glove and a similar branding that existed on the current pads then I think this will definitely outsell the Salix range.

I completely agree and really don't like the look of their gloves.  Sadly these gloves haven't seemed to change much in this regard, so we have decided against stocking them, but not everyone wants matching kit! 

[ItsJustCricket]

I have now uploaded all the Salix bats to our website.  This page lists everything we currently have in stock from Salix.  Not just bats, but also bags and accessories.  Gloves and pads are on the way, too, and should be with us next week...

http://www.itsjustcricket.co.uk/salix-m14

[JB]

I completely agree and really don't like the look of their gloves.  Sadly these gloves haven't seemed to change much in this regard, so we have decided against stocking them, but not everyone wants matching kit! 

I'm sure i've seen a picture of this years gloves somewhere and they are alot more subtle than last years design. I think that the hits hard across the knuckles isn't in a contrasting colour like how it was with the red writing.

 

[ItsJustCricket]

I'm sure i've seen a picture of this years gloves somewhere and they are alot more subtle than last years design. I think that the hits hard across the knuckles isn't in a contrasting colour like how it was with the red writing.

That's correct, Jon.  It is a much lighter colour, but still quite big letters and too garish for my taste.

[SOULMAN1012]

I'm sure i've seen a picture of this years gloves somewhere and they are alot more subtle than last years design. I think that the hits hard across the knuckles isn't in a contrasting colour like how it was with the red writing.

This years glove is silver and white and in my view a little toned down on last years, personally I like them as the offer great protection and comfort at a great price. I will upload some pics later of the new gloves I have in my kit bag for next season.

Incidentally didn't get a single comment or joke about the knuckle writing, don't think people really notice or actually care

[JB]

 Found some pics!

These are the old ones

And these are the new design

[smilley792]

Hits hard to judge fully what's happening with the full range of both, as one has no website yet, and the other has a website that's a year out of date.

For us forumites that's a tad slack. But i appreciate the rest of the cricketing world, probably won't even look at either for a good few months,




(Pun intended)

[gdb19]

I'd agree with Paul, while the newer colour scheme looks a lot better the lettering puts me off the gloves. Without it they'd be a really nice pair of gloves - having said that I can see why it's there as it fits with the brand and without it you'd basically have Salixesque gloves with a different name

[Vitas Cricket]

I liked the ones that said 'LOVE' and 'HATE'

[yogi206]

Must admit the HH bats do look like beauties. It was never the stickers that put me off but the initial lettering on the gloves when Chris first posted about them. We all like equipment to match and having hits hard on the knuckles didn't do it for me. If that is changed to HH placed somewhere else on the glove and a similar branding that existed on the current pads then I think this will definitely outsell the Salix range.

You may be pleasantly surprised by the 2014 range of hitshard pads and gloves !