This analysis I recognise!
Kind regards
Edward
You can recognize whatever you want, but it bears no semblence to the truth.
I repeat, I play mid week cricket against district/grade cricketers on Wednesday's and club cricket on the weekend.
Two games a week in two totally different competitions.
I also spend five hours a week with a bowling machine at a centre where other cricketers from other competitions congregate.
This is in Melbourne, NOT Sydney where I do not claim to know what is happening.
Slazengers popular?
I nearly never see them around. Michael Clarke is one of the most hated celebrities in this country and many newspaper articles are written about that fact - so I hardly think guys want to emulate him by using his bat.
Gray Nicolls are still the most popular brand - fact.
Kookaburra are the second most visible brand on the Melbourne market.
SS are the third most visible brand and their proliferation is such that they will be #1 within the coming years.
At least a third of all cricketers I play with/against use superlite pads - they must be getting them from somewhere because GCCC certainly don't stock them.
I reckon the guys are GCCC are lovely guys on a personal level - but they are really missing a trick by not stocking superlite pads like the GM RSB's and Morrant's etc.
Unltimately, someone somewhere is making a killing selling SS bats and superlite pads...and it is not GCCC.
My guess is that this guy is thanking Baba Ji every night in his prayers, because GCCC short sightedness has been this guys fortune:
http://onlinestockist.com/If 70% plus of his clientele isn't from Australia, I would be shocked.
Ultimately, I do not give a flying you-know-what how other people run their businesses...that is their business (pun intended).
People will ultimately make whatever decision they wish...and right or wrong, they will defend it steadfastly...even as the administrators are moving in and recievers are appointed.
Best Wishes,
Vic