Albion launch home and away kits
Tuesday 28th June 2011, 10:00AM BST.
Albion today took the wraps off their new home and away kits for the 2011-12 campaign following their record-breaking new shirt sponsorship deal with Bodog.
The Baggies two-year £2m deal with the online betting brand is marked with a re-designed home strip in their famous blue and white stripes but a departure in the colour of the away strip – a first outing for cyan blue with new navy trim and new navy shorts and socks.
Sensitive to the business of their new sponsors, the club and Bodog are keeping the name off the children’s shirts.
But these new Adidas kits feature the latest ClimaCool technology, a mixture of heat and moisture controlling materials, ventilation channels and 3D fabrics which improve air flow to the skin in the key heat zones.
And the club, fresh from their best-ever Premier League campaign, are hoping to do a roaring trade from the off with supporters able to pre-order both kits on-line via mail order, by calling 0871 271 9795, or in-store at the Stadium Megastore and Merry Hill club shop.
The home kit will go on sale on July 15, when pre-orders can also be collected in store, while the away kit is available from July 29 when pre-orders can also be collected in store.
The adult long-sleeved shirt will cost a cool £49.99, while the long-sleeved children’s version comes in at £37.99. An infant kit is available at £36.99.
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The adult top’s only £45 according to the official website, not the £50 quoted above.
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BRING BACK THE GREEN AND YELLOW (same design as the home like they did in the nineties). adidas are famous for the three stripes so give us three n’all like the glory days!
Boing Boing
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i haven’t bought a top for a good many seasons, because i see it as a blatant rip-off. i shall abstain from buying one this year for another reason….because it’s AWFUL! it really does look like a tesco carrier bag now, doesn’t it wulfies?
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thumbs up for the away kit
thumbs down for the home kit
we need kiely and his zimmer frame to model the goalkeeper kit!!
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Away kit actually looks nice,apart from club badge and sponsor logo.
Home kit looks better than the last one,but where have the handles gone ?
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warren,
there are 2 versions – short and long sleeved, hence the E&S quoting the more expensive price.
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Me thinks the Goalkeeper kit will be showcased by the new ‘keeper.
The kits are lovely (nice attempt by the Wolves fan to mock them) they’re a brilliant quality having felt the material on the new Adidas range and certainly better without Snoopy!
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I like them. I am surprised not to see another Red away kit but I guess that Adidas and WBA merchandising wanted to give us something distinct from previous years. I think the cyan blue away will grow on us as the season goes on – but I already like it.
Warren you are correct! The £45 shirt on the website is the short sleave version. £50 for the long sleave version.
I think like the price of the ticket on match day the price of the kit is part of the parcel and package of the modern game. They are expensive. However £45 is not out of keeping with other clubs.
Now let’s get PO signed up on a long contract and then I’ll be more than happy to get a new shirt!
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McNeil, not a wolves fan at all, sir. i’ll be right behind the important people wearing the new home shirt (the players) but i dislike the lightened blue, i much prefer the more traditional navy. so i won’t be wearing one myself. that is all i’m saying. and the material is a brilliant quality on my dad’s new sofa, but i won’t be wearing that either
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Just needs the Tesco logo now to be identical to the carrier bag.
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no3 Baggijono,spot on mate awful,although i prefer the away one out of the 2 but theres no way i’d wear one where i live,(nuneaton)as i might be mistaken for a sky blue fan,and as for the logo surely it is more suitable for them up the road…..B O DOG………..
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Brilliant thought-out strips. Materials and styles are ultra modern, also High grade makers logo. Please as punch, and they’ll be on the market at the said date. 0
Not like the cheapo brand down the road, who couldn’t deliver on time. When the Dingles got there, the cupboard was bare.(Got to get that one in).
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Liking the away kit, but £2.50 for one cuff to an elbow, whats the material made from? some far eastern exotic silk! Still, in line with all shirts now days, over priced for what they are. As with all modern manufacturers, probably have it made in China or some where similar for £1.50, that’s quite a healthy mark up, but, if people will pay it, why wouldn’t you, someones got to pay Becks and his mates to be in those adverts!
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Boring Adidas template for the home kit. Couldn’t they come up with something original? The away is OK. Something different from the norm to boost sales. I have one of the new polo shirts and have to say that the quality is not as good as Umbro although it does look very smart.
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I like the Home Strip but I’m not convinced on the away top. It looks like a training top more than a shirt.
My 6 year old son will be disappointed though.
£59 for a kids full kit is a disgrace.
This is the negative side with signing up to the big name manufacturers.
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Both home and away seem remanisant of recent
Newcastle strips
I like the Home kit away kit is truly awful
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I really like the away kit! Not keen on the home one though, theres just a blank space round the shoulders that looks daft. Hopefuly we’ll get used to it.
On the red away kit, I was kind of hoping we would have red again. I once seen somewhere that when players play against opposition in red there is a subcontious mental frame of mind where they find it harder to play against and feel less confident. How true this is I dont know but it kind of makes sense if u think about it,
Man Utd, Liverpool the 2 most succesful teams in the country… And even England won the world cup in red.
Also wasn’t we unbeaten in red last season?? We always seem to do pretty well when wearing it.
Anyway nice at least our away kit aint orange (not gold) and black. Yuk :-)
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I think the styles are brilliant, but what do I know ? Too expensive for me anyway. I have never liked black, it isn’t a ‘colour’, scientifically it’s ‘a lack of colour’. These new strips will be very visible to our players on the field and that makes sense to me. When you are surrounded by the opposition, even a flash of leg, oops, got carried away again, of a shirt is helpful for a pass. Mark me down as ‘FOR’.
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Apart from the obvious dislike I have for the kit, I actually think they both look quite nice! Don’t like the sponsor but then they were the one’s who stumped up the cash so fair play to em!
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As a Wolves fan I must say I am impressed with the away kit, it looks really smart.
Also pleasing to see you have gone for a quality kit provider (Adidas) and not the cheap dross we’ve got.
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Quite like the kits myself. The color of the blue stripes could be a little darker,but overall they’re a new twist. As for the comments from the dark side;who are you to judge on our new kit in the face of the high viz’ orange splurge that you’re lot’ll be running around in next season? Your kit is truly awful. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE SOUTH BANK GO BOING BOING??????
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17 I don’t think the red being an advantage thing is true … how would you explain the success of Rangers, Celtic, Juventus, Milan, Brazil, Arentina, Italy, Germany etc … and the many teams that play in red that have only modest success (Barnsley, Charlton, Accy Stanley, Orient …)
BTW, love the new strips … at least 2 will be on display around the Med. this summer!
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10…….stop it my sides are killing me…thats so original I have never heard that before yawn yawn yawn anyway lunch is over get back to school
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15 – Carlito.
The price is set by the club and they will only sell through their own outlets. Other clubs Adidas shirts are available through other sports shops at a lower price. I agree the price is a disgrace. It’s £36 for an Infant kit! Funny how Stoke’s kit is cheaper albeit the exact same template.
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according to the clubshop theres talk of a 3rd strip as well ;D
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I think they both look great especially the away one, always nice to have something different every year. So glad we didn’t go back to green and yellow, absolutely hideous colour scheme only just better than the ‘orrible red and yellow from yester-year!
I’ll be getting both cuz I wear my teams colours with pride…even if it will set me back a few bob!
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Forgot to mention that if you look on the wba club shop website you can see that the navy blue in the home shirt is actually a lot darker than some of the pictures here give on…in fact the navy blue looks no different.
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lordsmyshepherd…i hadn’t allowed for camera angles/lighting etc having an effect on the blue stripes. very relieved to hear they’re still navy, so i take back what i said earlier. still not buying one though. kids need new shoes…
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p.s. check out pete nut on the other side, he claims celtic ain’t big enough to host the mighty wolves. priceless…
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24 – Smethwick
I’ve just checked Stoke’s website.
Our kit is EXACTLY the same design as theirs.
I wonder if their marketing dept sold it as a ” unique ” kit as it quite obviously isn’t.
I feel even more conned now !!
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class home not too sure about the away
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I love the away kit – really nice and a great colour too. How about yellow and green stripes for the (inevitable) third kit?
If the quality of the material is anywhere near as good as the training tops they’ve just released then I’ll be happy.
Plus, the kids training tops have a proper embroidered WBA badge on them – unlike the last couple of years’ kids Umbro kits – so top marks for that one too!
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smeth danny, your answer is yes especially after the 3rd goal went in.
i like the away kit.
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22- Kushty
I know what u mean, its just something I heard. Im not suggesting those teams Barnsley, Charlton, Rotheram etc put on a red shirt and should all of a sudden become Barcelona. Or Switzerland, Denmark, or Trinidad & Tobago should have won the World cup by now. If it did every team would be wearing red. Obviously u have to have some skill and superior / higher ability. But maybe it does give the team a slight edge over rival teams with a similar ability. Whether its in a big occassion event or over the course of a tournament/season.
Eg England over West Germany in white.
Or Man Utd over Chelsea in blue.
Who knows.. And I think that is correct, that we didnt lose in red last season. Its just things like that are strange and interesting.
Anyway I am still loving the away strip, if only the stripes covered the whole of the home shirt. Dont think i’ll be investing in the home shirt this year.
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I love the away kit, something very different to what we`ve had in recent years.Not keen on the home kit, i think the stripes should be to the collar and there should be blue sleeves.
However will still be purchasing both, and will wear them with pride come the opening day of the season.
As always Proud to be a BAGGIE!!
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30 Carlito baggie, your right, what a con and how lazy of Addidas, kit is EXACTLY the same as stokes accept different colours.
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Home kit is a ‘straight bat’ design – solid enough.
What is that away kit all about? Ridiculous colour choice – we have a Blue and White striped home kit so have decided to play in a blue away kit?!
Just means a 3rd kit will be launched in a bid to rinse us supporters some more.
BRING BACK THE GREEN AND YELLOW!!!
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Have aword with kit man, about time we got the late 70′s one back, the new home kit is minging
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I don’t mind the home strip as long as it hasn’t got that blue back to it. The logo isn’t as “in your face” as the little red hut. I’m not too keen on the away strip and for one reason. I’m an oldie and back when I was a youngster (just starting as a telephone engineer) our away strip was the same as our home strip but in yellow and green and I thought it looked great. We are supposed to be the stars in stripes so wheres the stripes on our away kit.
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Just seen a real nugget over on the dark side, Chazadawolf post 32 on the Celtic friendly thread, apparently according to a ‘reliable source’ Wolves are in the market for Charlie Adam!! Must be true then!
Could be tongue in cheek of course, or is it? I’ll leave you to make up your minds.
Boing Boing!!
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When we announced Adidas would be making the kits, and after seeing Stokes, I had a feeling it would be the same template. Disliked it for them, dislike it for us, although I’ve been told it looks better in the flesh. Have to say aswell , I think its terrible the Adidas logo is in the middle… basically saying they’re more imporant then the club, not to mention I like symmetry.
As for the away kit, better then I expected if im honest, although I think if the sponser, logo, and shoulder stripes were all white it would be much better, like that it makes the badge look odd
I suppose at least that stupid Red house has gone, and hope the home kit will grow on me, time will tell I guess.
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Quite nice shirts. mmmmmmmmmm ADIDAS who makes wolves shirts again DANDLION & BIRDOCK.
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When you play Chelsea, Man City, Everton, QPR, Blackburn and possibly others I’ve not thought of, are you going to wear the blue kit or the blue kit.
Bit of 3rd kit exploitation coming your way? Oh well, at least they’ll have them in your club shop on time.
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Don’t they look like a continental style.
Maybe Adidas are gearing us towards Europe?
Agree with others let’s have Green and Yellow for away.Something in your face.
The Home Shirt,there’s too much White.
We’m Blue and White
We’m Dynamite.
BAGGIESBAGGIESBAGGIES
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Joke-up,
ALBION pre-season in America. Wolves pre-season Jock-side.
To all BAGGIES Having a go at the new strip design. Have a look at what the Dingles are expecting to wear, When they are delivered.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Ayr United have Bodog as their shirt sponser too.
Aparently that chinese looking writing says Gambling Dog in Mandarin (what a geek I am)
Interesting that nearly everyone likes one and not the other.
I’m disappointed that we haven’t got a unique template for the home shirt.
I personally prefer the away.
I don’t like the design of the stripes on the back of the home shirt.
It looks like some kind of shield.
Does anybody know what colour the numbers will be on the back of the home shirt?
Red is better than that awful silver we had a couple of seasons back.
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30 – Carlito Baggie
36 – Brummie roader Ryan
Hull City’s is also the same yet even cheaper than Stoke. Also look at the collar on the Swansea home shirt. Exactly the same. Very lazy from Adidas.
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Just heard a rumour that a third strip will be released in the next few weeks.
It’s going to be green and yellow – but not as we know it.
Using the same template as the away strip, replace the light blue with yellow and the navy with green and that’s what it will look like – no stripes like the green and yellow we all know.
God only knows if that’s true or not!
Won’t we end up looking like Norwich?
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Warren
I see after all the work coming your way on financial matters you’ve had to bring Wigmore in as your assistant,
Adéu
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Back in 1944 we played in navy blue at home. No stripes, just blue. The club had what it could get and you needed ration coupons for clothes. Then in 1946, we played Villa at home and the club fetched out its stock of striped shirts, (pre-war probably). Several finished that game in rags and tatters as the cotton just fell apart with fouls, shirt-pulling, etc. Amusing yes, but marginally embarrassing too. But we were ‘appy in thorse deys wen we ‘ad nuthin’.
Kids terday, yer dow know yow’m born !
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Just read that Roberto could be Chelsea’s assistant manager. Brilliant for him, but just shows that Chelsea are running scared and need inside info on us for that 2nd match of the season.
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10. Navywolf.
and?
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Exactly the same design as swansea…stoke..hull….the downside to having a mainstream kit supplier i guess.
IMO…The away kit should always be Yellow and green stripes, end of.
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A few people mentioning we have the same template as other clubs e.g. Stoke, Newcastle.
All very true, but we also had the same template as a number of other clubs with our Umbro tops. The 2007/08 home top (promotion under Mowbray) featured a small pattern at the side seams, about 20 league clubs had the same pattern and same shirt but ours was probably distinguishable because it had stripes and several of the notable others didn’t. In this season’s case it seems several of those who share our template have stripes and are in the top flight, hence we’ve all noticed a bit more!!
Anyway, point being, that I agree with many of you that this is something of a disappointment, however I don’t think this is a laziness in design unique to Adidas or this season.
I like the away top though.
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To be honest all addidas kits are the same made out of about 5 or 6 designs its a case of which one do you want simple as that. A fleece jacket can be made out of about 20 2 ltr recycle plastic bottles so I dont think footballs shirts can be that much to make rip off Britain. I just wish Wolves would do a proper retro 70s shirt and I admit wba green yellow away shirt always looked good.
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I think the blue away top is a clever marketing ploy as it will go well with jeans and so be a “fashion” item – I don’t think it will see much pitch time if I’m honest, and that this third kit will be our usual away strip – just my opinion.
I still like the new home kit and who cares if there is a red one or a white one somewhere in the country… ours is blue and white stripes and so it’s the best !!!
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It seems we don’t have a story to comment on today, so going slightly off the topic above:
Mulumbu to stay- great news. He and Dorrans fit and available is something to look forward to.
Gera to decide- as said before, probably not everybody’s first choice, but must be an improvement on Barnes.
Thorne called into England U20′s- Thorne declared himself about 5 hours ago that he wasn’t joining up on ‘club advice’, so I’d discard that story. Perhaps that implies the club see a bigger role for him in the coming season!!
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Oh and RDM…..
Congratulations on his Chelsea appointment and best wishes to him.
I’ll be on holiday for Chelsea (a) but I hope he gets the reception he deserves from our travelling support that day!!
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Congrats to RDM on his new job – I think it will be perfect for him.
I think RDM and Villas-Boas have a combined age less than Ferguson !!!
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Happy Baggie
Steady on son! you’re beginning to sound like Quinton Crisp.
Adéu
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Quite impressed with that Home Shirt. Not to sure on the away one. Looks quite smart
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Nice shirt. Dont know what all the fuss is about, there is only so much you can do with stripes anyway.
A word of warning though, if any of you do purchase the afore menthioned garment,,,
Dont have Odemwingie’s name printed on the back, cus it will be out of date by the end of July.
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hahahaha lone wolf, thought you were gonna say ‘don’t have odemwingie’s name on it cuz it will be very expensive and take up too much space on the shirt’….you’re one step ahead as usual. i’ve got some cheese in my fridge that will be out of date by the end of july, especially if someone comes in with a massive offer…i’ve heard a rumour that Cathedral City have already put a bid in…
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Shamrock,
Of course we’ll have our third strip in the club shops on time. Unlike Your stupid Burka strip, late again wolves.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
P.S. Have the models who paraded it around the City , given it up as a bad job.
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Lone
A) Without tempting fate, i believe Odemwingie, will still be a Baggies player for at least another season.
B) I could`t afford his name on a shirt, which, i am not going to buy anyway.
C) If i were going to buy a shirt, and then decided i was going to put a name on the back, i would go for Lone Wolf, because there is NO CHANCE you will be leaving your adopted bretheren.
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Odd Fellow,
Does my heart good to see your green eyes shining. Sure does. Just think what it would be like if wolves had class artists like ALBION have. Never mind you still have old father Craddock!, sorry, time.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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To lone wolf. At least we are having to to fend off the big clubs who are trying to sign our players must mean we had a good season aye. How many clubs big or small are you lot having to fend off mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not many i wonder why.
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62 lonely-
talkin’ of names on shirts,I see your lot are very money-conscious these days.
The ones with ‘Craddock’ printed on the back know it will last ‘em for at least 30 years…….
As for Osaze,it’s true that he’s wanted by top European clubs,so you could be right,best not to have his name on the back of yer shirt.That is,unless you support Barcelona.
But as for your ‘Doyler’-
no need to panic lads,you wulfs can confidently stick his name on your shirt.
Mick’s phoned every premiership manager to tell them- ‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF KEVIN DOYLE!!’.
And everyone reacted the same way-
they turned to their assistants,and said-
‘who IS this Kelvin Dial,anyway???’.
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Probably best to take Lone’s advice and wait before having ANY of our players’ names on the back. All are coveted by ‘Big’ Clubs.
The Wulfies will be OK though, go ahead and order your shirts.
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OK now it’s official! Vile tickets £42,Dingle tickets £40.
Adéu
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