Castore Kit Thread

[OhW 4,669]

1 hour ago, Moody Blue Legend said:

Some laugh when they send you a jumper with prefect piping on it.  We upgrade from the standard school jumper.

They should probably get rid of this quote from the website tbh. 

[The Dude 20,026]

https://www.rangersnews.uk/columnist/three-questions-Rangers-and-castore-must-answer-after-shareholder-demands-answers/

[Toronto2Glasgow 1,824]

5 hours ago, OhW said:

They should probably get rid of this quote from the website tbh. 

He must not of pre ordered his 

[Fergieblue 25]

Extremely disappointed with quality 

[ZZed 4,510]

21 hours ago, KAI said:

So you want to  fuck her,sodomise her murder her , then cremate her.

Its a good start

[VanVeenRangers 2,537]

24 minutes ago, Fergieblue said:

Extremely disappointed with quality 

What did you order?

[Lovenkrands72 479]

5 minutes ago, MorelosRangers said:

What did you order?

Guys never bought a Rangers top in his life mate 

[SpiritofBillStruth 167]

33 minutes ago, Fergieblue said:

Extremely disappointed with quality 

Contrast that to the 2 3rd kits i bought my boys. Both excellent quality, both been washed several times already and both with the proper stripe detail on the back of the neck. 

[SPWF 8,256]

See the pre-order home tops that arrived on time, and people were raving about the quality (and there was plenty that did), are these the same tools people are now claiming are terrible quality? 

[gj923 1,457]

1 hour ago, Toronto2Glasgow said:

He must not of pre ordered his 

He got it from Sports Direct so he was fine

[theblueoysterbar 19,668]

10 minutes ago, tm91 said:

If you're in a restaurant and you and your wife each buy a steak, and you get one that's fine enough, but your wife's steak has clearly been cooked to a higher standard and is clearly a lot tastier than yours, you might be a little pissed, even if you would have been fine with the steak had you gone on your own. 

[alan_himself 45]

Dunno if they are definitely superior quality, the mesh bit everyone goes on about looks a bit cheap to me. they are replicas either way, not the actual pro version despite castores lie so could argue the China ones are inferior really but neither of them are the players versions at the end of the day. 

[British_Empire 9,648]

1 minute ago, alan_himself said:

Dunno if they are definitely superior quality, the mesh bit everyone goes on about looks a bit cheap to me. they are replicas either way, not the actual pro version despite castores lie so could argue the China ones are inferior really but neither of them are the players versions at the end of the day. 

Alan, it's yerself

[AlbertzLoyalRSC 18,080]

17 minutes ago, alan_himself said:

Dunno if they are definitely superior quality, the mesh bit everyone goes on about looks a bit cheap to me. they are replicas either way, not the actual pro version despite castores lie so could argue the China ones are inferior really but neither of them are the players versions at the end of the day. 

Have you got both to compare? Or neither as suspected.

[eskbankloyal 19,446]

22 hours ago, psb07158 said:

On top of the jumper fiasco btw, out of the online order I made , they cancelled my hoody and switched the t-shirt out for another one. I emailed to say can you just cancel the entire order and I have had no response or dispatch notice. So they currently have had my money for around 2 weeks or whenever the lifestyle range first went on-sale online and at this stage I have no idea whether I'm getting a t-shirt I didn't want or my money back

Edit - I don't want to keep slating these guys tbh I know how hard it is to run a start-up but ultimately their communication has been a joke and if they don't have the staff to deal with enquiries they either have to hire more or outsource their customer service to a third party because this really can't go on for 5 years

 

You know more than most about the challenges of running a start-up but when you look at their make up the problems are self-inflicted. You have the 2 Beahon brothers, with no real experience in running a retail operation albeit done well to get to this stage. Their FD has 2 years PQ experience (no industry experience), Director or Ops has 2.5 years experience as an engineer. Their head of customer service, head of design and Head of marketing all have less then 5 years experience. The only one with experience is head of supply chain, ironically. 

Add to that they’ve no chairman & no non-execs. It’s incredible & I’m amazed it past any kind of internal due diligence at Rangers, no laughing at the back.

[G13 3,038]

10 hours ago, SPWF said:

See the pre-order home tops that arrived on time, and people were raving about the quality (and there was plenty that did), are these the same tools people are now claiming are terrible quality? 

No, not at all. I pre-ordered and thought it was good quality and still do. I suppose in any supply chain there will be stuff slips through the net especially with such a volume as was seen in the demand for our new tops in such a short space of time. That said, from what I see (online) Castore do seem to have a lot of questions to answer and are wriggling a bit. I hope this is just a 'blip' and it can get fixed quickly so all us supporters are happy and the club can make plenty of money going forward.

[esquire8 42,901]

The silence from the club over all of this, including Castores lying response and Club1872 statement, is absolutely ridiculous. Genuinely think they are hoping for this all to wash over and we go back to being happy little fans pumping obscene amount of money into the retail. They managed to get response statements out in an hour during the whole SPFL shite yet remain fucking silent when we are getting fucked over by the Castore clowns? I think what's been said on here about what's happening at boardroom level is correct and it's more blatantly obvious than ever.

We fucking deserve better and should be demanding better.

[alan_himself 45]

9 hours ago, AlbertzLoyalRSC said:

Have you got both to compare? Or neither as suspected.

Preordered my man 😉 

[RangersMedia 35,961]

54 minutes ago, eskbankloyal said:

You know more than most about the challenges of running a start-up but when you look at their make up the problems are self-inflicted. You have the 2 Beahon brothers, with no real experience in running a retail operation albeit done well to get to this stage. Their FD has 2 years PQ experience (no industry experience), Director or Ops has 2.5 years experience as an engineer. Their head of customer service, head of design and Head of marketing all have less then 5 years experience. The only one with experience is head of supply chain, ironically. 

Add to that they’ve no chairman & no non-execs. It’s incredible & I’m amazed it past any kind of internal due diligence at Rangers, no laughing at the back.

That's very fair comment mate. The single piece of advice I give to every startup and hope they take seriously and implement is "please build yourself a strong and experienced board" 

There's no excuses for it. I could get Castore introductions in 2 mins to senior execs with 40+ years who are now looking for NED roles or advisory type roles. 

[esquire8 42,901]

3 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

That's very fair comment mate. The single piece of advice I give to every startup and hope they take seriously and implement is "please build yourself a strong and experienced board" 

There's no excuses for it. I could get Castore introductions in 2 mins to senior execs with 40+ years who are now looking for NED roles or advisory type roles. 

Then why are they not doing this? Why did a very experienced commercial man like Bisgrove not do the due deligence on these clowns? Something stinks.

[RangersMedia 35,961]

7 minutes ago, esquire8 said:

Then why are they not doing this? Why did a very experienced commercial man like Bisgrove not do the due deligence on these clowns? Something stinks.

No idea. 

1 of my colleagues in Nottingham went to Uni with 1 of the founders, I've just sent him an email asking for an introduction to the brothers. I know I / my firm can quite easily help them fix their issues. Will see if I get any response. 

[Fergieblue 25]

14 hours ago, MorelosRangers said:

What did you order?

two home tops and one T-shirt 

[McEwan's Lager 30,560]

4 hours ago, eskbankloyal said:

You know more than most about the challenges of running a start-up but when you look at their make up the problems are self-inflicted. You have the 2 Beahon brothers, with no real experience in running a retail operation albeit done well to get to this stage. Their FD has 2 years PQ experience (no industry experience), Director or Ops has 2.5 years experience as an engineer. Their head of customer service, head of design and Head of marketing all have less then 5 years experience. The only one with experience is head of supply chain, ironically. 

Add to that they’ve no chairman & no non-execs. It’s incredible & I’m amazed it past any kind of internal due diligence at Rangers, no laughing at the back.

Someone told me they used to work for Ann Summers?

[eskbankloyal 19,446]

5 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Someone told me they used to work for Ann Summers?

They did, aye

[esquire8 42,901]

15 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Someone told me they used to work for Ann Summers?

Over a decade ago And after that worked for a clothing range that supplied a certain House of Fraser