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Post by ritchie on Jul 17, 2019 19:07:03 GMT 1
Do the club think we , as fans, didn't face enough ridicule and scorn over the past 12 months or something? Do Sean jarvis and Hodgkinson now have meetings to think of new ways of making fans of other clubs laugh at us? Hopefully this is all bogus, but whether it is or isn;t, what a clusterfuck of an idea it is to choose to make us a laughing stock, after one of the toughest seasons weve had watching our team. totally agree Anyone proclaiming it 'a stroke of genius' must be easily pleased. it's just shit 'banter' by a shithouse company at the expense of the clubs image. Surely the only people who have enjoyed this stunt is paddy power and other teams fans
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Post by Darren B on Jul 17, 2019 19:07:47 GMT 1
Why does it have 3 stars? We were only in the premier league for 2 seasons? 💁♂️ I'm assuming that's a joke? Because if it's not you'd have Man Utd, Liverpool shirts etc. looking like the flag of the European union... Of course it’s a joke..... that’s exactly what this entire thread is!
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Post by El Mel on Jul 17, 2019 19:08:04 GMT 1
Honestly can't grasp how some folk are offended by this. Clearly a joke (and the joke is on those getting wound up or falling for the prank - not the club).
Think the last 3 days have been brilliant seeing the club thrust into the limelight on the back of PP'S marketing.
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Post by terrierZed on Jul 17, 2019 19:11:26 GMT 1
Honestly can't grasp how some folk are offended by this. Clearly a joke (and the joke is on those getting wound up or falling for the prank - not the club). Think the last 3 days have been brilliant seeing the club thrust into the limelight on the back of PP'S marketing. Genuinely intrigued as to how they’re going to ‘reveal’ the proper one now. Must have something good up their sleeve to keep it going this long...especially after the changing room pic too
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Post by terrierinsurrey on Jul 17, 2019 19:12:11 GMT 1
What do you think of our new sponsor Paddy Power? I really like them and I think they will be great for us.
They fit in nicely with our sense of humour
When will the shirt be revealed? Wednesday at the Rochdale game
Extract from examiner text updates from PH Q&A
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Post by rantinray on Jul 17, 2019 19:12:47 GMT 1
I think that goes for all of the new seasons kit. Do you mean previous seasons? Not sure but we’ve had a chance to pre-order in the past haven’t we? Wasn’t there massive delay in the first PL season? Sorry my reply was a little vague. The online store was not selling any stock of any form of strip/kit earlier this afternoon.
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jul 17, 2019 19:13:39 GMT 1
Do the club think we , as fans, didn't face enough ridicule and scorn over the past 12 months or something? Do Sean jarvis and Hodgkinson now have meetings to think of new ways of making fans of other clubs laugh at us? Hopefully this is all bogus, but whether it is or isn;t, what a clusterfuck of an idea it is to choose to make us a laughing stock, after one of the toughest seasons weve had watching our team. totally agree Anyone proclaiming it 'a stroke of genius' must be easily pleased. it's just shit 'banter' by a shithouse company at the expense of the clubs image. Surely the only people who have enjoyed this stunt is paddy power and other teams fans I hear this term a lot, ‘the club’s image’. Why are people so precious that they worry about what others think? I have a 10 year old daughter and always teach her that it doesn’t matter what others think about you, just be happy.
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Post by town1 on Jul 17, 2019 19:14:10 GMT 1
Mission Statement The Club's strategy is unchanged from the start of the ‘New Era’ "…. working together to be a successful, sustainable and financially viable Football Club, that we can all take pride in…."
The Club’s 10 values will be at the heart of everything it does:
- Honesty - It will be fair, truthful and morally upright - Integrity - It will be steadfast and adhere to high principles and professional standards - Trust - It will give people confidence in the good qualities of the Club, especially fairness, honour and ability - Commitment - It will be devoted and dedicated to the Club, the players, the fans and its Community - Pride - It will recognise the importance of all the Club efforts and achievements; that have made Yorkshire and our Club great - Respect - It will have high regard, recognition and appreciation for everyone we deal with - Quality - It will strive to have the highest standards we can in everything undertaken by the Club - Value - It will provide value for money - Success - It will be driven and focused on achieving individual, collective and Club success - Character - It will be courageous, straight talking and entrepreneurial together with all its other qualities and values that is what will make Huddersfield Town distinctive
From its mission statement and values, the Club makes a 10-point pledge to its supporters, people and community to be:
- Always Sincere, Never Pretentious - Always Positive, Never Downhearted - Always Personal, Never Condescending - Always Striving, Never Pushy - Always Straight Talking, Never Lecturing - Always Leading, Never Dictating - Always Confident, Never Arrogant - Always Inspiring, Never Depressing - Always Honest, Never Deceitful - Always HTAFC, Never Self-Interested
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Post by specialun on Jul 17, 2019 19:15:03 GMT 1
Honestly can't grasp how some folk are offended by this. Clearly a joke (and the joke is on those getting wound up or falling for the prank - not the club). Think the last 3 days have been brilliant seeing the club thrust into the limelight on the back of PP'S marketing. Agreed - I’ve not had to moan about our league 2 transfer policy We’ve had more publicity today than since the first few months in the Premier league
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 19:15:35 GMT 1
Would be fine on the shirts of the Irish national team.....frighten the opposition a bit.....:-)
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Jul 17, 2019 19:16:04 GMT 1
The clues are there.... The dressing room shirt isn't the same as the reveal shirts check how the proximity of the badge to the sash on them both and the reveal shirts the sash goes to the bottom of the shirt and yet the blue stripe is visible at the bottom of the sash in the dressing room shot and the sash goes onto the sleeve in the dressing room too.
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jul 17, 2019 19:16:05 GMT 1
Mission Statement The Club's strategy is unchanged from the start of the ‘New Era’ "…. working together to be a successful, sustainable and financially viable Football Club, that we can all take pride in…." The Club’s 10 values will be at the heart of everything it does: - Honesty - It will be fair, truthful and morally upright - Integrity - It will be steadfast and adhere to high principles and professional standards - Trust - It will give people confidence in the good qualities of the Club, especially fairness, honour and ability - Commitment - It will be devoted and dedicated to the Club, the players, the fans and its Community - Pride - It will recognise the importance of all the Club efforts and achievements; that have made Yorkshire and our Club great - Respect - It will have high regard, recognition and appreciation for everyone we deal with - Quality - It will strive to have the highest standards we can in everything undertaken by the Club - Value - It will provide value for money - Success - It will be driven and focused on achieving individual, collective and Club success - Character - It will be courageous, straight talking and entrepreneurial together with all its other qualities and values that is what will make Huddersfield Town distinctive From its mission statement and values, the Club makes a 10-point pledge to its supporters, people and community to be: - Always Sincere, Never Pretentious - Always Positive, Never Downhearted - Always Personal, Never Condescending - Always Striving, Never Pushy - Always Straight Talking, Never Lecturing - Always Leading, Never Dictating - Always Confident, Never Arrogant - Always Inspiring, Never Depressing - Always Honest, Never Deceitful - Always HTAFC, Never Self-Interested It isn’t a frat house. And that’s a 20 point pledge.
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Post by Bojaj Horseman on Jul 17, 2019 19:18:03 GMT 1
Do the club think we , as fans, didn't face enough ridicule and scorn over the past 12 months or something? Do Sean jarvis and Hodgkinson now have meetings to think of new ways of making fans of other clubs laugh at us? Hopefully this is all bogus, but whether it is or isn;t, what a clusterfuck of an idea it is to choose to make us a laughing stock, after one of the toughest seasons weve had watching our team. The Not Martin From Wakefield announcement of a manager that then picked up 4 points from his first however many games was bad enough. The odd joke is fine but we’re making ourselves look like a small club on a constant basis. I thought the Martin from Wakefield thing was alright. It was initially some blundering reporting from Sky, which was handled by the club in a funny way, and ended up with a lot of donations towards a kids charity. This was done by a company that's only been associated with the club for 2 days. I'm not particularly bothered about it, but the only people it's going to upset are town fans who've just suffered through a terrible season, showing plenty of self deprecation along the way. Hopefully the end result of this is them getting auctioned off for Martin House or something similar, but I doubt it with Paddypower involved.
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Post by stanton1969 on Jul 17, 2019 19:19:28 GMT 1
The clues are there.... The dressing room shirt isn't the same as the reveal shirts check how the proximity of the badge to the sash on them both and the reveal shirts the sash goes to the bottom of the shirt and yet the blue stripe is visible at the bottom of the sash in the dressing room shot and the sash goes onto the sleeve in the dressing room too. I'm colour blind.....so I could be wrong. Isn't the full stop a different colour?
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Post by artysid on Jul 17, 2019 19:19:32 GMT 1
Always Honest, Never Deceitful
Surely that proves the shirt is genuine?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 19:20:03 GMT 1
Mission Statement The Club's strategy is unchanged from the start of the ‘New Era’ "…. working together to be a successful, sustainable and financially viable Football Club, that we can all take pride in…." The Club’s 10 values will be at the heart of everything it does: - Honesty - It will be fair, truthful and morally upright - Integrity - It will be steadfast and adhere to high principles and professional standards - Trust - It will give people confidence in the good qualities of the Club, especially fairness, honour and ability - Commitment - It will be devoted and dedicated to the Club, the players, the fans and its Community - Pride - It will recognise the importance of all the Club efforts and achievements; that have made Yorkshire and our Club great - Respect - It will have high regard, recognition and appreciation for everyone we deal with - Quality - It will strive to have the highest standards we can in everything undertaken by the Club - Value - It will provide value for money - Success - It will be driven and focused on achieving individual, collective and Club success - Character - It will be courageous, straight talking and entrepreneurial together with all its other qualities and values that is what will make Huddersfield Town distinctive From its mission statement and values, the Club makes a 10-point pledge to its supporters, people and community to be: - Always Sincere, Never Pretentious - Always Positive, Never Downhearted - Always Personal, Never Condescending - Always Striving, Never Pushy - Always Straight Talking, Never Lecturing - Always Leading, Never Dictating - Always Confident, Never Arrogant - Always Inspiring, Never Depressing - Always Honest, Never Deceitful - Always HTAFC, Never Self-Interested
No commitment to tackling gambling addiction....climate change....trafficking....slavery. No commitment to progressing towards 50% of the squad being female. Sorry, but not nearly woke enough.
And crap shirt too........
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 19:20:07 GMT 1
Honestly can't grasp how some folk are offended by this. Clearly a joke (and the joke is on those getting wound up or falling for the prank - not the club). Think the last 3 days have been brilliant seeing the club thrust into the limelight on the back of PP'S marketing. Aren’t jokes meant to be funny? Just seems so pointless. Nobody apart from Town fans will be buying it so they aren’t gonna get any new custom from it. Trending for a few hours on Twitter? That’s really not a big deal. Paddy Power have finally found a club (owner) daft enough to let them do it. They couldn’t care less about us, this is all about them, make no mistake about it. We benefit in no way.
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Post by boooothy on Jul 17, 2019 19:20:47 GMT 1
If you think bin bottom of the Premier League is embarrassing you probably think this is.
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Post by Yorkie on Jul 17, 2019 19:23:45 GMT 1
“We scored a goal” “How shit must you be, it’s only 1-0” “We’re on our way..to the championship” “Luton Town Awaaaay” If you can’t laugh at yourself you’re gonna live a very sad life. Get that but thats humour in the face of adversity. This is just allowing a sponsor to make us into a national laughing stock for their own click-bait benefit. What we going to get next? Some 'hilarious' spoof of Schindler being caught wanking over a photo of Bielsa? We aren’t a laughing stock, the ones thinking it’s real (mainly other teams fans) are gonna be the laughing stock.
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jul 17, 2019 19:27:33 GMT 1
This thread is why we can be so tinpot at times. Look at the shit the big clubs get week in, week out. All over social media all season, horrible comments about clubs and players. All because they are in the limelight. We get a exposure for a day and our fans just wet their knickers. We deserve all we get.
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Post by ritchie on Jul 17, 2019 19:33:25 GMT 1
totally agree Anyone proclaiming it 'a stroke of genius' must be easily pleased. it's just shit 'banter' by a shithouse company at the expense of the clubs image. Surely the only people who have enjoyed this stunt is paddy power and other teams fans I hear this term a lot, ‘the club’s image’. Why are people so precious that they worry about what others think? I have a 10 year old daughter and always teach her that it doesn’t matter what others think about you, just be happy. odd angle, really completely different things. Personally a big part of supporting a club is how the club behave...just see this whole paddy power thing as painful. seems if anyone thinks that though they "cant take a joke" Richest we've ever been, had a miserable season last year, sold a couple of key players and not exactly wowed the fans with incomings. Just agree with slapps it's a bit ill-judged, no toys out of the pram or anything this year especially, parachute payments, most valuable squad ever....lets do the talking on the pitch. We got plenty of good/bad PR in the last 2 seasons. paddy power get lots of good PR but i dont think the club do...and if the season starts off badly andthey are ripping into the club/players on social media/it's in the press it's not in anyway helpful
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 19:35:27 GMT 1
Do the club think we , as fans, didn't face enough ridicule and scorn over the past 12 months or something? Do Sean jarvis and Hodgkinson now have meetings to think of new ways of making fans of other clubs laugh at us? Hopefully this is all bogus, but whether it is or isn;t, what a clusterfuck of an idea it is to choose to make us a laughing stock, after one of the toughest seasons weve had watching our team. “We scored a goal” “How shit must you be, it’s only 1-0” “We’re on our way..to the championship” “Luton Town Awaaaay” If you can’t laugh at yourself you’re gonna live a very sad life. Which is fine...but that’s Town fans doing it. Paddy Power taking the piss is not self deprecating, it’s Paddy Power taking the piss.
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Post by bluestripe on Jul 17, 2019 19:35:28 GMT 1
Have we made ourselves a laughing stock? or merely demonstrated we can have a laugh? Hope they wear that shirt tonight (for the only time mind you) and auction them off for the foundation & make a packet for a good cause. What kind of good cause? Save the Snowflake foundation 😀
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jul 17, 2019 19:36:29 GMT 1
I hear this term a lot, ‘the club’s image’. Why are people so precious that they worry about what others think? I have a 10 year old daughter and always teach her that it doesn’t matter what others think about you, just be happy. odd angle, really completely different things. Personally a big part of supporting a club is how the club behave...just see this whole paddy power thing as painful. seems if anyone thinks that though they "cant take a joke" Richest we've ever been, had a miserable season last year, sold a couple of key players and not exactly wowed the fans with incomings. Just agree with slapps it's a bit ill-judged, no toys out of the pram or anything this year especially, parachute payments, most valuable squad ever....lets do the talking on the pitch. We got plenty of good/bad PR in the last 2 seasons. paddy power get lots of good PR but i dont think the club do...and if the season starts off badly andthey are ripping into the club/players on social media/it's in the press it's not in anyway helpful Said the same to rastrick today, it’s all about results. We do well, this will all have been in jest, poorly then it may be looked back on as a problem. Time will tell.
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Post by bluestripe on Jul 17, 2019 19:36:37 GMT 1
Has anybody thought where Pritchard is? Have all Town players been on a strict diet and had surgery to all become the same size? He can't play tonight as they could only fit a sash with "Pad" on it 😀
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Post by townohiofan on Jul 17, 2019 19:36:45 GMT 1
I have friends that don't even follow the sport who have sent me messages about this. Another friend told me they think the stunt is hilarious and asked how to buy one. Excellent marketing.
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Post by deadleg on Jul 17, 2019 19:38:02 GMT 1
Having a sense of humour about yourselves is one thing (god knows we've all needed and, for the most part, displayed it in recent months) but agreeing to have a pretty horrible company make you the butt of their (lowest common denominator, IMO) humour in exchange for a few quid is a different thing entirely.
It's the power dynamic I find embarrassing, not the kit stunt in itself. It makes us look like Paddy Power have us trained and doing tricks for them.. Which they have.
After the year we've had I feel like keeping our heads down and trying to rebuild some sort of sense of pride and dignity might've been the better option, but what do I know.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jul 17, 2019 19:39:10 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 19:41:30 GMT 1
There's two shirts hangers so the real one is probably behind it. The GK shirt has a blue and white one behind it. Pretty certain it is a wind up now, I like the look of the shirt in terms of designs and colours (obviously apart from the Miss Paddy Power sash) but I hope the badge doesn't end up being in the middle although I'm not so sure that'll change! There’s multiple hangers cos we’ve got a massive friendly squad in a regular changing room surely? (Although only seem to have named 5 subs!? I assume we’ll name another XI and subs at half time)
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Post by Melc on Jul 17, 2019 19:41:33 GMT 1
I bet they peel of the sash just before they kick off!
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