I'm not saying they aren't right to sit them out, just that it isn't like any other injury, the players are capable of playing, probably half the time want to play, but an external party is saying they can't play for their own good. Great for the player's long term interest and s**t for the team on the day
I can answer a few questions about this sort of thing since I am involved in this industry myself.
1. These are almost certainly bootleg products. Whoever runs this store does not have permission to use the official team logo on merchandise. No money will go to FFC if you bought something, unlike if you bought official AFL merchandise in Australia.
2. The price is very high in comparison to similar products available elsewhere. This hoodie is $107 AUD. I could offer you the same product at $50 and still make a pretty tidy profit. They are offering Free Shipping by the look of it (typically it would cost about $10).
3. The countdown simply refers to the time left until the print run begins. Typically they will take orders for a few days and then print it at the end of the timer. It doesn't really mean a lot, it's just meant to encourage you to buy. But the closer to the end of the timer, the less time it will take for you to receive the product (but you should still expect at least 3-4 weeks wait for something shipping from the USA or Europe).
This site in particular looks very amateurish. The images they have used are of low quality. I would have serious doubts about the print quality of their merchandise if they can't even use the proper resolution images on their website (clothing printing requires 300dpi or higher resolution graphics vs web images only needed to be 72 dpi).
Their mockups don't even use a displacement map to make the product look realistic on the purchase page. They've just superimposed the graphic over a blank product instead. Compare to this which is how I mockup my products.
It looks as though it's actually printed on (even though it isn't, it's just using advanced photoshop shadow features over a plain white t-shirt).
I would be interested to hear how you found the page, did someone tell you about it or did you click an ad somewhere?
For comparison, here is my site. www.cricketstraya.com Most of mine don't have hoodies (mainly because people don't wear hoodies to cricket games in Australia). But I could easily offer the same designs on a Hoodie for $50 ($60 if printed both sides). Here's a design of mine with a hoodie option (need to select Hoodie in the style menu): https://www.moteefe.com/16hands-frontl
So $110 seems wildly expensive to me. And if anyone is interested I am looking into creating custom Freo supporters gear as well.
I found it interesting last week that the commentary thought Carlton were about 18 months behind us in the rebuilding... and we are 12 months in...Tabs > McCartin.
Just saying. Guy's a flop.
Oh and hows that rebuild since 2010, hey plugger
