Hawthorn's merchandising

CyberKev

Premiership Player
Joined
May 23, 2001
Posts
3,702
Likes
9
Location
In a house
AFL Club
Hawthorn
Other Teams
Liverpool, Oakland Raiders
Thread starter #1
Hawthorn's online merchandising department like to espouse the virtues of their merchandise, which is quite unusual for a capitalist enterprise, but how good is the stuff really?

To provide a few working examples...

TRAINING TOPS - I splashed on a couple over the summer and they're not nearly as flattering on me as they look on Hodgey in the ads! Its really quite outrageous that Hawthorn can be freely flogging apparel that makes me look overweight.

KIDS FOOTBALLS - WTF! Flogging kids footballs, how childish is that!

THONGS - Fair dinkum, are they ghastly or what?! Who is head of marketing down there, Richie Vandenberg?! I mean to say, you have a bit of brown, a bit of gold, an image of an unlicensed hovercraft hooning Hawk to top off the splendour, and even then they can't make the bloody things look classy!

PERFORMANCE INHIBITING SUBSTANCES - Just like a Victorian club to be trailling in the wake of the interstaters. These are all the rage out west and yet you can't even purchase as much as a suspicious looking tablet from the HFC website! Appalling!

Its all good and fine for the Hawthorn merchandising department to be talking a good game and for the Hawk fanbase to be lauding them uncritically, but IMHO they need to lift big time or they'll not be remembered for anything other than wasted potential (and, perhaps, some spiffy Josh Thurgood tea towels).
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Nightwolf

Brownlow Medallist
Joined
Jul 25, 2004
Posts
10,016
Likes
48
AFL Club
Hawthorn
#3
Some Buddy Franklin magic kits for the kids would be a lovely idea..

Id purchase some Danny Jacobs stubby holders too... "I didnt drink drive"..
 
Top Bottom