Originally Posted by
fulvio sammut
Once upon a time (last year in fact) there was a sporting apparel company which heavily marketed itself in the Australian rugby community. It's sample products were of good quality, and it's prices surprisingly competitive. Many clubs, including quite a few from WA, ordered their next season kit from them, including Palmyra. Palmyra in fact ordered six sets of new kit, including womens.
That company's name was BLK. You may have heard about them.
Now Palmyra had 3 teams in the grand finals last year, and as is customary, the players in those teams were permitted to retain their playing jumper as a memento and recognition of their successful season.
Then disaster happened. Early this year BLK went into administration and production stopped. They were unable to fulfill their orders Australia wide.
There was panic and re ordering from other suppliers by some clubs, but eventually after many weeks, BLK'S Administrators managed to arrange for the manufacture and delivery of kit to some clubs, I suspect to those who hadn't prepaid their order, of which Palmyra was one.
However that delivery has only just commenced, and Palmyra has received one set of first grade jumpers last week, which they wore yesterday, with the promise of the other to follow shortly.
You will appreciate, hopefully, therefore, that there was a logistic problem when the season commenced.
Old sets of kit in the clubs store room were sorted, and players were asked to temporarily return their last season's gear.
At the end of all this pre season muddle, Palmyra had six sets to start the season with, but the numbers of each set were perforce jumbled to a considerable extent, because the sets retained had jumpers missing, and not all of those given away made their way back. There was duplication of numbers in every set.
I trust therefore that the above goes some way towards allaying your concerns, Mr. Rascal, and allows you time to concentrate on the rest of your no doubt exhaustive investigations of other conspiracy theories.
Did you see Elvis at Perth's clubrooms last night? I'm sure he was there.