"I've decided to take my talents to Adelaide..."

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Signing with the West Coast Eagles

Doesn't seem like the right fit for the west coke eagles

Line of t-shirts!

Citizenship announcement ?

I hope they have a better logo if it's t shirts

Fingers crossed for citizenship !

The pic looks like a clothing logo. But the timing would be really bad after you just announced you were (possibly) leaving the place you've been loved for 3 years. Wouldn't be great for sales.

His opting-out announcement mentions something his team had been working on and that was unrelated to him opting out, and so I assume unrelated to a subsequent signing?

You wouldn't farewell Wildcats fans if you were going to take an ownership stake or start a local business.

Personal brand thing of some sort? Is anything short of NBA "big news" though?

Good chance this isn't a big announcement

Why would you opt out of your contract to naturalise and then make a launch announcement? The implication in his other post was that the opting-out was unrelated to whatever this is.

Just about ruling out this being a big announcement in the context of forum hoopsters!

Re a line of clothing or brand, doesn't or teys have one?

Cadee or Teys

New line of clothing..?? Second Ever..!!

Do you reckon it'd be all cotton material?

Annnnd,it's a clothing line.

meh

These athletes really do live in a bubble.

Pretty expensive. $65 for a T-shirt. The company that's attached (Aeroture) is also selling signed prints for $990, you could get his game worn jersey signed for $700 in the wildcats auction last week.

Those are some butt ugly designs.

Opts out of Australian contract. Launches t-shirts on .com.au domain with Australian product fulfilment. (Obviously they'd been working on this long before he opted out.)

True.

I don't mind the shirts, just out of the price range I'm willing to pay for a casual T-shirt.

Real odd time to do this for a number of reasons.

No 1- Opts out and leaves the NBL, as much as people have said they are all good with it, they'd sit back and say he wants to go but here is a shirt i would like you to buy to help me out financially, which leads into my second point

No - Current economic client, a lot of people have bigger financial issues at the moment than forking out for a 65 dollar t shirt or a 990 print, that if you searched the internet, i'm sure you could download something similar and get it framed for half the price.

This may have been in the planning long before the virus, but surely you could role this back, given everything that is currently going on in the world.

The other thing with this, as much as i have loved him playing for Perth and wish him nothing but the best, his market for a product like this would only be in Perth, he is not that big of a name worldwide that you'd think people are interested in.

The Wildcats should buy $300k worth of T-shirts on the proviso he opts back into his contract

" No one is forcing you to buy them "


Not planning to, but i'm not a big merch buyer, i was just pointing out one of the reasons it was a strange time to do this.

If he gets desperate he can give them to the Cats who will be able to use them. They were still shooting Casey Prather T's out of the TShirt cannon into the crowd 2 years after he left!

Everyone wants to have their own clothes brand these days haha

How many in Australia would be able to pull it off? I'm afraid Cotton would be "niche".

Simmons, maybe even Mills, Delly, Bogut can pull it off to an extent in a local Aussie market. Even then can’t imagine it really being that much of a profitable proposition.

JC