TK producing indoor pad covers??

With quite a few goalkeepers wearing TK embroided pad covers for indoor hockey in England, one wonders whether they will actually be producing them in the near future. Although they look more like a design in the vein of adapted pillow cases, taped on at the sides of the pads, versus the strapping system Verbunt use, someone has still made the effort to get the TK logo embroided on them! Canterbury's Diccon Stubbings (as illustrates below) could be seen wearing them, with a few others spotted in them. James Bailey has also been spotted in them in indoor action for club side Reading and internationally with England indoor of late. Allan Dick playing for Holcombe was also wearing them at the Maxifuels Finals in Wembley yesterday. Seem to be quite a few of the England sponsored TK goalies in them, so are they going to be on the market any time soon?!

Mercian releasing indoor pad covers?!

Quite old news/rumour wise now, but Jamie Legg was trialling some indoor pad covers which seemed to be prototypes for a design said to be potentially produced by Mercian in his time playing indoor with Reading. I think they were from last season. Either way, it would be good to see another company producing pad covers. Although not many goalkeepers swear by them, I think they would offer less restricted movement when sliding, an important feature in indoor whether closing down an attacker on through or charging a short corner, and only Verbunt stock them as far as I know, with Brabo producing them. A lot of goalkeepers make their own makeshift covers out of pillow covers for the short indoor season, but it would be good for a British company to produce them as well as help push more coverage of the indoor leagues in the country, helping with development a lot like the German system.

Monarch also seemed to have produced some for George Pinner last season, as he made the switch to their sponsorship (helping cover up his mainly-still-Mercian-gear at the time!).

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