I am just glad that there is someone making them, sometimes there is some types of cards that don't appeal to everyone and aren't widley accepted but they are out there to be collected if you want to collect them.
I can choose 2 or 3 card styles that I think are ordinary but i collected them to make the set but that was my option And my taste in card style will be different to the next guy so on and so forth.
Whether it be Select or whoever, we are always going to have someone say "these are terrible" because the truth of the matter is we are human and in today's society we are so quick to bag something out before looking at the whole picture and to try and please each and everyone of us card collectors is just not going to happen.
Just remember back 1998 and 1999 when no-one made them, apart from newspaper companies etc. we had nothing, no chase cards, no commons, nothing of real importance.
Maybe Select could do with some competition who knows, can any of us do it?
Lets take the 2009 Champions at $2.99 a pack, and please correct me if i am wrong about anything i am about to say,
Aren't these the cheapest packs of sports collector cards around? i believe this way Select can inspire kids to collect the 1st series of NRL footy cards and trade with their mates etc. (just like we did as kids) and out of those kids produce future card collectors just like us.
With the cheaper price comes cheaper range, i.e, re-runs of styles etc. the die's that are made for the jersey cards for example aren't that cheap, then they have to find someone who can use the die's, etc. and I wonder what the NRL charges Select for the right to print the players.
Then there is the whole design thing, how many ways can a card be redesigned differently and I refer back to my first comment about pleasing everyone, if they were to copy a design from the big basketball card companies or something they would have problems with plagiarism etc.
It is my opinion that to have re-runs on styles and designs etc is somewhat of a necessary evil because although I don't always like what is offered in the 1st series I know that if the kids in particular are going to keep buying them and making the whole card collecting thing last somewhat longer, the cards must remain cheap and in order to do that then costs must be kept low.
That's just my rant, I agree to a point with some things people have been saying and some I don't agree with but that's just my opinion and it will be my option to buy the 2009 Champions Series even though I am not overjoyed with some of the cards in the series just like everyone else, I wonder what we would be collecting if Select didn't make them, TAZO'S??????
I hope all that is understandable, if it isn't then I'm sorry, if it is then great and even if you think I am a moron then that's great too that's your opinion but what I have just said is my opinion.
Cheers Dave