Ball advice/review/bouncing/feeling thread [2]

[red & wite army]

I was playing on some local football pitches and the owner of the dog said it was my fault for not picking the ball up - whats wrong with her putting the little beast on a lead?!!

Yeah! Why didn't you dive and grab the ball away from the gnashing jaws of the pitt bull?!

Idiot dogs owned by idiot owners.

Sorry to hear...

[appleCORR7]

I don't worry i gave the dog a kick when it was leaping up me and showing me its teeth!

The owner had to slap the dogs face several times to get it to drop the ball. And she didn't even say sorry. Obviously its a good little dog.

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[wxcblue]

they always are, being a postie i've had my fair share of run in's with dogs, and the owners always say the same thing " oh, he's/she's never done that before" as they've just taken a chunk out of me

[appleCORR7]

my personal favourite is the old :

"oh he won't hurt you love!!"

as the dog is leaping up me foaming at the mouth! I'm going to go over the fields in a minute. Lets hope that i have more lucky today and nothing eats my aerrow. I'm just gutted because the TG was such a nice ball.

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[Skizz]

You should have just "skillez that dog up blad". :D

[appleCORR7]

Hahaha, yeah i should have ATW its FACE!!

It wasn't too bad today. Just had to deal with a sheep dog, a bull terrier and a little puppy which was cute but meh, the council wanna hurry up and get back to me so i can bitch!!

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[appleCORR7]

Well this what what the beast did to my beloved ball :mad:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/appleCORR/ABCD0019-1.jpg

It wouldn't have been 'as' bad if it hadn't of slit the casing and it was just teeth marks. But it kinda makes it spin off at a funny angle now.

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[thebigman]

u buy an expensive ball to freestyle with? cant u just do it in your garden with a ************ £10 replica?

fields are where dogs roam, so its gonna bite your ball or the ball is gonna get covered in dog shite and when u header it u will go blind, people never pick upo their dogs crap

[appleCORR7]

Nope i wanna practice where there is more space. And its not exactly my fault if people don't put dogs on a lead in a public space which is set for sports and recreation.

That ball cost me £30 so it wasn't that expensive it could have been worse if i paid full price for it. I could do it was a £10 replica. But to be honest they don't feel the same once you've played with an expensive ball.

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[thebigman]

im hopefully gonna be playing every sunday now so i might try get a cheap aerow off ebay, cant find the much lauded adidas ball

[akirika]

apple, make the dog owner pay for it. u cant back down on these things

[appleCORR7]

Well, apparently i can get the council to pay me compensation if i can persuade them too! haha! im not really holding my breath though!!

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[kiddpg523]

Hey guys. I just bought the Nike T90 Catalyst. What do you guys think about this ball? I really wanted an Aerow or Teamgeist but couldn't bring myself to spending that much (I didn't even want to pay $50 for the Catalyst at first). I have been using the cheap balls until now but they never lasted very long so I wanted something better.

What makes the Catalyst more expensive than the Club or Premier T90 balls? The only really difference I know of is that the Catalyst is FIFA approved but why? Thanks alot guys

[larciel]

I could explain in a very long detailed manner how Catalyst is better than club or premier team but since it's late i'll just give you simple scale

Club team 2
Premier 3
Catalyst 7
Aerow II 10

When I tried Cat, it felt heavier than aerow but 'good heavy feeling' like the ball is firmly made.

It's a nice ball. That's all that matters now that you bought it :) enjoy

[kiddpg523]

^thanks. I'm really excited now. The reason I asked after I bought it was because it wasn't going to ship for a few days and I still had time to cancel it if need but I think its going to be great now.

[kiddpg523]

Me again.

Hope this is as good of a deal as I think it is because I cancelled my order for the Catalyst and bought this:
http://www.kitbag.com/stores/kitbag_4_5/football/product_details.aspx?pid=40344&cid=2602
I was paying $48 plus shipping for the Catalyst but now I got the Aerow for $47 with free shipping!

It doesn't say Aerow II so I was thinking maybe it was the older version. Are there any big differences? Would I have been better off with the Catalyst?

larciel gave the Catalyst a 7 and the Aerow II a 10...but how would this Aerow stack up?

Also, could someone post a detailed pic of this ball? Whats the material like? I've seen you guys say that the Aerows aren't as slick but I really have no idea what to expect when I get this.

Oh, that reminds me: I don't know if you all are experienced with kitbag, but last time I ordered from them it took 2 MONTHS. I praying this doesn't happen again because last time they said they were waiting on a new stock or something.

[bk4realyall]

It wouldn't have been 'as' bad if it hadn't of slit the casing and it was just teeth marks. But it kinda makes it spin off at a funny angle now.

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I have 2 dogs. I play soccer with one and she'll just smack the ball around with her nose. The other I refuse to play any kind of running game with him. He tends to think anything that runs around has a need to be humped. So apps... be happy he wasn't out there in the park with you! he would have violated the hell out of your leg.

[Shrapnac]

I have 3 Aerow I balls and they're excellent. I might even like them better than the Teamgeist actually. I don't really know if there are any differences in the Aerow I and II other than the stripes on the ball. That's an excellent deal and I'm probably going to take full advantage of it as well.

[larciel]

Get that aerow for sure.

I personally like Aerow II much better than Aerow because II feels much firmer than Aerow. But for the price, you can't go wrong with aerow.

[oconnor16]

The Aerow and Aerow II are identical. The only difference is the design. That's a really great deal for that ball; it was definitely a good idea. In fact, I think I might order one for myself.