Harry said:
Make it our clash strip Harry.
Apparently the hardnuts got nothing to do over the next two weeks, might be a job to keep him busy? ;D
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New clash jumper - reversed strip
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Make it our clash strip Harry.
Apparently the hardnuts got nothing to do over the next two weeks, might be a job to keep him busy? ;D
I don't really get the comparison to soccer where they might have two teams that wear identical red shirts - none of our jumpers is a real clash if they are also wearing different colour shorts. Which is entirely logical because they actually played for over 100 years without any issues.
It's an interesting one. As far as clash strips go, our's is one of the better - in that you can look at it and say, yeah I suppose that still looks 'Richmond-like'. Though I'd still much prefer to see us wear the traditional strip, just with white shorts.
The Adelaide clash strip though - the white one is bloody terrible. One thing with Adelaide, as far as expansion sides go, they actually came up with a pretty good jumper. Looks like a traditional footy jumper right from day one of their existence (I assume they just looked at the Central Districts jumper, said yeah, that looks pretty good and put SA state colours to it). Can't understand why they'd go for a horrible generic white strip when white isn't one of their colours.
Why don't they just have a predominately red version (where the navy and red are simply reversed) and a 3rd predominately yellow version (where the navy and yellow are simply reversed) as alternative strips. Make it look 'Adelaide Crows like' and don't change it every *smile*ing season so it builds tradition in itself.
If clubs must need a clash strip, just go minimalist, reversing the colour scheme and stick to that one version without changing it every season. St.Kilda are another interesting one. They've had some good 'least worst' options. One was their heritage barber shop number. Another was basically just making the black back, white and wearing white shorts. But then they change every bloody season and for no good reason try and reinvent the wheel and come up with some shockers - this season's for example.
The Adelaide clash strip though - the white one is bloody terrible. One thing with Adelaide, as far as expansion sides go, they actually came up with a pretty good jumper. Looks like a traditional footy jumper right from day one of their existence (I assume they just looked at the Central Districts jumper, said yeah, that looks pretty good and put SA state colours to it). Can't understand why they'd go for a horrible generic white strip when white isn't one of their colours.
Why don't they just have a predominately red version (where the navy and red are simply reversed) and a 3rd predominately yellow version (where the navy and yellow are simply reversed) as alternative strips. Make it look 'Adelaide Crows like' and don't change it every *smile*ing season so it builds tradition in itself.
If clubs must need a clash strip, just go minimalist, reversing the colour scheme and stick to that one version without changing it every season. St.Kilda are another interesting one. They've had some good 'least worst' options. One was their heritage barber shop number. Another was basically just making the black back, white and wearing white shorts. But then they change every bloody season and for no good reason try and reinvent the wheel and come up with some shockers - this season's for example.
There is no clash anyway. The red horizontal stripes on the Crows jumper makes it very easy to differentiate the 2 even from a long distance.
Yeah, this is all hypothertical - need to get past the prelim first.Tigers of Old said:
There is no clash anyway. The red horizontal stripes on the Crows jumper makes it very easy to differentiate the 2 even from a long distance.
But should the need arise, lobby really hard to wear the regular strip, conceding that we wear white shorts as the lower ranked team. Simple.
Are there actually any official rules on the wearing of clash strips? Because observation tells me that the AFL tends to make it up as they go along. Every year it seems, there is a new team that we apparently clash with that we didn't before.waiting said:
And other clubs find themselves in the same predicament. Like for example the year when Freo weren't allowed to wear all purple against the yellow and brown of Hawthorn in the GF. Sure Freo made a rod for their own back a bit. From memory, the AFL said Hawthorn as top ranked get to wear their traditional yellow and brown with brown shorts, so Freo must wear white shorts. They were allowed to wear their purple jumper with white shorts if they wanted, but took a ridiculously dogmatic view that they wear their purple strip with purple shorts and their white strip with white shorts, so ended up wearing white. But seriously, did they need to wear white shorts at all? How the *smile* does purple clash with yellow and brown anyway? Surely they could have worn all purple?
What a joke FFS!
I really, really hate the fact that this issue is getting exposure.
I would prefer we all wear bright pink or fluorescent green rather than have this debate playing out right before the Prelim.
If EVER there was justification for 'one week at a time'...
I would prefer we all wear bright pink or fluorescent green rather than have this debate playing out right before the Prelim.
If EVER there was justification for 'one week at a time'...
Panthera Tigris said:
100% they do. It used to be a coin toss to determine who got to use their home kit. then they changed it to the higher finishing team (probably to stop Eddie having a brain explosion when they played St Kilda in 2010). and that has been the rule ever since. now Gil has suggested a toss of a coin might be the right way. Perhaps KB's whingeing is having an affect?
martyshire said:
to be fair, i'm pretty sure the AFL consider Adelaide and GWS to be a clash as well. So this issue will be "relevant" if Adelaide make the GF, irrespective of who their opponent is.
Not quite what I meant Ian. I mean over all, not just for a GF. Rules on who clashes with who and which teams require you to actually wear a clash strip versus simply wearing white shorts. Or whether a team really needs to wear white shorts at all (like for example, the Swans are treated specially on this subject). It seems to be a moving feast made up as the AFL goes along. For example, when clash strips first came in, we only needed to wear it against Essendon. Each year there seems to be a new clash invented.Ian4 said:
And to think I was able to watch NM v Collingwood and Richmond v Essendon on a black and white TV with the resolution of looking into a fish pond through a plastic bag and I and everyone else could still work out who was who not to mention the luxury of colour at the game.Tigers of Old said:
There is no clash anyway. The red horizontal stripes on the Crows jumper makes it very easy to differentiate the 2 even from a long distance.
What a croc of manufactured corporate *smile* clash jumpers are. IF we get to GF we should be able to wear our preferred strip just as any other team should be. There's never been a clash and at the moment there isn't one at present except when the muppets from AFL HQ get the umpires to wear pink or orange at a GWS game.
Really, I think KB says it as it is. IF we make it we wear what we like and give the bird to Gil the Dill!
Tigers of Old said:
There is no clash anyway. The red horizontal stripes on the Crows jumper makes it very easy to differentiate the 2 even from a long distance.
I think the AFL are saying that Adelaides all black back of the jumper is the issue. If their stripes went all the way around it would be fine
has anyone ever asked THE PLAYERS about clash jumpers?? I would've thought that'd be like, a thing.
