Toast #BringBackTheBars - Our Heritage, Our History, Our Right! Part 2

[dirty2]

I wanted to know if it was really as blatant as it felt, with pretty much every other team running with something Heritage our "Retro" at some point, so I scoured footyjumpers.com and the footy jumpers board and came up with this list, this is just this year:

Adelaide: -
Brisbane: Fitzroy away Guernsey
Bears inspired Indigenous Guernsey
One-off 20 year anniversary of 2002 premiership Guernsey
Carlton: -
Collingwood: -
Essendon: Heritage logo for entire year
One-off 150 years Guernsey
Fremantle: "Retro Round" One-off 99 Away Guernsey
Geelong: "Retro Round" one-off Guernsey
Gold Coast: -
GWS: -
Hawthorn: "Legends" clash guernsey "inspired by a Guernsey from 1933"
Melbourne: 75-inspired clash guernsey
North Melbourne: Return to heritage blue stripes on white permanent home Guernsey
Richmond: -
St. Kilda: 97-inspired clash guernsey
Sydney: South Melbourne Guernsey for all Victorian games plus as a clash
West Coast: 1987-inspired clash guernsey
Western Bulldogs: "Retro Round" One-off 25 years since Whitten Oval Guernsey

It's pretty ridiculous.

Wow... what a joke... Just wear the PB's! We are getting laughed at anyways...

 

[wannabejack]

AFL teams taking the piss!

 

[PA88]

The oppressors could make it harder to buy PB's. Make them limited edition $250/$350 garments only. Make the SANFL ones hard to buy compared to any other SANFL team.

The club needs to be innovative with PB merch. We can have black merch with white PA but no official logo or sponsors, so we can have basic black and white merch.

When we played Carlton the last season at FP and wore the PB that game (which we bloody lost), my mate and I asked KT if they could organise cheap black t-shirts with screen printed white bars to sell at the game. They made up 2000 and sold out. We wondered how many more they could have made and sold.

 

[PA88]

AFL teams taking the piss!

Yeah it certainly comes across that way but it is strange that more clubs are doing it. Are they really going to that trouble to take the piss? I think they are indirectly helping the cause, but what's the game here? Is it really against us or for us?

 

[Enviable Tradition]

The club needs to be innovative with PB merch. We can have black merch with white PA but no official logo or sponsors, so we can have basic black and white merch.

When we played Carlton the last season at FP and wore the PB that game (which we bloody lost), my mate and I asked KT if they could organise cheap black t-shirts with screen printed white bars to sell at the game. They made up 2000 and sold out. We wondered how many more they could have made and sold.

They could easily do that.

But they don't want to.

Pissing money down the rain.

They'd make far more money selling them at a premium price than the "stealth" range they are having to sell at cost because no one wants them.

 

[Fizzler]

If this somehow is allowed to happen it might just be the grossest lack of justice I’ve seen in football period. I’m not sure if they’d actually try to get to wear it, and I wouldn’t mind seeing them wear it, but if we fought for years and years to wear colours we wore for 95 years (most of which in the PBs) and still haven’t been guaranteed their use twice a year, only for GWS to wear the Bulldogs colours on a jumper they wore for a grand total of 1 of their 2 pre-AFL seasons I might actually vomit.

 

[melanChronic]

It's kind of just hilarious how the AFL shut down heritage rounds at Ed's behest just so he could pull a swifty in 2007, but now are realising that a) so many fans want it for their club and b) that therefore that there is a huge untapped market just sitting there.

So instead of reinstating them and telling the old racist irrelevant fool to shove it, they get the mouthpiece media mainly made up of ex Vic players to push a "Retro round", and let the guernseys that won't shake the foundations of the boys club get out there by stealth.

 

[Pappagallo]

They could easily do that.

But they don't want to.

Pissing money down the rain.

They'd make far more money selling them at a premium price than the "stealth" range they are having to sell at cost because no one wants them.

I’m voting with my wallet from now on. I’ll gladly buy the PBs and the odd piece in black/white and shun everything else.

I encourage others to do the same if they aren’t already. Money talks.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I’m voting with my wallet from now on. I’ll gladly buy the PBs and the odd piece in black/white and shun everything else.

I encourage others to do the same if they aren’t already. Money talks.

Been doing this for years

 

[PepeSilvia]

I wanted to know if it was really as blatant as it felt, with pretty much every other team running with something Heritage our "Retro" at some point, so I scoured footyjumpers.com and the footy jumpers board and came up with this list, this is just this year:

Adelaide: -
Brisbane: Fitzroy away Guernsey
Bears inspired Indigenous Guernsey
One-off 20 year anniversary of 2002 premiership Guernsey
Carlton: -
Collingwood: -
Essendon: Heritage logo for entire year
One-off 150 years Guernsey
Fremantle: "Retro Round" One-off 99 Away Guernsey
Geelong: "Retro Round" one-off Guernsey
Gold Coast: -
GWS: -
Hawthorn: "Legends" clash guernsey "inspired by a Guernsey from 1933"
Melbourne: 75-inspired clash guernsey
North Melbourne: Return to heritage blue stripes on white permanent home Guernsey
Richmond: -
St. Kilda: 97-inspired clash guernsey
Sydney: South Melbourne Guernsey for all Victorian games plus as a clash
West Coast: 1987-inspired clash guernsey
Western Bulldogs: "Retro Round" One-off 25 years since Whitten Oval Guernsey

It's pretty ridiculous.

You forgot one…

Port Adelaide: “STEALTH”

 

[bomberclifford]

The Mighty Port Adelaide Stealth.
BigBash AFL is here.
Wave your scarves True Believers™

 

[simba_]

Port Adelaide Football Club
Port Stealthelaide Football Stealth
Port Stealthelaide Stealthball Stealth
Stealth Stealthelaide Stealthball Stealth

 

[Pappagallo]

The Mighty Port Adelaide Stealth.
BigBash AFL is here.
Wave your scarves True Believers™

Stealth chevrons or subliminal advertising for blue zooper doopers?

 

[Alyx]

It's half time, STEALTH fans, brought to you by Zooper Dooper! For every blue Zooper Dooper Alipate downs, KFC will donate $100 to Save The Greyhounds - an organisation which rehouses Ken Hinkley's discarded dogs. Hold your STEALTH scarves in the air and cheer him on!

 

[ibd77]

The Mighty Port Adelaide Stealth.
BigBash AFL is here.
Wave your scarves True Believers™

By stealth, you mean goalless quarters don't you?
There is nothing like being stealth on the scoreboard.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I’m voting with my wallet from now on. I’ll gladly buy the PBs and the odd piece in black/white and shun everything else.

I encourage others to do the same if they aren’t already. Money talks.

I'm not buying a thing that isn't a Prison Bar guernsey or directly PB related until Hinkley is gone, but probably even a bit after that as well. Nothing with teal on it. The more PBs in the crowd, the better.

 

[PA88]

I haven't purchased anything but black and white for a lot years but the options have been lean.

 

[dirty2]

I haven't purchased anything but black and white for a lot years but the options have been lean.

Yep... Got a new pb Guernsey couple of months ago... But other then that I'm not a big spender anyways... Couple of Guernsey's and a jumper for when it's cold.

 

[chiwigi]

Another good turnout today, last week we had Ginever, this week Rebecca Morse.
Quite a few turned up after the pic.

Just a regular reminder.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Another good turnout today, last week we had Ginever, this week Rebecca Morse.
Quite a few turned up after the pic.

Just a regular reminder.

Is this happening at a particular time before each game at Russell's statue? I'll be there if that's the case!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[chiwigi]

Is this happening at a particular time before each game at Russell's statue? I'll be there if that's the case!

Yes it has been for the past few games, we will probably do for the last two as well. It is advertised on the BBTB social medias as each game time is different.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Another good turnout today, last week we had Ginever, this week Rebecca Morse.
Quite a few turned up after the pic.

Just a regular reminder.

It was George not Timmy

 

[El_Scorcho]

I missed this one by about 30 seconds while I was wrangling the kids! Looked like a good turnout again. Great idea to spread the word in a busy area pregame

 

[chiwigi]

It was George not Timmy

There’s no difference really, only the hair .