We have away games against Carlton (this week), Adelaide and Richmond in which I think we'll be wearing the red-back hot cross bun. Not sure about the red shorts that we wore with it in the pre-season though.
Going solely on the screenshot of Darcy Moore in the swooping magpie I'm gonna say the clubs had already agreed that the Pies would wear that and we would wear the red-backed hot cross bun (sell some more merch etc.), probably with red shorts like we did in the pre-season against Essendon.
As much as I'd love to see the original jumper worn again (as per the 140th year jumper) this sounds like the most symbolic, likely option. Would absolutely love to see a current-day jumper with the large crest.
St Kilda's clash jumper would be much more effective with a Port-style white number panel with a black number. It's a bit of a tough one against Brisbane/Melbourne/Essendon otherwise (and we didn't wear it against GWS whereas we have worn our mostly-white designs against them in previous years).
Was Aliir wearing a long-sleeve retail with iron-on numbers? His 21 looked smaller than and was placed differently to the other numbers (this is the best photo I could find).
Brisbane wore the Fitzroy (well, Fitzroy-inspired) jumper late last year away to the Dockers, so I'd assume we'd be seeing that.
Any weekend where the South Melbourne and Fitzroy jumpers make an appearance is a good weekend.
This game might show the weakness of St Kilda's clash jumper's all-red back (assuming we wear it). Really needs a white panel with black numbers like Port's home. We'll have two teams with red across the top half of the front of the jumper, and white numbers with a fair bit of red on both backs...
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This is really why the jumper needs a white number panel with black numbers. Just a bit too much solid red for really decent contrast against Essendon/Brisbane/Melbourne/GWS.
In Round 8, 2004 St Kilda played a home game against Collingwood and wore the candy stripe vs the swooping Magpie with home shorts (a little similar to the St Kilda vs Essendon games in both 2009 and 2010).
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The St Kilda clash provided more than enough contrast last night but I still think it needs the Port Adelaide-style number panel to make the front and back more consistent with each other - at the moment it looks like two different jumpers on the front and back (and would be nice to have more...
It's a little subtle but New Balance has made some improvements to the home jumper this year (a lot of people - myself included - weren't keen on New Balance's effort first up).
The white panel is broader again after last year's very narrow stripe, and the template cut itself is more like a...
It looks like the New Balance template itself has been tweaked - less of a tank top this season and looks a little bit more like a traditional footy jumper (the shoulders are much slimmer).
A bit more obvious on Brad Crouch given he was wearing a tighter fit.
Friday:
And the 2021 cut:
St Kilda's white panel is a little broader this year. The home jumper copped a lot of flack (rightfully so) from fans last year for a lot of reasons with the introduction of New Balance. One of them was the white panel being way too thin.
It's quite subtle but we immediately noticed it at the...
Are we going to see Fremantle in the home with white shorts combo this week?
I'm assuming we see GWS in the Never Surrender and Swans in home rather than the South Melbourne V (?).
The side panels on that Hawthorn jumper are so superfluous (just about all side panels are). Unnecessary clutter on what is otherwise a really bold, simple, clean design and a great nod to the club's history.
The front of the St Kilda clash jumper is beautiful. With the white shorts it's a really good weighting of red, white and a bit of black that provides contrast against just about every team we clash against, and without sapping the entire design in the name of having an all/mostly-white clash...
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