2011 New Clash Guernsey

[Silvagnis]

My opinion is & will always be ..........

We are the Navy Blues & WTF do we need a clash guernsey.

Who the hell do we clash with

Damn you AFL !!!!!!!!!!!

/rant

The Blues should wear a version of this heritage strip and tell the AFL to shove it.

http://www.blueseum.org/show_image.php?id=13868&scalesize=o

http://www.blueseum.org/show_image.php?id=19828&scalesize=o

They made us wear these strips in 2003 and 2004 for heritage round - http://www.footyjumpers.com/.

http://www.bomberblitz.com/~rmered/images/Carlton-6.gif

http://www.bomberblitz.com/~rmered/images/Carlton-Heritage-2004.gif

Carlton should always wear some navy blue.

Why do we have change from the current clash guernsey?

I'm sure the explanation is in the mail.

 

[thylacine60]

That is a different sport and they do things differently on the other side of the earth. The soccer EPL competition has no relevancy here.


In the VFL/AFL For over 100 years there was no "clash" and then all of a sudden we are blinded with confusion...wooahhha ...essendon vs Melbourne...which team is which?
I am so confused.


In the 1977 Grand Final Collingwood played North Melbourne - no clash, no example of players getting confused...NOT ONE single example. I have watched the match more than once as well.


The only example of a player confusion from recent years was when the umpires wore the pink tops as well as Melbourne players this year for the breast cancer awareness day. The melbourne player handpassed to the umpire.


Put it to the vote of the members - if the members want Carlton to wear a different guernsey every week (one white, one beige, one blue etc) then so be it, but quite frankly i don't know how you can improve on the guernsey 1922-1997 variety - so why change?

Is it for the benefit of a marketing executive at AFL House?

I find myself admiring Collingwood more these days than Carlton- they have a president who states he wants his club to play in their black and white guernsey and that is the way it is, they recruit well, they are professional...and here Carlton is playing in white, beige, candy and sometimes navy blue.

MC Hammer.

 

[Boltfromtheblue]

MC Hammer.

It's always guernsey this guernsey that.
How about us being the first club to adopt MC hammer pants?
Eddie is already part way there.

 

[thylacine60]

Not exactly what I meant but clearly it needs to be introduced.

 

[Salaryman]

reckon this might end up pretty close

 

[zeeCFC]

Modelled by Levi?

 

[Banga19]

reckon this might end up pretty close

Now that is a clash strip I like

 

[Dramoth]

It's hardly bullshit. Are you honestly saying that these two clubs don't have clashing kits?

It's MARKETING bullshit... the EPL and the rest of the football clubs change their home and away strips every year or 2.

Manchester United 2010/11 Home kit
Manchester United 2009/10 Home Kit

Now, tell me why it isnt marketing bullshit that they have changed their strip 3 times over the last 3 years?

 

[Dimenhydrinate]

It's MARKETING bullshit... the EPL and the rest of the football clubs change their home and away strips every year or 2.

Manchester United 2010/11 Home kit
Manchester United 2009/10 Home Kit

Now, tell me why it isnt marketing bullshit that they have changed their strip 3 times over the last 3 years?

Nobody's forcing anybody to buy them. But they have away kits for a reason.

 

[macbeth7]

Nice. .. add white shorts and it should be clash enough. .. Looks familiar for some reason tho. ..

This may have already been mentioned so forgive it it has been.
This is very similiar to a pre season strip we had back around 98 or so.
But i think it may have been a navy blue jumper with a white stripe down the middle with a small nave blue cfc in the centre of the white stripe.

 

[Dramoth]

Nobody's forcing anybody to buy them. But they have away kits for a reason.

Look mate... Aussie Rules is nothing like English football.

For starters, we dont have 92 different clubs in 4 different major leagues as well as several hundred other non-league clubs.

Aussie Rules is not a multi-billion pounds a year business. The average wage bill for a top flight club could pay for all 17 clubs in the AFL.

People over here dont have to buy the new tops every year but a good majority of them do.

From what I see, the AFL deciding to introduce clash strips is to try and setup a marketing plan similar to the English games where they make money from both television broadcasting rights and from their share of the sales of replica football shirts.

I can see, from a financial point of view why the AFL wants all the clubs to have clash strips for home and away games, but to change what is a pretty reasonable clash strip for the Blues is simply another way for them to gouge money out of people.

 

[harmesy 37]

Look mate... Aussie Rules is nothing like English football.

For starters, we dont have 92 different clubs in 4 different major leagues as well as several hundred other non-league clubs.


From what I see, the AFL deciding to introduce clash strips is to try and setup a marketing plan similar to the English games where they make money from both television broadcasting rights and from their share of the sales of replica football shirts.

I can see, from a financial point of view why the AFL wants all the clubs to have clash strips for home and away games, but to change what is a pretty reasonable clash strip for the Blues is simply another way for them to gouge money out of people.

I agree and what's more...we should celebrate what is unique about our game, not try and slavishly follow what is happening 20,000 miles away on another continent. Next they will want us to copy the NFL and wear padding.
Where will it end?

English soccer has had no relevancy to Australian football when it comes to presentation of the teams, and then all of a sudden some new marketing executives arrive in at AFL House and we want to turn the game into a watered down mickey mouse "kit" parade.

Carlton doesn't need to wear a clash guernsey....hasn't needed to for almost 100 years. Tell the marketing executives to **&&%%## off.

 

[BrizzyBlue]

I had a thread running on this very subject a couple of years ago and at the time, it appeared that the AFL was intent on all clubs having clash strips. It is a disgrace that they haven't enforced the issue. It beats me why we have been forced to wear a clash strip, when others get away with claiming "Club Constitution" or "Historical Significance" or even "Membership Backlash".

I am led to believe that a bunch of compromises are being looked at by the league at the moment, but I think they have missed the whole point. Aside from a few, the biggest issue is the backs of clubs jumpers, so I again submit a solution to the issue which most people should be happy with.

I have focused solely on our mob for this post, but have done up all the others as well. The attached mockups should resolve the issue. I have even included clubs that the AFL deem we don't clash with, but it is inevitable they will keep poking their noses in, so we should be proactive and create the double sided jumper.

The graphic legend works this way: Front, Home Back & Away Back. Kapishe?

 

[luke livingston seagull]

so apparantley there will be pics of our new away strip in tomorrow's herald sun. and it's pale blue...

 

[ESKIE]

Surprisingly decent. I marvel at your l33t Photoshop skills.

That Blue is awful....where's the rest of the wiggles

 

[Poseidon]

so apparantley there will be pics of our new away strip in tomorrow's herald sun. and it's pale blue...

I hate this if true

 

[Blueboys7]

Why the **** do we have to get a clash strip and Collingwood can just be without one?

 

[Judderson]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/sky-high-or-a-big-blue/story-e6frf9jf-1225958836881

THE old dark navy blues will become the brilliant sky Blues in four away matches from next year.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/sky-high-or-a-big-blue/story-e6frf9jf-1225958836881

Not the biggest fan.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Geez, the white clash strip is way better than that monstrosity.

Its recent white clash top received a mixed reception from supporters when worn against Port Adelaide, Fremantle, Melbourne and St Kilda

So they are aiming for a total negative reaction rather than a mixed one. I see ...

Are we doing the blue M&Ms again? Hope Mars are putting in extra.

 

[zeeCFC]

hmm, reckon I was about spot on!

[/blowing own horn][innuendos]....

 

[thylacine60]

I am now officially extinct. Thank-you and goodnight.

 

[Poseidon]

I can't believe this actually happened..........Carlton, I am disappoint.

 

[Mister Carlton]

It's not that bad... could be worse.

 

[luke livingston seagull]

i think it's better than the white strip.
looks like i'm the only one!

 

[AlecDuncan]

To all those who bagged the white jumper - happy now?

I can see they've tried for a Sturt effect, but that light blue doesn't works as well as Sturt's. Theirs is much richer, and the effect really is double blue.

Hopefully it looks better in real life, but somehow I think I'm going to be bitterly disappointed.