AFL's rubbery white shorts policy

[tazaa]

Policy was scrapped. Only applies to North, Geelong and Collingwood now.

 

[PenAndPaper]

Would hate to live in the time of black and white TV and watching a North vs Pies game...oh man how did they do it?
Clashes are the most over exaggerated thing ever...

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Oh no, I wonder what they did in 1942 when Richmond and Essendon played off in the Granny, that would have been a disaster, golly!

 

[estibador]

Oh no, I wonder what they did in 1942 when Richmond and Essendon played off in the Granny, that would have been a disaster, golly!

Yeah because that's really comparable to the ultra-fast modern game with 20 bodies around the ball at any given moment.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Yeah because that's really comparable to the ultra-fast modern game with 20 bodies around the ball at any given moment.

Did it feel nice wearing that putrid piece of shit in your first Grand Final? Last time I checked, purple was opposite to yellow/ gold on the visible spectrum ffs

 

[estibador]

Did it feel nice wearing that putrid piece of shit in your first Grand Final? Last time I checked, purple was opposite to yellow/ gold on the visible spectrum ffs

Tell that to the AFL. They're the ones who decided purple shorts clashed with brown.

That's a different argument to claiming the likes of Richmond and Essendon don't clash though.

(Btw that 'putrid piece of shit' is our strip for 50% of our games, so I have no issue wearing it when there's a genuine clash)

 

[Quinz]

Yeah because that's really comparable to the ultra-fast modern game with 20 bodies around the ball at any given moment.

Yeah but it was black and white back then. Amazing how the players did it.

 

[The Speaker]

Tell that to the AFL. They're the ones who decided purple shorts clashed with brown.

That's a different argument to claiming the likes of Richmond and Essendon don't clash though.

(Btw that 'putrid piece of shit' is our strip for 50% of our games, so I have no issue wearing it when there's a genuine clash)

Richmond and Essendon wouldn't clash if the away team wore coloured shorts - yellow or red.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Tell that to the AFL. They're the ones who decided purple shorts clashed with brown.

That's a different argument to claiming the likes of Richmond and Essendon don't clash though.

(Btw that 'putrid piece of shit' is our strip for 50% of our games, so I have no issue wearing it when there's a genuine clash)

Wear white shorts with your purple jumper

 

[FootyJunkie]

In a perfect world, clubs would wear their coloured shorts, unless there was a clash.

 

[grimface_87]

Wear white shorts with your purple jumper

They were given that option. Fremantle seem to prefer to wear a complete kit (either all purple or all white)

 

[estibador]

Wear white shorts with your purple jumper

That's not one of our kits. Like grimface_87 said, we either wear all white or all purple.

We have two distinct kits and I'm happy to keep it that way without mixing and matching them.

 

[grimface_87]

That's not one of our kits. Like grimface_87 said, we either wear all white or all purple.

We have two distinct kits and I'm happy to keep it that way without mixing and matching them.

You can either bitch about clash jumpers or embrace them as Freo has.

 

[Father Jack]

It's a bit of a weird situation when you have teams being differentiated by their shorts and not their bloody jumpers.

 

[radiojake]

That's not one of our kits. Like grimface_87 said, we either wear all white or all purple.

We have two distinct kits and I'm happy to keep it that way without mixing and matching them.

What happens when Fremantle play North Melbourne in Melbourne and North wear their blue shorts?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

In a perfect world every team would have only one jumper, they would not clash, they would wear home shorts at home, and white shorts away.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

What happens when Fremantle play North Melbourne in Melbourne and North wear their blue shorts?

They wear that blue alternate like Collingwood's with blue where the black is I think

 

[estibador]

What happens when Fremantle play North Melbourne in Melbourne and North wear their blue shorts?

That's when common sense should come in with the 'rubbery white short policy'. They should wear all white and we'll wear all purple.

Ridiculous to have one team wearing a white top and dark shorts, while the other wears a dark top and white shorts. Are we trying to solve clashes or create them?

 

[tigs2010]

Oh no, I wonder what they did in 1942 when Richmond and Essendon played off in the Granny, that would have been a disaster, golly!

Was the reason we lost. ****ing joke.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Am I the only one who thinks that Freo away strip actually has a tinge of purple/pink through it?

 

[DardySingh360]

Am I the only one who thinks that Freo away strip actually has a tinge of purple/pink through it?

It's the lights at the MCG. When we play at night at the MCG in that shirt it looks like a very very pale blue to me.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

It's the lights at the MCG. When we play at night at the MCG in that shirt it looks like a very very pale blue to me.

So are you saying it's white?

 

[DardySingh360]

So are you saying it's white?

Yeah, I've seen it up close in person and it's definitely white.

 

[Admiral Byng]

In a perfect world every team would have only one jumper, they would not clash, they would wear home shorts at home, and white shorts away.

I disagree. In a perfect world every team would have two complete uniforms (not treating jumpers and shorts separately), and supporters would accept both as being equally representative of their club.

 

[Heardy_101]

Easter Monday will be Geelong's home game. So they'll be in their Blue Shorts, vs Hawthorn in their white shorts.

Hate to think what it will look like.