Clash Guernseys

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Subprime said:
Of course I know who Barcelona is. What's that got to do with twits like you and the other one making irrelevant comparisons between soccer and Australian football and how they are "much bigger than Collingwood and wear a teal shirt in away games".

The 2 sports have completely different histories and traditions.

What next, all AFL jumpers should be a single colour with over-sized numbers front and back because all NFL clubs are "much bigger than Collingwood"?
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yes mate the history and tradition of australians supporting their football game is to whine about petty issues while the soccer people got on with it and that is why bigfooty has seen literally hundreds of debates about how behind the AFL is. you can keep going on about australias unique tradition so we can keep having dumb arguments into 2015 where you have people posting about how lame it is carlton are wearing light blue in a grand final. we'll get super far then
 
simba_ said:
yes mate the history and tradition of australians supporting their football game is to whine about petty issues while the soccer people got on with it and that is why bigfooty has seen literally hundreds of debates about how behind the AFL is. you can keep going on about australias unique tradition so we can keep having dumb arguments into 2015 where you have people posting about how lame it is carlton are wearing light blue in a grand final. we'll get super far then
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The AFL is that far ahead of the A-League it ain't funny. Not sure what that has to do with clash jumpers though.

The NFL is the most successful sports league in the world by some measures, are you in favour of single coloured jumpers with large numbers because of this fact?
 
i didn't mention A-League my point has always been - we copied a clash system half-arsed and as a result it's a half-arsed clash system that people keep defending despite its flaws. comparison was drawn to barcelona saying there is so much more to the game than wearing a color your club isn't synonymous with in a final. i'm not saying we should therefore throw away all our traditions and have a blank shirt with a big number but if we're going to adopt a system why would we do it in a pathetic way leading to endless cringeworthy debate. surely we either have clash jumpers or we don't.
 
Father Jack said:
then stop whingeing about it.
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So we shouldn't be against clubs wearing a state jumper unless we want our own club to wear it? Nice logic there.

That's like saying people shouldn't condemn others for murder because they had the ability to go out and kill someone themselves if they wanted.
 
simba_ said:
i didn't mention A-League my point has always been - we copied a clash system half-arsed and as a result it's a half-arsed clash system that people keep defending despite its flaws. comparison was drawn to barcelona saying there is so much more to the game than wearing a color your club isn't synonymous with in a final. i'm not saying we should therefore throw away all our traditions and have a blank shirt with a big number but if we're going to adopt a system why would we do it in a pathetic way leading to endless cringeworthy debate. surely we either have clash jumpers or we don't.
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If your going to throw away the traditional team colours for some random hi-vis clash jumper you might as well go the whole hog and throw out design elements like stripes, sashes, v's etc.

I think clash jumpers should be an inverted version of the home jumper with matching shorts. They should be used when there is a clash i.e. dark base colour with a light number vs dark base colour with a light number is a clash.
 
imagine if a vic team wanted the vic SOO jumper for heritage round - the other clubs would be frothing at the mouth

it's an insult to all those who have worn the SOO jumpers - even those who never got the chance. I'd imagine there were loads of players who would have killed to play SOO and to wear the black and gold. And then a kick in the teeth of a club formed in 1987 to get the okay from the WAFC and the AFL to wear the state jumper - Judd was captain at the time!

the reverse strip idea is simple and would work! would stop clubs creating their own, horrible looking clash strips (eagles, hawks, adelaide etc.)

Us, Port, Adelaide, Collingwood, Eagles (yellow peril), North, Richmond, maybe Essendon would look good - if that fails, just change the main dark/clash colour to white and see how that looks

Just keep the clash jumpers as simple as possible
 
estibador said:
So we shouldn't be against clubs wearing a state jumper unless we want our own club to wear it? Nice logic there.

That's like saying people shouldn't condemn others for murder because they had the ability to go out and kill someone themselves if they wanted.
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no it isn't, West Coast were allowed to wear it, Freo I'm sure would be given the same opportunity, so no crime was committed, but tremendous overblown analogy anyway :thumbsu: (pity you didn't mention the Nazis though). How you judge state pride is up to you, but the Eagles wanted to mark a WA football anniversary in this manner and were allowed to. Just out of interest, how many of the supporters that follow either of the Freo-based WAFL teams don't follow the Dockers?

Either way I don't care, WA jumper means nothing to me anyway so the Eagles wearing it was neither here nor there as far as i was concerned, but there you go.
 

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I will finish this sentence..... Clash guernseys are ................a blight on the game. They are depressing.

Hawthorn's clash guernsey is a disgrace - their guernsey does not clash with anyone's so why in hell are they wearing a clash guernsey?

Let's have a bit of integrity and respect the character of our game. Having clash guernseys isn't "moving with the times"- it is moving backwards. Evidence- Hawthorn's clash guernsey, Carlton's clash guernsey and Melbourne's clash guernsey - tasteless, styleless and crass.Cheapens the initial product - of that there is no doubt.
 
Scotland said:
The Dogs get it.

They haven't reinvented the wheel, they've simply changed from predominantly blue to predominantly white/red.

Some of the other clash designs are just hideous.
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That's interesting because everyone on this board was hating the guernsey when we wore it against GWS and Collingwood a couple of weeks ago.

I think it looks tops, couldn't understand the criticism.
 
Not sure how the dogs would be allowed to wear all red. The Dees tried to negotiate this with the AFL, but were told that all red is still a dark colour. They (the AFL) also dictate the colour wheel now!
 
Tingay02 said:
Not sure how the dogs would be allowed to wear all red. The Dees tried to negotiate this with the AFL, but were told that all red is still a dark colour. They (the AFL) also dictate the colour wheel now!
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Probably because it's our Away guernsey and not our Clash guernsey, which is all white, with blue and red hoops.
 

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