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[Giant Strides]

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[MelbourneGWS]

AFL rejected our club’s idea to have players name on the back of our jumpers - I personally think it’s a good idea and will help make some of our supporters identify and be familiar with the team

AFL rejects Giants' push for return of player names on jumpers

GWS wanted player names emblazoned on the back of their jumpers to help build connection with fans

www.afl.com.au

 

[ClockworkOrange]

AFL rejected our club’s idea to have players name on the back of our jumpers - I personally think it’s a good idea and will help make some of our supporters identify and be familiar with the team

AFL rejects Giants' push for return of player names on jumpers

GWS wanted player names emblazoned on the back of their jumpers to help build connection with fans

www.afl.com.au

The very low literacy rates among Poodles members is a real handbrake on the game.


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[Giant YoYo]

AFL rejected our club’s idea to have players name on the back of our jumpers - I personally think it’s a good idea and will help make some of our supporters identify and be familiar with the team

AFL rejects Giants' push for return of player names on jumpers

GWS wanted player names emblazoned on the back of their jumpers to help build connection with fans

www.afl.com.au

I agree.

Last year, my first year of being a footy fan, I really struggled with our players names. "Who is player (insert number)" was commonplace among us while watching a game.

This season I know all players names by looking at them and can do a running commentary naming our players as I watch a game.

Last year I avoided speaking about players in real life because I wasn't confident in who is who. It took time.

Now I know some players from other teams and their coaches so I have come right around but last year I do remember struggling so this certainly would've helped.

 

[dlanod]

"The Giants also believed that displaying their players' names on their jumpers would keep pace with overseas trends and create new commercial opportunities for the club, while also flagging AFLW benefits due to increased player recognition."

I was ambivalent until I saw this - yeah, my daughter asks me who player X, Y and Z are when we're watching AFLW and I have to admit I don't know all their names. It'd really help and increase my investment in particular players if we had that easy link without having to call up the AFL's (pretty awful) site.

 

[Colonial]

 

[Battlepants]

What a joke. Reprimanded for accurately describing the AFL's terrible match review process.

I hope this story blows up too. AFL deserve to look like absolute idiots for this.

 

[BarryAglett]

I don't know why he apologised. He should ask for a point-by-point rebuke from the VFL.

 

[Giant Strides]

A reprimand is excessive, unfair, unreasonable and disgraceful behaviour by the VFL.

 

[dlanod]

A reprimand is excessive, unfair, unreasonable and disgraceful behaviour by the VFL.

Unrelatedly, the AFL want to know your address to issue a reprimand reeducation request.

 

[Brave New World]

Technically he should have been reprimanded for breaching their secrecy or confidential provisions; he accurately but publicly described the MRO

 

[ClockworkOrange]

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”.

George Orwell

VFL HQ have always gratuitously targeted TFG, so Tom was always in the crosshairs as his long term successor as Captain.


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[Colonial]

Giants footy boss responds to AFL’s Green reprimand for controversial podcast comments

“There were three or four things that did cross the line.”

www.sen.com.au

“Obviously, he's got a podcast here with one of our media team members Jacob Gaynor and he had nine minutes on this topic, and for large portions of it, he articulated unbelievably well and was very passionate.

“But in that nine minutes, there were three or four things that did cross the line.

 

[Giant YoYo]

Why Giants are pushing for the AFL to put player names on the back of guernseys

“We're trying to attract a new audience.”

www.sen.com.au

GWS footy boss Jason McCartney

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has explained his club’s push to have player names put on the back of AFL guernseys.

The AFL trialled surnames on kits in Round 5, 2014, but opted against making it permanent at the time due to practical limitations.

While names haven’t been featured on guernseys for almost a decade, the Giants made a proposal to the AFL to make them a permanent fixture at a league-wide summit this week. It was ultimately knocked back as the AFL wants uniformity between all clubs, with only a handful of teams backing GWS’ push.

The AFL also believe that the unique shape of guernseys restricts the size of lettering that can be used, limiting the legibility of player names for fans.

While the AFL are currently against the push, McCartney feels the move would help the Giants who are trying to promote the sport and their players in Western Sydney.

He also feels that the initiative could be accepted in years to come.

It’s more from our commercial and consumer team that have been in Melbourne at a summit over the last few days,” McCartney told SEN Dwayne’s World.

“It's one I know have been across on our executive that we've pushed for it for a while.

“Obviously, we're in a new market and obviously there's a lot of people that come to our games and we're trying to attract a new audience.

“For people coming for the first time and not really understanding the game, we think it would have great benefit there.

“We know it's been knocked back at the moment, but I think it will be something that could be revisited by the AFL next year.

“Look, you feel like in time it's probably something that is every possibility to come in.

“But it's not to be at the moment, so that’s okay.”

Names on the back of kits are commonplace in most elite sports around the world and among some of the most popular leagues such as the NBA, NFL and English Premier League.

 

[dlanod]

The big surprise in the AFL not getting behind it is because you sell more jerseys - all those guys getting a #12 jersey for Patton get to pretend that they've always been Tom Green

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supporters currently, whereas they'd need to pony up to avoid looking like supporting someone who left the club (to begin with) or a sexist twat. And we all know the AFL is about the $$$.

 

[RedV3x]

The big surprise in the AFL not getting behind it is because you sell more jerseys

You sell more jumpers with names as the names change and people like to keep up to date.
Look at just how few are the original dockers merchandise.
The NRL changes it's jumpers so often I hardly recognise some teams - all because of turnover.

 

[Giant Strides]

It's because VFL House is populated by dinosaurs with their heads stuck up their own arses.

Tom Green

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knows that, whether his #12 jersey has his name on it, or sexist twat's.

 

[GWS Goose]

I agree.

Last year, my first year of being a footy fan, I really struggled with our players names. "Who is player (insert number)" was commonplace among us while watching a game.

This season I know all players names by looking at them and can do a running commentary naming our players as I watch a game.

Last year I avoided speaking about players in real life because I wasn't confident in who is who. It took time.

Now I know some players from other teams and their coaches so I have come right around but last year I do remember struggling so this certainly would've helped.

That is exactly why they want names for new fans and casual observers

 

[Giant YoYo]

 

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[ClockworkOrange]

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[BarryAglett]

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To quote The Mandalorian "This is the way".

 

[Giant YoYo]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/afl/the-specialised-budgy-smugglers-keeping-sam-taylors-family-jewels-safe-following-ruptured-testicle/news-story/3cdc5843cda69806f8c18f1be8e9dfd4

Giants defender Sam Taylor

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has revealed he wears specialised protective underwear to protect himself after a bizarre groin injury earlier in the season.

The 25 year old All Australian spent six weeks on the sidelines after suffering a ruptured testicle in the Giants’ win over Port Adelaide in round 14.

Armed with a “gooey pad” inside a budgy smuggler-type underwear, the extra padding “wouldn’t stop it but it would minimise the impact.”

He said the gel cup offered him some protection and peace of mind, with Taylor still unsure exactly how he suffered the injury.

“A few weeks after the incident I had to try to track it down because I knew it was early in the game and I think it happened in the first five minutes of the game,” he said.

“I think it happened when I dove forward to release a hand ball and I slid on the ground.”

“I told myself that I’m not gonna do that move again but it happened straight away against Melbourne. It’s getting the confidence. It wasn’t really a contact injury, it wasn’t a stray hand when I was going for a mark or a big spoil or anything like that.

“It does scare you a little bit but it happens all the time during a game and hopefully now that I’m wearing better protective gear and better underwear to make sure it doesn’t happen again, make sure everything is tucked away.

“I have to wear two Speedos now: one to keep it secure and one to keep the protective padding (in place). It’s a gooey pad thing, so if there’s impact it wouldn’t stop it but it would minimise the impact.”

Taylor played his first game since the injury against Melbourne, with the Giants securing an important win in their quest for a top-four berth.

With four points between Carlton in fourth and Hawthorn in ninth, and another four between the Hawks and Collingwood in 12th, Taylor said the fight for finals was as tough as any other year.

“Top four is definitely our aim, we want to end up as high as we can. It’s very difficult to win a grand final not being in the top four,” Taylor said.

“For (the Bulldogs to win) is very rare and that top four spot means a lot and hopefully we can keep winning games though we have a tough run. It’s not going to be easy but if we do play our brand we can definitely do that.”

The Giants will host the Hawks in round 21, with Hawthorn coming off successive 66-point victories over Collingwood and Adelaide.

 

[Giant YoYo]

Have thoroughly enjoyed his work and advocacy on behalf of the club in the media.