Jumper clash fails

[doppleganger]

Why would the AFL put the umpires in yellow and black in a game against Richmond?

The ‘away’ white shorts is the biggest issue with most.

Teams like Coll, Geel and North...it should be a kit, you wear the dark base you also have the dark shorts. Wearing the white based strip, with the white shorts.

If Carlton are wearing all Navy, then the opponent shouldn’t be wearing a predominantly black backed top.

All clubs need a dark strip, and a light strip.

The home club picks their preference and the away team has to fit in.

And the fecking umpires need to be in kitted out in a contrasting colour...make them fecking full neon pink or heaven forbid all white if neither team is wearing white.

 

[Kick It 2 Me]

Pies don't do clash jumpers Dopple. But the meek? They're all over it.

 

[doppleganger]

Pies don't do clash jumpers Dopple. But the meek? They're all over it.

Our options are perfect.

The black jumper and shorts with white stripes. It is 75% black, and the back of the players is all black.

The white jumper and shorts with black stripes is the perfect alternative. It is 75% white, and the back of the players is all white.

The mess happens when we try and wear the black jumper against a team like Carlton or Essendon, as from behind players look the same.

It really shouldn’t be hard.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Pies don't do clash jumpers Dopple. But the meek? They're all over it.

They do, and do it better than just about anybody else.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Still remember what started all this. Mid 2000s the saints wore their heritage strip v Collingwood, causing a massive clash. It was supposed to show the issue of Collingwood not having a legitimate clash strip (after they'd had several clashes that seasonn)

Instead, it just forced everyone a part from the big 4 to create strips

 

[oak79]

Still remember what started all this. Mid 2000s the saints wore their heritage strip v Collingwood, causing a massive clash. It was supposed to show the issue of Collingwood not having a legitimate clash strip (after they'd had several clashes that seasonn)

Instead, it just forced everyone a part from the big 4 to create strips

The big 4 all have clash strips now that work when playing one another - they just aren't required to use them like everyone else.
Stupid Amateur Football League.

 

[Custard Guts]

Oof, that mauve-grey Port Adelaide away strip is quality.

Thank gawd, because there's no way our feeble human eyes can discern black, teal and white from navy and red.

 

[Dazzler9]

Oof, that mauve-grey Port Adelaide away strip is quality.

Thank gawd, because there's no way our feeble human eyes can discern black, teal and white from navy and red.

I agree. Two predominantly dark tops are fairly hard to discern. Right decision made here.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Since the Thursday night debacle, the AFL have basically nailed every game. Quite amazing. The inconsistency is incredible.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

The “clash strip” North wore yesterday is a little confusing.

The home strip has been made basically all blue, and looks great



So you would expect the clash strip to be white - their traditional jumper perhaps with white shorts, which would make it similar to Collingwood’s setup, which is one of the best.

But instead they wear something with big blocks of blue on it??

 

[sprockets]

Whose idea was it to (again) put the umpires in tonight's game in yellow top with black shorts. I'm watching a delayed telecast and I swear Butler just passed the ball to the umpire, who btw was running into an open goal. Forget all the peripheral stuff that isn't footy, AFL, and concentrate more on getting the game right.

 

[Billy ray]

So stupid sometimes

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Whose idea was it to (again) put the umpires in tonight's game in yellow top with black shorts. I'm watching a delayed telecast and I swear Butler just passed the ball to the umpire, who btw was running into an open goal. Forget all the peripheral stuff that isn't footy, AFL, and concentrate more on getting the game right.

Same thing last year with the runners and the dockers. Swear sometimes when I’d go to a game I thought there was a player on the fat side but it was a runner

 

[sprockets]

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So stupid sometimes

They saving those for next time the Blues wear their M&M strip?

 

[Hawthorn United]

They saving those for next time the Blues wear their M&M strip?

Still can't believe this happened.

 

[Freshwater]

Why would the AFL put the umpires in yellow and black in a game against Richmond?

The ‘away’ white shorts is the biggest issue with most.

Teams like Coll, Geel and North...it should be a kit, you wear the dark base you also have the dark shorts. Wearing the white based strip, with the white shorts.

If Carlton are wearing all Navy, then the opponent shouldn’t be wearing a predominantly black backed top.

All clubs need a dark strip, and a light strip.

The home club picks their preference and the away team has to fit in.

And the fecking umpires need to be in kitted out in a contrasting colour...make them fecking full neon pink or heaven forbid all white if neither team is wearing white.

We can improve the shorts and it helps a lot. Not white for ‘away’ necessary. A couple of years back Essendon wore their old red shorts against Carlton and it worked much better than now. If they did the same against Collingwood instead of white, (one of Collingwoods two colours!) it makes a hugely better contrast, not perfect but better and the Bombers still get to wear their normal guernsey. Same principle worked well for AFLX.

 

[doppleganger]

We can improve the shorts and it helps a lot. Not white for ‘away’ necessary. A couple of years back Essendon wore their old red shorts against Carlton and it worked much better than now. If they did the same against Collingwood instead of white, (one of Collingwoods two colours!) it makes a hugely better contrast, not perfect but better and the Bombers still get to wear their normal guernsey. Same principle worked well for AFLX.

Absolutely...it is a nonsense to add white to a team playing a home team who also has white in their strip!

And why do they keep putting the umpires in yellow in games with Richmond!?

Make them flourescent pink or something so they don’t clash.

It really shouldn’t be hard.

 

[Back One Out]

It's funny how the AFL and AFL fans use the word "clash" to describe the exact opposite of clash. If colours and uniforms clashed, then we'd have no problem. The issue is when the colours and uniforms blend and look samey.

We can't even get the basic terminology right. That's how f**kin dumb we are. Yet we're expecting the jackasses in the AFL to fix all this other stuff.

 

[Heardy_101]

Geelong in navy shorts tonight for the first time since god knows, Melbourne in red back away jumper and white shorts.

Surely someone has messed this up

 

[Hallstrom]

Why does Port Adelaide insist on having the top half of the back of their jumper white with black numbers? Just pointless

 

[Heardy_101]

Why does Port Adelaide insist on having the top half of the back of their jumper white with black numbers? Just pointless

We didn't insist anything.

It was changed from a full black back BiB (Black in Black) jumper a while ago now. We used to wear the current home jumper in showdowns but it was that popular, it became our new home jumper.

 

[hcd199]

Geelong in navy shorts tonight for the first time since god knows, Melbourne in red back away jumper and white shorts.

Surely someone has messed this up

Looks great and doesn't clash - perhaps the AFL are actually coming close to getting the balance right on clash policy (!). Dogmatic insistence on 'dark kit vs. light kit' is no less daft than dogmatic insistence on away teams wearing white shorts - so long as the teams can be easily distinguished (which Geelong and Melbourne tonight clearly can be), combinations like these will hopefully be seen more often.

The “clash strip” North wore yesterday is a little confusing.

The home strip has been made basically all blue, and looks great

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So you would expect the clash strip to be white - their traditional jumper perhaps with white shorts, which would make it similar to Collingwood’s setup, which is one of the best.

But instead they wear something with big blocks of blue on it??

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More an 'away strip' than a clash, given we're wearing it in all away games except Indigenous Round. The only match-up here where I could see this strip being a problem is against Geelong in Round 21...

 

[Ice-Wolf]

Still remember what started all this. Mid 2000s the saints wore their heritage strip v Collingwood, causing a massive clash. It was supposed to show the issue of Collingwood not having a legitimate clash strip (after they'd had several clashes that seasonn)

Instead, it just forced everyone a part from the big 4 to create strips

Don't you go blaming the Candy Stripe! The Candy Stripe is a ****ing masterpiece!

 

[The_Eagles]

That saints 2005 and even the yellow brings back good memories of a modern time and yet pre-social media and smartphones

 

[caloschwaby]

If colours and uniforms clashed, then we'd have no problem.

Say again?