Was gunna say the same thing - it looked like there were 3 teams playing in this game…
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Just another dumb jumper that should never get past the judges - if there are any. The royal blue does bugger all against Freo's purple from a distance. Something overwhelmingly red, sky blue or white is needed.
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I hate our current away strip for its purpose.
It's a beautiful strip, and perfect to hang in a pool room or man cave.
But it's 3 distinctively different colours on the front which in one way or another, clashes with 15 (arguably 16) of the 17 opposition teams.
I agree the away needs to be yellow and/or red. And I believe that if we have a 3rd strip, it needs to be the other one of these.
We started 2021 with our home strip and a yellow version of the away. Then the AFL saw Adelaide about to play Hawthorn away and went, 'ah cr*p' so forced us to make a red version too. Loved it, We finally had a Blue, Yellow and Red version of our traditional strip.
The only other time we went with yellow was our 3rd clash strip in 2016-17. It was basically a yellow version of the Bulldogs strip. It was perfect for why we had it. It was good looking as well.
So why don't we stick with it.
I feel every club needs to go down the path of having 3 strips.
You have your home, then you have a guernsey which is based off another colour of your club. Then a 3rd all again which is another colour.
Cause right now, Adelaide has 5 strips, and 4 are a navy blue base. Clashes with Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fremantle, Richmond, Melbourne, St Kilda, Brisbane and Port Adelaide and arguably Greater Western Sydney, West Coast, Western Bulldogs, Geelong, Hawthorn and North Melbourne. When 4 of our strips can only
When 4 of your 5 strips clashes with everyone bar Sydney and Gold Coast. You're relying on 1 strip to work against 15 clubs. And what we have does not work. Too much red on it that it clashes a little with Essendon, St Kilda, Melbourne and GWS, plus doesn't contrast enough with Hawthorn.
It is bs that my club has 5 strips, and don't even have a solution for 1/3 of the league.
When we announced this strip, I was annoyed. Although it's a beautiful strip, it completely defeats its purpose.
We should go back to that 2016-17 or 2021 yellow strip. It's really just Hawthorn and West Coast and to a lesser degree, Richmond it's an issue with, and that there is why you then have a 3rd strip.
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With an away clash with Hawthorn, the Crows should use their gather round guernsey.
Have no idea why they didn’t earlier this year as they went with it away vs Brisbane a couple of weeks ago and in 2023 also.
As much as I like the current away guernsey, it should be a ‘retro round’ thing like Collingwood and Hawthorn have done in recent years where it’s a non-playing / retail purchase only.
Totally agree that the yellow crows clash guernsey should be reintroduced.
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I reckon the boys club as reached a peak. When they promote from within. Gil and now Andrew Dillon, they're sticking with the same policies.
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Front view all good, from behind, not the best. Let's hope they're forced into the SM strip in that scenario. I don't think there'd be many complaints.
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Yeah agree, you’d hope so. Dunno if they think differently in finals however. They wear the South jumper in every Melbourne game but then come finals last year they didn’t wear it against Carlton.
Identical sponsors front and back on both so that doesn’t even explain it.
Yeh it's not great
A clash kit front and back should always match with same dominant colour.
Ideally home jumpers, including shorts (looking at you GWS - just make the back Charcoal - so simple!)
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A Syd v Bris GF with Syd in the SM strip & Brissy in the Fitzroy colours (with blue shorts) would be beaut. But it makes too much sense so we'd probably never see it.
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1st Semi Final 1986. Was a thing of beauty even with the red shorts
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Should wear that with the red shorts more often
We only really say this because we're so used to seeing Melbourne with a blue back.
Its not actually that different to Sydney's home top. Just swapping the blue on the front for white.
And the blue sleeves on the long sleeve top, Sydney uses red sleeves on the very rarely seen long sleave top.
So.. whats the go for Geelong away to North this weekend? anything special?
Presume Essendon will be in the clash of all red/white shorts v Saints who are not a big 4 - shame Essendon dont have red shorts because that would be better (compare Saints v Ess and Saint v SUNS) ....
And conversely, Richmond will not be in the clash/inverse v Collingwood who are a big 4
Presume Essendon will be in the clash of all red/white shorts v Saints who are not a big 4 - shame Essendon dont have red shorts because that would be better (compare Saints v Ess and Saint v SUNS) ....
And conversely, Richmond will not be in the clash/inverse v Collingwood who are a big 4
Do Essendon still have that all red stip?
They had a mostly black sash this year when they played Port in Gather Round.
They had a mostly black sash this year when they played Port in Gather Round.
yep sorry - meant that one - even better - not!
now its red, black and white shorts against the Saints
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No, they don't, colourless uniforms look terrible and aren't even needed to contrast the colours. I think minimizing the dark crow would be sufficient to create more contrast against teams with darker coloured uniforms. The 2008 variation of that uniform solved that problem you're talking about from the side, it's covered with a gold contrasting side vertical bar.
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No, they ditched it, last year. Next year, they're either going for an all black sash or those skid mark sashes.
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As far as I'm concerned, they're both sh1t designs and should be thrown in the bin!
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If Sydney meet Brisbane in any final with the Swans the lower ranked side, I'd be very disappointed if we didn't see the South Melbourne kit in use.
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Last time in Hobart Geelong were in a predominantly navy clash strip with navy shorts. North were in their mainly white home strip with white shorts. Overall it could've been better but was far from the worst clash you'll see:
I'd like to see Geelong wear that again but just have slightly wider navy hoops and slightly narrower white hoops to accentuate the difference a bit more.
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People think these days are bad. Try 1998. Geelong wearing a clash strip against the Dogs that's almost identical to the Dogs home jumper cause why not!
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South Melbourne and Fitzroy kits in a Sydney vs. Brisbane Lions AFL grand final would be fantastic, but unfortunately it will remain a fantasy.
