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Why should the lions be in their home? The other kit clashes less.What the jumper match ups should be
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Why should the lions be in their home? The other kit clashes less.What the jumper match ups should be
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Orange v Gold clashes less than Orange v Maroon & Blue?Why should the lions be in their home? The other kit clashes less.
The problem is that GWS is the only club that we don't have a contrasting jumper for. All 3 of our jumpers don't match well against their home jumper.I dont think either is optimal but yeh i think the yellow with white shorts creates a clearer division than th maroon.
We had a white Anzac themed jumper this year.Suppose that one is pretty marginal either way, Lions have a white kit? I thought you did?
Yeah, this would be perfect.Yeah both of those options look poor against GWS. Its not helped by the front back issues though. Both our lighter and darker options dont work well. A white option would be best.
Again it would be so much easier if GWS wore the all charcoal as their home strip. Its such a better look
Clashes with the umpires.There's nothing wrong with Port in black and Hawks in white...
Then the umpires need to wear something else (eg blue)Clashes with the umpires.
The problem with the Giants (and their opposition being forced into wearing alternate jumpers) is that the GENIUSES who designed the Giants jumpers decided to make things impossible by having all orange backs and a mix of orange & back on the front (but mostly black)
Wasnt it based on finals winners for years and then quietly changed to ladder positions in 16?
HA ladder positions makes perfect sense to me for "home ground" advantage in the granny.
Yeh hence "home ground" is in inverted commas."home ground advantage" isn't the correct language, as there isn't technically a thing for the GF. It's always at the MCG.
Also, the convention for listing the match is based on which side of the draw they came through. Minor Premier will be listed first as long as they win their Week 1 match. For example, if Giants (#4) had defeated Swans (#1) in the qualifying final, and the Swans win their semi and prelim and came up against Giants again in the Grand Final, it would be listed GWS GIANTS v SYDNEY SWANS. And there are other examples where the lower-ranked team will be listed first.
I havent heard of any change but i dont think its something thats advertised.Pretty sure it's been changed this year... Hence why I asked if it was based on rankings
Yeh hence "home ground" is in inverted commas.
Also, isnt what you explained exactly what i just said?
Until 2016 it was based on HA ladder positions, then it was changed to finals winners?
Don't know how it was done. I'm advocating that only the minor premier winning all their finals matches to the Grand Final should have choice of strip. If the minor premier aren't there, or in the example I described, they get there by losing week 1 finals, then it's a coin toss for similars strips, or alteration to shorts that gets the best differentiation and presentation.
I believe it could be thought of as the top seed from the preliminary final:Nah. I think if the minor premier gets the advantage then it should just be ladder based if they’re not there.
I don’t particularly care though.
It used to be based who won the first prelim, 2016 it was changed (because I think that would have meant the dogs were the home team but Sydney were instead).
Yeh no issue with that either.I believe it could be thought of as the top seed from the preliminary final:
Highest ranked Qualifying Final winner is the #1 seed, the other qualifying final winner is the #2 seed. Highest ranked semi final winner is the #3 seed, the other semi winner is the #4 seed.
In the 2016 instance: Both the #1 and #2 seeds lost. Sydney, having finished first were the highest ranked semi final winner so were the #3 seed, Dogs having finished 7th were the lower ranked semi winner and thus the #4 seed.
Are there any other sports where the umpires change colours like they do in the AFL?Umpires are in green tonight and blue tomorrow, take that as you will.
Soccer Refs?Are there any other sports where the umpires change colours like they do in the AFL?