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Jumper clash fails
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Can’t see the AFL putting the Lions in white shirts with the Swans white front.. pretty rare teams wear white against Sydney.
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Not much different to them putting them in white shorts against the black and white pies last year though is it?
Probably not, but there’s a history of away teams in white shorts v Pies.. it’s very rare v Swans.
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As expected
Not perfect but probably the best you can hope for from the AFL.
Not perfect but probably the best you can hope for from the AFL.
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Assuming the Swans get home kit as the higher ranked team, I think Brisbane in their Bears coloured kit with maroon shorts would have been best.
It would be interesting to know whether the AFL reviewed any day matches (possibly in the VFL or the NEAFL) where the teams have worn those kits to satisfy themselves that there's no clash.
Anyway, I don't imagine it's going to be a problem.
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Interesting the AFL saw fit to put the swans in the clash kit just a few weeks back
Why not white shorts? Weird
Why not white shorts? Weird
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Here’s the best combo
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I reckon the issue is the swans home game, there not gonna make the home team wear their clash (as they shouldnt).
Brisbanes clashes arent much better than their home.
The starting position of reviewing all jumper at the start of the year for home and away has failed again.
Having said that, this isnt REALLY a clash IMO. It could be better but its not horrible.
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If the Swans ever wore white shorts with their home uniform this would be better, but it's not disaster.
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Incredibly, the last five times that Sydney have hosted Brisbane at home, there have been five different jumper/shorts combos.
Round 15 2012: Sydney home uniform, Brisbane maroon with white shorts:
Round 6, 2013: Sydney home uniform, Brisbane white clash:
Round 7, 2017: Sydney home, Brisbane yellow clash:
Round 17, 2020 (Sydney nominal home team but a lockdown Cairns game).
For some reason they gave Brisbane white shorts even though Sydney didn't wear their home uniform:
Sydney white jumper, red shorts, Brisbane maroon jumper, white shorts:
And finally Round 7, 2022, the same uniform for the GF (if we're counting the Swans as the home team):
Red/Red Maroon/Maroon:
Incredibly, none of these options have Brisbane using a third jumper of mainly blue, which is still a club colour.
Brisbane have worn either very dark maroon, blue or bold yellow Indigenous jumpers in recent years, all of which would have provided a better clash than any of the five choices above. For instance, this was Brisbane's 2023 Indigenous jumper in AFLW - a similar colour clash scheme could be used for this game:
This isn't as explicit as some famous games like the Carlton vs. Port one in 2014, but the lack of clear consistency of colour schemes and clubs going in/out of white jumpers/shorts for teams that have partial white in their home uniforms, over a longer-term period, remains quite incredible.
Round 15 2012: Sydney home uniform, Brisbane maroon with white shorts:
Round 6, 2013: Sydney home uniform, Brisbane white clash:
Round 7, 2017: Sydney home, Brisbane yellow clash:
Round 17, 2020 (Sydney nominal home team but a lockdown Cairns game).
For some reason they gave Brisbane white shorts even though Sydney didn't wear their home uniform:
Sydney white jumper, red shorts, Brisbane maroon jumper, white shorts:
And finally Round 7, 2022, the same uniform for the GF (if we're counting the Swans as the home team):
Red/Red Maroon/Maroon:
Incredibly, none of these options have Brisbane using a third jumper of mainly blue, which is still a club colour.
Brisbane have worn either very dark maroon, blue or bold yellow Indigenous jumpers in recent years, all of which would have provided a better clash than any of the five choices above. For instance, this was Brisbane's 2023 Indigenous jumper in AFLW - a similar colour clash scheme could be used for this game:
This isn't as explicit as some famous games like the Carlton vs. Port one in 2014, but the lack of clear consistency of colour schemes and clubs going in/out of white jumpers/shorts for teams that have partial white in their home uniforms, over a longer-term period, remains quite incredible.
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Incredibly, yes. Plenty of times these teams lined up in full home kit. No issue and the best of all the options shown in the pictures above
Sydney decided to wear their away strip away a few weeks back, the grand final is the AFL actually deciding on kits.
I think the Lions will be in maroon shorts (announced today), so the combination will be the same as 2022 SCG match. Probably the best of the five combinations pictured above.
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I’d be happy for the AFL to do away with any pretence of home/away team in the GF. It is played at one ground every year, there is no home or away team. Your finishing position gets you home finals in the first three weeks.
Just adopt the best fit for the GF.
For example if Collingwood and Carlton faced off in a grand final. It obviously should be Carlton in blue and Collingwood in white, no matter what the ladder positions. If Collingwood finished higher than god forbid we’d have that absolute shemozzle in the GF
Same with this week. Sydney in the South top with white shorts would look amazing and is hardly an affront to their history. Would be the best outcome.
Just adopt the best fit for the GF.
For example if Collingwood and Carlton faced off in a grand final. It obviously should be Carlton in blue and Collingwood in white, no matter what the ladder positions. If Collingwood finished higher than god forbid we’d have that absolute shemozzle in the GF
Same with this week. Sydney in the South top with white shorts would look amazing and is hardly an affront to their history. Would be the best outcome.
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I always thought as a ‘neutral’ game in the VFL that they only insisted on white shorts if there a clash.
Turns out hawthorn Sydney and west coast were special cases. Otherwise dark and light shorts.Plenty of these teams in grand finals 1983-1994
I guess the interpretation has changed from year to year. Geelong often putting white shorts v hawthorn no matter who’s the home team
Disagree. If Collingwood are the higher ranked team v Carlton, the schemozzle should be avoided by the AFL telling Carlton to wear their mostly white strip (which of course should already be happening the H&A season).
Agree.
All finals were neutral in the VFL. In the GF clubs would toss the coin to see who wore white shorts, who got which rooms, ran out first, etc.
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This goes to show more than perhaps anything else, the AFL doesn't have a clue about what they are doing.
It’s because some supporters of clubs who continually cause jumper clashes try and push a false narrative that the AFL tells every team what to wear for every game in order to absolve their club.
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I still blame the AFL overall, they can implement the policy as they choose (they could sit down at the start of the year and dictate what each club wears week to week, hell we’d volunteer to do it for free) BUT yeh the clubs are taking the piss because they’re allowed to.
There’s no way the clubs aren’t nominating what they wanna wear each week with the afl then ticking it off.
