Jumper clash fails

[BobbyMorri]

The swans were the "home" team, as the highest seed. We have a good away top which would have fixed the issue. Big question if we were the away team if we wore the South Melbourne top.

alas, this is partly on Brisbane for lacking the blue away or wearing the yellow top they have...

but it is all on the AFL. Get with the times and sort this issue out. No one would have cared if the swans were in white shorts. I certainly would have preferred seeing how crap the swans were a lot easier.

 

[Blackhawk42]

If you had a problem with this Grand Final it was entirely YOU and your eyes and nothing else.

Zero issue the entire day from my backyard deck on a moderately sized

 

[errant bounce]

Home team has first choice I believe, but Sydney usually use those rooms at the MCG when Collingwood aren't playing.

Yeah, first named team have the rooms to the Punt Road end, apparently so their logo and the team lines up on the same side.

 

[420]

Red VS dark red, WTG!

 

[Tyberious Funk]

If you had a problem with this Grand Final it was entirely YOU and your eyes and nothing else.

Yeah, heaven forbid we try and accommodate people that are visually impaired. They can basically go and **** themselves, right?

Zero issue the entire day from my backyard deck on a moderately sized

Well, that's all that matters, right?

 

[The Mailman Delivers]

Long-term: I'd suggest that Sydney (like GWS) needs to pick whether they want their home guernsey to be primarily white or red and then make their away/clash the inverse of that.

Now you're talking my language.

 

[The Mailman Delivers]

Too many people in lead up to games look at fromt of jumpers. Its the back that they ahould look at. Watching a game your see majority backs (and sides) of jumpers as they run across the ground.
Syd in white shorts would have been minimal change needed to assist today

It's the front, back and sides, all with equal weighting.

 

[Borussia Teeth]

Now you're talking my language.

Give him a Vegemite sandwich

 

[Cursed Cat]

If you had a problem with this Grand Final it was entirely YOU and your eyes and nothing else.

Zero issue the entire day from my backyard deck on a moderately sized

Yeah, I love this thread, and my eyes are definitely on their last legs - but there was no issue today, surely.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Yeah, heaven forbid we try and accommodate people that are visually impaired. They can basically go and **** themselves, right?



Well, that's all that matters, right?

Genuine question...


How badly impaired does your vision need to be to have a real issue with today's game, and what percentage or the population lives within that impairment level?

 

[The Mailman Delivers]

Short term: Brisbane in the gold clash with white shorts would have seemed to be the obvious combination for this match-up, as the lower ranked team.

Not sure this would have made things much better to be honest. Yes, it greatly improves the contrast from the back, but essentially shifts the similarity to the front, where both sides would have a reddish upper section, and a predominantly light lower section.

 

[oak79]

Should have been Lions in yellow (bears) top with Maroon shorts - not white since Sydney has a large block of white

If any team was wearing white shorts, had to be Sydney - but swans had every right to wear home jumper.

 

[Dazzler9]

I'm a huge advocate for clash jumpers (and appropriate coloured shorts). Today was not an issue.

It would have been marginally better with Sydney in white shorts. But not worth worrying about. The viewing experience was fine.

 

[FreoRicci]

I mean this got the tick but
Fremantle v Hawhtorn couldn’t work. Somehow brown and yellow mixed with Purple and white ?

 

[Dazzler9]

I mean this got the tick but
Fremantle v Hawhtorn couldn’t work. Somehow brown and yellow mixed with Purple and white ?

Are you referring to 2013? When Freo chose to wear white?

 

[FreoRicci]

Are you referring to 2013? When Freo chose to wear white?

It was purple home with white shorts, finishing with purple and white hooped socks.
What choice was there?

 

[Dazzler9]

It was purple home with white shorts, finishing with purple and white hooped socks.
What choice was there?

I might have confused the point you were trying to make. It seemed that you were complaining that Freo were made to wear their white clash in 2013, which was not the case. Apologies if I got your point wrong.

 

[emuboy]

I'm a huge advocate for clash jumpers (and appropriate coloured shorts). Today was not an issue.

It would have been marginally better with Sydney in white shorts. But not worth worrying about. The viewing experience was fine.

Agree there. It was easy to tell the Swans and Lions apart, it wasn't like we were watching Essendon and Melbourne on a sunny day, Geelong and North Melbourne in the wet or Hawthorn against the Brisbane Lions wearing their Bears-style jumper.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

The bar is incredibly low if the only thing we're aiming for is "I literally did not struggle telling the teams apart".

It was also especially bad in the earliest minutes of the game, when the sun was at its brightest and shining directly at the players. When it got a bit darker, the maroon was slightly darker in a way the red wasn't, so it wasn't quite as terrible.

Plenty of people would be watching their only game for the season up in the northern states. Anything to make their viewing experience better for the very same people that the AFL is spending millions on trying to expand and grow the game should have been considered.

This should generally be considered as well - the game product should be considered to be as easy and beneficial as possible. For instance the Dogs away, with white shorts, to Carlton isn't really a "clash", but I have no issue with us wearing white - a club colour - to have maximum contrast against Carlton, because it's just a better view overall.

 

[Dazzler9]

The bar is incredibly low if the only thing we're aiming for is "I literally did not struggle telling the teams apart".

It was also especially bad in the earliest minutes of the game, when the sun was at its brightest and shining directly at the players. When it got a bit darker, the maroon was slightly darker in a way the red wasn't, so it wasn't quite as terrible.

Plenty of people would be watching their only game for the season up in the northern states. Anything to make their viewing experience better for the very same people that the AFL is spending millions on trying to expand and grow the game should have been considered.

This should generally be considered as well - the game product should be considered to be as easy and beneficial as possible. For instance the Dogs away, with white shorts, to Carlton isn't really a "clash", but I have no issue with us wearing white - a club colour - to have maximum contrast against Carlton, because it's just a better view overall.

I mean, job done.

 

[Heardy_101]

Yeah, first named team have the rooms to the Punt Road end, apparently so their logo and the team lines up on the same side.

I thought they had a choice?

 

[threenewpadlocks]

I mean, job done.

The bar should not be that low.

We should make the viewing experience pleasant. We don't want a game of a rolling maul. Telling the teams apart as easily as possible makes the game more enjoyable.



This is aesthetically pleasing



This is aesthetically pleasing





This is aesthetically pleasing.

This is basically the three combos that they should allow: opposite colour vs opposite colour, light vs dark, dark vs colour.





This is not.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Wanted this to work today but with Channel 7's potato cam it was hard from wide shots. And I had no idea if goals were kicked all day with the red sherrin getting lost in the swans supporters. Think it caught BT out a few times as well.

 

[parano1a]

Wanted this to work today but with Channel 7's potato cam it was hard from wide shots.

Spot on. The real issue here is the low quality resolution of Seven's supposed HD broadcast. Grand Finals must be available in 4K minimum. If Seven can't handle that, they should be forced to let Foxtel air it (with their ads).

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It’s almost always as easy as just identifying the main kit colours.

Today it was red vs maroon which isn’t great. Particularly given red vs yellow was an option.