Jumper clash fails

[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.



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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.

 

[oak79]

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).

Australian TV isn't broadcast in 4k by anyone

4k is great, but 1080 is fine

Though if kayo had a 4k stream I would be using.

Anyway, 4k doesn't fix jumper clashes.

 

[parano1a]

Australian TV isn't broadcast in 4k by anyone

Not via terrestrial broadcast but 7 could offer it via streaming if they wanted.

 

[parano1a]

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

I'm sure this was considered by the AFL but the priority of the Lions being in a traditional maroon strip which is highly identifiable with the QLD public won out over the visual distinction/aesthetics issue

 

[sabso]

Like seriously who is on which team here


Looking at it for a time you can tell the difference between the lighter and darker red but colours this close are a nightmare if you're scanning the MCG trying to tell 36 very similarly coloured uniforms apart during a passage of play.

cf Newcastle v Hull in 2008, you could tell apart the stripes from the plain grey in a static image but that game was a nightmare

 

[james haish]

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.

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



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This is not.

You need to see an optometrist