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Swooping_Magpie
it's swooping season
even if the afl hypothetically signed a deal with nike i doubt teams would be wearing all these crazy alternate and city jumpers. if you look at the nfl, a league with a similar season length (17 games), even though they have a deal with nike (and have for a while) they've never brought out a whole suite of alternate jerseys, the most innovative thing they done was the colour rush uniform for thursday night games. the most they'd ever do in the afl would be giving every team a different guernsey for gather round, which would still anger a lot of fans. if the afl wants to sign with one manufacturer then they need to pick a smaller company and make each team have a jumper set of 2-3 jumpers + indigenous and maybe a retro/heritage design.Another thing that people have been critical of Nike for doing is all these alternate kits that don’t really have much of a connection to the actual team. Some of them might look cool but on the whole I think the quality of alternate kits has been trending down slightly since the 2017 ones that had a bit more of an obvious connection to the teams and their cities. The problem is Nike needs to keep innovating and creating more designs that people will hopefully want to buy. I don’t think that’s a trend we should follow in the AFL. If individual clubs want to innovate then by all means go for it, but Collingwood’s fans as an example will overwhelmingly be opposed to having a flashy and bright design forced on to them.