Names on the back of jumpers - good or bad?

[PAdman]

I love names on the back of sports jumpers. The names need to be bigger though, kind of pointless how small they are at the moment.

 

[PAdman]

Oh and to the people who complain that they can't see them at the game, you can see them fine on tv and it helps you identify the spuds on other teams instead of having to google player numbers.

 

[damochandler]

It should be left up to the teams. If a team wants to put names on the back of their jumpers. No problem


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[fitzroy_lions123]

It should be left up to the teams. If a team wants to put names on the back of their jumpers. No problem


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It's all teams or nothing.
Teams will want it done to sell extra merch.

 

[Embley]

Bad. Unnecessary. Not enough room for names and numbers.

 

[FootyJunkie]

kind of useless imo

might sell a few more jumpers though, if they were personalized with the names

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Noticed them alot easier in the Pies V North match

 

[Atley]

Can't see them enough for it to be worth it in my opinion.

 

[JHF1870]

Real supporters can spot their own players anyway. **** I can easily spot opposition players.

 

[tribey]

I'm in two minds.

The guernseys themselves look okay and after a year or two we'll wonder what all the naysaying fuss was about a la clash guernseys. But, as if we need to give Channel 7 another excuse to persist with their horrendous love of zoom-ins.

A player's about to mark it clear on the wing, let's zoom in on him at the point of marking it. Pull out a touch. Ooh, he's played on. Let's change camera angles to a close-up perspective of him running at us. Then change to wide. Then zoom-in on his back as he approaches the 50m arc.

Who needs to know where his leading options are, or whether he's about to be run down. The viewer needs to see his name, sponsors and indeed, pores.

 

[Exe Gesis]

This is too cluttered.....

 

[jwikked]

I'm sold on the idea.

I wasn't too keen on it initially, but it works well, it doesn't clash and it doesn't look out of place. I think it's great.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Personally I don't like names on the back of guernseys. I just don't see the point of them on either television or at the game. You can barely see the names as we speak on the mode of viewing and I just find it's pandering to this Americanisation of the game that we've been continually seeing in the past few years.

For so many years we've been able to cope without names on the back of guernseys, so why do we need it now especially during a time where this kind of information is readily available on the internet, books or magazines (E.g. footy record) and of course on television we have commentary as well.

Let's at least preserve one tradition in the footy and stick with just numbers on the back of jumpers from now on. If you don't know who a particular player is even after seeing their number then it's time to start learning!

I know I sound old-fashioned about this but I've always been a big supporter of preserving our traditions, not changing them just for the sake of pleasing a few, specifically TV networks or the AFL.

 

[Greatness23]

This is too cluttered.....

Agreed.
This would look so much better if the sponsor was smaller and they scrapped the pointless 'NMFC' allowing the name to be bigger.

 

[Kavliaris69]

Best thing to happen for the fans I believe. I have wondered why it wasn't done years ago.

I work most weekends so don't really get to watch much footy these days. Personally I wouldn't know who half the players names in most teams so this is a fantastic way for the fans to learn the players. Especially important for new players, the new teams and for young kids to identify their team players.

 

[Exe Gesis]

To do it right tho, the AFL must....

Remove entirely or minimize the "back sponsor". Move the numbers down a little. Thus giving the name area more real estate for a taller font.

 

[stupidlikeafox]

To do it right tho, the AFL must....

Remove entirely or minimize the "back sponsor". Move the numbers down a little. Thus giving the name area more real estate for a taller font.

And remove the NMFC, SMFC et al.

 

[Exe Gesis]

And remove the NMFC, SMFC et al.

Yep, those too.

The AFL must set a uniform standards and regulations act for all AFL teams.

1. Teams must have a color (home) and a predominantly white (away) uniform set. No "clash" or use of home vs home uniforms.
1b. Predominantly "white" away means 80%+ of the area of the guernsey must be white.
2. Colors are not the ownership of teams. If teams share blue and white, because their region identifies with those colors, so be it.
3. All jerseys must have an AFL badge on the right chest and a club logo badge on the left chest. Any "SMFC" etc type identifiers to be placed under the logo badge on the left chest.
4. All jerseys are to have only one sponsor placeholder....what is now the lower back, and must be so-and-so dimensions.
5. All jerseys numbers and names are to be placed at such-and-such xy points on the jersey back...number size shortened a little, brought down a little, player names taller font.

The North Melbourne guernsey shown above is a perfect illustration of all that's wrong with modern football uniforms.....no regulations, the team uniform ends up a mess of sponsor names, badges, and other little identifiers and logos. Cluttering up what's supposed to be a clean and clear visual of team colors/design. So players can identify each other. If it keeps going this way, there'll be no "design" left of that guernsey, just badges everywhere like formula one uniforms.

For the whole "names and numbers" to work, the AFL must start enforcing the above kind of uniform regulations.

 

[stupidlikeafox]

Here is a comparison of what it should of been last night for example. (Couldn't be bothered shifting the citi logo and numbers down but you get the point)

 

[Exe Gesis]

CITI logo moved down a little, player number down a little, franklin name even a little bigger (taller).
The proportion isn't "quite" there yet. But yes.

 

[the_interloper]

Bad. Unnecessary. Not enough room for names and numbers.

Plenty of other sports seem to be able to manage this difficult task.

 

[Exe Gesis]

AFL uniform standard/regulation, something like this.....

(note: the NMFC now under the logo, and the logo now on the left chest parallel with AFL badge, no sponsor badge on front, reduced sponsor area on back, numbers lowered, NMFC removed from back, name font increased in height, better proportion.

 

[Exe Gesis]

At least the AFL is moving in the right direction but what they have now is ugly, and they need to do it right if they go full-time on the idea.

Player name far far too small in height.
Player number therefore should be pushed down.
The back sponsor logos on all guernseys can/should be pushed down and be smaller proportion by regulation.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

All the people saying the names just need to be a bit bigger, this will just mean there will be more names, like Roberts-Thomson, that won't actually fit.

 

[Exe Gesis]

All the people saying the names just need to be a bit bigger, this will just mean there will be more names, like Roberts-Thomson, that won't actually fit.

Bigger as in TALLER font.
Roberts-Thompson already is using the L.R.T. on his jumper. It's not going to fit with the current tiny font. You don't account for people like him first when working out the right size of the font. People like him with names like his are the exception not the rule.