TheLoungeLizard
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Amazing how quickly Nike have given up on Aussie Rules
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I wonder if it's got anything to do with them getting the NBA contract. Probably not, but it's food for thought.
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Nike have gone guns blazing with basketball as they believe it will overtake soccer in popularity globally. Not sure if that has much to do with AFL, but it's interesting.
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Surely Nike Australia wouldn't have any interest (except of course for merch)..
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They dumped the NRL pretty quickly too
TheLoungeLizard
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My issue is they haven't walked away or seen out a contract.
They have just wiped their hands of their commitment and have been producing low quality gear that is embarrassing to see as they clearly do not care and for a major world-wide brand it's, well, bizarre.
It amazes me how some people demanded a branded company to take over in recent years when none of the major ones (until very recently with Puma) were putting out quality kits and quality templates (Adidas fangs, Puma cut offs) Nike only got away with it before hand because the Carlton jumper doesn;t interfere with any template.
I officially jumped off the Nike bandwagon when this years Melbourne City away kit hit the store. It is an abomination of the highest order! This is not a prototype, its an official kit with massive bloody stickers all over it, the A-league badge, and both front and back sponsors. It is a joke. An embarrassment. I can't wait until next year when we are with Puma.
Is puma confirmedI officially jumped off the Nike bandwagon when this years Melbourne City away kit hit the store. It is an abomination of the highest order! This is not a prototype, its an official kit with massive bloody stickers all over it, the A-league badge, and both front and back sponsors. It is a joke. An embarrassment. I can't wait until next year when we are with Puma.
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I used to love nike's AFL kits but they are bog average now.
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It's like the Wild West. With a pop of only 25mil, the people running the big brands here get away with murder. No-one o/seas gives a toss what's happening down under - we're chump change for Nike.
It's like the Wild West. With a pop of only 25mil, the people running the big brands here get away with murder. No-one o/seas gives a toss what's happening down under - we're chump change for Nike.
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Nike should simply outsource the manufacturing of the guernseys if doing it themselves is such an issue.
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I would have thought they always did. I know Adidas do, last I heard I think Gameday Apparel (the known as HotSub) was doing Adidas' and I'm pretty sure GDA was putting the monograms on Carlton's jumpers.
Andonis1997
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According to tuckylives the monograms are (or at least were) done in Queensland, so if that's where GDA is, then you'd be correct
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I think you got the Queensland part mixed up. I remember someone referencing Thomastown (which is where GDA is from) and I thought it might have been tuckylives but I wasn't 100% sure. These were the posts.According to tuckylives the monograms are (or at least were) done in Queensland, so if that's where GDA is, then you'd be correct
And I'm 99% sure they made Hawthorn's jumpers because they had pictures of the Hawthorn Premiers jumper on their website.
Andonis1997
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Aaaahhhh, yep. I did. Well done
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I know I can't stop going on with these minor comments, but surely Collingwood really wanted to have a new jumper in 2018? I saw this on Instagram. Seems weird to give new recruits their numbers via a clash jumper?
I guess the worst thing is that in this now being the clash, there's almost less nod to the traditional Pies jumper.
This thing here is a hybrid that is mostly white, and to be honest I think it looks fresh and balanced and North should have done something similar, but now we have a black home and a hybrid away (as I can see it being used) and no actual simple white-with-black-stripes classic Vic Park, Daicos sort jumpers.
Lately I've been into basketball design both with courts and uniforms, and although they can have six designs due to the amount of games played and the weirdness of white at home (to Australians/soccer fans), I just think the AFL would be smarter adopting a mandate where all clubs have four jumpers: home, clash, Indigenous, and their version of city which would be something like 'Club' – this 'club' jumper would essentially be used to showcase an element of the club, whether that be Carlton trying to be as 'itself' as it could with the all navy strip, or heritage designs, or abstract ones (Brisbane Lions in darker shades to bring out the look of 'Brisbane summer nights' or some shit; Adelaide in majority navy for whatever reason). It would allow clubs to essentially wear whatever they wanted at home, whether it be light or dark or neither or both, and in the case of a clash an away team has four options or else the home club can decide to trot out their 'Club' edition.
It's probably an unpopular idea but we could end up with a competition that ends up actually looking far more traditional, allowing Geelong to wear navy shorts, North in a white based jumper with blue shorts and socks. You might see less consistency from game to game but it would also probably wipe out names on jumpers et al.
Biggest issue I guess is we'd probably see bird heads and shit manifest as the go to, as opposed to some interesting and debatable design.
I guess the worst thing is that in this now being the clash, there's almost less nod to the traditional Pies jumper.
This thing here is a hybrid that is mostly white, and to be honest I think it looks fresh and balanced and North should have done something similar, but now we have a black home and a hybrid away (as I can see it being used) and no actual simple white-with-black-stripes classic Vic Park, Daicos sort jumpers.
Lately I've been into basketball design both with courts and uniforms, and although they can have six designs due to the amount of games played and the weirdness of white at home (to Australians/soccer fans), I just think the AFL would be smarter adopting a mandate where all clubs have four jumpers: home, clash, Indigenous, and their version of city which would be something like 'Club' – this 'club' jumper would essentially be used to showcase an element of the club, whether that be Carlton trying to be as 'itself' as it could with the all navy strip, or heritage designs, or abstract ones (Brisbane Lions in darker shades to bring out the look of 'Brisbane summer nights' or some shit; Adelaide in majority navy for whatever reason). It would allow clubs to essentially wear whatever they wanted at home, whether it be light or dark or neither or both, and in the case of a clash an away team has four options or else the home club can decide to trot out their 'Club' edition.
It's probably an unpopular idea but we could end up with a competition that ends up actually looking far more traditional, allowing Geelong to wear navy shorts, North in a white based jumper with blue shorts and socks. You might see less consistency from game to game but it would also probably wipe out names on jumpers et al.
Biggest issue I guess is we'd probably see bird heads and shit manifest as the go to, as opposed to some interesting and debatable design.
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Is it just me, or does the Black & White wider stripes look the same width, and then the pin stripes on the Black make them appear wider than the White?
Were they really too lazy to make the Black & White stripes the same width, when allowing for the pin stripes?
Were they really too lazy to make the Black & White stripes the same width, when allowing for the pin stripes?
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I've always felt like the black stripes look wider than the white on the clash guernsey a visa versa for the home before the pinstripes
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That extra stripe down the side makes the Collingwood clash look too similar to the home jumper.
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This but with black cuffs as the home so that there is a bit of a difference between the two, pinstripes won't break the clash.
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