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Why did you choose 22 in the first place? Was that your number when you were playing?
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From memory it’s because the number has curves and straight lines in it, and the reasons for 22 as opposed to any other suitable combination of 2s and 5s is because there were 22 players in a side of footy (obviously not anymore with the sub but you know how it is). Could be misremembering but I’m pretty sure this is correct.
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I wanted to show the round and straight part of the numbers to show I had accurately represented the font used.
So that left me with only 2 and 5 that have curved parts, and straight parts. All other numbers are completely straight or completely round.
From there my options were 22, 25, 52 & 55.
Given there are (were) 22 players in a team, I went with that.
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I would have thought having a 1 in there like 21 or 12 would be the go so you could show serif's on certain fonts like older ones and the country round fonts Geelong tend to do, but yeah your reason totally makes sense!
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Country Round was not a thing in 1997 when I started the website
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FWIW, 2005 I stumbled upon FootyJumpers and AFL Tables via Kevin Taylor's FootyStats website.
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I found it randomly while bored during study in 2007
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I reckon that's 2003.
Prior to that it was this:
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Clicking on them showed the back as well, though that doesn't seem to work here
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Looks better than what they wear, now. It'd be neat if they wore cotton uniforms instead of polyester.
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That thick top blue band really suits the above number sponser.
Looks like the shorts will be the usual white shorts, which may look a bit jarring (or may not.)
Looks like the shorts will be the usual white shorts, which may look a bit jarring (or may not.)
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Decent shout for the best one-off jumper this season just quietly (I am excluding Indigenous jumpers from that conversation because every club has at least one so they’re not as random as heritage jumpers). They absolutely knocked the execution out of the park and looks about 90% era accurate, the missing 10% coming from necessary changes to facilitate modern positioning of logos and whatnot. The way they went cuff-less to mimic the old look of long sleeve jumpers that had the sleeves removed is top notch. I’d be extremely happy at this if I was a Cats fan and probably would buy one if I didn’t despise them.
I like the dirty staining on the number panel - nice detail!
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