No Purple Haze in Grand Final

[basashi]

It is Freo's fault.

They should have held a press conference this morning and said they really wanted to wear white.

 

[Buzzasto DaSilva]

Unbelievable. And to think I sat through the Port-Carlton game having no idea who was who...

 

[electricfeel]

Is there a fine if the players don't wear the guernsey they've been told to wear? We should just wear purple and cop the fine.

 

[RandB]

At most white shorts but this is stupid.

 

[Alfonz]

I really don't see the issue. It is the clearest separation in colours. Purple probably isn't a clash (as per the 2010 final), but white is definitely a clear distinction. Purple plus white shorts looks terrible. And purple shorts vs brown shorts are both dark colours. Not a big deal.

If you said to me at the start of the year that Freo would be in the grand final, but have to ditch all purple for all white ... would have taken that deal for sure.

 

[Moo]

Man I must be the only one who doesn't care.

I like the white jumper - if I'm decked out in purple, I'm sure the Dockers will work out I'm on their side.

 

[Xtreme]

In all seriousness, Freo should take over both and the players should change into the purple haze if they do get up. Sure, it's presumptive, but if they get up they'd want to be immortalised in the purple surely.

They are going to look out of place if they are triumphant on grand final day no matter if they wear the clash strip or the traditional purple one.

 

[BananaOnTheRun]

it's a beautiful strip, the white strip. leaves little to the imagination when the game's wet, though.

 

[Franc de Borges]

I really don't see the issue. It is the clearest separation in colours. Purple probably isn't a clash (as per the 2010 final), but white is definitely a clear distinction. Purple plus white shorts looks terrible. And purple shorts vs brown shorts are both dark colours. Not a big deal.

If you said to me at the start of the year that Freo would be in the grand final, but have to ditch all purple for all white ... would have taken that deal for sure.

How is purple and white shorts "terrible"? Looks basically identical to Carlton in white shorts which looks great.

 

[thekelvin]

Seriously how do we campaign to change this? It is just not right at all....

Start a petition on change.org aimed at the AFL/Vlad post on bigfooty I'll sign

 

[Franc de Borges]

So if Freo qualified higher, would the Hawks wear their cartoon white strip in a GF?

That's why this is a pathetic decision.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Yeah Purple clashes with nothing

Really should not matter.

 

[Groupie_]

Should be Freo in home guernsey and white shorts

 

[Jaeger]

Ridiculous. There is no clash whatsoever.

 

[Tzatziki_Man]

From what I've heard the AFL gave Freo the option of wearing purple...Stop hating.

 

[LeverPuller]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hawks in home strip as highest-ranked club. Freo put in white shorts by AFL &amp; given option of purple or white jumper. Club picked all white.</p>&mdash; Patrick Keane (@AFL_PKeane) <a href="">September 22, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[wotdoiput]

Another great decision by the AFL

 

[silverscope]

I take pack my previous post.

From Patrick Keane, we had a choice of white or purple top (with white shorts) and we chose white.

Therefore, WTF FREO?

 

[Silent Alarm]

The club also chose to go with white jumpers. The AFL mandated white shorts and hooped socks, but the jumper decision was down to the honchos.

 

[Tzatziki_Man]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hawks in home strip as highest-ranked club. Freo put in white shorts by AFL &amp; given option of purple or white jumper. Club picked all white.</p>&mdash; Patrick Keane (@AFL_PKeane) <a href="">September 22, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Yep there you go. Fremantle picked the all white. No need to hate on the AFL.

 

[mick06]

Meh they always seem to wear that strip playing the Hawks away. Man United sometimes wear fluoro green.

 

[electricfeel]

I swear we have never won a game wearing purple top and white shorts....maybe that's why

 

[Righteo]

Extremely disappointing, if we were to win our first premiership the players should be decked out in purple.

 

[The Speaker]

I take pack my previous post.

From Patrick Keane, we had a choice of white or purple top (with white shorts) and we chose white.

Therefore, WTF FREO?

Once they were put into white shorts I'd say it was a given they were going to go with the white top.

 

[Alfonz]

How is purple and white shorts "terrible"? Looks basically identical to Carlton in white shorts which looks great.

Well, I just don't think it looks good. But, now that you mention it, not that bad with Carlton. So maybe you have a point, though I think all navy still looks a lot better. Maybe historically the Blues existence has bred more of an acceptance to the white shorts. But I'm used to all purple or all white, and when they trotted out in the mixture against Geelong earlier in the year, I thought it looked really bad.