Discussion North Melbourne's home jumper going forward

[Hank93]

2nd time this year North are wearing the royal blue kit in a home game. Then this from North's communications manager.


Is this an admission that they've made the switch officially?

 

[Dylan8]

Weird one. Royal jumper is clearly not close to being as strong to the white one nor is it nearly as "North".

What a giant ****up it is using the jumper in this game too.

 

[Cody_]

I like North's blue.

 

[Bacon Warrior]

The blue shorts are more sacred than the guernsey.

That's ****ing hilarious.

 

[Mr Eagle]

The blue shorts are more sacred than the guernsey.

That's ******* hilarious.

Glad I'm not the only one who read it that way!

No matter what jumper they are wearing, North should be in white shorts tonight. It's common bloody sense.

 

[HTT]

Black numbers are almost constitutional for NM, and the blue doesn't allow that.

 

[DoctorPav29]

The blue shorts are more sacred than the guernsey.

That's ******* hilarious.

Does that mean they would wear pink with lime green swirls if it meant they could wear blue shorts?

 

[DoctorPav29]

Glad I'm not the only one who read it that way!

No matter what jumper they are wearing, North should be in white shorts tonight. It's common bloody sense.

Makes as much sense as the Collingwood/Carlton matchup a few weeks back.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Makes as much sense as the Collingwood/Carlton matchup a few weeks back.

It's precisely the Collingwood problem, yes. Just in a fetching shade of blue.

 

[DoctorPav29]

It's precisely the Collingwood problem, yes. Just in a fetching shade of blue.

I'd like to see what happens if they try wearing the blue at home to Collingwood.

 

[Hank93]

Glad I'm not the only one who read it that way!

No matter what jumper they are wearing, North should be in white shorts tonight. It's common bloody sense.

Or Carlton as the away team have to avoid a clash with whatever the home team wants to wear.

 

[rabbitoh21]

I'd like to see what happens if they try wearing the blue at home to Collingwood.

Eddie Maguire implodes and sucks in the FJGD universe in the process, dispensing them into the black hole of "AFL policies and practice"

 

[Mr Eagle]

Or Carlton as the away team have to avoid a clash with whatever the home team wants to wear.

Shorts should always be negotiable IMO, but otherwise yeah.

(Isn't that the EPL rule - home team picks its shirt and the refs say what's what other than that? That works for me.)

 

[Cody_]

Carlton should have worn clash would have been a nice change.

Or,
North wear white

 

[The Cheesecake]

North and Carlton both in full home would've been fine. FWIW though, I really like the all blue kit. Nice shade.

 

[fumbler]

Looks terrible

 

[ManWithNoName]

Can someone call him and ask him wtf is going on

 

[Gibbsy]

Quote from someone in the media I know

"From what I understand, club asked for it. Perhaps angling at using it more in the future. Big hit with the fans, so want to see it used more."

 

[Liam Boy]

It looks great and I'm glad we're wearing it frequently. I'm also glad both of our strips are blue and white stripes because it makes it synonymous with our brand as a footy club.

 

[Hank93]

Quote from someone in the media I know

"From what I understand, club asked for it. Perhaps angling at using it more in the future. Big hit with the fans, so want to see it used more."

It's pretty clear from the tweet in the OP that the club is peeved by continually being forced to wear white shorts.

I'm sure (hope?) their preference is to wear the white jumper and blue shorts.

If the AFL is sticking fat with their full colour kit rule (Hawthorn being the exception), then it'll be interesting how they approach it from next year. It's not clear to me at the moment whether the blue jumper is their new home guernsey right now or more when they feel like it.

They were in all white for the Dogs game but i reckon that's more because the Dogs clash kit is farcical.

 

[danfurla]

I have no idea why we would wear our blue strip. Dont get me wrong i absolutely love our blue kit and love seeing us wear when we can ie Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney but tonights decision to wear the all blue kit was a strange. Both teams in dark blue kits and the afl approved this?
was difficult to tell the players from far away
Going forward i would much rather prefer north have just two kits. our home kit with just white shorts, no more blue shorts with the home jumper
think the white jumper and white shorts just looks more aesthetically pleasing. and have the royal blue jumper and blue shorts for when we play the teams mentioned above plus wearing it against teams like geelong, hawthorn and prob a few other teams where we could wear our blue kit with no clash

 

[Speck]

Worst of all, you'd easily get away with royal shorts v navy shorts on both home jumpers.

 

[NM_Mitchell]

I don't think it's becoming the home kit, more becoming an alternate kit that can be used home or away, which I'm very unhappy with, as I was hoping it would be phased out soon in favour of a different clash strip.

Weird one. Royal jumper is clearly not close to being as strong to the white one nor is it nearly as "North".

What a giant ****up it is using the jumper in this game too.

We're just trying to get into the big 4, what better way than to clash as badly as possible with other big 4 teams.

Black numbers are almost constitutional for NM, and the blue doesn't allow that.

What?
Who really cares about the colour of the number?
How are they almost constitutional?

 

[Dylan8]

I have no idea why we would wear our blue strip. Dont get me wrong i absolutely love our blue kit and love seeing us wear when we can ie Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney but tonights decision to wear the all blue kit was a strange. Both teams in dark blue kits and the afl approved this?
was difficult to tell the players from far away
Going forward i would much rather prefer north have just two kits. our home kit with just white shorts, no more blue shorts with the home jumper
think the white jumper and white shorts just looks more aesthetically pleasing. and have the royal blue jumper and blue shorts for when we play the teams mentioned above plus wearing it against teams like geelong, hawthorn and prob a few other teams where we could wear our blue kit with no clash

Welcome to the forum m8

 

[Strauchanside]

What was interesting to me today was that both in Adelaide and in the North game, was that a predominately dark kit was allowed to be matched against a predominately royal blue kit, without a white clash to be used. I don't think this would have been allowed in previous years.