PAFC CEO Matthew Richardson

[Eddie Dingle]

It is NOT the state guernsey, for Pete’s sake!

The Adelaide Football Club is NOT the South Australian National Football League. The Adelaide Football Club can only wear Adelaide Crows’ guernsies.

It doesn’t matter the design nor the colours. It always going to be an Adelaide Crows’ guernsey.

A Glenelg guernsey is Glenelg’s; not Richmond’s. It’s the same rule.

Do you all really think they are the state team?!

You clearly don’t understand what this means culturally to us.

And that’s ok.

 

[ozph1870]

Home team wears what they want. Away team wears what they want, so long as it provides adequate contrast.

If home team wants to wear their heritage guernsey, a "heritage" guernsey or even a screenshot of Ricky Henderson's unfortunately live indiscretion as the centrepiece, so be it.

If Adelaide want to wear a SoO guernsey (lol) then why would we, a separate entity, care? Surely we're not as insecure as Collingwood.

How would the other Victorian clubs act if suddenly Melbourne being the oldest club said ok from now on in select rounds we are going to wear the big v... and we are going to do it v Collingwood or Essendon etc...
it’s a joke that any club would ever consider wearing a state guernsey in a club v club competition..

The Pafc should be able to wear any pafc guernsey it chooses to wear, be it pink, teal, magenta or black and white..
the afc should be able to wear any afc guernsey it chooses to wear, that’s all, not some state guensey just because they’re the same colours.

 

[ozph1870]

Do you all really think they are the state team?!

they do... and that’s half the issue..
the state guernsey is the one that brought everyone together, be it ports, Glenelg, Norwood, south whoever..

the fact there is a football club that thinks a South Australian football team should play a game v a club with the state guernsey design just shows what sort of people they are.

 

[backtozero]

There's also an extra dose of arrogance that they think that state jumper doesn't have a strong history of including Port Adelaide players. To wear that against us is a sign that they think they exclude us from that particular part of South Australian footballing history.

 

[bomberclifford]

There's also an extra dose of arrogance that they think that state jumper doesn't have a strong history of including Port Adelaide players. To wear that against us is a sign that they think they exclude us from that particular part of South Australian footballing history.

This is the crux of it for me. They do not represent me, or my club, or my state. Yet they brand themselves as a state team; state colours, pride of SA mantra, crow mascot, etc and then they have the gall to want to wear a state representative guernsey as their ‘heritage’. It’s utter bullshit.

No other club in the AFL tries to lay claim to being a ‘state’ team. Not even the Eagles.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

This is the crux of it for me. They do not represent me, or my club, or my state. Yet they brand themselves as a state team; state colours, pride of SA mantra, crow mascot, etc and then they have the gall to want to wear a state representative guernsey as their ‘heritage’. It’s utter bullshit.

No other club in the AFL tries to lay claim to being a ‘state’ team. Not even the Eagles.

I like it.

Us against the rest. It makes me hate them even more, makes the showdown even better and makes it sweeter when we once again beat the rest of the state.

The fact you guys are so triggered us exactly why I hope they get it. It adds to the rivalry and ultimately is good for Port.

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[Stewart2Austin Reborn]

This is the crux of it for me. They do not represent me, or my club, or my state. Yet they brand themselves as a state team; state colours, pride of SA mantra, crow mascot, etc and then they have the gall to want to wear a state representative guernsey as their ‘heritage’. It’s utter bullshit.

No other club in the AFL tries to lay claim to being a ‘state’ team. Not even the Eagles.

The Eagles wore a SoO guernsey in 2007

 

[GremioPower]

By that logic Belgium flies France’s flag and vice-versa.

I know you are being sarcastic, but Italy’s actually is like that. I’m not sure about Belgium, to be honest.

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I like it.

Us against the rest. It makes me hate them even more, makes the showdown even better and makes it sweeter when we once again beat the rest of the state.

The fact you guys are so triggered us exactly why I hope they get it. It adds to the rivalry and ultimately is good for Port.

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[bomberclifford]

The Eagles wore a SoO guernsey in 2007

For heritage round?

 

[ibd77]

The Eagles wore a SoO guernsey in 2007

Was this a State based Guernsey?

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[backtozero]

I like it.

Us against the rest. It makes me hate them even more, makes the showdown even better and makes it sweeter when we once again beat the rest of the state.

The fact you guys are so triggered us exactly why I hope they get it. It adds to the rivalry and ultimately is good for Port.

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Tell that to Mark Naley, Garry McIntosh, Peter Motley, and John Platten.

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[Enviable Tradition]

Tell that to Mark Naley, Garry McIntosh, Peter Motley, and John Platten.

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The fact that it turns half the state AGAINST the Crows just makes it even better.

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[backtozero]

The fact that it turns half the state AGAINST the Crows just makes it even better.

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So you're fine with guys who earned the right to wear that jumper feeling disrespected? Ok then.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

So you're fine with guys who earned the right to wear that jumper feeling disrespected? Ok then.

Disrespected by Adelaide.

Absolutely.

If they choose to do it then let it be on them.

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[GremioPower]

Disrespected by Adelaide.

Absolutely.

If they choose to do it then let it be on them.

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Why it would be disrespectful is beyond me, really. As if West Lakes would magically become the state side because of a similar guernsey.

They would still be the Crows.

 

[tribey]

Why it would be disrespectful is beyond me, really. As if West Lakes would magically become the state side because of a similar guernsey.

They would still be the Crows.

Manchester United wouldn’t be England if they wore the Three Lions national strip either, but they still shouldn’t ****ing wear it.

 

[GremioPower]

Manchester United wouldn’t be England if they wore the Three Lions national strip either, but they still shouldn’t ****ing wear it.

Mate, the equivalent would be a white shirt, with navy numbers. The three lions are in the badge.

The MUFC would use the MUFC badge. After all, MUFC is not the FA.

This is Argentina:


This is Racing Avellaneda:


The kits have pretty much the same design. Still, every single supporter of Independiente (the club literally across the street from Racing) knows the difference.

We should be able to do the same.

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P.S.: Even if ManU puts the three lions on its shirt, then it would not look like the English team; because the actual “three lions on a shirt” are in the badge — the FA badge.

It would be a ManU shirt with three lions, which is something else entirely.

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P.P.S.: Racing to Argentina would basically be Carlton to Victoria (both navy and white) — the only difference is the badge. It’s more than enough.

 

[chiwigi]

Mate, the equivalent would be a white shirt, with navy numbers. The three lions are in the badge.

The MUFC would use the MUFC badge. After all, MUFC is not the FA.

This is Argentina:
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This is Racing Avellaneda:
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The kits have pretty much the same design. Still, every single supporter of Independiente (the club literally across the street from Racing) knows the difference.

We should be able to do the same.

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P.S.: Even if ManU puts the three lions on its shirt, then it would not look like the English team; because the actual “three lions on a shirt” are in the badge — the FA badge.

It would be a ManU shirt with three lions, which is something else entirely.

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P.P.S.: Racing to Argentina would basically be Carlton to Victoria (both navy and white) — the only difference is the badge. It’s more than enough.

It’s not the same.
The Crows already wear state colours, the campaigners aren’t entitled to the state Guernsey.

 

[Sleezy]

It’s not the same.
The Crows already wear state colours, the campaigners aren’t entitled to the state Guernsey.

So what if the crows take something they haven't earned? People will know they haven't earned it so it doesn't matter.

Sorry Gremio, but this is your argument, and it is fatally flawed. It's not enough to know that the jumper is unearned. Taking it in the first place is the issue.

It would be no different to me walking around with an Olympic gold medal, or a Victoria Cross, or a medical doctorate. I haven't earned any of them, I don't deserve them.

 

[GremioPower]

So what if the crows take something they haven't earned? People will know they haven't earned it so it doesn't matter.

Sorry Gremio, but this is your argument, and it is fatally flawed. It's not enough to know that the jumper is unearned. Taking it in the first place is the issue.

It would be no different to me walking around with an Olympic gold medal, or a Victoria Cross, or a medical doctorate. I haven't earned any of them, I don't deserve them.

That not my argument at all.

My argument is that it is impossible for them to wear the state guernsey; even if theirs may look like it. They can only wear a Crows’ guernsey.

Racing is not Argentina, even though they both play with sky-blue and white vertical stripes. West Lakes won’t be South Australia even if they play with a red guernsey with yellow and blue chevrons.

The Crows wouldn’t be earning anything.

 

[backtozero]

Mate, the equivalent would be a white shirt, with navy numbers. The three lions are in the badge.

The MUFC would use the MUFC badge. After all, MUFC is not the FA.

This is Argentina:
View attachment 1087682

This is Racing Avellaneda:
View attachment 1087683

The kits have pretty much the same design. Still, every single supporter of Independiente (the club literally across the street from Racing) knows the difference.

We should be able to do the same.

—

P.S.: Even if ManU puts the three lions on its shirt, then it would not look like the English team; because the actual “three lions on a shirt” are in the badge — the FA badge.

It would be a ManU shirt with three lions, which is something else entirely.

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P.P.S.: Racing to Argentina would basically be Carlton to Victoria (both navy and white) — the only difference is the badge. It’s more than enough.

"Finally, Racing adopted the light blue and white colors in 1910, in commemoration of the May Revolution's 100th anniversary that same year."

So this club adopted their jersey less than 10 years after the national team and presumably weren't pretending to be the national team. They've also now been wearing those colours for over 100 years.

Not even close to being the same thing.

 

[backtozero]

That not my argument at all.

My argument is that it is impossible for them to wear the state guernsey; even if theirs may look like it. The can only wear a Crows’ guernsey.

Racing is not Argentina, even though they both play with sky-blue and white vertical stripes. West Lakes won’t be South Australia even if they play with a red guernsey with yellow and blue chevrons.

The Crows wouldn’t be earning anything.

Its their intention to steal history. What part of that do you not understand?

 

[Sleezy]

The Crows wouldn’t be earning anything.

But they would take it anyway, and that is the problem.

 

[GremioPower]

Its their intention to steal history. What part of that do you not understand?

Their intention is irrelevant. Their goal is unattainable. Period.

"Finally, Racing adopted the light blue and white colors in 1910, in commemoration of the May Revolution's 100th anniversary that same year."

So this club adopted their jersey less than 10 years after the national team and presumably weren't pretending to be the national team. They've also now been wearing those colours for over 100 years.

Not even close to being the same thing.

The whole point was wearing the national colours and the national shirt, wasn’t it?

 

[chiwigi]

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Their intention is irrelevant. Their goal is unattainable. Period.




The whole point was wearing the national colours and the national shirt, wasn’t it?

No, you are missing the whole context of the Crows reason for existing in the first place and the cultural issues part, which is what people are trying to get at.
It would be hard to understand from a soccer POV.