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The Jumper Thread
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Us gingers have to stick together
As a fellow Ginger I agree
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Only a ginger...
Mr Eagle
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Hey guys, just got the alert. Am I late for the meeting?
Why not?
Your parents should really be the ones to have this conversation with you.
I dunno, seeing some of our efforts over the last few years I reckon some of the boys shouldn't wear white shorts either 
MeltMan
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Because the AFL has an archaic rule left over from when it wasn’t a professional league that the away team must wear white shorts. A rule that made sense in those times, because away jumpers weren’t a thing.
Now that every club must have a clash uniform, there’s no need for it, especially when they pick and choose when to apply it.
‘The away team shall wear white shorts…. Unless Geelong are the home team, in which case Geelong wear white because their jumper is predominantly white. (We won’t apply that same rule to North Melbourne though, they can wear blue shorts with their white jumper and the away team can wear white even though it just creates more clashes than it solves). And while we’re at it, red shorts are light enough that they might as well be white shorts, so if Sydney or Gold Coast wear their red shorts then the away team can wear their coloured shorts too, AND we’ll let Sydney and Gold Coast wear red shorts as the away team just cause why not?’
It’s so breathtakingly simple!
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We played decent in the old school navy.
That's enough for me to use it more often!
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That's enough for me to use it more often!
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shoutsatclouds
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I thought that the white shorts thing to identify the away team was a holdover from black and white TV days...
That could very well be part of the reason as well. Away jumpers didn’t really become a thing until the late 80’s AFAIK (happy to be proven wrong though)
White shorts are still used in most amateur leagues for the same reason, can’t remember ever seeing a local footy team with an away uniform.
The point is, they’re outdated and they create more confusion than they solve these days.
Mr Eagle
Bird-brain
Away jumpers became a thing in the mid-late 90s.
Very early on in the VFL, Geelong tried a clash jumper once or twice when playing Collingwood. It wasn't until we came in with Brisbane in 1987 that it happened again (for vs Hawthorn and each other).
I think Brisbane was the first team to have an actual away jumper.
Didn’t we use the Royal as an away jumper at first and then swapped them around after a couple of seasons?
Mr Eagle
Bird-brain
It was a clash jumper in ’87 and '88, but part of the way through '88 we swapped to it completely and the gold jumper never came back.
