The latest Port tradition-history-guernsey thread

[Cyrus the Virus]

The Home guernsey is great

The home guernsey is shite - it is the worst guernsey in the AFL, along with our nickname, and logo. All absolutely terrible.

 

[Natman]

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The home guernsey is shite - it is the worst guernsey in the AFL, along with our nickname, and logo. All absolutely terrible.

You forgot the coach, players, administrators, shorts etc.

 

[Macca19]

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You forgot the coach, players, administrators, shorts etc.

I love our home guernsey. I reckon its great.

 

[Cyrus the Virus]

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enlighten me natman...what is so good about the clubs home guernsey, nickname, and logo? in no way do any of the aspects i have mentioned represent the traditional suburban football club that we are.

the SBS logo on the guernsey and the 5 or 6 vertical black and white stripes on the logo that "represent" the prison bars or clubs heritage is a very piss poor effort.

we look like a franchise and not a traditional footy club. our hand pump logo says it all - we are the "POWER" not the Port Adelaide Football Club EST 1870.

Having said all this, with the whole 'Live the Creed' marketing strategy, I think this is the perfect opportunity to go with a more traditional design.

exactly, change the home guernsey.

 

[*PAF]

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There have been dozens if not hundreds of designs that have come up over the years on this board and officially, well perhaps not hundreds, but this is still my favourite by such a big margin it is not funny.
IIRC it was Porthos and someone else on this board that came up with it.
Can somebody please, please, please email it to the right person at the club.

 

[Francis Soyer]

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Thanks to g.g for the original idea and Rory for this great design which should go to a members vote to be our new home guernsey:

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[NuriootpaTigers]

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Thanks to g.g for the original idea and Rory for this great design which should go to a members vote to be our new home guernsey:

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Okay, I know this is raised many times but a lot of Port Adelaide supporters aren't Port Adelaide Magpies. Bringing this guernsey in will most likely lose us supporters and hurt us financially. I for one wouldn't really mind, I'd rather support this guernsey than a crows one but I think many people would see it differently.

 

[P.A.F.C]

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It's a kick ass guernsey, no doubt. But we've missed the boat on having a home prison bar guernsey. Personally, I like the current home guernsey we have and I would be a little peeved if we suddenly changed it. I have no problems with the PAFC wearing teal and being called the Power.

 

[Natman]

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enlighten me natman...what is so good about the clubs home guernsey, nickname, and logo? in no way do any of the aspects i have mentioned represent the traditional suburban football club that we are.

the SBS logo on the guernsey and the 5 or 6 vertical black and white stripes on the logo that "represent" the prison bars or clubs heritage is a very piss poor effort.

we look like a franchise and not a traditional footy club. our hand pump logo says it all - we are the "POWER" not the Port Adelaide Football Club EST 1870.



exactly, change the home guernsey.

It's not a matter of enlightenment (a great song BTW) - it's a matter of opinion. I happen to like (with a few others) what we have and based on the fact that I haven't got an artistic bone in my body means that I rely on other more talented people to come up with an appropriate image.

If you don't like it - design a package and let's see the result and send it to the club.

 

[Natman]

Re: Clash guernseys

There have been dozens if not hundreds of designs that have come up over the years on this board and officially, well perhaps not hundreds, but this is still my favourite by such a big margin it is not funny.
IIRC it was Porthos and someone else on this board that came up with it.
Can somebody please, please, please email it to the right person at the club.

I don't mind that design - it's too bad that Hair Hat is modelling it.

 

[*PAF]

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I don't mind that design - it's too bad that Hair Hat is modelling it.

IMO it has enough of the old and plenty of the new.
Proud of the past and confident of the future.
If required we could add a bit more teal to it.

We have had this debate many times on this board, and I too am of the opinion that trying to revert back to the prison bars, other than the odd game here and there, will be a bad move.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

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IMO it has enough of the old and plenty of the new.
Proud of the past and confident of the future.
If required we could add a bit more teal to it.

I'd say it has plenty of the old and a touch of the new. Simple fact is, it has black and white stripes and will never be approved by the AFL. I reckon I'd have more chance of emailing Porsche Australia with a 'pretty please' and coming home from work today to find a shiny new 911 in my driveway.

We have had this debate many times on this board, and I too am of the opinion that trying to revert back to the prison bars, other than the odd game here and there, will be a bad move.

Yeah, but *PAF the guernsey you're advocating is a prison bar guernsey with a couple of teal bars added.

 

[El_Scorcho]

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Thanks to g.g for the original idea and Rory for this great design which should go to a members vote to be our new home guernsey:

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You say that like the AFL would even consider allowing it. They wouldn't in a million years.

I'd love us to wear the Prison bar guernsey as much as anyone else, it's the strongest guernsey design i've ever seen. But it wont happen.

If we have that design allowed, it would have to be in colours vastly different from black with white stripes.

THAT SAID...

It isn't the only guernsey design we've ever worn, and the fact that we don't wear that guernsey and we aren't called the magpies doesn't make us any less of the Port Adelaide Football Club. If you believe that is the case, you've been listening to idiot crows supporters who love to tell us we aren't the same club or we have sold our history.

The creed stipulates nothing about guernsey, colours or mascot. Just that we are the Port Adelaide Football Club.

 

[*PAF]

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I'd say it has plenty of the old and a touch of the new. Simple fact is, it has black and white stripes and will never be approved by the AFL. I reckon I'd have more chance of emailing Porsche Australia with a 'pretty please' and coming home from work today to find a shiny new 911 in my driveway.
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It has 10 stripes and 3 of them are black.
The St Kilda guernsey that it was based on looks way more like Collingwood's than this one.
If they could wear it, so can we. They are opposed to Black and White, not stripes.

Yeah, but *PAF the guernsey you're advocating is a prison bar guernsey with a couple of teal bars added.

1. It is a type of prison bar that illustrates the heritage.
2. It is not the prison bar.

If we want to have a debate why that is different from a non PAFC SANFL supporter's point of view I'd be happy to do so in a different thread.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

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It has 10 stripes and 3 of them are black.
The St Kilda guernsey that it was based on looks way more like Collingwood's than this one.
If they could wear it, so can we. They are opposed to Black and White, not stripes.

No they're not opposed to black and white. We have black and white in our guernsey now. What they are opposed to is black and white stripes. Both the guernseys you have illustrated have black and white stripes. Will not happen.

Given our heritage and their unyielding desire to keep Collingwood happy, the AFL would reject it. St Kilda last wore that guernsey in 2006, so it's been dead for a while now. I'd be very surprised if they would have approved something like it for us, and there'd be zero chance now.

1. It is a type of prison bar that illustrates the heritage.
2. It is not the prison bar.

If we want to have a debate why that is different from a non PAFC SANFL supporter's point of view I'd be happy to do so in a different thread.

Nah that's ok, I'll pass on the debate, I agree it's a prison bar style, not the prison bar outright. But it's still the prison bar with a couple of teal bars. I didn't fully interpret your comment on reverting back to prison bars as meaning, traditional black and white prison bar guernsey (seeing as that's not even a remote possibility of happening other than a tiny window of opportunity in heritage rounds).

 

[erical]

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I love our home guernsey. I reckon its great.

Me too.
I reckon it is fantastic

 

[El_Scorcho]

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Our home guernsey is terrific. It manages to look modern in a way that it wont go massively out of fashion either. It's strong and unique.

Going for a traditional style design and incorporating teal would have cheapened the prison bars IMO. Yes, that's right. The modern look of the home guernsey doesn't infringe in any way on the tradition and heritage of the prison bars.

If we had hoops, or stripes, or something else like that, we would be seen as trying to create a historic guernsey out of nothing, which would have been crazy when as far as strong traditional footy guernseys go, we are never going to beat the prison bars. They guernsey would have always been 2nd best.

So with the home guernsey, we went completely away from traditional design, and managed to create a strong and timeless guernsey. It gets a lot of shit from interstate supporters now because it's new and different, but in 50 years it will still look terrific and that will be more widely acknowledged.

 

[Toots Hibbert]

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Actually black white and teal make a terrific combination for a sports uniform.

Let's face it you're developing a habit of coming here and making a nuisance of yourself but try not to demonstrate your foolishness at the same time.

Port did market research in developing a uniform for the AFL. By a happy circumstance one of the colour combos that was shown to be a winner also allowed the club to include it's traditional black and white.

Some other teams that have chosen the same colour combo because its a winner are the Jacksonville Jaguars...

The Carolina Panthers...

The Charlotte Hornets...

and the Cronulla Sharks...

Women can look good too in this colour combo...

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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San Jose Sharks with their different shades of teal

 

[Steve Dore]

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The San Jose Sharks' "official" shade of teal is "Deep Pacific Teal" not Taperoo Teal

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

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haha Taperoo teal. I'm going to remember that one

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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That's right, Pacific Teal, is what their shade is referred to across the (Ice) Hockey world

Supposedly our teal is supposed to represent the Port River. Good thing we didn't get into the AFL in the 1970s, otherwise murky brown might have been our colour. As the river gets cleaner and healthier our shade of teal has gone from greenish to light blue. A coincidence I think, but a good change on both fronts IMO.

 

[Portia]

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Disagree, I think it needs to go to green. You look at those colours above, its Hornets and Jaguars and San Jose that jump out.

Our `teal' is far too light and not green enough - really we should be leaning towards green anyway, because there's enough `virtually royal blue' sides in the comp.

 

[Steve Dore]

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..... Supposedly our teal is supposed to represent the Port River. ....... As the river gets cleaner and healthier our shade of teal has gone from greenish to light blue. A coincidence I think, but a good change on both fronts IMO.

I drove across the Diver Derrick Bridge early yesterday afternoon and the Port River certainly didn't look very "teal" to me. IMO there isn't a lot of "teal" upstream from Pelican Point.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

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We had the greener teal early on. From Footyjumpers.

I prefer the greener teal, the other is too "Sturty". Is there a uranium/radioactive teal to forge our links with Roxby?

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