Opinion The PB's - a celebration of 150 years. This year or later?

[GremioPower]

I must confess that I would love to see the Crows in the SANFL guernsey.

Showdown: PAFC v. SANFL. It feels right!

Every time they lose, they can even say "Sorry, South Australia"...

Three reactions: 100% dislikes. I should have posted in the "unpopular opinion" thread!

P.S.: Five and counting...

 

[Duck Farmer]

Three reactions: 100% dislikes. I should have posted in the "unpopular opinion" thread!

P.S.: Five and counting...

I don't have a problem with your opinion but can see how others would prefer the Crows to wear something more appropriate such as a technicolour monstrosity emblazoned with a faux Hogwarts monogram rather than the state guernsey.

 

[crows dude]

I love your current guernsey. Probably the best in the AFL. Why all the fuss over the prison bars. Current guernsey is heaps better

 

[GremioPower]

I don't have a problem with your opinion but can see how others would prefer the Crows to wear something more appropriate such as a technicolour monstrosity emblazoned with a faux Hogwarts monogram rather than the state guernsey.

Don't they already play with a technicolor monstrosity?

 

[GremioPower]

I love your current guernsey. Probably the best in the AFL. Why all the fuss over the prison bars. Current guernsey is heaps better

 

[Portmagpies36]

KG and Cornes still on air...what year is it?

That must be an impersonator, there is no way KG is still with us.

 

[PA88]

I must confess that I would love to see the Crows in the SANFL guernsey.

Showdown: PAFC v. SANFL. It feels right!

Every time they lose, they can even say "Sorry, South Australia"...

The state jumper is representative of all footballers with SA origin (prior to state league matches) and this encompasses all players that played for clubs in the SANFL, including Port Adelaide. The PAFC is not an enemy of the state jumper and never will be and never should be. We have had multitudes of players represent their state of origin proudly in that jumper. It is not a crows jumper nor is it a heritage jumper of the crows. The crows heritage is a court room.

 

[Portmagpies36]

I love your current guernsey. Probably the best in the AFL. Why all the fuss over the prison bars. Current guernsey is heaps better

To quote the great Dennis Cometti re the prison bars:
Its the greatest jumper in Australian Football.

 

[PA88]

They are not a state team, and would bastardise the guernsey. But it would also symbolize what the Crows really are: an amalgamation of forces united by NOT being Port.

The SANFL deserves it.

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P.S.: There is more — our current guernsey is inspired in the state guernsey. Believe me, the more meaningless the SoO becomes, the more it would look like they are playing in our guernsey with their colours.

Should the Brasil jersey exclude and be worn as a foe against FC Gremio?

 

[PA88]

I love your current guernsey. Probably the best in the AFL. Why all the fuss over the prison bars. Current guernsey is heaps better

I am pro PB but the v jumper is a good jumper, however, if we do not fight to wear the PB jumper then we dishonour all those before us that helped Port propel itself onto the national stage. It is not about which one looks better.

 

[Tibbs]

I love your current guernsey. Probably the best in the AFL. Why all the fuss over the prison bars. Current guernsey is heaps better

I actually like Ports current AFL jumper too, but without being condescending, it is very hard to explain to non-Port people what the Prison Bars mean or represent. We can tell you in words, but it's impossible to convey the feelings and emotion that seeing our team running out in the bars invokes!

Needless to say, it is WAY MORE that just a good looking jumper.

 

[ozph1870]

I must confess that I would love to see the Crows in the SANFL guernsey.

Showdown: PAFC v. SANFL. It feels right!

Every time they lose, they can even say "Sorry, South Australia"...

That's ridiculous.

 

[Needs Gravy]

I love your current guernsey. Probably the best in the AFL. Why all the fuss over the prison bars. Current guernsey is heaps better

Because it’s our guernsey - the one many of us we grew up supporting as did our parents generation and grandparents generations.

It’s our clubs connection to its past and we as supporters want it to be part of our future.

 

[finbarr]

The PB jumper looks objectively way better than the chevron's. The chevron jumper is ok, and way better than the previous jumper, but it's pretty unremarkable.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

The SANFL should never have been allowed to use the state jumper for their state league contests.

Whatever abomination they had come up with instead, the Crow should have been allows to use for the showdown.

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[finbarr]

Let the Crows wear the state jumper for all i care. They'll just look stupid. It's not even a great looking jumper anyway. Add it to the Australian baggy green cricket cap in the "iconic sporting apparel items that actually look pretty shit" basket.

 

[GremioPower]

Should the Brasil jersey exclude and be worn as a foe against FC Gremio?

I wouldn't have an issue with that at all. If Inter wanted to play with a state guernsey or the national guernsey in derbies, I wouldn't be offended. It is not the same case.

 

[GremioPower]

That's ridiculous.

I didn't say it wasn't. Ridiculous as it may be, I just said I would love to see it.

 

[Grave Danger]

It was putting the names of every Crow player on that jumper that sunk it for them. I think that's what offended past state players, probably more than purloining the jumper itself - even players who would have no love for Port Adelaide agreed with our stance. Heck, even old Wrinkles reckoned that part was a mistake.

 

[ozph1870]

It's

I didn't say it wasn't. Ridiculous as it may be, I just said I would love to see it.

Its because you don't understand that aspect of game, which is fine, not having a go, as you didn't grow up following the sport here. Put it this way, there are 6 state jumpers hanging up inside the club rooms at Alberton. It (was) an honour in the day to represent the state and get one of those guernseys. Plenty of port players earned it over the years. The adelaide football club do not deserve that honour, no club deserves to wear a state guernsey. That's for state football, not club football.

 

[JimmyBC]

The chevrons home guernsey is strong but I agree unremarkable & the away/clash variations of it we've had are ordinary to very ordinary.

 

[GremioPower]

It's
Its because you don't understand that aspect of game, which is fine, not having a go, as you didn't grow up following the sport here. Put it this way, there are 6 state jumpers hanging up inside the club rooms at Alberton. It (was) an honour in the day to represent the state and get one of those guernseys. Plenty of port players earned it over the years. The adelaide football club do not deserve that honour, no club deserves to wear a state guernsey. That's for state football, not club football.

I get it that guernseys are important. Grêmio's shirt is iconic. One doesn't see it around often. I love it. I don't like when Grêmio changes the design. I pay attention to every detail. I get it.

Now, Internacional's is plain red. Teams playing with a plain red shirt against Grêmio do not make a derby. It needs to be Internacional for that. The guernsey, as important as it may be, doesn't make the club. It's a combination.

Newcastle playing against Juventus, no side feels playing against itself. Botafogo v. Atlético Mineiro is the same. Vasco v. Ponte Preta... I could go on and on.

In my home state, in the city of Pelotas, there is an important derby: Pelotas v. Brasil, the Bra-Pel derby. Brasil, besides its name, is red and black; but Pelotas wears yellow shirt and blue shorts (like Brazil).

Worse still, the designer who came up with Brazil's iconic kit is from Pelotas (the city) and barracks for Brasil (the club). However, for the contest in the early 50's, he presented a design for the Brazilian uniform based on the kit of his club's main rival.

He didn't see it as a Pelotas' kit. After all, it isn't. It just looks like it.

In the same way, the Crows wouldn't be wearing the state jumper. It would still be a Crows jumper, even if modeled after the state's. It is the Crows, not South Australia. That doesn't change. It never will.

 

[GremioPower]

but I agree unremarkable

It is one of, if not the best guernsey in the league.

 

[Smithy7]

Got email ... Ok will have one of them ... Bugger sold out.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Our current home is a really nice guernsey, but that's the colour scheme doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Mainly black with white and teal is going to work well in most applications, we're quite lucky with our colour scheme.

But it's just a classic footy design in our colours. It's basically meaningless. We've done nothing of note in it, it's greatest hour was probably what, Showdown 35? It definitely suffers a lot from being in the rightful place of the greatest (and most meaningful) guernsey in the sport.