Which jumper v Freo?

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Will Melbourne be wearing that silver thing tomorrow seeing as it is Freo's home game?

[footyfreak 0]

Will Melbourne be wearing that silver thing tomorrow seeing as it is Freo's home game?

Hopefully not, that jumper is a disgrace! Plus it might clash with Freo's... But it would give Freo to tank

[Chook 14,602]

God, I hope not. To be honest, though, I think we might have to, according to the AFL's rules.

[QueenC 74]

Wasn't it said (McNamee I think but don't quote me) that the awful silver thingy will never be seen or heard from again?

[footyfreak 0]

Hopefully you are right, the jumper is a disgrace

GO DEES!

[Dee tention 611]

McNamee said the jumper will change next season. But we will have too wear it where we do clash for the remaining games! So we will most likely be wearing it tomorrow. Essendons jumper today agianst the Tiggers was a shocker I thought!

[45HG 1,539]

Pretty sure we will be wearing it tomorrow. But end of this, or next, season we are allowed to present a new jumper to wear as an alternate strip

[Dee tention 611]

I think Melbourne should opt for there 80's jumper "(light blue and red) as there alternative strip. This alone or a a small addition to this jumper would suit.

What do you think?

[w00dy 146]

Pretty sure we will be wearing it tomorrow. But end of this, or next, season we are allowed to present a new jumper to wear as an alternate strip

AFL rules require clubs to keep clash strips for at least 2 years... however we've been given an exception and will be able to change our clash strip at the end of this season...

and yes, we'll be wearing it tomorrow, I think freo is our biggest clash

[Chook 14,602]

I think Melbourne should opt for there 80's jumper "(light blue and red) as there alternative strip. This alone or a a small addition to this jumper would suit.

What do you think?

That's definitely one possibility, although a few people here seem to blame it for our abysmal form during the '80s. There were some awesome suggestions in a forum a few weeks ago. Did you see any of them?

[Deeview 0]

AFL rules require clubs to keep clash strips for at least 2 years... however we've been given an exception and will be able to change our clash strip at the end of this season...

and yes, we'll be wearing it tomorrow, I think freo is our biggest clash

When it was announced that the AFL gave us the OK to change our change strip at the end of the season, it was also stated that we would still have to wear the current clash jumper against Freo and Essendon this year.

[Sydney Pennski 270]

When it was announced that the AFL gave us the OK to change our change strip at the end of the season, it was also stated that we would still have to wear the current clash jumper against Freo and Essendo this year.

If we're wearing the crap jumper there's a good chance we'll be tanking the game because we play football the same way that the jumper looks when we wear it.

[Beamer 1]

I think we should go with the alternative strip of the last couple of years.

Obviously we wont be able to present the Demon, but I liked the colours.

[titan_uranus 22,665]

We are definitely wearing the clash strip today, I remember reading it in an article from around the time of the St. Kilda game where this whole issue was big. We have to wear it against Freo and Essendon I think, but those are the last 2 times ever.

[Swampfox 190]

There has never been a clash of jumpers in VFL/AFL football with Melbourne as one of the teams

You could argue that Collingwood and either North and Hawthorn playing on a cow paddock being viewed via a Black and White TV may be a little harder to watch

We no longer play on poor football ground surfaces and most people have a Colour TV these days

We have always had a difference in the shorts being worn for the home and away teams

The decision is pure marketing and little common sense

Our silver jumper is an eyesore and i do hope the person responsible for its inception has left and joined the trend setting fashion industry

[freo2008 0]

There has never been a clash of jumpers in VFL/AFL football with Melbourne as one of the teams

You could argue that Collingwood and either North and Hawthorn playing on a cow paddock being viewed via a Black and White TV may be a little harder to watch

We no longer play on poor football ground surfaces and most people have a Colour TV these days

We have always had a difference in the shorts being worn for the home and away teams

The decision is pure marketing and little common sense

Our silver jumper is an eyesore and i do hope the person responsible for its inception has left and joined the trend setting fashion industry

I'd have to disagree with this Swampfox. There is a definite clash with the main Freo jumper with the dark background (purple/navy blue) even to the backs of the jumpers with the red across the top - on a less than sunny day it can be quite difficult telling them apart. Melbourne could probably quite rightly argue that Freo should be forced to wear their clash strip and question why the AFL approved the Freo jumper in the first place given the clash, but we all know that's not how it works.

[Guest melbman]

First in best dressed & 150 years beats 'em all.

We should say NO CLASH JUMPER

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

There is a definite clash with the main Freo jumper with the dark background (purple/navy blue) even to the backs of the jumpers with the red across the top...

The Freo jumper is god awful. They could however make it look rather good if they removed the green and red and used a purple jumper with a white anchor as their main strip and a white jumper with a purple anchor.

[freo2008 0]

The Freo jumper is god awful. They could however make it look rather good if they removed the green and red and used a purple jumper with a white anchor as their main strip and a white jumper with a purple anchor.

That's our traditional jumper though, the only one that hasn't changed since the beginning. There is actually meaning behind the red and green (be it starboard/port on a ship or the reference to the Italian heritage in Freo). As I said above, the AFL is at fault for allowing this jumper to be used, but it's now our jumper and we are as attached to it as your club is to yours.

I like the white with purple anchor, but I find the purple with white anchor to be very, very dark and it is really only used for our Starlight Purple Haze day.

[do it 4 robbie 1]

It doesn`t matter what design Freo have. With those colours they are always going to look bad.

[Chook 14,602]

It doesn`t matter what design Freo have. With those colours they are always going to look bad.

Come on, purple, green and red are perfectly cromulent colours.

[Swampfox 190]

I'd have to disagree with this Swampfox. There is a definite clash with the main Freo jumper with the dark background (purple/navy blue) even to the backs of the jumpers with the red across the top - on a less than sunny day it can be quite difficult telling them apart. Melbourne could probably quite rightly argue that Freo should be forced to wear their clash strip and question why the AFL approved the Freo jumper in the first place given the clash, but we all know that's not how it works.

So your saying you find it difficult to tell Freo and Melbourne apart even with the different colour shorts ?

IMO they got it wrong in the first place by not having the the only colour nobody else uses in the competition and thats GREEN

If Freo has their jumper predominatley GREEN the problem would not exist

they have a similar designed jumper as the saints with the white anchor

I remember the Frematle sides in the WAFL very well

South Fremantle had the same jumper as South Melbourne and East Fremantle had Light Blue with a large White Vertical stripe on the front (similar split to StKilda)

The chance to have something DIFFERENT is lost as they started as a NEW CLUB with NO TRADITION at all

It was a NO BRAINER from the very start and the AFL still stuffed it up

I can only imagine the stuff up they will make with the 2 new teams that will be entering the competition soon

I remember when the western district football league amalgamated with 4 Mt Gambier and 2 other SA teams in the early sixties to form the Western Border Football League 2 sides had Richmond Jumpers (Portland and North Gambier) so what they did was invert the jumper so the predominant colour for North Gambier was Yellow with a blask sash

Problem solved

This is kiddies stuff mate

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

We played for the jumper today. Void of life and no character.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

I think it's pretty clear now that whoever designed the silver jumper just came off watching Cool Runnings.