No to Alternative Strips

[Deano74 156]

Does any club really need one ? what happened to the white shorts, worked fine I thought.

And when the day comes, that we will make the Finals and another Grand Final, and we were to play Carlton or Essendon, Who would want us running out in anything but our jumper !!!

I imagine other supporters from other teams (Collingwood) would be the same.

[Yencks 8]

YES!

i think people agree with you...BUT the AFL doesnt...we should be happy that collingwood are fighting for this

However, in saying that, the AFL are persuing this at the moment and our best option is trying to create an alternative that the club, the fans and the AFL approve of...we are in no fit position at the moment to tell the AFL what to do

this should not be the clubs greatest worry

What i think should happen as i think WJ mentioned in my alternative strip thread

the home team wears the home gear with their coloured shorts

the away team wears the away gear with white shorts

and if people are really worried...the away team should also wear white socks

[Rogue 585]

the home team wears the home gear with their coloured shorts

the away team wears the away gear with white shorts

That's what I'd like to see, if that lessens the clash.

As I've said before, we'd have had less clash with St. Kilda at TD if we'd worn our normal strip + home shorts, than we did with the 'clash' strip.

[darkhorse72 1,938]

Its all about marketing, I mean how can it suddenly become an issue after 150 years!

Are people now colour blind, they as A young kid I do remember watching pies v roos on a black and white TV which was interesting but they wore home

and away shorts so they how you could tell and a slightly different grade of black on the stripes.

Once we get back on our feet we should tell the AFL to [censored] off

If there is a requirement for clash jumpers let the newer clubs get one. Beside the only club I think really clashes with us are the dockers, as they have so many colours its not funny.

[Kit Walker 225]

Without the figures, I would expect that (with the possible exception of Brisbane because of the Fitzroy link with one of their clash strips), the income from sales of the 2nd/3rd guernsey would be fairly minimal.

It is about television. And I think fair enough as well. If the clubs want to make the millions they do from the tv rights, I don't see a problem with there being a concession about clash strips. It simply is up to the clubs to make sure that these stay true to the heritage of the club which they seem remarkably unable to do.

As for the shorts idea, having played numerous types of competitive sport, my view is that you notice the guernsey and you notice the socks - the shorts are nearly irrelevant. And that is as a player a couple of metres from the play, not the 50-100 that a person at the ground is.

As a spectator, watching Melbourne v Carlton or Adelaide is just atrocious in trying to work out which team any given player is on, and it just gets worse if there is any adverse weather.

[deanox 10,052]

melbourne carlton could be averted if, a) we never wore white shorts and they did (they already have white on their uniform). we could also help avert the clash by having the 'red' on the back of the jumper spread more, because the clash is only from behind. a simple change like that would fix it.

we only clash with freo because they have red coming over their shoulder which makes them look like us.

make all the teams to join in the last 20 years play with their original jumpers and i bet there would be virtually no clashes.

make smart decisions about shorts: teams with white should wear the white shorts not teams with two other colours ie saints and sydney - even collingwood and carlton.

let essendon and richmond wear wider sashes against each other, and do something to colour the backs of the jumpers.

simple things, you dont need to change jumpers dramatically...

[The Emblem 1]

I'm buggered if I know where the AFL got this whole "predominantly white" away guernsey crap from.

It looks really gay.

And I don't mean that in a well groomed, fashionably dressed context.

P.S. pardon the "buggered" pun, thought about substituting it with "blowed" but then thats problematic as well!

[Tassie Devil 28]

My 10 YO son's fave jumper is the red away jumper with the stylised demon M from a few years ago.

His friends like it too - even though they dont follow the dees.

It's good to come up with a good away jumper to add to merchandise revenue - just not one like this year's farce.

I think good away /clash strips are a fantastic idea - especially for us who can usually only see a game on tv (unless it's on pay tv)