White Clash Jumper

[sideshowbob 0]

Have you ever seen any team play in white and dominate? It's such a woozy, nothing "colour".

Australia's test cricket team?

But seriously - Collingwood and North Melbourne have won flags in predominantly white.

[Kit Walker 209]

Have you ever seen any team play in white and dominate? It's such a woozy, nothing "colour".

Real Madrid have made a reasonable habit out of it.

Though Barca play in red and blue..........

[Sir Why You Little 34,957]

Have you ever seen any team play in white and dominate? It's such a woozy, nothing "colour".

Personally, MFC's jumper should be sacrosanct not just for GF's but every game. We're the founding club, not Collingwood. Our jumper is worth fighting for.

Here Here.

White is the colour of surrender which i stated on monday.

It's genuinely a little sad to read that people actually think jumpers do Clash...What do you expect to see a complete 100% perfect no mistake game?? We play with an oval ball.

It's also sad that people do not think our Jumper is worth Fighting for every week.

Look at the NRL, those clubs change jumpers yearly-Let's see how long that comp lasts. They are starting to show desperate signs.

The AFL was always built on Tradition until 1986-since then Values have slowly eroded away.

Considering Cam Schwab's talk of the new Emblem being unfurled soon, i put our Traditional jumper in the same category.

I do not give an absolute stuff what other clubs do or decide.

But by Christ i care about the MFC. Red & Blue are the colours i shall have over my Coffin when i am lowered.

Not some cheap shoddy Clash Strip..... B)

[45HG 1,539]

The need for some posters to have the last word is very frustrating.

Has anyone received the email about Monday?

14 Premiership players coming onto the G to be recognized for the 50 year anniversary of the 1960 Premiership over the pies.

14...one for every point the Pies scored that day.

[Sir Why You Little 34,957]

The need for some posters to have the last word is very frustrating.

Has anyone received the email about Monday?

14 Premiership players coming onto the G to be recognized for the 50 year anniversary of the 1960 Premiership over the pies.

14...one for every point the Pies scored that day.

8-12-60 v 2-2-14 What Beautiful numbers they are.

B) B) B) B) B) B) B)

[Guest Redleg_24]

Wrong issue Redleg. Maybe we've ditched the red jumper for 2010. Who knows. But I was as surprised as the next person to see us run out in the white last Saturday.

Wrong issue?. I started the thread pal!! I think I know what the issue is. I raised the issues. Geeez.

The issues were we are the team of the red and blue and we should, at every opportunity, wear those colours. We do not CLASH WITH ANY BLOODY TEAMS as far as I am concern. Adelaide and Brisbane perhaps. If you wanna run the essendon argument and the collingwood argument - WE HAD OUR JUMPER 1ST so they can get stuffed and change theirs. If its good enough for those sides, its good enough for all. We (the clubs) must all be subject to the same rules and conditions.

No one has said we have or have not ditched the red jumper here yet. You dont seem to have the answer. Perhaps read my OP T_U before dictating what the issues are in this thread pal.

Some one tell me who we clash with. Please? I need to know...i loved watching Collingwood v GEELONG THE OTHER WEEK BY THE WAY. GEEZ THAT WAS VERY EASY ON THE EYES. No clash their of course.

bahumbug!

[45HG 1,539]

Wrong issue?. I started the thread pal!! I think I know what the issue is. I raised the issues. Geeez.

Some would say, you are the issue! Sorry sorry joke joke

[Trisul 649]

Pink and off-lime then. With stripes. And cyan bandanas.

Optional Dunnesque fingerless emerald gloves.

For the TV viewers / children, of course.

Nevermind.

[BangkokDemon 96]

I know this probably defies logic, but sitting here in Bangkok, the minute I saw the team run on the ground in that horrible white jumper, I knew we'd have a bad day. It might be illogical but maybe facts stack up : when was the last game we won, wearing white ?

It seems from many of you who were at the game, the white jumper sucked.On TV it gave out nothing of our team. It could have been a netball team from NZ for all that anyone knew. Even the Demon on the front was buried in a sea of white.

It is not Melbourne - Melbourne is the "team of the RED & the BLUE' as our song says.

Edited June 9, 2010 by BangkokDemon

[Mad_Melbourne 872]

in my opinion the jumper is pretty cool, but i wouldnt have been fussed with havin the red version of the jumper.

i feel all teams need a clash jumper as there are clashes throughout, the league.

just like umpires need to wear a totally different colour to the players due to a clash (melb vs wb)

if a melbourne player bends down to pick up the ball, sees navy blue ahead of him, could easily handball it to him, hence clash jumper is necessary.

[45HG 1,539]

I know this probably defies logic, but sitting here in Bangkok, the minute I saw the team run on the ground in that horrible white jumper, I knew we'd have a bad day.

Meh.

I get the same feeling within the first 2 and a half minutes of any AAMI stadium match. Also the first few minutes of the North match.

When a team's not there to play, they're not there to play - white jumper or not.

[Guest Redleg_24]

i feel all teams need a clash jumper as there are clashes throughout, the league.

Can you be specific and tell me what teams we clash with. I have posed the question now 3 times. The AFL have identified 7 teams. Care to guess? All of which. coul;d be avoided be wearing an ALL RED JUMPER. We have all missed the point i think. This is not about whetehr we should or should not have a clash strip, but rather why it needs to be WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

[MikeyJ 60]

Can you be specific and tell me what teams we clash with. I have posed the question now 3 times. The AFL have identified 7 teams. Care to guess? All of which. coul;d be avoided be wearing an ALL RED JUMPER. We have all missed the point i think. This is not about whetehr we should or should not have a clash strip, but rather why it needs to be WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

Err, mate, I gave my thoughts on clash teams earlier in the thread (post #73):

Adelaide, Brisbane, Carlton, Essendon, Fremantle. Probably Port Adelaide, too, with their new jumper. If there's a seventh, I can't think of which team it might be.

And we haven't all missed the point. It's just that not all of us are that worked up about having a white jumper. I actually prefer it to the red jumper, for what it's worth.

[Inner Demon 1]

The AFL would tell you that our red strip clashes with Adelaide, Brisbane, Essendon & Sydney I would suggest. Recent events would suggest they've decided it clashes with Carlton too, which is pretty surprising I must say, but there it is.

[sideshowbob 0]

Can you be specific and tell me what teams we clash with. I have posed the question now 3 times. The AFL have identified 7 teams. Care to guess? All of which. coul;d be avoided be wearing an ALL RED JUMPER. We have all missed the point i think. This is not about whetehr we should or should not have a clash strip, but rather why it needs to be WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Redleg

I think the person who started this thread, I think his name is Redleg_24, he answers your question that you have posed 3 times. He said that "But please don't let us roll out in that white strip ever again unless it is absolutely necessary. Only time i see that it is necessary is perhaps against the Lions. That is it!"

So, Redleg, to answer your question, Redleg thinks (and I agree with him) that there IS a team where a clash would NOT be avoided by wearing an all-red jumper. That team is Brisbane.

Cheers!

Bob.

[Red Sox 2]

The need for some posters to have the last word is very frustrating.

Has anyone received the email about Monday?

14 Premiership players coming onto the G to be recognized for the 50 year anniversary of the 1960 Premiership over the pies.

14...one for every point the Pies scored that day.

Was that your attempt to have the last word on it 45?

[Guest Redleg_24]

The AFL would tell you that our red strip clashes with Adelaide, Brisbane, Essendon & Sydney I would suggest. Recent events would suggest they've decided it clashes with Carlton too, which is pretty surprising I must say, but there it is.

Yes Sydney is the other team. I can see how White and Red clash with Navy blue and a touch of red. Geezus.

Here is what I think should happen. The AFL should sit down and say "Ok..Melbourne..this is who you have a clash with.these are the games this season in which you mill meet said team/s. Please contact these teams and organise what arrangement you plan to make in regards to the purported clash. Then come back to us with the submissions of both Clubs regarding a solution".

Then what happens is that a Melbourne gets on the dog and bone to Carlton "Hey Carlton Rd 11 at the 'G' your home game, presume you will be in the navy blue? Yep..ok well in that case we will submit to the AFL that we are right to go with the all red. Splendid". "Hey Sydney...got a clash in Rd 16...can you guys wear the white back that week, as that was your original South Melbourne Jumpers anyway, hence we never had a clash until the AFL approved a jumper that would clash, so as we have been wearing the same jumper since about, ahh 1930, i reckon its only fair you change..all good, cheers, thanks"

Everyone getting the point here?

If the AFL have approved jumpers that have the potential to clash with the clubs who have been wearing the same jumpers for 100 odd years, then it is up to those clubs to provide alternates. I don't see why, if there was potential for a clash, the AFL gave the green light to use them in the first place. Now that it is a big issue, suddenly WE have to make arrangments and give up our 100 years of identity to accomodate these newer clubs? Any one else reckon that's a joke?

The other one the AFL have a problem with is West Coast by the way. Yeh you read/heard right. Apparently we resemble Wet Toast. What a flaming laugh! Let them wear the yellow with blue 80's number then.

So AFL - rather than making it up as you go, as you so often do, I think you need to sit down with the clubs, well before the start of the season, identify who clashes with who and lay it out on a table. Then, from this point, you must formulate an alternative. One that will not clash with any of your clashes. Once this is done we settle on it and that is the end of the story. Because white jumpers look sheizen. Not just ours, the whole comps. Soon enough, the AFL will make any away team wear white, just to standardise everything, stripping clubs of their identity. WAKE up people.

[BangkokDemon 96]

Meh.

I get the same feeling within the first 2 and a half minutes of any AAMI stadium match. Also the first few minutes of the North match.

When a team's not there to play, they're not there to play - white jumper or not.

As I said, I know it defies logic, but maybe not psyche ?

This is the team of the Red & the Blue.

The Read & the Blue, are the colours we win in.

The white looks more like a training jumper.

So, it's possible, when we wear it, we go out there, as if it's a bunch of training drills ?

Stupid idea ?

Maybe...but we don't win in it.

Edited June 10, 2010 by BangkokDemon

[Mad_Melbourne 872]

Can you be specific and tell me what teams we clash with. I have posed the question now 3 times. The AFL have identified 7 teams. Care to guess? All of which. coul;d be avoided be wearing an ALL RED JUMPER. We have all missed the point i think. This is not about whetehr we should or should not have a clash strip, but rather why it needs to be WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

teams we definately clash with are adelaide, brisbane and carlton

teams possible clashes could arise in are western bulldogs, fremantle, west coast eagles?

i think possibly?

but i agree the red clash strip could have definately worked this season.

all i think is that obviously with teams that wear white we will wear our normal jumper and that the afl asked us to use a white away strip as it definately avoids a clash.

[Guest Redleg_24]

It's a mad mad world.

Just remember though, Collingwood and Geelong - No problems there. White and black and white and navy blue..very easy to distinguish.

I give up!

[dee-luded 2,958]

Pink and off-lime then. With stripes. And cyan bandanas.

Optional Dunnesque fingerless emerald gloves.

For the TV viewers / children, of course.

Nevermind.

HaHaHa, LOL, great sense of humour there 'Trident'.