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Fork 'em Redleg

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The current clash is not a Melbourne jumper. It's a Sydney jumper with blue side panels.

I personally didn't give it much thought but was asked by my 8 year old daughter " Why are we wearing swans jumpers."

Mmmnn ... So we are. :(

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You are appealing to an organisation that told our club that the pink jumpers we were wearing for the game against Bulldogs (pink lady night) would not be an issue against the jumpers of umpires that night when in fact they also wore pink and there were SIX times our boys were confused. Vlad doesn't have an issue.

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I'm petitioning for away teams to be "skins," that'll sort out this colour debate once and for all.

What about naked for away team? And what would opponents of the skins team 'grab' in order to lay a tackle (tackle being both the question and the answer, I suppose)

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Where the AFL has lost its marbles is on its insistence on light v dark. Thus, Hawthorn had to wear their hideous white jumper against Carlton last Friday. I thought they had chosen to, in a bid to sell the horrible things, but apparently it was an AFL edict. Who has ever confused gold and brown stripes with all navy blue?

Very few people watch football on B&W TVs these days, so if "dark" colours are sufficiently different, they can be distinguished.

I for one would like to see us use the "Irish" jumper for genuine clashes (ie away games against Carlton, Essendon, St Kilda, Brisbane and Freo). Same design, but white with a green yolk instead of blue with a red yolk.

Before you howl me down, consider that Arsenal wear yellow as their away strip, Man Utd wear blue, Man City wear red and black stripes. Doesn't seem to detract from their heritage all that much.

The reason we've never had a decent clash jumper is that the designers have never applied the KISS principle.

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Where the AFL has lost its marbles is on its insistence on light v dark. Thus, Hawthorn had to wear their hideous white jumper against Carlton last Friday. I thought they had chosen to, in a bid to sell the horrible things, but apparently it was an AFL edict. Who has ever confused gold and brown stripes with all navy blue?

I couldn't believe this either !

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I'm petitioning for away teams to be "skins," that'll sort out this colour debate once and for all.

probably wouldn't actually lol
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DC have you seen it?

What a joke.

GWS were not allowed to wear their Grey and orange strip against us but Essendon would be allowed to wear the one!

Oh please

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Where the AFL has lost its marbles is on its insistence on light v dark. Thus, Hawthorn had to wear their hideous white jumper against Carlton last Friday. I thought they had chosen to, in a bid to sell the horrible things, but apparently it was an AFL edict. Who has ever confused gold and brown stripes with all navy blue?

Yes, one would think that vertical strips vs plane jumper with insignia on the front should be sufficient to tell the teams apart. I wouldn't be suprised if a few years down the road we will be moving towards teams having home and away jumpers (i.e. wear 50/50 during the season) instead of clash jumpers for select matches. Hell we're not far off it now.

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DC have you seen it?

What a joke.

GWS were not allowed to wear their Grey and orange strip against us but Essendon would be allowed to wear the one!

Oh please

yeah I know. The inmates are running the asylum. logic! What's that?

didn't you know mid grey is the new white? LOL

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It will be interesting this week when the Bombers and Saints clash. Bombers wearing their new alternative version (red,white,black) against St.Kilda's (red, white,black).

They really think ahead these rocket scientists !!

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