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Personally I think that every Club should have only one jumper and change the colour of their shorts if playing away. If it is good enough for Collingwood it should be okay for every other team, especially when we can wear red socks to avoid confusion. Gone are the days of the mud patches in the centre and goal squares which turned white shorts into black by game's end. It worked for   the first century of our game (including the advent of Black & White television) so it would still work now. (But of course advertising revenue would be down, something far more important to the modern game than tradition!)

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1 minute ago, CBDees said:

Personally I think that every Club should have only one jumper and change the colour of their shorts if playing away. If it is good enough for Collingwood it should be okay for every other team, especially when we can wear red socks to avoid confusion. Gone are the days of the mud patches in the centre and goal squares which turned white shorts into black by game's end. It worked for   the first century of our game (including the advent of Black & White television) so it would still work now. (But of course advertising revenue would be down, something far more important to the modern game than tradition!)

You are stuck in the 20th Century CBDees and on top of that you make too much sense the AFL would never go for it.

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i just had my first dees guernsey arrive in the mail (traditional, not the white one).. is it just me, or does anyone else feel silly walking around with sponsorship on them? i don't like being a walking billboard for anyone, let alone "Australia's largest motoring and logistics group".. I wish you could buy guernseys without that crap on there. i held off for years on buying one because of it, but was unable to hold back and boozily purchased it after celebrating our round one win. 

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1 minute ago, Rocky said:

 is it just me, or does anyone else feel silly walking around with sponsorship on them? i don't like being a walking billboard for anyone, let alone "Australia's largest motoring and logistics group"..

Yet you live in "Melbourne Bitter"?

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1 minute ago, 45HG said:

Yet you live in "Melbourne Bitter"?

i would love melbourne bitter to be the sponsor. then maybe the players would throw free cans out to supporters after every win! 

 

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5 minutes ago, Rocky said:

i just had my first dees guernsey arrive in the mail (traditional, not the white one).. is it just me, or does anyone else feel silly walking around with sponsorship on them? i don't like being a walking billboard for anyone, let alone "Australia's largest motoring and logistics group".. I wish you could buy guernseys without that crap on there. i held off for years on buying one because of it, but was unable to hold back and boozily purchased it after celebrating our round one win. 

Part of supporting the club is also supporting the companies who help keep us afloat.

New Age Caravans, New Balance and AHG were able to get on board when we were a pathetically run club 2 years ago with no real commercial potential for them. 
It's not like sponsoring a winning Hawthorn or big Collingwood. I'm happy to give them a leg up whenever I get the chance as I'm sure heaps and heaps of companies I use day to day told us to bugger off. 


Embrace supporting the sponsors who helped keep your club alive.

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27 minutes ago, Rocky said:

i just had my first dees guernsey arrive in the mail (traditional, not the white one).. is it just me, or does anyone else feel silly walking around with sponsorship on them? i don't like being a walking billboard for anyone, let alone "Australia's largest motoring and logistics group".. I wish you could buy guernseys without that crap on there. i held off for years on buying one because of it, but was unable to hold back and boozily purchased it after celebrating our round one win. 

I'm with you on that. I don't even like buying Nike stuff (or any branded gear for that matter). Why should I pay you for the privilege of advertising your company? If anything, you should pay me for wearing your logo.

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6 hours ago, Pates said:

I know grand scheme of things it's nothing but it is one of my annoyances about us EVERY YEAR playing an away game to this mob. That plus the fact we miss potential good gate takings, it's an annual frustration. 

Well the AFL has to reward Essendon for being such model corporate citizens, don't they?  Can't have them suffering for being persecuted by WADA 

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5 hours ago, biggestred said:

 

Should just have this anyway

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ps it's a wonder the afl don't mandate us singing 'the team of the white and the blue' for 'away' games.

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Things that still surprise me:

1) That people hate the white so much
2) That people still post the red guernsey when it's clear it's never going to happen. 
3) That people resent the AFL so much for imposing a rule that clearly makes sense from a watchability perspective.

*shrug* I'm looking forward to see our white clad team roll Essendon in their traditional colours.  

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Agree aside from point 2, Nash.

Have seen jumper clashes allowed time after time when it's bigger clubs - not to mention teams getting away with non-white clash strips.

Regardless, it's not the issue posters make it out to be.

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8 hours ago, Scythe said:

The red one is no longer in existence unfortunately. The club shelved it after the AFL only approved using it against two teams (or so they were saying at the Demonshop when I was there last week).

Shame, I really liked it.

That's frustrating considering Essendon's away strip this year is all red.

Typical AFL double standards.

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30 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Things that still surprise me:

1) That people hate the white so much
2) That people still post the red guernsey when it's clear it's never going to happen. 
3) That people resent the AFL so much for imposing a rule that clearly makes sense from a watchability perspective.

*shrug* I'm looking forward to see our white clad team roll Essendon in their traditional colours.  

On the one hand, if we [censored] the Bombers, no one will care about the white strip. But it does stick in my craw that we are a team of red and blue, and that in an era of colour television everywhere, we have to wear white, which is not red and not blue. Simple-minded perhaps, but so is a lot of footy. Points 2 and 3 are essentially about the relationship between the AFL and common sense, and hence are best left alone ... :lol::)

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But this is the point. Why do we need to wear white against port or freo or carlton or wce or adelaide or any of the other clubs?

Even the saints we'd be better off in all red with blue. 

White has even CREATED  a clash.

Red is not only one of our colours but it also actually makes sense in terms of reducing a clash. 

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5 minutes ago, biggestred said:

But this is the point. Why do we need to wear white against port or freo or carlton or wce or adelaide or any of the other clubs?

Even the saints we'd be better off in all red with blue. 

White has even CREATED  a clash.

Red is not only one of our colours but it also actually makes sense in terms of reducing a clash. 

True. although I think we do clash with Carlton, which would make the red jumper an idea choice ... but you would have to be as blind as Razor Ray to think our jumper clashes with West Coast, Freo or Port ... 

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