I had it put to me by a non Melbourne supporting mate today that we should have played in the royal blue today as a promotion of MND Big Freeze. 

Personally,  I said I thought it was a dilution of our brand and that the royal blue represents an awful era historically for us 

Interested to see what others think. It would be a good one off jumper and would look ggreat to have the stadium in royal blue . Not sure that the QB game is the forum for it as it's our biggest TV exposure game. 

 

THOUGHTS??

Edited June 13, 20169 yr by Leoncelli_36
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It's not the worst shout but it feels like every 2nd week there's a new jumper we're wearing. When you play a traditional rival you just wear your #1 strip.

4 minutes ago, Max_well58 said:

It's not the worst shout but it feels like every 2nd week there's a new jumper we're wearing. When you play a traditional rival you just wear your #1 strip.

That was my point to him. Big day..big exposure .. traditional strip. 

I think it's too much. There's enough going on during the Big Freeze to promote the cause. 

Play in beanies 

Leave jumper alone 

If we weren't forced to wear our clash jumper so much, often unnecessarily, then I'd be all for it.

But as it is we don't see the classic red and blue enough. It's easily the best guernsey in the comp, and we're always being forced into something else

The beanies are great, no need to wear a different jumper each round.

Agreed. Keep the traditional jumper for QB.

I like the royal blue jumper. Remnds me of Tulip. 

Royal blue was hideous. Born in the mistaken belief that it would look better on the then new colour TV. But it looked worse. I celebrated when they went back to their traditional colours. I prefer to remember Robbie Flower for the player he was and he finished his illustrious career wearing the red and navy blue. The royal blue has been replaced by our "away" jumpers, also a ridiculous decision irrespective of merchandising reasons. 

Not a bad idea but it's a no from me.

 

How would people feel if we wore the royal blue jumper as our away jumper? Assuming it fits the AFL's rules - which it probably doesn't.

On 6/14/2016 at 7:49 AM, beelzebub said:

Play in beanies 

Leave jumper alone 

This!

9 minutes ago, Ricky P said:

Not a bad idea but it's a no from me.

 

How would people feel if we wore the royal blue jumper as our away jumper? Assuming it fits the AFL's rules - which it probably doesn't.

You have my vote

Just now, Rusty Nails said:

You have my vote

if, and i mean if, the royal blue jumper was acceptable to the afl as an away jumper then i would be in favour, but it's a big if

16 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

if, and i mean if, the royal blue jumper was acceptable to the afl as an away jumper then i would be in favour, but it's a big if

If we are going retro then may as well go the full hog! Front of guernsey! Otherwise it's a no from me!    ....

Reminds me too much of failure.

 

 

Please note the player...and colour of Jumper

The Royal Blue /Royal Failure  strip must never be worn again

Away is where the Royal blue Guernsey should go - far, far away

How good does it look like on hulk green

17 hours ago, Choke said:

If we weren't forced to wear our clash jumper so much, often unnecessarily, then I'd be all for it.

But as it is we don't see the classic red and blue enough. It's easily the best guernsey in the comp, and we're always being forced into something else

To be fair this year I think that we have only had to wear the clash jumper once this year, against essendon (shudder). We have had the indigenous and BCNA jumpers, but they were at our home games. Should be #1 strip against sydney this weekend as well. 

16 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Please note the player...and colour of Jumper

The Royal Blue /Royal Failure  strip must never be worn again

Noted!

14 hours ago, Demon SeaMan said:

How good does it look like on hulk green

Extraordinary! Let's rush a pair of those shorts down to AAMI pronto! Oh,  might have to tell Hulk to get to work on those thigh muscles a little more though!

 While I don't approve of losing, I'm also not a big fan of wiping the royal blue jumper from our collective consciousnesses.

When John Kennedy laid the foundations of modern Hawthorn,  he was big on the past remaining in the minds of the all associated with the club. Prior to 1961, Hawthorn's past wasn't something to look back on fondly. However, it remains no less a part of their identity as their unrivaled 50 years of success has. 

We at Melbourne tend to retcon our history. We kid ourselves that we are still some modern colossus of the game when put bluntly,  we have been a horribly mediocre, verging on dysfunctional at times,  club. We need to take ownership of that and use it to drive us to greater success.

For that reason, while the decision to wear it for a game won't turn the earth off it's axis, I'm not against taking the royal blue out of storage for one game a year to promote the big freeze.

Edited June 17, 20169 yr by Colin B. Flaubert
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4 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

 While I don't approve of losing, I'm also not a big fan of wiping the royal blue jumper from our collective consciousnesses.

When John Kennedy laid the foundations of modern Hawthorn,  he was big on the past remaining in the minds of the all associated with the club. Prior to 1961, Hawthorn's past wasn't something to look back on fondly. However, it remains no less a part of their identity as their unrivaled 50 years of success has. 

We at Melbourne tend to retcon our history. We kid ourselves that we are still some modern colossus of the game when put bluntly,  we have been a horribly mediocre, verging on dysfunctional at times,  club. We need to take ownership of that and use it to drive us to greater success.

For that reason, while the decision to wear it for a game won't turn the earth off it's axis, I'm not against taking the royal blue out of storage for one game a year to promote the big freeze.

We havent ever forgotten that jumper.....or the era....thats the point really.   We dont need to repeat a mistake now 

Maybe the royal blue jumper is like how some people wear gear with communist symbology on it. Retro cool unless you had to live through it!