No White for MFC Clash Jumpers for Season 2018

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,882]

40 minutes ago, Demonland said:

New jumpers look great, not so sure about the colour of the boots.

...though to paraphrase @old dee, so long as they are kicking goals and pin point passes to their team mates with them, I don't care what colour their boots are!

[Cards13 9,117]

1 hour ago, Salems Lot said:

Looks like the one Jack is wearing is a size or 2 too big.

Some posters.. “Christ we can’t even get the right size for Crusher Viney in the  announcement pics?!”

(The way to big jumper actually does look a bit poos).

[BAMF 4,387]

Awesome. Common sense prevails! 

Looks great. Love it. No more white ever again.

No more angry batman demon top. No more Bali knockoff! Great work.

[Hellaintabadplacetobe 4,294]

I love it....lets just hope we don`t play footy the way we did the last time we wore these colours in the 70s n 80s

[Old Bear 388]

13 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I'm not totally keen on a royal blue clash, I'd prefer a predominately red one but it's better than white.

Agree prefer the red

Hoped the royal blue was dead and buried 

But the white is worse

Edited January 22, 2018 by Old Bear

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,708]

On 18/11/2017 at 10:49 AM, Mazer Rackham said:

Round 3, 2017

Round 20, 2017

 

Simply Amazing, AFL the most hypocritical sporting entity in the world bar none including FIFA. Rules for a certain few and rules for others. JOKE.

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,708]

Prefer this to the white for sure. Are we keeping the home strip with red on the back or not?

[BAMF 4,387]

11 minutes ago, Win4theAges said:

Prefer this to the white for sure. Are we keeping the home strip with red on the back or not?

We are keeping the red back for away games vs Bulldogs and West Coast.

[Swooper 266]

We’ll make a GF and be forced to wear the clash. Jones to hold the cup aloft wearing the #2 coming full circle from Robbie Flower and the dark years, thereby ending the Norm Smith curse.

[Sir Why You Little 37,134]

Not a huge fan of the Royal Blue. Memories of the late ‘70’s and early 80’s watching the Demons had few highlights, But it is 100 x better than a white Jumper, at least now i know, at first glance I am watching the Demons

well done to those who kept up the views to the AFL. 

Clash Jumpers are purely a marketing tool

[Guest]

The first Demon jumper I got was red and royal blue. That being said I got on board in 1988 so have only seen us in navy blue.

I know CS would be spewing. All his work trying to make us look exactly like we did in 1949 has been comprehensively trashed. I know of his disdain for the royal blue jumper.

I personally like it. Some reckon that we should never revisit the royal blue era but I reckon we should own it. For too long, we have just been willing to recognize the parts of our history that cast us in a good light. All so we can remind ourselves what a 'great club' we are; one up with the likes of Collingwood , Carlton and Essendon (clubs who are also living in denial).

I reckon of we win a flag in the royal blue it will be a sensational reminder of all the blood, guts and tears that went into it.

Edited January 22, 2018 by Colin B. Flaubert
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[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,909]

10 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Most exciting news all day.  Stuff about the new sponsor is great and important, but really doesn't do much to excite the passion in me as a supporter.  Well done to the club for listening to it's membership/supporter base and making this happen and also for the AFL for finally comming to their senses as well.

Right from the start of this ridiculous clash/away jumper policy the AFL brought in 10 - 15 years ago, it felt like a foreign (Americanised) sporting culture was being imposed on our code with the (selectively applied) predominantly white emphasis.  I'm pragmatic enough to realize the need for a clash jumper of some description, but really the AFL should have thought long and hard before it let clubs like WC, Port and Freo adopt new jumper designs that clashed more heavily with existing teams jumpers than the jumpers approved for those teams when theyou first joined the comp, so much of this was the making of the AFL.

The new 'Royal Blue' clash looks great compared to the white/Bali jumpers.  It actually looks a few shades lighter than the original royal blue ones, though my royal blue one with the number 2 got pretty sun faded in the end.

It's hard to imagine any number other than #2 being affixed to an original royal blue era jumper. If anyone out there had a different number it would be interesting to know which one and why.

As to the new clash jumper, why has it taken a decade or so to work out that a royal blue jumper could actually work as a clash jumper? It looks good, doesn't antagonise the fans and adds a nostalgic element.

[old demon me!!! 108]

BLOODY WRAPPED !!!! with this news about time ,never go back to white again .

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,939]

I would've preferred we reverted back to our original clash jumper of 2004-2005 as per below. We would still keep our traditional colours and not divert to white (which everyone seems to hate).

 

[whatwhat say what 22,948]

i'm not a massive fan, but i bet it sells like hotcakes

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,708]

6 hours ago, Swooper said:

We’ll make a GF and be forced to wear the clash. Jones to hold the cup aloft wearing the #2 coming full circle from Robbie Flower and the dark years, thereby ending the Norm Smith curse.

Take it in a heart beat, we should embrace it my fellow Dees.

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,882]

5 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It's hard to imagine any number other than #2 being affixed to an original royal blue era jumper. If anyone out there had a different number it would be interesting to know which one and why.

As to the new clash jumper, why has it taken a decade or so to work out that a royal blue jumper could actually work as a clash jumper? It looks good, doesn't antagonise the fans and adds a nostalgic element.

In all honesty, my era of becoming a serious MFC supporter immediately followed royal blue jumper era in 86/87 and I think the number 2 jumper I has was a bit of pre loved hand-me-down or op-shop special so it's hard for me to comment with authority, but my old man reckons that for the preceeding period of doom and gloom, wacko Jackson gave him the only reason to turn up to games, so perhaps there were a few with 25 on them.  Before that big Carl Detterich had been a bit of a favorite in 10.

Edited January 23, 2018 by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,909]

1 minute ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

In all honesty, my era of becoming a serious MFC supporter immediately followed royal blue jumper era in 86/87 and I think the number 2 jumper I has was a bit of pre loved hand-me-down or op-shop special so it's haRd for me to comment with authority, but my old man reckons that for the preceeding period of doom and gloom, wacko Jackson gave him the only reason to turn upto games, so perhaps there were a few with 25 on them.  Before that big Carl Detterich had been a bit of a favorite in 10.

From the sublime to the ridiculous. One of the great things about AFL is that all sorts can play at the top level. Tall or short; fast or slow (though, not too slow); academically gifted or not; silver spoon upbringing or from the school of hard knocks; and serene or as mad as a cut snake. All of us who watched Flower and Mark Jackson know who was serene and who was the cut snake. 

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,882]

With the royal blue jumpers, it may even be possible to adjust the colour/contrast settings on your TV to turn them back closer to navy blue as if we have no clash jumper at all!

[dee-eee 231]

8 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I would've preferred we reverted back to our original clash jumper of 2004-2005 as per below. We would still keep our traditional colours and not divert to white (which everyone seems to hate).

 

Boy we were ordinary in the old Royal Blue days and I still have a phobia about the colour .

The above clash jumper with the revived 19th century MFC monogram on the front would be great but then an alternative against the Bummers may be necessary .

[Wiseblood 24,637]

It's been a while since I purchased a new Demons guernsey, but I have a feeling that's about to change very quickly with this one.  I reckon it's an absolute ripper.

[Ethan Tremblay 30,970]

I think it looks great. I’m glad the club could get over the fact we had some poor years in the royal blue. Let’s hope those supporters who keep digging up the past can as well. Embrace the royal.

Edited January 23, 2018 by Ethan Tremblay

[beelzebub 23,383]

The new clash jumper is NOT Royal Blue.

Our regular jumper is Navy with Red

Robbie's regular WAS Royal Blue

This incarnation is well...just blue...a sort of capri blue

Its better than white and once and for all puts to bed the lie that is the AFL's bullshlt.

[daisycutter 29,743]

interesting that our current home guernsey AND our main away guernsey are BOTH historically HOME guernseys. 

a pretty good result when all said and done

[beelzebub 23,383]

4 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

interesting that our current home guernsey AND our main away guernsey are BOTH historically HOME guernseys. 

a pretty good result when all said and done

funny...such a concept would never have occurred to any of us eh