If we do go sky blue apparently we can blame Nike.

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I thought the white strip was ok.

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Heritage 2006 would be far better.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

I quite like the white strip as well and to me it was and still is the obvious choice.

I also like the dark blue with yellow shoulders of the heritage jumper.

Some of the problems are caused by the back of the jumper and not the front. Collingwood, StKilda, Carlton, Melbourne, Port, Freo Richmond and Essendon* all have dark backs with white numbers.
When they clash, why not just change the back? Nobody could confuse the front of our jumper with Collingwood so if we went for a white back against them but kept the usual front, it should be OK. They would probaby go for that as well, changing their back but keeping the front. Essendon* and Melb could go for the red back, Richmond the yellow back and St Kilda white so as not to get confused with Essendon* or Richmond. Port has the teal or white option.

North and Collingwood would have to come to some agreement.

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Keep what we've got.

A simple reversal of our current colours, with no weird add in colours that are not navy blue and white. And I don't want to be one of those clubs that is changing jumpers every few years, even if it is an away strip.

The Melbourne silver jumper was rubbish.

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You mean like they do now?

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I thought this with the GF. Saints could have just gone a white back, with the Pies black. No confusion, and both get their home strip.

I also like our away jumper. White jumpers look good.

The white jumper will be changed, so there's no point saying - 'keep what we've got'. The club had a lot of complaints about the white jumper despite it selling strongly through the merchandise shop. Sales of the white jumper dipped in 2010, and the away jumper for 2011 is likely to appease those people who hated the white one so much.

"If" we have to stay with an away strip and cannot get rid of it then the current one is the best possbile away strip. I would expand the navy blue in towards the middle a little more but apart from that LEAVE IT AS IS. The other thing I here is that the kids seem to love it.

Code for: It is crap.

Why don't all teams, and not just Collingwood, stand up for the non-need for another jumper?

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Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

So am I correct or not?

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There's probably a bit more navy blue than you're suggesting, but we'll all find out soon enough I guess.

i create jumpers on big footy, so ill do the silver one tonight and post it up mate

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Melbourne Victory FC wore a silver/grey away strip for a few seasons and now have a predominantly white strip.


Relevance? White >>>>>>>>>>>>> silver/grey


If we're to have an away strip, keep the one we have now.

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Because there is a need. Clash strips are required.

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And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

all due respect to "it's happening anyway" but.... KEEP THE NAVY MONOGRAM ON WHITE.
we have the best away strip by a mile to go with the best home strip.
the secret is its simplicity, as others have said. navy on white to go with white on navy.

and, to be honest, i don't really care which of these strips we wear when we win the GF. as long as we win it!
the idea that the Saints were going to quickly change out of their jumpers if they won the GF was a joke!
their most famous premiership photo features their captain holding the cup aloft in a collingwood strip, for gods sake!
perhaps if the players focused more on winning the match and less on how their jumpers/boots/hair looked, then the supporters would have more to cheer about.

you win a premiership and the strip you wear BECOMES legend. not the other way around.
if it was the other way around, neither us nor collingwood would continuously change the main jumper, which probably has more to do with revenue and/or some marketing genius (re)discovering the idea that the 'brand needs to be freshened up' than anything else - giving the lie to this whole 'heritage/history/sacred jumper' stuff.

Agree Bluedog, but if we have to have a clash strip the heritage jumper with the yellow should be the one.
As i have suggested before, why not use the old style jumper 1927 to 1997 for traditional rivals-Coll,Ess,Rich and Melb, the heritage jumper 03` and 04` for clash games and the current jumper for the rest. Keeps everyone happy and better range of merchandise.

So we have to change our clash strip to keep selling jumpers?

Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
‘Til it's gone

I'm not enamoured with the white one, but it's still better than sky blue and the other clash jumpers that are going around.

The simple design of white jumper with the navy monogram is still a good look.

And it has navy in it.

How does sky blue relate to Carlton?

I can imagine Eddie's reaction if he was told that the Pies would wear grey and white stripes.

Or black and creme or off white stripes.

Piss weak.

Jumper clash could cost Blues




You must have a clash strip unless you're Collingwood.

Swan is paid enough via the blank cheque we recruited him with to grow a pair and to say no.

The club can't win here. We have to have a 'clash' jumper. End of story. So many people voiced their opinion against the white jumper. So the club made plans mid-year to change it. It's now no longer white and you're complaining without having seen it? And who said it was Sky Blue?

And really, the thread title should be changed...FFS - we'll only wear it a few times a year - it's not an away jumper and since when is it referred to as a strip?