Well, the AFL say its necessary....so it is. Otherwise given the expanding competition and difficulty in meeting all clubs requests...we'll end up missing a home game against Collingwood, worth $500k to us.

That would be ok for Collingwood, Essendon*, Adelaide etc but clubs like the Kangaroos and Melbourne could never have said they were against it...and sadly, either could we.

You have to live within the realities of the competition and what the AFL want.

So your choice, given we have to have one, would be the blue front / white back as per BrizzyBlue's post earlier in this thread?

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No, I say we follow the advice of those who say we should say "we are the NAVY BLUES" and give the AFL the finger. What's the worst that could happen?

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Navy front, white back would be a good solution, except there wouldn't be the money in it and NIKE didn't say we could do it

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My kids like it, and the white one, better than our Navy one

If we wore the navy shorts with it, i could probably handle that.

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gee you're a broken record

good for you , you know someone who works for nike and you think we were forced into the colour change and you dont like it and you dont like nike

we get it

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

oh and you think west sydney will fail

barack obamas a dick by the way

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

fair point, I need to change my pic, I actually don't hate Nike at all, it's our fault that we were dictated to, shame we had to go with such a horrendous colour.

Life goes on,

But GWS,...........that's another story

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The AFL have been propping up Carlton for years and we are no longer in a position of strength when we deal with the AFL. If the AFL say that we need a clash guernsey then we toe the line.

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

What is it exactly that Nike have done? Apart from maybe suggesting a new clash jumper colour (I really don't know)..what else are they after, are they actually owned by fat Ed and he's secretly trying to destroy us, by forcing a colour change on us?
Have I missed some uber PM on the topic?

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I think the theory might have to do with the black swoosh not showing up on the navy jumper.

Just do it!

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The stupidity of this thread continues to amaze me.

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Pretty sure the AFL would have approved that one Sean. And who knows - perhaps in three years it'll be the clash jumper.

Ideally, the yellow would actually be white. I remember reading on The Blueseum I think it was, that they were white, but then they went through the wash and turned to yellow.

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Reminds me of West Coast.

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Thats what i thought initially, but the swoosh is white, on the V of the neck. Even on the new clash strip its white on navy on the neck of the jumper.

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They didn't exactly 'turn' to yellow - there was yellow (or yoke) chamois underneath the white dye, so when the white wore off - the 'yellow' became visable.

The anti-Sky Blue argument is 138 years old! Because if you want an historical perspective of Carlton and 'Sky Blue' Guernseys, then you have to go back a while to our then Captain, George Kennedy in the Premiership Year of 1873.

Please read... http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php? ... D.+Kennedy

So...the 'Sky Blue Skipper' rides again. We're merely honoring the men who helped shape the club and bringing it into modern context. No point arguing against the 'spin' - this is history...and Carlton does history better than anyone

It's like my ww2 war veteran grandfather said about the flag debate. " I didn't fight for the flag, I fought for my family and the people of this nation!" . I couldn't care if we went shirts Vs skins, I love my team. When I see the great photos of our training sessions posted here, I get excited for the coming season even if there wearing white shirts or yellow shirts. I think it's laughable that collingwood need one of the worlds most used strips ( newcastle, juventus, port adelaide,etc.) to feel passionate about there club. Passion is in your blood, not on your back!

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Now this is one very powerful post.
Thanks for sharing these views ytb.
POW

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