This issue is proof that Eddie did us all a favour by leaving the studio for the boardroom.........imagine the first hour of The Footy Show being taken up, again, by his ranting & bleating aboutt poor old Collingwood.

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Didn't he get traded to the Doggies?

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Eddie is simply trying to keep the faith with the ferals, and is fast becoming the league's next Jack Elliott.

It astounds me why clubs don't get on the front foot with alternative strips. As I've posted earlier, I think St Kilda, Fremantle and a couple of other clubs have to be admired for being pro-active.

The proposed designs in 'The Age' are far too conservative for my taste.


I want to see our club setting trends, not following them.

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When I read this my first thought was of Big Jack saying Carlton dont rebuild!!! A big powerful man on top of the heap being arrogant and saying that his club is above the rules. We all know how that one worked out.

I say go on eddie, take on the AFL. Stick up for your feral supporters, get stuck right into AD. As a carlton supporter, watching Collingwood and the AFL go to war over that filthy rag that the ferals wear is like a dream come true to me.

Persoanlly it annoys me a little that they think their pathetic rag is more important than those of all the other clubs and that we should all move over to accomodate them, but any anger that i feel will be surely soothed by seeing a massive stoush between McChins and the Spew!!!

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I still think if we're going alternative, then let's go all the way.

PLUS, orange is part of our original colours from 1864, so there's a heritage link there too.

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We might get a @#$%&! free kick for a change then.

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Maybe if the maggots think we're on their side, we'll get less shit decisions...

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Perectly put JW.

IMO it's a non-issue, it would have been nice to have seen Carlton get on the front foot for once and be pro-active.

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Just @#$%&! do it.

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Congratulations CK95

I support Eddie all the way.

Good on him for sticking up for his club heritage. Just cause some marketing wally straight out of his 3 years at Uni is trying to earn his wages by coming up with marketing ideas doesn't mean Collingwood or any other club should be forced to do something they don't want.




Eddie is spot on and comparing this to Elliott is wrong. Eddie is passionate about his club and its heritage - Elliott was a troublemaker on everything and after his own glory.



If any club is FORCED to change their guernsey it only goes to prove that the AFL is run by dictators with no ability to compromise on key points. ... not a good omen for the competition in my view.


I don't like Carlton's alternative grey outfit either..

"we are the navy grays?" - i don't get it. - tell the marketing guru in his suit to sod off.

I respect your stance on tradition but I think the jumper clashes have been a farce for too long now. Eddie is a smart guy and even he knows we need clash jumpers as he even admitted that he supported the colour changes for the umpires. As North are their only real clash he is using their weak position to try and bully them into changing theirs home or away. IMO Collingwood should pay them for that right then.

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Agreed Game. It's wrong of him to talk about the importance of maintaining club tradition then expecting North to do the changing - that's just plain rude.

And



I could be wrong, but I think they started out wearing red, white, & blue.

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It's a mock up by some unimaginative 'designer' at the Age. No way is it an indication of the finished article.

With some smart design, Carlton will easily be able to incorporate plenty of navy blue into an away jumper.

Can we try some of these on for size...

"Umpires wear white"
"Carlton play at Princes Park"
"Footy is played at 2:10 on a Saturday afternoon"
"We don't rebuild at Carlton"

The game changes. The game evolves.

Carlton will always wear Navy Blue with a white emblem and navy blue shorts for home games and the majority of away games.

For the sake of 3-4 games a year (collingwood, melbourne, st kilda, possibly Essendon* away games) and the sake of a better viewing experience, just @#$%&! do it.

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"But what about if we play in a grand final and there's a clash? what happens then?"

If we make a grand final, I won't give a @#$%&! if we wear fluro pink. We'll be in a grand final.

And I'll probably still be blind anyway from a victorious preliminary final.

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Congratulations CK95

Ok then so answer me these questions:

1. How is it all about marketing? Obviously clubs would market the new strips but the real intent is to avoid the jumper confusion for the audience and players. I struggle sometimes to work out our blokes from theirs when we play Melbourne!! Collingwood and Nth are a nightmare, remember when we had B&W TV??

2. Let me see, a powerful politically aggresive club president in charge of a powerful financial mountain of a club that is declaring his club too big and powerful to comply with the same rules that all of the other clubs have already acquiesced to. This is not a general proposal/idea/suggestion, but a new rule of the AFL!! Basically, a rule might be OK for everybody else, but not for him. Nope nothing like Elliot at all, just a nice boy from Broady!!!

3. Clubs being forced to change their Guernesy ?? It is only a change or alternate strip being proposed for use when there are obvious clashes. If there is a better way I am sure the AFL would be all ears but most every other sporting code around the world that faces this problem has already come up with the alternate strip scenario. Good enough for Real Madrid and Manchester Utd, but not for Collingwood!!!

Put your heart back on your sleeve and engage your brain before jumping to conclusions!!!!

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tap in 79, if the navy blue jumper is so precious to you then why aren't you complaining about the jumper in the banner at the top of every Talking Carlton page?

Can't be stuffed reading 12 pages of thread, but every team should have a clash jumper, and the away team should wear the clash strip at the home teams request.

Therefore everyone keeps their tradition for home games, even if the home game was onsold. And everyone compromies if the occasion requires it (most games don't). It's not rocket science Ed.

As for clash strips, the one in the age has been floated on this site before. But thinking about it a bit more I quite like the orange and blue one. It's bold.

According to http://www.footyjumpers.com/ and it's obvious Eddie is an arrogant turd who chooses his words very carefully.

Collingwood should just get a white jumper with "TEAM EDDIE" in black letters and use that as an alternative strip.

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