Our jumper

[hujsh]

BTW where's our new stadium deal? If we're doing this without a new deal the stadium simply has to be burned to the ground.

[bulldogtragic]

BTW where's our new stadium deal? If we're doing this without a new deal the stadium simply has to be burned to the ground.

Honour system. Gil will good for his word.

On that Gil got the revenge he wanted over the GWS Prelim Banner:

Our club was born in blood & boots,
With jumpers contrived in Marvel & AFEL focus groups.

[bornadog]

Part of jumper sales go to charity- anything wrong with that.

Lets focus on the game and stop worrying about a once off jumper. ( Shakes head indisbelief )

[bulldogtragic]

Part of sales go to charity- anything wrong with that.

Lets focas on the game and stop worrying about a once off jumper. ( Shakes head indisbelief )

Focas (shakes head in disbelief)

Half of not much is better than nothing. Now if only there was a great re-signing to focas on.

[S Coast Simon]

Good on the club for trying to get into the media and a bit of attention. Kids are going to love this idea. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t. They say there is not such thing as bad publicity.

Great news Lachie signing on. We could do with a few more good news stories. Mind you we don’t make the media too often so why would we release two stories in one day, that makes no sense what’s so ever.

[Daughter of the West]

Sorry, it looks crap.

It's going to look even crapper if we get pantsed and the headlines will write themselves.

Talk about painting yourself into a bloody corner.

If I were the players, I'd feel pretty stupid running around in kit like that. The fellas need all they can muster to play tall and come out firing in the first week and this is sure as sh*t is not going to help one iota.

[bulldogtragic]

Sorry, it looks crap.

It's going to look even crapper if we get pantsed and the headlines will write themselves.

Talk about painting yourself into a bloody corner.

If I were the players, I'd feel pretty stupid running around in kit like that. The fellas need all they can muster to play tall and come out firing in the first week and this is sure as sh*t is not going to help one iota.

I hadn't thought of what the players would actually feel. Or I assume the 120 minutes of trash talk the boys are going to cop, especially after every goal, free, missed tackle etc. Hopefully Sydney will be pretty respectful. From memory when Garry Hocking changed his name to 'Whiskers' for a game for money and the brand publicity, I think he copped it on field and didn't play too well.

[Flamethrower]

Love that our club is being so progressive - much better than being irrelevant like St Kilda or North Melbourne.

[Doc26]

I normally don’t like anything that disrespects or devalues our traditional strip.

If the $$ on offer to the Club for this marketing gimmick stacked up then I’m Ok with it as a kind of one off but I haven’t read anywhere to suggest it was an offer from Marvel too good to refuse.

If we’ve sold out for the sale of a few jumpers and a gimmicky marketing exercise akin to the worst parts of AFLX then I would be very disappointed that our marketing / commercial area has taken this path.

If they want a child friendly strip to sell a few more jumpers release it for use during the JLT as a pre-season strip.

[soupman]

I can't believe that people are for this.

Seriously???

It's pathetic. It's embarrassing.

As pointed out by others just over 2 years ago we celebrated our banner for highlighting our identity and integrity for "being born in blood and boots...not focus groups". Now we are going to open our season running out in the AFL equivalent of a "free car wash" sign. You can't have it both ways, we can't be the antithesis of the plastic Giants while also being genuises for cashing in on this Marvel gimmick.

If we are prepared to do this for money what next? If Cadbury offer us the money are we running out in Cherry Ripe themed jumpers? I know the NRL clubs have done the Marvel thing before, and it was tacky as hell.

I am all for jumpers for a cause, the Indigenous jumpers, the pride jumpers etc. They all have a purpose that isn't purely selling out.

I dunno. We are a club that is desperately trying to reclaim some respect and this does the opposite to that. Everyone I've talked to has laughed about it. We are literally a laughing stock. Since the Grand Final we could not have been more frustrating both on and off field and this just feels like another case of the club going the opposite way to the majority of it's already exasperated fanbase.

I think I'm pretty firmly in the "Oh F*ck off" category on this topic.

[Cyberdoggie]

You will never forget it either. This type of abomination sticks in people's memories forever.
No one forgets the Hawthorn power ranger or the diamond jockey top, or how about Carlton's light blue m&m's outfit!

Those bad designs pale into insignificance when comparing to a cartoon characters imitation costume!


I'm all for promoting it for sale in the shops, slapping it on woofer and the dancing pups around the ground etc etc, but not on the players. They have gone too far this time and I think they have misjudged people's reaction big time.

[FrediKanoute]

I like it. Its a modern take on our colours and whilst I wouldn't want it trotted out in a GF, its ok.

[Eastdog]

Doug certainly isn't a fan of the jumper.

[Ghost Dog]

"Messing with the jumper risks messing with the fabric.". Greg Baum. I bet you spent hours coming up with that one.

Well, hope we get some Asgardian inspiration in our backline. Otherwise Easton might wish he'd worn something a little less memorable. NRL players as heroes? yeah I have no problem with that. I am sure Thor has a sex tape stashed somewhere. Demi-gods are only human.

[bornadog]

I normally don’t like anything that disrespects or devalues our traditional strip.

If the $$ on offer to the Club for this marketing gimmick stacked up then I’m Ok with it as a kind of one off but I haven’t read anywhere to suggest it was an offer from Marvel too good to refuse.

If we’ve sold out for the sale of a few jumpers and a gimmicky marketing exercise akin to the worst parts of AFLX then I would be very disappointed that our marketing / commercial area has taken this path.

If they want a child friendly strip to sell a few more jumpers release it for use during the JLT as a pre-season strip.

makea wish will get some benefit from sales, other $$$ not sure