Please Don't Wear Red

[Dancin' Douggy]

Re: Please Don't Wear Red

Am i meant to believe the fake laces are printed on the front?

[SonofScray]

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Bitterly disappointing?

As long as we've punted the red strip, I'm happy.

Can imagine plenty of kids choosing the jumper with the big Dog on it, too, so there's an opportunity for increased merch sales.

Yes. Bitterly disappointing, the jumper is very important to me. The push we made as fans to bring the hoops back saw a return to a very simple, classic look for the club across all three jumpers. The red was unpopular, fair enough but as a set it made sense and fit nicely with what we wanted.

The cartoon stuff can be for preseason and training. I am sick of the gimmick jumpers and whoring out of our most precious symbol.

[Murphy'sLore]

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Horrible. Yuk. Hate it.

I was proud of the simple, classic elegance of the white clash strip (not fond of the red, but at least it was logical). This is almost as bad as the Hawks disco jumper! How can I feel morally superior now? And I don't believe that kids will want to buy the one with the cartoon dog. If they do, let them buy a training top!

I'm with SoS. This is a bastardisation of our beautiful, proud jumper.

[The Pie Man]

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If they sell a heap of these to kids then ok

FWIW, I detest that strip.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Awful. One of our worst ever, aside from that Origin Energy one.

[Doc26]

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Yes. Bitterly disappointing, the jumper is very important to me. The push we made as fans to bring the hoops back saw a return to a very simple, classic look for the club across all three jumpers. The red was unpopular, fair enough but as a set it made sense and fit nicely with what we wanted.

The cartoon stuff can be for preseason and training. I am sick of the gimmick jumpers and whoring out of our most precious symbol.

I couldn't agree more SOS.

Garlick as CEO should be given much credit for implementing the change of jumper from the horrendous gimmicky Robodog and return it to our glorious classic style.

If the new CEO is behind this calamity of a decision to go 'kiddies show' on us for our away strip then he's wide of the mark and will need to lift his game. And just when we get a whole bunch of prime time slots. Yuk.

[SonofScray]

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How do they manage to stuff this up so often? Just ask us what we want and they can't go wrong. Give the fans a bit of agency over something in the public face of the Club and you get a beautiful, traditional jersey a la the home jumper. Hand it over to some moron in a suit happy to whore out the jumper based on what they think we want and this is the crap that we end up with.

Justin Charles made comment on SEN a few months ago, his good form at Richmond after his time with us was the result of him "doing what the coach told me to do, not what I thought the coach told me to do." Perhaps BLK and the merch ppl could take that on board. Imbeciles.

[Bornadog]

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If they sell a heap of these to kids then ok

FWIW, I detest that strip.

I was with a mate at the Social Club event tonight at Etihad and we stepped outside to get away from the noise of the singers. We were standing near the popup Bulldog shop and my mate said he had purchased the white jumper with the cartoon for his young son for Christmas. I said to him, the jumper is ok for kids but that is about it.

Literally ten minutes later, when the event continued, the MC got Stringer to model the new jumper. The MC asked the crowd if they liked it and they all cheered.

[SonofScray]

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Literally ten minutes later, when the event continued, the MC got Stringer to model the new jumper. The MC asked the crowd if they liked it and they all cheered.

Lucky for the MC I was at home with my 10 day old baby girl and couldn't be there to lead a chorus of boos and heckling the living daylights out of that horrific jumper. I'll lose sleep over how bad this is. And I can't afford to loose any more sleep!

Cheering for it, bloody hell. We are an easily pleased bunch. Settling for crap like that getting shoved down our throats.

[Bornadog]

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Lucky for the MC I was at home with my 10 day old baby girl and couldn't be there to lead a chorus of boos and heckling the living daylights out of that horrific jumper. I'll lose sleep over how bad this is. And I can't afford to loose any more sleep!

Cheering for it, bloody hell. We are an easily pleased bunch. Settling for crap like that getting shoved down our throats.

According to the MC, the club listened to the fans to get rid of red and change to the new one. I don't remember any survey on a new clash jumper.

[SonofScray]

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According to the MC, the club listened to the fans to get rid of red and change to the new one. I don't remember any survey on a new clash jumper.

Me either, I accept the red jumper was unpopular and unfairly maligned but that is no excuse for this ridiculous jersey to be worn in a game for premiership points.

[jeemak]

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I really don't get how the white jumper with the blue and red hoops isn't the perfect clash jumper.

[LostDoggy]

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We've experimented with several cartoons/complicated designs over the years, as have other clubs. They are invariably a load of bollocks that get ditched before long.

Our tradition is red, white and blue, a predominant colour with hoops. Really simple.

What bugs me is that some dufus in South Melbourne or St Kilda Road with no clue about our history got paid a bucketload to knock out that load of old tosh, but has only diminished our heritage and brand.

These things are made complicated by people with bigger budgets and more resources than they should have access to.

Edit: One caveat - if we could get onedogonthemoon to do a design that was sensitive and meaningful, I'd be totally down with that.

[BulldogBelle]

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It was very disappointing to hear the announcement tonight regarding the club ditching the red. There was a big roar of approval from most of the fans at the social club meeting.

I would have preferred the red but a different shade, a darker red.

The club saying that they are listening to the fans.

I would say most fans are ignorant of the benefits of wearing red.

Decision based on emotion and ignorance.

[Ghost Dog]

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The biggest issue is it's not a well balanced design in itself. It's not enough to create a variation of our very balanced hoops in another colour. With that much red, there needs to be LESS of it. Red comes forward, blue recedes. You need a lot more blue and a strong type of blue to make it a feature colour. Only need a tiny bit of that red to tickle your eye balls. And it does - makes my head hurt.
I really like the dark navy blue of a lot of our training gear. Why not use that?