Our New Jumper.

[Bornadog]

Re: Our New Jumper.

Women's Jumper looks better, although the blue is not right.



This jumper is rubbish. Tuck the jumper in your shorts and the white will be covered.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Not too fussed about the lighter blue.I wonder if the hoops are lower 'cause we and the AFEL are toying with the idea of having players surnames on the back of the jumpers?
Or some sort of premiers type signage on them?
But those charcoal/grey polo's are rubbish!!

I don't think the hoops go all the way around the back anyway though do they?

[comrade]

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Why the fuss over training tops?

[choconmientay]

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... because we are now the Premiers and any detail will be put through the magnifying glass

I am not fazed by changes. Maybe we are trying to appear to much younger fan base now and some the the brighter colours, fancier designs are 'IN'?

[Greystache]

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The gold AFL logo on it looks pretty freakin' good to me!

[comrade]

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... because we are now the Premiers and any detail will be put through the magnifying glass

I am not fazed by changes. Maybe we are trying to appear to much younger fan base now and some the the brighter colours, fancier designs are 'IN'?

IMO, the weirder the better when it comes to training tops.

I'm still searching for a 1996 Dogs jumper with the robo dog inside the diamond combo. I love goofy tops.

[Greystache]

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Picked up a size zero for my newborn son. I'm thinking I'll buy a larger one too so he has a gold logo edition to wear in the future in the unlikely event we don't win more premierships in the next couple of years!

[The Pie Man]

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Just perusing the media re other clubs' jumper designs for 2017 & it could be a lot worse, ladies and gentlemen!!!

Brisbane have done it again... Their clash guernsey is simply putrid. Hawthorn's is God-awful again - albeit a slight improvement in their Power Rangers monstrosity.. Although, to be fair, gold & brown is a tough gig for designers!

Interestingly, Norf's (lords of the persecution complex) supporters actually requested their club to make a Collingwood-type decision to reverse their stripes... Apparently they developed a chip on their shoulder about being "forced" to wear white shorts at their home games due to their majority white guernsey.... So the club has altered their jumper of the past 80 odd years..

Seems the collective shoulder chip outweighed tradition...

Also means we'll now have to wear a clash guernsey against Norf - rather than them simply slipping on the white shorts.. Even on Good Friday...

You certainly showed them all, Norf!... "Nobody makes us wear white shorts...!"

One thing, though. The lighter blue of our jumpers should mean we never have to wear a clash guernsey against Melbourne anymore.

BTW, our clash guernsey is once again a simple white with a red and a blue hoop. That's a win vs the cartoon bulldog, imo.

We wore our home jumper with white shorts against Melbourne at the G this year - which I was surprised about at the time, though no clash eventuated. Also surprised we played Port in our normal strip with white shorts - no clash, just surprised we weren't forced into it. Think we only wore our clash jumper twice this season (both Perth games)

Doing away with the carton design for the white strip is a win - wouldn't have minded the away strip to feature vertical stripes on the RHS similar-ish to the proposed training tops (didn't we have a night comp jumper like this years ago?) but will take the small win on this.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Why the fuss over training tops?

I'm talking about the actual match day tops.

[Greystache]

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That shade of blue is close to the 2016 version

It's probably a trick of the light as well. It is a bit lighter than the BLK version, it's more like the Diadora blue.

[Remi Moses]

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Gotta be honest, the players could run around in pink tutu's if they deliver another flag

[Webby]

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We wore our home jumper with white shorts against Melbourne at the G this year - which I was surprised about at the time, though no clash eventuated. Also surprised we played Port in our normal strip with white shorts - no clash, just surprised we weren't forced into it. Think we only wore our clash jumper twice this season (both Perth games)

Doing away with the carton design for the white strip is a win - wouldn't have minded the away strip to feature vertical stripes on the RHS similar-ish to the proposed training tops (didn't we have a night comp jumper like this years ago?) but will take the small win on this.

Yeah we did wear our home guernseys against Melbourne at the G this year. That was the first time we'd been allowed to do that in years. I'd previously been pretty vocal about that as there clearly is no clash - particularly in our white shorts.

I believe the thinking might've been that it was a day game. Previous times against Melbourne the game was played under lights or roof. The only jumper our home Guernsey really clashes against is now Norf.

I get a bit miffed when I see us wear wear white against Carlton.

Yes, we did have a night series Guernsey which was white with a blue and white diagonal sash in about 1980.

Personally, I'd love to see the club adopt the jumper we won our first three flags in from 1898-1900 as a clash strip. It'd be a nice nod to the past.

[Bornadog]

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It's probably a trick of the light as well. It is a bit lighter than the BLK version, it's more like the Diadora blue.

BTW,Congrats on being a Dad

[Doc26]

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Hi all,
I'm not very happy with our new jumper.
The stripes are too low and too thin.

The red stripe is supposed to be right up under the armpits.

(INSERT GLORIOUS PORTRAIT OF EJ IN TRADITIONAL KIT)

Why do people keep meddling with a classic beautiful guernsey?

Having the stripes around your belly button just looks lame.

Imagine the Carlton crest down on their belly buttons, it would look awful, that's what it's like to me.

Couldn't agree with you more. Why do they keep meddling with it ? So so frustrating. It's like they're on some mission to make it into a onesie. Come in PeterG, exert some authority to set it right.

Looking at the jumper when Tim English put it on for the first time it looked so wrong.

If the hoops were any lower they would be tucked into young Tim's shorts.

[GVGjr]

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I know there are a lot of people who don't really care on what colours we play in or the design of it for that matter but I think when done right our jumper is clearly the best visually in the competition. I get that there's some advantages for the club to modify the design most years to drive up merchandise sales but I'd rather we don't settle on just making changes just for the sake of it.

Every time someone from the club gets in front of the media we don't miss a chance to have them decked out with the club's polo and all sponsors logo's etc proudly on display in an effort to look our best and yet when it comes down to sending the team out on match day we seem to be prepared to have them wearing sub standard designs as if it doesn't matter.

Why should we compromise?