Port wearing away strip - now ok to wear prison bar jumper - AFL

[mike91]

Should be a problem for Richmond, not port.

 

[Righteo]

Always going to happen with Richmond, need to follow the example of Collingwood and Carlton who have great clash jumpers.

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Not mad at Richmond, but the AFL and their incompetence to implement a propper clash policy.

 

[AstonSouffle]

Lots of people getting angry at Richmond for this and I don't know why.
We have worn our clash strip the last 4-5 times we have played Port in Adelaide and there was no problem at all.
Not sure why there's been a change all of a sudden.

Home final?

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

First home final since 2007 and we get handed this sh*t

F***king VFL

 

[Registered User]

Yeah, it's farkin stoopit. Firstly, there's no clash, and secondly, we could wear our so-called clash jumper with the extra yellow, with white shorts.

Why is it happening? Is the AFL sucking up to us and getting on our bandwagon coz we're a "big" club

 

[Jones2ByrneJones]

Not a huge deal.

Like a SEN caller suggested, we should give 40k (or 35k or whatever the allocation is of Port supporters @ AO) white shirts and have a sea of white.

After all, it is cheer cheer the black and the white.

 

[kane249]

Pretty poor by the AFL, approve a clash strip for Richmond that still ends up causing a clash

 

[MinerBoy]

It's all coming up Richmond.

 

[sprockets]

The decision was the AFL's, not ours. Most Tiger supporters would agree that Port should be wearing its home jumper. By the way, back in the good old days we used to watch Richmond v Essendon on black and white tv with no clash strips and it wasn't hard to tell them apart by the colour of their shorts. To be honest, I don't really see a clash.

 

[Bazzar]

Good call by the AFL

 

[Rally]

Are the AFL serious? If this is a 'clash' someone seriously needs their eyes checked.

 

[King Hansen]

The AFL is pissweak against the Richmonds and Collingwoods of the AFL. Get ****ed AFL.

 

[carloss]

Richmond clash top + white shorts + yellow socks

 

[ClintEastwood]

What the *? This should not even be a question.

The visiting team wears the clash strip.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

It is high time this nonsense stopped. This is a professional League, not an amateur one. This is something you could get a 3 year old to fix yet the AFL can't fix it.
It is about time a club or clubs stood up to it. Port should wear their home strip and throw it back in the AFL hands.
This is just ridiculous.

 

[mighty tiges]

There seems to be an issue this year against both West Coast and Port Adelaide (in a home final).

That's a disgrace and if the Richmond class jumper is up for it then it's Richmond who should pay the fine

Why should we pay a fine for a decision the AFL has made .

 

[Bobblefighter]

Should be a problem for Richmond, not port.

We submitted a clash strip, it was approved, we've been fine for awhile in Adelaide, how is it our problem? It's the AFLs problem for suddenly flip-flopping for no reason.

 

[The_Reaper]

Why should we pay a fine for a decision the AFL has made .

Why should Port Adelaide pay a fine if they wear their home jumper.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

God I love that song

 

[MinerBoy]

Are the AFL serious? If this is a 'clash' someone seriously needs their eyes checked.

Is that a photo from Port Adelaide training?

 

[bananatigz]

We've worn our clash against port for the last few years, not sure why it's a problem now haha

 

[Registered User]

Always going to happen with Richmond, need to follow the example of Collingwood and Carlton who have great clash jumpers.

Don't get me started on Collingwood.

Many of the perceived clashes started when they changed to the black jumper with the white number and red advert. There was suddenly 'apparent' clashes with other dark jumpers with white numbers, so all those clubs had to get alternate tops, while Collingwood refused to revert to their real jumper (predominantly white), and Eddie ranted at the same time that they've never changed their strip!!

Ugh! He not-so-cleverly said that they "we've never changed from black and white stripes in 100 years", but it was a massive change.

 

[Gibbsy]

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2014-09-01/statement-white-guernsey

THE Port Adelaide Football Club was today issued a directive by the AFL to wear its white clash strip against Richmond in this Sunday’s first elimination final at the Adelaide Oval.

The decision was based on the assertion that Richmond does not have a clash strip that is distinctive enough when compared to the Power’s traditional black home uniform.

Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas said he was very disappointed with the outcome.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2014-09-01/statement-white-guernsey

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Surely as the higher ranked team they get to pick and the Tiges have to find something else.

Then again, at least they're not playing Sydney. The AFL would have swapped dates and given them a few days shorter break.