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Didn't say I agreed with what I observed, it was just a notation . . .
Discussion Finals Week 3: Predictions, Photos, and Discussion
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Not a Grand Final, but last weekend Port Melbourne played Footscray in the Prelim. It was Footscray's home game (despite being played at NPO), and when the two teams met in the H+A, Footscray wore a clash strip.
But in this game, since apparently Port's only "alternate" strip is their commemorative one with a big white logo on the front, both teams wore kits of royal blue, red and white.
As a Footscray fan at the ground, it was like a trippy nightmare; thinking we'd linked up a brilliant passage of play, only for my eyes to focus and find we'd turned it over :O
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Not a Grand Final, but last weekend Port Melbourne played Footscray in the Prelim. It was Footscray's home game (despite being played at NPO), and when the two teams met in the H+A, Footscray wore a clash strip.
But in this game, since apparently Port's only "alternate" strip is their commemorative one with a big white logo on the front, both teams wore kits of royal blue, red and white.
As a Footscray fan at the ground, it was like a trippy nightmare; thinking we'd linked up a brilliant passage of play, only for my eyes to focus and find we'd turned it over :O
Are you serious, those jumpers didn't clash 20 years ago, that's just stupid, they are completely different designs
In still photos, maybe. But in the heat of a game, the colours are too similar and so would clash
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Royal blue everywhere!
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All I've seen so far is Swans in warmup tops and red shorts.Friday, September 19
Sydney v North Melbourne
So.
Sauce?
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No really.
This issue has been discussed numerous times this season. It's the freaking Prelim Finals and so yes, it's a pretty sure bet there won't be any weird tops popping up with no notice. But still.
Have we seen whether North is wearing white or blue tops? In round 4 it was white but the time before that it was blue.
Considering how up-in-arms you got during the year over people using over-sized fonts and posting jumper matchups before you got around to it, and how frustrated you were that the rules weren't being followed, can we please PLEASE just wait until there's something really clear about the jumper matchups before they're posted.
It's really quite simple. You can't call the goal before the ball goes through the sticks, even if it's pretty much impossible that it's gonna be anything but a goal.
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Norm Smith Medallist
And white tops, which was my question.
Meanwhile I'm confirming that North will win. I mean, why not, it hasn't happened yet but what the heck.
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Except it allows a team in fully white jumpers to play against a team that has white as 50% of the front of their kit.
This in the same competition that deems Adelaide's 3 gold hoops to clash with Hawthorn's mainly gold tops, and allows Hawthorn to wear mainly brown against teams in black.
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No clash though, despite all the white
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I stand by this from earlier
Here's my submission as to why the royal should be used.
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Here's my response to that...I stand by this from earlier
"Thanks for the still, close-up photos. It's been fairly well established on this forum IMO that these photos don't give an accurate representation of in-match fast-paced action, either zoomed out so you can see more than just the 5 players contesting the ball or sitting in the stands.
"Ohhhh, was that a goal, ump?"
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Hoping you wouldn't notice that
I think in showing that there IS a clash, they're more useful than in showing that there's not.
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I think we can agree that the best matchup is North's full royalHoping you wouldn't notice that
I think in showing that there IS a clash, they're more useful than in showing that there's not.
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Yeah.I think we can agree that the best matchup is North's full royal
I think close-up pictures show differences much clearer, which is why they are good for arguing that there isn't a clash. Like showing a blue Camry and a blue Commodore up close and saying they don't look the same, when the correct perspective for the context is looking at the cars from a plane.
Sydney v Carlton IMO.
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Port in all black v Collingwood in clash
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Also note port in home jumper (the one with energy Australia on the front), I was thinking they would be in the away one (Renault on the front)Saturday, September 20
Hawthorn v Port Adelaide
