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Discussion Round 12, 2019 - Photos and Discussion
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North in the bounding roo with blue shorts. Beautiful.
Magnificent at metricon. Enjoying it from the stands
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WC in white shorts for some stupid reason.
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The white away shorts rule is back even stronger than ever!
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RIP to one of the greatest kit matchups ever.... 
Someone pls tell me the Eagles just packed the wrong shorts
Swans v Eagles was one of the nicest uniform match ups in the league. Introducing white to the Eagles is unneccessary however it appears the AFL is looking to preserve the white shorts=away team tradition at all costs.
Suuuurely this is just a bit of a utensil-up from the Eagles. No other team has worn white shorts away to Sydney this year.
Hasnt everyone else been wearing coloured shorts v Swans this year?
West Coast wore blue shorts at their SCG training run yesterday, so they have them available to wear.
So this is likely either:
A/ An AFL directive
B/ An Eagles choice/request to keep full royal as a “home only” uniform
So this is likely either:
A/ An AFL directive
B/ An Eagles choice/request to keep full royal as a “home only” uniform
Nobody has worn white shorts away to Sydney this year.
Two teams have worn white away to Gold Coast - Brisbane in clash and Geelong in Indigenous.
If its an AFL directive, its a clear deviation even from this years policy.
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I just hope the property steward accidentally packed the wrong shorts.
See my other post above. They wore blue shorts in their training run yesterday. They have both with them.
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Strange...
Have to remember that the Eagles kit manager isn't probably thinking about various combinations of shirts and shorts from all 9 matches each week all year.
In reality, this is probably what went down.
In Round 6 (vs Geelong away) in a game where we normally wear full royal, the club would have been told to wear white shorts (because of Geelong wanting to wear navy shorts at home). As this is a deviation from what has happened before, the club did and kept a memory of "always white shorts away"
Come Round 12, we do the same thing again without really thinking why.
There isn't really another explanation for it, since West Coast have always worn full royal away vs Sydney, and teams have worn full home against Sydney for the majority of matches.
In reality, this is probably what went down.
In Round 6 (vs Geelong away) in a game where we normally wear full royal, the club would have been told to wear white shorts (because of Geelong wanting to wear navy shorts at home). As this is a deviation from what has happened before, the club did and kept a memory of "always white shorts away"
Come Round 12, we do the same thing again without really thinking why.
There isn't really another explanation for it, since West Coast have always worn full royal away vs Sydney, and teams have worn full home against Sydney for the majority of matches.
Also, for the table that shows what teams wore away to Sydney.
Surely the Stadium "Sydney Showground Stadium" would be better off as "Stadium Australia" as a differentiation to Sydney Showgrounds which is the home stadium of GWS.
Surely the Stadium "Sydney Showground Stadium" would be better off as "Stadium Australia" as a differentiation to Sydney Showgrounds which is the home stadium of GWS.
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That is a bit misleading!
What does this database call the *actual* Sydney Showground Stadium (aka Spotless/GIANTS Stadium)?
