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The crux of the matter is not ‘Collingwood’s concerns’. It is not even our concerns with Collingwood.I see your reasoning, but at the same time, what exactly are Collingwoods concerns? Apart from saying "we have the black and white so you cant" they haven't exactly laid out a clear argument against us wearing the prison bars in its natural state. And that argument also rings a little hollow on its own given we have worn it on multiple occasions in the AFL.
Additionally, Collingwood have changed their primary uniform going from primarily white with black stripes to the opposite. The prison bars are far closer to Collingwoods clash strip than anything else.
Where else in the world have we seen teams block other teams from wearing their primary uniform in a professional competition? The examples in the premier league have been listed countless times in this thread. In the NFL you've got the Patriots and Giants wearing red white and blue.
In fact, the only time I can recall a team not wearing their preferred uniform in a professional sports game outside of the prison bars, is when the Raiders ceased wearing their white with silver numbers jersey for away games, and that was only because at the time, the majority of TVs were in black and white, hence the colour combo made it difficult to identify each player.
The crux of the matter is our concerns with Eddie McGuire.
His CEO sits on our board. Cause for concern? You might think so.
The crux of the matter is our mistrust of Eddie McGuire, our mistrust of AFL House, our mistrust of our own board of directors and especially our own chairman.
Insurmountable? No way. All we need is one honest sincere black white (plus teal?) blooded voice to rise up from the board room or the door to the board room ... and mount a challenge.
This is all we need. Because morally and legally we are in the right, yet being suppressed. Remove the suppression, point the finger, mount the challenge.
And we shall win.