Discussion Strange or Interesting AFL Photos

[tuckylives]

The Rich/Melb/Ess side was just wearing Melbourne's royal jumper, so nothing too unusual like 4 jumpers on the field at once.
Although both sides wore white shorts for some reason:
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Yeah I didn't expect there to be four different guernseys out on the field More so the different Guernsey/shorts combos.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

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when can / will West Coast wear this gold and blue combo in a match? It’s epic

 

[Prison bar Pete]

I'm not sure if there would be many photos floating around, but Carlton played a scratch match against a team made up of Richmond, Melbourne and Essendon players today.

Carlton, Richmond, Essendon and Melbourne compete in one very odd scratch match

Richmond, Melbourne and Essendon teamed up to face Carlton. We're not kidding.

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The "Demonic Bombing Tigers" lol

 

[Andonis1997]

The Rich/Melb/Ess side was just wearing Melbourne's royal jumper, so nothing too unusual like 4 jumpers on the field at once.
Although both sides wore white shorts for some reason:
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Getting some SANFL WWII vibes where the 8 teams merged into 4 for a year.

But still... That's amazing

 

[Dazzler9]

when can / will West Coast wear this gold and blue combo in a match? It’s epic

when can they? Pretty much any game they want.

When will they? Probably never.

 

[SFgiant]

Rampe with the Franklin (baseball) batting glove. Weird seeing another sport league’s logo featured

 

[Stanley Burrell]

What the fu** is the context to this?

I believe this may have been the launch of Virgin Credit Cards (which became the Current Westpac Ingnite card) back in the early 2000s.
The gimmick was that you could pick the colour of your card from a choice of about five or six colours.
Branson has a girl painted in each of the colour options with him when he was out promoting the card.
Black was one of the colour options.

 

[And_ROOS]

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Rampe with the Franklin (baseball) batting glove. Weird seeing another sport league’s logo featured
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I played local footy with a dude that used a Franklin baseball glove, it had absolutely no grip on it and as a result if he didn't take it on the chest, it went straight through. But when he went into the ruck he was punching some serious distance at ball ups.

 

[Bend_It_Like_Brown]

To think AFL players once used to train in over sized tees

 

[SFgiant]

I played local footy with a dude that used a Franklin baseball glove, it had absolutely no grip on it and as a result if he didn't take it on the chest, it went straight through. But when he went into the ruck he was punching some serious distance at ball ups.

They're sticky as hell swinging a bat! You know, using them for what they're for

 

[Storm20]

It is virtually impossible to find a football glove though. Coming back from a thumb injury I was looking at getting one. Cannot find the old Franklin footy gloves anywhere

 

[Gibbsy]

North players teaming up with Saints players for a scratch match against Brisbane

 

[NM_Mitchell]

man * the saints

 

[Liam Boy]

if you'd ever wondered what the pura crusader would look like with royal blue shorts, i guess you just found out, whoever you are

 

[Dazzler9]

Puopolo and a few other Hawks in the wings, wearing brown shorts and hooped socks.

 

[DiamondGuy]

It's like training sessions from the sixties when the players wore wacky coloured shorts and other teams' jumpers

 

[SFgiant]

You're welcome thequarry for the Franklin batting glove heads up

 

[makri]

1997 Anzac Day, far left Centenary Jumper. Alex McDonald. But looks like he changed at quarter time.

 

[thequarry]

You're welcome thequarry for the Franklin batting glove heads up

Post updated for belated shout-out!

makri that's a great spot. I wonder what happened there.

 

[Boyohboywowwee]

I just seen footage of Melbourne having a training session. Some of the players appeared to be in clash socks. I didn’t think they still used them. Would anyone know how many times they were worn in the last decade??

 

[Freshwater]

this was on the news yesterday with the sad passing of Neil Scache. 1975, first year of colour tv. Imagine only a couple of years before the same game would have looked so much different and darker. The Bulldogs would've had the traditional hoops with black shorts and Fitzroy would’ve had the darker blue instead of royal, maroon instead of red and white instead of gold. Good old technicolor 1970’s.

 

[Gibbsy]

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this was on the news yesterday with the sad passing of Neil Scache. 1975, first year of colour tv. Imagine only a couple of years before the same game would have looked so much different and darker. The Bulldogs would've had the traditional hoops with black shorts and Fitzroy would’ve had the darker blue instead of royal, maroon instead of red and white instead of gold. Good old technicolor 1970’s.

Shows you how much of a difference shorts can make to providing a contrast too. It's a shame the days of light shorts (non-white) have been gone for so long.

 

[Freshwater]

Shows you how much of a difference shorts can make to providing a contrast too. It's a shame the days of light shorts (non-white) have been gone for so long.

Essendon is the main one I think of with this. They wore their red shorts for longer than the Bulldogs, until Sheedy stopped the red shorts in about 1984? But Essendon with red shorts really helps with clashes against Richmond, Carlton and Collingwood and they can still use their beloved traditional jumper.

 

[magpienato]

Found on Marketplace, never seen it before. I'm pretty certain it's some kind of prototype going off the '2018' on the back and the collar which matches the collar of the quick prototype Majestic mocked up when their deal for 2018 onwards was announced.

 

[The Victorian]

Found on Marketplace, never seen it before. I'm pretty certain it's some kind of prototype going off the '2018' on the back and the collar which matches the collar of the quick prototype Majestic mocked up when their deal for 2018 onwards was announced.
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They were given to all juniors that signed up to AFLQ Brisbane.

Under 9's guernsey presentation

It was a big night for over 450 excited kids at the Gabba last Tuesday.

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