Would've been 2008, 2007 Elimination Final Crows had to wear their clash against Hawthorn when Hawthorn didn't have one.
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Hawthorn were at "home" in 2007 final.
Game was played at Docklands because three finals were for MCG teams and none of them could be played on Friday Night (5 day break), as only WCE and Port could be played at that slot.
Understand that, but somehow the Crows clashed with Hawthorn who didn't have a clash strip so therefore didn't clash with anyone (by 2007 standards). Not really complaining, it happened 12 years ago and Hawthorn got a clash jumper the next year but I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
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hitthepost
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Hawthorn didn't host Adelaide in the minor round so perhaps back then they only planned for that? Who'da thunk they might host Adelaide in a Final!
Ah, Adelaide hosted them in Heritage Round that year, so adding a rainbow (well all the SANFL club colours) and a shield to the Crows guernsey and making the back of Hawthorn's jumper yellow solved the clash. Weird.
Anyway, umpires in darker shorts, this year.
hitthepost
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Also no brown shorts clashing with navy guernsey.
caloschwaby
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They're using Carltons game ball? Grunt sponsor right on the top.
Sparkle
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It's Carlton's home game...
caloschwaby
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I swear I have never seen club balls used for games? Just the standard AFL ball with Toyota AFL logo and all
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Where have you been since 2003?
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They use the home club sponsor ball in the minor round. Even special footies such as Indigenous have club sponsors.
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I don't know to be honest? Maybe it just seems strange because I don't watch Carlton games haha
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There is a generic ball with just the premiership season logo (with no year) for clubs that don’t have ball sponsors, but they’ve only been used by Brisbane in recent years.
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do the runners now have sponsors on their shirts?
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Looking at google images Collingwood certainly have united on their ball, I guess it just hasn't crossed my mind when watching footy before.
Then again I doubt many people outside of this niche community have taken notice of it before
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In other news they paint sponsor logos on the field in 6 places and some venues are known by sponsor names too.
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Some teams have also been trialling different jumpers for away games. Could be interesting.
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Even before I was part of the FJGD community, I reckon I noticed that Geelong's home balls had NIB, Richmond's had The AFL Store and Carlton had Mistral. It's like sponsors logos on jumpers, I'd say most people tend to notice when they've changed. Small things like collars and templates are what the FJGD community has a knack for picking up on.
I'm fairly certain sponsors on the footy started around 1991-ish with Challenge Bank, then McDonald's, then Volkswagen, and then the clubs were allowed to pick their own from 2003/4-onward
fancyscum
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Seems pointless when we already have white shorts.
Virgin logo already coming off Gibbons guernsey after one game.
Nike quality.
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good point hahaha but i meant like individual team sponsors
