Discussion AFL Round 12, 2025: Photos and Discussion

[Heardy_101]

Round 12
Fixture	Venue	Time	TV
Thursday, May 29
Brisbane Lions vs. Essendon	Gabba	7:30pm	Seven/Fox
Friday, May 30
Collingwood vs. Hawthorn	MCG	7:40pm	Seven/Fox
Saturday, May 31
Gold Coast Suns vs. Fremantle	People First Stadium	1:20pm	Fox Footy
GWS Giants vs. Richmond	ENGIE Stadium	4:15pm	Fox Footy
Sydney Swans vs. Adelaide Crows	SCG	7:35pm	Fox Footy
Sunday, Jun 1
Melbourne vs. St Kilda	TIO Traeger Park	3:20pm	Seven/Fox
West Coast Eagles vs. Geelong Cats	Optus Stadium	7:20pm	Seven/Fox

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You know the drill...

I'll start:

Essendon should be in their clash tonight.

 

[Cody_]

Interesting one this....

Game Day Hub | Round 12

All the game day information ahead of Richmond's Round 12 clash against Greater Western Sydney at ENGIE Stadium

www.richmondfc.com.au

 

[Freo16]

Probably in the minority here but I reckon Bris V Ess is a borderline clash.

Bombers should have their grey jumper back for this matchup or an almost all black jumper with a red outline on the sash might work.

 

[the_cleaner]

Probably in the minority here but I reckon Bris V Ess is a borderline clash.

Bombers should have their grey jumper back for this matchup or an almost all black jumper with a red outline on the sash might work.

yerh shocking match up, can only tell the players apart from the shorts when they zoom out.

 

[Gibbsy]

Probably in the minority here but I reckon Bris V Ess is a borderline clash.

Bombers should have their grey jumper back for this matchup or an almost all black jumper with a red outline on the sash might work.

It’s not borderline, it’s a deadset clash. Doesn’t get a lot of eyes on it because the teams share zero colours, but it’s a pretty bad contrast

 

[Freo16]

It’s not borderline, it’s a deadset clash. Doesn’t get a lot of eyes on it because the teams share zero colours, but it’s a pretty bad contrast

It’s also another situation where a big vic club would be unwilling to wear a jumper that would actually solve the clash.

I can’t see Essendon wearing white or grey again and it’s not like the AFL would force them to.

 

[parano1a]

Probably in the minority here but I reckon Bris V Ess is a borderline clash.

Essendon need a white (or very light silver) variant of their clash strip for games like this. But it'll never happen while the AFL administration is run as a two-bit amateur league.

 

[Gibbsy]

Waiting for this random white jumper black shorts combo that is supposedly happening tonight. Am at the ground now, no giveaways yet.

 

[NOVA4]

Standard black and black

 

[Gibbsy]

Standard black and black

Yeah, dunno what that was all about. One of those games where the Hawks could wear brown shorts and get away with it, but whatever.

 

[Freshwater]

Hawthorn in white shorts is just mind blowingly stupid. Next level stupid really. Collingwood only have two colours, Hawthorn have a different two colours and they wear one of their opponents two colours to apparently help with a clash?

 

[parano1a]

Hawthorn in white shorts is just mind blowingly stupid.

It's not really an issue. But the Hawks wore brown shorts for all home and away matches in the 1990s as they didn't clash with anyone.

 

[Supercheapgiants]

Interesting one this....
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Game Day Hub | Round 12

All the game day information ahead of Richmond's Round 12 clash against Greater Western Sydney at ENGIE Stadium

www.richmondfc.com.au

Oh no, they saw Brisbane wear yellow last year and now it's a norm v GWS. That'll mean Gold Coast wear their yellow clash against us too, honestly AFL

 

[Supercheapgiants]

Probably in the minority here but I reckon Bris V Ess is a borderline clash.

Bombers should have their grey jumper back for this matchup or an almost all black jumper with a red outline on the sash might work.

It's already been shown that Red and a lot of white (shorts or guernsey) (Sydney) can go fine against Brisbane, so why we still have this clash is beyond me

A good testing ground actually would be AFL26, whilst yes a video game, it does give us a better look into colour clashes

 

[Heardy_101]

So whilst not AFL, Centrals and Sturt today in the SANFL has Central's in their white based Indigenous jumper with blue shirts, and Sturt are in their blue Indigenous jumper with white shorts.

Whilst it's Central's home game, they should be in the white shorts today.

 

[its been done]

Interesting one this....
View attachment 2328676

Game Day Hub | Round 12

All the game day information ahead of Richmond's Round 12 clash against Greater Western Sydney at ENGIE Stadium

www.richmondfc.com.au

Not happening, someone must've just copy-pasted from another away match

 

[Supercheapgiants]

Not happening, someone must've just copy-pasted from another away match

Watched the VFL game yesterday, I mean it looked decent with how neon the Tigers yellow is, not perfect but I'd nearly say better then Tiges in white shorts

 

[Supercheapgiants]

Also St Kilda will be wearing a white version of their SDNR guernsey, I believe someone mentioned this a few weeks ago too

 

[Freo16]

Watched the VFL game yesterday, I mean it looked decent with how neon the Tigers yellow is, not perfect but I'd nearly say better then Tiges in white shorts

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Much like Essendon v Brisbane, Richmond need a white/light grey jumper specifically for this matchup but that’ll never happen.

 

[Supercheapgiants]

Much like Essendon v Brisbane, Richmond need a white/light grey jumper specifically for this matchup but that’ll never happen.

The white tiges could be an interesting concept, seeing as Richmond aren't like a specific tiger variant

 

[Nickimus Rex]

Oh no, they saw Brisbane wear yellow last year and now it's a norm v GWS. That'll mean Gold Coast wear their yellow clash against us too, honestly AFL

The Giants kit is a hard clash matchup due to the dark front with orange back. If they just comitted to charcoal back or wore the NS at home, it would solve 99% of clash issues.

 

[Supercheapgiants]

The Giants kit is a hard clash matchup due to the dark front with orange back. If they just comitted to charcoal back or wore the NS at home, it would solve 99% of clash issues.

Agreed, it does make it difficult for teams to wear the right thing against us. It's tough because Orange is the club's primary identity, yet we refuse to make it our entire home jumper (as in wearing the 2021-2023 away with charcoal shorts for example) and keep needing charcoal to tone down the orange.

I think we could be so much simpler with a primary orange Home with charcoal shorts, a white clash guernsey and the NS for Swans and any other times.

 

[Nickimus Rex]

Agreed, it does make it difficult for teams to wear the right thing against us. It's tough because Orange is the club's primary identity, yet we refuse to make it our entire home jumper (as in wearing the 2021-2023 away with charcoal shorts for example) and keep needing charcoal to tone down the orange.

I think we could be so much simpler with a primary orange Home with charcoal shorts, a white clash guernsey and the NS for Swans and any other times.

The orange home with charcoal shorts looks so slick in the VFL, if you do go to that it needs the charcoal stroke around the G againt I reckon, or the charcoal G.

 

[Supercheapgiants]

A variation of either of these would do just fine, maybe just a bit more creative but for the most part this is it

 

[parano1a]

This WCE strip is giving me Werribee vibes.