Alternative jumpers

[Pollywaffle]

Great win by Kangas last night. Clearly wanted it more.
My query is about alternate strips. Has anyone with a good memory/stats collection ever looked at our win/loss/performance ratio in non standard jumpers?
I would think that a team (such as Geelong) which plays a game style based on rapid and often instinctive ball movement may be more hindered than most by having unfamiliar jumpers around while making those split second decisions that can make or break the play.
Not looking for excuses..... Just intrigued

 

[GeelongFTW]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


This explains everything.

 

[Roadie]

lol

 

[James1970]

That strip is too damn sexy - the lads spent more time watching each other than the ball.

Proper hoops, please.

 

[Pollywaffle]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


This explains everything.

Just shows how careful you have to be around here about what you say..... I wasn't saying that it was the reason we lost etc but it seems that there are more mistakes such as stray handballs and kicks to opposition etc which would hurt a more instinctive 'play on' style team. Obviously things like that would seem to happen more in a loss, but as I said, it would make an interesting historical 'left field' type analysis.

 

[Jmac2225]

Chin up you point is valid pollywaffle especially since Norths jumpers are predominantly white which our regular ones are.

Im not going to go as far as it contributed to our loss but it would not surprise me if a few errant kicks/handballs occurred as a result of this.

 

[samsong]

Just shows how careful you have to be around here about what you say..... I wasn't saying that it was the reason we lost etc but it seems that there are more mistakes such as stray handballs and kicks to opposition etc which would hurt a more instinctive 'play on' style team. Obviously things like that would seem to happen more in a loss, but as I said, it would make an interesting historical 'left field' type analysis.

 

[samsong]

Last Geelong v Collingwood game, same thing, jumpers very similar, especially in a pack, errant handballs etc. even a Collingwood player tackling a teammate!

 

[Pollywaffle]

Who decides whether a "clash' jumper is warranted anyway?
Hoops vs vertical stripes I would have thought that's pretty different.. Marketing ploy?

 

[Scottland2007]

A couple of times, when players had backs to the camera, I thought it was a Carlton game. I thought Carlton did pretty well last night.

 

[InnocentBystandr]

Funny observation, but my wife thought the same thing.

Years ago, when I played in a suburban league, we change our jumpers and the team we played first had jumpers very similar to our old ones. Worst game we ever played and got thumped by heap by that worthless mob!

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

Dang!... Saw the thread title and expected posts about Hippie Skydivers, Bungee Nudists, or Punk Sheep - I feel robbed

For me... One team, one strip. Hoops only! - Anything else has everything to do with AFL marketing $$$ and nothing to do with club history and tradition - Alternate strips, "Blaaaah!". What's next,.. hot meat pie and cream?

 

[BotsMaster]

Always thought we played ordinary in our 150th guernsey.

 

[Scottland2007]

Dang!... Saw the thread title and expected posts about Hippie Skydivers, Bungee Nudists, or Punk Sheep - I feel robbed

1930's wall street investors?

 

[newcs]

I think this theory has got a little bit of merit to it than everybody thinks. You spend most of the year looking for a hooped jumper out of the corner of you eye but then one game you have to adjust to looking for a dark blue one. There was a gold coast game not all that long ago when it appeared that the player was kicking towards the team runner who had similar colour clothes. I also have a similar theory about the ball colour.

 

[Scottland2007]

I think this theory has got a little bit of merit to it than everybody thinks. You spend most of the year looking for a hooped jumper out of the corner of you eye but then one game you have to adjust to looking for a dark blue one. There was a gold coast game not all that long ago when it appeared that the player was kicking towards the team runner who had similar colour clothes. I also have a similar theory about the ball colour.

Isn't that Hawks latest trick? Have a runner in the same colours? There runner from the Carlton game should be MVP. Always found space which led to a few goals.

 

[Pollywaffle]

Dang!... Saw the thread title and expected posts about Hippie Skydivers, Bungee Nudists, or Punk Sheep - I feel robbed

I wasn't sure what to call them, guernsey, jersey, shirts?? ( what the heck are they called these days??)
So I opted for jumper
What would you have expected if I'd put 'alternative strips'

 

[Cosmic Energy]

I must admit I didn't think of that but it makes some sense. My thoughts as they walked out in that strip was how large Hawkins looked in that get up, and that I don't like the vibe of alternate Geelong strips if they stray too much from the original.

Have we ever departed greatly from our hoops in a final?

I wonder in training would clubs ever consider training in the full upcoming game day getup, and going to the extent of having people wearing the colours of the upcoming opposition in drills with pressure applied etc? Would be kind of weird, but goes to the train as you expect to play kind of theory.

 

[Dawn2Dark]

The boys can still use their voices though.

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

What would you have expected if I'd put 'alternative strips'

Front row seats and complimentary drinks

They have always been guernseys, but 'footy jumper' has stuck with me since childhood. Guernsey sounds too much like a Welsh cow

 

[SJ]

Front row seats and complimentary drinks

They have always been guernseys, but 'footy jumper' has stuck with me since childhood. Guernsey sounds too much like a Welsh cow

Well a guernsey is a type of jumper, so both terms are correct. Jersey is absolutely incorrect!

 

[jim boy]

Well a guernsey is a type of jumper, so both terms are correct. Jersey is absolutely incorrect!

Yes but Guernsey is a type of cow, albeit from Guernsey rather than Wales. Jersey isn't that far off the mark really, common use in Rugby

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

Guernsey... Jersey... Which came first, the islands or the cattle?

 

[SJ]

Yes but Guernsey is a type of cow, albeit from Guernsey rather than Wales. Jersey isn't that far off the mark really, common use in Rugby

And Jersey is a type of cow too! Both cows from the respective islands.

Not far off the mark, no - but rugby is not far off the mark of footy either, maybe we should call our game rugby then as well?

From the doyen himself:

Why is a footy jumper called a Guernsey, and a Rugby jumper called a Jersey?

Well, it all starts back in Mother England. Yeah, it looks like I missed a word, but I actually mean the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey. Back in the day, if you wanted a jumper, you got one made in either Jersey or Guernsey, not China. In the same way the Polaroid came to mean a photograph that you can see straight away, or Band-Aid came to mean an adhesive bandage, Jersey and Guernsey became the name of the jumpers they each produced. In Australia in the 1850s, everyone that went outside, especially those who worked outside had a Jersey or Guernsey. So which is right? Well, they’re both different, so both are correct. Jerseys are traditionally machine knitted and the collars are stiffer. Guernseys are traditionally hand knitted, so there’s difference number one, and the best way to tell this is that Jerseys are lighter. Not only that, Jerseys were made in either Wool or Cotton, so a Cotton jersey would be even lighter again. And this is traditionally what Rugby jumpers were made from. Rugby Jerseys that is. Aussie Rules was started in Victoria. The traditional jumper of choice in the colder climate was the Guernsey, so footballers having one in the cupboard already, adopted the heavier, warmer, Guernsey as the football jumper.

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

We need a wool mill on Kangaroo Island - Jumper it is!