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GWS had to wear their clash guernsey this weekend, that's what it looks like incase any of you didn't see. I'm pretty confident that next year's clash will be marginally different, but this gives us an idea of what they're aiming for.
 
I don't really like it to be honest, they won't clash with many teams in the AFL next year but I would prefer them to go with a Charcoal G, Orange bottom half and white top half style guernsey
 

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Pretty sure it's gray/silver. Same as those gray shorts you wear sometimes.

Pretty boring jumper though. I really like the main orange and charcoal one (though it reminds me of BHP billiton).
 
RUNVS said:
I still have no idea why GWS picked Orange as their main colour. Their main local rival wears Red and White so it doesn't make any sense that they would pick a colour that would clash with the Swans.
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It'd be like if the second Queensland team also wore yellow, blue, and a shade of red.

...oh wait.

There's really no clash between orange/charcoal and red/white.

And that's an exceedingly dull clash guernsey. But then I don't see any of these inaugural guernseys (for GWS or GC) lasting long anyway.
 
Lord Nicholson said:
It'd be like if the second Queensland team also wore yellow, blue, and a shade of red.

...oh wait.
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Yeah, not a fan of that either. :D

AFL's clash system varies stupidly from year to year. The Lions had a couple of years where we didn't clash with some teams and we do now, and vice versa. They apparently have no set system and no balls to make those teams who have a hissy fit about clash jumpers actually do something about it, so to be honest the whole system is one big cluster****.
 
dlanod said:
AFL's clash system varies stupidly from year to year. The Lions had a couple of years where we didn't clash with some teams and we do now, and vice versa. They apparently have no set system and no balls to make those teams who have a hissy fit about clash jumpers actually do something about it, so to be honest the whole system is one big cluster****.
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It'd be lovely if they'd work on a basis of common sense, which is a big ask I know.

For instance, there's no clash between brown/yellow and black/teal. I find it ludicrous that the Hawks had to wear some idiotic looking-thing against Port. I guess it's all a marketing thing. But then I can't see kids lining up for most of these clash and/or away guernseys. They suck hard. Especially since a lot of them (like this one) introduce colours that aren't the club colours.

I don't see why, for instance, GWS would need anything beyond the two guernseys that were coughed up at their big launch. Perhaps the GC home guenseys might clash with the predominantly orange GWS strip, but apart from that, they should be fine in the land of common sense.
 
The way it's supposed to work is every club has a light and a dark guernsey. Everyone's normal home strip will fall into one of these categories. Then when when two lights or two darks play, the away team will wear their alternate strip.

This works if applied fairly across the league. Unfortunately the league caved to Collingwood and Essendon being sooks about the system, so now we have sporadic colour based clashes which vary from year to year, i.e. the Lions clashing or not clashing depending on whether the AFL figures us to be red-based or dark.

We even have the ridiculous scenario where Collingwood and Geelong play each other in their home jumpers with "no clash" despite them being indistinguishable at a distance.
 

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I didn't mind it in that it was distinct but it does lack any kind of character. Maybe if the incorporated orange side panelling or a bit of orange somewhere.
 
So why'd we have to go clash against Eastlake ( a team that has the same jumper as Essendon). I can't for the life of me see no clash. Were we justing trying something new or was there actually a clash of some kinds
 

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Should be an all orange away strip without the G, chuck some black trim on like the GCS home guernsey and you're on a winner. Plain socks too.
 
I was there, and it was definately silver with a charcoal G, not blue like some people have been saying. Also, that was a rushed clash, trying to get something together quickly for this season. ISC and the marketing people are in the process of putting one together for next season
 

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