News Essendon to wear a retro guernsey in Round 21

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It's back to the future for Essendon in round 21 against the Saints with a pre-colour TV sash and collars. Couldn't find any news articles on this but I did see Heppell modelling this on 7 news. It's also in honor of Essendon's half forward of the century, Ken Fraser

https://www.bombershop.com.au/heritage-guernseys/mens-heritage-guernsey
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Sep 8, 2010
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Hmm, testing the waters I wonder?

Surely we're due for a rebrand by now, I've only been waiting for it since 09... plus our sash is almost identical to Richmond's this season (Tigers a bit thicker, according to fj.com) - maybe theyll change it up so not to be seen as the AFL's 'other sash team'

Probably a pipe dream, but would be cool.
 
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Grey and Red?
ISC don't give a stuff when they create these images, do they?
I reckon that’s just to show off the texture/folds in the template, but they’re probably using 10,10,10 black
 
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My question is why didn't they come up with this collar design last year when we had our 125th jumper?! Would've been easily my favourite Pies jumper... besides the Swooper.
 

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Actually pretty neutral
Can it still be considered a sash if it's broken? I mean, gotta adhere to the constitution, right?
Can it still be considered a sash if it has "Fujitsu" defacing it? Or the Kia logo over it wide enough you can't see the sides? :p
 
Wonder if we'll see some clubs permanently running with a collar again, a bit like in the EPL how some have some dont etc

I would be happy if the cats permanently used the one we used in our retro game this year.
 

El_Scorcho

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It actually looks like... a wool effect?

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Good spot Gibbsy, definitely looks like what they were going for. I'll need to see them in action before I can tell whether I like it or not
 

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I love the idea but honestly Cotton On's retro collar is 10x better than ISC's. ISC look to have just added a little flappy bit to a modern collar. At least Cotton On did a proper redesign of the collar to make it look the part.
this!

I think the ISC version of this looks pretty shoddy, don't think the collar suits the wide open neck of the ISC guernseys
 
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