Opinion Honest thoughts on the current AFL jumper design?

[AwwThatsApples]

We have been wearing the same V design jumper since the 2010 season, and over a decade into utilizing the same design the club seems pretty happy committing to it bar minor colouring changes to the clash strip variant (Since 2019)

I wanted to get your honest thoughts on the current design, and whether we are happy with it, or if we have other potential designs we could use for the AFL team in the near future. Considering how active the discussion is on our heritage jumper, I doubt we will be able to wear it in the AFL every week anytime soon, as it will be a massive long - term investment that still needs more time, but until we get that opportunity I wanted to know what ideas people had in mind.

In summary, what do we think of the current V design?

 

[Mr Experience]

It's fine.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Love it best guernsey in the game apart from the PBS

 

[raman]

Love BiB, really like the white version (BiW?) don't really care for the silver one.

 

[I Dont Care]

It's no PB but it's OK

 

[tribey]

It’s an aesthetically superior design to most of the guernseys we’ve worn, but personally, it’s synonymous with the derpiest era of the club’s 151 years.

Worn during record defeats, finals defeats, countless upset defeats and a losing record in Showdowns.

If it was replaced by pretty much anything, I wouldn’t bat an eyelid.

 

[davesnothere]

Like it. Could do Black with blue and white hoop? Or PB. No problem with the V though.

 

[Gryllis]

I like it, but wouldn't say I'm especially attached to it should a change be floated. Didn't originally like the silver one and thought white was much better, but I must admit it's since grown on me.

 

[Grave Danger]

BiB = Hurricane
PB = Spitfire

 

[Boxx]

Love it

 

[Us against the rest]

The back is perfect, the front acceptable.

 

[El_Scorcho]

It's fine.

It's a good traditional style footy guernsey in our colours, which look great.

However, it holds zero special meaning to me. If we replaced it tomorrow I wouldn't care apart from the pure aesthetics of the change.

 

[PA88]

It looks fine but it is not a unique design. A couple of our sanfl foes have used this design.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Love it.

 

[chiwigi]

Love it!
It’s fantastic!

 

[Winganeen]

Is it the off season already ?

 

[dirty2]

Great Guernsey... But nothing beats the prison bars.

 

[OnTheWagon]

I wouldn't want us to be one of those clubs that change the jumper every 5 minutes.
It's the next best design in the AFL bar the bars.

 

[TeeKray]

The back is perfect, the front acceptable.

My thoughts exactly re the design itself.

In general though, it's meh. Hard to get attached to such a random design with no history or tradition of success associated with it, especially with the enormous elephant of the PBs sitting in the room. I don't think it will ever truly be embraced. Unfortunately, we have been railroaded into being on par with the soulless franchise teams in this regard.

 

[tribey]

I wouldn't want us to be one of those clubs that change the jumper every 5 minutes.

That pretty much is our tradition.

From 1939-1958 we wore 11 design variants of black and white.

 

[Coobk001]

Love it. It should be our jumper for the next 100 years. Disappointed they altered the back though.

 

[The Burger King]

Inoffensive was the first word that came to mind.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Acceptable in the interim. It's bland, and doesn't say Port Adelaide to me.

 

[backtozero]

Its not the jumper's fault that it hasn't seen success.

 

[tribey]

Acceptable in the interim. It's bland, and doesn't say Port Adelaide to me.

Yeah, it looked like the Mona Lisa compared to the rounded-necked dogs breakfast Reebok poo’d out immediately before it.