Hooped socks!

[NimChief]

Use more often please.

 

[Ghostwriter]

Mods merge with other hooped sox thread pls.

 

[1996 gold]

Use more often please.

same as 1999 premiership strip looked great.

 

[NimChief]

Mods merge with other hooped sox thread pls.

My apoligies Jozeph.

Mods pls merge Jozeph's thread with this, cheers.

 

[weapon_of_choice]

Yes it was great to see the hooped socks, along with the striped jumper. Kinda makes up for last week. hmmm maybe?

 

[Devil Fish]

We wore them in the 1999 GF to great effect. I have written at least 12-13 letters to the club pleading with them to wear the hooped socks more often. As soon as I saw us in the hooped socks today, I knew we would win.
I wonder what we'll be wearing next week?????

 

[billy_31]

We wore them in the 1999 GF to great effect. I have written at least 12-13 letters to the club pleading with them to wear the hooped socks more often. As soon as I saw us in the hooped socks today, I knew we would win.
I wonder what we'll be wearing next week?????

Yes your right, they have that winning effect. Next week i wud assume we will be wearing blue socks, blue shorts and striped jumper against the lions at our home game. But then again, u never know with North.

 

[Jimmy's Hot Dogs]

Love the hoops.

 

[sross]

I'm in. Hoops it is. The only reasons we changed years ago was that we supposedly looked taller. F that play in the hoops.

 

[mav-1]

I'm buying some tomorrow!!

 

[The Other Dean]

We should have really completed the look and ridden out of the race on a fleet of Penny Farthings.

Saying that, winning socks are the socks for me.

 

[Zondor]

We wore them in the 1999 GF to great effect. I have written at least 12-13 letters to the club pleading with them to wear the hooped socks more often. As soon as I saw us in the hooped socks today, I knew we would win.
I wonder what we'll be wearing next week?????

Spot on DF. The omens were with us today. The hooped socks, the lights being turned on at the MCG, the opposition hitting 10 9 69 and once again being distracted by that number and losing the game. Yep it was great.

 

[H Dolphin]

I assumed that they were worn yesterday because Footscray's socks are predominently royal blue.

 

[Devil Fish]

I assumed that they were worn yesterday because Footscray's socks are predominently royal blue.

You're thinking too logically H Dolphin. For example, we refused to wear our alternative strip against Collingwood, but were happy to wear it against Richmond & Hawthorn. Go figure?

 

[H Dolphin]

..., but were happy to wear it against Richmond & Hawthorn. Go figure?

I undertand that North's choice of jumpers is dictated by its deals with sponsors. I like the vertical stripes and hooped socks. What dill instituted the change from hoops to plain coloured socks in the '70's ?

 

[Devil Fish]

I undertand that North's choice of jumpers is dictated by its deals with sponsors. I like the vertical stripes and hooped socks. What dill instituted the change from hoops to plain coloured socks in the '70's ?

I'm not sure if it was a dill (whom I shall refer to as John Doe). It was more likely to be a bozo or a clown or even a baffoon.

 

[Marstermind]

I notice that even though Sydney won the flag in plain red socks last year, this year they've gone with the "candy cane" red & white hooped socks. It must be the fashion so let's go with the hoops.

 

[pharro]

You're thinking too logically H Dolphin. For example, we refused to wear our alternative strip against Collingwood, but were happy to wear it against Richmond & Hawthorn. Go figure?

Nothing to figure. We were telling Eddie to get stuffed.

 

[Woodson]

Nothing to figure. We were telling Eddie to get stuffed.

Yup. Wish we won though.

As for Hooped socks.... not sold on them yet. Prefer the royal blue hose.

Not superstious about socks.

 

[H Dolphin]

Yup. Wish we won though.

As for Hooped socks.... not sold on them yet. Prefer the royal blue hose.

Not superstious about socks.

Way back when and shortly after the umpires changed from black socks to royal blue socks, I recall a Footscray player handballing to the umpire from the bottom of a pack. He would have seen the socks and assumed it was another Footscray player. Goal umpires make decisions on goals from scrambles in the goal mouth by looking at the socks of the last boot to touch the ball. I think that clash socks are probably more an issue than clash jumpers.

 

[Marstermind]

Way back when and shortly after the umpires changed from black socks to royal blue socks, I recall a Footscray player handballing to the umpire from the bottom of a pack. He would have seen the socks and assumed it was another Footscray player. Goal umpires make decisions on goals from scrambles in the goal mouth by looking at the socks of the last boot to touch the ball. I think that clash socks are probably more an issue than clash jumpers.

Yep and I think the AFL are onto it as well. I mean, what was going on with Collingwood's socks this year when they played Carlton? They had two white vertical stripes running up either side of the leg. They looked ridiculous.

 

[Flag Man]

I'm not sure if it was a dill (whom I shall refer to as John Doe). It was more likely to be a bozo or a clown or even a baffoon.

Buffoon.

Being a traditionalist, I am in favor of the hooped socks.

 

[Devil Fish]

Being a traditionalist, I am in favor of the hooped socks.

Yeah, I know my mate Fabio is all for the hooped socks. Even to the extent that when he frequents a certain men's club, he insists on weraing the hooped socks.

 

[H Dolphin]

Yep and I think the AFL are onto it as well. I mean, what was going on with Collingwood's socks this year when they played Carlton? They had two white vertical stripes running up either side of the leg. They looked ridiculous.

It would have been more of a problem before '97 when both North and Footscray wore royal blue socks. If North wear blue and white hoops and Footscray have a red hoop in place of or in addition to the red and white top of its sock, then the clash is avoided. Neither of Collingwood nor Essendon's socks clash with either of our clubs. Lucky because both are sure to whinge about history and constitutions.

 

[NimChief]

Looked great.