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[Mr Eagle]

After I decided to have a small grumble to afl.com.au about their use of the club's current logo in the 'Heritage Round' banner, I was informed that West Coast specifically requested the use of the current logo in relation to the heritage round.

VERY poor effort from the administrati. Lots of Eagles fans liked (and still do like) the old beak and it deserved this one-off return, brand reinforcement be damned.

 

[Thrawn666]

Originally posted by Mr Eagle
After I decided to have a small grumble to afl.com.au about their use of the club's current logo in the 'Heritage Round' banner, I was informed that West Coast specifically requested the use of the current logo in relation to the heritage round.

VERY poor effort from the administrati. Lots of Eagles fans liked (and still do like) the old beak and it deserved this one-off return, brand reinforcement be damned.

Agreed

What is the point of a heritage round if they dont show the heritage of the club?

 

[RzrBlade]

I am quite p1ssed off to see that West Coast and Adelaide are the two only clubs that won't be wearing a different one-off heritage guernsey this weekend!

I was quite looking forward to seeing us in the orginal guernsey of '87.

The link for the pictures of the 14 heritage guernseys being displayed this weekend is here:- http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=110707

 

[llosis]

Agreed on the above count.

I reckon Carlton's guernsey looks quite cool - they should bring it out more often. Pity about the bulldogs - it looks like a cheap lolly.

 

[noodle]

i guess that adelaide and west coast have the least history of any of the afl clubs (i'll not go into the stolen heritage of freo and port).

i'm just hoping for a win this weekend.

 

[carlyp]

Originally posted by noodle
i'm just hoping for a win this weekend.

Exactly We have bigger issues to worry about.

 

[larrikin]

Originally posted by RzrBlade
I am quite p1ssed off to see that West Coast and Adelaide are the two only clubs that won't be wearing a different one-off heritage guernsey this weekend!

I was quite looking forward to seeing us in the orginal guernsey of '87.

Would've been great to see the old gold jumper with blue wings return - aaahhhh the memories

 

[RzrBlade]

Originally posted by llosis
Pity about the bulldogs - it looks like a cheap lolly.

Hehe, it looks like the colours of one of those old-style barber shop stick/lollipop things that swirl around infront of the shop window.

Also, a cheap bugbear lolly as you said would fit the account of there guernsey also.

 

[larrikin]

Originally posted by RzrBlade
Hehe, it looks like the colours of one of those old-style barber shop stick/lollipop things that swirl around infront of the shop window.

Also, a cheap bugbear lolly as you said would fit the account of there guernsey also.

It's funny to read the story about it

From AFL web site
This jumper was introduced for the 1935 season and was intended to be a long-standing jumper, but on the eve of the 1936 season, the club arranged for the jumpers to be cleaned at a local industrial cleaner. Unfortunately, the cleaner managed to shrink the jumpers to kids’ sizes so the club had to revert to the more traditional horizontal hoops that the Bulldogs are best identified by.

 

[llosis]

Originally posted by larrikin
It's funny to read the story about it

From AFL web site
This jumper was introduced for the 1935 season and was intended to be a long-standing jumper, but on the eve of the 1936 season, the club arranged for the jumpers to be cleaned at a local industrial cleaner. Unfortunately, the cleaner managed to shrink the jumpers to kids’ sizes so the club had to revert to the more traditional horizontal hoops that the Bulldogs are best identified by.

that's what they say.

was meant to be a long standing jumper but wasn't because it looks crap.

 

[Eagle_Fan]

Originally posted by larrikin
It's funny to read the story about it

From AFL web site
This jumper was introduced for the 1935 season and was intended to be a long-standing jumper, but on the eve of the 1936 season, the club arranged for the jumpers to be cleaned at a local industrial cleaner. Unfortunately, the cleaner managed to shrink the jumpers to kids’ sizes so the club had to revert to the more traditional horizontal hoops that the Bulldogs are best identified by.

Now that's different to the story in 'The Clubs' about that jumper. In there they say it was changed after the one season due to outcry and ill-support from the fans of the club. I remember doing a bit of research into it when the DB arrived.

Either way, why wear a jumper they only wore for a single season?

 

[Mr Eagle]

Adelaide I understand - they don't have any other home jumpers.

But us? Sheeeeeyit.

Now as I heard it a couple of weeks ago, Adelaide were planning to wear their home jumper for this round. So please PLEASE PLEASE tell me that means we'll be wearing our away jumper. If we are wearing our current home jumper, I will be even MORE insulted.

 

[larrikin]

Originally posted by Eagle_Fan
Now that's different to the story in 'The Clubs' about that jumper. In there they say it was changed after the one season due to outcry and ill-support from the fans of the club. I remember doing a bit of research into it when the DB arrived.

Either way, why wear a jumper they only wore for a single season?

I agree, it's hardly their heritage. i would've thought the jumper they won their one premiership in would have been a better choice, but that's just my opinion.

 

[Streaker]

Originally posted by noodle
i guess that adelaide and west coast have the least history of any of the afl clubs (i'll not go into the stolen heritage of freo and port).

If Freo can use the Red and White of the WAFA Fremantle team of the 1800s maybe we should have used the Gold and Black of the first premiership team in WA and the state colours.

 

[The Mission Man]

Why - was that team called West Coast? Was that team based in Subiaco while purporting to represent the whole west coast?

 

[larrikin]

Originally posted by The Mission Man
Why - was that team called West Coast? Was that team based in Subiaco while purporting to represent the whole west coast?

What association do the Fremantle Dockers have with the WAFA Fremantle team?

 

[Mr Eagle]

Originally posted by The Mission Man
Why - was that team called West Coast? Was that team based in Subiaco while purporting to represent the whole west coast?

Hmmm...based at Subiaco and purporting to represent the whole state. Sounds suspiciously like a WA State of Origin team. But WAFA Freo weren't called the Dockers either, so I suppose name changes must be acceptable in this case.

Fine, gold with a black sash it is for us!

 

[The Mission Man]

Are you even remotely serious? The association is called heritage - kind of the point of this whole exercise. A team from the Fremantle area, called Fremantle, played football in the 1890s. A team called Fremantle, from the Fremantle area, is playing football today. You don't need me to spell it out for you. Maybe you do...

They are not the same team. If we are going to celebrate the heritage value of a building we don't have to have the same family to be living in the bloody thing.

If you want to get weird and pedantic about it, the game played by the Fremantle team of the 1890s is so different in degree from the contemporary game as to be different in kind. They had place kicking, for crying out loud. Points didn't count. There was no handball etc etc

I guess that discounts any association at all. But providing direct documentation linking one club to another right down sharing the same mummified property steward is not really the point of an exercise designed to reflect the origins of the great game and to revel in a bit of its history.

The reason why Fremantle was chosen as the second WA side is because of the undeniable strength of Fremantle's association with football, its deep history of the game, dating back to the 1890s.

This surely isn't too difficult for you.

Team from Fremantle called Fremantle. Another team from Fremantle called Fremantle. A lot of years in between. A lot of years. One team tipping its hat to the other across those years. I really don't see the problem.

 

[larrikin]

So then you have no problem with West Coast representing the rest of WA's footy culture and wearing the state jumper then, after all, most state footy in WA has been played at Subi now.

 

[Mr Eagle]

In all fairness to Freo, associations and their value are 95% internal. Others may think it a stretch to make such a connection, but hey if it gives them something to fight for and a passion for the game, well so be it. It's their choice, they can wear purple and green for all I care...

 

[Port01]

Originally posted by larrikin
So then you have no problem with West Coast representing the rest of WA's footy culture and wearing the state jumper then, after all, most state footy in WA has been played at Subi now.

Didn't you only win 2 flags because you were a state team? Some might find it apt

 

[GoEagles]

It would have been nice to see us in the old 1987 jumpers or even in the 1992 jumper, but lets face it - a jumper won't win us a game of football.

Are they bringing back the heritage shorts (a la Warrick Capper days? )

 

[Mr Eagle]

We are wearing the away jumper...so said The Kow on Talking Eagles or whatever that infomercial we have is called...