Official Club Stuff Introducing Yartapuulti Football Club

[Pappagallo]

I think the hoodie looks much better than the guernsey.

Good call. I didn’t take much notice of the hoodie tbh but now that you’ve pointed it out I certainly prefer its darker detailing in the teal section and the feathers below the eagle.

 

[Jonts]

We boomers may have f*ed the planet, but it's the millennials that have f*ed society.

*according to boomers

 

[EskimoPAFC]

The only thing I will say, and I do love this one overall, but I don't think the Chevrons need to be captured in our indigenous guernseys. The teal V is not really a crucial part to keep.

 

[jdeezy]

The only thing I will say, and I do love this one overall, but I don't think the Chevrons need to be captured in our indigenous guernseys. The teal V is not really a crucial part to keep.

At least we've integrated them into the design this year, as opposed to it being a bit of "design your art on the side around this". I do think every year the most striking Indigenous guernseys are the ones that completely forgo the teams traditional Guernsey elements (Crows guernseys are great at this), and would like to see more of it from Port.

But I rate this one, reckon it's a winner.

 

[1954]

As per others I also put the Burgoyne design in our top 2 or 3 indigenous guernseys.

Re the eagle instead of a magpie, if the design is true to whatever the spirit bird was for the indigenous people of the region it represents that is what it has to be.

 

[bomberclifford]

Here's a reddit link to all the other clubs guernseys.



Freo, Sydney & Geelong are standouts. Even Adelaide's is quite good.

Hawks looks good overall, but the cartoonish head ruins it, even more than ours.

Richmonds looks awful, like a throw back to 1950s Australiana.

Lol at North Melbourne. They can't even do this to a suitable standard.

 

[Jojay]

Ours is top 3 of this year's crop for sure. Some just look shite tbh

 

[Duck Farmer]

Lol at North Melbourne. They can't even do this to a suitable standard.

Please at least tell me the kindy kid who did this was suitably rewarded.

 

[davo999]

So we’re called Yartapuulti for indigenous round games , it’s the Kaurna word for the area around the Port and Port River Yarta means land and puulti means sleep or death, maybe it was a burial ground.
Anyway just saying Aboriginal pronunciation would Yardabuldi , they say their t ‘s like a d and their P’s like a b . So this week it’s GO YARDUBULDI

 

[GremioPower]

That's the best indigenous guernsey we have done and maybe the best I have seen. Outstanding

I’ve said it on Twitter. We nail it every season.

I don’t remember a bad one.

 

[Fizzler]

I’ve said it on Twitter. We nail it every season.

I don’t remember a bad one.

In my opinion we're yet to have a bad one, but I'm pretty unbiased and I don't think there's been a season we've had the best one in the league. For contrast I think the Crows had the best one in 2016 which displays that I'll put my like/dislike of a club aside when judging these. That being said though, this year's one is gorgeous, and I'll easily come out and say we have the best one here by a long shot. And this is in a season where the bottom rung in terms of quality is getting even better, I don't think there's a single bad one across the league as a whole.

 

[GremioPower]

In my opinion we're yet to have a bad one, but I'm pretty unbiased and I don't think there's been a season we've had the best one in the league. For contrast I think the Crows had the best one in 2016 which displays that I'll put my like/dislike of a club aside when judging these. That being said though, this year's one is gorgeous, and I'll easily come out and say we have the best one here by a long shot. And this is in a season where the bottom rung in terms of quality is getting even better, I don't think there's a single bad one across the league as a whole.

We didn’t use our best one in the AFL:

2018 Magpies

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P.S.: Do we have a specific thread for ALL our Indigenous Guernsies? We should have one.

 

[dirty2]

We didn’t use our best one in the AFL:

2018 Magpies

—

P.S.: Do we have a specific thread for ALL our Indigenous Guernsies? We should have one.

Yeah gremio that Guernsey is pure sex.

 

[backtozero]

Looks like Grandma's doily

 

[Econopower]

Coming late to this thread but I think it is an outstanding initiative.

We are Port Adelaide AND now Yartapuulti.

Just as our individual and national identities are multifaceted, so can the nature of our club.

This and other acts like it are symbols of our becoming more comfortable with those multiple identities, as well as coming to terms with the complexities and failures of our past.

As I said in the Voice discussion, the terms woke, political correctness and virtue signalling get thrown around as though the are sufficient arguments against any sort of progressive change to the status quo.

But this isn’t just white guys getting together to make themselves feel better. It is being led by our indigenous players and staff.

And while don’t solve deep socioeconomic problems, they do help start dialogues and create the sense of common purpose that is necessary to chip away at them.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

In my opinion we're yet to have a bad one, but I'm pretty unbiased and I don't think there's been a season we've had the best one in the league. For contrast I think the Crows had the best one in 2016 which displays that I'll put my like/dislike of a club aside when judging these. That being said though, this year's one is gorgeous, and I'll easily come out and say we have the best one here by a long shot. And this is in a season where the bottom rung in terms of quality is getting even better, I don't think there's a single bad one across the league as a whole.

Essendon still wins 2023 for me. It would be very interesting to run a "best of all time" competition on the main board some time, maybe at the 10 year anniversary if we haven't reached that yet.

Every AFL club’s indigenous guernsey for 2023 Sir Doug Nicholls Round revealed

Every AFL club’s indigenous guernsey for 2023 Sir Doug Nicholls Round revealed

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[bomberclifford]

These three are the standouts for me, with Geelong being the best by an absolute mile.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

These three are the standouts for me, with Geelong being the best by an absolute mile.

See this is why I'd love someone to run a comp for this. I don't think any of these would be in my top 3.

I'd probably have Essendon > GWS > Hawthorn > Port > Geelong

 

[1954]

We didn’t use our best one in the AFL:

2018 Magpies

—

P.S.: Do we have a specific thread for ALL our Indigenous Guernsies? We should have one.

That guernsey is an absolute ripper when photographed statically, but like most indigenous designs on footy jumpers ( and I can't recall the game(s) it was used in ), many of the designs are in my opinion a bit too busy to show up well on tv, although it is definitely possible they could be fine for spectators at the game.

 

[JimmyBC]

A lot of these guernseys look good close up, however it's all mash from a distance which is why simple bold designs are always the best.

 

[simba_]

ours is spine tinglingly good!

 

[TeeKray]

This year's design is one of our best.

I like our colours generally but I reckon it's easier for teams with brighter colours to come up with more striking designs given how busy and complex the designs tend to look.

 

[bomberclifford]

See this is why I'd love someone to run a comp for this. I don't think any of these would be in my top 3.

I'd probably have Essendon > GWS > Hawthorn > Port > Geelong

You’d need to establish common criteria of assessment to have a legitimate competition. Otherwise it’s just a popularity contest.

These 3 are top for me because they break the usual design of the guernsey to prioritise the indigenous artwork.
The execution of the design is done well and is respectful of the cultural significance of indigenous storytelling through visual art.

How are you making your selections?

I'd be interested to hear how you reconcile the cartoon head on Hawthorn’s guernsey with indigenous culture?
That drops it down significantly for me.

Ours suffers the same but not as much.
I don't hate it, but I get a "bought-from-Brickworks-in-1988" vibe from ours.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

You’d need to establish common criteria of assessment to have a legitimate competition. Otherwise it’s just a popularity contest.

These 3 are top for me because they break the usual design of the guernsey to prioritise the indigenous artwork.
The execution of the design is done well and is respectful of the cultural significance of indigenous storytelling through visual art.

How are you making your selections?

I'd be interested to hear how you reconcile the cartoon head on Hawthorn’s guernsey with indigenous culture?
That drops it down significantly for me.

Ours suffers the same but not as much.
I don't hate it, but I get a "bought-from-Brickworks-in-1988" vibe from ours.

Yep would just be a popularity contest for sure, but you could at least make it so people can't vote for the guernsey from the team they support.

I'm literally just listing mine in how cool I think they look - no thoughts beyond that at all.

 

[jdeezy]

These three are the standouts for me, with Geelong being the best by an absolute mile.

See this is why I'd love someone to run a comp for this. I don't think any of these would be in my top 3.

I'd probably have Essendon > GWS > Hawthorn > Port > Geelong

It's definitely an interesting exercise, because for me, the top 3 are GWS, Richmond and then I find it hard to split the bird trio of ours, Hawks and the Bombers for third, think it might be ours out of those but it could be just a bit of a bias sneaking through.

While we're at it, my all time favourite Indigenous Guernsey of anyone's is this ripper:

Think it's the perfect blend of being recognisably a Sydney Guernsey but with the black swan artwork that just looks fantastic and really pops.


For us, this year's is my favourite but I will give a bit of a shout out to these two: