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Jumper clash fails
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Most clubs will be wearing their primary strip at least 13–14 games a year, so I really don't see the problem with the other 8 or so games them wearing something completely different to save a horrible jumper clash for any combination of players/umpires/fans/tv audience.
I will, and come regular season when I'm flicking over the channels I might come across a traditional Collingwood v Carlton match and stop to take a look because I recognise the matchup. Then I might check in here to see how much you cgaf about the ongoing traditionalist argument.
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I'm all for tradition where it either improves or at the very least doesn't negatively affect the game, but dumb shit like two teams wearing virtually the same jumper against each other and umpires having to bounce the ball irritate me no end because of how simple they are to fix and how little they would be missed if they were gone.
Well, I am not proud that one of the unique features of the AFL is that they are colour-blind.
Now for the people up top, the home team wear whatever they want means = they get to wear their traditional jumper at every home game (which doesn't happen currently). I was using hyperbole when I said they could dress up like the Starfish from Spongebob, my longwinded point is - Home is king, they wear what they want (traditional outfit likely) and the away team adjust accordingly.
Lol way to miss the point of my post, did I say throw the colours/designs away? No, I said the clubs could wear what they want at home, logically they'll pick their own colours, and the away team adjusts accordingly.
If anything wouldn't it be non-colour blind, and the colour blind needing better differentiation between uniforms?
Home team rules is one way of doing it. But there are other sports in the world that have light/dark rules for home and away. It's not the only way, just as away team in white isn't the only way.
Because as a native sport it only has to worry about a few clashes.
Comparing to global sports with promotion/relegation and potential to play hundreds of different teams is like comparing apples to oranges.
this is fine 
I wish we would just do a similar thing to what we do with Geelong to avoid the clash with Carlton. If we wear out black stripes on white base jumper regardless of whether it's home or away the problem is gone. There was never a clash prior to the Pies going with the darker strip
you shouldnt have to - its up to carlton to wear their mainly white AFL approved clash with white shorts, not just when they play freo, or port or other smaller vic teams like the saints
plus, i guarantee if coll wore their mainly white jumper with black shorts (as home team), carlton would wear their navy blue with white shorts (as away team (and it would be even worse) - like this 1980s photo
or this 1990s photo
upshot of it all, carlton need to wear the clash not just against freo
and not just against port
and not just against st kilda
but also when away team against collingwood and away against essendon and away against richmond
Nothing wrong with those. NFL used to routinely have light top dark bottoms v dark top light bottoms.
Those jumpers don't clash firstly. And if it's that big a deal Collingwood can wear white shorts...which is also what Geelong always do against Collingwood.
Used to, as in by rule. Nowadays you've got your colour blast jerseys or whatever. They still do wear combo uniforms though.
But then it is only a native sport with a tiny global supporter base.
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Don't the AFL?
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The solution already exists. Both teams have adequate clash jumpers to wear when they’re the away team.
The AFL instruct clubs what to wear each week and they don’t tell them to wear them. That’s the issue.
The big deal is the inequity. Rules change all the time at a whim for no logical reason. It is a window into how the AFL treat the big vic clubs differently for things we can see. How do you think they go behind close doors when the public don’t know what is occurring when they can’t be trusted with a simple clash policy?
I don't think any NFL teams have uniforms that go away from their chosen colour schemes? They seem to rely on light/dark v dark/light combinations or all dark v all light combinations like the AFL does.
This is the problem. What if say, Port Adelaide, decides to wear Collingwood's colours (black and white) instead of their own official colours (black, teal, white, silver)?
