Opinion Make the away jumper the home jumper

[pantskyle]

So ochre it is then.

 

[Jeeves]

The yellow jumper is awesome. What jumper is that? The heritiage for this year?

I don't know if you are serious but I'll treat the question as though you are. It was the jumper that the first ever Eagles team played in when they entered the competition in 1987.

West Coast Eagles Captain, Ross Glendinning in 1987

 

[flamingEMBERS]

lets get this petition rolling. Im so down to get this change done. Or maybe even a navy wings for away or home. I can deal with that

 

[tesseract]

If navy is a requirement, then bring back the navy with wings as per the Eagles home guernsey from between 1995-1999. The tri-colour navy guernsey is terribly ugly. It's awful!

 

[placebo]

Definitely agree with the away jumper and yellow peril being our two jumpers.


For the record, I must be one of the few people on earth who actually liked the Ochre. Even owned one when I was young.

 

[Hue_Jars]

I don't know if you are serious but I'll treat the question as though you are. It was the jumper that the first ever Eagles team played in when they entered the competition in 1987.

West Coast Eagles Captain, Ross Glendinning in 1987

F*** that is awesome.

Shame on the club for retiring it in the first place

 

[Jeeves]

F*** that is awesome.

Shame on the club for retiring it in the first place

I would love to see the premiership jumper as our home jumper and the yellow peril as our away strip. I was there for the first game and this bought back great memories. It will be something to bring this jumper out of mothballs.

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[Chris who]

We have won 3 premierships in Melbourne wearing the royal. Its an away strip keep it so. Home navy wings, clash peril

that is all

 

[Eagle Empire]

I like the current home strip.

It has a professional and dominant appearance.

The yellow jumper is weak. The ochre resembles a rubbish tip.

 

[Mop]

Once upon a time I'd have agreed with most of you. However over the last season the tri-panel has really grown on me.

Yellow Peril for home, tri-panel for away? I like that idea.

 

[WCE Forever]

I didn't mind the navy blue wings deisgn we had in the late 90's. I'm not really fussed whether we wear navy or royal on any guernsey...just as long as it is a wings design.

The club has said that the home guernsey is 'popular'. Well of course it is. I reckon most Eagles fans will buy anything the club brings out. I have 11 different guernseys but I don't like the designs on them all. Most people despise the ochre guernsey, but a guernsey collection is not complete without one and they are highly sought after now.

Changing both guernseys late 99 was the worst thing the club ever did. We went from a traditional, bold and simple design to complex and radical designs that really failed to acknowledge the winning tradition we built wearing blue and gold wings. Like the OP said, we started in those colours, won premierships in those colours and then they were scrapped completely.

I cannot see the tri-colour going anywhere. It has been around for 12 years now (even longer if you count the BGC) and kids who are just starting high school have grown up with it and would not know a time without it.

 

[Impunity!]

I didn't mind the navy blue wings deisgn we had in the late 90's. I'm not really fussed whether we wear navy or royal on any guernsey...just as long as it is a wings design.

The club has said that the home guernsey is 'popular'. Well of course it is. I reckon most Eagles fans will buy anything the club brings out. I have 11 different guernseys but I don't like the designs on them all. Most people despise the ochre guernsey, but a guernsey collection is not complete without one and they are highly sought after now.

Changing both guernseys late 99 was the worst thing the club ever did. We went from a traditional, bold and simple design to complex and radical designs that really failed to acknowledge the winning tradition we built wearing blue and gold wings. Like the OP said, we started in those colours, won premierships in those colours and then they were scrapped completely.

I cannot see the tri-colour going anywhere. It has been around for 12 years now (even longer if you count the BGC) and kids who are just starting high school have grown up with it and would not know a time without it.

You could have said the same thing in 1998 - I had grown up with the "wings" from 87-98 and din't know a time without it.

Perhaps for that reason, my pref is current away (wings) - home, and yellow peril (updated to current logo, as earlier in this thread) away/clash.

Failing which, an updated version of the 96-98 wings, home/away would be great, though we would need a clash as well.

Now stop arguing with me or I will post the ochre again

 

[Ochre]

You're wrong Reep

 

[Impunity!]

You're wrong Reep

I see what you did there...

 

[FrankenLynch]

I'd sign a petition to make this happen.

And an all-ochre clash strip??

Someone with the skills should do a mock-up of an ochre peril jersey

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

These threads always descened to compromise with "I like the navy, make it navy with wings".

I hate the navy. It was not our original colour scheme and while it may look "meaner" I just don't like it. I'd prefer royal blue and yellow and that is it. Wings design. No compromise.

 

[Impunity!]

Mr Meaner

 

[The Falcon Strike]

We should have the blue jumper home, yellow away

That's all well and good - except we never get to see the boys live in the yellow.

For mine - Day home games in the royal blue, Night home games in the yellow

 

[Impunity!]

That's all well and good - except we never get to see the boys live in the yellow.

For mine - Day home games in the royal blue, Night home games in the yellow

We would clash with the ball

 

[The Falcon Strike]

We would clash with the ball

Didn't seem to matter when we rolled out in this jumper at night (Or richmond's clash jumper)

FWIW - that night game with the Fitzroy Jumper and the WA jumper was bloody awesome.

Pity about the result...

 

[ioppolo]

That jumper only reminds me of that horrible loss unfortunately

 

[JA56]

For mine.

Home: Navy with yellow wings.

Away: Royal with yellow wings.

Clash: Yellow with royal wings.

Done.

 

[Ochre]

Someone with the skills should do a mock-up of an ochre peril jersey

Did this a very long time ago.

 

[bunsen burner]

For mine.

Home: Navy with yellow wings.

Away: Royal with yellow wings.

Clash: Yellow with royal wings.

Done.

Yes please.

- The current home jumper is not a crap jumper because it's navy, it's just a crapola design.

- the royal jumper looks way better with white shorts than it does with royal shorts

- I'm not sure why people think dumping navy is a good idea. Do they not realise that all our casual merchandise is navy? Both royal&gold and navy&gold are our corporate branding and it's important that we claim them as ours.

- As others suggested, not sure why we have hard and fast navy=home, royal=away rules? I think once the fixture is out the club should map out what jumper we play in depending on opposition colours. V melb = royal, V North = navy, v Bulldogs = yella pezza etc

 

[E92_]

It's a bit strange that some people are saying that no one likes the home jumper even though it continues to get good sales.


The club will most likely never get rid of navy (it just sells too well) and the best compromise is if we bring back the navy wings of the late 90's, IMO the navy wings look great aswell.

I'd like us to wear:

Home- Navy wings
Away- Royal wings
Clash- Yellow peril