Discussion Minor Details on Jumpers That Irritate You

[TheLoungeLizard]

Hey folks,

The title pretty much sums it up, but what are some really minor details on jumpers that really irritate you?
It can be as petty as you like, for instance:


The white outline on our clash jumper.

Why? Why is it there?
Literally a black number on a bright yellow background...

I do not understand it.

Over to you.

 

[Zoops]

The Giants' side panels on the back. They're just there and their existence is what annoys me. Just remove them or at least have the curve downward with how the yoke curves down. The gap between the curve and side panel is ultimately what annoys me the most.

 

[Andonis1997]

The navy box on the Zurich logo on Melbourne's kits.

 

[Cuzz09]

I reckon Richmond and Essendons sash should continue around the whole guernsey.



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[Fizzler]

I must know why the triangles on this jumper are off centre. Someone on the forum pointed it out once and I can’t unsee it now.

 

[MKMatty]

Bombers Amart logo this year is a backwards step.

 

[Mozzie_Squad]

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The Giants' side panels on the back. They're just there and their existence is what annoys me. Just remove them or at least have the curve downward with how the yoke curves down. The gap between the curve and side panel is ultimately what annoys me the most.

^^^ this so much! They got it right in 2017 then reverted back

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Pretty much anything above the number. Monograms, numbers, logos, initials.

White outlined numbers on adelaide, Brisbane’s and Richmond clash. When west coast removed it, it looked so much cleaner.

The “apparel” sponsorship of GC and St Kilda

Club Logos on the front of jumpers bar St Kilda.

Logos/numbers/whatever in the middle stripe under the number and below the sponsorship. Hawks dark jumper had this and I think North did it for a while

 

[BringBackTheAnchor]

Highly visible watermarks and thick pinstripes annoy me

 

[LeeARM]

Bombers Amart logo this year is a backwards step.

It should just be plain white text like the Fujitsu logo.

 

[LeeARM]

Cotton On's Geelong jumpers.
The logo placement is so low and so far apart, the cut off cuffs at the back looks bad and why are Cotton On so obsessed with the letter G? It's not even an interesting, stylised G and the "G" branding is already taken by GWS.

 

[cannavo]

The flat top under the front of the collar

 

[its been done]

For me what makes or breaks sports clothing is the templates and collars provided by the manufacturer, this is not a AFL example but when St George Illawarra went to Reebok after leaving Adidas, Reebok gave us this for 2010 and 2011, in my opinion, a horrible looking collar.


It was just as intrusive when the collar was white...


Whereas Rebook's AFL customers at the time (Melbourne, Richmond, Gold Coast, Port Adelaide and Freo) got a way better and more subtle looking collar.....

 

[Zer0]

Watermarks.

Makes me think I'm looking at a copyrighted photo on google images

 

[SFgiant]

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Cotton On's Geelong jumpers.
The logo placement is so low and so far apart, the cut off cuffs at the back looks bad and why are Cotton On so obsessed with the letter G? It's not even an interesting, stylised G and the "G" branding is already taken by GWS.

+1 with all that. Especially the G and the weird introduction (and blatant copy) of the Cleveland Cavs font on their runout shirt.

It's obvious someone at Cotton On is a basketball fan, ripping off Nike's NBA template too.

 

[Munners]

Cotton On's Geelong jumpers.
The logo placement is so low and so far apart, the cut off cuffs at the back looks bad and why are Cotton On so obsessed with the letter G? It's not even an interesting, stylised G and the "G" branding is already taken by GWS.

Funny you mention this, it always annoys me how wide the AFL logo is on Tom Hawkins.

 

[Freight Train]

bad spacing kills me every time.

 

[Sparkle]

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Cotton On's Geelong jumpers.
The logo placement is so low and so far apart, the cut off cuffs at the back looks bad and why are Cotton On so obsessed with the letter G? It's not even an interesting, stylised G and the "G" branding is already taken by GWS.

I don't mind the G on some streetwear-style merchandise or New Era caps, but the logo and hoop placement bothers me. The sponsor hoop looks so much better when it's up close to the collar, which then means the logos are visible and much closer together, and overall produces a much more aesthetically pleasing look

Our first ISC jumpers nailed the hoop and logo placement

 

[BlackWing]

This is Central District in the SANFL, I hate how the Holden sponsor's name infringes over the red hoop.
It ruins the jumper design and it should be above the hoops. You're lucky in the AFL that sponsor badges are smaller size.

 

[Mero]

Mentioned in the Podcast.
Indigenous Jumpers featuring Faux Indigenous art.
I recognise the people designing them are not working for the apparel sponsor, and therefore not converting them to Illustrator so they can be sublimated.
However, sometimes, the person that does takes the easy route of perfect circles and lines where the original art would not have looked like that.
If not perfect circles, they take one or two unique dots then replicate them across the whole of the jumper
(if you were tracing/re-drawing them you would notice this)



Adelaide's 2020 jumper is the same

 

[terrybull]

That Fremantle’s purple looks blue.
That Hawthorn’s brown looks black.
That navy blue can look black more often.
That Gold Coast use yellow instead of gold.

 

[Andonis1997]

This is Central District in the SANFL, I hate how the Holden sponsor's name infringes over the red hoop.
It ruins the jumper design and it should be above the hoops. You're lucky in the AFL that sponsor badges are smaller size.

In their glory days as you'd know, before Holden updated their text they had it above the red stripe - that was probably the best outcome. Now...
Or they could do a Glenelg and put it in the white hoop... But at least it works for Glenelg. Maybe not the Dogs.

 

[SC26]

The sizing of the ISC logo on Eagles guernseys is smaller than other clubs, and the wings look a bit fat these days. Are they meant to be like that? Puma had em thinner, and I liked that more. And the colours don't seem very vibrant on the ISC compared to the Puma.

 

[Freight Train]

The sizing of the ISC logo on Eagles guernseys is smaller than other clubs, and the wings look a bit fat these days. Are they meant to be like that? Puma had em thinner, and I liked that more. And the colours don't seem very vibrant on the ISC compared to the Puma.

fat wings are the correct wings.

but yeah puma stuff was better and comes down to the materials used and how they take the colour.

 

[BlackWing]

In their glory days as you'd know, before Holden updated their text they had it above the red stripe - that was probably the best outcome. Now...
Or they could do a Glenelg and put it in the white hoop... But at least it works for Glenelg. Maybe not the Dogs.

You're right Andonis, above the stripe was the best position. The Glenelg one seems to work well, I'm not sure it would work as well with the white stripe, but it may be better than the current situation.