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Who is going to wear a shirt with Sidebottom, Goldsack, Dick, Cox or Swallow on it? :D

Anyway, is it restricted by the AFL or a clubs choice to put the names on backs?
 

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Some young rearing to go advertising board is going to inevitably going to meddle with a one of the teams guernseys and there with names. It will be a marketing ploy from an expansion club or a club trying to re define itself like North.
Then one of two things will happen. 1. everyone will be forced to adopt it for TV or corporate reasons. 2. Clubs that have used tradition as their major marketing ploy will remain name free and the others that change their geurnseys regularly will sometimes keep it and sometimes omit it.
I think the plainer the Jumper the better. Class is a word I hear some people using but I would prefer to say the less junk on it the less tacky. (think about the league uniforms) I have had thoughts in the past if I ever run a billion dollar corporation that I would buy the sponsorship rites for my team and have them run around in a jumper without advertising like American pro sports.
 
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MC Extra Dollop said:
What does that have to do with anything? The numbers are there ultimately to assist the umpires in their role and the benefit they provide to the viewing public, while beneficial, is incidental.
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This post is ridiculous.

You might have been right decades ago when numbers were first introduced, but numbers mean so much more than an identifier for the umpires now.

Players have favourite or lucky numbers and want to play in them. Clubs like Richmond and Port Adelaide have special numbers set aside for their captains. Fans flock to club shops, not just to buy a new guernsey but to get the numbers of their favourite player on the back. Guernsey numbers have become synonymous with the greats who wore them.

There is absolutely a market for this kind of thing, otherwise they wouldn't make guernsey numbers available for sale. And ultimately it's that market which makes guernsey names inevitable. It will sell more guernseys and generate more revenue for clubs. It will raise the profile of players who are able to sell a lot of guernseys.

Also, people who are wondering where they will fit the names must surely be joking. Move the number and sponsor logos down 2 inches and the name will fit just fine. It doesn't have to be a massive sized font.
 
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dislike the idea of names

numbers are fine - if you know you're team you're fine

it's a team game won by the team - not like football where there might only be one goal in at and their name is on the score card (i.e. Cahill '56)

traditions aside, it would just look stupid on a guernsey - maybe just the first and last initial on the top of the number or just below it? so like MP, AS, HB, RH, SH etc etc

Edit: also I think it might be a good idea to put an indicator on jumpers as to who is captain, like a C or something somewhere that's subtle, yet still noticeable
 
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im_a_lazy_sod said:
Edit: also I think it might be a good idea to put an indicator on jumpers as to who is captain, like a C or something somewhere that's subtle, yet still noticeable
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That's an idea I like. Perhaps a C above the AFL logo on the shoulder.
 
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ThunderPower_14 said:
This post is ridiculous.

You might have been right decades ago when numbers were first introduced, but numbers mean so much more than an identifier for the umpires now.

Players have favourite or lucky numbers and want to play in them. Clubs like Richmond and Port Adelaide have special numbers set aside for their captains. Fans flock to club shops, not just to buy a new guernsey but to get the numbers of their favourite player on the back. Guernsey numbers have become synonymous with the greats who wore them.
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The question, I think you'll find, was something along the lines of 'if names make things too individualistic, why were numbers put on the jumpers in the first place?' The answer, for those playing at home, is to make the players more identifiable for the umpires. So everything else you've written about club shops and lucky numbers is irrelevant, because that's got nothing to do with the reason the numbers are on the jumpers in the first place. Maybe read the question I was answering before saying it's a ridiculous answer.
 
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A C on the shirt would be annoying if your captain gets injured and the duties get handed over to the vice-captain though, they'd have to make up a new shirt with the C on it. Captain's armband like in soccer would be the way to go if they tried that.
 

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im_a_lazy_sod said:
Yar, it would make it easier for numb nuts umpires to be able to be engaged in conversations with the captains as they wouldn't have to recognise the player by face or number - there would a C or something there
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Probably more of a reason to introduce this in local leagues than the AFL. Think what you will about AFL umpires, but you can't seriously believe that they don't recognise the seventeen AFL captains by face. By the amount of times they can refer to fringe players by their given names, I'd wager they'd do pretty well if they had a challenge of putting names to a hundred random player profile photos.
 
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They are football or footy jumpers. JUMPERS FFS. We are not wearing ****ing bits of cow on our backs.

Played as number 9 in the midfield and number 4 as a forward. Those were my footy jumpers.

Now i actually would like to see names on them. Only because it would make it easier watching the games at home and seeing which players run which parts of opposition structures. I know all my teams players and their numbers but i only know about 75% of other teams players by face and less than 50% by their jumper numbers.
 
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I might also add I have spent hundreds on jumpers over the last 5 or 6 years (I have 27 different Geelong jumpers at this stage).

If they start putting names on the back, I won't be spending any.
 
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... as I mentioned earlier, names on jumpers would be useless for identification. Our grounds are too large -spectators are too far away to clearly read the names. It's the reason why you see TV and radio commentators using binoculars when calling games.

May be of use only when watching games on TV, but then you're told the players' names anyway.
 

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I think they should do it, it doesn't effect anyone in a negative way (apart from your typical BF whinger) it helps first time watchers and lesser fans develop a knowledge of their team.
 
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People buy NBA jerseys not only because it's the team they support, but sometimes it could be a player from another team that they really like to watch. A lot of people will be buying Blake Griffin Clippers jerseys now. If it just had 32 on them and no name then you'd think the sales would be a lot less. I think this contrast can be drawn with AFL jumpers. I've never had any friends walking around in a Carlton jumper wearing the number 5 because they love Juddy as a player but don't necessarily support the team. If the jumper had Judd written on the back then do you think this would change?

I think it's a good opportunity for clubs. Regardless, we have too many sponsors logos littered all over the place as is.
 
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it makes the people identify more with players at home. whilst afl can carry on about being "different than other sports", reality is soccer, basketball, NFL and im sure many more have all at times had/tried the name-less shirts and realised that there is a great benefit in having them. people will get turned off by commentators banging on about players and the viewer not being able to identify with the player. people at home dont have a footy mag with numbers and names next to them. if its not about identifying with a player, then why even have numbers at all.
 

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