News New Jumpers for 2015

[Red Crow]

I don't get the hate for the St. Kilda tri-panel. Most people on here like/prefer simple/traditional designs. Everybody loved Port going from the SBS jumper to the double chevron, or Fremantle from the anchor to the their triple chevron. People complain about clash jumpers with animal heads, gradients and tramp stamps.

Yet here is St. Kilda, with a traditional, simple design and all it does is get shit canned. Why is it any worse than Hawthorn/North/Collingwood's vertical stripes? I bet if they had have stuck with the cross jumper since 1997, and decided around now to change back to their traditional tri-panel, a vast majority of the posters on here would be applauding the club for making such a great decision.

 

[Riccardo11]

lol

It just isn't great compared to the glorious clash strips of the last 6 years or the hot cross bun get up.

Don't mistake a snide remark for me deriding a traditional look btw

That's really a matter of personal opinion.

We've had some good looking jumpers in the past, but we've also had some utter shockers. The apron and it's distressed shield and the bright yellow version of the crusader spring to mind. Last years tuxedo style NZ guernsey wasn't that hot, either.

If "sucky" isn't derisive, what was it? It's hardly complimentary, is it?

 

[hitthepost]

Traditionally sucky

lol

It just isn't great compared to the glorious clash strips of the last 6 years or the hot cross bun get up.

Don't mistake a snide remark for me deriding a traditional look btw

How should "traditionally sucky" be taken then?

 

[Dylan8]

I was just playing on your use of the word 'traditional' when I was calling it sucky as a throwaway dig at a jumper I simply don't like.

'Traditionally sucky' not 'sucky because traditional' ah you know what just never mind.

 

[Murraj1966]

The Tripanel is St Kilda tradition, we're the only club that does it well (looking at you West Coast), and it was the jumper worn during our only Premiership win so it'd be crazy to remove it completely, even when we had the Hot Cross bun it was still the away jumper when away jumper simply meant what you wore when you weren't the home team so it got the full 11/22 games back then.

It's dull now because it's too dark and grim with the black collars and sleeves which make the jumper look imbalanced. If the club decides to move back to the jumper below, we'll have one of the best kits in the league.

 

[Riccardo11]

Couldn't care less*
If you could care less, why are you caring as much as you do?

PS Sorry I know we're not meant to play grammar police.

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html
Actually: http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html

 

[wing it]

Actually: http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html

So Hitthepost is correct.

But hey, I couldn't care less

 

[TBellicious]

I don't get the hate for the St. Kilda tri-panel. Most people on here like/prefer simple/traditional designs. Everybody loved Port going from the SBS jumper to the double chevron, or Fremantle from the anchor to the their triple chevron. People complain about clash jumpers with animal heads, gradients and tramp stamps.

Yet here is St. Kilda, with a traditional, simple design and all it does is get shit canned. Why is it any worse than Hawthorn/North/Collingwood's vertical stripes? I bet if they had have stuck with the cross jumper since 1997, and decided around now to change back to their traditional tri-panel, a vast majority of the posters on here would be applauding the club for making such a great decision.

This.

Everything you said is right.

 

[rabbitoh21]

Yet here is St. Kilda, with a traditional, simple design and all it does is get shit canned. Why is it any worse than Hawthorn/North/Collingwood's vertical stripes? I bet if they had have stuck with the cross jumper since 1997, and decided around now to change back to their traditional tri-panel, a vast majority of the posters on here would be applauding the club for making such a great decision.

I have no problem with the St.K kit, but the white "stripe" in the middle of an otherwise dark guernsey creates the same problem/annoyance as the WCE tripanel, so I can see why people have a problem with it.

 

[Riccardo11]

So Hitthepost is correct.

But hey, I couldn't care less

Ish. Double negative phrases like this exist in the grey area of our language called slang.

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

St. Kilda jumper is fine.

 

[Cody_]

tri panel on the eagles is bad...
suits the saints though

 

[Bacon Warrior]

tri panel on the eagles is bad...
suits the saints though

The WCE tripanel isn't a bad looking jumper. It's more the fact that it should never have existed in the first place.

 

[wing it]

St. Kilda jumper is fine.

Agreed.

I'd like to see them do a clash one year that has a red back, maybe with red shorts. ie. same tri-panel front, with a red back (instead of black)

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

Agreed.

I'd like to see them do a clash one year that has a red back, maybe with red shorts. ie. same tri-panel front, with a red back (instead of black)

Don't know if I'd go that far.

 

[Dylan8]

The WCE tripanel isn't a bad looking jumper. It's more the fact that it should never have existed in the first place.

No, it really is ugly.

 

[Bacon Warrior]

No, it really is ugly.

Hush, you.

 

[MIKE85]

No, it really is ugly.

I don't reckon it's that bad ATM. The current template has improved it a fair bit, making it less of a mess with navy on both sides, rather than navy on one side, half navy half yellow wrapping around on the other. The no white outline on the numbers helps too.

It's still not a guernsey we should even be wearing, but it's better now than it has been.

1 more year, that's it!!!

 

[Desi Van_83]

No need to get defensive big fella, this isn't the bay.

St Kilda have a boring guernsey design. It's one of the more boring designs in the league. People who have no emotional attachment to it find it boring, especially in comparison with some of your clashes or the 90s cross home guernsey.

St Kilda fans obviously love it.

That's pretty much how footy works.

How can you possibly argue that the Saints have a boring design? simple/stark designs are what AFL football designs are built on. How is the st kilda design any different to black and white stripes? Or black with a red or yellow diagonal stripe?

 

[El_Scorcho]

How can you possibly argue that the Saints have a boring design? simple/stark designs are what AFL football designs are built on. How is the st kilda design any different to black and white stripes? Or black with a red or yellow diagonal stripe?

It's a subjective issue. I'm sure not everyone feels the same way.

 

[Speck]

Yes yes yes yes yes love our new clash.

 

[Desi Van_83]

It's a subjective issue. I'm sure not everyone feels the same way.

And yet, you talk about it like its objective.

 

[cannavo]

#BringBackTheBun

 

[El_Scorcho]

And yet, you talk about it like its objective.

We can have a vote or something if you think my opinion is out of line with your average footy follower who doesn't support the saints.

 

[Matele]

The bun will always be my favourite saints jumper. I reckon it looked awesome and we haven't got enough red dominating teams in the comp as it stands, and it would probably solve a couple of clash issues.

That's not to say I dislike the saints current jumper, I just think #thebunisbetter #bringbackthebun