Portfolio (Outdated) NRL Jerseys, 1908–2006 – inspired by FootyJumpers

[Lemon Boi]

Western Suburbs, 1995–98

1995


1995 alternate


1996


1996 alternate


1997


1997 alternate


1998


1998 alternate


1998 special, Round 17

 

[Lemon Boi]

Western Suburbs, 1999

1999


1999 alternate


1999 special, Round 14 (worn with one-off team emblem)



Balmain, 1908–68

1908–14


1915–29


1930–39


1940–47


1948–52


1953–56


1957–68

 

[Lemon Boi]

Balmain, 1969–96

1969–74


1975–77


1978–82


1983


1984


1985


1986–94, ¾ length sleeve variant


1990–94, ½ length sleeve variant


1995 (as Sydney Tigers)


1996

 

[Lemon Boi]

Balmain, 1997–99

1997


1997 special, Round 4


1998


1999



University, 1920–37

1920–37



St George, 1921–74

1921–28


1929–39


1940–43


1944–58


1959–74

 

[Lemon Boi]

St George, 1975–97

1975–77


1978–82, ¾ length sleeve variant


1978–82, ½ length sleeve variant


1983–84, ¾ length sleeve variant


1983–84, ½ length sleeve variant


1985–93, ¾ length sleeve variant


1985–94, ¾ length sleeve variant


1995


1996


1997

 

[Lemon Boi]

St George, 1998

1998



Canterbury–Bankstown, 1935–81

1935–42


1943–46


1947–62


1963–69


1970–72


1970–72, alternate white shorts


1973–74


1975–77


1978–81

 

[Lemon Boi]

Canterbury–Bankstown, 1982–98

1982


1983–84


1985, ¾ length sleeve variant


1985, ½ length sleeve variant


1986–89, ¾ length sleeve variant


1986–94, ½ length sleeve variant


1995, (as Sydney Bulldogs)


1996


1997


1998

 

[wizardwaffle]

It would be good to hear why some of these changes occured. Like the Eastern Suburbs change to a light blue in the 1940s. Some of the reasons may be interesting. To find out the reason why Rugby League team change compared to AFL teams. Also an explaination of what happened to the teams that aren't with us anymore. We don't know what happened to them, and would like to know what happened to them. In the AFL we have only lost one team, University, which didn't return after World War One.

 

[Lemon Boi]

Canterbury–Bankstown, 1999

1999 home/primary


1999 away/clash (may have also been worn with blue socks)



Bulldogs, 2000–06

2000–01 home/primary (was also occasionally worn with grey socks)


2001 away/clash


2002–05 home/primary


2002–05 away/clash


2004–06 special; worn in Round 21 and 25 2004, Round 24 2005, and Round 10 and 24 2006


2006 home/primary


2006 away/clash

 

[acm21]

Material shortages during World War II resulted in all teams bar Newtown changing from striped jerseys to solid-colour jerseys with vees. Eastern Suburbs switched to sky blue as navy blue was prioritised for Naval uniforms; oddly, Footscray did the exact opposite by switching from royal blue to navy blue in 1944–1946.

Cumberland disbanded in late 1908 after losing all eight of their matches.
Newcastle split into local teams that competed in their own minor league.
Annandale won just 25 of their 153 matches, and were voted out after they had been evicted from their home ground in 1919.
Glebe were also voted out for the same reason. Like Annandale, the suburb was becoming more industrial and less residential.
University were a strictly amateur club with no home ground; as such they won only two games in their last four seasons.

Newtown was excluded from the 1984 season due to poor facilities and spiralling debts; they continue to play in the NSW state league (like Port Melbourne).
North Sydney was merged with Manly–Warringah in 1999 to form the ill-fated Northern Eagles which lasted from 2000–2002 and was entirely owned and operated by Manly. Manly dissolved the partnership in early 2003 and resumed competing as Manly. North Sydney also continues in the NSW state league.
Balmain and Western Suburbs were merged in late 1999 to create Wests Tigers which competes in the NRL today.

I’m posting these uniforms by team, by the year the entered the competition; next will be St. George, then Canterbury–Bankstown.

It is interesting to note that Balmain and Western Suburbs had seperate 2nd division sides (Balmain stronger than wests for the most part) until very recently, which was due to the poor finances of Balmain (which I believe is the opposite of why the clubs merged 2000)

 

[wizardwaffle]

Material shortages during World War II resulted in all teams bar Newtown changing from striped jerseys to solid-colour jerseys with vees. Eastern Suburbs switched to sky blue as navy blue was prioritised for Naval uniforms; oddly, Footscray did the exact opposite by switching from royal blue to navy blue in 1944–1946.

Cumberland disbanded in late 1908 after losing all eight of their matches.
Newcastle split into local teams that competed in their own minor league.
Annandale won just 25 of their 153 matches, and were voted out after they had been evicted from their home ground in 1919.
Glebe were also voted out for the same reason. Like Annandale, the suburb was becoming more industrial and less residential.
University were a strictly amateur club with no home ground; as such they won only two games in their last four seasons.

Newtown was excluded from the 1984 season due to poor facilities and spiralling debts; they continue to play in the NSW state league (like Port Melbourne).
North Sydney was merged with Manly–Warringah in 1999 to form the ill-fated Northern Eagles which lasted from 2000–2002 and was entirely owned and operated by Manly. Manly dissolved the partnership in early 2003 and resumed competing as Manly. North Sydney also continues in the NSW state league.
Balmain and Western Suburbs were merged in late 1999 to create Wests Tigers which competes in the NRL today.

I’m posting these uniforms by team, by the year the entered the competition; next will be St. George, then Canterbury–Bankstown.

It is interesting to note the shortages in materials resulted in changes to jumpers.
The New South Wales Rugby League sounds more like the VFA than the VFL of those days. Clubs voted out because they had no home. Sounds like Moorabbin which won the 1964 VFA Premiership but where kicked out because St.Kilda was using their home ground and didn't play in 1965.
Some of the teams you wonder what would have happened if they just kept going. Cumberland, Annandale and Glebe where out because they lost all the time, and they suburbs where becoming industrial.
Newtown doesn't sound like Port Melbourne, because at least Newtown played at the highest level. Port Melbourne stayed in the VFA because it's fans were a bit rowdy.
North Sydney had the problem that they didn't control the club they were part of. Manly stopped it and played as Manly again. They should have been like the West Tigers.
The League University sounds like the VFL University. Both were amateur clubs with poor records. To be a VFL University player you had to go to Melbourne University.

 

[Mero]

I believe access to dye would be more likely for the change in colour, rather than access to material.
Jerseys in the 1940s were made of wool.
Australia was the world's leading supplier of wool in this era, as it had been for one hundred years (and still is today).
Whilst I recognise a good proportion of resources were directed to the war effort, the ability to make wool garments continued.
It would, however, explain the move to more basic designs, which could be created quicker, without the requirement to set the machines to different colours, or cut and sew material into the correct places.

Dye, however, was mostly made in Germany.
You may remember them as being the Opposition Team in WW2.
Consequently, we didn't trade with them, and therefore didn't import their dye.
It then fell upon the local manufacturer to come up with dyes from alternate sources.
Most teams were supplied by a local manufacturer, so their sources would be as varied as the suppliers.

 

[Lemon Boi]

Manly–Warringah, 1947–76

1947–50


1951–55


1956


1957–59


1960–64


1965–67


1968–74


1975


1976

 

[Lemon Boi]

Manly–Warringah, 1977–95

1977


1978–79


1980–82


1983–84


1985–90


1990–92


1993


1994


1995


1995 alternate

 

[Lemon Boi]

Manly–Warringah, 1996–99

1996 primary


1996 alternate


1997 primary


1997 alternate


1998 (Round 1 only, white shorts, away to Broncos)


1998 home/primary


1998 away/clash


1999 home/primary


1999 away/clash



NOTE: Manly’s 2003–06 jerseys will be posted after the Northern Eagles

 

[Lemon Boi]

Parramatta, 1947–75

1947


1948


1949–62


1963–71


1972–73


1974


1975


1975 alternate (the 1974 jersey was worn with 1975 shorts at least once in 1975)

 

[Lemon Boi]

Parramatta, 1976–82

1976 team photo (unknown if worn in any matches)


1976 primary, ½ length sleeve variant


1976–77 alternate, ½ length sleeve variant


1976–77 primary, ¾ length sleeve variant


1977 primary


1978 primary (some ¾ length sleeve variants may have been worn)


1978–79 alternate


1979 primary


1980–82 primary


1980–82 alternate

 

[Lemon Boi]

Parramatta, 1983–95

1983–84 primary


1983–84 alternate


1984–85 primary


1984–85 alternate


1986–91


1992–93


1994


1995 primary


1995 alternate

 

[Lemon Boi]

Parramatta, 1996–2000

1996 primary


1996 alternate


1997 primary


1997 alternate


1998 primary


1998 alternate


1999 primary


1999 alternate


2000 primary


2000 alternate

 

[Klim]

Superleague logo was silver for the dogs.

 

[Zer0]

Well done mate, loving your work so far.

If you have any questions when it comes to doing Cronulla let me know

 

[Lemon Boi]

Parramatta, 2001–06

2001 primary


2001 alternate


2002–03 primary


2002–03 alternate


2002 special, Round 11


2003 special, Round 21


2004–06 primary


2004–06 alternate


Special, Round 25 2004 and Round 24 2005


2006 special, Round 22

 

[Klim]

I’m working with MS Paint here; it was difficult to get a Super League logo in the first place.
If you can get the coloured logos, I’ll put them on the jerseys.

I think rabbitoh21 still has his vectorised logos from this portfolio.

 

[Mero]

Will this work for you?

 

[Lemon Boi]

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Will this work for you?

That’s much better, thanks.