Discussion St Kilda's LGBT Pride guernseys

[wing it]

And this will achieve what exactly?

It's just a tiny little part of society saying that it's okay to be who you are. Every little bit helps.

It might be a drop in the ocean, but what is an ocean, but a multitude of drops?*

* beautiful quote, not mine, obviously

 

[Soft Ball Get]

Call me a cynic but it's about merchandise/sales, lets be honest.

 

[NM_Mitchell]

And every other one-off isn't?
Why is it this one you take issue with?

Hawthorn put out a cancer jumper and gave, what, 6% of the proceeds to cancer?
How is that any different?

 

[fancyscum]

Call me a cynic but it's about merchandise/sales, lets be honest.

You're a cynic. I'm fairly sure that promoting LGBT pride is not the biggest money spinner the saints could think of.

 

[Soft Ball Get]

You're a cynic. I'm fairly sure that promoting LGBT pride is not the biggest money spinner the saints could think of.

This is St.Kilda remember

 

[Freight Train]

Is there even anything retail about this? There is no modification to the guernsey apart from the numbers.

 

[NM_Mitchell]

They're selling rainbow beanies and scarves, and heat-pressing the numbers onto guernseys, though I've not heard anything about monetising the numbers, but I'd be surprised if they're not.

Realistically, they wouldn't sell many of them, I can't imagine there's a large market for them, though are a very nice touch.

 

[Bryce_Jersey17]

This is St.Kilda remember

What's that got to do with anything? It's not like Hawthorn are innocent, just look at their Breast Cancer jumper this year. Saying its "St Kilda remember" means absolutely nothing

 

[rabbitoh21]

This is the first time that a major sporting organisation has made a real effort to reach out to the rainbow community and say "you are welcome here". If that's not a reason to wear rainbow socks or numbers I don't know what is.

 

[Decimation]

I'd like to see the jumper left alone. But a side strip on the shorts of the rainbow would be a nice touch.

 

[fancyscum]

I'd like to see the jumper left alone. But a side strip on the shorts of the rainbow would be a nice touch.

If you don't touch the jumper, you don't get attention and if you don't get attention, you may as well have done nothing at all.

 

[rabbitoh21]

I'd like to see the jumper left alone. But a side strip on the shorts of the rainbow would be a nice touch.

What did they change on the jumper? It's literally the exact same for both sides minus the numbers. If you wouldn't complain about a yellow cuff or a little patch why would you worry about what bloody colour the number is?

 

[Michael Scarn]

Why criticise a one-off jumper promoting a good cause when there's teams putting out jumpers with names of members on them

 

[Ice-Wolf]

Why criticise a one-off jumper promoting a good cause when there's teams putting out jumpers with names of members on them

Dude we totally did that ourselves.

 

[Michael Scarn]

Dude we totally did that ourselves.

I didn't say we haven't...

 

[chicken Caesar]

Found this on the swans website.

 

[rabbitoh21]

Found this on the swans website.
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"Rainbow socks" as we say here in the inner west of Sydney: "yeah fanx gronks". I'm driving down for the game especially so I guess I might as well wear my Swans guernsey with a Saints rainbow beanie and scarf

 

[NM_Mitchell]

Not what I was expecting.

Kinda lackluster, to be honest.
Saints did it better.

 

[Red Crow]

Very poor execution. Most of the players will probably wear their socks down anyway, making those rainbow hoops completely invisible.

If they were going to do it, it had to be on the top part IMO.

 

[Jack Stevens]

Gee, I was expecting the whole leg to be rainbow. Should have at least done what Geelong did the other week with just the top of the sock. These won't be visible at all.

 

[Chuckie357]

Very poor execution. Most of the players will probably wear their socks down anyway, making those rainbow hoops completely invisible.

If they were going to do it, it had to be on the top part IMO.

COLA non existant anymore, that was all they could afford

 

[Rickee]

I think with the Saints having rainbow numbers the Swans probably couldn't do much due to a potential clash. Still, you'd think the socks are far enough away from the back of the jumper they could have made more of an effort, though it is a St Kilda initiative.

 

[hitthepost]

I think with the Saints having rainbow numbers the Swans probably couldn't do much due to a potential clash. Still, you'd think the socks are far enough away from the back of the jumper they could have made more of an effort, though it is a St Kilda initiative.

Port Adelaide have white numbers, and away teams wear white against them. There is not a clash in the world caused by jumper numbers.

 

[Red Crow]

The rainbow numbers are going to be hard enough to read on a black background, they would by nigh on impossible to read on a red background.

 

[rabbitoh21]

Sorry for late notice and for being slightly off-topic, but I have 2 tickets to the game that I want to give away. They're level 1 in one of the corners. My uncle passed away this weekend so I'd already canceled my trip down but haven't got anyone who can use them. I'd prefer to give them to someone from this board and I don't want any cash as long as they get used. First in gets them via email as long as you can print them out yourself.