Discussion State League Guernseys

[jumperfan]

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Southport wearing their new clash jumper against Willy today

Feel like this would look way better if the monogram wasn't microscopic

 

[troybe]

Feel like this would look way better if the monogram wasn't microscopic

Needs to be twice the size. Even close up it’s hard to make out what it is

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Feel like this would look way better if the monogram wasn't microscopic

Speaking of... does the distorted big medium V that the VFL rep team's guernsey has had for the past couple of years bother anyone else?

Compare it to the State of Origin guernsey from this year (or even the VAFA one)... I think the VFL rep version looks shithouse, could look a lot better with the badges and numbers pushed up towards the shoulders.

Actually, looking at the AFL one, the badges/sponsors logos are fairly low as well, so not sure why the V on the VFL one has to look so small/skinny.

 

[peternorth]

ive always found it interesting that north adelaide wear a big V

 

[Prison bar Pete]

ive always found it interesting that north adelaide wear a big V

V for Victory rather than for the state Victoria. Also, one of their predecessor clubs was called The Victorians (i.e. the Victorian era) so that might add to the explanation. Stylistically, I guess they just liked the look of the Big V (they've had different V designs at times).

Edit: Apparently Victorians weren't a direct predecessor to NA, but were a club in the area and bore the name North Adelaide briefly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Football_Club_(SAFA)

Brief History | NAFC

Medindie was elevated to the South Australian Football Association (later to become the SANFL) in 1888. After struggling to match it with the “senior” teams (South, Port and Norwood) over the next 5 years, and with a promise of support from North Adelaide residents, the Club changed its name to...

nafc.com.au

 

[kid_a]

ive always found it interesting that north adelaide wear a big V

So do South Fremantle

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

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So do South Fremantle

Thought that too, but had a quick look and it appears that it's always been a 'vee', like South Melbourne pre-Sydney Swans in the VFL - happy to be corrected?

The North Adelaide is the serifed 'V', like a red version of the Victoria SOO guernsey.

On a closer look, I guess the SF guernsey is different again, as the vee doesn't extend all the way to the cuffs on the sleeveless guernsey, so people could certainly consider it to be a V. I just never have, without the serifs of the famous Big V guernsey.

 

[peternorth]

V for Victory rather than for the state Victoria. Also, one of their predecessor clubs was called The Victorians (i.e. the Victorian era) so that might add to the explanation. Stylistically, I guess they just liked the look of the Big V (they've had different V designs at times).

Edit: Apparently Victorians weren't a direct predecessor to NA, but were a club in the area and bore the name North Adelaide briefly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Football_Club_(SAFA)

Brief History | NAFC

Medindie was elevated to the South Australian Football Association (later to become the SANFL) in 1888. After struggling to match it with the “senior” teams (South, Port and Norwood) over the next 5 years, and with a promise of support from North Adelaide residents, the Club changed its name to...

nafc.com.au

i accept that.

the big V does look good in red/white

 

[raboyle]

South Fremantle also wore an NAFC-esque strip with the serif V, used during the 1997 premiership winning year.

 

[BlackWing]

I don't have any evidence but I believe that Mike Patterson changed the club guernsey to the Victorian state style big V in 1970 when he became captain/coach. He also was employed by Kentucky Fried Chicken, I think he was state manager or something, not entirely sure. I remember the Central's cheer squad used to take great delight in singing the KFC jingle "Kentucky Fried Chicken for me, especially if we beat them.

Not related, they also used to sing who's that bloke in the chequered hat, copper, copper etc. Ask if you want to know the rest of the lyrics as slightly suggestive.

 

[raboyle]

Nowadays we like to say "nobody does chicken like CDFC", though we couldn't do so a few weeks ago.

 

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[troybe]

Deloraine Roos Anzac Jumper. There’s a fair bit going on here. Less is probably more

 

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Williamstown ANZAC