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[tribey]

Nah I just can't get on board with it. I agree that it works in the functional sense, the way all clash jumpers should, but as a design it's about as attractive and timeless as a barbed wire tattoo.

We were so terrible during the Reebok era (2007-2012) and they really put the cherry on top by dressing us up like clowns. It's not just the lame clash jumpers either, they got a gun design gifted to them by a 7 year old and they somehow managed to balls it up by making it in brown FFS. I have Nike and ISC gear but there is not one thread of Reebok in my wardrobe, and there never will be.

Agree on how shit Reebok was, bar the 2007 guernsey which looked tremendous with Vodafone embossed on the back, but the white clash of '09 was player-designed from memory. Yeesh.

 

[Lagooner]

Agree on how shit Reebok was, bar the 2007 guernsey which looked tremendous with Vodafone embossed on the back, but the white clash of '09 was player-designed from memory. Yeesh.

Really?! We must've had a drug problem.

Yeah the 2007 jumper did look good, but it's tainted goods for obvious reasons. I'm happy keeping my collection Reebok-free.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I also own the dolphin lightning bolt with a 16 on the back.

It doesn't come out very often.

 

[El_Scorcho]

It was so much better than our 07/08 clash though. About 1000 times better.

 

[Dylan8]

Player designed??! This is one of those times when the facebookers were right -

Maybe if they stopped designing guernseys they could focus on winning a premiership!!!111!

 

[Lambot]

I'm really hoping the club get on board the movement and release a "We Go Port Good" T-shirt.

 

[TeeKray]

The only pre-2010 Power guernsey that I still like is the original pre-season guernsey/2003 away guernsey. Everything else now seems dated at best, cringeworthy at worst.

 

[Magus]

Would love an ISC reproduction of this bad boy. Was the best Power guernsey pre-BiB I reckon.

 

[Stromageddon]

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A bit of Hammer here I reckon. Dylan8 likely sees it too.

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Would love an ISC reproduction of this bad boy. Was the best Power guernsey pre-BiB I reckon.

I would, but only if they do it properly. Their effort of our 2004 Premiership guernsey was awful.

 

[tribey]

I would, but only if they do it properly. Their effort of our 2004 Premiership guernsey was awful.

It truly was.

 

[bomberclifford]

It always surprised me that this wasn't our main guernsey.

Given the direction they headed in 96 with the Power moniker and alternate-to-PB guernsey, this one was easily the stand out.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Love my Reebok Guernsey with the glitch on the neck which was white when it should be black.

Mine is a T-Bo #10 <3

 

[Dylan8]

It always surprised me that this wasn't our main guernsey.

Given the direction they headed in 96 with the Power moniker and alternate-to-PB guernsey, this one was easily the stand out.

I have been bleating the same thing.

The home was a weird, more abstract version for some reason. That away jumper somehow looked fitting and great while simultaneously straying from traditional design elements ie sashes and chevrons.

It's not uncommon to see that guernsey design in local leagues. A testament to its viability imo.

 

[Lambot]

Cool.

 

[chiwigi]

It always surprised me that this wasn't our main guernsey.

Given the direction they headed in 96 with the Power moniker and alternate-to-PB guernsey, this one was easily the stand out.

If they had we'd still be playing in it.

 

[bomberclifford]

I have been bleating the same thing.

The home was a weird, more abstract version for some reason. That away jumper somehow looked fitting and great while simultaneously straying from traditional design elements ie sashes and chevrons.

It's not uncommon to see that guernsey design in local leagues. A testament to its viability imo.

I know one of the designers who worked on the project and it was a classic case of "too many chefs" getting involved from the board.

IIRC the split across the chest on our eventual home guernsey was meant to be a visual link to the PB but IMO it didn't do that at all.

 

[Dylan8]

IIRC the split across the chest on our eventual home guernsey was meant to be a visual link to the PB but IMO it didn't do that at all.

I had no idea about that until someone here said described it as "the prison bars on acid", at which point is sort of made sense.

Plenty of brand/visual mistakes made in that first 15 years in the affl for Portz.

 

[charcolechaddy]

I'm really hoping the club get on board the movement and release a "We Go Port Good" T-shirt.

I want a shirt that says "there's only one Chad Wingard"

 

[Steve Dore]

I want a shirt that says "there's only one Chad Wingard"

 

[Coobk001]

The only pre-2010 Power guernsey that I still like is the original pre-season guernsey/2003 away guernsey. Everything else now seems dated at best, cringeworthy at worst.

2003 preseason guernsey clearly our best pre BiB

 

[Lagooner]

If they had we'd still be playing in it.

Totally agree. I've been trying to get my hands on one of these bad boys for ages, but since I'm a height of the bell curve size L it's impossible to find one going for under $300!

The only change I'd make to it is a solid black back. Then it would perfect.

Also as a side note I watched the Power name, jumper reveal and laser light show (wow, it's like being in the future!) video from 1995 and the original prototype jumpers had different backs on them. The SBS was the same but the away jumper had a magpies style back (black instead of teal on the top) and the Ansett Cup lightning bolt tri-panel had a vertically spilt half black/half teal with white number job going on. Both looked better than the final product in my view, but I can see the why they ended up making them the same across the 3 jumpers for continuity.

 

[Lagooner]

2003 preseason guernsey clearly our best pre BiB

Yes I agree, it was very good. I just wish they had kept the original shade of teal and lost the teal piping on the number panel.

#pedantic

 

[Dylan8]

Not a big fan of the lightning tri-panel but it was a cool idea.

 

[Willsy10]

1997 - 2002 away and 2003 away are the only 2 non BIB or prisons bar guernseys i wished i had in my wardrobe. I've got a few post 2003 abominations in there that i wish i could trade for those 2 designs that were both in hindsight better than our premiership guernsey.

 

[Dylan8]

98/99 iteration of the away was the best jumper we've had post-SANFL pre-BiB. The spikes were shorter than the iterations before and after.

If it didn't have the mismatching teal back panel it would be incredible-er. Also better than the later iterations as it had the awesome 90s AFL logo on it.