Why no green in AFL guernsey's?

[Socrates2]

Because it's the same colour as the playing surface brainiacs.

 

[SherbertLemon]

Gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit?

 

[Brass Dog]

I reckon this would make an awesome tassie devils jumper. The white represents the chest and and hind stripes on the Devil, the black it’s other colour. The green as it’s the colour associated with the whole state. Plus this looks like a traditional footy jumper, unlike GC or GWS.

 

[flamethrower]

Spotswood and Wyndham Vale both wear green and gold in the WRFL:

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Also have Werribee Centrals in the juniors & women's comp...….quite a jumper clash when the 2 Wyndham based clubs play each other.....

 

[The Final Word]

Because it's the same colour as the playing surface brainiacs.

I think we've established that numerous Aussie Rules teams from other leagues wear green, not to much a heap of other professional teams that play their sport on grass.

 

[Dazzler9]

I think we've established that numerous Aussie Rules teams from other leagues wear green, not to much a heap of other professional teams that play their sport on grass.

What teams? I can't see anything. Are they in camouflage??

 

[Matt_TY]

The real answer, at least for the old 1850s-1890s teams, is that green dye was really really expensive at the time. Navy blue was the cheapest, and that's why so many teams wear it.

 

[yodellinhank]

I think Giants were going to be “Canberra Raider Lime Green” until the 11th hour. (Thank god sanity prevailed)

Obviously Orange set a trend, look at Carlton and Geelong using Orange in their training gear for example.

I think that was to do with the ricky nixon Celtic idea rather than the green machine though maybe?

To my knowledge the Tallygaroopna Roadrunners ditched a green guernsey with red yolk in favour of more readily available blue and red option.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I reckon this would make an awesome tassie devils jumper. The white represents the chest and and hind stripes on the Devil, the black it’s other colour. The green as it’s the colour associated with the whole state. Plus this looks like a traditional footy jumper, unlike GC or GWS.

If there ever is a Tassie team it will probably be the bottle green, rose and primrose. But it better not be The Map. That is for state v state only, not club stuff.

 

[Dazzler9]

If there ever is a Tassie team it will probably be the bottle green, rose and primrose. But it better bot be The Map. That is for state v state only, not club stuff.

<insert map of Tassie joke here>

 

[troybe]

Gladstone (Qld) Mudcrabs


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[JackFlash]

Most tones of Green are piss weak, too submissive.

Doesn't say much about the Aussie national colours? Or Celtic or the Green Bay Packers and a host of other teams where everything;s gone green? Freo should've at least kept the green as the away strip..

 

[shaky]

I always liked the Rokewood Corindhap FC jumper

 

[Bunk Moreland]

The Green Machine!

 

[Professor Knowall]

DImboola FC (original club of Tim Watson, Merle Neagle) -

http://aflnational.com/wp-content/uploads/Dimboola-Roos-AFL-club.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201007/r599955_3916486.jpg

 

[84859300]

Oakleigh Dragons

 

[Bombermania]

Because it's the same colour as the playing surface brainiacs.

I played against a team that wore green and it wasn't hard to tell them apart from the grass.

 

[Socrates2]

I played against a team that wore green and it wasn't hard to tell them apart from the grass.

That's the reason, they might do in the juniors.

 

[Wallaby]

Doesn't say much about the Aussie national colours?

Exactly. It's hard to think of a good looking Australian sports uniform. It's why most of them use gold rather than green for the primary colour. There were no 'official' National colours until after the Comm Games in 1982. There were several combinations used (although green and gold was by far the most common), but the Australian team in Brisbane that year walked out in Blue and White, and the press got in an uproar about 'National colours are Green and Gold!" and so we got an 'Official' proclamation a couple of years later.

Here's what it looked like in 1982:

 

[Drewie11]

Salisbury North Hawks



Best colours and guernseys in South Australian amateur league

 

[Drewie11]

How good is that one.

 

[threesixpio]

This question keeps me up at night.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

I think Giants were going to be “Canberra Raider Lime Green” until the 11th hour. (Thank god sanity prevailed)

Obviously Orange set a trend, look at Carlton and Geelong using Orange in their training gear for example.

Carlton's orange experiment is a throwback to our early years when we had chamois patches on our guernseys that used to turn orange in the wet.

It has now been adopted for various causes IIRC.