#AFL Round 21 Weekly Discussion Thread

[Beerman]

I personally like the idea of variant jumpers - it just adds visual interest to a team's kit.

OTOH, Kennett and Walls make some good points. Hawthorn's colours *are* difficult to confuse with any other team, and I don't see why they shouldn't play in them every week if they want to. And I really am not a huge fan of Carlton's current away strip. (What was wrong with the blue on all-white? It was nice). What is it about the AFL that makes people say intelligent things in such a belligerent way?

Speaking of media personalities, I thought the commentary team for the game against Melbourne was surprisingly good. BT isn't that bad when he's surrounded by some good commentators - he was asking them interesting questions and both Bartel and Watson I think are good (particularly Bartel).

[Meg]

We have the best colours in the comp.

Agree, one of the side benefits of supporting the Swans is that they are easy on the eye!

[Nico]

We have the best colours in the comp.

[Blood Fever]

[QUOTE=Meg;757971]Walls’ stupidity was matched/surpassed by Kennett’s declaration that Hawthorn would never again wear a white away jumper - or in fact any away jumper. According to him brown & gold doesn’t conflict with any other team’s colours so they will wear their standard jumpers for all matches except the indigenous round and their Tasmanian cancer-charity supporting jumper.

On that logic Swans could declare the same thing. No other team has a red jumper. (Suns’ colour is pretty close but why should commonsense come into the discussion if we follow Kennett’s lead.)

It certainly makes it easier to distinguish between two teams, both of which have dark colours as their standard strip, if the away team wears a predominately white jumper.

Arrogant twerp!

Ps: And the AFL are going to let him get away with this.[/QUOTE

Pure Melbourne media story. Kennett, Mcguire and ex players quoted ad nauseam. Form of brainwashing.

[Meg]

#AFL Round 21 Weekly Discussion Thread

Walls’ stupidity was matched/surpassed by Kennett’s declaration that Hawthorn would never again wear a white away jumper - or in fact any away jumper. According to him brown & gold doesn’t conflict with any other team’s colours so they will wear their standard jumpers for all matches except the indigenous round and their Tasmanian cancer-charity supporting jumper.

On that logic Swans could declare the same thing. No other team has a red jumper. (Suns’ colour is pretty close but why should commonsense come into the discussion if we follow Kennett’s lead.)

It certainly makes it easier to distinguish between two teams, both of which have dark colours as their standard strip, if the away team wears a predominately white jumper.

Arrogant twerp!

Ps: And the AFL are going to let him get away with this.

[Ludwig]

I found this quite amusing:

Legendary Carlton figure Robert Walls described the clash strip as “disgraceful.”

You might think that Walls was talking about Carlton's performance, but no.

“And I mean that. Carlton supporters are embarrassed looking at the navy blue being sent out in that insipid silver strip,” Walls told Fox Sports

Carlton supporters are embarrassed by their away strip. I suppose if they won the premiership in that jumper they couldn't face anyone for a year. It's clearly Carlton's most pressing problem at the moment.

Personally I like the silver away strip. I was thinking of ordering one to use as a cycling top, but I decided against it, because I didn't want to embarrass any local farmers who might be Carlton supporters. I wouldn't want to be responsible for a farmer drowning himself in a rice paddy out of shame.

[Aaron]

My observation is Razor has obviously changed after returning from that year-long injury in 2013.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Chamberlain is still prone to sometimes making himself more visible than any umpire should be by pulling weird frees out of his kit bag. But he's one of the few that doesn't seem overly affected by crowd noise or to have any apparent biases towards one team or another.

I agree. Probably because his ego is so big that he doesn't GAF what people think about him.

[MattW]

Chamberlain is still prone to sometimes making himself more visible than any umpire should be by pulling weird frees out of his kit bag. But he's one of the few that doesn't seem overly affected by crowd noise or to have any apparent biases towards one team or another.

Totally agree.

[liz]

Chamberlain is still prone to sometimes making himself more visible than any umpire should be by pulling weird frees out of his kit bag. But he's one of the few that doesn't seem overly affected by crowd noise or to have any apparent biases towards one team or another.

[stevoswan]

Agree on Chamberlain.....good decision maker now, has improved a lot on past years.

A weird thing I have noticed in recent weeks is the 'putting on a pedestal' of Stevic by the Seven commentary team. Brayshaw was fawning over him two rounds ago and they were at it again during the last round......"one of the best in the business" etc. They sure see it differently.....perhaps it's because he has 'vic' in his name.

[Meg]

The one umpire I don't mind this year is Chamberlain. And I can't believe I'm saying that after the horrendous umpiring years ago in that Fremantle game.

Haha! I agree with you on both points.

I rarely boo players or umpires - but I sure joined in voicing my disapproval of Chamberlain at that Fremantle match! But he has been good this year.

[Blood Fever]

I'm not a fan of Pannell...he can be dodgy although not as bad as others like Stevic. Nicholls was very quick to penalise us on the weekend. The one umpire I don't mind this year is Chamberlain. And I can't believe I'm saying that after the horrendous umpiring years ago in that Fremantle game.

Thinks he is as important as the players the way he talks but I reckon he is the best decision maker.

[Mel_C]

Umpires: my son knows Troy Pannell so I usually take a closer look at umpiring when he is officiating a game. From what I see he is usually rather unassuming and doesn't have as many howlers as others. I would think he is ranked a fair way down the umpiring pecking order. Any thoughts. I note that he doesn't seem to be on the radar/laser beam of RWOers.

I'm not a fan of Pannell...he can be dodgy although not as bad as others like Stevic. Nicholls was very quick to penalise us on the weekend. The one umpire I don't mind this year is Chamberlain. And I can't believe I'm saying that after the horrendous umpiring years ago in that Fremantle game.

[Ludwig]

I wonder if the North fans will boo Nick Blakey. Maybe David King will lead the chorus.