Round 8: the other games. The battle for the spoon.

[barry]

No coincidence that Port are pushing the prison bar jumper at a time when Collingwood is at it politically weakest.

Smart.

[stevoswan]

I see Richmond pair Daniel Rioli and Shai Bolton have been involved in a nightclub altercation after Rioli's girlfriend was subjected to inappropriate behaviour from another patron. Rioli ended up with an injury under his eye which required a couple of stitches and Bolton got a fractured wrist requiring surgery and will be out for around three weeks.

It's really unfortunate that there are (possibly/probably racist) dickheads out there that hassle footy players and their girlfriends who are just minding their own business and trying to enjoy their lives.

[snajik]

I have also pondered the lack of green, particularly given the number of teams sporting blue.

Woodville in the SANFL (Malcolm Blight’s home team) wore green and gold until their amalgamation with West Torrens in 1990. The club colours for the new Woodville-West Torrens then incorporated green into the blue and gold of West Torrens. I think their current jumper still carries these three colours.

I reckon the Bottle Green, Yellow and Red colour combination of the Tasmanian state colours look terrific. I always admire the colours worn by Tasmanian state cricketers. The addition of the red makes the otherwise ugly green and gold work (in my view). Something that our Olympic teams battle with (as shown by the wildly different greens they come up with).

I reckon when/if we get a Tasmanian AFL team that’s the colour combination we will see.

The colour of apples for an apple isle team. That combination is also synonymous with reggae.
Freo originally used green. We can throw Celtic from the SPL into the mix along with Boston Celtics with their green and white strips. My favourite would be Minnesota Wild's green and red in the NHL, and I note no-one has mentioned the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

[stevoswan]

Titus heads the nail on the head re: Fat Chins.

"Controversy in this one, as after their light training run, the Power changed into the infamous prison bar jumper as part of their ongoing campaign to troll Eddie McGuire.

It worked too, with Eddie taking the bait as per usual. I’ve seen three-year-olds with more self-control."

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