MW wrote:Alex wrote:There should be no issue with Port AFL wearing the prison bars jumper all the bloody time if they so want to...they operate in a league where there are 3 teams sharing blue and white. Gold Coast and the Crows are both red, blue and yellow, as were Fitzroy. The jumpers are different designs. It's a ridiculous situation that one team is dictating what another wears, their president having public childish tantrums like Eddie did on the tv.
Makes the AFL look like some tinpot league with management being bossed around by one loud buffoon. Personally i don't support Port Power, I don't see them as the same team as the old Port etc.. At the end of the day this makes me mad though as it's all about one set of rules for the Victorians and SA as usual gets treated differently/worse by a unique rule just for us by the competition that effectively ruined footy in this state. It's bullshit.
Both pretty much black and white stripes and Port plyon strip represents the Magpies effectively so same name...a little different to just being the same colour. I get Eddies concern.
They're as different as two black and white striped guernseys can be.
If the management of both clubs, and the AFL, acted like reasonable adults back in 1996 then they might have come up with a sensible compromise - e.g. Port can wear the prison bar guernsey in all matches not featuring Collingwood.
Alas, ego and bravado gets in the way and Port can't wear their preferred colours.
I can understand how some traditional Port supporters feel seeing the Power wear the guernsey of the club they destroyed, but nevertheless it's wrong that they can't wear whatever colours they choose, at least for home games. (Also, aren't all clubs meant to have clash strips? I seem to recall Collingwood had something slightly different to their home strip about 20 years ago.)
In any sport, in any other country, Collingwood's attempt to claim ownership of two colours would be laughable.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:24 pm
