2018 Super Rugby jerseys
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@kiwimurph said in 2018 Super Rugby jerseys:
@chris-b said in 2018 Super Rugby jerseys:
So, when the Blues play the Highlanders in Dunedin - how will they wear their away jersey?
Simple - they won't.
Is topless away games the latest way sanzar are trying to boost ratings?
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@kiwimurph Supplementary question - will people watching on TV be able to distinguish their home jersey from the Highlanders'?
Do they really make enough out of these jerseys to make it worthwhile having the two variations? I'd far prefer to see the Crusaders playing in red 95% of the time.
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Well, at least the front of the jerseys and the back of the jerseys appear to have the same patterns. Won't need a slide rule to calculate whether an upcoming game may have a kit clash.
Unlike the hopeless ones from the previous batch where all the NZ teams seemed to have 'dark' back.
Small wins.
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@chris-b I think yes. Tahs don't always wear an away jersey when playing in Dunedin and don't have a problem.
Home and away jerseys are fine - where you get into trouble is when you have multiple colours on the home and away jerseys and so both end up being very similar. You need a clear distinction between both.
Blues home is almost all pale blue. Blues away is almost all dark blue.
Though I agree - i'd prefer teams wear their main jersey unless their is a clash - no wear their away jersey just cos it is an away fixture.
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Fuck me...
Now, I'm not really a stick-in-the-mud traditionalist, but seriously these get worse every year. They are all fucking terrible. Marketing people need to be beaten with a stick.
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@mariner4life SANZA has the cream of the marketing crop. Every facet is perfect.
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The Hurricanes jersey derscription:
The road cutting on SH2 between Dannevirke and Waipukurau may be about to slip, and the Lower North Island-based Hurricanes also brim with landslide-like menace at every home match. Displaying a graphic that mimics the layers (or stratum) of sedimentary rocks exposed on a bog-standard road cutting , this men's rugby jersey pulses with impending avalanche like peril.
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@rapido said in 2018 Super Rugby jerseys:
The Hurricanes jersey derscription:
The road cutting on SH2 between Dannevirke and Waipukurau may be about to slip, and the Lower North Island-based Hurricanes also brim with landslide-like menace at every home match. Displaying a graphic that mimics the layers (or stratum) of sedimentary rocks exposed on a bog-standard road cutting , this men's rugby jersey pulses with impending avalanche like peril.
Whoever wrote that should be hunted down and tortured.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Super Rugby jerseys:
@kiwimurph said in 2018 Super Rugby jerseys:
ffs the Blues franchise is just such a non-stop avalanche of bed-shitting ineptitude. They just can't help themsleves. It just goes on and on and fucking on. Every fucking year.
those things arent even rugby jerseys. here, designer fluffybunnies, here's a fucken rugby jersey design,, took me all of 3 minutes to knock up on MS Paint, sky blue stripe for Northland, fuck all the soccer/Tour de France shit, thanks NZRU, that'll be $10,000 bucks.
i think it's cute that you think they only paid $10K for those designs
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The Chiefs home jersey isn't much of an improvement from this years. But the away jersey...
I think the pick of the bunch are the Highlanders home jersey and the Canes away jersey. I still wouldn't buy any of them though!
Interesting that the Canes are still the only franchise to have different main sponsors for their home and away jerseys.
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An amusing flashback to 1978 when an American designer was paid USD$100K (that's $275K in today's buckaroos) to co-opt a rugby league motif and graft it onto a NHL jersey -- a monstrosity so bad it made the Okker-Shocker look like haute couture:
"All these years later, it is still difficult to believe the organization [paid] a San Francisco marketing firm $100,000 to re-design the uniforms."
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"[G]eneral manager later described the home uniform’s base colour as “puke yellow.”
"The original communications director, saw the new uniforms and “wanted to slash my wrists.”
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