Strips and why we weren't in Stripey on Saturday

I don't think the colour the ref's where should have anything to do with what the players are wearing, remember when both us and the refs were in black in yellow at the RoF?

I don't think the colour the ref's where should have anything to do with what the players are wearing, remember when both us and the refs were in black in yellow at the RoF?

 Ba-boom!

 

Magic

 

It's more a 2nd kit arnies, only supposed to be worn if there is a clash away from home (that's why the CCM away kit is rediculous). Although I'm pretty sure GCU decided to wear their white kit for every away game.

 

In previous seasons, they were home and away kits except for in the finals series, where the clubs could choose.

 

Man Untd will often wear black shorts with their home kit when the opposition is wearing white shorts and I'm pretty sure we wore our white away kit in both away games against Sydney this season.

 

Because the ref's have 3 strips 1. Black = clash, 2. Flouro yellow = clash 3. Blue = clash with Sydney. Absolute joke.

 

A-League Certified Umpire, No Talkingback

 

 

 

In England, you have to have three kits when you get to the Championship - and presumably the Prem too. League One and Two don't insist on it. A few seasons ago, Brighton had to have a temporary fourth when playing away to Palace. They (Palace) have blue/red stripes as their first kit. We (Brighton) had a light blue/white, so had to change. Our second was red, so had to be changed. Our third was, somewhat poorly, dark blue, so still didn't work. Palace, being our biggest rivals, wouldn't change to an alternate kit so, as the away team, we had to have a 4th made just for the match, an all white. It worked well - we won at Palace for the first time in years, so the club agreed to place a one-off order of replica kit of the temporary kit for any fans who wanted to buy it.

 

Internationals often switch just the shorts. England, for example, will often use the alternate kit's white shorts to avoid clashes with an opponent's dark shorts.

 

You want it to be a rule that all change strips are white?

 

I disagree. Let clubs choose for themselves - but exercise common sense so that CCM can't have yellow prominent in both kits.

 

Change kits are great things. Clubs can really vary things up, whereas the first kit tends to stay within the same set of constraints for the club i.e. it is rare to change your primary colours. Some change kits end up being abominations, whereas others are brilliant. The black strip that Brighton had was a cult classic... though the bright yellow and pinkish-red ones that followed were awful. You can't get that combination of genius and horror with the first kit!

 

Thank u for this clarification Tony ... the rough end of the pineapple for the Nix without doubt.  (And not the first time)

 

Surely the league should be the ones looking at all team strips and ensuring that they have ref colours on hand to overcome potential problems.   Three alternatives is clearly not enough.