Yellow

 

Scientifically proven  You can't make a bold claim like that without citing sources!

 

It tickles me. In the 70s when Liverpool were more dominant than ManU were in the 90s, apparently red was meant to have all those attributes you claim - though I don't recall the phrase scientifically proven to enhance performance  ever being bandied around.

 

But white might give an edge in the hot sun - the A league is a summer league after all.

 

This idea that the league determines what clubs can wear makes me feel a bit sick, reminding me that we are not a club in the European tradition but a centrally controlled franchaise. The league could terminate our existence with the stroke of a pen if they chose to, however well we were doing, if they felt they had a good enough strategic reason. Scary. Or am I wrong? And maybe this is the wrong thread for this moan.

 

also means we wouldn't have to wait until the 80min mark to get your shirts off for the boys.

 

Exactly - what I was saying is that the yellow is perhaps too understated in the current nix uniform, and that a mostly black uniform just summons up images of NZ instead of wellington.  Perhaps we could do white shorts like the lions or something, so its not too black.

 

Having said all this of course I do love the current strip and have a nix shirt on my wall.  It just seems that having similar colours to the knights begs the comparison of the two teams/makes people think of the old outfit.  Yellow Fever and the nix themselves have done a lot to break that first impression though of course, so its unlikely to haunt us.

 

It may be the wrong thread, but it is an interesting topic...

 

They could not terminate our existence on a strategic whim. There are rules in place and we would need to fall foul of those to find ourselves terminated. However, Hard News will probably have the details, I believe clubs have a fixed contracted period? Is that a rolling contract or just periodically renewed as it expires?

 

Or this one in yellow and black! 

 

"It has been suggested that individuals may use heuristic methods of reasoning and rely on schemata when a quick decision is necessary. Accordingly, it is possible that decisions made by sport officials may be influenced by prior knowledge they have about teams they are officiating. The aim of the present study was to determine whether sport officials are more likely to penalize individuals who participate in a team with an aggressive reputation. In a balanced design, 38 football referees were randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group and were presented with the same 50 video clips of incidents from football games, all involving a team in a blue strip ('blue team'). The incidents were categorized before the study by five experienced referees into fouls committed both by, and against, the blue team, where all participants agreed that a foul had been committed (certain incidents), disagreed it was a foul (uncertain incidents) or agreed that there was no foul (innocuous incidents). Both groups received written instructions before the task; in addition, the experimental group was informed that the blue team present in all of the clips had a reputation for foul and aggressive play. For each incident, the participants were required to indicate what action they would engage in if refereeing the game. Although there was no difference in the number of decisions made, the experimental group awarded significantly more red and yellow cards against the blue team both overall and for the 'certain' incidents. It is suggested that prior knowledge may impact referees' behaviour in a laboratory setting, although future research should explore whether a similar effect is observed in the behaviour of referees during football matches."

 

"People usually associate the colour black with evil, aggression and badness. It was hypothesized that this association would influence people's perception, i.e. it was expected that offenders and suspects who wore black clothes would be seen as more aggressive than those who wore light-coloured clothes. In two experiments the colour of clothing of offenders and suspects was manipulated and the effect of this manipulation on observers' perception was investigated. The results indicated strong support for the hypothesis. The practical implications of the findings are discussed."

 

I've heard (but can't find anything to support it with a quick google search) that there was a study done that looked at the shirt colour of winning teams and found a higher level of success by teams wearing red.

L*

 

"The research found that over a third of the most successful teams in The FA Cup wear red home shirts." - http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/press_releases/current/colour.htm 

 

L*

 

The NHL recently switched to white sweaters as away, but there's some talk of switching back.

 

MLB traditionally wear white at home and gray away - the reason behind this is because of the expense of laundering the uniforms in the early days of the game, travelling teams wore gray to hide dirt better when they couldn't wash their clothes.

 

As for the red teams succeeding, it's because the human eye picks up red faster than any other color. Hence, if you have red team-mates, you're more likely to be able to pass or offload faster. Of course this is only marginal but anything that'll help eh?

 

(Guh, lost the internet for one day and I have over 100 emails from board subscriptions...)

 

I'm with you guys. Yellow as away gear wouldn't hurt anyone!

 

G.

 

Surely we'd just wear our normal black strip when playing CCM but all other away games we'd wear the yellow strip?

Like whats been mentioned previously, its a very American thing.