Petition: No Clash Strip For Home Games (please sign!)
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Petition: No Clash Strip For Home Games (please sign!)
After the Round 8 game against Essendon, I started a petition demanding that St Kilda never wears a clash strip for a home game after many of us on True Sainters also complained. This is getting absurd and we as fans and members of the club should demand that our club no longer bends to the will of these other 'power' clubs who refuse to play by the rules and get away with it.
To read more about it and sign the petition, click here: http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/36465.html
To read more about it and sign the petition, click here: http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/36465.html
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The answer provided my Michael Nettlefold on this topic in "Michael's Mailbox" doesn't fill me with confidence
Why did we wear our Clash strip against Essendon?
11:38 AM Fri 21 May, 2010 | Back
Tom
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Can you please explain why our players were required to wear our "Clash Strip" in the game v Essendon where we were the "HOME" team?
Dear Tom,
We were required to wear our Clash strip for the match against Essendon due to the fact that our Home guernsey clashes with both Essendon’s Home and Clash strips. This was a directive from the AFL and therefore we have to comply.
I do agree however it is not ideal and we are having some discussion about it.
Michael.
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Why did we wear our Clash strip against Essendon?
11:38 AM Fri 21 May, 2010 | Back
Tom
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Can you please explain why our players were required to wear our "Clash Strip" in the game v Essendon where we were the "HOME" team?
Dear Tom,
We were required to wear our Clash strip for the match against Essendon due to the fact that our Home guernsey clashes with both Essendon’s Home and Clash strips. This was a directive from the AFL and therefore we have to comply.
I do agree however it is not ideal and we are having some discussion about it.
Michael.
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Keep it coming guys! Put it on facebook, myspace, twitter, email it to as many Sainters as you have. Let's spread the word.
And that's right, the point is Essendon's 'clash' guernsey is hardly a clash at all and is therefore actually forcing other clubs, such as the Saints, to give away our rights, as defined by the AFL to wear what we want at home games.
I have no problem with wearing the clash for away games, I support that idea. But Essendon and the Filth should be doing the same thing. Double standards to enforce us to wear that white thing while Essendon wear a 'clash' strip that is predominatly black and still comes into clash with the home guernseys of the clubs it is supposed to wear a clash for.
The point of the petition is to ask the club to stick up for itself and demand the AFL stop going soft on this so called 'power' clubs. STKFC has been in the AFL just as long as Essendon and Collingwood, so why do we have to change and no one else does?
And that's right, the point is Essendon's 'clash' guernsey is hardly a clash at all and is therefore actually forcing other clubs, such as the Saints, to give away our rights, as defined by the AFL to wear what we want at home games.
I have no problem with wearing the clash for away games, I support that idea. But Essendon and the Filth should be doing the same thing. Double standards to enforce us to wear that white thing while Essendon wear a 'clash' strip that is predominatly black and still comes into clash with the home guernseys of the clubs it is supposed to wear a clash for.
The point of the petition is to ask the club to stick up for itself and demand the AFL stop going soft on this so called 'power' clubs. STKFC has been in the AFL just as long as Essendon and Collingwood, so why do we have to change and no one else does?
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Essendon can't change their jumper. It's in their consititution. So I say boot them out of the comp until such a point as they can hold a referrendum. That seems fair.Kate wrote:The problem is clearly with Essendon's away strip. All the AFL has to do is apply the same rules to them as any other club - easy.
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Fine. Don't make them change their jumper. Just make it reversible with the traditional strip on one side and a lighter clash strip on the other. Wear it traditional side in. So they are still wearing the traditional strip (as per constitution), and satisfy AFL "rules" by wearing the other side out.vacuous space wrote:Essendon can't change their jumper. It's in their consititution. So I say boot them out of the comp until such a point as they can hold a referrendum. That seems fair.Kate wrote:The problem is clearly with Essendon's away strip. All the AFL has to do is apply the same rules to them as any other club - easy.
Problem solved.
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Constitution or not.vacuous space wrote:Essendon can't change their jumper. It's in their consititution. So I say boot them out of the comp until such a point as they can hold a referrendum. That seems fair.Kate wrote:The problem is clearly with Essendon's away strip. All the AFL has to do is apply the same rules to them as any other club - easy.
These days the AFL can change the result of a game days after it has finished. They can set up teams on the Gold Coast & in Western Sydney and allow them to pay recruits $2 mill per year. They can get champion Rugby League players to switch codes. They can tell teams where they will play and when they will play. Etc etc etc.
But they can't (won't) force Collingwood & Essendon to play in genuine away strips!
They simply are not being serious
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The next Broadcasting Rights are rumoured to be worth $1 bill. The strips worn by the clubs directly affect the quality of the telecast.
Don't tell me they can't do something about this!
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Given the rules of the AFL, we, the undersigned, find it negligible towards the proud and long history of the St Kilda Football Club and to its past, present and future members to wear a clash guernsey at a game in which St Kilda is the home team.
This is not a negligible matter.....I think you meant to say negligent
This is not a negligible matter.....I think you meant to say negligent
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That's exactly it, Furphy. And thats why as well as this one a petition needs to be directed to the AFL demanding that every club is treated equally.Furphy wrote:How about a massive fine and forfiture of match points for clubs that refuse to adopt an away strip? The same clubs have been allowed get away with murder since 1897
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