Petition: No Clash Strip For Home Games (please sign!)

Huzzad · Post: # 927585Post **Huzzad** » Fri 21 May 2010 8:16pm

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

stinger · Post: # 927739Post **stinger** » Fri 21 May 2010 11:53pm

l agree.....pathetic...

saintspremiers · Sat 22 May 2010 12:15am

17 signups including myself.

Come on kids, sign up!

Have any of the radio stations shown any interest in this issue recently?

avid · Post: # 927817Post **avid** » Sat 22 May 2010 12:51am

Now 22

Mr Magic · Post: # 927891Post **Mr Magic** » Sat 22 May 2010 11:21am

36 now.

wasoncestkil58 · Sat 22 May 2010 11:34am

Thats another 4 with my family. (All members)

matrix · Post: # 927906Post **matrix** » Sat 22 May 2010 11:47am

#43

NoMore · Post: # 927912Post **NoMore** » Sat 22 May 2010 12:10pm

Saintsfan · Post: # 927923Post **Saintsfan** » Sat 22 May 2010 12:41pm

It is another form of revenue for the football club.

Who cares about Collingwood etc.

It is a regulation and it should be followed and is.

Do you think the players really give two hoots what colours they are wearing unless it is purple with pink and yellow polka-dots?

St Michele · Sat 22 May 2010 12:46pm

While I agree in principle with thid I must say it makes it so much easier to see who is who on TV especially in the Essendon game. I wonder if it helps the boys out there too as it is such a contrast.

longtimesaint · Sat 22 May 2010 1:02pm

The point is that Essendon should be made to wear a proper clash strip when their colours clash with the home team -predominately white as most other teams do.

saintspremiers · Sat 22 May 2010 1:08pm

longtimesaint wrote:The point is that Essendon should be made to wear a proper clash strip when their colours clash with the home team -predominately white as most other teams do.

Exactly!

The AFL shouldn't bend over to their bullshyte constitution story either!

Eastern · Post: # 927951Post **Eastern** » Sat 22 May 2010 1:33pm

52 now

Keep it going !!

Eastern · Post: # 927957Post **Eastern** » Sat 22 May 2010 1:49pm

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 Essendonâ€™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.
!!

Saint Bev · Post: # 927958Post **Saint Bev** » Sat 22 May 2010 1:52pm

Eastern wrote:The answer provided my Michael Nettlefold on this topic in "Michael's Mailbox" doesn't fill me with confidence !!

Like his answer to where is Dempster

Huzzad · Post: # 927979Post **Huzzad** » Sat 22 May 2010 3:37pm

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?

Kate · Post: # 928039Post **Kate** » Sat 22 May 2010 6:34pm

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.

vacuous space · Sat 22 May 2010 7:15pm

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.

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.

SaintDebi · Post: # 928068Post **SaintDebi** » Sat 22 May 2010 9:27pm

vacuous space wrote:
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.
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.

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.
Problem solved.

wasaintsfan · Sat 22 May 2010 9:54pm

all signed up... sick of being pushed around by the afl magpies and bombers.....

lets stick it up em

Dr Spaceman · Sat 22 May 2010 10:09pm

vacuous space wrote:
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.
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.

Constitution or not.

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

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!

sendmehomehappy · Sat 22 May 2010 10:34pm

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

Enrico_Misso · Sat 22 May 2010 11:26pm

I've added mine.

Furphy · Post: # 928134Post **Furphy** » Sun 23 May 2010 2:28am

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

SaintDebi · Post: # 928140Post **SaintDebi** » Sun 23 May 2010 9:40am

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

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.