Super Rugby 2024
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@Kiwiwomble some of those early super rugby jersies were awful!
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@taniwharugby definitely a case of nostalgia rather than outright beauty
rather than the tartan one i would love a 96 jersey...just good old fashioned rugby jersey stripes
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
Chiefs/adidas did bring out a heritage jersey a couple of years back
Ä€e that was the 96 jersey, that's why I specified 97/98/99. I'm only going off what I've been told so I don't have all the answers.
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@frugby thats kind of the problem with the NZ jersey...there is little iconic about any of them, generally just a colour...i think thats why those late 90's CCC ones get reference so much....theyre the only ones lots of people remember
Thats why i'd be happy to bring some rugby patterns back, stripes or quarters
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@Kiwiwomble This occured to me straight after a posted it, but all of the kits barring the 97-99 ones are based around a three stripe as the main thing up until about 2013.
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I really think when they created these teams they should have used completely different colours to the host unions colours. You watch a Chiefs game and people still wear their Waikato gear because it's the same colour. It doesn't represent Counties or BOP.
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@mikedogz yeah it's an interesting one, if you look back to 98/99 when the Chiefs had Northland and Harbour as part of their catchment, they had the maroon and blue wave on their jersey. After that it's just been mostly black with yellow and red. In saying that, some people still don't know the difference between Waikato and the Chiefs.
The Blues did it well with their men's health jersey they used in round 1 of 2013 which had the harlequin design with Cambridge blue and maroon.
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@mikedogz said in Super Rugby 2024:
I really think when they created these teams they should have used completely different colours to the host unions colours. You watch a Chiefs game and people still wear their Waikato gear because it's the same colour. It doesn't represent Counties or BOP.
There has always been laziness from the jersey designers. As I've mentioned before, there has been ample opportunity to incorporate the others colours from CM, BOP, KC, TV, etc in the away jersey. But no, let's just make them white.
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@Bovidae i think that actually the problem, we go for these companies with a joint deal and leave it up to them....so they just do what they want to sell jerseys...where as if the franchises took more responsibility for their brands and developing some history they would have insisted on something more unique and iconic...even if it was "ugly"...but it was theirs
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@Kiwiwomble I know the Chiefs jerseys are designed by an actual person within the area and sent off to Adidas but unsure of the rest of the teams.
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@Yeetyaah ive always thought the chiefs seem to have more individual design, maybe theyve just owned that aspect more than the other franchises
within that they must only be able to design within the currently template Adidas are currently making
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@Kiwiwomble well CCC had an entire 'ugly' training range which was just off cuts of various strips...plus, most Chiefs jersies are ugly anyway
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this might be my fav super jersey ever, close up loads of cool unique detail but at a distance a solid basic jersey
I woul dhave loved if we'd done something similar with celtic patterns, blue/marron/gold
